SONGS LIST BELONGS IN BLENDER

New York Post ^ | September 15, 2005 | Michael Kane

[TrailofTears]

For those 25 and older YOUR MUSIC SUCKS.

[ConservativeStatement]

Yeah, I do recall those days, though insufficiently, but I remember Johnny Dark and Mike Adams, et al. I think WRKO's web site has some clips from those days that are currently available. There was WBZ-FM, too, from days gone by (computerized DJs or whatever it was called). www.BostonRadio.org is a trip down memory lane.

[bmwcyle]

Any gay songs by ABBA.

[spinestein]

[I saw Rush in concert about two years ago – they are not so young anymore but boy they still rock. My favorite songs are Freewill and The Trees but I suspect they are not on the list.]


Rush requires a bit of listening ambition to really appreciate. Their songs are not like pop tunes and are exceedingly complicated in their structure. Neil, Geddy, and Alex are such talented musicians that they can pull off just about anything technically, and they have aged better than ANY other band, even building on their ability to play aggressively while other bands tend to become more passive as they get older.

My favorite Rush songs are "Subdivisions", "Freewill", and "La Villa Strangiato" NO they won't make the list that has "Billie Jean" as number one.

[Normal4me]

I just left the local watering hole. The bartender is the same age as I am, 41, and she played some awesome older music like ELO, Kansas, Rush, Eagles, Uriah Heep (sp?), The Cars, Blood Sweat and Tears, Steely Dan, etc.

What I noticed was that these bands actually put effort into having other instruments besides guitars and keyboards in their songs.

Might have to dust off the old Cd's and play a few tonight. :-)

[manwiththehands]

Steely Dan is my all-time favorite ... for 30 years now.

[ConservativeStatement]

I don't think ABBA made the cut. But t.A.T.u. did. :-)

[SamAdams76]

Nirvana was the greatest rock band in the world for one brief, shining moment when Nevermind was released. That was one hell of an album. But nothing the band did before or after (not that there was much of it) came close to measuring up to that standard.

The album before Nevermind ("Bleach") was practically unlistenable "sludge rock". The one proper followup to Nevermind was In Utero which basically consisted of "Nevermind" outtakes (at least it sounded that way). Amazingly, the band managed to put out several other albums of mostly B-sides, covers, and outtakes and live versions of their few good songs. None of these albums came close to their one masterpiece (Nevermind).

In fact, if Kurt Cobain hadn't killed himself, the band would have probably broken up anyhow. They just had nothing left in the tank. Drummer Dave Grohl did manage to put together a decent band (Foo Fighters) so good for him. The other Nirvana band member (Kris Noveslic) turned out to be just an untalented socialist windbag who was lucky enough to be along for the ride.

[devane617]

Did "Disco Inferno" make the list? If not the list is trash.

[KateatRFM]

I don't even recognize any of those songs. The top 10 songs since I was born would include Spike Jones and the City Slickers "Cocktails for Two" and Tony Bennett's "Penthouse Serenade"; Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" and "Unsquare Dance"; Lalo Schiffrin's "Mission Impossible" theme; Santo & Johnny's "Sleepwalk" (the first song I ever slow-danced to) and "Goodnight Sweetheart" which the great group Sha Na Na always used to close their show.

Not to mention all those great patter songs like "Drivin' a Hotrod Lincoln", "Beep Beep", "The Witch Doctor" and "Purple People Eater"! Music used to be a lot more fun than now.

[devane617]

I must be old...I don't think I have ever heard a Nirvana song. Are they better than the Stones, AC-DC, etc?

[SamAdams76]

Steely Dan...I wasn't a fan when they were putting out those classic 1970s albums. But I picked up the box set about 10 years ago (that contains every track they ever laid down). This turned out to be one of my favorite box sets of all time.

Every single track from those 1970s albums are simply awesome and they just keep getting better with time. I guess I just wasn't musically sophisticated enough to get them back in the day. But then, what did I know? At the time, I was just a kid who thought Kiss and Aerosmith were musical gods. Well, I still do listen to Aerosmith. Old Aerosmith.

Another artist from the 1970s I learned to appreciate is Neil Young.

[Tribune7]

9. "... Baby One More Time," Britney Spears

10. "In Da Club," 50 Cent

ooooookkaaaay .

[SamAdams76]

Not even in the same ballpark.

[spinestein]

[Don't worry, we aren't being fuddyduds here. Rap music in general is angry, nasty, hateful and is of little redeeming value. And that's before we even address the "musical" merits of it.]



I do multitrack recordings for local bands, and the first time I recorded a rap "artist" was also the last time. He ad-libbed a bunch of vulgarity about rape and violence over the top of a pre-recorded CD that was just the default rhythm setting on a cheap synthesizer made into an endless loop. I erased what we'd done to that point and I told him I wouldn't record him.

Even if a person actually becomes "talented" at doing this, I dispute the idea that anything musically worthwhile has been accomplished.

[Caramelgal]

To me Steely Dan still sounds fresh after all these years. Must be the jazz influences that keep them timeless unlike so many of their contemporaries.

[Caramelgal]

The best song on In Utero was Heart Shaped Box IMHO.

[ConservativeStatement]

That was a 70's song so it didn't qualify.

[manwiththehands]

I was fortunate enough to see Steely Dan just 2 years ago in Columbus, Ohio. I've seen a lot of concerts in my 40-something years but it was the best I've ever attended. Their sound never gets old ... they're simply awesome!

[markoman]

I remember Dale Dorman and J.J. Wright on WRKO.
There was also WMEX, which was if I remember correctly,was the alternative rock radio station