Posted on 09/17/2005 2:00:00 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
September 15, 2005 -- THE October issue of Blender magazine, on newsstands Tuesday, lists "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born," which, for their readers, means the best songs since 1980.
No. 1 is "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson. Catchy, important. A good choice.
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Came in at 352.
I think the list was for songs since 1980 BTW...
BTW, my CD collection includes Elizabethan, classical, Billy Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Brubeck, blue grass, some country, oldies, punk, rock, moody singer song writer stuff and alternative.. just about anything but Rap and Hip Hop (OK but I do have a CD by Erika Badu). I am all over the place I guess.
IIRC, WMEX was 1510 on the AM dial before it became WITS (Information, Talk, Sports) but I don't think it was alternative music. I could be mistaken. I think 94.5 FM was WCOZ, it played rock and competed with WBCN for a short time in the late 70's.
I'll join you.
Does anyone else remember the great WMET in Chicago?
...and welcome to FR.
I saw Tool at OzzFest a few years back. Same show as Motorhead, IIRC.
No but I do recall 103.5 "She's only rock and roooooooooooooooooooooooll" out of South Florida and I know we have a Freeper who worked there (previous conversation). Fabulous station along with 102.5 WCKO (1980's).
A friend of mine thought for years that the lyric to the Billy Squier song "My Kind of Lover" was 'my candelabra'.
He also thought the phrase in a Black Sabbath song which is "...from the depths of sorrow" was 'rubber ducks of sorrow'.
I actually remember when my parents first heard Blue Moon, by the Marcels. I guess we ( my sister and I ) played it for them on a 45. They had a conniption. "That's not Blue Moon!" etc. We didn't even know it was an "old song". Of course, to this day "Blue Moon" only means one thing to me, notwithstanding that Dylan did a more traditional version on Self-portrait ( I think. )
I don't think there was nearly the break between "my" music and my kids' music that there was between my parents and me. Rock just rolled on. Their faves were not necessarily my faves, but I certainly liked Metallica, INXS, U2 and even Gun n' Roses, and we even used to watch MTV together ... well, on occasion! In fact, my daughter turned into a Dylan fan, and I remember thinking, "I can't believe I wish she'd stop playing this stuff."
Re "noise" : I couple of years ago I took a great interest in "club music" - Rave, Trance etc. - for philosophical reasons, of course. One of the CDs I bought was Chemistry Set - "The ultimate compilation of Slammin' Big Beats". Track 8 is "Bang" by "Blunt". When I heard this track, I got quite excited, because it seemed that it had arrived at the ultimate "noise not music" destination. 'course I loved it.
Since I was born in nineteen ought one, I'm sticking my oar in.
Anything by Americas's greatest song writer, Cole Porter. Any of his breathakingly witty, humorous, playful, romantic or passionate songs take up the first fifty songs on my list.
"Being the Beguine" as sung powerfully but sensually by Julio Iglesias in his prime did it for me, wow. Even my roots stood up.
Most of today's "music" sucks.
(...how's that, LOL)
Leni
Maybe, but I can still kick my 22 year old college linebacker son's ass, so you better be smiling when you tell me my music sucks. ;^)
"She's Got Freckles on her, But She is Nice" didn't even make the list. Idiots.
I like Tool a lot too, especially the song Sober. I don’t have any Tool in my CD collection as yet but I should. The first time I heard them was via an MTV video. Tool has made some of the most disturbing videos I’ve ever seen but then I’ve never been able to look away either – kinda sick but mesmerizing at the same time.
I always liked Alice in Chains too. For a so-called grunge band, they had great vocal harmonies.
The Rolling Stones song I liked best was Gimme Shelter. I always crank that way up in the car.
My parents thought the Beatles were pure noise when they first came out until later on when my mother, a former music student and opera singer, recognized the genius of McCartney-Lennon as songwriters. She also liked Linda Ronstat after she did her stint with the standard and then saw that her other stuff was pretty good too. Every generation has stuff that’s good and some that’s not so good.
I recently spent the weekend going to the beach with my eleven-year old nephew. I played a Beach Boys CD to get into the beach mood and he knew all the words to California Girls and Surf City. We also listened to the Anna Nalick CD which he was impressed that I had and talked about other music we both liked such as some songs by Leakin Park and Gwen Stephanie. I guess at 44 I am not so old after all. But then again he is a rather amazing kid – he thinks I am his cool aunt and that I rock!
I like the saying “The secret to life is to die young as late as possible”.
"Nirvana is the most over rated band ever"
I live in Aberdeen Washington, witch if you know your Nirvana history, is important.
Calling Nirvana overrated around here is tantamount to denying the holocaust.
I liked the band but in my opinion Cobain, while he could write lyrics, couldn't sing to save his a$$.
You might want to check out the CD “Come Away With Me” by Nora Jones. Great originals, a bit of blues , a bit of old style country and old standards. Shedoes a cover of the Hoagy Carmichael / Ned Washington tune “The Nearness of You” that sends shivers up my spine. Not everything new is necessarily bad. Dianna Krall is also very good.
Hey thanks,
Oh boy! My first post.
My first experience with miss-heard song lyrics (or mondegreens) was a song from Mary Poppins – “Let’s Go Fly a Kite”. I was about three years old and my mother told me a few years ago that one day in front of our apartment, I sung out at the top of my lungs, “Let’s Go Fly a Kike. Needless to say that in the predominately Jewish neighborhood in which we lived in at the time, it might not have been appreciated by our neighbors. Oh but for the innocence of youth.
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