Entries in Music (9)

Tuesday
Dec222020

Top 15 Kinks Songs

Top 15 Kinks songs: 


1. You Really Got Me
2. Waterloo Sunset
3. Lola
4. Strangers
5. Sunday Afternoon
6. Tired of Waiting
7. Well Respected Follower of Fashion
8. Father Christmas
9. Till the End of the Day
10. Ape Man
11. Picture Book
12. Village Green Preservation Society
13. Come Dancing
14. Days
15. Victoria

Tuesday
Dec222020

U2 Studio Albums, Ranked

People of the Internet: I didn't like it that much when it came out, but agree that Zooropa was the last interesting album from U2. https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/5/17507864/u2-zooropa-album-tour-review

  1. Achtung Baby
  2. War
  3. Unforgettable Fire
  4. Joshua Tree
  5. Boy
  6. October
  7. Zooropa
  8. Rattle and Hum
  9. A Very Sharp Stick in the Eye
  10. All That You Can't Leave Behind

 

Tuesday
Dec222020

Top 20 Queen Songs - The Authoritative List

People of the Internet: I hear they released a crappy Queen biopic with a sanitized plot, so instead of talking about a movie I'm not going to see, here's my authoritative list of the top 20 Queen songs, in descending order.

20. Flick of the Wrist - This is a good song
19. Good Company - It's good, and has a life lesson!
18. All Dead - It's good, and sad.
17. Another One Bites the Dust - It's good...if...well, it's good.
16. We Will Rock You/ We are the Champions - They're good, but I'm only counting them as one. Bonus points for the added irony that the once biggest bro rock anthems were really gay anthems. See also: Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno's "gay TV" sketch on the Ali G show. Also ironic, Sacha Baron Cohen left the Queen biopic because he wanted to make a really raunchy movie with Stephen Frears and the surviving members of Queen didn't. Bad job, Brian May + Roger Taylor
15. It's Late - It's good, and not too late.
14. Somebody to Love - It's really good, but over played.
13. '39 - Good melancholy sci-fi thanks to good doctor of astrophysics and bad movie producer Brian May.
12. You're My Best Friend - Awww
11. Under Pressure - So overplayed I used to hate it, but it's a really good song. I had to wait for David Bowie to die to be able to hear it again. Listen to the isolated vocal tracks from both Freddie Mercury and Bowie and have your mind blown. 
10. Seven Seas of Rhye (off Queen II) Great proggy cheese-mythology rock. Don't blame Queen for all the crappy music that tried to imitate this stuff
9. Fat Bottomed Girl - Problematic great song. Bonus points for bicycle bell-ringing.
8. Now I'm Here - Think I'll stay...with this song...around...
7. Don't Stop Me Now - I think this song is hot. That's why I call it Mr. Fahrenheit
6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love - It's crazy how good this song is.
5. Stone Cold Crazy - It's stone cold crazy how good this song is.
4. Brighton Rock - Brian May is God, and not a nativist like Clapton
3. Killer Queen - This is the best Queen song
2. Tie Your Mother Down - This is the best Queen song
1. Bohemian Rhapsody - Look, I didn't really want to put this song first, but whaddya gonna do? This is the best Queen song.

Tuesday
Dec222020

DEFINITIVE Top Five All Time Movie Soundtracks

People of the Face: Here are the DEFINITIVE Top Five All Time Best Movie Soundtracks: COMPILATIONS Only*

1. Until the End of the World: REM, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, KD Lang, Neneh Cherry, Nick Cave's I'll Love You Till the End of the World is a top 10 great story song.

2. The Harder They Come - If you made a movie about a renegade reggae singer then this is the soundtrack you would have to have. Cheating a little because it's mostly Jimmy Cliff.

3. Trainspotting - Seamless integration of music and film from the opening Iggy Pop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxgqHqakXc to Temptation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyJbUN9MU7Q to Mile End to Perfect Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6uBkJSbQO0&t=41s

4. Repo Man This movie and the Decline of Western Civilization Part I taught me everything I know about 80's L.A. Punk. Great movie, great songs

5. Royal Tenenbaums - The best of the twee Wes Anderson soundtracks: Kinks, Eliot Smith, Nico's These Days, John Lennon, Me and Julio, Clash, Lou again.

Honourable Mention: Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Rushmore, 24 Hour Party People, O Brother Where Art Thou, Inside Llewyn Davis, Pretty in Pink, Zero Effect, Natural Born Killers without the stupid movie dialog, Pump up the Volume

*Rules: 
1. No single artist movies: Leaves out all time greats - Superfly, Purple Rain, Hard Days Night, Shaft
2. No performance movies: No Stop Making Sense, The Last Waltz, Woodstock
3. No music docs: No DOA, Muscle Shoals, Buena Vista Social Club

Others:
Do The Right Thing - Out because it hinges too much on one great song
Baby Driver - not eligible because it feels like he picked the songs first then built great sequences around them to hold together a mediocre film
Guardians of the Galaxy- doesn't count because they just made a cheesy, catchy 80's mixtape
Big Chill - Boomer nostalgia mixtape

Tuesday
Dec222020

Single Record White Album

People of the Internet, Even if you wanted to compress the White Album into one record, it would still be their best record.

Side 1:
Revolution 1 (electric version)
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Dear Prudence
Blackbird
Julia

Side 2:
Back In the USSR
Why Don’t We Do It in the Road
Happiness is a Warm Gun
I Will
Helter Skelter
I’m so Tired