Comments on: Definitive List: Five Best Songs Ever

By: frank

frank — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:22:29 +0000

@kosh:

Yup. We would have played them all if I had the skills. Which I don’t.

By: kosh

kosh — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:43:47 +0000

So that is why we played half those songs in Three Options.

I know how do you get half of five songs…I think we tried GnR a few times but didn’t end up in rotation.

By: frank

frank — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:56:47 +0000

@Paul N:

I had completely forgotten about Weezer. In fact, you made me check my iPod. I have the Sweater Song! Yes!

By: Paul N

Paul N — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:54:42 +0000

By Frank’s rules, which eliminate most of my faves:

5. Human League - Don’t You Want Me
4. The Cars - Just What I Needed
3. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
2. The Cure - Lovesong
1. Weezer - Say it Ain’t So

Hmm, these songs have a certain something in common…

By: frank

frank — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:00:32 +0000

@amy:

Interesting list. I thought about adding an honorable mention, but I would have gotten carpal tunnel. Besides, Top Five lists are hopeless. You’d have to be an idiot to post one on a blog.

By: frank

frank — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:57:14 +0000

@spankles the musical maverick:

I totally had to listen to Enter Sandman after reading your comment. That song rules. Half the committee was for having it on the list, half was against. Apparently, not all votes are counted equally.

By: amy

amy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:44:07 +0000

My top five songs of all time. (You may call it sad bastard music, I call it AWESOME.)

5. The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet, best opening bass line ever
4. The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning. I could listen to the entire Velvet Underground catalog for a solid year and never get sick of them. I’d hope anyway. Alternately I could go with I’ll Be Your Mirror.
3. Guided by Voices - Back to the Lake, this song is amazing. Great vocals, nice guitar work, possibly the best Pollard could ever make.
2. Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey, yeah it’s cliched but it works. However for continuity purposes the best Jesus and Mary Chain sound is Stoned and Dethroned, but that’s the whole album.
1. New Order - Ceremony, Cover of a Joy Division song. They redid this after Curtis offed himself. Before it was a song about a break up, now it’s a song about losing Ian Curtis.

Runners up! Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Death is not the End. The creepiness of Blixa Bargeld whispering, “When the cities are on fire with the burning flesh of men
Just remember that death is not the end.” I know it’s a Dylan cover but the Bad Seeds just do it better.

Yo La Tengo - Today is the Day, odd how this song so late in their career is the best thing they’ve done.

Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1, this song just sounds HUGE

There are more too. I just have problems with top five lists.

By: spankles the musical maverick

spankles the musical maverick — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:28:28 +0000

A sweet post, to be sure, but you conveniently omitted some klassix. Viz:
- “Electric Avenue” by Eddy Grant. Nothing, and I mean nothing, makes for a better driving song.
- “Streets of Philadelphia” by Bruce Springsteen. Few songs convey as much feeling (check me out gettin’ all serious-n-shit)
- “Enter Sandman” by Metallica. Come on! Need I say more…?
- “Crazy” by Seal. Probably the song I’ve played the most in the last 20 years (except for “Do Me Baby” by Prince, of course!)