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October 12, 2007
MORE FROM BLENDER
They also have the fifty worst songs of all time.
I tend to agree with most of their choices, but here's a few that certainly don't belong:
Kokomo - Not vintage Beach Boys by any stretch of the imagination, but a lot of their great songs were "co-written by Mike Love" (which seems to signal suckiness for the gang at Blender.) I like its vaguely Caribbean melody, and its desire to go somewhere beautiful and hang out and maybe spot some pretty ladies is reminiscent of their best, innocent pre PET SOUNDS stuff.
Shiny Happy People - If you listen to this in the context of OUT OF TIME, Shiny Happy People makes a lot of sense. If you owned it on tape and listened to it at least 10 times week, like I did, you would realize that the last song on side 1 was "Endgame" a wordless melody that I always assumed was about the world ending with a whimper and not a bang . . . you then it clicked over to hear SHP, with its rising harmony, infectious melody, and best of use Kate Pierson ever.
Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da - "Even though the Beatles didn't technically write a bad song, we better include something by them that's mildly bad, and then say that it belongs on the 50 worst songs of all time." said the guys at Blender. Sorry guys, none of the Beatles canon should make a list like this.
The End - Give me a break! Rhinestone Cowboy doesn't make the list and the song behind one of the greatest opening sequences (and greatest movies) in the last 30 years is? Pick something from THE SOFT PARADE; The End is so wonderfully weird; it's an acid trip into a scary place that's also kind of funny.
The Sounds of Silence - This should make the list of the 50 greatest pop songs ever. By mocking it, you're just being an bitter iconoclast and trying to find something that everyone says is great and then proving it sucks. This is a perfect song for its period, and is the shining star of a certain type of moody pop music.
| By Andytown | 06:07 PM
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funny list..... and your which-of-these-things-doesnt-belong-here list i couldnt agree with more. except shiny happy people. that song is just obnoxious. although, i never could get much into r.e.m. so maybe i just shouldnt say anything at all about that... but how on EARTH could any of those songs you mention above, much less anything else on that list, be worse than tim "mcgraw's c. 1996 radio hit "indian outlaw"? aside from being musically hideous in every regard, especially the intro, it includes some of the most ridiculous lyrics i have ever heard in my life. in case you've never been graced, here's a choice sample:
"You can find me in my wigwam
Ill be beatin on my tom-tom
Pull out the pipe and smoke you some
Hey and pass it around......
They all gather round my teepee
Late at night tryin to catch a peek at me
In nothin but my buffalo briefs
I got em standin in line"
and all ended with several rousing choruses of
"Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die"
amazing.
Posted by: bethan at October 16, 2007 02:56 PM