List #1: Top 5 songs.
Your iPod has malfunctioned and you can only manage to sqeeze 5 songs into its memory (but the battery just won't die), you are leaving to sail deep into the Pacific (who knows, maybe a deserted island is in your near future), and have no other way of hearing music until you return in 3 months. Which 5 songs occupy your pocket?
Here's a suggestion list to get you thinking.
- Sufjan Stevens ~ John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (Illinoise!)
- Weezer ~ Say It Ain't So (Weezer)
- The Ramones ~ Blitzkrieg Bop (The Ramones)
- Damien Jurado & Gathered in Song ~ Paper Wings (I Break Chairs)
- Sluttering (May 4th) ~ Jawbreaker (Dear You)
5 comments:
Excuse me dan. If you'll notice, it says blitzkrieg bop and does have the correct album title...
Ok, I did that after I re-read...Spellcheck isn't worth the code it's written in.
This is the BEST music site on the web. WOW! That Alien Corpse is spot on with his lists and reviews.
Why is it that a simple song like Say It Ain't Say can be listened too literally thousands of times and still be good, nay, even get better?
I don't know - I have to dissent from the ALIEN CORPSE opinion.
Without totally remaking the list - I mean assuming we are on the island together and have only one playlist and are therefore arguing about the "best" possible playlist not merely our own personal.
I say 1) Sufjan - okay let's keep Sufjan but as much as I love this song I am haunted by it when I listen. Could we maybe have Chicago from the same album or He Woke Me Up Again from Seven Swans
2) I am glad Alien CORPSE remebers songs like this because I would have forgot and would have been a lesser island dweller as a result
3) I am voting with Dan for "Today Your Love Tomorrow the World"
4) I love this Damien song but if I could only have one it would be Circus Circus Circus - maybe that's a guilty pleaure Damien song
5) I must diverge here and just go with a song that I purely want to listen to on repeat - William Orbit "They Live in the Sky" from hiis new album - I won't even justify I am just putting it there.
Now if you need Jawbreaker I could trade the Ramones for Jawbreaker. That would just seem wrong but there is a lit to consider if we are compromising on a list.
okay on further thought - I want the Aphex Twin song Alberto Balsam rather than the W. Orbit song. If it matters
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