Listening to: Buffalo Tom-A-sides (the best of). Continuing my indy-ish alternative-ish lounging.
Just watched the top 10 of the above U-choose top 40, and once again find myself disagreeing with the picks, as is my wont.
That said, I can't really disagree with the Black Eyed Peas 'My Humps' being at number one, although for me you could put any Blacked Eyed Peas song at number one and I wouldn't care. I don't heart the Black Eyed Peas at all. Over-rated and over-hyped. Can't argue with 'St Anger' by Metallica placing highly either (number 3).
But Queen's 'Fat-Bottomed Girls' at number 2? Thats a frickin' great song! There are many way worse Queen songs than that (Like, I dunno, 'We are the Champions', 'Friends will be Friends', 'One Vision', actually pretty much half of the 'A kind of magic' album).
And 'Lemon' by U2 at number 9. I like 'Lemon'. Not the best U2 single ever ('The Fly' is a strong contender for that nomination), but not crap by any means. I would have nominated 'The Sweetest Thing'. Yerghh.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers creaked in to number 4 with 'Snow', which again isn't a terrible song, given that their last decent single was 'Can't Stop' (or what ever it is called). 'Aeroplane' or 'Rollercoaster' are better (worse) substitutes.
The Eminem song about arses featuring Triumph the Dog at number 5 was just plain weird.
As you do when watching this kind of thing, I started compiling my own least favourite songs by my favourite artists. I didn't get very far though. While my CD collection is large, I am choosy, so I tend to like almost everything I listen to. I also forget songs I don't like until I am listening to them, whereupon I immediately remember why I don't like them and skip to the next track.
However:
'Daughter' by Pearl Jam. Average single off a great album, mediocrity enhanced by saturation radio play by conservative mainstream radio stations who wouldn't play any other Pearl Jam song ever (at a time when they could still be considered 'alternative'. Whatever that meant).
Tried to think of a bad Shihad song. Couldn't, even when including 'Pacifier'. A mediocre Shihad album is still a Shihad album.
Tried the Afghan Whigs. No luck there either.
'Take it Back' by Pink Floyd. Thats hardly sporting though, picking a crap song off 'The Division Bell' is like shooting fish in a barrel.
This could go on all night. But it won't. I may revisit it later.
5 comments:
I like 'Daughter'. Call me a mainstream fan....
It's one of my crank-it-up songs for the car.
Hey Sam! I just read your "About the Author" stuff, and it was really interesting. It looks like we have more random things in common than I thought! I think I may even have to do something like that for my own blog at some point.
I just left a message on your voice mail. I'm leaving for camp on Friday morning (NZ time), so I'll plan to give you a shout sometime before then. Once I go to camp, I'll be busy working for a month, then before you know it I'll be in Lower Hutt! Time is sure flying by!
I agree with you about fat bottomed girls. My reaction to that one was 'whu....?' They should have played something off Hot Space by Queen (other than Under Pressure).
And as for 'great artist', wtf were Britney Spears and Ricky Martin doing on the list?
Janet: On that note, I was wondering if the horrible cover of 'Dancing in the streets' by David Bowie and Mick Jagger which turned up in the top ten counts as one or two artists.
Lauren:
I was wondering if anyone looked at that, thanks!
You missed us by about half an hour last night.
Hey there Sam. Sorry about keeping you on the phone tonight - I hope you weren't too late for your netball game! In any case, it's 2:39am here and I am STILL not in bed. So, of course, what better to do when you can't sleep, but to go through your newly-created list of 50 random facts, and add photo tags where appropriate?
In other news, I'm ridiculous. And I really should sleep. Hahaha. Hope your netball game went well. :o)
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