A week has passed since I posted the final songs of my "groundbreaking," "earth-shattering," "seminal" Top Songs of the 1990's. Zero comments. I take that to mean that everyone who read it agreed with my every word.
(I'll wait for you to stop laughing.)
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(Done?)
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All right, so it wasn't perfect. I'm sure I had some songs too high, some too low, and some songs that I just plain forgot. Actually I did have some dissension among the ranks, though I have a feeling my musical arch-nemesis would've disagreed if I made numbers 1-12 everything off of Metallica's Black Album and then everything afterward an assortment of Tool, Alice in Chains, and then some Load/Reload era Metallica. Whatever. It's my list and that's just how it is.
Anyway, I had planned to go over some of the better disagreements (ie: something with solid reasoning behind it) but since no one spoke up I can just skip this part. (Yeah, I could do this with the arch-nemesis but it would have just devolved into "Your taste in music sucks!" "No, your taste in music sucks!" and so forth.)
Instead, I'll just do "Top 100 Songs of the 1990's: By the Numbers."
Total Words: 11,732
Longest Title: "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth (With Money in My Hand) - Primitive Radio Gods (54)
Shortest Title: Many tied with five letters
Longest running time: "November Rain" - Guns N' Roses (8:57)
Shortest running time: "Song 2" - Blur (2:01)
Year with most songs: 1996 (20)
Year with least songs: 1990 (3)
You know what? I don't feel like crunching any more numbers for you ungrateful bastards (kidding!).
Saturday, February 2, 2008
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i do have a bit of commentary about your top twenty...although nothing particularly rebuttable, because they're more personal rants than anything.
i got so sick of "Brick" that it wasn't even funny. the song never really turned my crank in the first place...but since Ben Folds Five was from Chapel Hill, NC and i grew up in Raleigh, NC (maybe half an hour away), i couldn't go five minutes without hearing that song. i got very sick of it very fast, and i still can't listen to it without getting a little annoyed.
and, "Bittersweet Symphony"...i could have just forgotten that song, if it weren't for the fact that i was a huge Verve Pipe fan all through high school, and people would get them and the Verve confused so often. it almost became my mission to straighten everyone out.
the confusion lingers to this day. i was at a Verve Pipe show about a month and a half ago, and after the band played their encore, these three guys in their early twenties turned to me and started asking me when they were going to come back and play "Bittersweet Symphony." i didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
The Verve/Verve Pipe thing is horrible, though one that will never really go away. And not so much on a confusion level, but on one where there is a certain portion of a crowd who is there to hear just one song.
(Disclosure: I tried to get into Verve Pipe's follow-up to Villains and just couldn't)
It kinda makes you sick, though, to go to a concert and hear "fans" scream for the one big hit and then once it's inevitably played, leave. Summerfest is notorious for that nonsense.
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