ETA: You can only see 1-250 in the magazine,
I looked at the magazine. "Billie Jean" is their #1. "B.O.B." by Outkast is #2. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is #5.
It's an odd yet predictable list.
Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2005 7:53:49 am PDT #642 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
joe boucher - Sep 23, 2005 8:32:20 am PDT #643 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
It's an odd yet predictable list.
Oh, c'mon -- you did NOT predict this:
271. Don't Stop Believin'
Journey [1981]
Fist-pumping underdog fight song + lots of beer = karaoke bliss.
Available on: Escape (Columbia)
272. Rock the Casbah
The Clash [1982]
London punks spread Mideast peace the old-fashioned way: with disco records.
Available on: Combat Rock (Epic)
DavidS - Sep 23, 2005 8:39:18 am PDT #644 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh, c'mon -- you did NOT predict this:
That's the odd part. I mean, they had a lot of odd choices in their 500, but the top tier was predictable. Well, except "B.O.B" at #2. I would not have guessed that. There just didn't seem to be any guiding logic to it. At least it wasn't a Rolling Stone list. Those are the worst.
Hayden - Sep 23, 2005 8:46:11 am PDT #645 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
You say that like you don't think that every single moment of Mick Jagger's life has produced sheer brilliance.
BTW, Hec, did you see my link to the faux-Ignatius Reilly love letter to Bush in Natter?
DavidS - Sep 23, 2005 9:32:45 am PDT #646 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
BTW, Hec, did you see my link to the faux-Ignatius Reilly love letter to Bush in Natter?
Yeah, that was brilliant.
My casting for Ignatius: Oliver Platt. Or Vincent D'onofrio.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2005 9:48:04 am PDT #647 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I pitched the Dolls' Too Much Too Soon and Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones for the 33 1/3 series.
I heard from the editor and he's leaning a bit torwards the Waits, but I'll get a chance to make a formal proposal in November. I've asked Kim to pimp hard for me.
Send me some book-ma. It'd be a dream to write about either record.
Jon B. - Sep 23, 2005 9:55:54 am PDT #648 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Great David! I was hoping you'd make a pitch.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2005 10:05:48 am PDT #649 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Great David! I was hoping you'd make a pitch.
It'd be cool! I don't think I did my best writing in Lost In The Grooves (though I think the book, on the whole, is probably stronger than Bubblegum, and I did more to shape Grooves editorially), so I'd love an opportunity to really stretch as a writer.
erikaj - Sep 23, 2005 10:13:00 am PDT #650 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
Totally D'onofrio, if I was picking. But either one would be fab. Still bitter that I hated his Homicide episode, that most folks revere.(It made me roll my eyes forever instead.I'm not sure which thing did it.) Yeah, Corwood, I cracked up, babe.
msbelle - Sep 23, 2005 10:33:49 am PDT #651 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am kinda cranky with my iTunes. I burned about five CDs of mixes off my iTunes on my old computer, now I am going to upload them oin my new iTunes and they have none of the song or artist info on them.