Thursday, December 29, 2011
Top 100 Songs Right Now!
My brother-in-law Matt Smith gave all the brothers an assignment over Christmas; make a list of our 100 top songs.
Here where the rules:
1- no more than five songs by exactly one artist
2- no more than three songs by any other artist
3- you must own a digital copy of any song on your list
We then met on December 28th at Matt's home to reveal our list. I brought beer at Tequila and Matt made tacos for dinner. Each brother rated songs on a + (I like the song), 0 (the song is only ok), and - (remove this song from your list!) To make the evening move along each brother was given 30 minutes to play our lists on shuffle. As soon as a song was rated we went to the next song.
Before I reveal my list, I want to make clear that one can be safe and pick songs that have already been placed on societies collective top 100, or one can dig deeper and pick song that evoke personal emotions. I, of course, created a list of the latter in alphabetical order:
1- Modern Man: Arcade Fire
2- She's Enough: Atmosphere
3- The Best Day: Atmosphere
4- Planet Claire: The B-52's
5- God Only Knows: The Beach Boys
6- Brass Monkey: The Beastie Boys
7- Something: The Beatles
8- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown): The Beatles
9- Girl: Beck
10- Morning Yearning: Ben Harper
11-Furr: Blitzen Trapper
12- Tangled Up In Blue: Bob Dylan
13- Concrete Jungle: Bob Marley and The Wailers
14- See A Little Light: Bob Mould
15- Thunder Road: Bruce Springsteen
16- Trapped (Live): Bruce Springsteen
17- Short Skirt/Long Jacket: Cake
18- Shake It Up: The Cars
19- Father and Son: Cat Stevens
20- Somebody's Crying: Chris Isaak
21- The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
22- Brand New Cadillac: The Clash
23- Fortunate Son: Creedence Clearwater Revival
24- I Will Possess Your Heart: Death Cab For Cutie
25- Crooked Teeth: Death Cab For Cutie
26- The Crane Wife 3: The Decemberists
27- Calamity Song: The Decemberists
28- Queen of the Surface Streets: DeVotchKa
29- So Far Away: Dire Straits
30- Used To Be A Cop: Drive-By Truckers
31- Hard Sun: Eddie Vedder
32- Alison: Elvis Costello
33- A Little Less Conversation: Elvis Presley
34- The Rockafeller Skank: Fatboy Slim
35- Helena Beat: Foster The People
36- What Is Life: George Harrison
37- Run (I'm A Natural Disaster): Gnarls Barkley
38- The Captain: Guster
39- Tick Tick Boom: The Hives
40- Oh My God: Ida Maria
41- I'd Run Away: The Jayhawks
42- Fire: Jimi Hendrix
43- Hurt: Johnny Cash
44- Movement: LCD Soundsystem
45- Losing My Edge: LCD Soundsystem
46- North American Scum: LCD Soundsystem
47- All My Friends: LCD Soundsystem
48- Rock 'n Roll: Led Zeppelin
49- Never Said: Liz Phair
50- Two Janes: Los Lobos
51- Skinny Legs: Lyle Lovette
52- Car Wheels On A Gravel Road: Lucinda Williams
53- What's Going On: Marvin Gaye
54- Overkill: Men At Work
55- Southside: Moby
56- Satellite Skin: Modest Mouse
57- O My Heart: Mother Mother
58- Little Lion Man: Mumford & Sons
59- Old Man: Neil Young
60- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
61- Pink Moon: Nick Drake
62- All Apologies: Nirvana
63- Lithium: Nirvana
64- Cut Your Hair: Pavement
65- Alive: Pearl Jam
66- Better Man: Pearl Jam
67- Bad Reputation: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
68- Solsbury Hill: Peter Gabriel
69- Comfortably Numb: Pink Floyd
70-Little Red Corvette: Prince
71- History Repeating: Propellerheads
72- Amie: Pure Prairie League
73- It's The End Of The World As We Know It: R.E.M.
74- Driver 8: R.E.M.
75- Catapult: R.E.M.
76- Weird Fishes/Arpeggi: Radiohead
77- Unsatisfied: The Replacements
78- 1952 Vincent Black Lightning: Richard Thompson
79- Street Fighting Man: The Rolling Stones
80- Gimme Shelter: The Rolling Stones
81- Crash And Burn: Sheryl Crow
82- New Slang: The Shins
83- 1979: Smashing Pumpkins
84- Tear Stained Eye: Son Volt
85- Black Gold: Soul Asylum
86- Flipside: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
87- The Mystery Zone: Spoon
88- Supersition: Stevie Wonder
89- All This Time: Sting
90- Last Nite: The Strokes
91- Institutionalized: Suicidal Tendencies
92- Don't Do Me Like That: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
93- Pancho & Lefty: Townes Van Zandt
94- Wait So Long: Trampled By Turtles
95- Gloria: U2
96- Seether: Veruca Salt
97- Blue Orchid: The White Stripes
98- Baba O'Riley: The Who
99- Misunderstood: Wilco
100- One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley): Wilco
Here where the rules:
1- no more than five songs by exactly one artist
2- no more than three songs by any other artist
3- you must own a digital copy of any song on your list
We then met on December 28th at Matt's home to reveal our list. I brought beer at Tequila and Matt made tacos for dinner. Each brother rated songs on a + (I like the song), 0 (the song is only ok), and - (remove this song from your list!) To make the evening move along each brother was given 30 minutes to play our lists on shuffle. As soon as a song was rated we went to the next song.
Before I reveal my list, I want to make clear that one can be safe and pick songs that have already been placed on societies collective top 100, or one can dig deeper and pick song that evoke personal emotions. I, of course, created a list of the latter in alphabetical order:
1- Modern Man: Arcade Fire
2- She's Enough: Atmosphere
3- The Best Day: Atmosphere
4- Planet Claire: The B-52's
5- God Only Knows: The Beach Boys
6- Brass Monkey: The Beastie Boys
7- Something: The Beatles
8- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown): The Beatles
9- Girl: Beck
10- Morning Yearning: Ben Harper
11-Furr: Blitzen Trapper
12- Tangled Up In Blue: Bob Dylan
13- Concrete Jungle: Bob Marley and The Wailers
14- See A Little Light: Bob Mould
15- Thunder Road: Bruce Springsteen
16- Trapped (Live): Bruce Springsteen
17- Short Skirt/Long Jacket: Cake
18- Shake It Up: The Cars
19- Father and Son: Cat Stevens
20- Somebody's Crying: Chris Isaak
21- The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
22- Brand New Cadillac: The Clash
23- Fortunate Son: Creedence Clearwater Revival
24- I Will Possess Your Heart: Death Cab For Cutie
25- Crooked Teeth: Death Cab For Cutie
26- The Crane Wife 3: The Decemberists
27- Calamity Song: The Decemberists
28- Queen of the Surface Streets: DeVotchKa
29- So Far Away: Dire Straits
30- Used To Be A Cop: Drive-By Truckers
31- Hard Sun: Eddie Vedder
32- Alison: Elvis Costello
33- A Little Less Conversation: Elvis Presley
34- The Rockafeller Skank: Fatboy Slim
35- Helena Beat: Foster The People
36- What Is Life: George Harrison
37- Run (I'm A Natural Disaster): Gnarls Barkley
38- The Captain: Guster
39- Tick Tick Boom: The Hives
40- Oh My God: Ida Maria
41- I'd Run Away: The Jayhawks
42- Fire: Jimi Hendrix
43- Hurt: Johnny Cash
44- Movement: LCD Soundsystem
45- Losing My Edge: LCD Soundsystem
46- North American Scum: LCD Soundsystem
47- All My Friends: LCD Soundsystem
48- Rock 'n Roll: Led Zeppelin
49- Never Said: Liz Phair
50- Two Janes: Los Lobos
51- Skinny Legs: Lyle Lovette
52- Car Wheels On A Gravel Road: Lucinda Williams
53- What's Going On: Marvin Gaye
54- Overkill: Men At Work
55- Southside: Moby
56- Satellite Skin: Modest Mouse
57- O My Heart: Mother Mother
58- Little Lion Man: Mumford & Sons
59- Old Man: Neil Young
60- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
61- Pink Moon: Nick Drake
62- All Apologies: Nirvana
63- Lithium: Nirvana
64- Cut Your Hair: Pavement
65- Alive: Pearl Jam
66- Better Man: Pearl Jam
67- Bad Reputation: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
68- Solsbury Hill: Peter Gabriel
69- Comfortably Numb: Pink Floyd
70-Little Red Corvette: Prince
71- History Repeating: Propellerheads
72- Amie: Pure Prairie League
73- It's The End Of The World As We Know It: R.E.M.
74- Driver 8: R.E.M.
75- Catapult: R.E.M.
76- Weird Fishes/Arpeggi: Radiohead
77- Unsatisfied: The Replacements
78- 1952 Vincent Black Lightning: Richard Thompson
79- Street Fighting Man: The Rolling Stones
80- Gimme Shelter: The Rolling Stones
81- Crash And Burn: Sheryl Crow
82- New Slang: The Shins
83- 1979: Smashing Pumpkins
84- Tear Stained Eye: Son Volt
85- Black Gold: Soul Asylum
86- Flipside: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
87- The Mystery Zone: Spoon
88- Supersition: Stevie Wonder
89- All This Time: Sting
90- Last Nite: The Strokes
91- Institutionalized: Suicidal Tendencies
92- Don't Do Me Like That: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
93- Pancho & Lefty: Townes Van Zandt
94- Wait So Long: Trampled By Turtles
95- Gloria: U2
96- Seether: Veruca Salt
97- Blue Orchid: The White Stripes
98- Baba O'Riley: The Who
99- Misunderstood: Wilco
100- One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley): Wilco
