Wednesday, April 04, 2007

LISTAMANIA III

The title is more effective if you say it in the manner of the announcer in 'The Wizard,' i.e. SUPER MARIO BROTHERS............................................................................................................................................................(dramatic pause).............................................................................................................THREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEee

Ah, the Wizard. That will surely make a comeback when I make my list of the top Jenny Lewis movies. But anyway, onto the fun. None of these are in any particular order

Top Five Led Zeppelin songs
Hey Hey, What Can I Say
Heartbreaker
Battle of Evermore
Fool in the Rain
Gallows Pole

Top Five Who songs
5:15
The Real Me
Substitute
Won't Get Fooled Again
My Wife

Top Five Rolling Stones songs
Midnight Rambler
Gimme Shelter
Tumbling Dice
It's Only Rock and Roll
Sympathy for the Devil

Top Five Radiohead songs
The National Anthem
Just
High and Dry
Paranoid Android
Exit Music (For A Film)

Top Five Oasis songs
Hello
Acquiesce
Don't Look Back In Anger
Live Forever
Rock and Roll Star

Top Five Elton John songs
Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting
Crocodile Rock
Don't Go Breaking My Heart
I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
I Don't Want To Go On With You Like That

Top Five Johnny Cash songs (originals)
Jackson
Flesh and Blood
Folsom Prison Blues
Delia's Gone
Big River

Top Five Johnny Cash songs (covers)
Hurt
Rusty Cage
Desperado
God's Gonna Cut You Down
I Hung My Head

Top Five Blur songs
Charmless Man
Tender
To The End
On Your Own
M.O.R.

Top Five Tragically Hip songs
The Darkest Ones
Poets
Fireworks
So Hard Done By
Wheat Kings

Top Five Pulp songs
Common People
Mis-Shapes
Bar Italia
Do You Remember the First Time?
Disco 2000

Top Five White Stripes songs
(on hold until Icky Thump comes out, since that album could throw things into disarray)

Top Eleven Bruce Springsteen songs
Thunder Road
Born to Run
Rosalita
Lost in the Flood
Stolen Car
Atlantic City
Bobby Jean
Dancing in the Dark
Tunnel of Love
My City of Ruins
Lion's Den

Top Ten Pearl Jam songs
Alive
Better Man
No Way
Life Wasted
Come Back
Insignificance
Hail Hail
Present Tense
Corduroy
Even Flow

Top Ten Beatles songs
When I'm Sixty-Four
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Here Comes the Sun
Back in the USSR
Cry Baby Cry
Here, There and Everywhere
Help
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Lady Madonna
We Can Work It Out

Top Fifteen U2 songs
The Fly
Mysterious Ways
Bad
Angel of Harlem
Kite
With or Without You
A Celebration
Stay
All I Want Is You
One
In A Little While
Mofo
Where the Streets Have No Name
Discotheque
Out of Control

2 comments:

sarah nicole said...

okay, so, issues:





just kidding. i've pretty much given up.

any word on the maclean's job?

Hal Incandenza said...

I, for one, will never give up.

Humbly:

Zep - When the Levee Breaks, Babe I'm Going to Leave You

Who - Baba O'Riley (even though it's been hugely overplayed since Summer of Sam/American Beauty, it's still their best).

Stones - Under My Thumb (I refuse to argue about this).

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Oasis - Wonderwall, Supersonic, Talk Tonight, D'Yer Know What I Mean (I'd keep Acquiesce from yours--the rest can go, though a Top 10 is probably more appropriate).

Hip - Nautical Disaster (their best).

Maclean's? Sweet...