But perhaps I've already said too much.
That being the case, and since things will be a little quiet around here till we return, here's a fun little project for us all:
Best or Worst Post-Elvis Pop/Rock/Soul Song Either Referencing A Song (or Songs) or Having the Word "Song" in the Title!!!!
Self-explanatory, I think, and no arbitrary rules whatsoever, you're welcome very much. And apologies if we've done something like this before, but of course as you know I'm senile.
And my totally top of my head Top Eight are:
8. Bob Dylan -- Sara
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What a fricking liar.
7. Edward Bear -- Last Song
"This is the last song I'll ever sing for you..." I don't know what the woman in question had to say when she first heard this piece of crap, but I hope it was "God, I fucking hope so." Incidentally, the following excerpt from Edward Bear's Wiki entry -- The band is a favourite of Quentin Tarantino, who feels the band should be regarded as "The Beatles of Canada" -- is the single most terrifying thing I've ever read.
6. Buddy Holly -- Peggy Sue Got Married
"You recall the girl that's been in nearly every song..." The greatest sequel in pop music history, I think; this is the version overdubbed in stereo by The Fireballs in the early 60s, and it's one of my favorite things ever.
5. Tone Loc -- Funky Cold Medina
"And like Mick Jagger said/I can't get no satisfaction..." I think we all know the feeling, my friend. This remains one of the last truly great frat-rock (in the 60s sense) records, incidentally, although at the time it came out, nobody seemed to notice its obvious lineage.
4. The Pogues -- And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Folkie Eric Bogle's often-covered anti-war classic. The Pogues version seems to be regarded as definitive, or at least as definitive as these things get, and with good reason.
3. John Lennon -- How Do You Sleep?
"The only thing you done is 'Yesterday...'". I still say this is a very nice piece of music let down by an embarrassingly bitchy lyric. Seriously, if John was that pissed he should have picked up the phone and spared the rest of us the temper tantrum. IMHO.
2. Fountains of Wayne -- Peace and Love
Because, you know, we like to have something recorded in this century. Plus, this inspirational verse:
Lying on the floor
Just playing my guitar
Trying to find the chords for
"Just The Way You Are"
Heh.
And the Numero Uno Eskimo Club bottle of a song just has to be...
1. The Guess Who -- When the Band was Singing Shakin All Over
A rather dispiriting ode to their first hit, the kick-ass cover of the same Johnny Kidd and the Pirates song later immortalized by The Who. From their even more dispiriting 1975 album, and I mean so dispiriting that even a rabid Guess Who fan like myself was relieved that the band packed it in immediately after.
Incidentally, if you don't get the Eskimo Club bottle metaphor, I'm old enough to be your grandfather.
But alrighty then -- what would your choices be?
[Shameless Blogwhore: My parallel Cinema Listomania -- theme: best or worst performance as a Nazi by and actor or actress -- is now up over at Box Office. As always, it would be an act of great kindness if you could see your way to going over there and leaving a comment, despite the clunkiness of the new commenting system. Thanks!]
