Tropical Island IPOD Singles Draft Thread - Pending playoffs
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I think I am going to go with a guilty pleasure here. Won't win me any votes, but I am not going to win anyways, so what do I care? 
We Got the Beat - The Go-Gos
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_1BGKNk85M
We Got the Beat - The Go-Gos
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_1BGKNk85M
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My wife came up with this song somewhere and had it on a mix. I have grown attached to it. Not even knowing the name of the band, I researched to have something to say about it. Apparently it was a #1 hit so some of you have probably heard it. Natasja, the featured vocalist, unfortunately died in a Drunk Driving accident in Jamaica 6 months before it topped the charts.
Enur featuring Natasja - Calabria 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cAIqsrJ7Gg
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Slim, check out this video that is too racy to imbed, you will see why I used the lyric version above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSm8ReTRt90&feature=related
Enur featuring Natasja - Calabria 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cAIqsrJ7Gg
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Slim, check out this video that is too racy to imbed, you will see why I used the lyric version above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSm8ReTRt90&feature=related
I think I am going to go with a guilty pleasure here. Won't win me any votes, but I am not going to win anyways, so what do I care?
We Got the Beat - The Go-Gos
Here is a live version - embedding disabled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_1BGKNk85M
We Got the Beat - The Go-Gos
Here is a live version - embedding disabled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_1BGKNk85M
This song is one of those that receive sporaadic hate -- like The Freshman, like I'd Do Anythign For Love, like this other song from the same era I am not going to name because its still lingering on the fringes of my list. And like most of the hate directed at that class of songs, I think people need to just get over it.
Good song and might have made this kind of list for me if we'd been doing this a dozen years ago.
I have a semi-vulgar song coming with one of my next few picks. But on to #22. I didn't originally want to take more than 1 song by a band (AC/DC was my exception) but you people just don't seem to want this song, so I'm not letting this drop any more. One of those songs that just makes me happy when I listen to it. Sorry for the lame "video", it was the only one I could find
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Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
"Define irony: Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash"
Lightning Crashes was a great pick btw, that was one of my alternates
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Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
"Define irony: Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash"
Lightning Crashes was a great pick btw, that was one of my alternates
This song is one of those that receive sporaadic hate -- like The Freshman, like I'd Do Anythign For Love, like this other song from the same era I am not going to name because its still lingering on the fringes of my list. And like most of the hate directed at that class of songs, I think people need to just get over it.
Oh, and his bald head/rat tail combination.
I'm going to disregard what my Sansa says, and instead go with one of my favorites. I've always loved harmony, hearing multiple voices blending on a song, and my favorite form of music is a capella, especially when done by a group. To whit, with my twenty-second pick, I select:
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Wee B. Dooinit (Acapella Party by the Human Bean Band) - Quincy Jones - Back on the Block - 1989
The "Human Bean Band" was a collaboration of music icons that included, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald and Al Jarreau, as well as Bobby McFerrin, Siedah Garrett and the R&B/gospel group Take 6. The vocals on this song were excellent and, thanks to the genius of McFerrin, it almost sounds like they've got a band backing them up. This song is so cool that I can even forgive that hokey "The Verb To Be" stuff at the beginning.
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Wee B. Dooinit (Acapella Party by the Human Bean Band) - Quincy Jones - Back on the Block - 1989
The "Human Bean Band" was a collaboration of music icons that included, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald and Al Jarreau, as well as Bobby McFerrin, Siedah Garrett and the R&B/gospel group Take 6. The vocals on this song were excellent and, thanks to the genius of McFerrin, it almost sounds like they've got a band backing them up. This song is so cool that I can even forgive that hokey "The Verb To Be" stuff at the beginning.
And I will follow up Slim's pick with a song as far away from an a capella Quincy Jones piece as possible:
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Bleed It Out - Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight (2007)
A crazed punked out country stomp sung by a rap rock band?? More please! This song is just such a hoot, and I'm throwing it in behind Holiday for the pure unadulterated energy section of my songlist. Normally I would consider taking a song so new (came out last year) a bit of a risk -- what if it did not really have lasting power for me? But its such a fun and unique song, and its standing in for a whole subgenre which I otherwise often loathe (rap/rock). As well as I suppose for that all important country stomp genre on my list.
If you haven't heard it before, check it out -- if they made you do those junior high gym class square dances to this well a) people might actually show up; and b) they would then promptly start to kick the crap out of each other.
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Bleed It Out - Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight (2007)
A crazed punked out country stomp sung by a rap rock band?? More please! This song is just such a hoot, and I'm throwing it in behind Holiday for the pure unadulterated energy section of my songlist. Normally I would consider taking a song so new (came out last year) a bit of a risk -- what if it did not really have lasting power for me? But its such a fun and unique song, and its standing in for a whole subgenre which I otherwise often loathe (rap/rock). As well as I suppose for that all important country stomp genre on my list.
If you haven't heard it before, check it out -- if they made you do those junior high gym class square dances to this well a) people might actually show up; and b) they would then promptly start to kick the crap out of each other.
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Modest Mouse - Dashboard - We Were Dead Before Ship Even Sank (2007)
Isaac Brock mumbles, barks or whines his lyrics as if he is making fun of his own songs, while the whole band plays and sounds like they're tethering on the edge of the whole song completely falling apart. It's great, I love it.
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Isaac Brock mumbles, barks or whines his lyrics as if he is making fun of his own songs, while the whole band plays and sounds like they're tethering on the edge of the whole song completely falling apart. It's great, I love it.
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I really love Linkin Park..but I have to say that im not thrilled with there newest cd...they lost alot of originality in Minutes to Midnight I think. Every song is pretty decent on the new cd but i really miss the techno/rap part of it and I almost felt like they "sold out" a little bit and went more mainstream.
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There is really no way I can post this without sounding snooty, so I must just concede that a snooty post is ahead.
As some of you may be quite surprised to hear, there is a deep-seeded hatred of Linkin Park by many, if not all, connoisseurs of fusion rock, rap/rock, rapcore whatever the hell you want to call it.
This stems from many reasons.
First of all, rap rock is an interesting genre as it basically arose and become relevant through a single song: "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith and Run D.M.C. After a small lull, Linkin Park burst onto the scene about 10 years later in the with several rapcore/rap rock hits and quickly rose as one of the most popular bands among young people in the decade.
I think One Step Closer, Papercut and a few other cuts off their first album are legitimately good songs and furthered the rapcore genre.
Sadly, and I am not alone on this, many people feel Linkin Park let down the entire genre and has contributed greatly to its very, very early demise. Starting with the Meteora album, Linkin Park was already drifting into alt and pop rock much more than it had before. Their latest album has only cemeted that assumption.
Selling out is an overused term, but Linkin Park definitely seems to have trended significantly more with what is hitting tops in the charts in the years it releases albums. Its too bad, looking back at Hybrid Theory now not as a kid who's whole school was crazed by the band but as a regular music consumer I can't seem to shake the thought that Linkin Park had a ton of potential. Unfortunately, I really can't bare to listen to them anymore.
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As some of you may be quite surprised to hear, there is a deep-seeded hatred of Linkin Park by many, if not all, connoisseurs of fusion rock, rap/rock, rapcore whatever the hell you want to call it.
This stems from many reasons.
First of all, rap rock is an interesting genre as it basically arose and become relevant through a single song: "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith and Run D.M.C. After a small lull, Linkin Park burst onto the scene about 10 years later in the with several rapcore/rap rock hits and quickly rose as one of the most popular bands among young people in the decade.
I think One Step Closer, Papercut and a few other cuts off their first album are legitimately good songs and furthered the rapcore genre.
Sadly, and I am not alone on this, many people feel Linkin Park let down the entire genre and has contributed greatly to its very, very early demise. Starting with the Meteora album, Linkin Park was already drifting into alt and pop rock much more than it had before. Their latest album has only cemeted that assumption.
Selling out is an overused term, but Linkin Park definitely seems to have trended significantly more with what is hitting tops in the charts in the years it releases albums. Its too bad, looking back at Hybrid Theory now not as a kid who's whole school was crazed by the band but as a regular music consumer I can't seem to shake the thought that Linkin Park had a ton of potential. Unfortunately, I really can't bare to listen to them anymore.
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No, what let down the entire genre were jokes like Limp Bizkit which exposed the entire enterprise to ridicule as a pathetic melding of all the most immature and asinine aspects of both genres. This of course would be exactly the attraction to a "rap core" fan, but it turned the genre, such as it was, into something like professional wrestling set to music (hey, maybe Slim could have been a fan
) to the bulk of the music buying public. Which is to say a mockery. And of course it got old. Subgenres come and go. Once they lose their freshness, the fad moves on and they meld back in to the melting pot that is rock.Now Linkin Park..they are something else. Any talk of Linkin Park "selling out" is rather hilarious, since they were and always will be a pop band, might have had 2 or 3 songs tops that could even sniff of being called of "rap core" and at best have been mainstream rap rock, if not actually creating a genre called rap pop. I'm pretty sure there is a rule out there somewhere that no band can attach "core" to its desription which relies heavily on a keyboard player for its melodies. Kinda hard to sell out when you come out of the womb dominating Top 40 stations and getting played at high school dances. Its like accusing Blink 182 of selling out and ruining punk.
And as I mentioned before, compare the song I selected there to the biggest hit off their first album (not mentioned just due to the nature of the thread). Tell me which one has more of an edge. Its not even close really.
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The The - Kingdom Of Rain - Mind Bomb
Matt Johnson basically is The The. For almost 30 years he's writing his own music, recording and playing it with great guest/part time band memeber musicians and calling it "The The". Kingdom of Rain is a duet with Sinead O'Connor and my favorite The The song, from my favorite The The album - Mind Bomb.
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Matt Johnson basically is The The. For almost 30 years he's writing his own music, recording and playing it with great guest/part time band memeber musicians and calling it "The The". Kingdom of Rain is a duet with Sinead O'Connor and my favorite The The song, from my favorite The The album - Mind Bomb.
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Candle In The Wind - Elton John - Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (1987)
So I thought there really was no other more appropriate way to follow up a rap/rock/punk country stomp song than with...a beautiful piano ballad. See? I am civilized. Truly beautiful song, and I'm taking the original Marilyn Monroe version rather than the IMO inferior Princess Di redux. I'm also specifically taking the 1987 live performance that forms part of the backdrop of the video I've attached -- one of the best live performances of any song I have seen, and arguably even better than the original version from back in '73.
Candle In The Wind - Elton John - Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (1987)
So I thought there really was no other more appropriate way to follow up a rap/rock/punk country stomp song than with...a beautiful piano ballad.
See? I am civilized. Truly beautiful song, and I'm taking the original Marilyn Monroe version rather than the IMO inferior Princess Di redux. I'm also specifically taking the 1987 live performance that forms part of the backdrop of the video I've attached -- one of the best live performances of any song I have seen, and arguably even better than the original version from back in '73.
Just as surely as I love harmony, sometimes I just want to hear a tight-*** beat that I can nod my head to. With that in mind, with my twenty-third pick, I select:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al5GUrHzB1I (link disabled due to explicit lyrics)
Blaze of Glory - The Neptunes, featuring Clipse - Neptunes Present: The Clones - 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al5GUrHzB1I (link disabled due to explicit lyrics)
Blaze of Glory - The Neptunes, featuring Clipse - Neptunes Present: The Clones - 2003
No, what let down the entire genre were jokes like Limp Bizkit which exposed the entire enterprise to ridicule as a pathetic melding of all the most immature and asinine aspects of both genres. This of course would be exactly the attraction to a "rap core" fan, but it turned the genre, such as it was, into something like professional wrestling set to music (hey, maybe Slim could have been a fan ) to the bulk of the music buying public. Which is to say a mockery. And of course it got old. Subgenres come and go. Once they lose their freshness, the fad moves on and they meld back in to the melting pot that is rock.
Now Linkin Park..they are something else. Any talk of Linkin Park "selling out" is rather hilarious, since they were and always will be a pop band, might have had 2 or 3 songs tops that could even sniff of being called of "rap core" and at best have been mainstream rap rock, if not actually creating a genre called rap pop. I'm pretty sure there is a rule out there somewhere that no band can attach "core" to its desription which relies heavily on a keyboard player for its melodies. Kinda hard to sell out when you come out of the womb dominating Top 40 stations and getting played at high school dances. Its like accusing Blink 182 of selling out and ruining punk.
And as I mentioned before, compare the song I selected there to the biggest hit off their first album (not mentioned just due to the nature of the thread). Tell me which one has more of an edge. Its not even close really.
) to the bulk of the music buying public. Which is to say a mockery. And of course it got old. Subgenres come and go. Once they lose their freshness, the fad moves on and they meld back in to the melting pot that is rock.Now Linkin Park..they are something else. Any talk of Linkin Park "selling out" is rather hilarious, since they were and always will be a pop band, might have had 2 or 3 songs tops that could even sniff of being called of "rap core" and at best have been mainstream rap rock, if not actually creating a genre called rap pop. I'm pretty sure there is a rule out there somewhere that no band can attach "core" to its desription which relies heavily on a keyboard player for its melodies. Kinda hard to sell out when you come out of the womb dominating Top 40 stations and getting played at high school dances. Its like accusing Blink 182 of selling out and ruining punk.
And as I mentioned before, compare the song I selected there to the biggest hit off their first album (not mentioned just due to the nature of the thread). Tell me which one has more of an edge. Its not even close really.
Funny you should mention Blink 182. Travis Barker almost died today in a plane crash. Four people did die on it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26803108/
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