The Shirelles, ‘ Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow‘ People think breaking up with Taylor Swift is dangerous, but if Dylan ever wrote a song about you (Positively 4th Street, Idiot Wind, etc.), you’d need actual stitches for all the phrases that drew blood. Covered countless times but never delivered better than the version he originally recorded. But of all of his brilliant work, none cut quite to the bone like this song about the end of a relationship. This song is the first of two in a row that are poetry set to music, but you could say that about every song Bob Dylan ever wrote. Bob Dylan, ‘ Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright‘ Of all the great songs Soundgarden and RATM individually produced, they never surpassed the achievement of this collaborative track. Tom Morello does Tom Morello things and the song rocks hard until the end of the bridge – where it breaks into a slow acoustic ballad of melancholic regret. As arranged originally by the hard rock supergroup, it delivers perfectly with Rage Against the Machine supporting lead singer Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, the greatest voice of 90s hard rock (RIP). Truly great songs can be rearranged drastically and still be brilliant. Black is the greatest song of the grunge era, It was, is, and forever shall be, the anthem of Generation X. A communal experience that no one present will ever forget. They are quickly joined by others and soon everyone in the house is belting this song out in unison. This song comes on and a few start singing along.
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It’s 2am in the kitchen of a beach house full of college kids. It’s then you realize, this song is the sonic equivalent to the greatest fuck you ever had.
The tempo steadily increases as the cacophony builds, the beat shifts, shifts again until it reaches a frenetic climax that leaves you exhausted. Bonus points for it being recorded before Bono became an insufferable douchebag. How long must we sing this song? If anyone remembers U2 one-hundred years from now, it will be for this track. Is that an electric fiddle being played under the driving military drum beat? Brilliant nuance to a song describing war-torn Northern Ireland during the Troubles. This despite sounding as if it were recorded yesterday. People forget, but this band was ubiquitous for about 2 1/2 years in the late 80s and this song captures the zeitgeist of that time like no other. Semi-androgynous lead singer with a Jim Morrison vibe? You’re goddamn right it does! It’s 1987 and INXS rules. INXS, ‘ New Sensation‘ĭoes it have killer guitar riffs? Check. Is it disco? Is it new wave? Does it matter? It’s Debbie Harry, and she is perfect. Do I overvalue songs that change tempo, start slow and build momentum? Do I pose too many questions? Perhaps, but if you don’t like this song, we can’t be friends. I, too, want to live beside the ocean and watch the world die. The lyrics describe many people’s attitudes about the current state of affairs in this country. So here we go: John Puccio, Communications Consultant 10.
We reached out to some fellow music lovers and ended up with a few completely different Top Ten All-Time Greatest Songs lists. So with this post we thought we’d set out to show how random a list you could get, and how objective musical tastes can be across the board.
Thus, a few weeks back, when Rolling Stone came out with its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the first reaction of shock and awe was replaced, in my book, with a gut feel that…well, if you asked 50 different people (which Rolling Stone did) what their 50 greatest songs were, you’d get a pretty random list. you meet someone at first and you’re thrown off by something then you realize that your initial reaction - “hey, this dude is over the top crazy!” - morphs over time into “this dude knows his stuff.”
One of the great maxims of my life has been the following: “Trust your gut, but DON’T conflate your initial reaction with your gut reaction.” E.g.
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