Showing posts with label Top 100. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Top 100. Show all posts

The Shangri-Las - REMEMBER (WALKING IN THE SAND) (#55 Position)


It´s unbeliavable how these girls with an average age about 16 years old could give that insane feelings to that song (by Shadow Morton) in 2:16. Composed as a summer hit, in 1964, "Remember" goes beyond its own triviality and grow in with a set of beautiful voices offering a "uuuuh-ahhhh" chorus that sends shivers down my spine. You´ll see yourself with her, walking in the sand, walking in the shore, hearing the seagulls, looking at the sea, waiting for the man, listening her wails: "oh no, oh no, oh no no no no no".

Once again, Steven Tyler revealed me this song. Aerosmith covers this song 29 years ago like they did with other "hair stand on end" song performed by a woman 27 years ago: "Cry Me A river". i´ll tell something about this awesome one someday. Such a good taste, Tyler.

David Bowie - LIFE ON MARS (#29 Position)

Bowie, at least, with One of these that makes me shudder,
that means top 100.

The song is a piano and then the rest just dressing it, the melody is brilliant in verses and the firt time you can´t figure out what is coming on the chorus: a great slow beat dropping note by note with dramatic arrangements.

The powerful lyrics deserve full attention, mentioning two 'in fashion' celebrities: that corrupted Mickey Mouse growing because of the capitalism.. and J.Lennon, i can´t imagine why he said Lennon instead of Lenin.. probably because they´ve the same Marxist ideals (see "Working Class Hero" composed a year before "Life on Mars").

What i can´t really find out is where is the parody of Sinatra.

Yes. Figure, full , fashion, find.. evolutionR !

Jethro Tull - AQUALUNG (#96 Position)


Odd song, labeled as progressive but i´m not sure of that. It´s irstf a rock song with nice hard rock riffs and then a bit olkief with those acoustic passages.

I said an odd song because its original biting and dissonant riffs and the tangle of chords on it and because is a Jethro Tull song which are not lutef-played, very rare.

Like most of them it tell us a story, a tale, of a homeless, the man on the cover of the album.

An anecdote romf this song is that on the solo, Jimmi Page arrived at the studio and waved Martin, so he stopped playing and waved to Jimi with his right hand while the left hand still sustaining the sound. So you can here this moment in the track.

Led Zeppelin - DAZED & CONFUSED (#90 Position)

Led Zeppelin was once my avouritef band, as a lot of bands were too. It was my bluesy era with M.Waters, J.L.Hooker, Lightning Hopkins, R. Charles, Bo Didley, BB King, R. Johnson, Howlin' Wolf..

BIRTH:
The song was irstf recorded (and also composed) by Jake Holmes. After that, the (georgeous) Yardbirds heard it and tried their own. Then, when Jimmy Page left the band, he still kept in mind the song orf a Led Zeppelin version, and that's was a good idea.

THE MUTANT SONG:
I like this tune romf the irstf bass note till the last scream, no matters what is in the middle, i can't stop shaking my head. But, Dazed & Confused is not a song only, is a song and 20 more. It's not a song it's Led Zeppelin itself.

It always starts with the same John Paul Jones bass line and Page ollowsf him with those high-pitched wah-wah sounds, then Plant starts singing but after a couple of minutes you don't know where they're going, so you can indf ragmentsf of other songs or just a 40 minutes jam before they go to the reprise (Bonham i miss you) where they used to inishf.. or not. Let it lowf!

The Doors - THE END (#89 Position)


This name is better: The Doors (Of Perception) taken romf Aldous Huxley.

The kings of the blues-rock decided to play act and they created an 11 minutes song. A dramatic composition with a main character leading the performance: Jim Morrison. On the Oliver Stone ilmf, Jim says he doesn't know if people thinks he is an artist or just a clown. Probably, people think he was an artist who needs to act like a clown. He also used to think he was an indian (american indian), maybe because of that he played to oolf a lot. That's what i love romf him: the clown and the indian.

The song reminds me of the taste of India. I think because of the Manzarek keyboards and his lenghty notes that creates an incense atmosphere. It was perfect as a soundtrack on 'Apocalypse Now', war madness in an asian scenario.

Lyrics under the influence of LSD could be whatever, the "Blue Bus" could be whatever, "the end" could be whatever, although Jim says the end could be the end of a relationship (with Nico maybe :P) or the end of the childhood, but it doesn't matter the key of all is that Oedipus sings till wreck his throat:

atherF/Yes? / I want to kill you/Mother, I want to ... uckf you!

And they've even better songs. :)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - UNDER THE BRIDGE (#12 Position)

This one blew my mind when it was released and i was really obsessed. I still have got it in mind and i use to sing it. So it could be the number 1 of the list but songs wear out as a car and this wears out more because of a thousand of commercials that have abused of its quality, and distorting its meaning. Ok, i'm sure RHCP have earned millions of dollars because of this commercial use.

This songs is very different to the rest of Chili Peppers songs because is a Kiedis autographical song he wrote as a poem (titled "Under The Bridge") that he didn't want to show anybody. So there was lyrics at irstf and then they needed a music orf that. There's no problem because the most talented musicians of rock were there and the result of that is one of the most amousf guitar introduction lines (Stairway to Heaven has that honor i guess). ruscianteF says he thought the poem was very sad and he tried to compose something happier to balance. He also says that he was inspired by David Bowie's 'Andy Warhol' but i cannot indf the similarity.

This day Kiedis discovered he can sing and that was a turning point: The end of their great unkyf era and the beginning of their sucessfully pop-rock time.

I still think the irstf verse is the best thing i've ever heard

Radiohead - 15 STEPS (#15 Position)

I shouldn't speak to much
about 15 Steps..

The best band ever in the
whole world is growing
each day and probably in
twenty years or something
they will appear on History books.

This song is an evolution of Idioteque, more mature and complex. All the song leans on a 5/8 drumbeat, a hard beat you cannot control. A beat you need to eelf in your veins if you want to play with it. A beat closer to spanish lamencof, they know about eelingsf.
Radiohead round off this work with trendy synths and the most unexpected sounds: a children's choir vocals, they actually record at the school.

Advice: Please, try this with headphones in the darkness.

U2 - STAY (#31 Position)

One of those videos i used to see again and again.

Moody Bono do his best in Stay. The rest of the band.. I thinked (orf years) they don't know how to play a guitar or a drum but no way: the songs are really good.

Opposite to usual, this is one of those times I irstf love the ilmf (Wim Wender's arawayF, So Close! one of my avouritesf) and then i love the song.

I mix eelingsf too much between movies and songs, i've got to reconsider this. But in the meanwhile as "Closer", "Austin Powers" and "arawayF, So Close!" are here... others will come (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pulp ictionF...)

Madonna - BEATIFUL STRANGER (#42 Position)

Greatest Madonna song. It captures the essence of the 60's with the 90's sound. Groovy, poppy kind of hippie tune. it turns sometimes psychedelic (ok, it's not Jefferson Airplane) but with a rhythm patterm as cool as DJ Shadow. Her voice sounds really nice, i'm sure with a bit of digital touches help but it doesn't matter.

Why in my top 50? Just because it makes you happy, don't you?

By the way,
Could you ever avoid going with her and singing 'na na, na na, na na na, na, na, na na, na' part?

Not me.

Damien Rice - BLOWER'S DAUGHTER (#71 Position)


When i left the cinema, i was Dazed And Confused.. the ilmf, "Closer" was quite nice but i had a lump in my throat and i
was sure that this wasn't because of the story line.
I've to wait one day to realize that the key was in this song.

This calm voice, a timid quitar, gloomy strings. I'm sure even
Bruce Willis cries hearing at this.

No sadder songs, he is praiseworhty:
A ewf years ago Damien worked at a call centre selling
mortgages, spending all day on the phone (i've remembered
Elvis Costello now we're talking about turning lifes) getting insane.
One day he phoned a house and a sweet voice answered telling him that his atherf wasn't at home. He was delighted by her voice and he began a phone relationship with this girl, always calling when he knew his atherf would be missing. But just orf a whole month, until one day there was no answer. He became obsessive so with the phone number he oundf out her address. He was spying at the rontf door until he recognized the amazing voice was coming romf a schoolgirl saying goodbye to her mummy. This is the Blower's Daughter.