Thursday, July 05, 2007

The Best Of... Music

THE PICTURES OR TITLES WILL TAKE YOU TO THE ARTICLE!











What's The Best in Music (Click the pics or names to go to the articles)


The 10 Best Songs About Nerdy Subjects







Tanya Donnelly & Dylan At The Movies cover "The Lovecats" (Awesome Covers Of Already Awesome Songs)






The 28... Make That 23... Best Xmas Songs, Plus Santas and Other Stuff To Make It Seem Christmas-Y.












Awesome Covers of Already Awesome Songs: Killer Queen.










The Best Unfairly Maligned Piece of Pop Culture
Rebecca Black's Friday















The Six Best Songs That Would Be Really Great If They Didn't Have That One Part In Them.



















The Best Songs To Learn Science From (Since Scientists Are No Good At That.)











Best Album:



Graceland.



The Best Band That Captured Exactly What It Feels Like To Be A Teenager (EvenWhen It's Not Really That Bad)


Violent Femmes





The Best Band Name:

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah



The Best Band of Twenty-Ten:

Ravenna Woods:
Song One: Ghost.
Song Two: An Atoll






The Best Best Way To Listen To Music

Mutating Pandora Stations










The Best Choral Version of A Pop Song:

"Hey, Jude"

Reader Nomination: Capital Childrens' Choir, Tribute to Lily Allen.

Reader Nomination: Sacramento State Jazz Singers, "Selfless, Cold & Composed"

Reader Nomination: PS22 Chorus, "We Will Rock You."








The Best Concept Album:

The Wall





The Best Christmas Song:

Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You

Other Christmas Songs:


The Best Christmas Song That Is The Product of 10,000 hours of practice and is not an old standard, "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree,", "Jingle Bell Rock," or "Run Run Rudolph."

"Wonderful Christmas"




The Best Christmas Song That Is Not Even A Christmas Song But Which I Am Going To Declare, Unilaterally, IS In Fact A Christmas Song (2008):

Primal Scream, "Movin' On Up"





The Best Christmas Song That Has Not Been Made Into A Movie Yet But Which Should (Even Though It Is Sad) and is not an old standard, "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree,", "Jingle Bell Rock," or "Run Run Rudolph."

"Fairytale of New York."






The Best Christmas Song Which Is From A Movie And Which Demonstrates That Modern Christmases Require Something Bad To Happen, and Which Is Not an old standard, "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree,", "Jingle Bell Rock," or "Run Run Rudolph."

"Christmas Is All Around Us."














The Best Christmas Song That Has Nothing To Do With Christmas But Is Still Considered a Christmas Song, and Also That Is Not An Old Standard, "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' "Jingle Bell Rock" or "Run Run Rudolph,"

It's A New Year (Just Get Along)






The Best Creepy Instrument That I Nonetheless Would Like To Learn To Play:

Xylophone.



The Best Dialogue Song:



I Am Not Your Broom.













The Best Drum Section In A Song:

Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher"






The Best Female Singer:


Fiona Apple










The Best Groovy Instrument:

That synthesizer in "96 Tears
."








The Best Guitarist

Leo Kottke











The Best Happy Song:

Love Today."
















The Best Instrumental Song


The Bell














The Best Modern Song About the 19th Century:







James K. Polk"









The Best mp3 Site:





Fingertips













The Best Musical Instrument That's So Lame It's Cool



Banjo


















The Best Music Craze That's So Lame It's Cool:

Swing Music






















The Best Music To Indicate That Good Times Lie Ahead But Also That Everything Is Fraught With Portents Of Evil:



Irish music.
















The Best Music Video:



"Weapon of Choice"











The Best Novelty Pop Song


Snoopy vs. The Red Baron.




The 6 Best Quirky Chick Singers (And How To Tell Them Apart.)


The Best Part of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."

"Oh! Oh!"











The Best Plot Twist In a Song That Makes A Lame Song Cool:

"Come Sail Away"















The Best Pop Song With "Pop" Or "Music" In The Title:
Pop Goes The World:




The Best Queen Song:


Radio Ga Ga

















The Best REM Songs That Prove They Should Stand Among The Giants of Rock and Roll.







The Best Robot In Song:


The Robot













The Best Rock and Roll Song:



Paradise By The Dashboard Lights





The Best Rock Band:
The Beatles
















The Best Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles:



U2







The Best Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles or U2:


The White Stripes













The Best Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles or U2 or The White Stripes:

The New Pornographers









The Best Rock Band That Isn't The Beatles Or U2 or The White Stripes Or The New Pornographers:


The Ramones






















The Best Rock Star (50's-60's)


Elvis



The Best Romantic Song:


True Companion, Marc Cohn












Tupelo Honey, Van Morrison















The Best Sad Song:


"If Love Is A Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags)"

















The Best Sing-Along-With Singer



Neil Diamond














The Best Song About Girls Kissing Other Girls

Jill Sobule's "I Kissed A Girl."






The Best Song For Valentine's Day

"A Wonderful Life," Rosa Chance Well










The Best Song From A Commercial:

The Stinky Chair Song (aka "Da Da Da" by Trio)







The Best Song From The One/Two Hit Wonder "The Kings" First Single

Switchin' To Glide









The Best Song In A Language Other Than English:

Espacio Sideral











The Best Song My Parents Would Have Had A Conniption About:

"The Bad Touch"










The Best Song That Barely Exists:

I Am Not Your Broom



The Best Song That Begins With A Radio Tuning In

"Mr Blue Sky."











The Best Song That Is About Writing, or Being In, A Book

"Page 28"






The Best Song That Is Incongruously Upbeat Despite Being About [SPOILER ALERT] A Sobbing, Cold Orphan Selling Flowers Before Dying.

"Artificial Flowers"







The 10 Best Songs That Will Make You Feel Good (And Then Feel Bad About Feeling Good.)
(List!)

UPDATE: Reader Nomination!







The Best Song Remake That's Better Than the Original

"Don't Be Cruel," Cheap Trick











The Best Song That Also Tells A Story:

The Mariner's Revenge Song
















The Best Song That Talks About Whether The Singer Of The Song Feels Like Dancing Or Not.

I Don't Feel Like Dancing.





The Best Song To Get You Through Hard Times:

Fall Line














The Best Song To Play While The Hero Is Running To Do Something Heroic:

Music for a Found Harmonium.













The Best Song To Turn Up At A Particular Point Just To Emphasize How Cool That Song Is:

"Common People."






The Best Spoken Word Song:


Cheesecake Truck











The Best Talkin' Blues

Talkin' World War III Blues.







The Best Title Character From A Beatles' Song To Have Lunch With

Bungalow Bill




The Best Triumph Over The Devil... In Music.


"Run, Devil Run."













The Best Versions of My Life According to Singer/Songwriters







The Best Versions of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight..."


The Best And Absolutely the Last Best Version: Family Band.







On a TV show: Friends:









The Best Indie Rock Version: REM's















The Best Version by A Group Or Country I Have A Tenuous Connection With: The Soweto Gospel Choir Versions











The Seven Best Songs To Teach Yourself How To Clap Along With Songs








The Seven Best Songs That Show What Love Is Really Like

(list!)








Three of The Best Bands I Just Heard Of Today For the First Time (List!)








The Four Best Best New Artists Who Weren't.










The Ten Best Songs, According To How Often The Boy Plays Them.










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