Category: Lists (Page 16 of 19)

Yes, Rolling Stone has trotted out another list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It seems like they do this every other year anymore. 500 is an awful lot, isn’t it? Ah well, nothing in the first 100 is even remotely new. Is this good or bad? You decide.

Lots of fun to be had here, kiddies. The Phoenix has come up with a list of 32 of the worst song lyrics of all time. This could not have been any simple task, but I applaud them for throwing in LFO’s “Summer Girls” (which, by the way, is also available in fantastic sarcastic cover version by yours truly). Actually, you could have thrown all of LFO’s songs in there, as they had to have written then book on bad lyrics. I’m also happy to see Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” make it in there. That song is a pure migraine any time I hear it.

One of my own personal additions to the list would have been Billy Joel’s “You’re My Home” from his Piano Man LP. Now, I love Billy, but this song has always made me gag, not just for the cornball faux country nature of the tune, but also for such godawful lyrics as “You’re my castle, you’re my cabin and my instant pleasure dome / I need you in my house ’cause you’re my home”. It’s nice to know Billy got better at writing those love songs.

So says The Observer. Of course I’m thrilled my fave band makes #1, but tell me, people, when the fuck will Sgt. Pooper finally drop off this kind of list? No one’s seriously amazed by that album anymore, are they? Yes, I get the gist of the list and yeah, OK, it “changed” music, but sometime, somewhere, that album, along with the overrated Pet Sounds, and most certainly Nirvana’s Nevermind will cease to exist on a popular albums list of this type.