I've been listening to the "W" songs on my IPod this week. There are a lot of them. And they are, for the most part, really good songs. Much better than a random sampling of shuffled songs on my IPod. Maybe alphabetical is the way to go. I am thinking of staging a competition between all of the letters. It would be interesting. I think "W" has a good chance of Winning.
Thursday, December 16, 2004
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dude, you're going to run out of letters at some point. Are you going to have to ditch old friends in order to replace them with the new person for each letter?
W's should never win...
yes, I know that W was referring to songs starting with W, but just saying...
Don't listen to W... he's a liar.
So, if you go by The Rolling Stone top 500 songs as a sample set, we get the following breakdown of Top 10 letters to start song titles. May not be exact but will give a good estimate
56 S
47 I
41 T
38 W
35 B
27 R
27 L
26 H
25 P
24 C
Bench Buddy just pointed out that "Thirteen" by Big Star is on the Rolling Stone Top 500 and said "You must feel validated."
There's a lot of hip hop towards the bottom. And lots of good W's - such as "White Room" and "Welcome to the Jungle."
This list sort of sucks, though, and it is suspicious that "Like a ROLLING STONE" is the number 1 song, and that the number 2 song is by THE ROLLING STONES.
Come on, you can dislike Dylan if you just don't like his voice, but really, this song has every right to be at the top
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Oh, no, don't get me wrong - I really like Dylan, and I really like this song. I was merely pointing out that Rolling Stone might be a little biased in picking a song called "Like a Rolling Stone" as the best song ever.
As much I as love Dylan, etc, that Rolling Stone list was lame-o.
Obvious obvious obvious stuff.
Now if they had slipped a Magnetic Fields song in or Can or Mamie Smith or The Shaggs, then some respect.
Leah -- you should give music snob lessons. I would totally get in line for them. I was at this party last weekend, and wasn't nobody there could hang when it came to movies, literature, television and comedy. But then we started talking about music, and I was all,"Um, did you hear the new Wee Sing cover of 'Farmer in the Dell'? Yo, that spit was off the *hook*."
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