0. Absolute and complete crap. A nothing song that desperately wants to be felt, like so many of the worst are. Audrey Hepburn did manage to save it somewhat from its banal and for-the-demographic sentimentality, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrd14PxaUco
Last edited by Jack of Hearts; 02-10-2012 at 04:34 AM. Reason: Forgot you could rate it 0.
Wow, that's a pretty harsh sentiment.9/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=974ePdYMz4Q
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ~Oscar Wilde.
I like it - good guitar sounds.Originally Posted by BookBeauty
I liked this in the 90's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBi-...eature=related
I'da said the same at your age. Certainly about that song, and probably more vehemently.
It's a shame I won't be around to see you change your mind.
I remember The Stone Roses getting some attention in the U.S., but the Happy Mondays didn't hit at all over here--I mention this because the song is pretty groovy, but I didn't get the chance to hear it and make it part of my nostalgic repertoire. So all I can do is enjoy the second-hand nostalgia.
But I liked the 90's, and that means a solid 8/10, once the complicated algebra of appreciation is shaken out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Trp3U5IJI
I can't find the album version, but this is a nice alternative. We had a cool radio station back then, and I'll never forget the night the DJ played track after track off of this young woman's first album. The same night, he was also playing stuff off of Stanley Jordan's debut album, which he had also just discovered.
Are you insinuating that this reader just needs to be dealt a few hard ones before he'll cross Moon River in style one day?
What, to you, is the appeal of 'Moon River'? You're a man of varied tastes, to say the least.
J
EDIT: Also, Sgt. Pepper's is flawless. Revolver is one track six away from being flawless. Abbey Road is Sgt. Pepper's only real contender. That's a hell of a record.
EDIT EDIT: 7 for billl's. The music is cool but the lyrical delivery... is interesting only in one way at best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35TEBtJbi7Q
Last edited by Jack of Hearts; 02-11-2012 at 05:32 AM.
Back to Dylan!? 8 nasal-vocals out of 10 guitar strums.
I'm torn between Beatle albums, at best. Agreed that Revolver is one track six away. :P The fact that 'Yellow Submarine' is often how the young'uns associate them usually makes my skin crawl.
There have been so many occasions where people have told me, ''The Beatles!? Didn't they write 'Yellow Submarine'? I hate them!'' ... I shake my head sadly.
Despite the many flops, and even though you can tell they were falling apart at the seams, the 'White album' is my favourite right now, but I wouldn't necessarily call it 'the best'. There's just too much 'best' in the Beatles.
And on that note, one of my favourites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rRCxRfpQk8
Last edited by BookBeauty; 02-11-2012 at 06:31 AM. Reason: I changed my mind on which song to choose from that album. See what I mean!?
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ~Oscar Wilde.
The melody.
I'd rather Yellow Submarine than Within You Without You.
Actually, I think there are couple of weak songs on Revolver but I think it has more great songs than Pepper.
9/10 for Dylan. Though I prefer the less limp Blood on the Tracks version.
Oh hang on. Long, Long, Long got snuck in there. Which I've always thought was one that slipped past Quality Control. 6/10
Ah - and now it's Mother Nature's Son. Which is the sort of pleasant, unpretentious whimsy McCartney can knock out whilst simultaneously driving a car, texting the florist and making bolognese. 7/10
I tend to like songs that have an unusual lyrical angle on relationships, because so much pop music deals either with 'met her' or 'lost her'. Hats Off to Larry, for instance, will always have a place in my heart - because no other song I know of deals with that emotional position.
And here's one that deals not with emotional upheaval, but with emotional stasis. Clever lyric and affecting arrangement.
Last edited by MarkBastable; 02-11-2012 at 06:36 AM.
(Sorry, I edited it and put in 'Mother Nature's Son' instead. You people are almost as quick as I am at posting. :P With Long, Long, Long... I'm pretty sure he was singing about his Lord, rather than his lady. I'm an editing monster, I admit it.)
8/10 for Simon and Garfunkel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ&ob=av3e
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ~Oscar Wilde.
Have edited accordingly. You need to put one up. Oh, you did.
There was a time I had a reputation here for being snarkily dismissive of almost every song offered. I seem to have shaken that off, and I have no desire to re-adopt it, so I stopped the vid as soon as I saw the word 'Kansas', because I know the kind of paragraph that would result from listening to it.
Last edited by MarkBastable; 02-11-2012 at 06:40 AM.
Many of the songs presented in the last few pages have been masterpieces, so death to snarkiness. Come on- Beatles, Dylan AND Deadeye Dick???
"She don't eat meat but she sure like da bone!"
J
Kansas are hit and miss but that is one of their better tracks 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmzR1CKGtA&
Back when Nightwish were awesome.
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." - Sancho Panza, in Don Quixote, pt. 1, bk. 3, ch. 11 (1605)
While we're citing Dylan, by the way, I thought I'd float this for everyone's perusal.
Nightwish. I think I used to fight with someone who liked Nighwish. So to rate this, I would say.... nightwish.
So here's mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af5A08OWPRE (can't read any words right now. I got to "I really hate lying" and then I decided not to lie. I didn't read it).
Last edited by Shalot; 02-12-2012 at 10:26 PM.
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
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