CAVEATS:
a. I have omitted all your favourites and only included my own
b. Gasps! as the Carpenters were pushed out of the number 100 spot at the last minute by the inclusion of The Bangles.
c. All order essentially arbitrary etc
d. Aforementioned rules broken where necessary
MY TOP 100 SINGLES
1 RACE FOR THE PRIZE - Flaming Lips
2 GRACE - Jeff Buckley
3 MONKEY GONE TO HEAVEN - The Pixies
4 ANGEL'S HEAP - Finn Brothers
5 STEREO - Pavement
6 TO HERE KNOWS WHEN - My Bloody Valentine
7 I FEEL FOR YOU - Chaka Khan
8 TURN! TURN! TURN! - The Byrds
9 GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys
10 EBOW THE LETTER - R.E.M
11 YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE - New Radicals
12 OH LORI - Alessi Brothers
13 THIRTEEN - Big Star
14 FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH - The Posies
15 HERE'S WHERE THE STORY ENDS - The Sundays
16 CHANGES - Sugar
17 UP WITH PEOPLE - Lambchop
18 PEG - Steely Dan
19 CONFETTI - The Lemonheads
20 CLOSE TO ME - The Cure
21 ANIMAL - Def Leppard
22 NEVER SAID - Liz Phair
23 FANFARE - Eric Matthews
24 THAT'S THE WAY LOVE IS - Ten City
25 WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS - Pet Shop Boys
26 NOBODY'S TWISTING YOUR ARM - The Wedding Present
27 THIS IS WHAT SHE'S LIKE - Dexy's Midnight Runners
28 MARQUEE MOON - Television
29 OH PATTI (DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR LOVERBOY) - Scritti Politti
30 IN FRANCE THEY KISS ON MAIN STREET - Joni Mitchell
31 BLUE MONDAY - New Order
32 LITTLE RED CORVETTE - Prince
33 WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES - The Doobie Brothers
34 I WILL DARE - The Replacements
35 FEED THE TREE - Belly
36 THE CROWN - Gary Byrd
37 I SAW THE LIGHT - Todd Rundgren
38 TUMBLING DICE - Rolling Stones
39 MORE THAN THIS - Roxy Music
40 HIDEAWAY - The Olivia Tremor Control
41 BLUE - The Jayhawks
42 I KNOW YOU GOT SOUL - Eric B & Rakim
43 WICKED GAME - Chris Isaak
44 SHE'S SO YOUNG - The Pursuit of Happiness
45 CARNIVAL 2000 - Prefab Sprout
46 CYBELE'S REVERIE - Stereolab
47 WAIT - Robert Howard and Kym Mazelle
48 KEEP ON MOVIN' - Soul II Soul
49 SWEET CHILD O' MINE - Guns N' Roses
50 PSYCHO KILLER - Talking Heads
51 CANNONBALL - Breeders
52 YOUNG AMERICANS - David Bowie
53 THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE - The Smiths
54 THE BEAT(EN) GENERATION - The The
55 WHERE IT'S AT - Beck
56 DON'T LET'S START - They Might Be Giants
57 EVERYTHING COUNTS - Depeche Mode
58 MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER - Stardust
59 LIPGLOSS - Pulp
60 HOT BURRITO #1 - Flying Burrito Brothers
61 LITTLE SISTER - Ry Cooder
62 HOLLAND, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel
63 ONCE AROUND THE BLOCK - Badly Drawn Boy
64 WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN - Style Council
65 IT WAS A GOOD DAY - Ice Cube
66 I WANNA DESTROY YOU - The Soft Boys
67 THIS IS A CALL - Foo Fighters
68 CALIFORNIA LOVE - 2Pac feat Dr Dre + Roger Troutman
69 EVERYTHING FLOWS - Teenage Fanclub
70 MAP REF 41°N 93°W - Wire
71 I'LL NEVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN - Bobbie Gentry
72 TANGLED UP IN BLUE - Bob Dylan
73 THE WEIGHT - The Band
74 SUGARCUBE - Yo La Tengo
75 REGULATE - Warren G + Nate Dogg
76 UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY - Paul McCartney
77 HOMETOWN UNICORN - Super Furry Animals
78 STILL DRE - Dr Dre
79 TAKE A RUN AT THE SUN - Dinosaur Jr
80 YOU AND YOUR SISTER - This Mortal Coil
81 LORELEI - Cocteau Twins
82 NEVER TOO MUCH - Luther Vandross
83 I LOVE THE UNKNOWN - Clem Snide
84 WIRED FOR SOUND - Cliff Richard
85 SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT - Split Enz
86 SON OF SAM - Elliott Smith
87 LEARNING TO FLY - Tom Petty
88 B.O.B - Outkast
89 MAN, I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN - Shania Twain
90 SUGAR KANE - Sonic Youth
91 TWIGGY TWIGGY/TWIGGY VS JAMES BOND - Pizzicato 5
92 IN BLOOM - Nirvana
93 WHAT TIME IS LOVE - KLF
94 GROOVEJET (IF THIS AIN'T LOVE) - Spiller feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor
95 WINTER - Tori Amos
96 IF SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTS - The Bangles
97 INTERGALACTIC - Beastie Boys
98 BATTLE OF WHO COULD CARE LESS- Ben Folds Five
99 BREAKOUT - Swing Out Sister
100 THE EAGLE AND ME - Van Dyke Parks
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14 comments:
I can't help the fact that the chemicals in my brain make me like "Man I Feel Like A Woman'. Shania Twain was one of only two or three acts where I couldn't decide which single to include. "That Don't Impress Me Much", is, on its day, an almost equally magnificent work of powerful genius.
With most bands where I couldn't decide, none of their songs made it! That includes your list-leaders, Blur, the Beatles and Supergrass. It's hard to win sometimes.
Johnny Cash was a great man and a great artiste, but I wouldn't want to spend much time actually listening to him. Because I am ME not YOU. Do you see how this works? Individual human beings, different ideas.
As for Intergalactic, unlike all their other songs, I still like listening to it. It's just me! There is no critical justification for this list! It does not exist in relationship to or in consideration of your opinion, I made it because I had to!
List making is soothing on a Sunday. it soothes the brow.
I must side with you on the Shania Twain thing, and I usually despise anything country, and country-ish. Also I normally do not like major pop artists, but Shania Twian songs are some damn catchy sometimes. Personally I probably would have chosen You're Still The One though...
Ah, the list. Good ol' list.
A great many of those song titles made me bounce joyously in my seat as I read them, others made me screw my face up as if I'd just taken a bite out of a lemon. But that's the way it should be. I'm sure I would have reacted the same way to pretty much anybody else's list. Such diversity is what makes the world the exciting place it is today!
I confess that your cutting remark about the Wildhearts earlier made me weep hot tears. But that's just a burden I have to bear.
PS. Compiling my own Top 100 list would probably drive me completely mental, so I decided long ago never to compile one.
Your comment about The Wildhearts was a sad thing indeed. So much so it deserved a mention on more than one post.
Still, your drawings and cartoons and that are pretty good, so carry on.
Shania Twain or not, my already boundless respect for your grey stuff has been boosted up a notch by the choice of Tangled Up in Blue.
Some are mathematician, some are carpenters' wives...
I'd have to go for "Sometimes", meself.
That was excellent! It put demonds in my brain! What was it?
Rinne came out about a decade after Osorezan.
Here's an mp3 from it
I was so happy to see that Scritti Politti track in there - I didn't think anyone else knew it existed. Soft Boys also a good choice.
Because all I listen to his Halifax Pop:
1. Joel Plaskett - Light of the Moon
2. Sloan - Sinking Ships
3. The Flashing Lights - Highschool
4. The Local Rabbits - Lights Turn On
5. The Super Friendz - Two Songs
- Eddie
John you are a God like genius, I need to go and buy all the albums that these are off (with 1-2 exceptions maybe, Swing Out Sister? Meh, don't knock it until you tried it I guess). Actually I need you to go and buy them for me. I have... allergies.
Anyway cheers for encapsulating my music taste in such a fulsome way, as they say on the grubby streets of Amsterdam! See you later and if you are very good maybe I will come and post another comment.
- Lord Osmo
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