I like the name of this one...
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cruciel, it's
1. List your current six favorite songs
2. Why?
3. Tag six other people to do the same.
[side note: this is much easier to determine with an iPod that tells you what songs you've been listening to a lot lately. It's kind of cheating though as what I've listened to the most isn't necessarily what I'm obsessed with--I'm just too lazy to futz around with the rankings]
All the Love in the World by NIN
I can't stand how utterly beautiful Trent Reznor's singing is on this song. Not that I don't love his screaming, but the choral pleading, "Why do you get all the love in the world?" about breaks my heart. Every time a lyric gets close to a cliche, he interrupts himself with that question and it's wondrous. When I first heard it, I was like 'whoa! happy NIN? wtf?' but it's actually incredibly sad and petty; it just sounds pretty.
Another Pyramid from the musical version of AIDA
This one's on my work playlist, and it always makes me feel like being mildly malevolent. Not wicked-wicked EEEEVIL or mean or anything, but more like predatory, opportunistic, that kind of thing. It's the lyrics. The singer is Zoser, who's been poisoning the pharoah for years so his son can marry the princess and become ruler of Egypt. It's awful, but he's soooooo gleefully indifferent to an old man's imminent demise. Some of my favorite lyrics:
There are many who'll be tearful
As our leader fades away
But our architects are cheerful
And each dog must have its day
...
He must have a vault that's grand by
Any standards, floor to lid
Put five thousand slaves on stand by
Build another pyramid
It's just really funny because it sorta captures the macabre Egyptian obsession with death and the mundanity they saw in it at the same time. Loads of fun, pseudo New Wave song, all good.
Passive by A Perfect Circle
Probably the only thing I loved enough about Constantine to ever revisit (I loved Tilda Swinton as Gabriel, too, but not really enough to watch the movie again without a remote to fast-forward through the dull bits). It's A Perfect Circle circa Mer de Noms, the last time I listened to them and liked it. Strangely enough, though, the imagery from Constantine works well with the song. If Constantine had only existed as a backdrop for a music video for this song, life would be perfect. Alas.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Theme
There was a glorious moment in the recent film version where the book showed up with the theme music and it was allllll happy and sunshine. I downloaded the theme after the movie (and the "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish" song, too, of course) and listened to it pretty obsessively for a few weeks. Written in a time of minimal thematic development for radio jingles, it's still pretty fun and identifiable.
Bohemian Like You by The Dandy Warhols
This song got me hard in Australia and then again recently. It's bouncy, peppy, and self-mocking. I love, love, love the casual inanity of the narrator, "Oh yeah I wait tables, too!" Everything wrong about the hippie, well, bohemian set is ridiculed.
Does Your Mother Know? by ABBA
One of the few songs I'm aware of that's actually sung by the BBs of ABBA, this one is a great dancer. Sure, Mamma Mia's got the edge on ABBA songs that get stuck in your head (ARGH! THERE IT GOES!), and Dancing Queen keeps you moving from the opening piano bit, but Does Your Mother Know? has a solid synthesized drum beat and a dirty-silly track. If it were written a few years later, it would have been Prince's Darlin' Nikki, seeing both songs are basically about some pretty and pretty young thing trolling for males (of course, ABBA's sterling good boys are willing to dance with the girl but go no further, whereas Prince gets taken up to a room and f*cked senseless--I prefer to think about that happening to Dave Grohl, no offense, Prince).
Come on, all of you have to know this song!
::sings::
Well I can dance with you, honey,
if you think it's funny,
Does your mother know that you're out?
And I can chat with you, baby,
flirt a little, maybe,
Does your mother know that you're out?
Tag, your turn:viridian, bigscary, xannoside, darkling1, ivy03, saikogrrl!
cruciel, it's 1. List your current six favorite songs
2. Why?
3. Tag six other people to do the same.
[side note: this is much easier to determine with an iPod that tells you what songs you've been listening to a lot lately. It's kind of cheating though as what I've listened to the most isn't necessarily what I'm obsessed with--I'm just too lazy to futz around with the rankings]
All the Love in the World by NIN
I can't stand how utterly beautiful Trent Reznor's singing is on this song. Not that I don't love his screaming, but the choral pleading, "Why do you get all the love in the world?" about breaks my heart. Every time a lyric gets close to a cliche, he interrupts himself with that question and it's wondrous. When I first heard it, I was like 'whoa! happy NIN? wtf?' but it's actually incredibly sad and petty; it just sounds pretty.
Another Pyramid from the musical version of AIDA
This one's on my work playlist, and it always makes me feel like being mildly malevolent. Not wicked-wicked EEEEVIL or mean or anything, but more like predatory, opportunistic, that kind of thing. It's the lyrics. The singer is Zoser, who's been poisoning the pharoah for years so his son can marry the princess and become ruler of Egypt. It's awful, but he's soooooo gleefully indifferent to an old man's imminent demise. Some of my favorite lyrics:
There are many who'll be tearful
As our leader fades away
But our architects are cheerful
And each dog must have its day
...
He must have a vault that's grand by
Any standards, floor to lid
Put five thousand slaves on stand by
Build another pyramid
It's just really funny because it sorta captures the macabre Egyptian obsession with death and the mundanity they saw in it at the same time. Loads of fun, pseudo New Wave song, all good.
Passive by A Perfect Circle
Probably the only thing I loved enough about Constantine to ever revisit (I loved Tilda Swinton as Gabriel, too, but not really enough to watch the movie again without a remote to fast-forward through the dull bits). It's A Perfect Circle circa Mer de Noms, the last time I listened to them and liked it. Strangely enough, though, the imagery from Constantine works well with the song. If Constantine had only existed as a backdrop for a music video for this song, life would be perfect. Alas.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Theme
There was a glorious moment in the recent film version where the book showed up with the theme music and it was allllll happy and sunshine. I downloaded the theme after the movie (and the "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish" song, too, of course) and listened to it pretty obsessively for a few weeks. Written in a time of minimal thematic development for radio jingles, it's still pretty fun and identifiable.
Bohemian Like You by The Dandy Warhols
This song got me hard in Australia and then again recently. It's bouncy, peppy, and self-mocking. I love, love, love the casual inanity of the narrator, "Oh yeah I wait tables, too!" Everything wrong about the hippie, well, bohemian set is ridiculed.
Does Your Mother Know? by ABBA
One of the few songs I'm aware of that's actually sung by the BBs of ABBA, this one is a great dancer. Sure, Mamma Mia's got the edge on ABBA songs that get stuck in your head (ARGH! THERE IT GOES!), and Dancing Queen keeps you moving from the opening piano bit, but Does Your Mother Know? has a solid synthesized drum beat and a dirty-silly track. If it were written a few years later, it would have been Prince's Darlin' Nikki, seeing both songs are basically about some pretty and pretty young thing trolling for males (of course, ABBA's sterling good boys are willing to dance with the girl but go no further, whereas Prince gets taken up to a room and f*cked senseless--I prefer to think about that happening to Dave Grohl, no offense, Prince).
Come on, all of you have to know this song!
::sings::
Well I can dance with you, honey,
if you think it's funny,
Does your mother know that you're out?
And I can chat with you, baby,
flirt a little, maybe,
Does your mother know that you're out?
Tag, your turn:
viridian, bigscary, xannoside, darkling1, ivy03, saikogrrl!
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Date: 2005-06-09 01:09 am (UTC)