Music

Music Meme

Because I am bored.

The rules: No Indian, Icelandic or Japanese music. No instrumentals. All information valid through the last couple of week, hence not much thought, and all rankings/lists liable to change without notice or fanfare. A tip of the hat ( Hat? what hat?) to sonataindica for the idea.

My Top Five Most Heard Songs of all time of the past few weeks
Tough, very tough. The list over the last couple of months would be:

1) Portishead – Mysterons
2) Cake – Up So Close
3) Matmos – Three Guitar Lessons
4) Juno Reactor – Hotaka
5) Travis – Side

Top Five Feel Good/ Cheer me up/ Anti Depressant Songs of all time that I can think of

1) The Beatles – Two of Us
2) The Eels – Mr E’s Beautiful Blues
3) Kay Hanley – Pretend To Be Nice
4) The Temptations – My Girl
5) Gene Kelly – I Got Rhythm

Top Five feel like shit/ Life sucks/ Ultra-Depressing songs of all time ditto

1) Bruce Springsteen – Ghost of Tom Joad ( all the songs from the album, actually)
2) Radiohead – Exit Music (For a Film)
3) Nirvana – Polly
4) Ralph Stanley – O Death
5) Eminem – Mockingbird

Five Funny songs of all time yeah, yeah

1) Richard Cheese – Rape Me
2) The Beatles – Norwegian Wood
3) Tenacious D – Fuck Her Gently
4) Singing In The Rain OST – Moses Supposes
5) All the Monty Python songs.

Top Five Chick Songs of all time what I said above

1) Suzanne Vega- Caramel
2) Elizabeth Fraser – Tear Drop
3) Mazzy Star – Disappear
4) Lacuna Coil – Swamped
5) Imogen Heap – Who’s Getting Scared Now

Top Five Romantic Songs of all time yada yada yada

1) Susheela Raman – Love Trap
2) Sixpence None The Richer – Kiss Me
3) Nicole Kidman/Ewan McGregor – The Elephant Song/Come What May
4) Fleetwood Mac – Songbird
5) Billy Joel – She’s always a woman to me

Top five Songs with the Coolest Names of all time that I can think of

1) The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
2) Trilok Gurtu – Once I Wished a Cherry Tree Upside Down
3) Frank Zappa – The Sheik Yerbouti Tango
4) The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
5) Don Davis- Bow Whisk Orchestra/Switch or Break Show/Exit Mr Hat

Top Five Covers of all time that I can think of

1) Eva Cassidy – Fields of Gold (Sting)
2) Filter – One (Harry Nillson)
3) Tori Amos – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
4) Jose Feliciano – Light My Fire (The Doors)
5) Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane ( Lou Reed)

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23 thoughts on “Music Meme

  1. All the lists you make,
    Are equal to high phone bills,
    Till July’s scheme ends.
    P.S: Pray enlighten us so as to why your majesty, his highness thinks Norwegian Wood is a funny song.

    • They sure are. But I didn’t think too much, just wrote down the first songs that came into my mind. Of course, there were more than 5 for each, I just picked them in order of my preference.

  2. ganja’s friend here…have been visiting your blog for quite sometime now…:)
    these lists are good fun to do when you are bored…i call it ‘five second life span’ list…funny when you read it after a while..you feel you have missed out on a lot of songs…but i guess the scratching out the ‘of all time bit’ takes care of that…:)
    anyways

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