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)
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.
Listen to the lyrics carefully. :-)
I personally think Cornershop’s cover of Norwegian Wood is funnier. :)
Sarika
http://pleiades.blurty.com
Wow…bravo…I could never do this list :|
Go ahead, try. :-D
Sasurrii.
Khajoor.
You know what would make this list complete? A nice hyperlink accompanying each item.
I don’t have a connection at home yet, alas.
The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
Yeah, right, all it gets mentioned for is “cute title”.
Well, I tried. :P
I have no idea how you can think of ONLY 5 in these categories. I mean, your top 5 covers, for example, are like a drop in the ocean aren’t they?
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.
Oh and Btw, Mysterons always reminds me of a theme of some sort. Was it ever used in a movie or on TV? I ‘ave a ‘orrible ‘orrible memory when it comes to all of this.
Sarika
http://pleiades.blurty.com
Umm, no idea really. But you’re right, it does sound very theme-ish.
yoshimiiiiiiiiiii
They don’t believe meeeee
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
I agree. I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to do “of all time” list, which is why the scratching out.
Jhankar beatzo.
[variety orchestra]
Wanker pi.
done. thanks for cutting out the ridiculous ‘all time’ bit :)
Coolio, off to check it out now.