Top 100 Finishing Touches
So the list stands complete, and crowned with four bickering British lads.
It acts as a mix of old and new songs that swirl around my personality like watercolors, and splash against paper to form a, sort of, self-portrait. But why, you might ask, are the likes of the Beatles and Dave Matthews commingling at the peak? Well, this is my history. Sorry buddy; its not yours. I can’t help it if fiddle and saxophone solos bridged a musical gap between where I started and where I stand now. I can’t help it if I believe that ‘Before These Crowded Streets’ is a highly underrated piece of work, even though it stands cowardly pale against the giants of music history. I can’t help it if I’m a visionary, who believes in modern music, and who hopes that new music might, one day, surpass the likes of the Lennon/McCartney machine. It’s not my fault that I highly appreciate albums like ‘Is This It,’ that have managed to set rock and roll back on its right path, avoiding a decade of bad genres. I have no control over the fact that I consider this recent movement that has lead to a true masterpiece, ‘Elephant,’ a driving force that is currently leaking into indi and popular culture and will one day shake the world, pick it up, and hold it by it’s feet. Yes, I’m a believer in new music. But, for now, the forefathers reign supreme. Can Beatles or Stones ever be insecticided and grinded by amazing new talent? I’m afraid the answer lies too far into the future to see.
posted by maxwell's silver hammer @ 11:54 AM
9 Comments:
Bravo. This is a great list.
Great list--I like your combination of old and new. I just wish that I could "get" Radiohead. I know that I am suppose to think he is great--I just don't. I must be missing something!
Hey buddy, gotta hook me up with a copy of Reid and Weep, it's pretty awesome...See you later--Mellie
I love the list-especially because it is topped with mostly Radiohead and Beatles.
How do you write in the audio links?
Pretty decent list - a little too heavy on the DMB for my tastes, but good nontheless. The only fatal flaw I see is an absence of Husker Du. Could also use Double Nickels by The Minutemen, and perhaps a Smiths Album. Thanks tho.
I appreciate the comments. I recently was given copies of every Smiths albums, but the list was already finished.
Hi. I go to school with Rosemary Puckett and she sent me the link to your blog a week or so ago. I really enjoyed your latest entry. Sometimes, I can be a music snob even though I try not to be. That list of yours is pretty spiffy keen. You didnt ask for this but here is a little list of my own starting with number 1: Talking Heads "Remain in the Light", Velvet Underground "Loaded", Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy", Radiohead "Kid A", Pink Flloyd "Animals", Herbie Hancock "Head Hunters", Tool "Aenima", Smashing Pumpkins "Gish, Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation, Phish "Story of the Ghost", Primus "Pork Soda", Medeski, Randolph, North Miss. Allstars "The Word", White Stripes "Elephant", Elliott Smith "Songs from a Basement on a Hill", and Oysterhead "Grand Pecking Order. There is 15 but you know I change the order around slightly everyday, except for the first one. Any way I will keep looking in on MynewSourceforEverything. Thanks.
Congratulations!
This is an excelent blog and a great listing of fantastic music!
I'm going to put a link on my blog (in portuguese) to yours, ok??
Best wishes, ZooMancer
hey, i like your page a lot and now there's a link to it from my page, i hope it's ok for you ..
cheers, mari
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