The hills are alive, with the sound of Indie....
If you had to make a CD of the 10 greatest rock songs of all time, what would you put on it?Something I've been thinking of for a while, while I've been trying to make a CD to put on at work ("It can't have swearing in it, it can't be too heavy, it can't be too dancey, it can't be...." the list is almost endless) I began to think of CDs to make for myself. I often find with compilations I make myself that, after a while, I get royally bored of them and want new stuff. And that led me to ponder on the greatest CD in the world, and what would be on it. Well, here goes...
My personal top ten greatest rock songs of all time:
10. Blink 182 - What's My Age Again?:- I wanted to put a Blink song in cos I think they are/were classic as a band. I almost put "All The Small Things" cos it has the classic formula. But then I remembered the video for this, that will be remembered!
9. My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay:- I wasn't sure whether to put this here or not cos it's so new. But it has everything neccesary to make it a classic. The great guitar riff, the angsty lyrics, the very beauty of the "I'm not o-fucking-kay!" One to scream out, a classic for me definately.
8. The Who - My Generation:- It's just one of those songs where you know all the words, despite it being some thirty years before your time. Another good one to air-guitar to. A very memorable song.
7. Lostprophets - Fake Sound of Progress:- I can see so many people disagreeing with this one! But I don't give a shit. It's a great song to jump around to, the music is awesome and of unquestionable classic standard. No one will persuade me otherwise!!
6. System of a Down - Chop Suey:- It was the first SOAD song I heard and it converted me away from pop-shite. That was some four years ago, and I still love them. So it deserves a place here.
5. Undertones - Teenage Kicks:- Nice and easy to play, lyrics about teen lust. It's so cute! But classic cos everyone knows it, it's catchy and it still gets played all the time. Every unsigned band covers it. Ok, well, most do.
4. Greenday - Basket Case:- Pick a Greenday song. Any. It will be great. It was hard choosing between Basket Case and American Idiot, both are awesome. But I decided that since Basket Case was the first Greenday song I heard, it would be my choice for this. No other reason than that.
3. Guns n Roses - Sweet Child of Mine:- A somewhat inevitable choice. You can't escape it. Everyone recognises it within three seconds. Even chavs. And I suppose it is great. Unfortunately for me, ze German played it too much last year and i grew to hate it. I like it again now though.
2. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody:- Hard choice. Couldn't decide between this and "sweet child..." But given the time it was written, and the nonsensical words I think it's well placed. My dad would agree anyway!
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication:- It's awesome. And you can never hear it too may times. And the guitars are great and I love the bass and the lyrics are great. What more do you want??
That was actually quite hard to do! I thought of loads of songs that I considered worthy of the list but then found better ones. So here are a few that didn't quite make it:
No Doubt - Just a girl
Rage against the machine - Killing in the name
Rammstein - Sonne
Stereophonics - Bartender and the Thief.
ACDC - Back in Black
...and many more I can't remember now.
You see, the problem with the music industry today is that you don't get many good songs in the charts, let alone any classics. I read today that that Crazy Frog stupid fucking ringtone thing is going to make number one. What does that say about the british music charts?? That it's only chavs that buy the music for it, that's what. The top ten in the charts at the moment is crammed full of repetitive dance music, r n b shite that all sounds the same, and poncy girl and boy bands, covering old songs. What ever happened to real music? "Music" now is full of novelty and repetition.And each week more of the same "musicians" release a "song"... and then disappear.
Thank fuck for the thriving rock industry. But if only we could stop cloning our bands, creating bands who are all copying each other like razorlight and the Killers and "indie" like that (not that I have a problem with them, some of their stuff is fine...), maybe we could do something to make people realise that there is more to music than dance and R n B (i.e. Shite). We need more new music, we need more variety, only then can classics evolve.
By the way, anyone else loving SOAD's new song?? Come on Download!!!
Feel free to comment!
posted by Kim @ 5/21/2005 07:59:00 am
1 Comments:
I can't believe i forgot the clash! I think to be fair I was trying to get a lot of old and new stuff in so a lot of very important songs got left out. Baggy trousers too!! I love Madness, that so should have been in the list. Ah well, overall I'm quite happy with the list anyway. But you're right, it is a lot of personal choice.
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