culture beat.. Mr Vain

1/12/2009 10:26:14 PM

el scorcho

1/12/2009 10:29:53 PM

I'd put Say It Ain't So and My Name is Jonas ahead of El Scorcho. But something by Weezer should probably be #1.

1/12/2009 10:31:20 PM

Aphex Twin - Fingerbib
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
Arcade Fire - Tunnels
Built to Spill - Time Trap
Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
Joanna Newsom - Only Skin

too much indie rock on this list though

1/12/2009 10:41:59 PM

Junior Boys - In The Morning
Xiu Xiu - I Luv The Valley Oh!
Bush - Machinehead
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
Tom Petty - Last Dance With Mary Jane
Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
Oasis - Live Forever
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be

1/12/2009 10:43:52 PM

Mambo #5

1/13/2009 10:43:20 AM

Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down

1/14/2009 12:36:18 AM

mariah carey's "all i want for christmas is you"

1/14/2009 12:52:08 AM

does spoken word poetry count?

1/14/2009 12:57:10 AM

it's really a toss up between sebastian tellier's 'la ritournelle, Tom Petty's "mary jane's last dance" or "Pumps and a Bump" by MC hammer

1/14/2009 1:02:20 AM

^^^^that song used to get me laid in highschool

1/14/2009 1:49:15 AM

Three of the best--all by U2:

"Vertigo" (just a great rock song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhWZ7bpfQag

"Beautiful Day" (and it is beautiful)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6FwEJwwYcQ

"Elevation" (uplifting )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDTV1ZeRBJw

1/14/2009 1:53:58 AM

U2 is disqualified on the grounds that bono is a huge douche

1/14/2009 2:02:07 AM

Sonic Youth - "The Diamond Sea"

1/14/2009 2:19:31 AM

U2 is disqualified on the grounds that I can name five U2 songs from the past 15 years that are better than those three

1/14/2009 2:54:59 AM

U2 is disqualified by the fact that I do not like them.

1/14/2009 2:58:06 AM

1. Your opinions are irrelevant.

2. Yet, you didn't name those five U2 songs that are allegedly better, did you, bandit?

3. STFU.

1/14/2009 3:30:13 AM

Seriously though, Vertigo???

1/14/2009 3:30:52 AM

"Vertigo" is a great rock song. If you don't understand this, you simply don't understand songcraft in the rock genre.

1/14/2009 3:32:23 AM

Quote :

"1. Your opinions are irrelevant."

1/14/2009 3:33:26 AM

rock is not an equation, you fuck.

1/14/2009 3:33:47 AM

Troll somebody else.

Quote :

"Chart performance ["Vertigo"] Chart (2004) Peak position Ireland 1 UK 1 Greece 1 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 1 Argentina 1 Poland 1 India 1 Italy 1 Latvia 1 Canada 2 Norway Top 20 2 Brazil 2 Mega Top 100 Singles - The Netherlands 2 Finland 2 Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 3 Austria 4 Aria 5 New Zealand 5 Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play 8 Billboard Adult Top 40 9 Billboard Pop 100 10 Japan 10"

1/14/2009 3:39:16 AM

NUMBER 1 RIGHT NOW IS Lady GaGa Featuring Colby O'Donis - Just Dance.

THEY ARE THE SAME LEVEL OF QUALITY AS U2 I GUESS.

BECAUSE CHART PERFORMANCE EQUALS QUALITY.



your favorite quote is from bono. you are a fanboy. the only songs you mentioned as the best in the past 15 years are by U2. there is no sense in arguing with you.

1/14/2009 3:43:45 AM

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"Sonic Youth - "The Diamond Sea""

ohfuckyes

1/14/2009 6:21:48 AM

Gin and Juice - Snoop Dogg

1/14/2009 7:27:23 AM

i'm pretty sure that the song that i'm currently writing, loosely titled "hooksaw is a redneck asshole," is better than your average chart topper by U2.

1/14/2009 8:53:23 AM

haters


although it's not Vertigo, hooksaw has inspired me to listen to The Joshua Tree at work this morning... great album

1/14/2009 9:02:42 AM

Quote :

"But something by Weezer should probably be #1."

no. just...no

1/14/2009 11:50:20 AM

Quote :

"Ryan Adams - "Come Pick Me Up" "Lithium" - Nirvana Pulp - Common People "No Children" - The Mountain Goats"

these are all good

I'd probably pick a different Mountain Goats song or a Radiohead song as the overall "best," but I'm way too indecisive for these kinds of threads

1/14/2009 12:12:05 PM

double post

[Edited on January 14, 2009 at 12:12 PM. Reason : oops]

1/14/2009 12:12:05 PM

So, to be fair, I went back and looked at the U2 catalog.

I realized that hooksaw is right, and that there aren't five better U2 songs since 1993 than the ones he listed...because everything U2's released since 1991 is shit.

1/14/2009 12:29:22 PM

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"hooksaw has inspired me to listen to The Joshua Tree at work this morning... great album"

Joshua Tree is great for sure.

As far as contributing to this thread...Its too hard for me to compare bands like this across all genres. But if I limited myself to some of the general "rock" bands that I like and that are generally well known to choose from, off top of my head some of the nominees would be:

The Mars Volta - "Viscera Eyes"
Dismemberment Plan - "The City"
Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
Radiohead - "Let Down" or "No Surprises" if I had to pick one this instant
Weezer - "the good life"
Nirvana - "All Apologies"
Jimmy Eat World - "For Me This is Heaven"
.hopesfall. - "end of an era" (yea doesnt really deserve to be here in the grand scheme but its hugely important/influential for me personally)


[Edited on January 14, 2009 at 12:57 PM. Reason : ]

1/14/2009 12:55:57 PM

"addams family" - MC Hammer
"Kryptonite" - Three Doors Down
that new david cook single - David Cook
Anything by fuel
the first three songs of St. Anger by metallica
south park theme song by primus
every coldplay song

1/14/2009 1:04:25 PM

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"the first three songs of St. Anger by metallica"

no idea why, but this made me lol more than the others

1/14/2009 1:09:27 PM

After thinking for a good while, I think my answer would either be "Emily" or "Cosmia" by Joanna Newsom.

Oh, or "Vertigo" by U2. I mean, "Uno, dos, tres, catorce"?!? It's like Bob Dylan fucked William Butler Yeats and Alan Ginsberg at the same time and the lyrical genius that sprang from the union of their loins crafted the greatest song ever written, an unstoppable force so powerful that it blinded Bono when first he read it, scarring him forever, leaving him with the terrible curse of having to wear gigantic fucking sunglasses until the day he dies. Yeah, man. Vertigo.

1/14/2009 2:27:20 PM

I considered "Emily" as well.

1/14/2009 2:29:41 PM

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1/14/2009 2:38:59 PM

GIMME THE LOOT by THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.

1/14/2009 3:51:44 PM

blue by dido
pepper by butthole surfers
i miss my mind by russell crowe
bittersweet symphony by keith richards and mick jagger
rollin' by limp bizkit

1/14/2009 4:00:35 PM

Quote :

"I considered "Emily" as well."

i love this song (and the entire album). and i realize that it is better than milk-eyed mender. but in the same way that i listen to spank rock more than beethoven, i enjoy "inflammatory writ" more than i do "emily" (or anything off of ys). it's just more fun. and i like to try to imitate her ridiculous enunciations in that one.

1/14/2009 5:35:11 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=281ax7Ovlsg

seriously, though: paranoid android

1/15/2009 12:37:00 AM

yeah - definitely foo fighters everlong

1/15/2009 9:20:40 AM