Tuesday, November 4, 2014

S2L2AAA-2014

Finally got the chance to get my list together and burn it onto a CD...had it over ad Jon's place Saturday night! The list has stood the test of time certainly long enough for me to know the songs are all absolutely appropriately dubbed 'songs to listen to agin 'n agin' So here goes:
Song   --  Singer/Group  --  Time

  1. Hora Decubitus  --  Charles Mingus  --  4:42
  2. My Old School   --  Steely Dan          --  5:46
  3. I Feel Free           --  Cream                 --  2:54
  4. Lake Shore Drive  --  Aliotta Haynes & Jeremiah --  3:55
  5. Black Water  --The Doobie Brothers   --  4:20
  6. Ten Years Gone  --  Led Zeppelin       --  6:33
  7. Old Man              --  Neil Young          --  3:22
  8. Big Brother         --  Stevie Wonder     --  3:34
  9. Hole In My Life  --  The Police           --  4:55
  10. Cancer               --  Joe Jackson          --  6:04
  11. Life's Been Good --  Joe Walsh          --  8:04
  12. Feel Good Inc.    --  Gorillaz               --  3:41
  13. Doo Wop (That Thing) -- Lauyn Hill    --  5:20
  14. Everybody Is A Star --  Sly & The Family Stone  -- 3:01
  15. Martha My Dear   -- The Beatles         --  2:29
  16. Success --  Josef Zawinul (poem by Erich Fried)  --  3:16
  17. The Great Gig in the Sky  --  Pink Floyd -- 4:47
A-ight!  Now on to the Christmas compilation.  And then next years S2L2AAA list will come out a whole lot sooner than this--couldn't do it much earlier...circumstances, you know....  By the way, this current S2L2AAA compilation will be available upon request for your enjoyment!!!
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  1. Daniel LamkenNovember 8, 2014 at 10:02 AM

    Burn me a disc, brother! And I look forward to the further conversation on genres, order, the power of particulars (bass lines, bridges, lyrics over melody, vice versa, what Jon described in his new poem "descant chant"...). Also, a story per selection: I remember Anne playing "Martha My Dear" on piano as I was trying--still trying--to find my feet on guitar. Great song greater in the so-doing. I also like that a Richard Wright composition completes the set, importantly this year. Keep us compiling, Josh--some tracks will be on every year's list ("Baba O'Reily" for me) but some will necessary emerge from our lengthening journeys.

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  2. Daniel LamkenNovember 29, 2014 at 8:38 AM

    Here's a good parlor game, involving musicology and music videology:

    Select the best song and the best video for your S2L2(and watch)AAA, for instance:
    Outkast's best song is "Hey Ya" and their best video is "Roses" (tight fight);
    Cardigans' song "Erase and Rewind" and video "Lovefool" (also tight);
    Prince's song and film rendition equal each other in "The Beautiful Ones";
    Asa also has both in "Fire on the Mountain", even if "Why Can't We" is nice;
    Jimi Hendrix' song "Purple Haze" is undeniable, if his "Star-Spangled Banner" is better immortalized in Scorsese's Woodstock documentary;
    Heart's "Barracuda", of course, trumps a very good integration of "Magic Man" in Sylvia Coppola's film 'The Virgin Suicides';
    ---and here is where we go from discreet artist to other discreet artist, i.e, music-maker to film-maker--
    Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell" ranks among their top songs, but "Fearless" as videomaker Bathside Boy is compelling;
    The Doors' best song is "Light My Fire", paling artistically to Francis Ford Coppola's use of "This is the End" to introduce his 'Apocalypse Now';
    staying in that family, Heart's "Barracuda" of course trumps "Magic Man", even if Sylvia Coppola weaves the latter song sublimely into her 'Virgin Suicides'....
    and so on and so on.
    This music-to-video question was spawned some months ago with the comparison of Jefferson Airplane's "Comin' Back to Me" and "Today", for which the jury's out... Your thoughts?...

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