Friday, June 11, 2004
The 50 Coolest Song Parts. This starts off promisingly, then falls apart. It is an interesting idea: there are parts of songs that make the song great when it otherwise might not be. Two that still give me pleasure, even today: the "Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah" at the end of Linda Ronstadt's cover of "Heatwave", and Darryl Hall's, "She's goooooone, oh my," coming out of the instrumental break on the song of the same name. Looking at this guy's list, I'd have thought that another that I really like would have been there: the section of "Thunder Road" where the band, on an instrumental break, starts winding down, and the Boss yells, "One, two, three, four!" and it revs back up again.
There are some picks here that I certainly will go with: the openings to "Gimme Shelter" and "Baba O'Riley? Absolutely. "Anarchy of The U.K."? You bet. Likewise "Sympathy For The Devil". The thing is, those are all indisputably great songs. The Hendrix numbers here are as well. For this sort of thing to work, I think you have to be working off a premise of consistent quality-- and any list that includes "The Devil Went Down To Georgia", Lionel Richie, and as many cuts by Queen as the Stones or the Who is not operating on that basis. Phil Collins? Please.
There are some picks here that I certainly will go with: the openings to "Gimme Shelter" and "Baba O'Riley? Absolutely. "Anarchy of The U.K."? You bet. Likewise "Sympathy For The Devil". The thing is, those are all indisputably great songs. The Hendrix numbers here are as well. For this sort of thing to work, I think you have to be working off a premise of consistent quality-- and any list that includes "The Devil Went Down To Georgia", Lionel Richie, and as many cuts by Queen as the Stones or the Who is not operating on that basis. Phil Collins? Please.
