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1991
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Country Feedback—R.E.M.
I'm always going to be a bigger fan of their IRS years, but irregardless, this song isn't just, for me, the best song on Out of Time, it's right up there with their very, very best songs ever.
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1991
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Country Feedback—R.E.M.
I'm always going to be a bigger fan of their IRS years, but irregardless, this song isn't just, for me, the best song on Out of Time, it's right up there with their very, very best songs ever.
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youtu.be/6EHBh1FuY1Q
Scott Walker
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2—Duchess
One of the most beautiful songs he ever wrote, with Browning-flavoured lyrics that observe so lovingly, set to a sweet, delicate melody. But not so sweet that it can puncture the poignancy of his dying duchess.
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Scott Walker
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2—Duchess
One of the most beautiful songs he ever wrote, with Browning-flavoured lyrics that observe so lovingly, set to a sweet, delicate melody. But not so sweet that it can puncture the poignancy of his dying duchess.
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Unranked
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16 Shells from a 30.6
Sparse and tight as a clothesline, with buckshot-ricochet percussion and a growled falsetto vocal that could whittle a man into kindling. A battlecry of a song.
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16 Shells from a 30.6
Sparse and tight as a clothesline, with buckshot-ricochet percussion and a growled falsetto vocal that could whittle a man into kindling. A battlecry of a song.
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#irepor #redsky #speirgorm
#irepor #redsky #speirgorm
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Thirteen—Big Star
"Won't you tell your dad get off my back?
Tell him what we said 'bout Painted Black"
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Thirteen—Big Star
"Won't you tell your dad get off my back?
Tell him what we said 'bout Painted Black"
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Unranked
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Ol' 55
Cleverly, this isn't a song about a romantic conquest: we have loads of those already. Instead, it's set in the aftermath, with Waits driving home at 6am, basking in the post-coital glow as the sun comes up. Triumphant.
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Unranked
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Ol' 55
Cleverly, this isn't a song about a romantic conquest: we have loads of those already. Instead, it's set in the aftermath, with Waits driving home at 6am, basking in the post-coital glow as the sun comes up. Triumphant.
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1991
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A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturday'
De La Soul
The wittiness of the sampling: the 'Saturday' from Chicago, the 'Roller skates' from Chic. Q-Tip drops in to ensure that first verse is a killer. And De La Soul are alive and kicking.
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1991
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A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturday'
De La Soul
The wittiness of the sampling: the 'Saturday' from Chicago, the 'Roller skates' from Chic. Q-Tip drops in to ensure that first verse is a killer. And De La Soul are alive and kicking.
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'Leonard Cohen'—Boygenius
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There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
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'Leonard Cohen'—Boygenius
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There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCRI...
Instrumentals Ranked
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I probably don't give his instrumental stuff enough credit, because his lyrics are just so great. But these are all pretty great too:
1—Just Another Sucker on the Vine
2—Cinny's Waltz
3—Russian Dance
4—Closing Time
5—Fawn
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Instrumentals Ranked
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I probably don't give his instrumental stuff enough credit, because his lyrics are just so great. But these are all pretty great too:
1—Just Another Sucker on the Vine
2—Cinny's Waltz
3—Russian Dance
4—Closing Time
5—Fawn
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Unranked
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I Don't Wanna Grow Up
My Tom Waits story begins with seeing this late on MTV. I couldn't quite believe what I was hearing, seeing or feeling. A great song, as witty as it is raucous, and a great Jarmusch vid.
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Unranked
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I Don't Wanna Grow Up
My Tom Waits story begins with seeing this late on MTV. I couldn't quite believe what I was hearing, seeing or feeling. A great song, as witty as it is raucous, and a great Jarmusch vid.
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Scott Walker
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4—The old man's back again (4)
Only Scott could write a song for the neo-Stalinist regime and scat on it. (Ok, only him and Joni). But it is up to its lofty task: lyrically brilliant, musically assured. And what a bass line!
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4—The old man's back again (4)
Only Scott could write a song for the neo-Stalinist regime and scat on it. (Ok, only him and Joni). But it is up to its lofty task: lyrically brilliant, musically assured. And what a bass line!
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1991
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Into the Great Wide Open—Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Learning to Fly was the bigger hit, but I love the verses of this song, and how they tell Eddie's story, played in the vid of course by a young Johnny Depp.
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1991
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Into the Great Wide Open—Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Learning to Fly was the bigger hit, but I love the verses of this song, and how they tell Eddie's story, played in the vid of course by a young Johnny Depp.
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A Pair of Brown Eyes—The Pogues
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"And on the jukebox Johnny sang
About a thing called love…"
"While Ray and Philomena sang
Of my elusive dream…"
Were it not for the name checks this song could have been written 100 years ago. Simply timeless.
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A Pair of Brown Eyes—The Pogues
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"And on the jukebox Johnny sang
About a thing called love…"
"While Ray and Philomena sang
Of my elusive dream…"
Were it not for the name checks this song could have been written 100 years ago. Simply timeless.
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Unranked
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Lucky Day
A sort of 'Shiver me Timbers' by way of 'In the Neighbourhood', Lucky Day had everything a great farewell song needs: nostalgic lyrics, a big sing-along chorus and a ton of personality.
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Lucky Day
A sort of 'Shiver me Timbers' by way of 'In the Neighbourhood', Lucky Day had everything a great farewell song needs: nostalgic lyrics, a big sing-along chorus and a ton of personality.
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Scott Walker
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5—Patriot
"The good news you cannot refuse
The bad news is there is no news."
Could be about journalism in the contemporary US, or the current scandal at the BBC. Like the album it comes from, still supremely relevant.
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Scott Walker
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5—Patriot
"The good news you cannot refuse
The bad news is there is no news."
Could be about journalism in the contemporary US, or the current scandal at the BBC. Like the album it comes from, still supremely relevant.
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1991
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Wagon—Dinosaur Jr.
I love an opening track that throws you in the back of a car and drags you off on an adventure. Of course, it's only after you're in there J starts asking why you don't see him so much any more… A blast of a track
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1991
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Wagon—Dinosaur Jr.
I love an opening track that throws you in the back of a car and drags you off on an adventure. Of course, it's only after you're in there J starts asking why you don't see him so much any more… A blast of a track
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Ballad of Dorothy Parker—#Prince
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"Mind if I turn on the radio?
Oh, my favourite song, she said
And it was Joni singing:
Help me, I think I'm fall—drrring, the
phone rang…"
One of my favourite meta moments in music.
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Ballad of Dorothy Parker—#Prince
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"Mind if I turn on the radio?
Oh, my favourite song, she said
And it was Joni singing:
Help me, I think I'm fall—drrring, the
phone rang…"
One of my favourite meta moments in music.
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Unranked
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Somewhere
Many great vocals have tackled this song; nobody has ever performed it better than Tom does here on Blue Valentines. His controlled, laconic phrasing of each line makes everyone else sound like they're rushing it.
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Somewhere
Many great vocals have tackled this song; nobody has ever performed it better than Tom does here on Blue Valentines. His controlled, laconic phrasing of each line makes everyone else sound like they're rushing it.
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Scott Walker
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6—The Electrician
This song, about a CIA torturer, stands out like a broken thumb on this Walker Brothers album. But the shift into the chorus just past the 2 min mark is one of the most beautiful things these ears have ever heard
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Scott Walker
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6—The Electrician
This song, about a CIA torturer, stands out like a broken thumb on this Walker Brothers album. But the shift into the chorus just past the 2 min mark is one of the most beautiful things these ears have ever heard
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1991
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By the time I get to Arizona—Public Enemy
Samples from The New Birth and Mandrill give this song a funky swagger married to a real gospel feel. But it's the shift in the middle to wild screams that takes your breath away. PE in full effect
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1991
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By the time I get to Arizona—Public Enemy
Samples from The New Birth and Mandrill give this song a funky swagger married to a real gospel feel. But it's the shift in the middle to wild screams that takes your breath away. PE in full effect
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Oh Yeah—Roxy Music
There’s a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
They’re playing 'Oh Yeah' on the radio...
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Oh Yeah—Roxy Music
There’s a band playing on the radio
With a rhythm of rhyming guitars
They’re playing 'Oh Yeah' on the radio...
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Unranked
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I beg your pardon
This One's from the Heart is a sadly underrated album. Sure, perhaps Crystal Gayle wasn't the perfect foil for Tom, but the songwriting remains at his usual high standard, as this delight of a track proves.
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I beg your pardon
This One's from the Heart is a sadly underrated album. Sure, perhaps Crystal Gayle wasn't the perfect foil for Tom, but the songwriting remains at his usual high standard, as this delight of a track proves.
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1991
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Hand on the pump—Cypress Hill
Smart use of sampling (the ever-present 'Duke of Earl' is inspired) and the very best example of that Whiney-bit, Barky-bit Cypress Hill chorus. Comes at you like a stiff blow.
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1991
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Hand on the pump—Cypress Hill
Smart use of sampling (the ever-present 'Duke of Earl' is inspired) and the very best example of that Whiney-bit, Barky-bit Cypress Hill chorus. Comes at you like a stiff blow.
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Scott Walker
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7—It's Raining Today
At first, the dissonance of the strings distracts. But over time, your ear can't help detecting the notes in the string cluster that do work, presenting the possibility of harmony—a bleak kind of hope.
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Scott Walker
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7—It's Raining Today
At first, the dissonance of the strings distracts. But over time, your ear can't help detecting the notes in the string cluster that do work, presenting the possibility of harmony—a bleak kind of hope.
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Bring the Noise—Public Enemy
"Beat is for Sonny Bono—beat is for Yoko Ono!
Run-DMC first said a DJ could be a band
Stand on its own feet, get you out your seat
Beat is for Eric B. and LL as well, hell
Wax is for Anthrax, still it can rock bells"
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Bring the Noise—Public Enemy
"Beat is for Sonny Bono—beat is for Yoko Ono!
Run-DMC first said a DJ could be a band
Stand on its own feet, get you out your seat
Beat is for Eric B. and LL as well, hell
Wax is for Anthrax, still it can rock bells"
#musicsky #nowplaying