4. Someone already mentioned Garson's piano solo on David Bowie's "Aladdin Sane", so I'll go with the synthesized saxophone solo of Roxy Music's "If There Is Something".
5. Music video director David Fincher
6. Yazoo- "I Before E Except after C" on Upstairs at Eric's
7. Sinead O'Connor- "Nothing Compares 2 U"
New contribution: What do you think of Prince's Lovesexy album?
Best song about death : LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Bad song on good album : #1 on Strawberry Jam
Best song heavily involving animals : i don't know if bulls on parade and war pigs can be considered as involving animals, so I'll take TV on the Radio's Love Dog, one of my favourite songs of 2008
Best cover of a song by a different gender singer: Electrelane - the Partisan (leonard cohen cover)
Best song you'd hesitate to admit you like : Gunther - the ding dong song
New question : Is there a song which is the most acclaimed of its album while you consider it as the worst (or your less favourite) of the album ?
Time for a bump... this was a fun topic for a bit.
I'll take the last three questions that killed the thread:
Opinion of Lovesexy: Don't kill me Moonbeam, but I have yet to listen to it. It is truly one of the most awe inspiring album covers of all time, though.
Best Song I Hesitate to Admit I Like: There have been periodic discussions of the "guilty pleasure" on this forum, and whethr such a term should exist. I'll admit to hiding my enjoyment of Train's "Drops of Jupiter" though. I already feel like I should not have admitted that.
Most acclaimed song on album that I think is among the album's worst: Title track to "Sign 'O the Times"
Okay, and I've got new questions for 2010:
a) What's your favorite song extolling or honoring a specific politician?
b) What's your favorite song decrying or vilifying a specific politician?
Best Song I Hesitate to Admit I Like: There have been periodic discussions of the "guilty pleasure" on this forum, and whethr such a term should exist. I'll admit to hiding my enjoyment of Train's "Drops of Jupiter" though. I already feel like I should not have admitted that.
I kind of like "DoJ" too, Schwah, if only for the best pronunciation of "atmosphere" since Patti Smith.
I have a soft spot for certain cheesy hits of the alt-rock era, like "Inside Out" by Eve 6 ("I would swallow my pride/I would choke on the rinds/But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside") and - shudder - Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life."
Ke$ha's inescapable current smash "Tik Tok" is, of course, pure horrorshow (and not in the CLOCKWORK ORANGE sense, either), but I can't turn it off. Maybe because of its rampaging awfulness, maybe because of her sheer ballsiness - but probably mostly because there's something refreshingly bizarre about a young woman in the year 2010 invoking Mick Jagger as her benchmark of sexiness. WTF?!?
Schwah
Okay, and I've got new questions for 2010:
a) What's your favorite song extolling or honoring a specific politician?
b) What's your favorite song decrying or vilifying a specific politician?
a) Hmm. Hard to come up with one, since most songs about politicians come down hard on the b) side of that equation. Maybe the Byrds' cover of the folk standard "He Was a Friend of Mine", rewritten as an elegy to JFK.
b) No shortage of riches here. I'll go with Stevie Wonder's matched pair of barbed anti-Nixon anthems: the smooth stiletto of INNERVISIONS' closing track "He's Misstra Know-It-All," and the more overtly angry "You Haven't Done Nothin'", a #1 hit from FULFILLINGNESS' FIRST FINALE.
