This thread is for shamelessly plugging your favorite songs for our forum all-time songs poll that just began. Post links to some of your favorite underrated songs to rally support for them in the poll. Enjoy!
Bruce is not one of my top 20 favorite artists, but I've always loved Rosalita. I think it's a lot more fun (and less earnest) than most of Bruce's other popular songs. It's a cliche, but I'd call the enthusiasm "infectious." Good choice.
I love Wire's "Mannequin;" it will receive a top 100 vote from me. It actually placed 117th in our `05 poll. For the Wu-Tang Clan, "Bring da Ruckus" is a good track, but I prefer (and will vote for) "C.R.E.A.M." and "Protect Ya Neck."
I love Wire's "Mannequin;" it will receive a top 100 vote from me. It actually placed 117th in our `05 poll. For the Wu-Tang Clan, "Bring da Ruckus" is a good track, but I prefer (and will vote for) "C.R.E.A.M." and "Protect Ya Neck."
I was just about to make a post about how C.R.E.A.M is the greatest hip-hop song of all time, and implore the support of the AMF community. I'll have a list of personal favorites up soon.
By the way, how does one link to one of those fancy youtube videos?
Here's a blurb taken from my review of its parent EP, All Night:
The middle track of the EP also forms its heart. "Anthonio" plays like a letter to a vanished ex, as Annie recounts the events that led to her heartbreak: a whirlwind romance with the titular lothario with "a silver tongue" full of promises left unfulfilled as her subsequent letters are "returned to sender". She sings with a cold detachment that is matched by several layers of truly icy synths that rise and fall in sines and cosines before bubbling over into a rather glorious chorus. The first four words are completely loaded with emotion ("Oh Anthonio" echoing her disappointment and heartache; "my Anthonio" revealing that she still cares) and given a truly lilting melody to convey a real sense of mourning. She then goes on to question whether she ever really mattered to him and if he ever wonders about her anymore. A key change augments the tension, while Annie dejectedly admits, "you got everything you ever wanted from me," while accepting that she was "just another girl" and it was "just another night" before dropping the ultimate bombshell: "My baby has your eyes". The rapturous pulse of the song coupled with Annie's bleeding heart make it perhaps the greatest example of Annie's blissful melancholy in her entire career. It follows that "Anthonio" is not only the best song to emerge out of the Don't Stop era, but one of the best pop songs of the entire decade.
I love Wire's "Mannequin;" it will receive a top 100 vote from me. It actually placed 117th in our `05 poll. For the Wu-Tang Clan, "Bring da Ruckus" is a good track, but I prefer (and will vote for) "C.R.E.A.M." and "Protect Ya Neck."
it's true but i just love the way he says "bring the mutha fuckin' ruckus." i think the delivery is fantastic.
this post merely gives me THE occasion to mumble a humble starcrossed one... absolutely epic song list, SOS.. all hail to crossoverthreadotronics, yay! and good luck with Ou Nao... that's edgyville..
Bruce is not one of my top 20 favorite artists, but I've always loved Rosalita. I think it's a lot more fun (and less earnest) than most of Bruce's other popular songs. It's a cliche, but I'd call the enthusiasm "infectious." Good choice.
Bruce is not one of my top 20 favorite artists, but I've always loved Rosalita. I think it's a lot more fun (and less earnest) than most of Bruce's other popular songs. It's a cliche, but I'd call the enthusiasm "infectious." Good choice.
Why is it better because it's less earnest?
Just a personal preference of mine. I generally don't like art that takes itself too seriously, especially rock music.