OK. Here's another one: Hall and Oates, The Cars and Duran Duran.
Also, I would like a station that only played Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Smiths, New Order (have I mentioned the fact that I love Peter Hook?), Erasure, Yaz, and maybe an occasional Book of Love song. I know what you are thinking, long time PDXers. That sounds a lot like 970 the Beat. YES. YES IT DOES. And if this station could be AM and all dirty and rumbley sounding, that would be terrific. I would listen to it ALL THE TIME.
It might have occurred to you readers that maybe an IPod could create the illusion of these heavy rotation stations. But you would be wrong. Because the IPod, for all the wonderful things it can do for me, cannot recreate the joy of hearing something really great (that I haven't heard in a long time) on the radio (or even in a mix made for me by someone else). The problem with the IPod is that there is no real surprise. I've put everything on there. There is no connection to someone else who thought it might be nice to hear "Institutionalized" or "Gypsy" or "Mr. Brightside". It's like getting a really good present when I'm not expecting it.
In honor of the spontaneity and unexpectedness that sometimes comes from radio, here is my list of best songs to sing along to in the car:
Runners Up: anything by the mamas and the papas (good harmonies), "The Gambler", "More than a Feeling", "Open Arms", "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love", "Livin' on a Prayer", "Don't Talk to Strangers"
10. "Just Can't Get Enough" Depeche Mode (I suggesting singing "Just Can't Get it Up" to the chorus. It is funny.)
9. "Euro-trash Girl" Cracker
8. "Crucify" Tori Amos (actually, it's hard to pick just one--she's just fun to sing along to period.)
7. "Song 2" Blur
6. "Sabotage" The Beastie Boys
5. "Black Dog" Led Zeppelin
4. "Mother" Danzig (Qwanty, I know you know what I mean!)
3. "Good" Better than Ezra (the happiest break up song pretty much ever)
2. "Sweet Child of Mine" Guns n Roses
1. "Self-Esteem" Offspring
4 comments:
No Slim Shafty? ("His name is Slim Shafty? No wonder he's always saying 'Please stand up'"...ahh, I still laugh every time I think of that. KRD at her finest.)
Did I really say that? That is HORRIBLE. That's me at my finest?
I was thinking the other day about how much Eminem used to feel like part of our everyday lives and I wondered, "What happened?!?" Was it just because Kip went through that weird stage when he looked like Shady?
Anything off Boston "s/t" could be in the conversation.
"It was good living with your mother."
"Song 2" is one of the only songs I've actually had fun playing in a band.
No Scorpions?
Any Hall & Oates is always welcome, and "Girls on Film" is suh-weet.
The car is really too public a place to enjoy the Scorps.
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