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no order, 15. have @ em. john cale - a child's christmas in wales
n.e.r.d. - run to the sun
black sabbath - war pigs
wire - outdoor miner
al green - let's stay together
the dead c - sky
eno - by this river
faust - krautrock
james brown - bewildered
new order - crystal
the specials - stupid marriage
cabaret voltaire - nag, nag, nag
mri - as a child i could fly without wings
bubba sparxxx - twerk a little
the human league - all i ever wanted

― jess, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

so sue me.

(how come i can never get that html right?)

― jess, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Run To The Sun"! hurrah! (I think I've heard some of the others, but I can't place a tune to any of 'em.)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my own commentary...john cale - a child's christmas in wales: for the time of year. but fading fast, i suppose. off paris 1919. n.e.r.d. - run to the sun: obsessed with this for a while now...the best thing the neptunes have ever done? black sabbath - war pigs: like most sabbath songs, i think it kinda speaks for itself. wire - outdoor miner: it's so oddly...tender. especially considering what bookends it. al green - let's stay together: if i could be one human, i would be al green. the dead c - sky: the trapdoor fucking exit version. eno - by this river: one of the saddest songs i know, for reasons i can't adequately explain. faust - krautrock: the bbc sessions version which sounds cleaner - and maybe better - to these ears than the one on iv. james brown - bewildered: off sex machine the live disc...gives me chills at how a 31 yr old cd transfer can still crackle with the sort of raw sexuality the man must have been able to call up in his prime. new order - crystal: if the rest of the album had been this good... the specials - stupid marriage: novelty records you can dance to = infinitely better than the other kind. cabaret voltaire - nag, nag, nag: the "where's yr head at?" of 1979? mri - as a child i could fly without wings: click-soul? bubba sparxxx - twerk a little: utterly vile and utterly infectuous. the human league - all i ever wanted: the best kind of comeback record...you know, good.

― jess, Sunday, 30 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the "masses/masses" rhyme that opens "War Pigs" disqualifies it from perfection if only just. "Paranoid" seems more perfect to me.

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, sundar, i was actually bothered by that tonite too in the car. jesus ozzy, work a little man. however, as a protest song, it whups everyone louder than everyone else.

― jess, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

note also that - with few exceptions - i'm not proposing these as ethan's 15 "perfect" songs. like tim's they're just 15 i've been listening to and obsessing over.

― jess, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i need someone else to confirm this of course but my list seems to be the only interesting one.

― ethan, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

― David Raposa, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i need someone else to confirm this of course but my list seems to be the only interesting one.

You're wearing your mirrorshades backwards.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ethan, an interesting idea, but i'll think you'll find that my list was better. (*sticks tongue out*)

― gareth, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations, Ethan! I didn't think a human head could actually fit inside of an asshole!

― Clarke B., Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm glad someone else is prepared to acknowledge the utter utter brilliance of "Twerk A Little" - perhaps the most infectious groove of the year (although you're right that it's also perhaps the vilest - battling it out with "Oochie Wally" I think). Meanwhile I have to hear that MRI track.

This list brings up something I wanted to say though about the list phenomenon generally: I'm probably not going to do a best- of list for the blog, if only because the very idea exhausts me, but I love tossed-off, irreverant lists like these, and could read them until the cows come home - the more irreverant the better. Of course, if it becomes a CorD/S&D situation where they're the only thing on ILM, there might be cause for concern...

― Tim, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, tim, i was driving around on saturday and playing "twerk" at least 8 times in a row. tim's fucked up non-flow makes it just as exciting as the rhythm itself. the way he speed- slurs "inyrdaughtersguts/or just spazzinout." nancy and i both agree (although i forget which song its in), bubba's line "although i may "love" them/i dont really like women" is the most vile of the year, perhaps the most blatant misogyny in any hiphop song we've ever heard, BUT almost respectable for being so upfront.

― jess, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that's "tim's flow" as in timbaland of course. (although we all know finney's flow is just as fucked up.)

(ooooh, burn.)

― jess, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim could kick all our asses! And Mr. Finney is devilishly attractive too, the bastard. *seethes hate at Tim and strangles him out of disaffected jealousy* Wait, that's mean of me.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess - yeah that love/like distinction is almost a bit too self- knowing, almost as if it was a spoof of rap misogyny rather than the real thing (unfortunately I doubt that). There's a couple of songs on Dark Days, Bright Nights which really seem to be aiming to break records in the nastiness stakes. The scat references in "Regardless" come to mind - although again what's strange is how often the most misogynist songs have the most awesome grooves.

Ned - um, thank you? (presses security button under desk).

― Tim, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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