Random 10 for April 1, 2009
1. Kid Rock, “All Summer Long.” In our busy lives, we often don’t have enough time to hear one song at a time, and the fact that Bob Ritchie took Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” and Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London,” then improved on both of them with his own wistful remembrance of getting his 17-year-old girlfriend just drunk enough, well, that spells “classic,” not to mention this couplet: “And we were trying different things/And we were smoking funny things.” Not everyone, can pull off a rhyme like that, but that’s why we have Bob.
2. Girlicious, “Like Me.”
3. 4 Non Blondes, “What’s Up.”
4. Will Smith, “Gettin’ Jiggy With It.”
5. Europe, “The Final Countdown.” In creating a classic paean to nuclear disarmament, Europe’s Joey Tempest singlehandedly tore that wall down. We should all take a moment and reflect.
6. Nickelback, “Something In Your Mouth.”
7. Eric Carmen, “All By Myself.”
8. Creed, “With Arms Wide Open.”
9. Los Del Rio, “Macarena.”
10. Heidi Montag, “Higher.” Witnessing the degree to which this extraordinary talent has transcended her stellar work on “The Hills,” sticking her talent straight in critics’ faces and making them eat their words has been one of the highlights of my blogging career. Keep it up Heidi, and playa hatas — don’t hate the playa, hate the game.
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1. NSYNC, “Bringin’ da Noise”
2. Amy Grant, “Sing Your Praise to the Lord”
3. Gwar, “Black and Huge”
4. The Captain & Tennille, “Love Will Keep Us Together”
5. The Mothers of Invention, “What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body?”
6. Chuck Berry, “My Ding-a-Ling”
7. Melissa Manchester, “Don’t Cry Out Loud”
8. Meatloaf, “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”
9. Howard Jones, “New Song”
10. Warrant, “Sure Feels Good to Me”
1. The Decemberists, “California Love”
2. Andrew Bird, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
3. Sufjan Stevens, “Ana Ng”
4. The Pipettes, “Rip This Joint”
5. Matisyahu, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”
6. Ben Folds, “I Wanna Love You Forever”
7. Foo Fighters, “Annie’s Song”
8. Belle and Sebastian, “Peek-A-Boo”
9. Elbow, “Sledgehammer”
10. Bryan Ferry, “The Payback”