100 Favorite Songs #60 - 41

First of all, I think I knew 4 songs on this list which makes it by far the most I have known from any list so far. Second, as I was also 13 when the Greenday song came out - the line is "When Masturbation's lost its fun, your f**king done." Done, not breaking.

Balaban,

I'll try to keep the next list limited to songs you know. "Happy Birthday To You," "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," "Mary Had A Little Lamb," etc.

Also, how DARE you question my authori-tah?

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/green+day/longview_20062700.html

im hoping the next list has a prince song in it..

otherwise i have to rethink our friendship.

We don't have a Spears sighting yet do we? I am sure it will be on the next update.

Denny,

I'd say there's a strong possibility of some Prince. Definitely something from his latest album! Is it just me, or does Prince music just get better the older he gets?

NOT! Yeah, that's right, I'm bringing "Not!" back.

No, of course I love me some Prince. In the meantime, check out this link, a short entry I did on him a while back: http://patrickwalsh.blog-city.com/prince.htm

Ian,

Would you agree that the definitive version of the Stones' "Satisfaction" is Britney's?

Mike (Curry, is it?), it must be so easy to not like anything and to be passionate about nothing.

Oh, wait that's right, you are passionate about an effeminate kid-toucher (and his music). You must be so disappointed when you watch those Dateline NBC: "To Catch A Predator Reports" (or as you call it "Movie Night") and those pedophiles turn up and you never get to see them "seal the deal" because gosh darn it, that Chris Hansen keeps mucking things up.

If I wrote what you wrote, I would stop listening to Gary Glitter's greatest hits and shoot myself in the face through the clown make-up you use to lure the 'tween crowd into your oh-so-tender trap.

Please tell me you were kidding when you wrote that. Wow is all I have to say.

Pat, this guy sucks.

You did wait too long, on the Stones, Soundgarden, and the Cars. Good Stones pick though, I think the lyrics are something like "It's just that {something something} that's got {caught?} you in its sway," so obviously, the lyrics caught YOU in THEIR sway.

After looking it up, it appears as though he does say "got," and the "something something" is "demon life." As Ace Ventura might say, ALL RIGHTY THEN!

I take no issue with you liking that Gin Blossoms songs. But making fun of your friend non-stop for misinterpreting Gin Blossoms Lyrics? Come on now. You should feel some embarassment for that.

BTW, not to plug my site too much or anything, but I've been so inspired by the dialogue your blog has generated over the past week that I've posted a "Top 5" list on my own blog. Not 100, I know, but I'm no Pat Walsh. <a href="http://kaflickastan.blogspot.com/2006/07/my-top-5-list.html" target="_new">Link</a>

Woops, looks like HTML doesn't work on blog-city. Lame. Link at bottom should work.

As a huge GD fan, I'm going to have to disagree with both of you on the Longview lyrics; I believe the last word is "lazy."

http://www.lyrics007.com/Green%20Day%20Lyrics/Longview%20Lyrics.html

...although I also found "breaking" and even "lonely." I vote for lazy.

Andrea,

Believe me, I studied the lyrics growing up and it is indeed "breaking." "Lazy" works, it's just as good, but alas, it is incorrect. I owned the cassette, now I own the CD, and it's right there on the lyric sheet. If you have the album, give it a look.

Kindly peddle your lies elsewhere.

Pat I have to say that I'm a little surprised that we have not seen a little rap at all in here. I'm not talking about Nelly's classic "Tip Drill" or any of Lil John's makings but no, Beastie Boys, Tupac, Dr. Dre, NWA the Dogfather nothing like that. Gotta say I'm a little disapointed. I have to say that Regulators is quite possibly in my top 20 songs of all time. That's just me though.

Also are we going to see any Joe Cocker in this list...his songs are classic and he is quite possible the greatest performer ever. The first time I saw him I thought that he had cerebral palsy. Turns out he was just probably disgustingly drunk.

Dale,

There will be a rap song or two on this list. It's a tricky thing. I love rap music, I really do. However, as much as I love it, very few rap songs MEAN something to me. It's hard to explain. I feel a list of favorite songs should be songs that are important to you in some way, and since a) the "fun" rap/hiphop I love is all about ass and money, (two things I don't have) and b) the "gritty" rap/hiphop I love is all about drugs and violence (a lifestyle I have no experience with), the songs don't necessarily move me for the most part, I guess, much as I enjoy listening to them. Does that make sense? Oh, and Public Enemy would have made an appearance by now if Flavor Flav hadn't destroyed the good name of that group.

First, I live in the United States, so Michael Jackson is innocent until convicted. I am above Jay Leno jokes, so I won't go any further into jokes about Jackson and Little Boys.

However, if you don't like Billie Jean, then you are stupid.

I am passionate about a number of things, for example bending your fat mother over a sink. However, one thing I am not passionate about is music made for soccer moms.

Also, if your definition of "passion" is comparing things to the "coming of a sandstorm" or using phrases like "sexual nihlism" then I am truly not passionate about anything. However using these terms is my definition of a pretentious idiot. Which you certainly are. Enjoy your soy latte, and your black and white documentaries about sorrow, I will go back to having a good time.

Die in a fire.

Mike

I have to jump in on this U2 conversation...though they have some good songs, they are probably the most over-rated band of all time. U2 has also been washed up since about, oh, TWENTY years go. Their new records are cheesy and they need to retire from rock music, they are embarassing themselves with these disgraceful sell-out ipod commercials. Hey Bono you're not 25 you're fucking 60. U2 are disrespecting their fans with this bull shit. Give it up now you old creatons. When I see them live I feel like I'm in a dark, lonely cabin with a bunch of sickly old goats wandering around. As each song passes, the disease of their music spreads through my body and makes my lungs collapse just as the mold and splinters from the ceiling fall into my hair and the smell of rotten wood infests my senses. Then a wandering group of homeless men in wheelchairs come into the cabin and begin to throw rotten paint on me.

Curry, fantastic job on resorting to "Your Mom" jokes. Scraping the barrel already? What a disappointment. So you're above Leno jokes, and yet somehow not above this gem: "I am passionate about...bending your fat mother over a sink"? Wow, that is awesome. Congratulations on that spectacular feat.

Also, regarding Michael Jackson, how does anybody who has the low mental wattage to make "Your Mom" jokes without any sort of prompt have the right to claim the (dare I say it?) PRETENTIOUS self-righteousness of the "innocent-'til-convicted" camp? Please.

I should also apologize for writing comments with polysyllabic words in it. By the way, those are words that have more than one syllable in them. Now, you're probably wondering what these craaaazy "syllable" things of which I speak are, so I devised this easy trick for you: Try pronouncing the word (or get your mommy to do it, since you probably can't), and count how many times your mom's chin goes up and down while saying the word in question. In the meantime, me write nice small words for you, ooga booga.

Now I could probably insert a joke about your mom's chin going up and down and make it sexual in nature, but I'll leave that to a genius like yourself, since apparently that's what passes for brain power in your neck of the woods. Go on, I'll give it you, little fella. Do you like The Simpsons? I have a quote I feel applies to you, from the classic episode entitled "Lisa's Rival": "I have a ball. Perhaps you'd like to bounce it?"

Also, I don't drink soy lattes - but good try; that cliched characterization was a dime-a-dozen. Start quoting Marx and the evils of the bourgeoisie and I'm right there with you. I'd call you a poser but you can't even pull that off.

In closing, I don't wish death on you, just something more along the lines of spontaneous triple limb amputation in an isolated wood. Sit and spin, bitch.

The battle of the Mikes is on! I'm torn, I love Mom jokes, but I also love Leno jokes (where does he FIND those wacky misprints?!). Best of luck to you both, may the best Mike win. And of the course, the coveted prize is Pat's hand in marriage.

Loving the list, by the way, Pat. I'm all for anything involving the Smiths, and that Beck song helped me through some very depressing times. Or caused them. I'm not sure which.

This has been entertaining, but I am just about done with you. First of all, I don't think that constitutional rights are pretentious. If you do, then I feel sorry for you.

However, I do think that lenghty jokes about syllables are pretentious, and boring. Congrats.

Next, by saying "I could make -blank- joke, but I won't," doesn't raise you above making the joke as you just have. This is why I know that I am smarter than you.

Also, "the evils of the bourgeoisie"? Seriously? Just because you know something, doesn't mean you need to let everyone know about it. That is what pretentious is. It is also a sure fire sign that you are trying to make yourself look smarter than you are.

Also, you said mother jokes are dated, I am going to disagree, as they are hilarious, but "poser" jokes are certainly dated, and also boring.

In sum, you are a pretentious dick, and I don't understand why someone as cool as Pat would be friends with you. Enjoy your boring jobless life. I am finished with being depressed that people like you exist.

shoot. i'm an idiot and put my comment under the wrong blog entry last night. doh. the gist of it was that this is my favorite chunk of list thus far. yay kasey chambers and rilo kiley...

Wow! I turn my back for five minutes!

Rob,

I did just look up the "Sway" lyrics. They were great. Sometimes I prefer not to know what's actually being said, it can be a disappointment. For years, I thought Foo Fighters' "I'll Stick Around" was "Icicle Mouth," which is way cooler. But I liked those.

Wow, this U2 fight heated up pretty quick! I'll let the two of you duke it out on personal matters, but from a MUSIC standpoint, I'll simply say that with all the genuinely AWFUL music in this world, it seems a bit senseless to beat up on U2, not only a legendary band whose music means something to millions, but people who use their status to help the country. Unlike, you know, the President.

Mike,

Wow. Telling someone you are smarter than they are certainly isn't pretentious (or elitist for that matter). It also can't be a surefire sign of insecurity, one who fancies himself a smart person, but isn't sure that he is, so he passes himself off as one by trying to take down through a position of self-proclaimed authority the people he feels threatened by. Now I'm not saying you feel threatened by me (I wouldn't dare), or saying I'm smarter than you. After all, that'd be pretentious.

You're right - mom jokes are occasionally funny. Yours just wasn't. Or anything you write, really. My poser comment about you wasn't actually meant as a joke, but it was true, and jokes are supposed to have truth in them, so I can see why you were confused. It can be so tricky, I know!

I won't bring Pat's choice of friends into this, as this is between us, but the idea that you're "done with me" is fine (throwing in the towel? Can dish, but can't take when someone calls you on your bullshit?). Oh well, I guess you'll go back to "having fun", which you said you'd do earlier, although picking fights on blogs with people you don't know (a habit of yours, I hear) smacks more of a pathetic, helpless person with a lot of anger in his life than it does of someone who can "go back to having fun." Good luck with that.

Eat shit. Die. Repeat.

This is an interesting list... I am curious to see if one song from the following musicians cracks PW’s Top 100 List - (my guess in parentheses): Dave Matthews Band (No, but they should), Pearl Jam (Maybe, and they should), 2Pac (No, but…he should crack the top 200) Monkees (Yes – it’s the Monkees).

Also, I’d like to suggest a classic song: My Nuts by The Fat Boys – it’s a catchy tune and has a great message.

I haven't been on this thing for a while, but WOW! This battle of the Mike's is amazing. I don't know this Russo guy, but I'm afraid the poor bastard has awakened a sleeping giant (WWII reference, who's pretentious now, bitches!) I think Curry's the clear winner, and not just because I know him or secretly fear him, but because "Mom Jokes" are fucking funny.

Also, Pat (this is your blog), I was totally devasted twice by this post. First, I also thought that the lyric was "Lazy." This revelation that its not will cost me countless time in therapy. On the bright side, I might have found my soulmate in the little tonedeaf lass named Andrea.

Second, It's NOT about a girl named Jealousy?

Damn. Pat, can you arrange for the Mikes to meet in person so this can escalate into an actual physical confrontation? You could post the video of the fight on YouTube and link back to this site, thus fulfilling the true potential of the digital era.

I'm not embarrassed to admit I also dug the Gin Blossoms. They came out when we were what, twelve or thirteen? They were a more up-tempo version of what was going on in rock at the time; happier, I guess. Guys liked it, girls liked it, you couldn't dance to it worth a crap, but it was decent make-out music. It was adolescent, but I mean that in the best possible sense. They were loud, ticked off at life in general, always complaining about getting cheated on. But there was a base optimism that ran through the whole thing that kind of made them worthwhile. They gave good pop. Certainly not any more shameful than liking, say, The Goo Goo Dolls, who still have their fans.

If their is one thing you can say against them, it's that they were probably a little too whiny. I mean, one of their big hits was "Till I Hear It From You." For those of you who haven't heard this song in a while, let me sum it up for you. "Um... so my friends told me that you're cheating on me. You haven't said anything, so I'm just going to pretend I don't know... until I hear it from you." Jeez, grow a pair.

Although the end of the band basically came in '93, when the guy who wrote that song killed himself, so I guess she must have told him at some point.

The Gin Blossoms rock. SO glad I didn't sell NEW MISERABLE EXPERIENCE as initially planned when I sold like three other CDs (all of which I regret selling, and all of which were the only three CDs I ever sold).

"Icicle Mouth"? Did you even read the track listing? It's the name of the song for crying out loud!

As for "Longview," I think that both "breaking" and "lazy" are in the lyrics (following the "when masturbastion's lost it's fun..." et c. line). Check that CD insert one more time like Pat said, but read it all the way through, y'all.

Jackson,

I would say liking the Goo Goo Dolls is indeed more shameful than liking Gin Blossoms, but we're splitting hairs here. At least Gin Blossoms knew when to walk away. That Goo Goo Dolls dude is still churning out the shit, and he looks like a Botoxed soccer mom.

I saw the Gin Blossoms a couple years ago at a Saint Louis event called "Rib America." Soul Asylum played also. Free shows. Ribs. It was great.

Yeah, a lot of their songs are pretty depressing under the poppy surface, shame that guy killed himself. Wonder why it didn't have the same cultural impact as Kurt Cobain?

Rob, (and everyone)

"In a house with unlocked doors and I'm fucking lazy."

"When masturbation's lost its fun, you're fucking breaking."

I can see everybody's confusion. Man, it's good to be right all the time.

For not having heard DOOKIE in several years, I got pretty close.