“I’ll Be Your Roundabout” by Yes
I have no use for Ozzy Osbourne, but I’ll turn up the radio for Crazy Train.
Same goes for KISS and Strutter.
No, no. The piano’s been drinking, the carpet needs a haircut. But that’s okay, the ashtray said you were up all night
For me, it’s Christine Aguilera’s Beautiful. I’d always considered her to be just another teen pop-tart but with a better-than-average voice, so I was quite surprised to find this song profoundly moving. The video was particularly impressive and a welcome change from her usual sleazy antics.
I’ll pick Keane too, but not “Somewhere Only We Know” (snooooze). The song I really like by them is “Is It Any Wonder?” The keyboard part rocks.
“No Rain” by Blind Melon–I can’t NOT sing along with this song, but everything else by the band is pretty meh…
“Flagpole Sitta” by Harvey Danger–catchy as all get out, but the rest of the CD was what finally proved to me that buying pig in a poke CDs on the basis of a catchy tune was a bad idea.
“Tear You Apart” by She Wants Revenge–this would almost qualify if it weren’t for the fact that “Red Flags And Long Nights” totally rocks, but the rest of the album is just okay.
“16 Military Wives” by Decemberists–I know they’re supposed to be all that and a bagga chips, but aside from one or two other songs that almost make it, this is the one that grabs me.
My Modest Mouse favorite is “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes” which I think is much better than “Float On,” but then again I’m weird…
“Don’t Fear the Reaper” is a great song, but on the same album “The Revenge of Vera Gemini” kicks its ass due to being a cool song as well as not overplayed to a fare thee well, and “Agents of Fortune” is a rocker too–and I’m by no means a BOC fiend by any stretch of the imagination…
I adore “Creep” by Radiohead. everything else to me is droning and dull. they’re one of those bands whose talent I can recognize, but I still can’t for my life get into.
there is this one album by some group called Band of Horses or somesuch, and I have listened over and over to this folky, sentimental song called “Part One”, but the rest of it just sounds plain and rather like the work of 12-year-olds. dunno.
“Poor Tom” by Zeppelin and “Pepper” by Butthole Surfers
Rockstar by Nickleback. It’s a fun song, where everything else on that album is adolescent agnst-y weak crap.
If you wanna dance to “Dust in the Wind”, try this version.
Tenacious D’s Tribute. I don’t really get into the rest of Tenacious D, but that is a fantastic song that makes me giddy when I hear it. Can’t even explain why really. (AKA The Greatest Song In The World)
Just recently Belinda Carlisle’s Dancing in the Summer Rain grabbed me. I like one or two other things by her, but I don’t remember this from when it was released and I think it is very pretty.
Cannot stand Led Zeppelin, but I’ll crank “Kashmir.”
Heartily and intensely dislike “new country”* but when “Friends In Low Places” by Mr. Brooks comes on I almost can’t NOT warble tunelessly along with it.
*You can take your Shania and Travis and Randy and alla’ them, and give me a double helping of the Statler Brothers.
Okay. I’ll mention a couple.
The very idea of George Michael is annoying to me. But his “Kissing a Fool” is a nice jazzy tune. I bought the tape for that tune and hate everything else on it.
Although Gilbert O’Sullivan did have one more song that I like (Claire), every other song on the album with Alone Again, Naturally is forgettable. Another one-tune album for me.
“Bring Me To Life” by Evanescence I bought Fallen on the back of this and the rest of the songs don’t do anything for me, but I love that one track.
Kiss I positively loath except for “Detroit Rock City”.