USCHO Music Thread: We All Have A Crush On Shirley Manson

[St. Clown]

Instruments ranked by most (and most accommodating) groupies:

1. Vocals
2. Lead guitar
3. Drummer
4. Rhythm guitar
5. Bass
6. Harmonica
7. Keyboards
8. Triangle
9. Accordion

Fight me.

Over the last number of years, guitars have become less and less featured in the pop music scene, to the point where many recent bands/acts don’t have them. It’s a sad evolution, but it’s also been reversing course in the past year or so. Hopefully that’s a a lasting trend.

[Slap Shot]

Top 30 songs of 1967. Seriously how many years before or after could even approach this list? The 90's would require an entire decade and even then...

[edit] Per Billboard the top 10 songs of the 90's. Umm..

• Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
• Don't Speak - No Doubt
• One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
• Macarena - Los Del Rio
• I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
• I'll Make Love To You - Boyz II Men
• Candle in the Wind 1997 - Elton John
• End of the Road - Boyz II Men
• The Boy is Mine - Brandy and Monica
• Smooth - Santana featuring Rob Thomas

See what I mean? ;^)

[MissThundercat]

If you have a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul.

Effective May 29, 1453.

[MissThundercat]

With the temps back to 80 degrees, what are some of your favorite songs for driving around with the windows down?

Mine:

"Cool for the Summer"- Demi Lovato
"Teenage Dream"- Katy Perry
"Sorry Not Sorry"- Demi Lovato
"Take It Off"- Kesha
"Vow"- Garbage
"Push It"- Garbage
"LA Love"- Fergie
"MILF Money"- Fergie
"Drunk And I Don't Want To Go Home"- Elle King and Miranda Lambert
"Shut Up and Drive"- Rihanna
"Heavy Metal Lover"- Lady Gaga
"Born This Way"- Lady Gaga
"Judas"- Lady Gaga
"The One That Got Away"- Katy Perry
"***** Better Have My Money"- Rihanna
"So What"- Pink
"Mama's Broken Heart"- Miranda Lambert
"Good Time"- Owl City
"Cake By The Ocean"- DNCE
"Going The Distance"- Cake

[Kepler]

TED is so disingenuous, alienating, self-absorbed, and evil-banal that even Lizzo's TED sucks.

That's power.

[Kepler]

With the temps back to 80 degrees, what are some of your favorite songs for driving around with the windows down?

Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar <-- jesus christ, mic's as-s in that video
The Go Gos - Vacation
DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Summertime
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies
Tribe Called Quest - Left My Wallet in El Segundo
Madonna - Material Girl
The Ramones - Rockaway Beach
Here Come the Mummies - Freak Flag
Rammstein - Auslander
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
The Who - Summertime Blues
A-ha - Take on Me <-- yeah, yeah, **** you, fight me
The Clash - Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad
X - 4th of July
Gogol Bordello - Wanderlust King

[state of hockey]

Lots a good ones already listed. I've been burned out on "classic" rock for a while now, but I'm always in a good mood when Head East's "Never Been Any Reason" comes on.

[MissThundercat]

Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar <-- jesus christ, mic's as-s in that video
The Go Gos - Vacation
DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Summertime
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies
Tribe Called Quest - Left My Wallet in El Segundo
Madonna - Material Girl
The Ramones - Rockaway Beach
Here Come the Mummies - Freak Flag
Rammstein - Auslander
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
The Who - Summertime Blues
A-ha - Take on Me <-- yeah, yeah, **** you, fight me
The Clash - Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad
X - 4th of July
Gogol Bordello - Wanderlust King

No Shake It Off by Taylor Swift?

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

With the temps back to 80 degrees, what are some of your favorite songs for driving around with the windows down?

The first two Van Halen albums
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
Raw Power - Iggy & The Stooges
My Brother the Cow - Mudhoney
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - RHCP
Kick out the Jams - MC5
Also, in accordance with Michigan state law ;-), any Bob Seger album

[Kepler]

The first two Van Halen albums
Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
Raw Power - Iggy & The Stooges
My Brother the Cow - Mudhoney
Blood Sugar Sex Magik - RHCP
Kick out the Jams - MC5
Also, in accordance with Michigan state law ;-), any Bob Seger album

You can come to my party.

You can DJ my party.

[Kepler]

No Shake It Off by Taylor Swift?

My god, the lineup on that barre.

I'll be in my bunk.

[Slap Shot]

Top 30 songs of 1968. My God.


Driving around songs?

Daytime:

Fox On The Run - Sweet
Little Red Corvette - Prince
Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - Cage The Elephant
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Rio - Duran Duran
Baba O'Riley - The Who
D'Ya Know What I Mean - Oasis
Nice To Know You - Incubus
Fun House - The Stooges
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin - Journey
Listen to the Music - Doobie Brothers
Let Me Entertain You - Robbie Williams
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty
The One I Love/Orange Crush - REM
Mr Cab Driver - Lenny Kravitz
It's A Long Way To The Top... - AC/DC
Pictures of Matchstick Men - Camper Van Beethoven

That's a pretty cliched list TBH but I'm rolling with I'm driving with people I don't know.

If I'm road tripping with buddies we could listen to any one of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, Pornography, KM KM KM, Disintegration or The Bends from start to finish

Nighttime:

Bizet's Carmen - Leontyne Price on lead with a dugout full of kine bud

[Kepler]

Bizet's Carmen - Leontyne Price on lead with a dugout full of kine bud

Beautiful version, but for me there can be only one.

So many Carmens have beautiful performances, but Conchita Supervia is the only Carmen I have ever heard who men would kill or die for. That's the teasing and barely controlled erotic and flat out idiotic sexuality that role demands.

And unlike every other Carmen I have seen, I'd run through a wall to be with the real life singer.

[Slap Shot]

Beautiful version, but for me there can be only one.

So many Carmens have beautiful performances, but Conchita Supervia is the only Carmen I have ever heard who men would kill or die for. That's the teasing and barely controlled erotic and flat out idiotic sexuality that role demands.

And unlike every other Carmen I have seen, I'd run through a wall to be with the real life singer.

Conchita's Habenera is absolutely breathtaking but Price's overall performance was so vividly mesmerizing I will never forget where I was the first time I heard it.

I'd also recommend Elina Garanca if you haven't yet had the pleasure.

[Kepler]

Conchita's Habenera is absolutely breathtaking but Price's overall performance was so vividly mesmerizing I will never forget where I was the first time I heard it.

I'd also recommend Elina Garanca if you haven't yet had the pleasure.

I have. I don't particularly like the "I am woman hear me roar!" Carmens that have accompanied the general Creeping Meatballism since the rot set in in the 60s. Garanca is fine, but you wouldn't want to slap and tickle with her just hearing her (granted, then you look at a picture and that changes...). But she's like a TED talk's idea of what Carmen should be. It's an ad for whiskey during the Masters. Nobody dies for a CEO.

I'll give her this: her acting is spectacular! Her charisma is pure sex. But it's in her body language and her eyes, not in her voice. The role is too big for her, because the roles of strong women written before women were free are, ironically, too big for free women. It's the democratic paradox: the roles of democratic heroes from the 18th and 19th centuries just can't be carried by actual bland democratic peoples. They require the angst of striving, or something. The actual real being is too self-assured to capture the fear and the risk. Maybe the only great artists after liberation are those who were abused.