List-y kind of mood
So, there's this brand-spankin'-new show on NPR called Ann Delisi's Essential Music. It's on Saturday and Sunday from noon to four o'clock.
The premise of the show is that people submit five songs that they love, and Ann Delisi plays music from around Detroit and blah blah blah.
ADEM's 101.9 WDET page
ADEM on Facebook
Anyway.
Naturally, I was thinking of what my five essential songs would be (and then maybe send them in), but of course I couldn't pick just five. Here's what I have come up with so far, though:
- "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel
- "Wonderwall" by Oasis
- "Going to Georgia" by the Mountain Goats
- "Sheena is a Punkrocker" by the Ramones
- "Chores" by Animal Collective
- "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by Fifth Dimension
- "Devil's Haircut" by Beck
- "Deceptacon" by Le Tigre
- "Gold Digger" by Kanye West
- "Can't Get Next to You" by the Temptations
- "Whoever You Are" by Geggy Tah
- "Maghalena" by Sergio Mendes
- "Mass Pike," by the Get Up Kids
- "Hard to Love" by Old Crow Medicine Show
The list goes on and on and on...
The tricky thing is, I'm not sure what "essential" really means for me.
Essential to my personality? Because that's the Ramones and the Beatles and Johnathan Richmond.
My favorite songs of all time? Those include Simon & Garfunkel, Oasis, Le Tigre, and a lot others.
Songs that define a certain period or moment of my life? The Get Up Kids, Fifth Dimension, Kanye West...
So I'm not really sure.
PLUS, I would certainly alter the list if I were to submit it to ADEM. Or even tell anyone. Because first of all, I certainly judge people by their lists on ADEM, but there's also so much criteria by which to judge my "essentials!" And I feel like lameass for not including any jazz on there (Miles' Porgy and Bess! Coltrane's "My Favorite Things!" Brubeck's "Take Five!"). and I have to include some blues on there, right? Some Burnside or Blind Willie Johnson or Etta James?
I could make a top five essentials of just bluegrass! Or JUST Sly and the Family Stone! Or JUST James Brown LIVE! Or... ohmygod, I'm overwhelmed just thinking about it.
I would probably get nervous and include some weird shit that I didn't mean to, and it would be like in High Fidelity when he John Cusack has to keep calling that reporter to change his top five albums of all time. I mean, I'm nervous about it already and I haven't even done it.
I can't find that scene on YouTube, but here's one the basically sums up what goes on in my head all the time (and BONUS, that is what it's like working in a record store. Is that why I like making lists so much?):
The premise of the show is that people submit five songs that they love, and Ann Delisi plays music from around Detroit and blah blah blah.
ADEM's 101.9 WDET page
ADEM on Facebook
Anyway.
Naturally, I was thinking of what my five essential songs would be (and then maybe send them in), but of course I couldn't pick just five. Here's what I have come up with so far, though:
- "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel
- "Wonderwall" by Oasis
- "Going to Georgia" by the Mountain Goats
- "Sheena is a Punkrocker" by the Ramones
- "Chores" by Animal Collective
- "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by Fifth Dimension
- "Devil's Haircut" by Beck
- "Deceptacon" by Le Tigre
- "Gold Digger" by Kanye West
- "Can't Get Next to You" by the Temptations
- "Whoever You Are" by Geggy Tah
- "Maghalena" by Sergio Mendes
- "Mass Pike," by the Get Up Kids
- "Hard to Love" by Old Crow Medicine Show
The list goes on and on and on...
The tricky thing is, I'm not sure what "essential" really means for me.
Essential to my personality? Because that's the Ramones and the Beatles and Johnathan Richmond.
My favorite songs of all time? Those include Simon & Garfunkel, Oasis, Le Tigre, and a lot others.
Songs that define a certain period or moment of my life? The Get Up Kids, Fifth Dimension, Kanye West...
So I'm not really sure.
PLUS, I would certainly alter the list if I were to submit it to ADEM. Or even tell anyone. Because first of all, I certainly judge people by their lists on ADEM, but there's also so much criteria by which to judge my "essentials!" And I feel like lameass for not including any jazz on there (Miles' Porgy and Bess! Coltrane's "My Favorite Things!" Brubeck's "Take Five!"). and I have to include some blues on there, right? Some Burnside or Blind Willie Johnson or Etta James?
I could make a top five essentials of just bluegrass! Or JUST Sly and the Family Stone! Or JUST James Brown LIVE! Or... ohmygod, I'm overwhelmed just thinking about it.
I would probably get nervous and include some weird shit that I didn't mean to, and it would be like in High Fidelity when he John Cusack has to keep calling that reporter to change his top five albums of all time. I mean, I'm nervous about it already and I haven't even done it.
I can't find that scene on YouTube, but here's one the basically sums up what goes on in my head all the time (and BONUS, that is what it's like working in a record store. Is that why I like making lists so much?):
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