That's because it's the most boring song on an otherwise terrific album.

Hmm, it would be fun to rank Steely Dan songs by their premises. Where does "inviting neighborhood children over to watch porn with you" rank?

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I'm surprised you could name even 1.

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I originally had no less than 20 songs written down for contention

I wish I could change my avatar to Obama burning Matchbox 20 CDs.

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Time to make JORR really mad! Tortoise!

Jetty
Swung from the Gutters
Djed
It's All Around You
Ten-Day Interval
Almost Always Is Nearly Enough
Four-Day Interval
Monica
The Lithium Stiffs
In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven There Were Women And Men

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Matchbox Twenty.

I like the INXS list, RPB, but one glaring omission.

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I thought it was about bobbing for apples.....fwiw I think Dr Wu is the best song off Katy Lied and for all time best ima go with Pretzel Logic

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Umphrey's McGee

All in Time
Ocean Billy
Bridgeless
Wife Soup
Much Obliged
Miss Tinkle's Overture
Andy's Last Beer
Out of Order
Higgins
Der Bluten Kat

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You like really terrible music, chus.

The Velvet Underground
1. The Murder Mystery
2. Stephanie Says
3. Sunday Morning
4. The Gift
5. The Black Angel's Death Song
6. Sister Ray
7. Sweet Jane
8. Femme Fatale
9. Heroin
10. European Son

This band was never as good as it could've been. I wish they had committed more to avant-garde; I feel my list reflects that. Nobody likes "The Black Angel's Death Song." That being said, their askew pop songs could be very good as well, like "Stephanie Says."

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I agree with you regarding their avant-garde cred, owing mostly to John Cale. But it was their straight-up pop song sensibilities that made their avant-garde outings more available and familiar to the rock music fan. While the Velvet Underground get deserved credit for inluencing Punk and New Wave, stuff like "Black Angel's Death Song" and "Sister Ray" had a palpable influence on bands like Kraftwerk, Killing Joke, the WaxTrax-Era Industrial bands and their descendants. While other Avant-Garde mediums (painting, Film, theater) had largely become legitimized by the late '60's, this was never the case with music, outside of a few very well known composers. I contend that the Mid to Late '80's Industrial movement, prior to being absorbed into the generic Alternative sphere, was the closest approximation of Avant-Garde music being accepted and internalized into the mainstream consciousness. Me, I like both kinds, Country and Western.

Beginning to See the Light
Venus in Furs
Heroin
Pale Blue Eyes
The Murder Mystery
Waiting For The Man
Who Loves The Sun
Jesus
All Tomorrow's Parties
White Light/White Heat

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Velvet Underground

Rock n Roll
Heroin
Lonesome Cowboy Bill
Cool It Down
Sweet Jane
Oh Sweet Nuthin
White Light/White Heat
Head Held High
Beginning to See the Light
Who Loves the Sun

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I have never understood why people feel the need to say things like this.

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John Cale was terrific, though even he was prone to giving up the ghost and cranking out MOR tripe. God, what the hell was Helen of Troy, really. I still love Paris 1919 and Fear, and I submit that Music for a New Society is one of the deadest, bleakest, most depressing albums ever made. It sounds like something made by someone dying of some terrible, incurable form of cancer.

I love making fun of Nico on "Aw Be Yo Mihwuh," but I've really come to like Chelsea Girl and The Marble Index. "These Days" and "I'll Keep It With Mine" are both fantastic and would have been huge boosts to the VU discography if they had ended up under that name. Something like "Ari's Song" is actually truer to what the VU ought to have been.

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The Marble Index is terrific. "Frozen Warnings" is basically a perfect song.

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+1

Pre-emptive WYC because I know I've done it...I think everyone does it...but in a thread like this, where it's about your favorites, what's the point? It's not like it's a discussion about what's "best"...

I wouldn't normally do it, but disdain is a reflexive response of mine to jam bands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lwRhC2Teo4
Also, this version of "I'll Keep It With Mine" might be just as good as the original. Maybe better. The way she takes it up an octave on "could save you any time" is what does it, I think. Susanna Hoffs is something else in every sense.

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I'm waiting for the Vampire Weekend list to do it.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

[quote="Curious Hair"]You like really terrible music, chus.
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Bullshit. Him and T-Bone have the best taste in music here.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Umm, KS additions are Taylor Swift and Rod Freakin' Stewart.

I am not sure about this, there are a lot of people on here with good ears for music. Everyone certainly
has their opinion on what is good and what isn't and we all differ. I don't listen to metal or country but
I can see how people can get into it.

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I have issues with "Never tear us apart"

Is that it?

Frank Sinatra

1. Summer Wind
2. That's Life
3. My Way
4. Fly Me to The Moon
5. Come Rain or Come Shine
6. One for My Baby
7. Best Is Yet To Come
8. Come Fly With Me
9. The Way You Look Tonight
10a. The Coffee Song
10b. Pennies from Heaven

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Bing Crosby (non-Holiday music edition)

1. San Fernando Valley
2. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral
3. South America, Take it Away
4. Ain't Got a Dime to My Name
5. Swingin' on a Star
6. The Road to Morocco
7. Hot Time in the Town of Berlin
8. Don't Fence Me In
9. I'll Be Seeing You
10. Pistol Packin' Mama

I understand there are some controversial selections here. I look forward to a spirited Bing Crosby discussion.

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No. I could do without that one too.

Hey, it's your list, don't change for me.

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Ah...I see.

Yeah, Never Tear Us Apart is an ok song. Its pretty good actually. Its just too easy.

Like, how bout we make a song with violins and talking about how much I love some woman?

No, Taylor Swift.

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Yeah, it just seems to me like a money maker. There was no way that song wasnt going to be a hit

ELO is very much a Greatest Hits band. I love a handful of their songs, but don't have a single album. No one is Greatest Hitsier than Tom Petty or the Cars, though.

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