Tuesday, June 22, 2004
High Fidelity, Summertime Top Ten.
In honor of High Fidelity and the near nuclear weather we've been having in Portland, here's my All-Time Top Ten Summertime album list. (Granted they do top five's, but let's not quibble.)
- The first six Van Halen albums in a six-way tie for number one. Summertime without Van Halen is like squirrels without nuts, it's simply not done.
- Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual: I tend to lose a little respect for people who don't own this album, it's like not owning anything by Sinatra. There's just no excuse for it in a civilized society.
- James Brown - Greatest Hits: Scientifically proven to be so cool, it can actually lower your body temperature a full five degrees on a hot summer day. That's science folks, do you really want to argue with science?
- Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell: Social Distortion is what Johnny Cash would sound like if he grew up punk rock. The only band to inspire one of my tattoo's.
- Moby - Play: This album makes me wish I had a convertible, or at least is used to until I saw a bird poop on one.
- Any Christmas album. This one's cheating as I listen to Christmas music nearly everyday. Sue me.
- Dr. Dre - The Chronic: It's hard to believe this album is almost twelve years old.
- The first five Motley Crue albums. Sex, drugs and rock & roll. (See also: Van Halen)
- Black Flag - Wasted Again: "I was so waaasted/I was a hippie/I was a burnout/I was a dropout, I was out of my head/I was a surfer/I had a skateboard, I was so heavy man/I lived on the strand/I was so wasted/I was so fucked up/I was so messed up, I was out of my head/I was so jacked up/I was so drunk/I was so knocked out, I was out of my head/I was so wasted/I was wasted"
- Len - You Can't Stop the Bum Rush: Come on, it's got Biz Markie on it for crying out loud. You can't get cooler than that.
"People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sore of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands--literally thousands--of songs about broken hears and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening tot eh sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives." excerpt from High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.
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