posted on Mar, 29 2016 @ 01:16 AM
The BEST song in the world!?!!? Actually you know what, thanks for sharing. I was tempted to immediately start a big disagreeing critique of your
choice but thank gosh reality kicked in and I concluded, "who the heck am I to tell anyone a my ways better," before I fell into the ATS superiority
complex pitfall which would be quite hypocritical given how much I condemn it. How old are you though I wonder, being around young pepole all the time
I find it odd?/strange?/hilarious?/curious? how they see modern music vs what we listened to (I grew up in the 80s-grunge influenced culture) and for
some reason or another, I never thought growing up when my dad warned me about making fun of his music since Id hear the same thing when I grew up. I
just thought for some reason that was a special circumstance but good golly (and you may not be in that age range but I still will post since its
unbelievable)
A. We called his stuff oldies (50s n 60s) and honest to gosh I list bands like Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Pumpkins and Metallica to my kiddos and the
say, "oh, so you listen to the oldies stations like my parents." Then I realize the 50s s 60s to us are the same as the 90s and 00s to the
millenials...the 80s would be like the FORTIES!
B. When I try to explain why I and many others liked pop in the 80s but hate it now, they dont get it when I explain we saw the making of the genre as
it exists now through m&j Jackson, swv, shanice, Tiffany, Ricketts astley, etc. They usually comment simply, "Ive heard of that kuchael Jackson guy,
he died and dressed like a girl," and I can't believe that's what mj has been reduced to. Same when I explain rap and how jets polarizing today but
living through its inception and development everyone appreciated it. And the ten times Ive listed who I liked, ice cube, snoop, dre, reach and nbn,
slick rick n Doug e fresh, bone thugs, nw, etc, i always here "I know one song by dre and by snoop, theyre horrible!" and I give em the whole, "you
woukdnt have your Alice in chains (drake? He raps right?) if my generation's three dog night (eazy e) didnt come first," line my dad gave me.
C. Ask anyone 15 and under to name 3 singers they like who play music or have bands with instruments for anlccompanyment. You'll see "musician" is a
title anyone can get nowadays or "artist"
D. Lastly just for laughs, after I started seeing young people professionally who are 14-16 now, the funniest thing happened. In one day two came to
me separately after they had spoken to a colleague of mine and she told them about Walkman since they thought we at least had MP3players back in the
80s, they just weren't incorporated with phones yet.they both asked me, "is it true that in the nineteen hundreds you had to lug around a heavy tape
player and couldn't even select a track or carefully use a CD player that would stop if you bumped it and ran out of batteries 4/5 of the way THRU a
CD? I wasn't as caught off guard by the Walkman discman thing but I realized the teenagers now and soon college students were never alive in 99 or
before, their whole existence is contained to the 21 century now so just like we did, the 60s, 80s, etc are forever after from now on, the NINETEEN
HUNDREDS as we said 1800s, if that dont make u feel old then.....
Just for further fun I wanted to throw in my very unofficial list for BEST imho
Soma (smashing pumpkins)
Muzzle (pumpkins)
Cherub rock (pumpkins)
Tocatga n fugue in....shoot wish I had piano in front of me...d minor I think (to not leave out the olddddd stuff)
Beauty and the Beast (S. Nicks)
Chain (Fleetwood Mac)
As Long as you Follow (F. Mac)
Songbird (f Mac)
Grind (Alice n Chains)
Nutshell (A in C)
Interstate love song (stone temple)
Black (Pearl Jam)
Spaceman (Artificial Joy Club)
3 am (our lady peace)
Superman's dead (oLP)
Ghetto cowboy (bone thugs)
Everybody wants to rule the world (tears for fears)
Den that ksanagapisw
Agriolouloudo
Poia Nyxta S'eklepse
Wow scratch the list I guess, that'd take me a year just to narrow down 50 much less pick a top ten or best song ever.