Holy Crap~!
It's the Pixies, back from the dead.
Go HERE~! (link snagged from Shaddax's other blog.)
Thinking about the Blender top 50 list tonight, decided it wasn't worth going song by song, so I'm just gonna highlight the songs I like that don't deserve this abuse.
49 - I'm Too Sexy - I love this song. Seriously.
42 - The Sounds Of Silence - Blender's chief problem with this song seems to be that it's stuffy and preachy. Come on, it's folk music, ferchrissakes. Give it a rest.
35 - Shiny Happy People - Even serious alternarockers have to lighten up once in a while. Hardly as offensive as some of the stuff on the list.
33 - Barbie Girl - Oh, come on. Blender needs to pull the stick out of its ass.
27 - The Final Countdown - Europe? Picking on Europe? Oh, come on. There are such better 80's hair metal targets to pick on then Europe. How about Whitesnake? Kingdom Come?
21 - Two Princes - Harmless hippie jam pop.
11 - Invisible - We've covered this one before. Disturbing, yes, but hardly worst of all time.
8 - Party All The Time - Hey, this is a fun song also, and it's got Rick James, bitch.
6 - The Heart Of Rock And Roll - Do we have to sic Patrick Bateman on the writers of Blender?
3 - Everybody Have Fun Tonight - I love Wang Chung. Really. They did an amazing soundtrack for To Live and Die In L.A., and they were one of my favorite 80's bands.
Number one is Starship's We Built This City. I can't understand this, because they had a far more dire hit in the late 80's, Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now. But worse then that is Grace Slick's quote in the article.
"This is not me. Now you're an actor. It's the same as Meryl Streep playing Joan of Arc."
Um, Grace? You and your band must have been good actors, because Starship was a bunch of AOR hacks long before We Built This City. And I don't remember hearing about you turning down all those record royalties and tour dates because people who'd never heard of the Airplane went to see you play this song, and Sara, and Miracles, and all the soulless crap that you and Mickey put out between 1976 and the early 90s, when you thankfully stopped claiming to be a rocker.
It's a long way from White Rabbit to soulless crap. To borrow from one of your former contemporaries, what a long strange trip it's been.
Go HERE~! (link snagged from Shaddax's other blog.)
Thinking about the Blender top 50 list tonight, decided it wasn't worth going song by song, so I'm just gonna highlight the songs I like that don't deserve this abuse.
49 - I'm Too Sexy - I love this song. Seriously.
42 - The Sounds Of Silence - Blender's chief problem with this song seems to be that it's stuffy and preachy. Come on, it's folk music, ferchrissakes. Give it a rest.
35 - Shiny Happy People - Even serious alternarockers have to lighten up once in a while. Hardly as offensive as some of the stuff on the list.
33 - Barbie Girl - Oh, come on. Blender needs to pull the stick out of its ass.
27 - The Final Countdown - Europe? Picking on Europe? Oh, come on. There are such better 80's hair metal targets to pick on then Europe. How about Whitesnake? Kingdom Come?
21 - Two Princes - Harmless hippie jam pop.
11 - Invisible - We've covered this one before. Disturbing, yes, but hardly worst of all time.
8 - Party All The Time - Hey, this is a fun song also, and it's got Rick James, bitch.
6 - The Heart Of Rock And Roll - Do we have to sic Patrick Bateman on the writers of Blender?
3 - Everybody Have Fun Tonight - I love Wang Chung. Really. They did an amazing soundtrack for To Live and Die In L.A., and they were one of my favorite 80's bands.
Number one is Starship's We Built This City. I can't understand this, because they had a far more dire hit in the late 80's, Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now. But worse then that is Grace Slick's quote in the article.
"This is not me. Now you're an actor. It's the same as Meryl Streep playing Joan of Arc."
Um, Grace? You and your band must have been good actors, because Starship was a bunch of AOR hacks long before We Built This City. And I don't remember hearing about you turning down all those record royalties and tour dates because people who'd never heard of the Airplane went to see you play this song, and Sara, and Miracles, and all the soulless crap that you and Mickey put out between 1976 and the early 90s, when you thankfully stopped claiming to be a rocker.
It's a long way from White Rabbit to soulless crap. To borrow from one of your former contemporaries, what a long strange trip it's been.
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