just some miscellaneous impulsive thought exercises:
top five Elvis Costello songs:
1. Everyday I Write the Book (Punch the Clock)
2. I Want You (Blood & Chocolate)
3. Oliver's Army (Armed Forces)
4. Brilliant Mistake (King of America)
5. Alison (My Aim is True)
(yeah, Everyday I Write the Book. I can't lie, I just love it.)
top five Elvis Costello albums:
1. My Aim is True
2. King of America
3. Armed Forces
4. Imperial Bedroom
5. Blood & Chocolate
(as one can see, individual songs in the top five don't really make or break an album.)
top five U2 songs:
1. Endless Deep (Sunday Bloody Sunday - single)
2. The Sweetest Thing (The Sweetest Thing - single)
3. If God Will Send His Angels (Pop)
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday (War)
5. The Fly (Achtung Baby)
(I was going to call this blog entry "it's alright, it's alright, it's all right", but I had to change it once I realized that Mysterious Ways didn't even make my top five.)
top five U2 albums:
1. The Joshua Tree
2. Achtung Baby
3. Pop
4. The Unforgettable Fire
5. All That You Can't Leave Behind
(the hard part for Pop was getting on the list at all. once I had the guts to put it at number five - ironically, it's a fairly unpopular choice - I kept impulsively moving it up.)
top five Smiths songs:
1. There is a Light That Never Goes Out (The Queen is Dead)
2. This Charming Man (The Smiths)
3. Girlfriend in a Coma (Strangeways, Here We Come)
4. Hand in Glove (The Smiths)
5. How Soon is Now? (Meat is Murder)
(it really pained me to not be able to fit Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want and Panic on the list.)
(...The Smiths only had four albums...)
one other thing: I sorta rediscovered Tim (The Replacements album) recently and I've played the shit out of it. I can't seem to articulate enough about it to even think about a "great album" entry, but the sound is fascinating.
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