Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Top 10 Songs About Paper

These are definitely 10 songs about paper.

1. "Paper Bag" - Fiona Apple
2. "Paper Tiger" - Beck
3. "Paper Planes" - M.I.A.
4. "Paper Moon" - The Nat King Cole Trio
5. "Paper" - Talking Heads
6. "Paperback Writer" - The Beatles
7. "Paper Doll" - Mills Brothers
8. "Paper Thin Hotel" - Leonard Cohen
9. "Paper Cuts" - Nirvana
10. "My Back Pages" - Bob Dylan

Space is the Place: Top 10 Songs About Spaceships, Space Travel, and Astro-Travelers

Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. Fasten your seat belts and prepare for a journey, an odyssey if you will, into the unknown. The abyss. Space. What awaits us? We can't be sure, for we are the pioneers. You are Lewis and Clark and I am Pocahontas, here to be the guiding light for your expedition. Or at least to bang the proverbial drum. If you are ready, please place your space-buds into your ear-sockets so we can begin. Here are the top 10 songs for your mission:

1. "Space Oddity" - David Bowie
2. "Planet Caravan" - Black Sabbath
3. "Elektronik-Supersonik" - Zlad
4. "Silver Machine" - Hawkwind
5. "Tapestry From An Asteroid" - Sun Ra
6. "Rocket Man" - Elton John
7. "Spaceman" - Harry Nilsson
8. "Interstellar Overdrive" - Pink Floyd
9. "Fly Me To The Moon" - Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto
10. "Major Tom (Coming Home)" - Peter Schilling

Honorable Mentions:
Not a song about space, but the badass video suggests otherwise - Smash Pums
Moonage Daydream - David Bowie

Monday, November 21, 2011

Everybody's Working for the Weekend: Top 10 Songs About Parties and Party People

Sometimes you just gotta cut loose. Knock back a few brewskies, pre-game if you gotta, pre-pre-game if you know what I'm talking about and I think that you do wink wink. You work hard all week, and it's Friday night and you just wanna blast some tuneskies, suck down some shotskies, and boogie. Or sometimes you just want to get together with some buds. (Or some Buds, this guy knows what I'm talkin about!) But sometimes you want to hear a song about partying. Iff'n you want to reminisce of great parties' past or if you want to get into the groove of your party future or if you just want get down now in your post-modern self-reflective party present. In any case, here'r the best songs about parties and partiers:

1. "Mama Told Me Not to Come" - Three Dog Night
2. "All Tomorrow's Parties" - The Velvet Underground (& Nico)
3. "Dead Man's Party" - Oingo Boingo
4. "Party in the Woods Tonight" - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
5. "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" - The Beastie Boys
6. "Swingin' Party" - The Replacements
7. "Right To The Minute" - Heidecker & Wood
8. "24-Hour Party People" - The Happy Mondays
9. "Let's Have A Party" - Wanda Jackson
10. "Party All The Time" - Eddie Murphy & Rick James

Honorable Mentions:
"Ubu Dance Party" - Pere Ubu
"Moonage Daydream"- David Bowie