Top Ten - Music

So I've decided to do a top ten, but unliked traditional top tens it won't be confined to like just artists or just songs. I'm going to mix and match.

10: Eminem -
The reason I like him isn't so much that I like his music in its nature; it's fairly entertaining music, granted, but the reason I like it is because of a lot of fond memories asscociated with him. Those fond memories being sitting in my brother's room with him and playing then N64 together and listening to Eminem, mostly there was the occassional Dr Dre. I think this was early in the time we got to know eachother as people.


9: You're my angel(It's on a mixed cd?) -
This is a happy hardcore (sub-genre of 'techno'**) song, that is on a mixed cd given to my brother. The reason I like it is because I feel it makes great use of synthesised music and avoids the annoying cliches associated with techno music. It also has a bit of lyrical content which I felt is well writ, although it could just be poetic sentimentality. "You're my angel. You're the only sunshine in my life; feels like heaven when you take me in your arms." (thats repeated throughout the song)

8: Alice Cooper-
I don't know why but I've always liked Alice Cooper. I find his lyrics to be cryptic and scary.... without doing that. Also, unlike most of his fan's I love his ballads. Like 'I never Cry' and 'Only Woman Bleed.' I bought the Dragontown albumn and was incredibly dissappointed with that, but I do have Killer which was gotten by means unbenounced to me.

7: Alien Ant Farm -
These guys are great, but see their first two singles (especially their first, Smooth Criminal) do not hold a candle to the rest of their music. Two of my favourite songs by them would be Courageous, SS recognize andDeath Day.

6: Joker and the Theif(Wolfmother)-
Wolfmother is highly influenced by Hendrix etc so to myself it wasn't difficult to make the connection between this song and 'Along the Watchtower' (actually written by Bob Dylan, if I'm not mistaken). Me and my friend both agree that this song should be on guitar hero.

5: Only (NIN)-
Ok, well there is no difinite collection of NIN songs I like, I mean there is probably is a greatest hits collection that I would -LOVE- but alack not to my knowledge. And a lot of their music to me sounds the same with the occassional song that jsut stands out and its like reaching musical Nirvana. This song is from the albumn With Teeth and very ironically I had originally typed closer confusing the two songs.....

4: Joyful Rebellion(K-Os)-
K-Os is what hiphop should be. His lyrics are very insightful, pretty much the cd is full of songs that can put a hop in your step though however as the albumn tapiers to its end it has some weird alien effect. Which I personally don't like but I appreciate the artist effect.

3 :Apocalyptica -
Ok, first lemme make sure I got all the letters right......yep, looks like it. This is a band of primarily cellos, and violins etc. They do covers of mostly Metallica songs, but they do other bands too and some original stuff. They play mad crazy like. There is no other phrase to describe it.

2:Fast Car(Tracy Chapman) -
I prefer the David Usher version of this song, but Tracy Chapman *did* write it and a lot of other beautiful (lyrically) music so I figured she ought to deserve credit. The reason I like this song is because it tells a story and has a simple yet catchy tune. The story is of a girl who asks this guy to take his car and drive away with her where they can start a new life away from their old one. But in the end it is learnt that you can escape your situation easily but you cannot escape who you are and the oppression associated with you are.

1: David Usher-
He's pretty much my favourite artist and most long lasting favourite artist. He is fairly known in Canada and more so in Taiwan (he was born in england and grew up in montreal I beleive). He was the front man for the band Moist, and he has lived quite an interesting life. My fav songs include 'Im coming down' and 'Alone in the Universe tonight'.

PS: An honorable mention goes to 'The lament of a Pretty Baby' by Cursive, only I never thought about it until I only had two spaces left.



**techno: I have been trained to hate this term because it's so vague. Because it's the same as sayin something like "rock music" because rock can mean anything from marylin manson to buddy holly. Yes, beleive it or not there are subgenres of Electronica, or "techno" if you will; and they do sound different O_O