![]() Stankonia is full of clever ambition and delivered with impeccable skill - or, as this song aptly puts it, ”So Fresh, So Clean.” While the song wasn’t a huge chart hit, the heavy beat and George Clinton-inspired sound was about as funkadelic as the decade got. That said, many of its songs are oddly joyous “Wake Up” is the best, a rock symphony featuring a choir and lavish orchestration. Before all the PR madness, West released his first single “Through the Wire,” which samples Chaka Khan’s 1985 hit “Through the Fire.” West recorded the entire song with his jaw wired shut after a car accident in 2002.įuneral was an emotional masterpiece - it was given its title because several of the band members, at the time, had recently lost family members. Love him or hate him, Kanye West is talented as all hell. It’s an indie pop gem that combines a solid song structure with a narrative inspired by singer/songwriter James Mercer’s desire get out of his “home town, job, relationship and life.” “New Slang” achieved mainstream popularity after its inclusion on the Garden State soundtrack, but the song didn’t need the help. The song practically brainwashes you to keep on dancing - Daft Punk seem to believe that if you hear something enough times, you’ll start to believe it. Hohoho.Ī huge club and mainstream hit with an invincible beat, “One More Time” featured a heavily compressed vocal (by house-singer Romanthony) long before T-Pain even knew what auto-tune was. I thought I’d been to some debauched Xmas parties in my day, but Dylan’s takes the cake, and eats it too! No Xmas party will ever be complete, for me, without an accordion and someone jumping out a window. Lead single of Bob Dylan’s Christmas album, “Christmas in the Heart,” and the best music video I’ve seen in years. Favourite Bob quote of the film: “You heard about cellulose? Cows can digest it, but you can’t.” The plot makes little-to-no sense, and the dialogue is part slapstick, part Old Testament and part drunken jibber-jabber. Wacky film starring Dylan, John Goodman, Penelope Cruz and a ton of other famous faces. Non-stop laughs on this one, friends and neighbours. could certainly show Randy Bachman a thing or ten about how to compose oneself with class on the airwaves. Top three reasons I’m glad Bob Dylan didn’t croak this decadeĭylan hosts a satellite radio program in the vein of old-timey radio broadcasts. Disagree with our choices? Don’t like the cut of our jib? Not sure how you feel about that Schindler crack a couple lines back? Go ahead, send the complaint email of the decade to Otherwise, enjoy! So here it is: the decade in Arts, in lists, in full effect. ![]() And we can do it the most meaningful, definitive way possible - in lists! Lists so achingly great, and so hugely important, they would make Oskar Schindler sweat. How can you possibly make sense of it all? The answer is, “you can’t.” But the Manitoban sure as shit can. What was that? Did you just see that? I think that was a “decade” that just ripped right past us.
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