Year: 1994
One of my favorite synth-pop songs. The synth compliments Andy Bell’s voice well.
Year: 1994
One of my favorite synth-pop songs. The synth compliments Andy Bell’s voice well.
Year: 1992
I like this better than Aretha’s version. Aretha is great, but the backup singers are kind of meh. En Vogue harmonizes really well.
Year: 1994
Pretty generic lyrics, but I really like the Amis peole chant from Difang and Igay Duana that they sampled. Plus, the backwards video!
Year: 2002
It was hard to pick an Eminem song. Rap God is meticulously great rapping and I also love the rhymes of Without Me, but I’m not going to belt out the other F word while singing along. Martika’s chorus on Like Toy Soldiers is lovely but I’m not super into songs about drama with other singers. I dig Higher and I like how each verse gets progressively more complex, fitting the theme of the song.
Ultimately, going with the most popular song. I love how Eminem will take words or phrases that aren’t perfect rhymes but he makes them work with his inflection.
But I kept rhymin’ and stepped right in the next cypher
Best believe somebody’s payin’ the Pied Piper
All the pain inside amplified by the
Fact that I can’t get by with my nine to
Five and I can’t provide the right type of
Life for my family ’cause man, these goddamn food stamps don’t buy diapers
And its no movie, there’s no Mekhi Phifer
The only perfect rhyme there is “cypher” and “Phifer.”
Year: 2000
I might be the only person who finds this version of the song to be their favorite. And I’ll listen to it any time of year.
Alecia Elliott released her first album in 2000 at the age 17 and her second one at age 37. I owned the first one and bought it for “I’m Diggin’ It.” Love her voice but the material on the first album was mostly shit. It tried to capture the pop-crossover appeal of Shania Twain but, yeah, it didn’t work.
Year: 1971
Two days in a row with Minnesotans!
Year: 1975
I don’t particularly like Bob Dylan’s voice or his musical stylings. I like covers of his songs better, especially Blowin’ in the Wind. But for some reason I really like Tangled Up in Blue.
Year: 1994
Yep, you’ve never heard of this guy. Kind of a bummer as he had a good voice, but he only had one Top 20 song (this one).
Year: 1967
A lot of people hate The Doors and I get it. The lyrics for the most part are utter drug-fueled nonsense. But I really like Morrison’s voice and Manzarek’s keyboarding. I’m a sucker for needlessly long rock anthems and Light My Fire fits the bill.
Year: 1966
Two things I didn’t know until today. Paul McCartney plays bass guitar and sings in the background. And the song is about a vibrator.
“Electric banana, is gonna be a sudden craze…”
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