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Highlight Reel 1. Journey: "Don't Stop Believing," 1981 "You can tell something about a person's relationship to popular music as a whole by how they feel about this song. Generally, people fall into two camps. If they have at one time considered it a "guilty pleasure," a dim-witted power ballad made by guys with bad haircuts to be enjoyed despite its inherent cheesiness, they probably identify most with indie music of some stripe. If they just plain like it and always have, then they've probably spent their lives enjoying whatever was on the radio...
...Nirvana: "Smells like Teen Spirit," 1991 "It's the Song that Broke Punk, the very incantation about self-despising entertainment that turned a dead-end Aberdeen kid into a supernova, the very last rock song everyone could rally around. (Check out the video of its first public performance on the With the Lights Out DVD; as soon as the drums kick in, the whole room learns how to levitate.) But the closer you listen, the more it sounds like straight pop. That four-power-chord sequence that never ever changes? It's got the rhythm from Boston's "More Than...
...Andre 3000 to follow his muse into scattershot, genre-mixing pop experiments. Big Boi may have steered clearer of potential embarrassment, but it was Andre's "Hey Ya" that sold both halves. Pop fans, rock fans, rap fans, children, Mennonites, high-school principals, the elderly, terrorists - everybody loved this song. Animals loved it. Silverware loved it. You could play it in a forest with nobody to hear it and have complete faith that the very trees would throw up their branches...
...inexplicably decided to team up with 47-year-old musician and record producer Martin Glover, who even more inexplicably has dubbed himself Youth. Even after making their first album, “Strawberry Oceans Ships Forest,” which pretty much consisted of nine remixes of the same song, they still thought it was a good idea to try again. 2. No matter how much bullshitting you just did in that essay of yours, I guarantee it’s more genuine than the lyrics on this album. Following are a few samples. Track six, “Light...
...keep avid collectors interested. This results in the first worthwhile Smiths collection since the band split and reiterates what their fans already knew: The Smiths are one of the greatest bands in the history of popular music.The coupling of Johnny Marr’s talent for writing classic pop songs and Morrissey’s extraordinary lyrics created a song-writing duo that could compete with the likes of Strummer/Jones and Jagger/Richards (if not quite Lennon/McCartney). The Smiths are the band that Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher grew up listening to, and their influence can still be heard...