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[jawnbc]

I love pop music. The really good stuff and the really cheesy stuff. And I’m one of those guys whose brain either runs incessantly or shuts down entirely. So over the weekend I was ruminating over what are my favourite singles/hits of all time. And it was bloody difficult, but here goes.

Jawn’s top 10 countdown

10. Alone again, naturally - Gilbert O’ Sullivan
9. One, U2
8. Forever Young - Alphaville
7. Pop Muzik - M
6. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
5. I Want you Back - Jackson 5
4. Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinéad O’Connor
3. American Pie, Don McLean
2. First time ever I saw your Face - Roberta Flack
1. Pour que tu m’aimes encore - Céline Dion (from d’eux, aka The French Album)


Obviously this is subjective and includes some songs folks haven’t heard of. So post yours as a reply to mine!

Comments

Wow.

[singerbear.livejournal.com]

was looking at that to see what I recognized. We must be about the same age, as I recognized most of that. By the way, that last one is called Ma Vie en Rose (I think. the lyrics look right for the first verse.) I LOVE Ms Flack, too. :)


Chris

Re: Wow.

[jawnbc]

Thanks for the reply :)

If you mean the Céline song, it's not La Vie en Rose (sung by Piaf, Grace Jones, the cleaning lady, drag queens the world over). It's a song about obsessive love, not being able to let go, and the lengths to which one can demoralize themself to regain a lover's affection. It's dark, in other words.

Should be easy to download off one of those bad, bad file sharing things. Let me know if you find it and like enough to get the lyrics (and a translation).

The Flack song, interesting enough, was written by Ewan MacColl, a feisty socialist folk singer from England...it describes his love for Peggy Seeger (Pete's sister), for whom he left his first wife. Most of his other songs are bitingly political--my favourite is one called "legal/illegal" and Frances Black does a kick-ass version of it. Acapella.

I could go on and on and....but nah, that'd be tedious!

hugs,

J