So yeah, I hope the spirit of what you are about to read is just a little more conversational, sort of shoot from the hip, expressing a rainbow of emotions rather than being the history of each of the songs. And I think that’s because I’m just speaking to emotion, nostalgia, reminiscence, true feeling and macro-universals rather than trying to be an encyclopedia or Wikipedia entry, which gets sort of taken care of elsewhere in my books. I get told time and time again that the introductions that I write to my books are people’s favorite parts of the whole book. I endeavored not make these mini song reviews, receptacles of trivia and factoids. I don’t know, hard to explain, but I guess what I’m doing is setting you up for the fact that sometimes across this exercise, there are going to be a lot of songs from one album! Like I say, I’m being completely honest here.Īnd here’s the funny thing, if a whole bunch of songs come from one album, I wonder if somehow there is this cumulative synergistic effect of good vibes from that one album that is just falling in upon itself, coughing up more and more songs until I’ve picked most of that album. But having said that, 20 songs by any band is going to cough up a lot of contrarian choices, and I hope that doesn’t upset you. Although it really isn’t that true: many, many times I’m picking the consensus choices. After all I have been accused of being contrarian with my choices for best album by a band just in general. Following, I think the abstractness of a song versus an album (which might have a physical wrapper, while most songs don’t) allows for more reflection, and even the injection of autobiography, a looksee into how a song fits into your life.īut really, I think you are going to see some level of a contrary character here.
One of the reasons-and this is a subtle point, I suppose-is that a song is such a short work of art, as well as an invisible one: four minutes of sound waves. Basically, I realized how fun it was ranking songs and then talking about them, with each working as a jumping-off point to say something about the band at hand.Īlso, however, I’ve done hundreds of reviews of songs throughout my Top 500 and Top 250 books, and I realized then-surprised at first-how fun it was to write about songs. The most recent inspiration has come from going on Pete Pardo’s Sea of Tranquility YouTube channel and having these great chats with Pete falling into a couple of his different formats, one being a top 10 songs of a band in reverse order.
The idea for this feature coalesced from a few sources.
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