Welcome to the Weekly Fiver, where I’ll pick five recently released songs of varying degrees of quality and thoroughly break them down for you. No two songs will be on the same tier, and they’ll be listed from best to worst. The top song will be an excellent must-hear tune, while the bottom song will be one you ought to stay away from or else you will make your ears sad. It’s all very scientific.
Category: Tunes Talk
Millennial Masterpieces #4: Arcade Fire – [The Suburbs]
Welcome to Millennial Masterpieces, where I’ll look back at a great album released within the past 17 years and see what its legacy is. Fourth in the series is Arcade Fire‘s Grammy Award-winning meditation on nostalgia and youth: The Suburbs.
Released: August 2nd, 2010
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The Top 10 U2 Songs
It’s interesting that despite the detractors and Bono‘s reputation as a bit of a self-congratulatory diva, U2 still remain “the world’s biggest band”. This may not hold objectively true when taking into account total album sales or concert attendance, but the air of supreme grandness hasn’t been usurped by any other band to date. The four Irish rockers still maintain ubiquity- they’ll pop up in your iTunes whether you want them there or not.
They’re a legacy act for sure; their seemingly eternal grasp on relevance has slipped away over the course of the past few albums and its fairly unlikely they can pull out another reinvention. They’re still the biggest legacy act though, and the fact that they held on to the spotlight for the better part of three decades is an unmatched feat. The band defined “arena rock” and became the prototype for every aspiring group of skyward reaching acts for the next thirty years. They amassed over sixty radio singles over the course of their career- here are the best ten.
Weekly Fiver #18
Welcome to the Weekly Fiver, where I’ll pick five recently released songs of varying degrees of quality and thoroughly break them down for you. No two songs will be on the same tier, and they’ll be listed from best to worst. The top song will be an excellent must-hear tune, while the bottom song will be one you ought to stay away from or else you will make your ears sad. It’s all very scientific.
Top Five Side Projects You’ve Definitely Forgotten About
Sometimes one band isn’t enough for someone, so they go off and do another music thing.
Sometimes the other music thing is good.
Sometimes it’s bad.
Sometimes it’s just like… what.
Here are a bunch side projects from big names in music that made an impact on radio, then promptly vanished and are almost never spoken of anymore. The radio made a big huge deal out of them and then they went FWOOOSH and were gone, even though most of them were kind of okay, if incredibly inessential.
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