spike wrote:if we do Neil Young, we should do solo and with Crazyhorse. There’s enough material to warrant separating them.
We already decided on Down By The River for Neil Young. What's your Crazyhorse pick?
He did that one with The Horse.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 4:52 pm
by epilogue
spike wrote:
epilogue wrote:
spike wrote:if we do Neil Young, we should do solo and with Crazyhorse. There’s enough material to warrant separating them.
We already decided on Down By The River for Neil Young. What's your Crazyhorse pick?
He did that one with The Horse.
Oh. My bad. Strike what I said, then. Reverse it.
What's your Neil Young pick?
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 5:32 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Old Man
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 5:33 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 5:33 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 6:08 pm
by epilogue
What about Bowie? He's had so many lives. What single song best represents David Bowie? Is it Life On Mars, or maybe Space Oddity, or Ziggy Stardust? Is it Changes?
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 6:14 pm
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 6:40 pm
by epilogue
Okay, so... I've been thinking this through since my Bowie post...
The song that best represents a band/artist.
To me, that's one song that if you played it for someone it would tell them what they needed to know about that artist. It doesn't mean everything that artist does has to be represented. It's the song that represents the group's essence. One song that would tell a novice whether or not they needed to bother digging deeper into a body of work.
With that in mind, I think Life on Mars? is my pick for Bowie. It's lush. It's weird. It's lyrical. It's catchy. It's character driven. It's dramatic and cinematic. It transports. All things I associate with David Bowie.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 6:51 pm
by washing machine
chewm wrote:Pavement - Silence Kid
This is probably true, even if I personally relate with Pavement through Wowee Zowee and beyond.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 6:51 pm
by washing machine
Mickey wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
Hmm
This is 100% true.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 6:53 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 6:58 pm
by washing machine
tragabigzanda wrote:I want Reid to weigh in on Malkmus.
It's most likely Real Emotional Trash. This one was tough because Malkmus's solo career is just so varied and also not super well known, so a "definitive" anything in that regard is not something most music fans probably care about.
I'm picking RET because it jumps all over the place, but in a way that hits everything I consider "definitive" about SM and the Jicks. It's a full band effort, like most Malkmus lyrics the song is serious but not serious, it's the right tempo, and most importantly it's a giant showcase for some definitive Malkmusian guitar work. It's also a show-stopper live, Doors reference and all. Only Malkmus could somehow work LA Woman into a song in a way that makes sense and not sound like a total tool.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 7:03 pm
by washing machine
tragabigzanda wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Mickey wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
Hmm
This is 100% true.
KD makes a solid argument for The Diamond Sea later in the thread, but I welcome your support
I love KD and I love Washing Machine, but I just really don't think he's given pre-Geffen SY a fair enough shake on the board over the years for that to be a balanced take. I should read the actual posts though.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 7:06 pm
by epilogue
washing machine wrote:I love KD and I love Washing Machine, but I just really don't think he's given pre-Geffen SY a fair enough shake on the board over the years for that to be a balanced take. I should read the actual posts though.
For what it's worth I think KD's right. Using my definition/understanding of how this thread works, of course.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 7:16 pm
by washing machine
Kevin Davis wrote:For Sonic Youth I'd say "The Diamond Sea" -- for something truly representative of the band I think you'd need a track that represents their concise songwriting capacity and their longform instrumental proclivities. Despite its length I think "Diamond Sea" is one of SY's catchiest and most palatable songs during the "song" portion, but it goes on to do an equally great job representing the feedback, texture, etc. experiments that they go into in greater depth on their side releases.
tragabigzanda wrote:Good call on The Diamond Sea, KD. I went with Schizophrenia bc it has the more experimental/noise bridge in the middle of an otherwise tight composition. But yours would work too.
Okay, I disagree with KD and I'm with trag on this one. Though it may sound like trag is also now with KD? Still, I'm going Schizo.
Here's why: Though both songs have a noisy, no wave element to them independent of the song structure proper, Schizophrenia has more of it with less of a time stamp. Schizo also has Thurston and Kim singing. And better Steve Shelley drums. Come on.
But most importanly, and this is obviously subjective to no end, but Schizophrenia to me just sounds more like a SY song. It's slightly out of tune, it's unsettling but somehow ear candy too, it is full of texture, and when I close my eyes I can see dark NYC alleyways, clear as day.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 7:18 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 7:20 pm
by washing machine
tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
Its the old fruit that makes wine
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 7:22 pm
by epilogue
washing machine wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
Its the old fruit that makes wine
wat
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 7:31 pm
by washing machine
epilogue wrote:
washing machine wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
Its the old fruit that makes wine
wat
It's a fairly layered post that I constructed specifically for trag.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sun December 20, 2020 7:32 pm
by epilogue
washing machine wrote:
epilogue wrote:
washing machine wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah go to hell KD!
Its the old fruit that makes wine
wat
It's a fairly layered post that I constructed specifically for trag.