Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 1:26 am
Fuckin spike...
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Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 1:29 am
And I'm the one who's bad at this.
Fuckin spike...
Fuckin spike...
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 1:30 am
RHCP: Give It Away
Beastie Boys: So Watch Want
Pearl Jam: Porch
Alanis: Hand In My Pocket
The Rolling Stones: Start Me Up
Beastie Boys: So Watch Want
Pearl Jam: Porch
Alanis: Hand In My Pocket
The Rolling Stones: Start Me Up
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 2:07 am
The Stones is 100% Gimme Shelter. I don't see how you can even debate it.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 2:08 am
verb_to_trust wrote:The Stones is 100% Gimme Shelter. I don't see how you can even debate it.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 2:11 am
The way you worded your post, it seemed like you had an epiphany after your recent Bowie posts.epilogue wrote:Watspike wrote:nineteen pages in and you finally got there palepilogue wrote: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.
This is where I've been the entire time. Go yell at the posters giving me shit this whole time.
Also, no one is yelling, gaslighter.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 2:33 am
I thought I made the point of the exercise sufficiently clear in my first post, no?
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 3:02 am
spike wrote:The way you worded your post, it seemed like you had an epiphany after your recent Bowie posts.epilogue wrote:Watspike wrote:nineteen pages in and you finally got there palepilogue wrote: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.
This is where I've been the entire time. Go yell at the posters giving me shit this whole time.
Also, no one is yelling, gaslighter.
Nah the "epiphany" was about which Bowie song to pick. Three rest was explaining my thought process.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 3:42 am
Nah, there is no answer for Elliot Smith. There is no one songtragabigzanda wrote:Elliott Smith - Sweet Adelaine
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 3:45 am
lol the super eclectic, impossible to summarize wildly diverse art of ELLIOTT SMITH
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 3:45 am
Get the fuck out of here
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 3:47 am
That's why there is no one answer. All his stuff is too similar to pick one as quintessential
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 3:49 am
"Sweet Adeline" is a perfect pick for Elliott Smith. It has his quiet mopey sound and his slightly louder mopey sound
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 3:52 am
um ok. If you want to find a song for a "super eclectic, impossible to summarize wildly diverse" artist, what about Tom Waits?
I think I have the answer, and I think the answer is "Come On Up to the House"
I think I have the answer, and I think the answer is "Come On Up to the House"
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 3:56 am
Yeah that probably works. Definitely something from Mule Variations which always felt to me like a good TW entry point
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 4:06 am
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 4:41 am
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 4:55 am
tragabigzanda wrote:I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problemtragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 5:01 am
Sweet Caroline for Lenny dDykstra
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Mon December 21, 2020 5:10 am
Jorge wrote:lol the super eclectic, impossible to summarize wildly diverse art of ELLIOTT SMITH
I think there are too many Elliott Smith songs.
Personally, I'd go with Waltz #2.
But there are a lot of good answers.