The absolute best/worst of stadium and dad rock for you this week. It’s probably best to listen to this over your headphones, unless your co-workers have a good sense of humour, or are fans of falsetto, hair dye, facepaint and massive, massive guitars. The worst thing about it is that it’s brilliant:
Boston: More Than A Feeling
UFO: We Belong To The Night
Rainbow: Since You Been Gone
Journey: Don’t Stop Believin’
Asia: In The Heat Of The Moment
Guns ‘N’ Roses: Sweet Child O’ Mine
Bon Jovi: Livin’ On A Prayer
Toto: Hold The Line
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama
Kansas: Carry On Wayward Son
UFO: Doctor Doctor
Kiss: Strutter
Alice Cooper: Poison
Scorpions, Berlin Philharmonic: Hurricane 2000
If you’re anything like me at the moment, you’ll be fed up to the back teeth with meat, leaking bread sauce at every pore, and emanating a low, sprout-related rumble. It is for this reason that I’ve decided to bow to greater wisdom and accept what is given to me by my betters. However, since it as good to give as well as recieve, I will share this playlist of Spotify’s hundred [well, 94] most popular tracks this year, with you, gentle reader. Hopefully by the time you’ve listened to 6 hours of music, the Turkey will have subsided, and you can go and investigate that bit of left-over Christmas pudding.
All that Gregorian Chanting and those dreadful dreary hymns are *so* last epoch! God’s representative on Earth, his Holiness Pope Benedict the 16th has (for the Lord’s own ineffable reasons) got a myspace account, and has had his chaps at the Vatican put together a few playlists, apparently “a perfect mix of classical, world and contemporary music. The genres are very different from each other, but all these artists share the aim to reach the heart of good minded people.” Nice to see that Tupac and Muse have got the same standing as Mozart in the eyes of the Church… although from what I hear Mozart was a bit of a racy character, and more likely to have headed downstairs than through the pearly gates.You could try submitting your own music for a feature – after all, getting in with the big guy couldn’t hurt your chances of a No.1.
Another Friday, another playlist. A few of my favourite classical pieces to waft you through the last few working hours of the week – I’m sure that these are cringingly pop to anyone who knows anything about clasical music, but I think they’re amazing. The variation of the simple theme in the Moonlight sonata has got to be one of the best things ever to come out of a human brain.
http://open.spotify.com/user/d45hiel/playlist/0fCs4oABSFjHiJZ1R3exk9
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