Pedantic Numeration

It’s my lunch break, so what else am I going to do besides blog? Eat?? You must be crazy!

In any case, I’ve been wanting to do another post on music for a while now. In fact, my intention is to do two, but the second will have to wait until another time. Today I bring you …

My Top Five Favourite Songs. Ever.

With inspiration taken from High Fidelity, I bring you – in no particular order – my top five favourite tracks. This has been a list of been working on for literally years now, and I think I’ve managed to finally get it to a place I’m happy with (of course, that doesn’t mean I couldn’t change my mind in another couple of minutes).

There aren’t many rules for this; the way I came to my conclusions was personal significance X listenability + sheer enjoyment = top five contender.

So, with a repeated underlining of this being in no particular order, here are my all-time top 5 favourite tracks.

1. Today – The Smashing Pumpkins



A song that’s meant to be a rally cry for people who’ve reached their lowest ebb, this song often gets mistaken for being all shiny and happy. But whether or not you miss the point of the lyrics, you can’t deny that it’s one infectious tune!

2. My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone



A saucy jazz number that winks knowingly at the audience, this is a song that always uplifts my mood, and no matter how many compilation CDs I burn it onto, I can’t help but listen to it every single time.

3. Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs



From the pounding drums to the restrained guitar work, this is an example of not only an excellently constructed rock song, but one that has an incredible emotional depth to it as well.

Instead of the music video for this song (which has had its ability to be embedded disabled) I’ve included a live performance from the MTV Movie Awards that I think is, to put it frankly, astoundingly beautiful.

4. Let’s Stay Together - Al Green



There’s nothing about this song that isn’t cool and … to make you all feel a little sick at the prospect of me saying it … sexy as well.

5. Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley



If this song doesn’t break your heart, you had no heart to break in the first place!

As it was never actually released as a single, there was never a video made for it. Having failed to find a video of Buckley performing it live, I’ve had to settle for this clip made by some random guy for a college assignment … so don’t judge the song by the production values of the video!!!

And that’s my list. I’d ask “what’s yours?”, but I don’t want to run the risk of getting no replies and looking like a fool. So I’ll finish with a “what’s that over there??!” before quickly running away.

Ha!