But seriously, thank you for inviting me here to discuss Maria McKee! I (re)discovered Mckee and Lone Justice about a decade ago, and it's a shame they don't get discussed more. Between 1989 and 1994 Mckee was doing great work. Her first two solo albums, tracks in Days of Thunder (eh) and Pulp Fiction, a song on Sweet Relief.... There was all kinds of promise there. And then it kinda all disappeared. I don't know if it was studio interference, Mckee just going in a different direction, or what. But I do know that she and her band on Opelousas (the sweet relief track) should have made an album immediately. They were on fire.
Me realize these lists only exist to start arguments, which is good, because me have lot to argue with! Much as me love Aimee Mann, Danger Zone belongs at top of this list. Cheesy and awful as it is, it also banger that encapsulates era and is Tom Cruse-iest song every written.
U2 mangling Mission: Impossible theme by playing it in plodding 4/4 instead of snappy, off-kilter 5/4 of original is crime against music that should only be placed ahead of Limp Bizkit because they do same thing while also being Limp Bizkit. Playing Mission: Impossible theme in 4/4 is like covering Theme From Shaft without using wah-wah pedal — it take away most distinctive and interesting thing about song and result is depressingly generic and uninspired.
Well, of course the correct top answer is György Ligeti's Musica Ricercata No. 2, but then again I have a pretty skewed idea of what constitutes popular music.
fyc Jonathan Coulton's classic "Tom Cruise Crazy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVEzaBzVve8
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Days of Thunder, right? Or did I miss the top-40 ambitions of that blockbuster Days of Heaven soundtrack?
Tom Cruise was in both Vanilla Sky and Magnolia?
But seriously, thank you for inviting me here to discuss Maria McKee! I (re)discovered Mckee and Lone Justice about a decade ago, and it's a shame they don't get discussed more. Between 1989 and 1994 Mckee was doing great work. Her first two solo albums, tracks in Days of Thunder (eh) and Pulp Fiction, a song on Sweet Relief.... There was all kinds of promise there. And then it kinda all disappeared. I don't know if it was studio interference, Mckee just going in a different direction, or what. But I do know that she and her band on Opelousas (the sweet relief track) should have made an album immediately. They were on fire.
Me realize these lists only exist to start arguments, which is good, because me have lot to argue with! Much as me love Aimee Mann, Danger Zone belongs at top of this list. Cheesy and awful as it is, it also banger that encapsulates era and is Tom Cruse-iest song every written.
U2 mangling Mission: Impossible theme by playing it in plodding 4/4 instead of snappy, off-kilter 5/4 of original is crime against music that should only be placed ahead of Limp Bizkit because they do same thing while also being Limp Bizkit. Playing Mission: Impossible theme in 4/4 is like covering Theme From Shaft without using wah-wah pedal — it take away most distinctive and interesting thing about song and result is depressingly generic and uninspired.
Shouldn't Werewolves Of London be on this list somewhere?
Well, of course the correct top answer is György Ligeti's Musica Ricercata No. 2, but then again I have a pretty skewed idea of what constitutes popular music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIDN_3EkWN8