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Twenty-Five-Songs-On-My-iPod-That-Rock-My-One-Year-Old-Daughter-Katie-Bean's-World:
1) "Press," by Paul McCartney
2) "I Will Follow," by U2
3) "Novocaine," by Alice Cooper
4) "Christine Sixteen," by KISS
5) "Beast of Burden," by The Rolling Stones
6) "Splish Splash," by Bobby Darin
7) "Know Your Rights," by The Clash
8) "Rudy Can't Fail," by The Clash
9) "I'll Get You," by The Beatles
10) "When I Get Home," by The Beatles
11) "Liberation Conversation," by Marlene Shaw
12) "Rock and Roll Suicide," by David Bowie
13) "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," by Paul McCartney
14) "Dance Pt. II," by The Rolling Stones
15) "Iggy and Angus," by Sloan
16) "Follow Your Daughter Home," by The Guess Who
17) "Spies Like Us," by Paul McCartney
18) "Tomorrow Never Knows," by The Beatles
19) "Planet Telex," by Radiohead
20) "Lady Madonna,' by The Beatles
21) "Ride By See-Saw," by The Moody Blues
22) "Nicotine and Gravy," by Beck
23) "Watch Your Step," by Bobby Parker
24) "Timothy," by Jet
25) "Rock 'n Roll," by Led Zeppelin
Message Boards I Have Been Banned From For Life:
1) U2
Interference.com
2) Sportsnet Forums
Top Ten Gayest Paul Stanley Moments:
1) "Uh! All Night"
2) Onstage banter on Alive!
3) Intro to "Love Gun" at the Vancouver 1996 concert where he brags about his "stheven
inches of cold haad sthteeeel!!!"
4) Wardrobe on the Asylum tour.
5) Campy 'Let's Put The X in Sex' video trench coat.
6) Rapping on 1989's 'Read My Body'
7) Mid-1970's stage costume with the pink feather boa.
8) Role on Broadway's Phantom of the Opera (sic!).
9) Lisped vocals on 'Escape From The Island' from The Elder.
10) Strutting around on the 'Heaven's On Fire' video with his faggy wig and two
blondes on his arm, when we all know he's actually bald and doesn't even like
girls.
Top Seven Favorite Bands (As Of October 2005):
1) The Beatles
2) The Rolling Stones
3) U2
4) The Who
5) Radiohead
6) The Clash
7) T. Rex
Favorite Beatles Albums:
1) Revolver
2) The White Album
3) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4) Abbey Road
5) Rubber Soul
6) Magical Mystery Tour
7) A Hard Day's Night
8) With The Beatles
9) Help!
10) Beatles For Sale
Best Male Rock Vocalists:
1) Bono (U2)
2) Freddie Mercury (Queen)
3) Burton Cummings (The Guess Who)
4) Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
5) Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings)
Best Drummers:
1) Keith Moon (The Who)
2) John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
3) Ringo Starr (The Beatles)
4) Tre Cool (Green Day)
5) Charlie Watts (The Rolling Stones)
Most Overrated Popular Bands:
1) Led Zeppelin
2) Pink Floyd
3) Nirvana
4) R.E.M.
5) Aerosmith
6) Cream
7) The Byrds
8) The Police
9) The Ramones
10) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Highest Average Studio Album Ratings On Ian's Music
Reviews (for artists with more than 3 albums, whose entire catalog has been
reviewed thus far):
1) Radiohead (9.2) - Surprising? Perhaps not....
2) The Beatles (9.1) - Shame about Yellow Submarine. Too
bad the Past Masters albums don't count. Maybe they should.
3) Oasis (8.4) - Still riding the coattails of their stellar
mid-90's output.
4) U2 (8.1) - Solid albums from a solid band over 25 years -
pretty amazing.
5) Coldplay (8.0) - Only time will tell if they keep it up.
6) Creedence Clearwater Revival (7.9)
- Shame about Mardi Gras - they're catalog was stellar up until the final
record.
7) The Who (7.8) - Band whose high worth should not be based on studio
albums.
8) Rolling Stones (7.6) - Pretty impressive
average, especially considering just how many albums these guys have.
9) John Lennon (7.6) - If you disregard the 3 early avant-garde
albums with Yoko, that is...
10) Nirvana (7.5) - Death is always a good career move for a rock
band. Didn't have time to get crappy.
11) The Clash (7.1) - Cut The Crap brings down the average
considerably. Could've been a high 8.
12) The Guess Who (7.2) - Amazing start, a
very solid middle, and a brief, anticlimactic end - a great band.
13) Guns 'n Roses (7.0) - Good start to a
career, but where's the finish?
14) Tyrannosaurus Rex / T. Rex (6.7) -
The band is much better than the overall average ratings would suggest.
15) George Harrison (6.7) - If
not for All Things Must Pass, the overall average would have been very low.
16) The Eagles (6.5) - Consistent mediocrity = a surprisingly
good average rating.
17) Robbie Williams (6.5) -
New album 'Rudebollucks' considerably lowers Robbie's overall rating.
18) Metallica (6.3) -
The early part of their career was stellar, and the latter part is pure crap.
It averages out to mediocrity.
19) Paul McCartney (6.2) - Recent albums bring up the average
rating.
20) Led Zeppelin (6.1) - Inconsistent albums = an average overall
rating.
21) Tool (5.5) - Not a big fan of this band.
22) Motley Crue (5.3) -
Latter-day Crue is too awful to stomach.
23) KISS (4.8) - Is a D average any good? Maybe if you're
KISS....
Top 25 most-played songs on my iPod, using the shuffle
play feature (as of June 14th, 2006):
1) She Is Love - Oasis (15)
2) Beast Of Burden - The Rolling Stones (14)
3) Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World - U2 (14)
4) Monkey Man - The Rolling Stones (13)
5) Hawkmoon 269 - U2 (12)
6) My Doorbell - White Stripes (12)
7) Waiting - Green Day (11)
8) Let Me Go, Rock And Roll - Kiss (11)
9) Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones (11)
10) Handbags and Gladrags - Stereophonics (11)
11) With A Little Help From My Friends - The Beatles (10)
12) Out Of Focus - Mick Jagger (10)
13) Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones (10)
14) Keys To Your Love - The Rolling Stones (10)
15) Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) - Tokens (10)
16) I Can't Explain -The Who (10)
17) Stardust - Willie Nelson (10)
18) Jenny Wren - Paul Mccartney (9)
19) Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby - The Rolling Stones (9)
20) Was It You - Ryecatchers (9)
21) I Don't Watch TV Anymore - Ryecatchers (9)
22) Slider - T. Rex (9)
23) Smile - U2 (9)
24) Walk On (Single Mix) - U2 (9)
25) The First Time - U2 (9)
George Harrison's best Beatles compositions:
1) Here Comes The Sun
2) Something
3) Taxman
4) Not Guilty
5) The Inner Light
6) I Want To Tell You
7) If I Needed Someone
8) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
9) Savoy Truffle
10) I Me Mine
Ringo's Best Drum Performances on Beatles recordings:
1) Rain
2) A Day In The Life
3) The End
4) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
5) She Said She Said
6) Tomorrow Never Knows
7) Come Together
8) Ticket To Ride
9) Happiness Is A Warm Gun
10) Hey Jude
Best Paul McCartney guitar solos on Beatles recordings:
1) Taxman
2) And Your Bird Can Sing (upper part played by Paul, lower by George)
3) Good Morning Good Morning
4) Back In The USSR
5) Drive My Car
6) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7) Fixing A Hole
8) The End (Paul, George, John in turn)
9) Ticket To Ride
10) Helter Skelter
Best John Lennon guitar solos on Beatles
recordings:
1) The End (Paul, George, John in turn)
2) Get Back
3) Yer Blues
4) Revolution
5) Nowhere Man (in unison, with George)
6) I Want You
7) Honey Pie
8) For You Blue (slide)
9) The Ballad of John And Yoko
10) Across The Universe (intro)
Fifteen Beatles songs I will always hate, no matter what (in no particular
order). Thankfully, these are the only ones:
1) Do You Want To Know A Secret
2) Devil In Her Heart
3) Thank You, Girl
4) Tell Me Why
5) When I Get Home
6) Mr. Moonlight
7) Another Girl
8) Wait
9) Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
10) The Fool On The Hill
11) The Continuing Story of Bungalo Bill
12) Wild Honey Pie
13) What's The New, Mary Jane
14) Dig It
15) For You Blue
Top 25 most-played songs on my iPod, using the shuffle
play feature (as of July 15th, 2006):
1) She Is Love - Oasis (16)
2) Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World - U2 (15)
3) Beast Of Burden - The Rolling Stones (14)
4) Monkey Man - The Rolling Stones (13)
5) Waiting - Green Day (12)
6) Jumpin' Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones (12)
7) Hawkmoon 269 - U2 (12)
8) My Doorbell -White Stripes (12)
9) Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance) - Green Day (11)
10) Let Me Go, Rock And Roll - Kiss (11)
11) Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones (11)
12) Handbags and Gladrags - Stereophonics (11)
13) Slider - T. Rex (11)
14) With A Little Help From My Friends - The Beatles (10)
15) Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees (10)
16) Your Song - Elton John G(10)
17) Out Of Focus - Mick Jagger (10)
18) Keys To Your Love The Rolling Stones (10)
19) Was It You - Ryecatchers (10)
20) The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) - Tokens (10)
21) Smile - U2 (10)
22) I Can't Explain - The Who (10)
23) Stardust - Willie Nelson (10)
24) Revolution 1 - The Beatles (9)
25) No Woman No Cry (Live) - Bob Marley & The Wailers (9)
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