I guess I will keep doing this on Fridays until I come up with another idea I can make work.
Small news item today, that I thought was kind of cool. You may or may not be familiar with a series of books that has come out in recent years. There are a number of titles, all variations on 1001 ____ You Must ____ Before You Die: Books You Must Read, Video Games You Must Play, Movies You Must See, Albums You Must Listen To, etc.
The most recent volume in the series is 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die (link). And you know what song is included on page 646? That's right: Birdhouse In Your Soul by They Might Be Giants! The boys have officially been dubbed required listening, at least by the guy who wrote the book anyway. I thought that was kind of exciting.
Accompanying the listing is a short article about the song, mostly consisting of quotes from the Johns nabbed from various interviews, including the Rolling Stone retrosprective on Flood from last year. Probably not worth dozens of fans running out to buy the book unless you were interested in the other songs, but cool none the less.
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Nice to have the recognition, but 646? I want to buy the book just to see justification of 645 in front of it.
ReplyDeleteWell, the songs aren't actually ranked, they seem to be in there in some what random order so 646 doesn't necessarily imply that it is the 646th song. There are also multiple songs on some of the pages, so I'm really not sure exactly where it falls numerically. We shall just pretend that it is number one, shall we?
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