“Artists who sing about other artists is the best”
“PHILADELPHIA. Conclusion after the deliciously geeky Spotify-the consultation around the end of:”
“The best songs are all about real artists and bands, and are named thus things like ”Let’s dance to Joy Division”, ”I wanna be like Dee Dee Ramone” and ”Charlie Watts is God”.”
“It starts with Erik in new york, the legendary music critic, comments on a Spotify list I put together with the one hundred best New York city songs – which we may take and return at a later point in time.”
“He thinks it is ok, but announces that he lacks ”Dancing with Joey Ramone” by Amy Rigby.”
“Because the title is so brilliant, I must check and becomes difficult fond of both the singer and the song – and so the process is started which ends with that I was suddenly sitting with over 120 more or less brilliant songs on the same theme; those that are all about real bands and artists and is already in the title, mention them by name.”
“Some are well-known evergreens, such as Van Morrison’s ”Jackie Wilson said (I’m In heaven when you smile)”, Eric Churchs ”Springsteen”, Weezers ”Buddy Holly”, George Jackson’s ”Aretha, sing one for me” and Paul Simon’s ”The great late Johnny Ace”.”
“flecks of gold in this obscure sub-genre”
“But it is beyond självklarheterna I, with the help of intense research and fellow geeks who engage deeply on Facebook, will bring out most of the gems in this, to say the least said, the obscure sub-genre.”
“An observation is that there seems to be just how many songs whatsoever about Hank Williams and Elvis – and another to just the here the songs often belongs to upphovsmakarens best, probably because they make out hopes that the heroes will hear aktstycket…”
“The Swedish examples are few”
“The Swedish examples are few. The only really good thing I can find is Thåströms ”No-one sings the blues like Jeffrey Lee Pierce,” the Nomads ”Robert Johnsong”, Peter LeMarcs ”Little Willie John” and Gyllene Tider’s ”Shall we love shall we love to Buddy Holly”.”
“a Pity. Someone should write ”Andreas Mattsson of Popsicle is god”. “
“the Songs that are about other artists and bands are the best.”
“– Just all the highway scenes…oh! And as an 88-year-old Clint Eastwood in a brilliant performance.”
“Johan Bergmark – Let There be Rock (the Photobook)”
“– As Johan Bergmark images looks, so really let the artists and bands he documents.”
“Panic: The Untold Story of The 2008 Financial Crisis (TV, Viceu002FHBO)”
“– so Far the best documentary about how close it was to the atms would stop spitting out the banknotes and the store’s shelves gape empty in the autumn of 2008.”
