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Listen To These Songs Now! (2)
By: Wilson Henry Gooden


Music writing doesn't often enough seem to be about music appreciation these days. It seems often it's about trying to show off instead of enlightening folks. I love to read what people say about music not to give me my opinions but to help me to more fully appreciate it. Reading someone else's perspective on music can be a great thing for helping to appreciate music in a new way.

Whale - "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" - This is one of the coolest one hit wonder songs of the 1990s. It's right up there with EMF's "Unbelievable" and Cyprus Hill's "Insane in the Brain." This song is from 1995 and the band's name is Whale. It's an interesting variation on noise rock that is palatable to the ears of Pop music fans, and perfectly weird enough to play alongside Beck's "Loser" on either college or mainstream radio. "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" tells the tale of a strange woman with a penchant for violating homeless men? The humor is dark and bizarre, and quite obviously, very befitting of the Kurt Cobain era. The greatest sell factor for this novelty tune is the comical music video that was in regular rotation on both Beavis and Butt-head and Alternative Nation with Kennedy, each program geared to MTV's Rock audience of the time period.

Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Blue Sky" - This is ELO's greatest song. It's catchy. It's psychedelic. It's inventive. This song makes it almost impossible not to smile while listening to it. It could be said that this song combines all of the excesses of the 70s but it somehow combines all of these excesses to pure perfection. Make a song that sounds as good now as is it did 30 years ago. The best example of Jeff Lynne's musical mastery.

The Pink Floyd - "Interstellar Overdrive" - I think this is the most insane, most psychedelic song of all time. To me it sounds exactly like a journey into the center of Syd Barrett's mind. Or exactly what I imagine such a journey would sound like. I feel like this song somehow transcends the very barriers of music and becomes something more than merely a song. This is a journey. It's both farther out and farther in than any other song I've ever heard. There are no lyrics because no words could ever really describe where this song goes. This is beyond words. It's mystic. It's mysterious. It's music at it's most experimental and most dangerous. Strap on the headphones and clear your calendar for the next 10 minutes. It's time to go interstellar.

New Great Songs. added all the time.

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