I’ve decided to begin a new installment of blog topics
called “Top Ten Tuesday”. Brandon
and I love to organize, categorize, and make lists. We’ve been known to create
brackets ala March Madness and narrow down the final four Best Actors of our
generation. We’ve made a document we call “What Should Have Won Best Picture”.
But our most recent fun has been what we’ve started on our road trips: taking
every song by a certain artist that we have, put them on my iPod and rank them.
First song we hear becomes number one. Then we listen to the next song and
decide: is it better or worse than the first? And so on, for possibly a hundred
songs or more, depending on the artist. We each make our own list and then
average them together to get the final results. We’ve completed this task for 9
bands/singers thus far and are ready to share our results with the world. Or,
at least the world of my handful of friends and family who read my blog.
Discussion and debate is welcome :)
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday artist…
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Elton John |
(Brooklyn picked this photo because she likes his pink glasses :))
-We obviously like Elton's slow stuff better than the fast, as this is the only legitimately upbeat song to make the list.
-Personally, I'd be fine if this was left off the list completely, but Brandon loves The Lion King. The song has pop culture importance, I'll give it that.
8. Rocket Man
-One of the best songs to sing along to where we all fake knowing the right words.
-Epic ending.
-Very interesting, because Elton remade his own song to honor the fallen Princess Diana. Noble and beautiful, but we were ranking the original about Marilyn Monroe anyway.
-The build up from piano to forte, from sentimental to GETTING IT (what's the musical term for that, anyway?) is what I love.
-This one seems out of place in the top ten at first glance. Now go listen to it. It's much better than it ever gets credit for.
3. Tiny Dancer
-That piano... ahhhh.
-Echo the sentiments of number four. Listen to it. It's gorgeous.
1. Your Song
-Classic beauty, the definitive Elton John song. Something every girl wants sung to them.
I'm awaiting all the people who love songs like Daniel and Bennie and the Jets that to us are just annoying. Let's go.
What about Crocodile Rock?? I remember when Rock was young, me and Susie had so much fun...
ReplyDeleteI know Elton John is gay, but that song is really, really gay. Too gay.
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