My Top 20 Songs: January 2010

Sunday, January 31, 2010

TOP 20 Most Annoying Songs

If left to their own devices, these songs will creep into your brain, set up a tent, build a fire, hang out their clothes to dry, and refuse to leave until you have not one shred of sanity left. These songs have not only the power to annoy you but they’re also armed and dangerous… these are my top 20 most annoying songs ever

1. Disney - It's a Small World

2. Barney - I Love You, You Love Me

3. Napoleon XIV - They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha

4. Annie – Tomorrow

5. Eiffel 65 - Blue

6. Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe

7. Kyle Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head

8. James Blunt - You're Beautiful

9. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

10. Chumbawampa – Tubthumbing

11. Aqua - Barbie Girl

12. Morris Albert – Feelings

13. Baha Man - Who Let the Dogs Out

14. Waner Thomas - Chicken Dance

15. Spice Girls – Wannabe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFp-kaARlDw

16. Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart

17. Black Eyed Peas - My Humps

18. The Beatles - Yellow Submarine

19. Tatu - All the Things She Said

20. Fatboy Slim – Funk Soul Brother

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Top 20 versions of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

This is probably one of the best songs ever written, and one of the most covered. Depending on the take of the performer, it could either be very sexual or very religious, which, in my book makes this one hell of song. So, maybe there's a God above, and all I have learned from love is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you... These are my top 20 versions of Hallelujah!

Now I've heard there was a secret chord that David played,
and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift - The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you.
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know what's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above,
And all I ever learned from love was
How to shoot at someone who outdrew you
And it's not a cry you can hear at night,
it's not somebody who's seen the light,
it's a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

The original by Leonard Cohen

1. Rufus Wainwright (From "Shrek")

2. Jeff Buckley

3. Jason Castro

4. Sheryl Crow

5. Allison Crowe

6. Il Divo

6. Damien Rice

7. kd lang

8. Imogen Heap

9. John Cale

1o. Justin Timberlake

11. Bon Jovi

12. Amanda Jenssen

13. Kate Voegele

14. Alexandra Burke

15. Rea Garvey

16. Jeff Anderson

17. Over the Rhine

18. Katherine Jenkins

20. Kurt Nielsen, Alejandro Fuentes, Askil Holm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NEU6Xf7lM

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Top 20 Worst Covers Ever

My very first Top 20 list was for the Top 20 Best Cover Songs ever. I thought it would be cool to start off the year with the exact opposite… je je je… These are weird, unforgivable cover songs that should have never been recorded or performed. In other word, what the hell were you thinking here? How dare you? These are my Top 20 worst cover songs ever.

01. Avril Lavigne - Chop Suey