As Cher (the cute, perky one) would say - as if. Yeah, the combo of optimism and nihilism is interesting but ... still - yuck.
The only one there that I think merits mention is the one by The Smiths, and really that's nowhere near the first Smiths lyric that would come into my head if I was trying to think of a best or favorite Smiths lyric. How about:
"I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday, 'cause you're evil and you lie, and if you should die, I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry"
"The rain falls hard on a hum-drum town, this town has dragged you down."
"Won't you bicycle on a hillside desolate, will nature make a man of me yet?" - and practically every othe part of "This Charming Man".
"Behind the hatred there lies a murderous desire for love."
"And now I know how Joan of Arc felt, now I know how Joan of Arc felt, as the flames rose to her Roman nose and her walkman started to melt."
"And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side, is such a heavenly way to die, and if a ten-ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side, well the pleasure and the privilege is mine."
"Please please please, let me let me let me, let me get what I want this time."
I prefer all of those. Questions? Thoughts? Comments?
Posted by armand at April 22, 2006 05:23 PM | TrackBack | Posted to MusicNote that this (follow the link from Pandagon) is VH1 Britain, not VH1 America (or the World). Thus, the ranking will be biased in that direction.
Posted by: baltar at April 22, 2006 08:20 PM | PERMALINKOkay - but I imagine Americans would have just as bad taste (probably much, much worse given that this is the land of Pussycat Dolls and Creed).
Posted by: Armand at April 23, 2006 09:14 AM | PERMALINKThough ... maybe this list being from only people on that side of the Atlantic makes it all the worse (shouldn't THEY be more familiar with The Smiths' catalogue? and where's the love for the terribly erudite and sentimental Belle and Sebastian?).
Posted by: Armand at April 23, 2006 02:11 PM | PERMALINKNo, I'm not arguing it would be a better list (if the poll were in the USA), just that it would be different. I mean, the fact that it's in the UK explains the "Coldplay" stuff at #5. Who, on this side of the pond, really cares about Coldplay?
Posted by: baltar at April 23, 2006 04:20 PM | PERMALINK