As a rule, I really don't like to use profanity on the Internets. Although I'm VERY clever about hiding myself in Tuktoyaktuk, Alaska (from a Molson/Metalica commercial in the mid nineties) in my Internets persona, I know I can be found....and it's just a matter of time.
I spent the middle of the nine o'clock hour reading Wikipedia's information about the Wu-Tang Clan (could really use a brush up...how many of the albums are really, "the most successful album to date?") It was pretty good- my favorite part discussed one of the group's hit Triumph which has no chorus, nine verses and is every college student's dream to have memorized...well, it was my dream, at least.
It got me to thinking about other songs that changed the face of music, or at least, made radio more interesting by getting away from the good old chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus-verse-chorus system- seriously mad libs could do better. A short list of the ones that came to mind while I was becoming the Mayor of the Media Bypass. That's right. The Mayor. You heard me.
1. Triumph (see above)
2. Stairway to Heaven (did everyone who reads this try to make out with their BF/GF for the ENITRE song at CYO mixers in 7th or 8th grade? Or was I ahead of my time?
3. November Rain (see above.)
4. Tuesday Afternoon (A narrative in an album?!?)
5. Paranoid Android (See #1- it DEFIES the song formula as we know it.)
6. Live Freestyle 95 (2Pac and Biggie Smalls- his slow flow IS remarkable.)
I know what you're all thinking...but please don't send me some obscure song that I've never heard of (unless it's really good- I'll listen to it but unless the group has sold over five million records- it's NOT making the list.)
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