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Rob wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:53 am575. The Clash – The Street Parade
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575. The Clash – The Street Parade: 7.5
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573. Pink Floyd - If: 7/10
574. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Inca Roads: 8/10
575. The Clash - The Street Parade: 5/10
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The Clash - The Street Parade: 6
By this stage in the band's career we could expect more light experiments with world music. I like this bands willingness to explore different sounds, although this lightly likable song is not one of their more memorable efforts.

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575. The Clash – The Street Parade: 9.25 (now #846 on my all-time list)

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The second appearance by The Flaming Lips today. Don’t forget to take a look at the album cover, which is one of their most… remarkable.

576. The Flaming Lips - Powerless
Year: 2009
Album: Embryonic
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Rob wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2020 8:01 am576. The Flaming Lips - Powerless
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575. The Clash – The Street Parade: 7.5
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576. The Flaming Lips - Powerless: 7.5
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573. Pink Floyd - If: 7.5
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574. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – Inca Roads: 3
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572. Gordon Lightfoot – Don Quixote: 4.5
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571. Gene Loves Jezebel – Desire (Come and Get It): 7
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576. The Flaming Lips - Powerless: 8
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Second appearance of Against Me!!

577. Against Me! – Black Me Out
Year: 2014
Album: Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Biggest Fan: Wezzo (#844)

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Rob wrote: Sun Aug 09, 2020 7:42 am577. Against Me! – Black Me Out
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The Flaming Lips - Powerless: 7
Strange, truly experimental, but oddly appealing.

Against Me! – Black Me Out: 8
Powerful. I haven't heard the album since it came out, but am giving it another spin right now. Angry punk at its best.
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576. The Flaming Lips - Powerless: 7.25

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576. The Flaming Lips - Powerless: 7/10
577. Against Me! - Black Me Out: 7/10
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So, a song about Donald Trump from before he went into politics.

578. Mac Miller – Donald Trump
Year: 2011
Mixtape: Best Day Ever
Biggest Fan: PlasticRam (#453)

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Against Me! – Black Me Out: 3
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578. Mac Miller – Donald Trump: 4
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578. Mac Miller – Donald Trump: 8.5

I'm sorry to all people who are put off by this song. This was back when I kinda liked Trump, but now that I don't, the song itself holds up pretty well.

My ex-gf brainwashed me with conservative propaganda so that's the only reason I used to like him.
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Against Me! – Black Me Out: 6

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Rob wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:19 am578. Mac Miller – Donald Trump
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Rob wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:19 amSo, a song about Donald Trump from before he went into politics.
578. Mac Miller – Donald Trump
I don't think this qualifies as a "song."
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578. Mac Miller - Donald Trump: 5/10
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575. The Clash - The Street Parade - 5.5
576. The Flaming Lips - Powerless - 5
577. Against Me! - Black Me Out - 9.5 [from my list]
578. Mac Miller – Donald Trump - 4 - Looks like Mac Miller denounced Trump when he entered the 2016 Presidential race: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/11/poli ... ald-trump/
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Wezzo wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:35 pm Looks like Mac Miller denounced Trump when he entered the 2016 Presidential race: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/11/poli ... ald-trump/
Indeed, though if you read further their feud already began when Trump sued Miller over the use of his name on this very song!

Anyway, the line "Take over the world when I'm on my Donald Trump shit" has not exactly aged well, but it is obvious that this all has nothing to do with Trump's politics. That doesn't make the song much more enjoyable, though as it sounds like a fairly standard rap song of a type that just doesn't appeal to me, despite sampling Sufjan Stevens.

Mac Miller - Donald Trump: 4
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Curiously, this song by one of Spotify’s biggest names is not on Spotify:

579. The Weeknd – King of the Fall
Year: 2014
Released as a single
Biggest Fan: Depeche Mode (#103)
YouTube-link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXBcwyMUrcU

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579. The Weeknd – King of the Fall - 5
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Rob wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:20 am579. The Weeknd – King of the Fall
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578. Mac Miller – Donald Trump: 3

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The Weeknd – King of the Fall: 2
Absolutely not my cup of tea. I already don't like The Weeknd much, but this song is particularly tiresome. It drags, is oddly repetitive, has an off-puting tone (like some auto-tune-like buzz over the whole song) and I have long since reached my limit of modern R&B where the lyrics are about nothing else than how amazing the artist is and how little other people are worth (especially the women). I really don't get the appeal of that stuff.
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579. The Weeknd - King of the Fall: 3/10
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580. Marlena Shaw – Woman of the Ghetto
Year: 1969
Album: The Spice of Life
Biggest Fan: Henrik (#84)

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576. The Flaming Lips - Powerless 7.5
577. Against Me! – Black Me Out 4
578. Mac Miller – Donald Trump 5.5
579. The Weeknd – King of the Fall 5
580. Marlena Shaw – Woman of the Ghetto 7
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Rob wrote: Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:23 am580. Marlena Shaw – Woman of the Ghetto
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Marlena Shaw – Woman of the Ghetto: 8

Although not quite unprecedented, it is remarkable how much this song (which seems to be rather unknown as far as I can tell) is a precursor to some epic soul songs of the city that we would find in the years that came after this one: Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues, War's The World is a Ghetto or Stevie Wonder's Living for the City for example. And this is hardly a lesser song than these. Very powerful, with a great voice.
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580. Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto: 8/10
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580. Marlena Shaw – Woman of the Ghetto - 7
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579. The Weeknd – King of the Fall: 5
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580. Marlena Shaw – Woman of the Ghetto: 7
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Yes, this is already the second appearance of “Weird Al”!

581. “Weird Al” Yankovic – Frank’s 2000” TV
Year: 1993
Album: Alapalooza
Biggest Fan: Wezzo (#703)

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First off, it’s Yankovic, not Yankovich. There’s a hard “c.” Secondly, this is one of his very best. An easy 9.

Also, Weird Al by itself is spelled without quotations. That’s only if you’re writing his full name, “Weird Al” Yankovic. Common mistake!
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Here to join in the pedantry, even though I'm far more error-prone than most! The Clash's album is Sandinista! as in the rebel army opposed to Nicaraguan dictator Somoza and the Contras as led by Daniel Ortega, the country's current autocratic president. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss and all that...

I think The Clash - The Street Parade as one for the fans, mainly for giving a rare insight into Joe Strummer's feelings, even if they go no further than "Fame sure is alienating, I wish I could blend into the crowd". I would've welcomed more Clash tunes with steel pans, which lead in nicely into the marimbas on Inca Roads on the BF playlist. 8.5

The Flaming Lips - Powerless 5
Against Me! - Black Me Out 6
Mac Miller - Donald Trump 5
The Weeknd - King of the Fall 3

Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto: 8.5 for the original studio version, which is the only version that counts here but 9 for the 1973 live at Montreux recording with her funny/soulful vocal introduction of her bandmates at the start and her powerhouse delivery of the line "Remember me cos I'm the one who had your babies, I" sampled in 90s big-beat one-hit-wonder Remember Me by Blueboy. I'm posting both songs below because why not:
Sorry for all that waffling, "Weird Al" Yankovic - Frank's 2000'' TV earns a 6 from me.
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581. “Weird Al” Yankovic – Frank’s 2000” TV - 9.5 [from my list]
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Rob wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 6:39 am581. “Weird Al” Yankovic – Frank’s 2000” TV
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“Weird Al” Yankovic – Frank’s 2000” TV: 4
Nowadays large TV's are pretty much the norm, so the joke here has almost gone lost. I didn't think it wasn't that funny of a joke anyway. The song itself straddles the line of annoying. I'm not huge on Weird Al, as may be clear because I don't keep up with the various rules that apply to spelling his name, but some of his songs are undeniably clever. I just don't think this is one of them.
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Rob wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:28 pm “Weird Al” Yankovic – Frank’s 2000” TV: 4
Nowadays large TV's are pretty much the norm, so the joke here has almost gone lost. I didn't think it wasn't that funny of a joke anyway. The song itself straddles the line of annoying. I'm not huge on Weird Al, as may be clear because I don't keep up with the various rules that apply to spelling his name, but some of his songs are undeniably clever. I just don't think this is one of them.
I don’t think the humor is the best part of the song. I think it’s just lovely musically.
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