The Tower of Song

[dfnva 34]

Mambomumba: "A Rush of Blood to the Head" has a lot of great songs, too bad "X and Y" doesn't compare.

I have dulled The Knife to leave room for "Amber". Not a big 311 fan, to me a lot of their songs sound the same, but I really like "Amber." Too bad 311's most famous song appears to be their remake of "Love Song". That's sad.

Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Barenaked Ladies - Never is Enough
Radiohead - Morning Bell
Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth
Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything
The White Stripes - Black Math
Coldplay - Warning Sign
Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Elected - The Bank And Trust
311 - Amber

[Sproxxx 0]

Can we see a tally of maybe the top ten or something.

Anyway, Bob is too old for me. Add in Pulp - Common People

Barenaked Ladies - Never is Enough

Radiohead - Morning Bell

Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth

Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything

The White Stripes - Black Math

Coldplay - Warning Sign

Roger Miller - King of the Road

The Elected - The Bank And Trust

311 - Amber

Pulp - Common People

[pickled_pig 7]

Sproxxx:  do you mean the 10 songs that have been on the tower longest?  That's easily done.  Just clarify if that's what you mean and I'll do it.

Coldplay's out.  The only half-decent record they've got is Parachutes,and this does not appear to be a song from that record.

It's Flaming Lips time instead.  Everyone could use more Lips

Barenaked Ladies - Never is Enough
Radiohead - Morning Bell
Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth
Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything
The White Stripes - Black Math
Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Elected - The Bank And Trust
311 - Amber
Pulp - Common People
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus

[Yellowlab 11]

Barenaked Ladies - Never is Enough

Radiohead - Morning Bell

Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth

Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything

The White Stripes - Black Math

Roger Miller - King of the Road

The Elected - The Bank And Trust

Pulp - Common People

The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus

Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

80s flashback! In goes Dexys' Come on Eileen, out goes 311.

[dev 47]

pickled_pig: If you have that info...maybe the top 25 or something?

Hopefully...my post will not bunch together.

Radiohead - Morning Bell

Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth

Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything

The White Stripes - Black Math

Roger Miller - King of the Road

The Elected - The Bank And Trust

Pulp - Common People

The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus

Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

Counting Crows - Accidentally in Love

[dfnva 34]

I hate to delete something right away, but I never liked "Accidentally in Love" by the Counting Crows. They've got some good songs, but I never liked it. Instead I'll put a song that has some overtly political themes.

Radiohead - Morning Bell
Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth
Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything
The White Stripes - Black Math
Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Elected - The Bank And Trust
Pulp - Common People
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5

[mambomumba 8]

Radiohead aren't that good at maths, are they?

Removing the Midnight Runners and I'll add a new song by Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields) called Ukulele Me! It's on his new album, Showtunes.

Radiohead - Morning Bell
Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth
Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything
The White Stripes - Black Math
Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Elected - The Bank And Trust
Pulp - Common People
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Stephin Merritt - Ukulele Me!

[dev 47]

Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth

Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything

The White Stripes - Black Math

Roger Miller - King of the Road

The Elected - The Bank And Trust

Pulp - Common People

The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5

Stephin Merritt - Ukulele Me!

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues

Adding Johnny Cash back to the tower.

[pickled_pig 7]

Here's the top 25.  Sort of strange, but I have the top 3 songs so far.  Maybe if a certain few people didn't always knock the top song off the tower there would be more competition.  Also, the shelf life for a song on the tower's getting shorter and shorter; for a song to pass 15 posts is enough of an honor now, where at the beginning 20 posts was not uncommon.



Dfnva - I know it's too late but it was the Kid A version of the song.  I just love the odd time.  I've never heard a bad song in 5/4.  Never realized you asked.

I won't mess with Johnny Cash, I'll remove Bright Eyes.

Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth
The White Stripes - Black Math
Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Elected - The Bank And Trust
Pulp - Common People
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Stephin Merritt - Ukulele Me!
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues.
Bloc Party - Helicopter

[dfnva 34]

Pickled Pig: That's one of the reasons I like Radiohead so much... they're pretty daring with things.... time signatures, chord progressions, other nuances and effects, which maybe sound odd or too musically intense to a lot of people, but being the musical geek I am (I guess that's why I'm a music teacher) I dig it.

Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth
The White Stripes - Black Math
Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Elected - The Bank And Trust
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Stephin Merritt - Ukulele Me!
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues.
Bloc Party - Helicopter
REM - Shiny Happy People

I think I'll take out "Common People" and replace with "Shiny Happy People," one of my favorite REM songs, it just sounds a lot like a 60's-era peace/love/etc. song, kind of like the Mamas and the Papas or The Byrds.

[Yellowlab 11]

Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth

Roger Miller - King of the Road

The Elected - The Bank And Trust

The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5

Stephin Merritt - Ukulele Me!

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues.

Bloc Party - Helicopter

REM - Shiny Happy People

Bob Dylan - Hurricane

Painting over The White Stripes, adding more blatantly political Dylan. Sorry. I really do love that song, though.

[mambomumba 8]

Bloc Party! One of my favourites. Thought about adding one of them myself, but if I do now, people would go with the "two songs by same artist-picking out system" so I'll just add Franz instead.

Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth
Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Elected - The Bank And Trust
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Stephin Merritt - Ukulele Me!
Bloc Party - Helicopter
REM - Shiny Happy People
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving

[Sproxxx 0]

Wow! That's excatly what I wanted to see pickled_pig. Thanks. It must take you some time to keep it updated. Great job by the way. Now on to the current list. Take out Ben Kweller - Jerry Falwell Destroyed Earth and add Garbage - When I grow up.

Roger Miller - King of the Road

The Elected - The Bank And Trust

The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5

Stephin Merritt - Ukulele Me!

Bloc Party - Helicopter

REM - Shiny Happy People

Bob Dylan - Hurricane

Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving

Garbage - When I grow up

[dev 47]

Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Stephin Merritt - Ukulele Me!
Bloc Party - Helicopter
REM - Shiny Happy People
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Garbage - When I grow up
Open Skies - David Crowder Band


Removing the elected, inserting the David Crowder Band. Also...great list, PP! Would you be willing to sort it by username shortly and add up some points and see what players are the top 5...? Might be too hard for you, if so, that's fine.

[pickled_pig 7]

To be honest, Shiny Happy People is not REM's best.  But I won't mess with it and replace it with a song from Life's Rich Pageant yet.  First I must take out the garbage...

In comes one of my favorite Sufjan Stevens instrumentals...

Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Stephin Merritt - Ukulele Me!
Bloc Party - Helicopter
REM - Shiny Happy People
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Open Skies - David Crowder Band
Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)

Actually, it does take quite a while to do the ranking thing.  But the reason I use excel is so I can easily sort it by whatever I wish.  I can get you your averages/totals for all the players and post them here, dev. 

If we decided to have an end date of this tower - and scores/awards presented after the end - this is how I would do it:
 
-Top 5 songs by # of posts
-Member with highest # of points, member with lowest # (out of regular posters only to be fair, member must have contributed a certain amount to the tower - probably 5 times or more - that will be decided later.  If it's decided to be more fair I can do averages instead of totals.  Each mathod has its +s and -s.)
-Band with highest average, band with lowest average. (we know what the lowest average is, right? )

[dfnva 34]

Taking out ukulele me to insert the Beatles.

Mambomumba: I really like that whole Franz Ferdinand album, a lot of good songs on it.

Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Bloc Party - Helicopter
REM - Shiny Happy People
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Open Skies - David Crowder Band
Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)
The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

[mambomumba 8]

Removing Bob Dylan and in comes Boards Of Canada with Farewell Fire.

Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Bloc Party - Helicopter
REM - Shiny Happy People 
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Open Skies - David Crowder Band
Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)
The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire

[Sproxxx 0]

Taking out Bloc Party - Helicopter and adding Closure - Look out Below

Roger Miller - King of the Road

The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5

REM - Shiny Happy People

Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving

Open Skies - David Crowder Band

Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)

The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire

Closure - Look out Below

[dfnva 34]

Bye bye David Crowder Band, Hello Talk Talk.

Roger Miller - King of the Road
The Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
REM - Shiny Happy People
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)
The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire
Closure - Look out Below
Talk Talk - Today

edit: I put the artist / name of song in the wrong order....

[magpieshooter 1]

Roger Miller - King of the Road
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
REM - Shiny Happy People
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)
The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire
Closure - Look out Below
Talk Talk - Today
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer

Out: The Flaming Lips
In: Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer, mainly cause its what im listening to now.

[Cjah 15]

Roger Miller - King of the Road
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5 
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)
The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire
Closure - Look out Below
Talk Talk - Today
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
Torture Killer-Forever Dead

bye bye REM - Shiny Happy People

welcome Torture Killer-Forever Dead

[mambomumba 8]

Removing Roger Miller and adds Neutral Milk Hotel to the list.

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5 
Franz Ferdinand - You're The Reason I'm Leaving
Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)
The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire
Closure - Look Out Below
Talk Talk - Today
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
Torture Killer - Forever Dead
Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One

[Sproxxx 0]

I've never been a big fan of Franz so out he goes. Enter Filter - The Best Things

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5

Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)

The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire

Closure - Look Out Below

Talk Talk - Today

Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer

Torture Killer - Forever Dead

Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One

Filter - The Best Things

[pickled_pig 7]

out they go, sproxxx.  Franz Fredinand is a band.

That technicality gone, I plan to remove Bon Jovi and replace with Interpol.

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)
The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire
Closure - Look Out Below
Talk Talk - Today
Torture Killer - Forever Dead
Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
Filter - The Best Things
Interpol - Leif Ericson

[Cjah 15]

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)
The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire
Closure - Look Out Below 
Torture Killer - Forever Dead
Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
Filter - The Best Things
Interpol - Leif Ericson
Children of Bodom-Are you dead yet?

 shut up Talk Talk - Today.....

Turn it up with Children of Bodom-Are you dead yet?

[dfnva 34]

Magpie shooter: I'm not a big fan of Bon Jovi, But I did see Jon Bon Jovi on "The West Wing" last night.

"Forever Dead" dies at the hands of "Jesus of Suburbia."

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5
Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou)
The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire
Closure - Look Out Below  
Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One
Filter - The Best Things
Interpol - Leif Ericson
Children of Bodom-Are you dead yet?
Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia*

* only the "Jesus of Surburbia" portion, or movement, of the longer medley also called "Jesus of Surburbia." Confused yet??

[Sproxxx 0]

Just goes to show how much I care about them. Sufjan Stevens - Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou) is gone. Hoobastank - Running Away is in. Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5 The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire Closure - Look Out Below Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. One Filter - The Best Things Interpol - Leif Ericson Children of Bodom-Are you dead yet? Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia Hoobastank - Running Away Edit: Ok, I don't know what the heck is going on. I enter this in Firefox and it came out bad so I go to IE and try to edit it and it still looks like crap. What's the deal?!?

 

[Cjah 15]

<ul>

<li>Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5</li>

<li>The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer </li>

<li>Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire </li>

<li>Closure - Look Out Below    </li>

<li>Filter - The Best Things</li>

<li>Interpol - Leif Ericson</li>

<li>Children of Bodom-Are you dead yet?<</li>

<li>Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia</li>

<li>Hoobastank - Running Away</li>

<li>Torture Killer-Flesh breaks to open I had to edit my post over and over and over and let me tell you this if you can't already see it for yourself....</li>

</ul>

ST is still very screwed up....

[mambomumba 8]

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5

The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire

Closure - Look Out Below

Filter - The Best Things

Interpol - Leif Ericson

Children of Bodom-Are you dead yet?

Hoobastank - Running Away

Torture Killer-Flesh Breaks To Open Wounds

New Pornographers - The Fake Headlines

Let's get forward here, removing Green Day. The Fake Headlines by New Pornographers is taking their place.

[pickled_pig 7]

New Pornographers?  Great choice; The Fake Headlines is one of my favorites from Mass Romantic. 

In goe more Wire.  They've not been here since someone took out Mr. Suit.  Expect to see Wire more often in this tower...

Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5

The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Boards Of Canada - Farewell Fire

Closure - Look Out Below

Filter - The Best Things

Interpol - Leif Ericson

Hoobastank - Running Away

Torture Killer-Flesh Breaks To Open Wounds

New Pornographers - The Fake Headlines

Wire - I am the Fly