THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
511-Michael Jackson-Thriller.
1984-Number 10 single.
Best Bit-At 4.24.Don’t be frightened,it’s about as scary as the Honey Monster.
Thriller was the seventh single release from Michael Jackson’s 1982 Album of the same name.The song was written by Rod Temperton(see best songs 812) and produced by Quincy Jones(see best songs 703.)
While Temperton was writing the song he stated that he’d ‘always envisioned a talking section at the end’ on the song.Quincy Jones’ then wife Peggy Lupton who knew Vincent Price,(May 27,1911-October 25,1993) suggested Price for the vocal part.
In 1999 MTV listed the music video as being the greatest music video ever made on their list ‘100 Greatest Videos Ever.’
‘The foulest stench is in the air the funk of forty thousand years.’
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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
512-Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit.
1967-Did not chart in the UK-In 1987 it did chart peaking at Number 94.
Best Bit-At 2.14.A quote from Grace Slick,’All Rock-and-Rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire.’
Although the song refers to drugs many times,a school of thought suggests that it is also a protest song against the Vietnam War.
White Rabbit was written in late 1965 or early 1966 by Grace Slick,it uses imagery found in the books of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 ‘Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland’ and it’s 1871 sequel ‘Through The Looking Glass.’
Slick said of the song,’White Rabbit is about following your curiosity,the White Rabbit is your curiosity.’
‘Remember what the dormouse said,feed your head,feed your head.’
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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
513-Roni Size and Reprazent-Brown Paper Bag.
1997-Number 20 single.
Best Bit-At 1.12.Let the Drum and Bass commence.
Drum and Bass is a genre and branch of electronic music which emerged from Rave and Jungle music in the early 1990’s.
Roni Size was born in Bristol in 1968,he is a record producer who in 1997 formed the Drum and Bass collective known as ‘Reprazent.’Together they recorded the Mercury Prize winning Album,New Forms which features the original full length version of Brown Paper Bag.
‘Step to the rhythm made out of brown paper,sounds entering of a different nature.’
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