- Wiser Time - The Black Crows: Driving down the highway, desert sunset, this was the perfect song to accompany the journey.
- American Idiot - Green Day: Besides the biting lyrics about American media, this song marks a great return to form for Green Day. It just kicks ASS!
- Bohemian Like You - Dandy Warhols: Waaaaay before Vodafone drilled this song into our heads, I flipped over this 2000 release's driving beat and killer guitar hooks. Great for driving too!
- Be Mine & Electrolite - R.E.M.: From the very under-rated "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" album, both these tracks are pure pop magic.
- L Restaurant Bar - Ralph & Elie from R.E.G. Project: Original, sublime and gorgeous. This collection of loungey house tunes by Ralph & Elie was composed specially for Beirut's "L" Restaurant. It's amazing and they will soon (inshallah) give Thievery Corporation a run for their money.
You know, it's too bad people in Kuwait don't appreciate dancing to rock music at parties. I guess there ain't too many rock chicks and rock studs around to form a consensus, and the few that exist are into crap like Linkin Park/Nickelback/Evanescence/Limp Bizkit.
Wait! no rock list is complete without some Led Zepplin and some Guns'n'Roses
ReplyDeleteWasma, it's called "Not if you were the last junkie on earth" ;-)
ReplyDeleteMishu, the Zep rules. I also had "Hey Hey What Can I do" and "Houses of the Holy" playing in the car. Forgot to mention them
Abu Hafs.. are you a communist? ;-P
Do you remember "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.? One of my all time faves. "Bittersweet Me" is also another good one. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm into Linkin Park but at the risk of sounding like a brat, I was into them way before they were mainstream :P
Evanescence were famous as soon as they got on the music scene, but now they seem to have disappeared which is ironic cuz that's what their name means, to disappear haha
Limp Bizkit always was and always will be crap.
Was there a ransom note?
ReplyDeleteIts the Ali G syndrome. We all think we're black, hell most of us are brown & hence its not okay to dance to white music, but we listen to it because its part of music education. I.e. the cool factor as cici has so finely stated.
ReplyDeleteOh btw, if i dont make sense today, its okay i'm not even making sense to me.
Wasii, piracy 'doesn't good' ;p
Zaydoun, its a bland blogging day, any suggestions (other than get back to work?)
yeah it is kind of a bland day, isn't it? yesterday wasn't much better either. Maybe this is a bland week... compared to last week's fireworks anyway ;-P
ReplyDeleteThis could be a good research topic. What makes a good blogging day? Is it related to the stock market? How about a mood-o-meter?
ReplyDeleteMetallica anyone? what about Steve Vai?
ReplyDeleteHey Zaydoun, can we email you ? I can't find your email and you are so interesting man!!! you literally 'rock' ;)
Not with Steve Vai you can't ;-P
ReplyDeleteI think dancing to rock music requires a certain degree of silliness, and lack of self-control.
ReplyDeleteIf you've ever heard The Romantics' "What I like about you" at a frat party, you'll know what I mean
yes i have, but it was soon drowned out by the ubiquitous chanting: CHUG CHUG CHUG!
ReplyDeleteVirgin might have it now or very soon. They carry all their stuff
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