10.Let's Go Crazy-faux-gospel electric organ, accompanying a whimsical, slightly cheesy sermonizing, giving way to a wild, exciting fusion of the best elements of hard rock and dance pop.

9.What's Going On-a jazzy, latin-inflected groove with a slightly melancholy feel emerges amidst sounds of chatter and street talk finally replaced with the ever-soothing, unsurpassed vocal stylings of sir Marvin Gaye. One of the warmest, mellowest, yet sad and haunting grooves to introduce one of the greatest soul albums of all time.

8.Drive My Car-The first time the Beatles really got down and funky and actually somewhat sounded black. Catchy, charming, witty and grooving, it introduced the newly matured, infinitely more interesting incarnation of one of the defining groups in Rock History

7.Stand!-Catchy, loud, groovin', fun, uber-optimistic; everything to love about sly and the family stone with a funky coda and a fantastic bassline in the outro.

6.Back In The USSR-The most fun album opener the Beatles had made since Drive My car which immitates chuck berry and the beach boys, and rocks much harder than either of them ever could.

5.Rocks Off-Strangely mixed, incomprehensible lyrics, but it grooves as well as it rocks and maybe the best song on the stones' best album

4.Sgt. Pepper-Paul McCartney takes the role of a singing MC in non-concept concept album on a track that combines psychedelic hard rock and 19th century music hall camp.

3.Kind of Blue-delicate piano by Bill Evans, one of the best bass riffs of all time, and a beautiful under-arranged, under-composed, masterpiece for three of jazz's greatest horn men to stretch out on

2.Gimme Shelter-never would I imagine that a song could be as fun and inviting as it was eerie and apocalyptic, well the stones did baby.

1.Don't Worry If There's Hell Below We're All Gonna Go-Like the onset of What's Going On, we have several different simultaneous conversations that seemingly interefere with the beginning of the song, but this time the dialogue is far more sarcastic and incisive, particularly in how foolish and naive the bible-touting woman is made to seem. Meanwhile one of the best fuzz basslines and bongo patterns are getting warmed up. Curtis himself silences all the chatter as his voice booms from what sounds like a moutain top and then shrieks as it reverbs across an infinite abyss. And then all the elements that would soon become standard in blaxploitation soundtracks kick in: latin percussion, wah wah guitar, orchestral string punctuations and a superbadass groove that can only be described as "brimstone funk" begins. Well done Curtis.
[Edited 4/21/05 13:38pm]

jack: I'd take a few of yours! In no order:


Let's Go Crazy -- Prince (Purple Rain)

So What -- Miles Davis (Kind of Blue)

What's Goin' On -- Marvin Gaye (What's Goin' On)

Part I: Acknowledgement -- John Coltrane (A Love Supreme)

You Are The Sunshine of My Life -- Stevie Wonder (Talking Book)

O Tannenbaum -- Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas)

Is It A Crime? -- Sade (Promise)

Sign O' The Times -- Prince (SOTT)

No -- Prince (Lovesexy)

The May 4th Movement -- Digable Planets (Blowout Comb)
[Edited 4/21/05 13:53pm]

U2- Where The Streets Have No Name

When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Karazee by !!! from Louden Up Now
Penetentiary Philosophy by Erykah Badu from Mama's Gun
Black Hand Side by Queen Latifah from Black Reign
The Promise Of A New Day by Paula Abdul from Spellbound
Everything In Its Right Place by Radiohead from Kid A
Maybe Angels by Sheryl Crow from Sheryl Crow
Welcome To The Real World by Jane Child from Jane Child
I Might Have Been Queen by Tina Turner from Private Dancer
Rollercoaster by Everything But The Girl from Amplified Heart
The May 4th Movement by Digable Planets from Blowout Comb

The Jump off

"1999".....Don't worry. I won't hurt you. I only want you....to have some..fun.

Gil Scott Heron "B" Movie "Well the first thing I wanna say is...MADATE MY ASS!

1. "Let's Go Crazy" - PRINCE (Purple Rain)

2. "Where The Streets..." - U2 (Joshua Tree)

3. "Everything In Its Right Place" - RADIOHEAD (Kid A)

4. "Purple Haze" - JIMI HENDRIX (Are You Experienced? - US Version)

5. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - NIRVANA (Nevermind)

6. "Violet" - HOLE (Live Through This)

7. "Hells Bells" - AC/DC

8. "Born In The U.S.A." - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (Title Song)

9. "Welcome To The Jungle" - GUNS 'N' ROSES (Appetite For Destruction)

10."Rain On The Scarecrow" - JOHN MELLENCAMP (Scarecrow)