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| From | "*Bill Holmes*" <bholmes_fm@msn.com> |
| Subject | Re: no one had a comment on this yet? |
| Date | Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:27:38 -0400 |
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> a Blender/VH1 special, The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever
Top Five Worst Titles For A Special Ever?
> The entry most likely to peeve fans is Simon & Garfunkel's The Sounds of
Silence.
> "It's the freshman-poetry meaningfulness that got our
> goat," Marks says. "With self-important lyrics like,
> 'Hear my words that I might teach you,' it's almost a
> parody of pretentious '60s folk-rock.
"In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light..."
I dunno - that's pretty poetic to me. Consider me ambivalent. I'd be peeved
by the short-sightedness if it wasn't so obvious that these polls are
designed to be controversial by nature. Or that I'm being asked to consider
BLENDER magazine a cultural barometer.
Hell, I was more pissed off at by Comedy Central thinking Ellen DeGeneres
was a better stand up comic than Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison. :)
b
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