Music: top five lists

[MarchHare]

Yes, the song is about the deaths of Buddy Holly et. al. in a plane crash. I always thought that one line was about Vladimir Lenin, though, not John Lennon. Who knows...I guess Don MacLean could have been making a clever pun, and the disambiguation was intentional.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Fredrik

Isn´t it about Buddy Holly?

"But february made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn’t take one more step.

I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died."

They (him, Bib Bopper and Richie Valenz) died february 3 1959, and Buddy had recently married. One paper had the headline "The day that music died" the next day.

The song allegedly references many musical artists (our English 30 teacher made us analyze this song, thinking it was great poetry):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_pie

[Berger_4_]

Originally Posted by troutman

Hair:

Cut Your Hair - Pavement
Get A Haircut - George Thorogood
Signs - Five Man Electric Band (And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply)
Tight Connection To My Heart - Bob Dylan (While they're beatin' the devil out of a guy . . . Who's wearing a powder-blue wig)
Blondes Have More Fun - Rod Stewart

5 helicopter songs?

Black Helicopter- Matthew Good
Police Helicopter- RHCP's
Helicopters- Barenaked Ladies

thats 4 total

[Displaced Flames fan]

Since the directional says 'helicopter songs' and not 'songs about helicopters' I'll add 2 more to finish this one off...

'Fantasy' - Aldo Nova
'Goodnight Saigon' - Billy Joel

5 songs about fatherhood

[Berger_4_]

Mr. Mom- Lonestar
When I'm Gone- Eminem
Father To Son- Queen
Don't Wake Daddy- The Tragically Hip
Mommy Where's Daddy?- RHCP's

5 Songs about technology

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Since the directional says 'helicopter songs' and not 'songs about helicopters' I'll add 2 more to finish this one off...

'Fantasy' - Aldo Nova
'Goodnight Saigon' - Billy Joel

5 songs about fatherhood

Cowboy Logic - Micheal Martin Murphey
Song For Dad - Keith Urban
Watching Scotty Grow - Bobby Goldsboro
Serve The Servents - Nirvana
You've Got A Friend - James Taylor

Top 5 songs about anger

[Ro]

Originally Posted by Dion

Top 5 songs about anger

I know nothing about metal, so that genre will be notably absent from this list. Apologies to all the metalheads out there.

Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine
The Way I Am - Eminem
You Oughta Know - Alanis Morrisette
Untouchable Face - Ani DiFranco
Burn - Nine Inch Nails

Top 5 "pre-existing movie soundtrack songs" (top 5 songs that were given new life or gained newfound popularity because they were featured in a movie, excluding songs that were recorded specifically for a movie...hopefully that makes sense, and isn't too obscure).

As an example, I will offer "Stuck In The Middle" by Stealers Wheel from Reservoir Dogs

[icarus]

Originally Posted by troutman

The song allegedly references many musical artists (our English 30 teacher made us analyze this song, thinking it was great poetry):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_pie

I think the meaning of the song is far from clear (I have a friend who wrote a master's thesis in music on it from a spiritual standpoint), but a main gist I get is how the crash that killed the three 50's rock 'n' rollers signalled a change in popular music, that there was a loss of innocence of sorts.

Keep in mind when the song was written there had only really been two decades of rock, the 50's and 60's, and they were very different.

There are a lot of sly references to 60's rockers ("Lenin read a book on Marx" is clearly a pun... obviously V.I. Lenin historically followed the teachings of Marx, but John Lennon's peace activism was also very antiestablishment and progressive; "Helter Skelter in a summer swelter" seems to recall Charles Manson's adoption of the Beatles song during his terror in LA; "and the birds flew of from a fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast" obviously refers to the Byrds, who sang 'Eight Miles High', a very psychedelic (read: drug-induced) song; "I met a girl who sang the blues" = Janis Joplin?). Et cetera...

Who knows, but it is a fun song and one of my favourites.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Since the directional says 'helicopter songs' and not 'songs about helicopters' I'll add 2 more to finish this one off...

'Fantasy' - Aldo Nova
'Goodnight Saigon' - Billy Joel

Also:

Helicopter - XTC
Helicopter - Bloc Party
If I Had A Rocket Launcher - Bruce burn (here come the helicopters)

[troutman]

Soundtrack Songs (made famous again by a movie):

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (Wayne's World)
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop (Trainspotting)
Dancing Queen - Abba (Muriel's Wedding)
Let's Stay Together - Al Green (Pulp Fiction)
The Blue Danube - 2001: A Space Odyssey

5 controversial song performances on Saturday Night Live?

[Berger_4_]

i can only think of one....the ashlee simpson debacle

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Berger_4_

i can only think of one....the ashlee simpson debacle

Here are some examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamou...t_Live_history

Sinead O'Connor, Elvis Costello, Ashlee Simpson, Rage Against The Machine, The Replacements, etc.

[stuck_in_chuk]

For Helicopters, there is also Ghetto Bird by family movie actor Ice Cube.

For songs about the Beatles, I'll mention No Beatles Reunion by Forgotten Rebels. Also, All Those Years Ago by George Harrison is definitely about the Beatles (or at least John).

[Ro]

Originally Posted by troutman

Soundtrack Songs (made famous again by a movie):

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (Wayne's World)
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop (Trainspotting)
Dancing Queen - Abba (Muriel's Wedding)
Let's Stay Together - Al Green (Pulp Fiction)
The Blue Danube - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Awesome choices. Was interested to see what somebody would come up with, and those are all great picks. And not only that, but you summarized what I sloppily attempted to say in a meandering paragraph in 6 words. Props.