Clocks - the great sound of the original Coldplay
Viva La Vida - the inspiration from U2 and inspiration/rip-offs of other bands/artists
Princes of China - Coldplay totally lost it to the mainstream with Rihanna as a guest star (doh!! )
Then they decided to reverse that and end up trying to be heavy alt goth rockers.
Except that One Hundred Years was already completely goth and Lullaby is pretty goth as well. Then after Lullaby they basically never went goth again unless you count Bloodflowers. Actually you probably just need to go back and relearn you Cure timeline.
This hurts.
It wasn't really a timeline but a summary of the artist in three songs.
I chose One Hundred Years because this was the raw start for the Cure and showed how aggressive the Cure can be. I could have chosen a punk-era Cure song but the real Cure starts for me on Pornography.
The Lovecats is the song that people quote to me when I say that the Cure is one of my favourite bands of all time. It is a quintessential pop song of the 80s and musically removed from Pornography/Faith/Seventeen Seconds.
Lullaby was chosen in response to Disintegration being their magnum opus. I could have chosen Pictures Of You or other singles lifted from the album but this seemed to fit. Even though the gothic lyrics and musicality still exists, this song is the combination of gothic rock and radio pop.
3 songs to chose is hard for the Cure but this is what sums up their career for me. Gothic rock, sickly sweet pop and alternative chart toppers.
No Beach Boys career summary would be complete without the word "Surf" and since this was their breakout single - it makes sense to include it. For 4 years their songs would essentially be: Breezy, about girls and sung by Mike Love. Luckily for everyone - that changed.
When boys became men. The Beach Boys crafted the near-perfect Pet Sounds and with it "God Only Knows", possibly the most widely praised song of all time.
Unfortunately what could have been a long and rewarding career (for both Band and fans) collapsed when The Smile Sessions did. And although The Beach Boys released 17 more albums of varying quality (some of them very good!) Brian's involvement rapidly lessening (he is conspicuously missing from the above video - a performance of his own song) meant that The Beach Boys full potential was never reached again. Lucky for us "The Smile Sessions" were released last year. There are better songs off of The Smile Sessions but I think if you ask most people to name a Beach Boys song they will say "Good Vibrations".
big cheese
big long now
milk it _________________ "I would expect something wrong with the poll if the chart favorite was not the poll winner" - naples 12-8-11
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