IC MUSIC
High kids. Get it? Like a marijuana pun.
Pot.
Ok, I'm dumb on drugs right now and realized the first song I chose to play as my high kicked in was ``Take Me Home, Country Roads'' by John Denver.
It was at that moment, I realized that I think I listen to good music, but it is blatantly obvious I do NOT. I think John Denver at 11:48pm proves it.
Therefore, I decided I would give out grades for the IC Music class.
Brown, Clint:
Points for: Damien Rice, Bon Jovi (classic), and some acceptable Country.
Loses big for Jamiroquai, the Spin Doctors, the Wallflowers and knowing all the words to ``I'm the one who wants to be with you'' by Mr. Big. Not that we don't know the lyrics, we just don't karaoke them.
Grade: C
Chambers, Matt:
Points for: Deftones (respected), Rage Against the Machine, Green Day and Toadies.
Loses for: The Incubus anthology, late Blink 182 and everything glow-stick.
Ideal Karoake song: `Pour Some Sugar on Me' - Def Leoppard
Grade: B
Dalrymple, Kevin
Points for: Pink Floyd, Ozzy Ozbourne, the Superbowl Shuffle and Garth Brooks (lakehouse).
Loses for: The Dixie Chicks, Chumbawamba and, of course, `Magic Carpet Ride' by Steppenwolf. I heard you found Aladdin's lamp.
Ideal Karoake Song: `You've Lost that Loving Feeling' - Top Gun
Grade: B-
Faust, Adam:
Points for: Bright Eyes, The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse and a `Shout Out Loud's' dashboard sticker.
Loses for: An inability to get into Sigur Ros, a dash of Gwen Stefani and The Racoon Twizzlers.
Ideal Karoake Song: `I'm so Tired of Being Alone' - Al Green
Grade: A+
*Give credit where credit is due people. Hell, he made us Christmas CDs with labels and songs thoughtfully geared towards our preferences. That's above and beyond folks.
Lubahn, Brent:
Points for: Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and his admirable devotion to Kenny Chesney.
Loses for: Celine Dion on Valentine's Day, the Monster Ballads album, window-tinted listening to Bone Thugs in Harmony.
Ideal Karaoke Song: ``Chattahoochie'' - Billy Ray Cyrus
Grade: L
Mazur, Michael:
Points for: Sigur Ros, Kris Kristofferson and the Beasties biatch.
Loses for: Playing Kanye West's `College Dropout' for 19 months, the Gyspsy Kings and a Brent Wood EP. (band from college)
Ideal Karaoke Song: ``Let's Start A Riot' - Three-six Mafia
Grade: A-
Miller, Marc:
Points for: Franz Ferdinand, Travis, and the ability to chant `Hay, Beese-a-day, beese-a-day-O, Daylight Come and Yo Wan' go Home' at 4am in his apartment complex.
Loses for: The soundtrack to Solitaire, the CDs he makes for Trista with Fergie and Jimmy Buffet.
Ideal Karaoke Song: ``Why don't we get Drunk and Screw'' - Buffet
Grade: B+
Portillo, Lee:
Points for: Radiohead, Manu Chao, Willie Nelson and Remy Zero.
Loses for: The soundtrack to an Anime Porn, Daft Punk's Greatest Hits and every attempt to Freestyle rap in the history of your life.
Ideal Karaoke Song: `Folsom Prison Blues' - Johnny Cash
Grade: A-
Weiss, Brian:
Points for: Originality in selection, Sigur Ros, and the Gorillaz.
Loses for: DJ Anthrax, Jewel, and Seal.
Ideal Karaoke Song: `Breathe' - Prodigy
Grade: A-
*When you have to make shit up for the `loses for' category, it's a sign of a solid conoseuir.
Williams, Adam
Points for: Dean Martin, Tracy Chapman and Wilco.
Loses for: `Dem Franchise Boy's, telling people in public that he `respects' John Mayer and downloading songs by Adina Howard, Keisha Cole and `Lil Booshie'. Seriously.
Ideal Karaoke Song: `I want it that way' -Backstreet Boys
Grade: B
Valedictorian: Faust
Salutatorians: Mazur, Portillo
Most Likely to Succeed: Weiss
Whitest: Chambers
Blackest: Williams
Hispanic-est: Portillo
Least Diverse: Lubahn
Best Weed Collection: Kevin
Best Third Date Collection: Clint
*Feel free to correct any muscial errors or oversights you may find. Also, please post your worst song, singer or album you have downloaded because you secretly like.
PS - I just dropped to a D because I'm listening to a guy named `Juanes' right now. He's quite bad.
13 comments:
You cannot say Kevin Dalrymple without Led Zeppelin, Im disapointed.
By the way, the last posts were hilarious (especially the one with the album covers). Sorry I didn't respond, I was traveling and I thought the IC had already dug its grave.
(And Im not an Ozzy fan - I do however feel your love with John Denver)
Dixie Chicks and Chumbawumba?! Are you smoking crack?!
My Karoake song is (and has been 3 times in the past): David Allen Coe - You Never Call Me By My Name
I lose points for my undercover love of angry feminist music; Veruca Salt, Alanis Morisette, Tegan & Sara, and Yoko Ono.
As Valedictorian I'd like to thank a few of the little people who helped me climb the lyrical ladder to success....
Miller deserves points for my Arcade Fire discovery.
Williams deserves credit on showing me Willie Nelson and Paul Simon.
I love Modest Mouse as much as anyone in this group, but I was exposed to them by the IC. Weiss and Miller showed me the "Good News" album and Mazur opened my eyes to the dark beauty of their older stuff. But I now own every song they ever recorded so I believe they still belong on my list.
Chambers showed me their is absolutley nothing wrong with rocking out to The Killers.
Lubahn allowed me to seek solace in Tesla's famous lines, "Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs
Fuckin' up the scenery, breakin' my mind. Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign"
Weiss exposed me to socially concicous rap. Which led me to The Streets.
I deserve to lose points for failure to appreciate Sigur Ros. But they sing in an ancient Nordic language, and I'm all about lyrics.
Al Green's 'Tired of Being Alone' is definitely my Karaoke Song of choice. Unless I'm in London in which case it is The Boss's anthem, "Born in the USA"
Love.
by the way i introduced faust to modest mouse...where's my love?
On Mazur's grade I put `(college band)' because I couldn't remember Soviet Space.
Mazur loses points for being a Soviet Space groupie.
I have a love for Fionna Apple that was not discussed...
thank you very much
L
Oooo I love Fiona, too.
Brent Wood's band was called "Middleground." They chose that name when the band found the names "Mediocreband" and "Averageland" to be too edgy.
I do not recall Chambers exposing me to Modest Mouse.
OK FINE! I bought the CHUMBAWUMBA cd WHEN IT CAME OUT, but that's it - I swear.
Other embarrassing CD's in the collection include:
Awesome 80's
Totally 80's
Forever 80's
Vince Neil (ex-Motley Crue lead singer's first album)
Sister Hazel
Encino Man Soundtrack
Atlantis Morissette (still a fan)
Jock Jams (I & II)
Chumbawumba
and...
ok Aladdin is in there too.
I bought Tony Parker's album last week at HEB. Seriously, its very good for an NBA All-Star/Finals MVP. Kid can spit hot fire! How do you say 'spit hot fire' in french Faust?
And Chambers, Miller and I put Faust on Modest Mouse. Go listen to the Spiderman III soundtrack on your ipod guy.
A-Dub, I agree with your assesment but what is DJ anthrax? And I believe I could easily challenge you for 'Blackest'. Ask portillo about the burned mixtapes I lent to portllo for his ride home from scottsdale to l.a., I think every song had fake gunshots dubbed into every track. Ask kevin too, I had three six mafia's greatest hits way before they won an oscar and lost all steet cred.
oddly enough, i probably listened to them before anyone here. i would listen to them at soccer etc well before they had radio play. i then phoned my eccentric friend a.c. faust to inform him of the find.
by the way i am going to punch the shit out of you this weekend...mainly b/c you deserve it.
lbj brawl 07 part duex
quit posing raver.
I was unaware modest mouse released a trance/jungle/breakbeats album...my bad
-skip mooseknuckles
B-Dub, I'm the blackest because:
- I've seen the movie ATL twice
- I have two Young Jeezy albums
- I humped a girl named Korvette
Top that
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