What follows below are isolated tracks from otherwise largely forgettable LPs or soundtracks. Everyone has something great in them right. Some people just need to learn to edit better.
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
Beck is an amazing soul singer. I honestly wish he would throw aside the party rockin' funboy schtick and go back to his roots. This, like Sea Change, is where he shines best and this is truly a moving/heartbreaking/asskicking/truerealtrue/wise up song.
Here Beck covers a Korgis' number for the Jon Brion (one of my favorities who bombed here) produced soundtrack to Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind... a choppy but thoughtful Charlie Kaufman/Michel Gondry joynt. This track just rings & rings. SCHWING!
Hear Beck
Hear the original by The Korgis (Note: this was #1 in France and Spain)
Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
Okay - my inspirado for this whole bit. This is a nearly perfect (albeit overproduced) pop song. The chorus/verse/bridge etc are just perfectly linked together and it is just balls deep in hooks. And, yes, the rest of the album, Stoneage Romeos, is pretty much mindless, Aussie bar rock. Utter vegashite. But please give this a whirl on your 0101010 reader and agree with me.
Hear I Want You Back
Monkees - The Porpoise Song
This is another of my favoritest songs ever and I'd just as soon drink from the dick of a goat as listen to other Monkee records or watch this ridiculous, bullshit psycheTRIPPY! movie. However, this is an inspired, anthemic and just beautiful song. So beautifully orchestrated, smartly arranged and, unlike 99% of the Monkees, it just doesn't try too hard and contains no gratuitous hair flips or ass wiggles.
Hear Porpoise
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