![]() ![]() "Don't Look Back in Anger" has to be one of the best songs to have come out of Britain during the nineties.Oasis' "Live Forever" is epic in musical form."Wheel in the Sky" is another awesome Journey song."Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" is another amazing uplifting song by Journey.That does not diminish its awesomeness, however. "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey is so awesome that it's reached the point of parody due to overuse in Sports Venues and the end of The Sopranos.The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' "Power Up" is as kickass as the name demands.The Men They Couldn't Hang have a song called "The Ghosts of Cable Street", about the Battle of Cable Street, when a mob of enraged East-Enders beating the tar out of a parade of Black Shirts.Grinderman 2 opens with "Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man," which manages to rock balls-out, and feature some sexy howling.The song "No Pussy Blues" is 4 1/2 minutes of shouting about a mid-life crisis, set to some of the noisiest guitar you'll ever hear. Nick Cave's "Into My Arms" kicks arse like nothing alive."Hiding All Away", "Abattoir Blues", "Carry Me", and "O Children" stand out. Nick Cave's double album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus contains a few of these things.Intelligent, sexual, lustful, with slinky rhythms and alternately pleading, sneering, and snarling, but always achingly honest lyrics, Phair's debut record was one for the ages. Liz Phair's debut album Exile in Guyville is one of the most important rock records ever recorded."Name" is what propelled the band to huge popularity, and for good reason."Give a Little Bit", Covered Up from the already amazing Supertramp.Both "Iris" and "Better Days" are just uplifting!.The Goo Goo Dolls have awesome songs like "Sympathy", "Here Is Gone", "Let Love In", "Black Balloon", "Feel the Silence", "Slide", "Stay with You", "Falling Down", "Long Way Down" and more.There's a world, goin' on, UNDERGROUND!.Take everything off the album Rain Dogs.His crowning moment has to be "On The Nickel." Who thought a song about Skid Row could be so beautiful?.Tom Waits has quite a few amazingly good songs, but his awesomest would have to be "Goin' Out West" and "Hoist That Rag".That intro.That guitar solo.The lyrics, hell everything about this song is amazing. "I always flirt with death, I look ill but I don't care about it! I can face your threats and stand up straight and tall and shout about it! I think I'm on another world with you, with you." "Another Girl, Another Planet" by the Only Ones."Where Do The Children Play?" "Will you keep on building higher 'til there's no more room up there?"."Yes I'm being followed by a Moonshadow, moonshadow moonshadow." I let my music take me where my heart wants to go." "I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul. Cat definitely qualifies as awesome, if only because his lyrics are so beautiful. ![]()
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