Comments on: 25 Songs I Wish I’d Written http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/ The takeover. The break's over. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:02:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Kirk http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/#comment-1962 Kirk Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:57:06 +0000 http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/?p=321#comment-1962 I'm clearly way past the expiration date on this post, but "Black" by Pearl Jam needs to go on these lists. <i>"I know some day you'll have a beautiful life/I know you'll be the sun/in somebody else's sky/but why can't it be mine?" Absolute genius.</i> I’m clearly way past the expiration date on this post, but “Black” by Pearl Jam needs to go on these lists.

“I know some day you’ll have a beautiful life/I know you’ll be the sun/in somebody else’s sky/but why can’t it be mine?” Absolute genius.

]]> By: Auroon http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/#comment-1961 Auroon Sat, 04 Feb 2006 03:19:00 +0000 http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/?p=321#comment-1961 No explanation? No explanation?

]]> By: Auroon http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/#comment-1960 Auroon Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:51:26 +0000 http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/?p=321#comment-1960 Whether you like Nas or not, I think you have to have atleast one Nas song on there, preferably something from Illmatic or I am. I would have put Nas, "Black Girl Lost" on that list. Realistically, if you were a lyrical critic, that B.I.G. verse is only good because it's a tough-guy verse...I would have rather written Sky's The Limit or Machine Gun Funk as they showed his lyrical capabilities the best. Additionally, you know that Cal-Berkely has a class dedicated to Tupac's writing right? Whether you like him, his music, or is message it doesn't matter...no one wrote more truth and put more of himself out there than Tupac. Period. He may not be the best rapper ever, but as far as writing skills, you'd be a bad song critic not to mention most if not all of his songs for their depth and breadth of subject material as well as painting a picture of the struggle, the rise, and everything in between. Credit needs to be given where credit is due. What other rapper would have a class about him at a respected university such Berkely besides Tupac? That Biggie verse is all crime, drugs and gun play, how can you call that his best verse? Especially compared to Sky's The Limit or the songs off of Ready to Die...can you explain yourself? It would just help me. I can see the Ghostface verse being ill, but I don't understand the Biggie verse being in that list or even being remotely considered as his best verse. Whether you like Nas or not, I think you have to have atleast one Nas song on there, preferably something from Illmatic or I am. I would have put Nas, “Black Girl Lost” on that list.

Realistically, if you were a lyrical critic, that B.I.G. verse is only good because it’s a tough-guy verse…I would have rather written Sky’s The Limit or Machine Gun Funk as they showed his lyrical capabilities the best.

Additionally, you know that Cal-Berkely has a class dedicated to Tupac’s writing right? Whether you like him, his music, or is message it doesn’t matter…no one wrote more truth and put more of himself out there than Tupac. Period. He may not be the best rapper ever, but as far as writing skills, you’d be a bad song critic not to mention most if not all of his songs for their depth and breadth of subject material as well as painting a picture of the struggle, the rise, and everything in between.

Credit needs to be given where credit is due.

What other rapper would have a class about him at a respected university such Berkely besides Tupac?

That Biggie verse is all crime, drugs and gun play, how can you call that his best verse? Especially compared to Sky’s The Limit or the songs off of Ready to Die…can you explain yourself? It would just help me. I can see the Ghostface verse being ill, but I don’t understand the Biggie verse being in that list or even being remotely considered as his best verse.

]]> By: amanda jo http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/#comment-1959 amanda jo Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:44:36 +0000 http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/?p=321#comment-1959 Some of the more popular songs I wish I had written include the aforementioned Bowie/Mercury anthem (btw: let's have a moment of silence, I heard that Bowie had a stroke the other day and I really can not BEAR the thought of a world without him). Also -- more by Queen (because I think Freddie Mercury was a black wooman born in the body of a Middle Eastern homosexual): "Another One Bites the Dust" my favorite break-up song, and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (its romantic antithesis). "Ziggy Stardust," "Rock'n'Roll Suicide" and "Stone Love" by Bowie. "Say a Little Prayer" by Aretha, Zeppelin's "Kashmir" (purely for its instrumental majesty), Prince's "1999" (seriously, what a cash cow), Otis Redding's "Sittin on the Dock of the Bay," and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son." I'll stop there but I encourage the list of songs that you wish were written about you. It would certainly be a revelatory exercise but maybe all your readers would write back with what songs they think were written for you. Some of the more popular songs I wish I had written include the aforementioned Bowie/Mercury anthem (btw: let’s have a moment of silence, I heard that Bowie had a stroke the other day and I really can not BEAR the thought of a world without him).

Also — more by Queen (because I think Freddie Mercury was a black wooman born in the body of a Middle Eastern homosexual): “Another One Bites the Dust” my favorite break-up song, and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (its romantic antithesis). “Ziggy Stardust,” “Rock’n'Roll Suicide” and “Stone Love” by Bowie. “Say a Little Prayer” by Aretha, Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” (purely for its instrumental majesty), Prince’s “1999″ (seriously, what a cash cow), Otis Redding’s “Sittin on the Dock of the Bay,” and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son.”

I’ll stop there but I encourage the list of songs that you wish were written about you. It would certainly be a revelatory exercise but maybe all your readers would write back with what songs they think were written for you.

]]> By: Smokedog http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/#comment-1958 Smokedog Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:03:28 +0000 http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/?p=321#comment-1958 1. Lenny Williams - Lenny sings, cries, screams, wails, and talks in a song that explores every aspect of L-O-V-E. 2. Smokey Robinson "Cruisin" 3. James Moody's "Moody's Mood for Love 4. Wu Tang - A Better Tomorrow 5. Bob Marley - Trenchtown Rock I am definetly feeling you on your top 5 though I would have pushed victory back to NO.7 and put Under Pressure and No Woman No Cry ahead at 5 and 6. 1. Lenny Williams - Lenny sings, cries, screams, wails, and talks in a song that explores every aspect of L-O-V-E.
2. Smokey Robinson “Cruisin”
3. James Moody’s “Moody’s Mood for Love
4. Wu Tang - A Better Tomorrow
5. Bob Marley - Trenchtown Rock

I am definetly feeling you on your top 5 though I would have pushed victory back to NO.7 and put Under Pressure and No Woman No Cry ahead at 5 and 6.

]]> By: Garner http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/#comment-1957 Garner Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:41:42 +0000 http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/?p=321#comment-1957 "Ghost"--Indigo Girls Captures the feeling of lost love like few other songs. "Dark and dangerous like a secret that gets whispered in a hush/When I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush/When you kiss me like a lover and you sting me like a viper/I go follow to the river play your memory like the piper" Damn. “Ghost”–Indigo Girls
Captures the feeling of lost love like few other songs. “Dark and dangerous like a secret that gets whispered in a hush/When I wake the things I dreamt about you last night make me blush/When you kiss me like a lover and you sting me like a viper/I go follow to the river play your memory like the piper” Damn.

]]> By: Lea http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/#comment-1956 Lea Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:59:17 +0000 http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/?p=321#comment-1956 OMG, Bo! You so hit the nail on the head with "One" by U2. First of all, Bono is one of the coolest people to ever walk the earth, but that song is all about me and my ex... and like you said, I am so fuckin' jaded! p.s. I love your Van Morrison, Queen/Bowie, and Pink Floyd choices, too! OMG, Bo! You so hit the nail on the head with “One” by U2. First of all, Bono is one of the coolest people to ever walk the earth, but that song is all about me and my ex… and like you said, I am so fuckin’ jaded!

p.s. I love your Van Morrison, Queen/Bowie, and Pink Floyd choices, too!

]]> By: Lea http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/#comment-1955 Lea Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:57:54 +0000 http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/?p=321#comment-1955 OMG, Bo! You so hit the nail on the head with "One" by U2. First of all, Bono is one of the coolest people to ever walk the earth, but that song is all about me and my ex... and like you said, I am so fuckin' jaded! p.s. I love your Van Morrison, Queen/Bowie, and Pink Floyd choices, too! OMG, Bo! You so hit the nail on the head with “One” by U2. First of all, Bono is one of the coolest people to ever walk the earth, but that song is all about me and my ex… and like you said, I am so fuckin’ jaded!

p.s. I love your Van Morrison, Queen/Bowie, and Pink Floyd choices, too!

]]> By: Rex http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/#comment-1954 Rex Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:14:06 +0000 http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/?p=321#comment-1954 Hey Jaedalaurez, isn't Ani DiFranco cool? I saw her in concert and was floored! She has very, very interesting lyrics. Hey Jaedalaurez, isn’t Ani DiFranco cool? I saw her in concert and was floored! She has very, very interesting lyrics.

]]> By: jaedalaurez http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2006/01/27/25-songs-i-wish-id-written/#comment-1953 jaedalaurez Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:55:28 +0000 http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/?p=321#comment-1953 Bakardi Slang by Kardinal Offishall Get By by Talib Kweli You Bring Me Joy, Fairy Tales and Lonely Girl by Anita Baker Uninvited by Alanis Morrisette Hasta Ayer by Marc Anthony No Morira by DLG A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke 32 Flavors by Ani DeFranco Bring me Some Water by Melissa Etheridge Brown Skin by India Arie Jezebel by Sade A Song for You by Donnie Hathaway Sunshine After the Rain by Monday Michiru Never Let you Down is my fave track on that whole album...the first time I heard it, I had to play it about 6 times in a row, just LISTENING to J. Ivy's verse- "my rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental- THAT'S why I'm instrumental" ....??? are you KIDDING me? Fi-yah!!!!! Bakardi Slang by Kardinal Offishall
Get By by Talib Kweli
You Bring Me Joy, Fairy Tales and Lonely Girl by Anita Baker
Uninvited by Alanis Morrisette
Hasta Ayer by Marc Anthony
No Morira by DLG
A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
32 Flavors by Ani DeFranco
Bring me Some Water by Melissa Etheridge
Brown Skin by India Arie
Jezebel by Sade
A Song for You by Donnie Hathaway
Sunshine After the Rain by Monday Michiru

Never Let you Down is my fave track on that whole album…the first time I heard it, I had to play it about 6 times in a row, just LISTENING to J. Ivy’s verse- “my rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental- THAT’S why I’m instrumental” ….??? are you KIDDING me? Fi-yah!!!!!

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