100 days. Over 1,000 songs. At this moment in time, eleven Fantaversians have racked their brains, searched their souls and gutted their iPods for what they deem to be their 100 personal favorite pieces of music of all time. From now until July 9th (if my math is right), we will be showcasing exactly one song per person per day, until we reach everybody's #1. The people involved at this time are:
Shrykespeare
NSpan
numbersix
Geezer
becs
undeadmonkey
leestu
Buscemi
silversurfer
transformers2
W
(edited to add)
BanksIsDaFuture (at #80)
englishozzy (at #75)
BarcaRulz (at #72)
There are not many rules to this thing, so let's get them out of the way:
1) Up until the day a song is posted, any changes can be made to your list. A song can be moved up or dropped entirely in favor of another song, but once a song is posted, it's set in stone. To go back and change stuff would be way too confusing, so make sure your list is exactly where you want it before it's posted.
2) This entire endeavor is to showcase our personal likes and tastes. We are not doing this to show off our musical knowledge or question each other's taste levels (no matter how much we may want to). We are all friends here, and each and every participant is virtually certain to post songs that others will hate with a passion or to love with equal passion, and everything in between. But if there is a song that is posted that you truly loathe, and you feel you must comment on said loathing, just say you hate it and let that be the end of it. Again, this endeavor is just for fun and I don't want it degenerating into squalid set-tos about whose taste in music is better, or more diverse, or more hip, or more modern, etc.
3) Those who will be following this thread (and all subsequent threads) but not participate are, of course, welcome to make comments, but be warned: any truly harsh criticism you may have may be severely edited, if not deleted. I don't want to seem draconian about this, but there is a price for the right to criticize: namely, come up with your own damn list of songs and join in the fun. We are wearing our musical hearts on our sleeves here, laying bare our musical soul, and of course all of the haranguing that doing so entails. If you think your taste level is so much better than one (or all) of ours, I have three words to say: prove it, jackass. (Huge grin.)
Now, if any of you really want to join, but the prospect of coming up with a Top 100 is too daunting or time consuming, it's no problem. You can do a Top 20, a Top 50, a Top 80, however many you want. And when our countdown reaches the appropriate number, I will be more than happy to add your selections to the group's. But be warned: if you join, be fully prepared to ride this train all the way to the end.
Since I will be posting everybody's selections at the same time, I would ask, if you do want to join, to do what everyone else is doing: e-mail me your lists. (You can PM them to me too, but I would prefer you just e-mail me. If you don't know my e-mail address, you have but to ask.) And another thing: I would prefer you not send your lists to me in their entirety. It will be three months before we finish, and any or all of your upcoming songs may change order before we get there. I would therefore ask that you only send me 10-15 songs at a time, in the following format:
Song Number
Artist, "Song Name"
A brief paragraph about the artist, song or album, and why you love it so much
The YouTube code for the video that you want me to post (if there is one)
Here's an example:
104. The Rolling Stones, “Gimme Shelter”
They say this is the Stones going political, but Richards claims he came up with the song when watching Jagger have sex with a groupie. It must have been pretty damn inspiring to generate an intro like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJVkIgps_6o
And that's all there is to it. I would like to thank everyone who agreed to join me in this endeavor (which has become an obsession in the last two weeks), and I honestly don't know what I'm looking forward to more: seeing our vast differences, our incredible similarities, or just rocking the f--k out to stuff I never heard before. The ten (so far) people represent different ages, different locales, different backgrounds, different genders (glad to have becs along to keep us guys honest), and even different continents.
Here's to the next 100 days, dear friends. The highs, the lows, the many, many, WTF moments. I haven't been this stoked for anything since the start of the very first Super Leagues. This is going to be so, SO MUCH FUN!!
Post #1, Song #100, will commence approximately 4-5 hours from this post.
Another of their's (a track called "Isolation") ALMOST made the cut. Subbing it out for "Hurricane Heart Attack" was the LAST change I made before submitting my final list. But, don't worry, my absolute favorite Warlocks song is within my Top 100... and comin' up before too long.