Top Ten Sunday: BILLY IDOL (11/17-11/23)

Lisztomania
1901
J-Boy
If I Ever Feel Better
Too Young
Lasso
Entertainment
Girlfriend
Long Distance Call
Trying to be Cool

I really need to seem them live already

Yeah, that might be the only Phoenix song I dislike. Was pleasantly surprised how much more I enjoyed the rest of the album. ("Artefact" barely missed my list.)

1. You Still Believe In Me
2. God Only Knows
3. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
4. California Girls
5. Good Vibrations
6. Wouldn't It Be Nice
7. Sloop John B
8. Help Me, Rhonda
9. Surfin Safari
10. Surfin USA

1. God Only Knows
2. Help Me Rhonda
3. Sloop John B
4. Barbara Ann
5. I Get Around
6. Wouldn't It Be Nice
7. Fun, Fun, Fun
8. Little Deuce Coupe
9. In My Room
10. Kokomo

HM: Little Saint Nick

1. Surf's Up
2. God Only Knows
3. Dance, Dance, Dance
4. Don't Go Near the Water
5. Wouldn't it Be Nice
6. Good Vibrations
7. Don't Talk (Put Your Hand On My Shoulder)
8. Cool, Cool Water
9. Caroline, No
10. Help Me Rhonda

HM: Little St. Nick, Little Pad, Sloop John B, Barbara Ann, Heroes and Villains, A Day in the Life of a Tree, Our Sweet Love

1. Don't Talk (Put Your Hand On My Shoulder)
2. California Girls
3. God Only Knows
4. I Know There's An Answer
5. Surf's Up
6. All I Wanna Do
7. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
8. Heroes & Villains
9. Airplane
10. Here She Comes

PHOENIX RESULTS:

1. 1901 - 49
2. Lisztomania - 44
3. If I Ever Feel Better - 41
4. Lasso - 29
5. Entertainment - 23
6. Long Distance Call - 21
7. J-Boy - 19
8. Armistice - 17
9. Girlfriend - 14
T-10. Countdown - 10
T-10. Alpha Zulu - 10

Christ, I'm so far behind. And Phoenix was my nomination! For shame.

I'll start there and work backward on the acts I'm actually qualified to comment on:

1. Rome (partially influenced by how awesome this was live when I was rolling absolutely off my face, but whatever)
2. 1901
3. Lasso
4. Armistice
5. Lisztomania
6. Love Like a Sunset (both parts as one tune, if that's allowed)
7. Entertainment
8. Girlfriend
9. J-Boy
10. If I Ever Feel Better

JOANNA NEWSOM (attn: Rummy 500)

1. Sawdust and Diamonds
2. Baby Birch
3. En Gallop
4. Cosmia
5. Have One on Me
6. Go Long
7. Sadie
8. Sprout and the Bean
9. Anecdotes
10. Peach, Plum, Pear

JOANNA NEWSOM TOP 10:
1. "Emily" - forever and ever. This is truly one of the best lyrical masterpieces ever written, IMO.

And say, say, say in the lee of the bay, don't be bothered

Leave your troubles here where the tugboats shear the water from the water

Flanked by furrows, curling back, like a match held up to a newspaper

Emily, they'll follow your lead by the letter

And I make this claim, and I'm not ashamed to say I knew you better

What they've seen is just a beam of your sun that banishes winter

2. Baby Birch
3. Sawdust & Diamonds
4. Time, as a Symptom
5. Does Not Suffice
6. Have One On Me
7. In California
8. Divers
9. Only Skin
10. Anecdotes

HMs (just a few - so many that I love)
Sapokanikan
Good Intentions Paving Company
Cosmia
Peach, Plum, Pear
The Book of Right On
Go Long
Sadie

Kinda wild that Paul Dano has not only never won an Oscar but has never even been *nominated*

BEACH BOYS RESULTS:

1. God Only Knows - 74
2. Wouldn't It Be Nice - 47
3. Good Vibrations - 40
4. Surf's Up - 33
5. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) - 30
6. California Girls - 27
7. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times - 25
T-8. Don't Worry Baby - 21
T-8. Help Me Rhonda - 21
T-8. Sloop John B - 21

Lana del Rey week starts now!

1. Old Money
2. Gods & Monsters
3. Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have
4. Arcadia
5. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
6. Chemtrails Over the Country Club
7. Love
8. Young and Beautiful
9. Born to Die
10. Cinnamon Girl

HM: Blue Jeans, Video Games, Dance Till We Die, Yosemite, Beautiful, Paris Texas, Heroin, In My Feelings, Cola, Money Power Glory, California, Love Song, Happiness is a Butterfly, Venice Bitch, and pretty much all the rest of NFR.

1. Venice Bitch
2. Video Games
3. Young and Beautiful
4. Mariners Apartment Complex
5. hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it
6. West Coast
7. Let the Light In
8. Let Me Love You Like A Woman
9. Wild At Heart
10. If You Lie Down With Me