A Quick Note...

[minor_incident]

If you ever find yourself conversing with someone, and they begin a sentence with:

"The best Nirvana song ever is..."

And then proceed to end that sentence with anything other than "Drain You," it is your duty to slap them, because they're horribly wrong.

Comments

[fuck_aesthetic]

I'm sorry, but the answer is actually Tourettes. Then Farmer Francis Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle. Then maybe Drain You. Maybe.

[minor_incident]

Yeah, but you probably also think "Tangerine" isn't the best Led Zeppelin song, and that "Tie Your Mother Down" isn't the best Queen song.

Infidel.

[fuck_aesthetic]

I also think that you're retarded. Nyah.

And Whole Lotta Love is the best Zeppelin song, but not for the obvious reasons. Because of the guitar solo that breaks that weird drum interlude. Turn it way up, like waaaay up on a set of good headphones or really decent speakers. That is the ballsiest, most confident guitar playing ever recorded. You can hear him shaking his hair around while he was playing it. You can feel the glow on the tubes. It is simultaneously a glorious achievement in terms of guitar playing and in terms of music recording. I'm sorry but Tangerine can piss right off.

[minor_incident]

Whole Lotta Love = badass guitar.

However.

The earth-shaking guitar during the line "I've walked away from more than you imagine..." of the Wrens' "Everyone Choose Sides," The squeeling guitar fill before the chorus to Radiohead's "Electioneering," and Paul Westerberg's scream at the beginning of "Bastards of Young" are all equally, if not more, ballsy and badass Rock and Roll moments than the solo on Whole Lotta Love.

I could list a good dozen more, but I'll spare you.

Don't even get me started on that fucking scream near the end of Won't Get Fooled Again. THAT'S what rage sounds like in a song.

[carlfinnegan]

I can't entirely disagree. Though the solo on Verse Chorus Verse kills me.

[minor_incident]

The goddamn squeak toy is what does me in on Drain You. That interlude is the most brilliant thing any of those three ever touched.

[alonewestand]

i agree, and that's why we're in love.

[alonewestand]

don't you have like 10 girlfriends?

[chronovore]

As long as we can agree that their cover of The Man Who Sold the World is on par with the original, I will agree to your terms.

[minor_incident]

I'd actually up that to "slightly better than the original."

That, along with the Pixies' cover of "Head On" are two of the very few covers that I hold in higher regard than the originals.

Oh, and maybe Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower."

[chronovore]

Actually, I had meant to type "at least on par." I'll have to look up The Pixies cover; I've got both Frank Black solo albums, but somehow never got into The Pixies. Weird, huh?

Ditto on Hendrix.