As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Monday, November 10, 2014

#10 Brian Wilson -- Barenaked Ladies (1997)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51zsxbB8WS8

Semi-biographical ode to the troubled musical genius of the Beach Boys – great enough that Brian Wilson himself started doing a cover version of the song in concert. I don’t often listen to the Washington rock station (DC 101), but for some reason I had it on one night in the late 1990s and they played the live version of this from BNL’s Rock Spectacle album. This is definitely one of those songs where the live version far exceeds the original studio recording, so much so that it’s the version that the band included on their best-of compilation.
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