Ben Meyers' (a huge Bob Dylan fan) whose recent posts have been very delightful, has seemingly forgotten a very important category, popular music. Never fear I have seen this deficiency and have attempted to rectify it here on my blog.
Popular Music for the Apocalyptic Imagination
- Glosoli - Sigur Ros - Takk
- Vertigo - U2 - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
- Everything in its
- Hey Man (Now Your Really Living) - Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
- Devils and Dust - Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust
- 2+2=5 - Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
- Now It's On - Grandaddy - Sumday
- Change - Tracy Chapman - Where You Live
- At the Bottom of Everything - Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
- Wake Up - Rage Against the Machine - RATM
- Old Shit/New Shit - Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
- Workin' On Leavin' The Livin' - Modest Mouse - Building Nothing out of Smoething
- Criticism as Inspiration - Pedro The Lion - The Only Reason I feel Secure
- Killing in The Name Of - Rage Against the Machine - RATM (in a Walter Wink sort of way)
- The Seer's Tower - Sufjan Stevens -
- I Have Forgiven - Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
I am sure that there are some glaring omissions (like no Bob Dylan, but I will leave that to Ben), but I have a limited CD collection!
2 comments:
I like the red pill.
Really just about EVERY song on "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" deserves to be on the list. Yahweh - what a moving song!
Here are a few more:
1) RATM - Testify
2) Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
3) Bad Religion - 21st C. Digital Boy
4) Rancid - Salvation
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