Q magazine`1001 Best Songs`; two Costello songs featured

[johnfoyle]

see
http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music ... rce=116524

Q magazine have brought out one of their bright ,
flashy , graphic laden specials , this time all about
their choice of the 1001 best songs . U2`s One is
No.One - which makes a difference from Bohemian
Rhapsody(No.524) or Imagine(127), I suppose .

Elvis features with Pump It Up at 474 and I Want
You at 194. Pump.. is classified as `BEST FOR`
throwing punchy soul moves. The accompanying text
(credited to Tom Doyle)notes

WHAT IT DOES Cribs the disdainful delivery of
Dylan`s Subterranean Homesick Blues for Costello`s
ultimate rant. With The Attractions providing the
muscular Stax-cum-garage-rock it`s an atypical but
genuine floor-filler.
FACT He wrote it on the fire escape at a Newcastle
hotel during Stiff Records` 1977 tour - disgusted that
his roadmates were taking the sex and drugs and
rock`n`roll ethos all too literally.
FILE WITH Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan;
Reward by Teardrops Explodes.
GET IT This Years Model

I Want You is BEST FOR destroying yourself. Emma
Warren notes
WHAT IT DOES Throws your worst paranoid fears
back at you. Brutal and vicious , Costello whispers
stalker violence and obsesses two-note guitar solos.
Chris Martin once described Trouble as " a bad song
that can make things worse". I Want You is exactly
that - times a thousand.
FACT Recorded live in the studio on one mic, it
comes from Blood And Chocolate Costello`s (first)
divorce album.
FILE WITH Knives Out by Radiohead ; Sweet
Surrender by Tim Buckley
GET IT Blood And Chocolate
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See the Q Top 10 here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 281327.stm

[migdd]

I though Goodbye Cruel World was Elvis' first divorce album. . .?

[Watching_Detectives]

GCW was...wasn't it. Wasn't Elvis just getting married?

[Uncomplicated]

I'm surprised that the Mighty "Bohemian Rhapsody" was ranked so low....

The best song of all time in my book!

Unc

[Jackson Doofster]

let me guess......

25 Oasis songs
10 by Coldplay
12 Travis
400 by REM
400 by U2
the rest an assortment of AOR