Lacuna Coil got another song, "The Maze", on the 100 Best Songs List in the final day of my two years plus of comparing songs. It was their second song to be on my list. I published this list on The Overcast Inside in October.
Lacuna Coil first reached the list with "Not Enough" which was on my 25 Best Songs List, originally published on Fast Food Yummy because I didn't have a music blog at that time.
Both songs are on the album "Shallow Life" (2009). I bought the CD in the spring of 2009 and went to the Lacuna Coil concert in Boise, Idaho the summer of the same year.
Both songs received strong consideration almost from the start of my work on this project, which was unpaid work but was similar to if I‘d done it for the newspaper I was a writer for in the past, or for a music magazine. I‘ve never worked for a music magazine, and I‘m probably not interested anymore.
Now that the list is finished, and I feel I've been fair and objective with everybody-- all bands/artists-- I will write more about albums/CDs and also share my personal opinion and thoughts, perhaps even more about favorites.
The 100 Best Rock Songs List is a serious and legitimate list.
All the songs on the list are great songs which have been thought about (though not over-analyzed) in several ways, including the music, melodies, beat, tempo, interesting tempo changes, lead singing, backing vocals, lyrics, instrumental parts of songs (some songs were instrumentals for the whole song) and how much I liked the instruments the way the musicians played them throughout songs. I also look at intros, extros, bridges, etc., but I didn’t think those alone were enough to get ‘just good’ songs on the list or keep great songs off the list, but sometimes those things really made a difference. Some songs were mainstream, popular, or what are referred to as commercial songs. I will add more on this subject if I can think of something else that is important.
It’s necessary to know that there were many great songs that did not make the list, and that's one reason why I’ve been thinking about continuing with another 100 songs (same years of 1970 to 2010 and maybe a couple more songs from 1969 that carry over to the '70s) which would make that list 101 to 200. I already know many songs that did not make the top 100 but were very close.
First I’m going to update the list of 100 to include some 2011 songs.
I used the word “best” but everyone should make their own list of best rock songs, if that’s what they choose to do.
My list has what I thought were the best songs from all the songs I’ve listened to, and my reason to call it the “best” was so people don’t mistakenly think it’s only a list of favorites. However, I’d say all the songs on the 100 Best List are among my one thousand or two thousand favorites. I like great songs. I think everyone else does too. We just have different lists based upon what we think makes a song great.
Some of the songs were singles and big hits. However, there are quite a few of these songs that I never heard on the radio, although maybe they were played on the radio in other countries. I’ve never heard Lacuna Coil‘s song “The Maze” on the radio. It’s a very exciting, interesting, enjoyable song to listen to and I wish it was played on the radio. The decisions made about which songs become singles aren’t always right.
“The Maze” is one of 100 great songs on my list, with it’s strengths being that it really rocks, has terrific singing by Andrea Ferro (male vocalist) and Cristina Scabbia (female vocalist), and the lyrics are better than some of the classic rock and grunge rock songs eliminated from consideration on the final day of compiling my list. It’s among the finest singing ever in the chorus, in my opinion, especially by Cristina. I’m really impressed by the songwriting and music, and the bass playing and drumming make this song very interesting from start to finish. Well, actually Cristina has the last word.
Lacuna Coil first reached the list with "Not Enough" which was on my 25 Best Songs List, originally published on Fast Food Yummy because I didn't have a music blog at that time.
Both songs are on the album "Shallow Life" (2009). I bought the CD in the spring of 2009 and went to the Lacuna Coil concert in Boise, Idaho the summer of the same year.
Both songs received strong consideration almost from the start of my work on this project, which was unpaid work but was similar to if I‘d done it for the newspaper I was a writer for in the past, or for a music magazine. I‘ve never worked for a music magazine, and I‘m probably not interested anymore.
Now that the list is finished, and I feel I've been fair and objective with everybody-- all bands/artists-- I will write more about albums/CDs and also share my personal opinion and thoughts, perhaps even more about favorites.
The 100 Best Rock Songs List is a serious and legitimate list.
All the songs on the list are great songs which have been thought about (though not over-analyzed) in several ways, including the music, melodies, beat, tempo, interesting tempo changes, lead singing, backing vocals, lyrics, instrumental parts of songs (some songs were instrumentals for the whole song) and how much I liked the instruments the way the musicians played them throughout songs. I also look at intros, extros, bridges, etc., but I didn’t think those alone were enough to get ‘just good’ songs on the list or keep great songs off the list, but sometimes those things really made a difference. Some songs were mainstream, popular, or what are referred to as commercial songs. I will add more on this subject if I can think of something else that is important.
It’s necessary to know that there were many great songs that did not make the list, and that's one reason why I’ve been thinking about continuing with another 100 songs (same years of 1970 to 2010 and maybe a couple more songs from 1969 that carry over to the '70s) which would make that list 101 to 200. I already know many songs that did not make the top 100 but were very close.
First I’m going to update the list of 100 to include some 2011 songs.
I used the word “best” but everyone should make their own list of best rock songs, if that’s what they choose to do.
My list has what I thought were the best songs from all the songs I’ve listened to, and my reason to call it the “best” was so people don’t mistakenly think it’s only a list of favorites. However, I’d say all the songs on the 100 Best List are among my one thousand or two thousand favorites. I like great songs. I think everyone else does too. We just have different lists based upon what we think makes a song great.
Some of the songs were singles and big hits. However, there are quite a few of these songs that I never heard on the radio, although maybe they were played on the radio in other countries. I’ve never heard Lacuna Coil‘s song “The Maze” on the radio. It’s a very exciting, interesting, enjoyable song to listen to and I wish it was played on the radio. The decisions made about which songs become singles aren’t always right.
“The Maze” is one of 100 great songs on my list, with it’s strengths being that it really rocks, has terrific singing by Andrea Ferro (male vocalist) and Cristina Scabbia (female vocalist), and the lyrics are better than some of the classic rock and grunge rock songs eliminated from consideration on the final day of compiling my list. It’s among the finest singing ever in the chorus, in my opinion, especially by Cristina. I’m really impressed by the songwriting and music, and the bass playing and drumming make this song very interesting from start to finish. Well, actually Cristina has the last word.
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