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My list changes hourly I think, but right now, I'd say:

10. Hoover Dam (Sugar) - Neat and loud, I can't listen to this enough 
either.  My Sugar CD with this on it has been through hell, and that song 
still plays.  I think that's a sign from someone...  I just went to Hoover 
Dam for the first time a few months ago, and just assumed that this song 
would be playing on a loop all around, but alas...

9. This Woman's Work (Kate Bush) - Mostly because of her voice, so fragile 
and powerful, rushed and relaxed, all at the same time.  And vulnerable.  
Great songwriting too.

8. Captain of Her Heart (Double) - This is like a wuss easy listening song, 
but it uses an economy of lyric and great melody to convey a breakup.  "So 
long ago, so far away, she couldn't wait another day..."

7. Find the River (R.E.M.) - Too many great REM songs out there.  This one 
always lifts me, the music and lyric.  Perhaps "Ergemine and vetiver" is the 
best rhyme of "river" in history.

6. Big Hush (Shriekback) - An amazing song, really sedate and a hypnotic 
bassline, with that disturbing almost spoken vocal.  It was used in Michael 
Mann's "Manhunter", which is being redone as a supposedly more proper 
prequel to "Silence of the Lambs" now.  I can listen to this looped for a 
long time.  Holy cow, and don't get me started on the genius Unifon lyric 
sheet...

5. Weather With You (Crowded House) - A long ass verse, chorus, and then the 
same chorus, and then a little music break, and then more chorus?!  That's 
ridiculous!!  Wahooey!  Pop perfection.  Too bad us American's weren't smart 
enough to hear it on the radio..  :)

4. I Believe/All I Need to Know (medley) (Duranduran) - Great lyric, and 
like tons of great lyrics, can be applied to a variety of situations.  "I 
was tempted by the Devil in His deep blue swimming pool..  Until the Devil's 
makeup ran.  And my future's in a stranglehold of everchanging rules - I 
don't intend to understand."

3. Drowned World/Substitute for Love (Madonna) - I don't talk lyrics a lot, 
but I have about this song once to a Madonna fan and we disagreed..  I think 
it's her saying, "yeah, yeah, I gave up fame, or had it taken away, for 
awhile, to have a kid, a family..  That's fine and all, but now I want fame 
again" which is an awesome statement for a star to make.  "and now...  I 
find...  I've changed my mind"

2. Fragile (Sting) - sure, sure.  E.T. said to "be good", but Sting says to 
be good to eachother..  Whatever, dude..  :)

1. Secret Oktober (Duran Duran) - Wowee, - to my brain, the best lyrics ever 
written.  Useable art.  I covered it terribly on a Duran tribute album, a 
worse butchering than I did for Happy with Myself?  "the new day breaks like 
a speeding train or an old friend, ever expected, but never knocking"

though they do pretend, they won't go when I go,
Bruce

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