![]() ![]() Ruby Tuesday (Jagger/Richards) performed by Rolling Stones –“She comes and goes, no one knows…”ġ0. Is That All There Is? (Lieber/Stoller) performed by Peggy Lee –A life-flashing-before-your-eyes songĩ. Over the Rainbow (Arlen/Harburg) performed by Judy Garland –“That’s where you’ll find me”Ĩ. America (Paul Simon) performed by Simon & Garfunkle –“Toss me a cigarette I think there’s one in my raincoat…”ħ. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) performed by Bob Dylan –“You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you”Ħ. Coming Back To Me (Marty Balin) performed by Jefferson Airplane –“Through a window where no curtain hung I saw you…coming back to me…”ĥ. The Good Life (Distel/Broussolle/Reardon) performed by Nancy Wilson –A love song with a tantalizingly puzzling messageĤ. Day In the Life (Lennon/McCartney) performed by The Beatles –“Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall”ģ. strongly realized feeling or idea, but we’ll briefly comment on why for each song.ġ Perfect Day (Lou Reed) performed by Lou Reed - Why: The haunting ambiguity: drug fix or romance? “I thought I was someone else, someone good”Ģ. ![]() If one were to boil down the two essential criteria they would be: 1. We celebrate this paradox-in our list-of poems which are not poems. ![]() It is as if the music were an aura around the words-words which nonetheless are not strong enough to be poetry, since they need the music. If an especially beautiful music accompanies the words of a particular song, making the words even more beautiful, we have to assume the words are responsible the songwriter will sometimes experience this phenomenon: words inspire the music, as if the words and music were born together. The list below is not based on reading the lyrics alone on the page as if it were a poem, for this is to take the creature out of the water: we judge the lyrics with its music as poetry. Note we do not ask the song to be judged as poetry-as words on the page. Madness and torture! Why do the two exist– -never to meet! Poetry and music! Divided heart! Divided mind! Poor, divided mankind!Īs a healing device, we list the top 100 Song Lyrics As Poetry of All Time, with the single criterion: when we hear the song, do the lyrics intoxicate us as much as the music? The two are never reconciled-the standard of poetry is never– -never-reached by song lyrics, which breaks the poet’s heart, a heart which travels into music’s realm, shunning its help. Copyright(c) 2023 phatic is common to both song lyrics and poetry music aids the lyric, condemning it to be not quite poetry forever, while poetry is its own music, condemning it to be naked without music forever. Music News Service distributed by Frankly Media. The Artist 100 measures artist activity across key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio airplay and streaming to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity. ![]() Meanwhile, Shania Twain returned to the chart’s top 10 at No. In addition, his 2021 album Dangerous: The Double Album advanced two steps to No. Wallen’s seven charting hits on the Billboard Hot 100 helped him a lot in achieving this top rank.Īll these songs are from his upcoming album One Thing at a Time, scheduled for release on March 3. Wallen has the record among primarily country artists for the most weeks at No. The country star’s appearance atop the Artist 100 dated February 18 marks his sixth week in total. 1 after spending five weeks atop the chart during January-February 2021. It took Wallen a gap of two years to return to No. Morgan Wallen has reclaimed his position as the top musical act in the U.S., returning to No. ![]()
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