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Top 12 Songs of the past while

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“Phantom Limb” – The Shins
Actually, the whole new album is great.

“Intervention” – Arcade Fire
Can’t wait til this is officially released. Here’s a youtube clip with the audio.

“Dashboard” – Modest Mouse
I’m so out of the loop as I just found the other day that Johnny Marr joined them. Not often that 43 year old alternative gods join en fuego indie bands.

“Sleepwalk” – Santo & Johnny
Top 10 Instrumental.

“One of These Mornings” – Moby
The version off the Miami Vice Soundtrack, not the one off Moby’s album 18. 46 seconds longer and a better arrangement. The vocals are just as repetitive, but the tempo and key are way better in the Miami Vice version.

“Silent Places” – Baby Dayliner
I really wasn’t sure what to think about this dude for the longest time, but now I know that this song is actually pretty kick ass. I can’t find the lyrics on the ‘net, I’ll have to fix that. (Adrian Grenier “Vincent Chase” of Entourage is in that video, fyi.)

“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” – Gil Scott-Heron (youtube link)
“There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay.”

“You Get What You Give” – New Radicals (youtube video)
” Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they’re multiplying”

“Feeling Good” – Nina Simone
I love the horns and strings in this song. The only thing that’s better is Nina’s voice. That last fadeout Feelin Gooooooooooooooooooood… So awesome…
(no clue what this video is about, but here it is.)

“Somewhere Across Forever” – stellastarr
“Blue eyes, blue hair, not going to leave here without you
Blew my chances, chances, chances…”

“Goodbye Horses” – Q Lazzarus
Such an awesome song. Too bad it’s sorta ruined by the Buffalo Bill treatment.

“Just Like Heaven” (acoustic) – The Cure
A great song, totally stripped down. Anybody know when it was recorded? Sounds like it was the same sessions as the original, but I”m not sure.

Extra bonus song for Valentine’s Day: Not the best quality, but a great song nonetheless, Valentine by The Replacements sung by Paul Westerberg.

Acclaimed Music dot net

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Some thoughts on Acclaimed Music:

Surprises:
Roxy Music at 41th overall for artists really surprised me as I only really knew them from Love is the Drug and More than This. I guess they more critical acclaim than I had realized. Kraftwerk, who I love, at 59th surprises me as well.

Highest ranked Album, Song and Artist I’ve never consciously experienced:

Can’t say I’ve really listened to: Album #32 . Massive Attack’s Blue Lines

Song, I hate to say it, but it would probably be:
#67 Elvis Presley “That’s All Right (Mama).” (I see now it was the first single he ever released, which is probably a big reason it’s on there.)

For artists, it would have to be: #85 Primal Scream
Can’t say I’ve ever heard a tune by them.

And maybe you’re wondering how the lists have been compiles?

This is really not simple to explain. Please do not despair if you do not fully understand…

I have written a program which computes the lists. The basic idea is that I match all records against each other in pairs. In a match, each critics list is weighted depending on
* the number of lists I have from different parts of world (USA, UK or the rest of the world)
** when the list was presented (newer lists are weighted more heavily)
*** how many matches the list is a part of (a list which only embraces a few years is not part of many matches and is therefore weighted heavily in the matches where it is included).

Cat’s eye in the window lyrics

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Ok, i have this song and I was wondering who did it and what the title was?
I’m guesssing it’s “Cat’s Eye in the Window” but I can’t find that title on the internet or in allmusic.com. Anybody know? Please help me, thanks!

I think it is America, it sounds like them, but I’m not sure.

I repeat, I’m not sure about the title or artist, please leave a comment if you have an idea. Thanks.

UPDATE: According to Jody and his google prowess, it’s Tommy James. Although it doesn’t sound like him at all. Really different than “Crimson and Clover” or “Hang on Sloopy.”

ERRATUM for UPDATE: Hang on Sloopy was by the McCoys. I meant “Hanky Panky”, “I Think We’re ALone Now,” and “Mony MOny.” Honest, I did.

Title? : Cat’s eye (catseye) in the window?

There’s a cats eye in the window
Lookin’ at the hats? that go on down?
Takin’ in the rats, that’s not that the evil
The devil is the cat that’s got your tongue.

Well, I went for a walk in the country,
where they say the air is really fresh and clean.
I hear that mother nature doesn’t care for the city,
but the people here are just as mean.

Well I came upon a beautiful mansion,
And it was old about three hundred years.
And the gate was so rusty that I kicked it down,
I walked closer, here’s how it appeared:
There were four huge pillars that were cracked so bad,
That I couldn’t figure out how they stood.

Well the glass was all busted, but my God,
the thing must’ve once upon a time looked awful good.

Cuz there’s a cats eye in the window
Lookin’ at the hats? that go on down?
Takin’ in the rats, that’s not that the evil
The devil is the cat that’s got your tongue.

[guitar solo]

There’s a cats eye in the window
Lookin’ at the hats that go undone?
Takin’ in the rats, that’s not that the evil
The devil is the cat that’s got your tongue.

It was many, many, many times a millionaire’s home?
The master must have been quite a man.
But for some strange reason I became so mad,
cause I just could not understand.

How could anybody build such a beautiful dream,
and let it sit right and die in the sun.
And then it suddenly came to me, the house was humanity,
and history had finally won.

I walked away with a terrible feeling
Because I suddenly realized,
I was lookin’ at the epitaph of the good mother Earth
and could hardly keep the tears from my eyes.

Cuz there’s a cats eye in the window
Lookin’ at the hats? that go on down?
Takin’ in the rats, that’s not that the evil,
The devil is the cat that’s got your tongue.

2, 3, 4, Cat’s eye in the window, cat’s eye
Cat’s eye in the window, cat’s eye
Cat’s eye in the window, cat’s eye
Cat’s eye in the window, cat’s eye
Cat’s eye in the window, cat’s eye
[repeat, fade out]