Ummm...Isn't Mozart older than 25 years?

#1. maximum trolling.

I thing we can all agree they got it wrong!

that was gross

russlar: #1. maximum trolling.

It is so bad that even people who never heard it before will suffer horribly.

I really need to write a blog stoned with the mind set for maximum trolling.

Trying to figure out the Mozart thing hurt my brain.

I don't even.

Whoever subby is needs to mentally subtract '1' from his greenlight total every time he sees it.


/weak sauce.

taste - no accounting for

Some lists I (sort of) agree with. Some lists are I completely disagree with. This list is a brand new category for me - lists that make me want to find the writer and stick a knife in his throat.

Drunk dialing? Is that anything like drunk facebook posting? And for Whitney Houston, I'd go with her rendition of the The Star Spangled Banner, the song that gave American pride in kicking Saddam's ass

what_now: Mozart?????

farking time cube. How does it work?

PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Trying to figure out the Mozart thing hurt my brain.

I don't even.

I'm thinking that the list is about music that had important influence in the world in the last 25 years. The fact that they found micro organisms actually react to Mozart and not really any other type of music was quite a curious discovery.

/not submitter

This list makes me stabby.

So bad...

Number 4 makes me twitchy. As much as I adore Radiohead, other mainstream bands that were doing the same thing years before include NIN and Wilco, off the top of my drunken head.

PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Trying to figure out the Mozart thing hurt my brain.

I don't even.

Are you serious?

Ignore the storylines, they are idiotic at best.

Go get a good recording of The Magic Flute and listen to the Queen of Night's Aria. After that track listen to the whole thing, start to finish. That should help you out.

1982 was 25 years ago, apparently.

Number one most unnecessary list of 2012.

myinternetname: 1982 was 25 years ago, apparently.

it was?

how did I get so damn old?

KatjaMouse: what_now: Mozart?????

farking time cube. How does it work?

PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Trying to figure out the Mozart thing hurt my brain.

I don't even.

I'm thinking that the list is about music that had important influence in the world in the last 25 years. The fact that they found micro organisms actually react to Mozart and not really any other type of music was quite a curious discovery.

/not submitter

That's as may be, but scanning through the the list, all the rest of the songs were written approximately in the last 25 or so years. So that one being there sort of stands out, in an "Oh shoot, I've got a boner the size of Manhattan" sort of way.

madgonad: PleaseHamletDon'tHurtEm: Trying to figure out the Mozart thing hurt my brain.

I don't even.

Are you serious?

Ignore the storylines, they are idiotic at best.

Go get a good recording of The Magic Flute and listen to the Queen of Night's Aria. After that track listen to the whole thing, start to finish. That should help you out.

I'm fairly certain you misunderstood me, as what hurt my brain was processing the idea that a 200-year-old song was included on a list of modern popular songs.

Mozart's works themselves, of course, are perfectly cromulent otherwise.

As God as my witness, I thought "Runaway Train" (Soul Asylum) was performed by Tom Petty.

/ TMYK

With so much drama in the L.B.C.
It's kinda hard bein' Snoop D-O-double-G
But I, somehow, some way
Keep comin' up with funky ass shiat like every single day

May I kick a little something for the G's?
And, make a few ends as I breeze through
Two in the mornin' and the party's still jumpin'
'Cause my momma ain't home

I got biatches in the living room gettin' it on
And, they ain't leavin' 'til six in the mornin'
So what you wanna do? shiat, I got a pocket
Full of rubbers and my homeboys do too

So turn off the lights and close the doors
But, but what? We don't love them ho's, yeah
So we gonna smoke a ounce to this
G's up, hoes down, while you motherfarkers bounce to this


As a 30 year old middle-class white male, I think I can safely say that this speaks to me on a level previously untouched by contemporary music.

List fails without nubianz With Attitude

I've changed my mind and decided to start supporting a heinous crackdown on the freedoms we've enjoyed on the internets. I'm half tempted to firebomb my ISP in retaliation for not being down when I clicked on that link.

FTA "To win the hearts and minds of Iraqis in 2002, Hussein boldly chose as his campaign anthem an Arabic cover of Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You" (written by Dolly Parton). "

So, it was a cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You." I'm no fan of Dolly's really, but even if they used the same music as Whiney's cover, Whitney had nothing to do with it. I still remember Whitney getting all butthurt that Dolly performed the song after her cover came out. What a sh*t head.

Teen Wolf Blitzer: With so much drama in the L.B.C.
It's kinda hard bein' Snoop D-O-double-G
But I, somehow, some way
Keep comin' up with funky ass shiat like every single day

May I kick a little something for the G's?
And, make a few ends as I breeze through
Two in the mornin' and the party's still jumpin'
'Cause my momma ain't home

I got biatches in the living room gettin' it on
And, they ain't leavin' 'til six in the mornin'
So what you wanna do? shiat, I got a pocket
Full of rubbers and my homeboys do too

So turn off the lights and close the doors
But, but what? We don't love them ho's, yeah
So we gonna smoke a ounce to this
G's up, hoes down, while you motherfarkers bounce to this


As a 30 year old middle-class white male, I think I can safely say that this speaks to me on a level previously untouched by contemporary music.

I much prefer The Gourds' version of it. I risked my eternal soul and went to a country festival just to hear that band.

Sabyen91: r1niceboy: I've changed my mind and decided to start supporting a heinous crackdown on the freedoms we've enjoyed on the internets. I'm half tempted to firebomb my ISP in retaliation for not being down when I clicked on that link.

Dude, you haven't heard Dave Matthews.

/Poke the bear.

For the love of God, don't mention that!

Gnome in the cupboard
Gnome in the cupboard
His teeth aren't sharp
His teeth aren't sharp
The dreams
The dreams....
....will be nice for once.

/And to think I was done with therapy.

What, no "Final Countdown"? Europe was robbed!


19. "Runaway Train" (Soul Asylum)

This is the point where I knew I was being trolled, because that song is farking AWFUL. I'd rather have a diseased prostitute piss in my ears.

Sabyen91: Iiiiiiii, willllllll alwayyyyyyyyys booooooooobs.

You accidentally the whole boobs.

List fails ^

Do you beli^eee_vvve in life after love?

Surool: Whitney had nothing to do with it. I

That is not really honest. While Dolly Parton wrote the song, Whitney (and her producer/engineer/arranger) brought the song to a completely different level and interpretation. She made it her own.

This happens all the time, especially with great singers, and Whitney was one of the greatest of all time. Sad what happened to her (self inflicted, but sad).

24. "867-5309/Jenny" (Tommy Tutone)
The Drunk-Dialing Song
For nearly three decades, this single has been a gift to smashed college kids everywhere. Ever since the song was released in 1982, crank callers have been dialing 867-5309 and asking for "Jenny." People who are unfortunate enough to be assigned the number can look forward to dozens of prank calls a day, depending on where they live.

A few people have managed to turn the digits to their advantage. In 2004, disc jockey Spencer Potter of Weehawken, N.J., discovered 867-5309 was available in his area code and picked it up, thinking it would be good for business. Almost immediately, Potter was overwhelmed by the volume of calls. So in February 2009, he sold it on eBay to Retro Fitness, a health club that felt the digits fit perfectly with its 1980s-nostalgia theme. In the end, Potter made $186,853.09-a number he could live with.

...I hear Retro's radio ads all the time. That number is now their franchising information number. The only way it could be better is if they told you to ask for Jenny instead of some guy named Mark...

Harry_Seldon: Surool: Whitney had nothing to do with it. I

That is not really honest. While Dolly Parton wrote the song, Whitney (and her producer/engineer/arranger) brought the song to a completely different level and interpretation.She made it her own.

This happens all the time, especially with great singers, and Whitney was one of the greatest of all time. Sad what happened to her (self inflicted, but sad).

fact. case in point. Devo rendition of Satisfaction.

fusillade762: What, no "Final Countdown"? Europe was robbed!


19. "Runaway Train" (Soul Asylum)

This is the point where I knew I was being trolled, because that song is farking AWFUL. I'd rather have a diseased prostitute piss in my ears.

ITT: A whole lot of people who read the names of the songs but not the large blocks of words under them. I have to believe that because otherwise it would mean that most of you are basically morons.

The list is not about GOOD songs, or POPULAR songs. It's about songs that had some kind of impact in some unexpected, odd, wonderful, or heinous way.

Oh and also:

12. "Unforgettable" (Natalie Cole)
The Song That Brought the Dead Back to Life


Hank Jr. did it first.

JackalRabbit: Devo rendition of Satisfaction.

Such a good example. Loved "Working in a Coal Mine," too. Lord I am so tired, how long can this go on?

Harry_Seldon: I read that in Devo's voice. Well played. ;-)

I guess I'm the only one that kind of liked the article. Calling it 'The Most Powerful Songs' is of course misleading, but it told an anecdote about some specific impact each song made somewhere in the world (such as the song that began the auto-tune atrocity, the song that inspired the court case making sampling in rap music legal, etc.), and some of these items were new and interesting to me.

Based on the above comments I'm guessing everybody merely read the list of songs and didn't bother with the explanations. Which never happens on Fark.

/not subby

The Johnny Cash remake of Hurt did not make that list WTF?