Phil Theehor
04-02-2009, 11:08 AM
So, last night I'm doing some work on the computer (okay, maybe porn) and I'm listening to a YouTube playlist which consists entirely of a cappella (mostly college-HS) groups performing the Five Satins' song In the Still of the Night.
And I listen for an hour. And it doesn't get old. Some of the kids nail it, some bungle it a bit. But, I enjoy each version, thoroughly. Could not get enough of it. Why?
Beyond the obvious (I’m a retard, homo, et al), I think it's because In the Still of the Night is The Perfect Doo-Wop Song. It's simple, pure, clean and just flat out beautiful. It is (for the philo crew) as close to the form of a doo-wop song as can be humanly attained.
All right. Now that I thoroughly have gayed up the board by giving a tongue bath to a song in a genre that (largely) died out decades before any of us were born, I'm curious to know what songs you dicks would say represent a genre perfected.
What would you nominate the perfect ska, jazz, metal, folk, country, dance, new wave (etc.) songs? What songs have you heard that just made you think “/genre”?
And I listen for an hour. And it doesn't get old. Some of the kids nail it, some bungle it a bit. But, I enjoy each version, thoroughly. Could not get enough of it. Why?
Beyond the obvious (I’m a retard, homo, et al), I think it's because In the Still of the Night is The Perfect Doo-Wop Song. It's simple, pure, clean and just flat out beautiful. It is (for the philo crew) as close to the form of a doo-wop song as can be humanly attained.
All right. Now that I thoroughly have gayed up the board by giving a tongue bath to a song in a genre that (largely) died out decades before any of us were born, I'm curious to know what songs you dicks would say represent a genre perfected.
What would you nominate the perfect ska, jazz, metal, folk, country, dance, new wave (etc.) songs? What songs have you heard that just made you think “/genre”?