Critical Lapses: CultureGrrl's Greatest Hits
I've been inspired to be insipid by music critic Terry Teachout's shocking self-exposure in his recent blog post---his list 15 songs of "dubious artistic merits" that he enjoys. Can we ever feel the same again about his music criticism in Commentary?
CultureGrrl readers already know that my taste in music is eclectic, if not chaotic. I also have a shocking confession to make: I purchased iPods for both my kids (thereby insuring their deafness in middle age), but I myself do not own one, nor do I have satellite radio. However, to further my musical enjoyment, I did get myself an HD2 receiver, for one reason only: The old playlist of the late, lamented oldies station, WCBS-FM, lives on in that format. (You can also stream it here.) Like Terry, I can't help loving the songs of my youth, no matter how highbrow I may have become. But please, Terry, tell me that you didn't really "Boogie Oogie Oogie"!
To prove CultureGrrl's musical taste is far more refined than About Last Night's, I hereby disclose my list of the 15 greatest pop music masterpieces of all times---gems that EVERYONE of my advanced age and discernment can surely agree on:
---"I've Got You Under My Skin," Ol' Blue Eyes
---"One Fine Day," Chiffons
---"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" Shirelles
---"Think," The Queen of Soul
---"Can I Get a Witness?" marvelous Marvin
---"Ain't No Mountain High Enough," Marvin & Tammi (better than Diana)
---"I Heard It Through the Grapevine," Gladys Knight & the Pips (better than Marvin)
---"Soul Man," Sam & Dave
---"River Deep, Mountain High," Tina Turner
---"Mockingbird," Sweet Baby James & Carly (better than Inez & Charlie Foxx)
---"Like a Rolling Stone," Dylan
---"We Can Work It Out," Fab Four
---"You Can't Always Get What You Want," Mick & the Boys
---"Bobby McGee," Janis
---"Don't Ask Me Why," Billy Joel
Have I succeeded in killing my credibility as an arbiter of taste? Joyce and Paul, will you please burn me this CD?
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LEE ROSENBAUM
I'm a veteran cultural journalist who writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal's "Leisure & Arts" page. I've been a regular cultural contributor on New York Public Radio (WNYC). I've appeared as an art-market commentator on BBC-TV and have published numerous Op-Ed pieces in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. I am author of The Complete Guide to Collecting Art (Knopf) and have lectured on cultural property issues at the New Acropolis Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, on deaccessioning at Columbia Law School, the University of Iowa and the annual conference of the Museum Association of New York, and on museum governance and cultural property issues at Seton Hall University. more
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