Daveportivo's Cultural Evaluation Facility

Of all the Clash's songs this has to be their silly and most joy ful pop moment, granted it still has satire and it's not a throwaway, but this will always be remembered as the Clash's party song, the moment they decided it was time for us all to dance. They sure do thrash the shit out of it live though.

So it was only a matter of time wasn't it, when it comes to songs that will never die, that will never go away, that simple will be played until the end of time, then the mac daddy of them all is Livin' On A Prayer. Don't act like you don't love it.

Blondie managed to carry their song writting excellence over from the seventies to the eighties with this arguably their greatest and most recognisable single, a stone cold classic.

So remember when Ozzy was the famous Osbourne and we didn't give two shits about Sharon, Kelly and erh...well no one really cares about Jack or the other one anyway. God it was a simply time then, we could just enjoy the monsterous riffage and killer hooks, if only those days would return.

I wonder where hip hop would be today if Rick Rubin hadn't suggest turning this from a sample into a full blown cover. Well who knows, but one thing we do know for certian this is one of the most important records of all time and arguably the greatest cover ever.

Could you imagine today a record label allowing a band to throw away as many classic singles as the Smiths did in the eighties without attaching them to any album? Hell today if you release a single in between albums they reattached to the old ablum, double the price and sell it as a delux edition. Back in '85 the Smiths threw out singles willy nilly, well because they could.

From earthy Manchester honesty to rock and roll excess at its height, both equally brilliant. I spoke at lenght about this song in the album section so I'll let you enjoy the video.

Having just written a whole paragraph on this one track in the album review its hard to add more, expect to say that this as beautiful and as powerful a song as Springsteen has ever written, one of his most heart wrenching works. One of the songs (along with The River) that it breaks my heart that I didn't get to hear live.

Now from the Sublime to the ridiculous, The Beastie Boys in full rock the party mode with Kerry King coming in to lay down some monster riffage for the ultimate Beasties party anthem. Just in case you weren't sure of this tracks continue relevance then check out the reaction to Jay Z's recent live cover.

Ah third delicious slice of Blondie and singles don't come much more memorable than Call Me. Utterly iconic, perfect of Deborah Harry who was at the height of her Rock Godess powers, and the ultimate Rolling Stone cover girl.