Top 5 On Friday - Week 199

From Music Memoirs


Top 5 songs that make you feel smarter for having heard them. (Interpret as you see fit)

1. They Might Be Giants - Why Does The Sun Shine (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas)




2. Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
I never would have known anything about that ship if it hadn't been for this song.

3. George Harrison - Bangladesh
George was one of the pioneers of the benefit concert and his song Bangladesh got it going.



4. The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn

The lyrics are taken almost verbatim from the King James version of the Bible (Ecclesiastes 3, verses 1–8).

5. They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Come on! They even used it in a cartoon!!!