Weekend Listomania (Special From Dusk Till Dawn Video Edition)

Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental fille de nuit etiquette czar Fah Lo Suee and I will be spending the weekend at a cartooning seminar hosted by New York Post caricaturist Sean Delonas. Apparently, we'll be learning how to depict somebody named Rupert Murdoch as an orangutang, which seems like a small skill, but what do you expect in the course of two days -- Daumier? Hogarth? Harvey Kurtzman? I think not.

In any case, posting by moi will necessarily be sporadic until next week.

But in my absence, here's a fun project for you all to contemplate:

Most Memorable Post-Elvis Song With Either Night(s) or Day(s) In Its Title!!!

Self-explanatory, obviously, so no arbitrary rules this time. Oh, except that songs with "today" or "tonight" don't count. Specificity, people!

Okay, here's my totally top of my head Top Seven:

7. Rainy Night House -- Joni Mitchell



I'm not nuts about this live jazzbo version, from '74, but a great song is a great song.

6. Days -- The Kinks



You know, it's dawned on me that I'm constantly saying that if Ray Davies had written nothing but "________________" [fill in the blank] he'd deserve immortality. Be that as it may, this one certainly qualifies.

5. A Night Like This -- Smashing Pumpkins



The Cure song, of course. Face it -- you've been missing Billy Corgan's pretentious cueball noggin around here, haven't you?

4. Night -- Bruce Springsteen



Probably the least memorable track on Born to Run, but I saw a recent clip of Bruce doing it live somewhere and I thought "hey, that's a pretty cool song."

3. Perfect Day -- Lou Reed



One of the few unironic songs on Transformer, and one of Lou's prettiest, I think.

2. The Good Old Days -- Babyshambles



Not a fan of Pete Doherty, particularly, but I though it might be nice to have something recorded in this century.

And the obviously coolest got-the-sun-in-the-morning-and-the-moon-at-night track of them all, please don't bother to argue with me about this or I'll slap you viciously around the keppie, is ---

1. A Day in the Life -- The Beatles



Forty years on, the world-weariness in Lennon's voice still slays me. So let me say something now that I've wanted to say for ages...hey John -- I know the feeling.

Awrighty then -- so what would your choices be?

[Shameless Blogwhore: My parallel Cinema Listomania (theme: best teen flicks ever!) is now up over at Box Office. As always, if you could see your way to going over there and leaving a comment, it would get me in good with management. Thanks!]