oh, i can tell this is gonna be great. also wagon wheel? fucking great.https://twitter.com/jack_hamilton/status/1052915426215292928 …
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i really cannot argue with that top 5. i'd flip 4 and 3 but that is a very solid final 5.
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also, carl wilson has a great piece about the cover song, which i think gets at an essential element of standards/new american songbook stuff (jack hamilton also mentions it in his piece):https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/cover-song-history-future-weezer-toto-africa.html …
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i really don't have a problem with any of these selections. looking at the individual ballots it seems like "time of your life" should have maybe been on here, and when it comes to "most covered songs," randy newman's "when she loved me" is a contemporary cabaret standard
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but that's mostly within broadway/"classic" arrangements, you could do a whole other list of songs from the last 25 years from broadway that are new standards ("defying gravity," "still hurting," etc.)
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