[video available on spotify] today i’m going to be sharing with you what i think are the greatest songs of all time. music is very polarizing, and i know i might sound pretentious, i might sound cringe, and i might change my mind, but i’m going to share my list anyway. emma's greatest of all time playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0e5h2dp0VY3NFHrDvE4xqK?si=0bea55eb82b641e5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why is Emma terrified of sharing her music opinions?
I just had to take some deep breaths because my chest is tight and I have a lump in my throat because I'm frightened of today's episode. I'm deeply frightened. Today, I'm going to be sharing with you what I think are the greatest songs of all time. And this terrifies me for a few reasons. To start, music is polarizing. We adore the music that we love and we despise the music that we hate.
Humans, for the most part, are passionate about music, and that is sort of a beautiful thing, but it's also sort of a terrifying thing. In addition to that, it feels like you can never win. If you like pop music, everyone's like, oh, you're basic. Oh, so you're basic. You don't even have taste. You just listen to what everyone else listens to. Oh, I get it now. You're basic.
If you like alternative music, people are like... Oh, you're a pick me. Oh, my God. You're not like everybody else. You're different because you're an alternative. Oh, you're different. And then if you listen to avant-garde music, everyone's like, oh, so you're a freak. You're a freak. And I should stay far, far away from you because you're a freak.
And then if you listen to country music, everyone's like, oh, so you just like the worst genre ever created. Oh, I get it now. And then if you like, I don't know, well, okay, I ran out of genres off the top of my head, but you get the idea. We can't win. There's like a negative stereotype about every single potential music preference.
And then last but not least, I'm terrified to do this episode because I can't show you the music that I'm talking about. I can't play you the song. No, because I will get sued or something, okay? So instead, I have to describe the songs as best as I can because I also can't describe them on a technical level. I didn't go to music school.
I can't be like, well, so in this song, the baseline is very heavy. And there's this folk undertone with an emphasis on the percussion. Listen, I know these words, but I don't know what the fuck they mean. I can't actually describe how the song sounds.
So I have to literally, to the best of my ability, like try to paint a picture for you about how these songs sound without having basically any words mentioned. to like accurately describe the song. It's a mess. This episode is going to be a fucking mess. Okay. I'm going to probably accidentally sound pretentious at one point. I'm probably going to accidentally sound cringe at another point.
I'm going to describe things inaccurately and incorrectly throughout the episode because I have no idea how to describe music. I'm also terrified of committing to the statements that I'm about to make. I'm about to share with you a list of what I think are the greatest songs of all time, but I know myself. Oh, I know myself. I change my mind all the time. And it's an absolute curse.
It's a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it means that I'm growing and I'm evolving and I'm changing. But it's a curse because I'm constantly sharing my thoughts and opinions on the internet. And then when they change, it's awkward. I'm not a hypocrite. I'm not a liar. I'm not a freak. I just change my mind about things all the time.
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Chapter 2: How does Emma describe music genres and stereotypes?
Anyway, so this is my final picture for you. It's the first warm day of the year. It's like 73 outside. And you're wearing beautiful, comfortable, not overly sexy, just beautiful, comfortable lingerie. But over it, you have this beautiful, willowing, soft, soft, soft dress on. And you're just walking around a field. That is what this song feels like to me.
Next, we have Uncle Albert slash Admiral Halsey by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney. This song came out in 1971. I don't know what it is about me and songs that have slashes in them. Like this is the fourth song and we already have another song with a slash in it. Like it has two names. Very odd. Anyway, I absolutely love Paul McCartney.
I love every single musical endeavor he's ever gone on in his life. I love the Beatles. I love his band Wings. I love when he does solo stuff. This is technically a solo song with his wife. I fucking love Paul McCartney. Sorry. Sorry. And this song rewired my brain chemistry because let me tell you, this song is fucking weird. Okay.
And it's actually funny because I rarely discover new Paul McCartney songs because I grew up my dad showing me Paul McCartney and the Beatles and wings and all this. So it's rare for me to discover a new one, but he's made so many different songs and had so many different projects.
Like I didn't grow up listening to this song and I found it last year because I think it had like a little TikTok moment actually. And I'd never heard it before. It is such a good song. You guys, it's so good, but it's so weird. And the first few times you listen to it, you're like, that was so weird. But then something clicks and it's unbelievable, but it's unlike any song I've ever heard before.
And I can't say that for many songs. It is completely unique to itself. It is so weird. You know what it sounds like to me? It sounds like going through a car wash. Okay, you know when you're going through a car wash with your friends and at first, you know, it's like fun because it's like, oh, put your car in neutral.
If you've never gone through a car wash, you will have no idea what I'm talking about and this will make no sense to you. Um, but I'm talking about like the carwash where you stay in your car and you drive through the drive through carwash. Okay. That's what the song, the experience of that is what the song sounds like. You, you put the car in neutral. You're excited.
Oh my God, my car's in neutral. I'm no longer in control of my car anymore. And then soap goes all over the windows and you're like, well, oh, I can't see, I can't see. And then your car is kind of vibrating a little bit and you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And then water starts spraying and the car starts vibrating more.
And then it starts blowing all the water off and then there's huge brushes that are coming on and scrubbing on the car. And then they go away and then there's a big dryer. And then it's this experience that is constantly changing and constantly evolving for the entire five to 10 minutes that you are in that environment. car wash drive-thru.
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Chapter 3: Why can't Emma play the songs she discusses?
And these people who are right now in their 20s talking on the phone will get married and they will have a family and they will die together. And that is how this song feels, Can I Call You Tonight by Dayglo. What a beautiful song. I absolutely love it. My dad showed it to me when it was like super indie. I don't even know how he found it. He found it and it had like no streams.
My dad shows me the best music. I wish I had my own taste. No, I actually do, but he shows me a lot of stuff. All right, next we have an obvious banger and all of you know it. Hey There Delilah by the Plain White Tees. This song came out in 2006. Obviously, this was a golden era for music, in my opinion. Do I even need to get into it? Like, you know this song. Hey there, Delilah.
I can't sing anymore. Here's the deal, okay? This song is corny, right? It's corny, but it's corny in the most incredible possible way. To me, this song feels like skinny jeans, really worn-in Converse, and of course, a plain white tee, because the band The Plain White Tees. and like a side swooped hair and like a Motorola or no, is it Motorola? No, like a BlackBerry phone.
Remember the BlackBerry phone? Imagine that outfit on somebody, anybody. Imagine it on you and imagine you on the phone with your long distance lover in that outfit. That's how this song feels to me. Okay, let's move on. to a new song that I literally just found thanks to the Spotify algorithm. No, not sponsored, even though I do have a Spotify podcast. This was an algorithm pull from Spotify.
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And then I found it again a few years later. It's been this like thing where... Someday by Sugar Ray has been in and out of my consciousness for years. And now it's officially on playlists. This song to me is like, holy shit. Driving down Sunset Boulevard in a Porsche convertible, wearing massive fucking sunglasses, like huge, like covering half of your face.
hungover, wearing like sweatpants, about to go to another party. Fuck it. You're about to go to a darty. That is what the song feels like. This song feels like a bender to me. It's like, but it feels like the morning, it feels like a morning during a bender. Does that make sense? It feels like, you know, you partied yesterday.
I'm not talking about like a toxic bender where we're like doing illegal substances and like harming ourselves in any way. I'm just talking about like a fun bender where it's like, all right, you know what? We got drunk a few days in a row. It happens every once in a while. It's all good. You know? I'm not promoting that lifestyle. I'm personally sober.
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Chapter 4: What criteria did Emma use to create her greatest songs list?
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Chapter 5: What are Emma's favorite songs and their unique descriptions?
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