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En mans de qualsevol altre, fer un disc triple de 69 cançons dedicat íntegrament a l'amor hauria estat una porta directa cap al fracàs. Sort que qui es va autoimposar aquesta tasca impossible va ser Stephin Merritt, un dels millors compositors del pop modern. El resultat és una obra mestra.

01 "I don't believe in the sun"
02 "All my little words"
03 "Reno Dakota"
04 "The luckiest guy on the lower east side"
05 "The book of love"
06 "No one will ever love you like I do"
07 "Grand Canyon"
08 "Papa was a rodeo"
09 "Busby Berkeley dreams"
10 "Acoustic guitar"
11 "Nothing matters when we're dancing"
12 "Sweet-lovin' man"
13 "The death of Ferdinand de Saussure"
14 "I can't touch you anymore"
15 "Love is like a bottle of gin"
16 "Abigail, belle of kilronan"
17 "Epitaph for my heart"

Tenint en compte el guirigall de món que ens estan deixant els déus masculins, potser que donem una oportunitat a les deesses. Segur que ho fan millor.

01 Mercury Rev - "Godess on a highway"
02 Laufey - "Goddess"
03 Bob Dylan - "Isis"
04 Fleetwood Mac - "Rhiannon"
05 Björk - "Aurora"
06 Laura Marling - "Sophia"
07 Honey Gentry - "Aphrodite"
08 Destroyer - "Goddess of drought"
09 Seirena - "Deessa"
10 The Frank and Walters - "Goddess of Athena"
11 Steely Dan - "Aja"

Tothom sap què és un "one hit wonder", aquest artista conegut per només una cançó. El que ja és més difícil de trobar són els "two hit wonders", aquests que han repetit èxit dues vegades i prou. Ens ha costat, però els hem trobat.

01 Men at Work - "Who can it be now?"
02 Men at Work - "Down under"
03 Suzanne Vega - "Luka"
04 Suzanne Vega - "Tom's diner"
05 Peter Frampton - "Show me the way"
06 Peter Frampton - "Baby, I love your way"
07 Don McLean - "American pie"
08 Don McLean - "Vincent"
09 The Left Banke - "Walk away Renee"
10 The Left Banke - "Pretty ballerina"
11 The Romantics - "What I like about you"
12 The Romantics - "Talking in your sleep"
13 The Foundations - "Build me up, buttercup"
14 The Foundations - "Baby, now that I found you"

Desenganyem-nos, per molts anys que hagin passat, l'evolució del mico a l'home no és tan evident com ens pensem. Ves que aquest no sigui el motiu per trobar tantes cançons protagonitzades per primats.

01 The Monkees - "I'm a believer"
02 Pixies - "Monkey gone to heaven"
03 The Specials - "Monkey man"
04 The Rolling Stones - "Monkey man"
05 Arctic Monkeys - "I wanna be yours"
06 Ian Brown - "Corpses in their mouths"
07 Beck - "Loser"
08 Los Coyotes - "El mono"
09 The Beatles - "Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey"
10 Gorillaz - "On melancholy hill"
11 James Taylor - "Gorilla"
12 Peter Gabriel - "Shock the monkey"
13 The Kinks - "Apeman"
14 Bloodhound Gang - "The bad touch"
15 Steely Dan - "Monkey in your soul"

Clicar els dits pot semblar una tasca senzilla, però requereix una habilitat especial. Aquí teniu els millors exemples d'aquest tipus de percussió tan rudimentària en el món del pop.

01 Peggy Lee - "Fever"
02 Tennessee Ernie Ford - "Sixteen tons"
03 Roger Miller - "King of the road"
04 HeathsHuman - "Addams family theme"
05 Queen & David Bowie - "Under pressure"
06 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - "Your precious love"
07 Mary Guy - "My guy"
08 The Shangri-Las - "Remember (walking in the sand)
09 Leonard Bernstein - "Cool"
10 Serge Gainsbourg - "Le clacqueur de doigts"
11 Billy Joel - "The longest time"
12 The Dave Clark Five - "Catch us if you can"
13 The Monkees - "(Theme from) The Monkees"
14 Frank Sinatra - "Nice 'n' Easy"
15 The Tymes - "So much in love"
16 Lorde - "Royals"
17 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - "Murder on the dancefloor"
18 Perfume Genius - "Fool"

Fastball no ha estat mai un grup gaire popular, ni va omplir grans estadis, però el seu cançoner ha fet companyia als gurmets del power pop vitaminat.

01 "The way"
02 "Are you ready for the fallout?"
03 "Are your mama proud"
04 "Nothing"
05 "Warm fuzzy feeling"
06 "Out of my head"
07 "Better than it was"
08 "Love is expensive and free"
09 "You're an ocean"
10 "I get high"
11 "Drifting away"
12 "The malcontent"
13 "Rampart street"
14 "I will never let you down"
15 "White collar"
16 "The help machine"
17 "Real good problem to have"