Recommendations of the Editorial team
Horror grandmaster Stephen King and his millions of fans recently announced which feature films he appreciates in the alltime vote. He announced his Kintopp-Top-10 via social media, but without making an internal one-to-tente ranking. He loves all of these classics equally.
These games with the list apparently liked the hard and heavy platform “Ultimate Classic Rock” (UCR) so much that the editors made a top 13 hit parade; Based on King’s statements and admissions on the top topic of pop music.
Already in his first novel “Carrie” from 1974, Bob Dylan comes into play. King mentions him several times. “In this book,” he later explained, “a page is mentioned in a schoolbook by Carrie White (the protagonist, note D Author), on which a line of a famous rock poet in the 1960s was repeatedly noted; as if it were an expression of despair.”
AC/DC at the very front
Said stanza comes from the song “Just Like a Woman”. There it says, translated freely: “Nobody has to guess that this baby cannot be blessed. Until she finally sees that she is like everyone else.”
As is well known, King has been writing books, in the environment of which it is always musically. Obviously, the rock ‘n’ roll is very inclined. In the broadest sense. The “UCR” team came across 13 explicit references. It can be assumed that there are many more.
In 2015, King was a guest in the BBC 6 radio broadcast “Paperback Writers”. Here he brought a whole list of songs, including “Stiff Upper Lip” from AC/DC.
He described the Australians as “the best rock and blues (!!) band of all time”. In the same year, King quoted the song in the foreword to his short stories band “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams”, AC/DC-LYRIC, in German: “I shoot out of my hip and keep the upper lip stiff.”
“Anarchy in the UK” from the sex pistols white. The site is the book “Pet Sematary”, in the filming of which the Ramones track of the same name plays a leading role. Punk rock music is. “Anarchy in the UK” was on his BBC list.
When asked about the “Favorite Band ever?” King once wrote in an “ASK Me Anything” thread on the Reddit debate platform. “Probably Creedence Clearwater Revival.” On his BBC list, King put “It Came Out of the Sky” from the album “Willy and the Poor Boys” from 1969. CCRS “Bad Moon Rising” is quoted in Kings “The Shining”. A semi-subtle anticipation of the events that should ultimately develop in this substance.
Beatles or Stones?
He calls a rather marginal title in the greatest of pop history. “One of the questions that defines a person is: ‘Beatles or Stones?’,” He said in the BBC show. Here was the King’s answer “Stones”, especially the song “Dance Little Sister” from the album “It’s only Rock ‘N Roll” from 1974.
John Mellencamp followed. King mentioned him in 2011 at a press conference, in the course of the musical premiere “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County” from Mellencamp, in which King took on a kind of Consigliere role on request. He named “Pink Houses” in 2015 as one of his favorite songs. Boss Bruce Springsteen is adorned with “Ramrod” (from “The River”).
In 2000, King published the non -fiction book “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, in which he described his own experiences as an author and gave some tips for those who also wanted to take this path. “The plot should be able to speak for itself,” he advised, “therefore adverbs should not be necessary if the sentence is well formulated and the idea is well explained.” The same idea could also apply to one of King’s favorite songs from the Beatles: “She Loves You”.
“In my opinion, this seems to me to have come to me best in my opinion of all Beatles songs,” he told the BBC. “When I hear him today, it still sounds just as fresh for me when I heard him for the first time at the age of 16. He just gets under his skin, has only one message and sums it up.”
In the further selection of the “King Hall of Music Fame”
- “Desolation Row”, Bob Dylan
- “Middle of the Road”, Pretenders
- “The Bug”, Dire Straits
- “Diamonds and Rust”, Judas Priest
- “California Stars”, Billy Bragg and Wilco
- “I summon you”, spoon
“Ultimately, the best songs cannot be explained or analyzed,” King in 2005 told the journal “Entertainment Weekly”.
“I played this spoon song up and down in 2005-on my computer, my stereo and in my truck. I never understood it, I never tired of hearing it, and always got goose bumps at the line ‘I sumon you here, my love’. For me that was summer 2005. I think we should all call us from time to time.”
However, this list would be incomplete without mentioning that, despite his rocker aura, King is also a fan of “Disco”, especially from the Bee Gees.
“In the 1970s I had many arguments with rock purists who absolutely hated disco,” he told the BBC. “I thought: ‘When people hate me and want to reduce my taste in music, I have to live with it and cry the shame of the shame in my pillow.’ If I had more time, I would put on one of the Disco songs of the Bee Gees, but that’s a different story. ”