“Birdhouse in Your Soul”—They Might Be Giants
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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Steely Dan's King of the World
T in the Sahara is not a big hit or anything but as an eerie pretentious stillness that I quite appreciate. The last 70 odd seconds of King of the World by Steely Dan are a groovy little super 70s Gee whiz keyboard riff that was the most terrifying sound in the world to me when I was seven because my parents would usually stop playing Q-bird and go to bed after this. "I do however have a great deal of sympathy for that young doofy quivering oversensitive face eating locust fearing future rock critic who didn't realize what he was doing with this whole last song on side B business"
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