Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is another exciting entry in my ongoing saga of The Greatest Record Ever Made!, this time revvin' the ol' engine on behalf of "Kick It Out" by Heart.
An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. My long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) is built from that premise, and its current blueprint includes this very chapter about Heart. As noted recently, I'm in the process of reducing the number of songs given entries in the book. I've had the total as high as 205 (200 songs plus five bonus tracks), got it down to 175 at the last update, and last week I announced a goal of cutting its final tally at 155. As of now, I'm thinking it should be 160 songs (155 plus the five bonus tracks). Additional hype and amendments to follow.
Heart's "Kick It Out" is still a part of that plan. It's not that I like "Kick It Out" more than I like, say, "Summer In The City" by the Lovin' Spoonful or "I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better" by the Byrds--the subjects of two completed entries that I have removed from the book's prospective Table of Contents--but I do think the Heart piece fits the flow of the book better than either of those chapters would. GREM! was never intended to be an inclusive list of the best songs ever, and it deliberately omits a number of my all-time Fave Raves. This book (and this series) were always supposed to be a celebration of the immediate, all-encompassing thrill of a single track annexing your mind, heart, body, and soul for one rapturous moment, no matter how brief or fleeting that moment may be. Maybe you'll forget about the song after it's done. Maybe it'll stay with you forever. Either way, for the brilliant duration of its infinite turn, it's the greatest.
Even if something shinier replaces it.
Another update to the GREM! project is forthcoming. In the mean time, we look back at the time a pretty girl convinced me that maybe her new favorite song should also be my favorite song. And who can argue with that? Heart's "Kick It Out" is the subject of the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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