My list of introductory Shakira songs

A meme of sorts, which started on a message board:
Lets say you know a certain artist/band's catalogue intimately - list your top 10 or 20 of their songs as though sharing with a newcomer. Just your faves.

Well, I had a few acts in mind, but soon realized I have gaps in my own knowledge, so these are just the ones I knew, thought of, & liked.

After making these lists, I decided to see if people could find the songs online. Here are links:

Shakira:

1. Ciega, sordomuda
2. Underneath Your Clothes
3. Poem to a Horse
4. Don't Bother
5. Si te vas
6. Objection (Tango)
7. ¿Dónde están los ladrones?
8. Whenever, Wherever (or Suerte)
9. Moscas en la casa
10. How Do You Do
11. Timor
12. Dreams for Plans

While looking for these, found "No," which is really good. I also like "Las da la intuición" & "La pared ". Years ago, I saw a two disc set of Fijación Oral/Oral Fixation, & didn't get it. I've not bothered to track it down in the years since, which was clearly a mistake.

An introduction to the Church (stupid band name)

Continuing this meme:
Lets say you know a certain artist/band's catalogue intimately - list your top 10 or 20 of their songs as though sharing with a newcomer. Just your faves.

My list for the Church. Yes, it's all from the four albums from Starfish through Sometime Anywhere--I don't care that much about the earlier stuff & I lost track of them after that. I threw this list together quick, but finding the actual songs online was hard & time-consuming.

1. Reptile
2. Swan Lake
3. Under the Milky Way
4. "Lullaby" - which I don't find online for free, sorry.
5. Two Places at Once (this is the one video I found for the full version)
6. Lost
7. City
8. Dome
9. Ripple (Is this a radio edit?)
10. Monday Morning
11. Terra Nova Cain
12. Hotel Womb
13. Grind (Funny, I hadn't heard the version from the acoustic album before now. I think it may even be better overall than the version on Gold Afternoon Fix, though Kilbey switched two phrases. Yes, I could tell as soon as he did it.)

Oh, let's get this out of the way: I hated "Aura" (at least the last half) when I first heard it, now I love it.

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From the blog "Stark Raving Liberal", but good non-ideological points all the same:

Accurate news: A user's guide
1. Rely on actual journalists.
2. Punditry is not journalism.
3. "Balance" for its own sake is not journalism. [This one I don't think I've seen before, but it's true.]
4. Follow the sources.
5. Follow the money.
6. Wikipedia is not a primary source.
7. When in doubt, check Snopes--but don't end there.
8. When you find an excellent source of true, journalism-based news, stick with it and support it.

Journalism, objectivity and politics
Keeping opinions out of the A section and keeping news out of the op-ed pages is the only way we're going to restore trust in journalism as a profession, and also the only way we're ever going to be relevant again. Paying lip service to objectivity by arbitrarily limiting what your reporters can do politically isn't the answer. Making sure that reporters and columnists are different people is the better solution.