Thursday, 21 August 2008

"The Hardest Thing In The World" by The Stone Roses



1. "The Hardest Thing In The World" is a great pop song. However it's beauty is often drowned out by its context : it's the b-side to the mighty "Elephant Stone". Any pop song, however good it is, will be obscured by that seminal blend of dance and rock.
2. This really should not be, because, yes, i'm saying it again, "The Hardest Thing" is a great pop song. Adam Levine would kill to write something as immediately catchy as this. Though most of us would wish that Adam LEvine would just off himself.
3.Not to put a fine point in it, but, being a great pop song, "The Hardest Thing" deserves a lot more attention to everyone, and that includes fans of Adam fricking Levine.
4. The phrase "The Hardest thing in the world" is a favorite of me and my pal Jimmy in my high school years. The reason being that it can be applied to anything difficult. Stumped by that tricky Physics formula as taught by Pak Yurnalis (whose classes are 3-hour marathons because he has a job in another school), we used to say, "The Hardest Thing In The Woo-oo-oo-rld!" and follow it up with the melodic guitar lick : "naw-naw-naw-na-na-na-na-na-naw!". Frustated that our efforts of impressing the class beauty Lily got ignored because she's too infatuated with her juvenile delinquent paramour Franky, we also said : "The HArdest thing in the Wo-oo--oo-rld!", needless to day, some vocalizing of the guitar lick followed.
5. Understand that High school students are, as a rule, really foolish.
6. Not to mention, in retrospect, really embarassing.
7.I love the Stone Roses, and everyone should as well.

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