Awesome Countdown: Top 20 Disney Songs - Part 2

Franko here again. Brian's sick so I guess I'm getting you all pumped up for the rest of the list. Apparently we pissed off quite a few people last time; apparently everyone was expecting the full list. A few people were even expecting it even AFTER reading the title. DID THE PHRASE "Part 1" NOT GIVE IT A WAY?!! Heretics. This time we present the rest of the list, starting with a few more honorable mentions (because we say so). The second half of the list presents a bit less of the random fun songs and a bit more of the personal songs...songs that hit a bit closer to the heart. I just lost the game. And remember, the only basis for this list is our opinion, which is better than yours. Now to the list!

~Honorable Mentions~

"Heigh-Ho" ~ Snow White and the 7 Dwarves
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Franko: Heigh ho....heigh ho....it's off to work we go...::whistle::....Heigh ho...heigh ho heigh ho heigh ho....yeaaaaahhhhhhh

Brian: We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig dig. :D pretty good song.

"Two Worlds" ~ Tarzan
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Franko: Pepper

Brian: Pepper^3. Another good Tarzan song. Worthy of honorable mentionssssssssss.

"Why Should I Worry?" ~ Oliver and Company
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Brian: This is the closest Disney ever gets to rock. Therefore, it's amazing. I love this song mucho a lot. It's just so much fun, though not an amazing song, therefore, honorable mentions!

Franko: It's pretty catchy, it's got a nice feel to it, and it's another Disney song about not worrying. I also really like Billy Joel. It wasn't enough of a classic to include on the list, but we couldn't NOT give it props somehow.






~ The Rankings ~

10. "Can You feel the Love Tonight" ~ The Lion King



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Franko: One of the quintessential Disney love ballads. It's a classic in every sense of the word. It's remarkably touching (both the song and the sequence in the movie); it's a legitimately good song outside of the movie (I'm not ashamed to have it on my iPod anyway); it also has HEAVY sexual undertones, another important value to be instilling into our youth. Afterall, I grew up watching the movie and turned out FINE!

Brian: As a kid, I always enjoyed the parts where Timon and Pumba were singing far more than the love song (cause love was icky) but now that I'm smart (:P)...I still like the Timon and Pumba parts better. Not to take away from the lovernessissity...ies of the love song, cause that in itself is great. I just really like hearing Timon sing "I can see what's happening, and they don't have a clue" hmmmmmmmmm very insightful Timon. Therefore Timon=Yoda. And Yoda's afreakingmazing (Up the shut fuck)....I don't see the heavy sexual undertones however...which is weird...cause normally I'm the one that picks out every sex reference and milks it till it bleeds...but whatever.


9. "Under the Sea" ~ The Little Mermaid


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Brian: Dododododo, do do do do. Really? Who doesn't love this song? I hate the movie and yet this is still a song I find myself humming when Disney is on my mind. This song is all about the music I think, one of the best musical pieces Disney has put together. And that's really all I have to say....I'm so fucking sick btw. y'all should just be happy I'm working on this at all...bitches

Franko: Do I really need to comment on this? A fucking fun as hell song that's written amazingly. Pepper! (Franko re-edit: I seriously can't come up with anything to say about the song. I do believe the pick is self explanatory, but I suppose anybody who wants an elaborated opinion can read my post about it from a few months back on MySpace.)


8. "Reflection" ~ Mulan


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Brian: This is an absolutely beautiful song. The lyrics are so...real. Everybody gets down on themselves...and Mulan sings a ridiculously gorgeous song when she does. Everything about this song is great. A girl singing about how she doesn't know who she is, and how she can't be who she wants to be because Feudal China(I just had to change that from Japan....idk why I thought this movie was in Japan...but apparently I did...I'm so fucking sick) was a fucked up time where women were the equivalent of rice and their thoughts an annoying mosquito. Plain and simple...I love this song, it's so simple...marvelous.

Franko: I wish this could have been higher, but the other songs on the list are just so much awesomerer. I don't feel bad or embarrassed to say that I adore this song. In fact, personally, it probably the most relatable song from Disney ever. I also can't criticize it for teaching dumb shit, because its message is something very applicable, realistic, and, above-all, honest. Strive to be yourself. It'll be a hard path, but ultimately more fulfilling. Right on. On top of that, it's a GORGEOUS song, written and sang very well. All-around an amazing song.



7. "When You Wish Upon a Star" ~ Pinocchio

SING-A-LONG TIME!!!!!

...you better sing bitch...or we'll find you...

....No seriously, between Brian and Franko, we can find everybody who reads this blog. Fuckin' do it.




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Franko: This is a flat-out classic. No ifs, ands, or buts. It went on to become the unofficial official Disney theme-song for Christ's sake. It's a timeless song that everybody can relate to. Of course, being as it is a landmark song for Disney, it would make sense to teach values to our children that are not only unrealistic, but downright insulting. It's not Disney without some good pandering bullshit! Not only does it teach kids not to worry (a common trend in recent movies - for further proof, see part 1 of this list), but it also says that not worrying will also give you WHATEVER YOU WANT! "Just wish, and you will get it." BULLSHIT!

Brian: This is perhaps the most classic song in Disney history. In fact...it is. Therefore, it lands at 7. What I love about this song is that it's sung by a cricket/conscious...and the message "If you wish on a star...you'll get what you wished for"...that's what the kid's/wooden puppet's CONSCIOUS told him! Really?! Way to place fantastical impossibilities into the minds of children everywhere! Score 1 for Disney propaganda.

Franko: If you're going to have your own conscious bullshit you, you might as well just go insane and start hallucinating that you're getting what you want. Path of least resistance people....


6. "Belle" ~ Beauty and the Beast


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Franko: Finally Beauty and the Beast makes an appearance on our list. It's not that we don't appreciate it; we just love it so much that all of its songs are bunched up in the top spots. BatB is one of my favorite Disney movies and it's a pretty special one in that it's the last animated musical (until, of all thing, the South Park movie) that's an all-out musical extravaganza. Huge elaborate song and dance numbers with dozens of people...I loves me a good traditional musical. This illustrates that perfectly. The song sounds really, really, really, really, really good. That's a credit to Alan Menken's writing. Have you ever listened to the lyrics though? The entire song is about how weird Belle is. "She's beautiful and idealistic, and likes to read." That's IT! THAT'S IT! Fuckin' five minutes for that?! But it's so totally awesome.

Brian: Here you go, song one from Beauty and the Beast...and it's number 6. Beauty and the Beast has got to be hands down the best musical Disney song in creation. The song itself is crazy good. This is the best introduction to any character...ever. My God, this song is ridiculously fantastic. This has been one of my favorite Disney songs ever since I saw it preformed on stage at the Mune...Munii...Mune'....Munieaedfei...whatever. (Franko edit: IT'S MUNY, HERETIC!) The point is I love this song. The whole thing is the townspeople singing about how she's peculiar....I wish a town would sing about me when I walked through town. That'd be intense. Meanwhile, Belle is singing about how she wants out of this small town, how she wants so much more, how she wants adventure and excitement, and love. Beautiful. I particularly love Gaston's small part in this song (another great character introduction). He's so pleasantly stuck up and full of himself, it's great. To top it off the song culminates, it just keeps building, growing. I love it.



5. "Prince Ali" ~ Aladdin


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Franko: You fuckin' know its coming........"HE'S GOT THE MONKEYS! HE'S GOT THE MONKEYS!" Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. God damn I love this song. Much like the last song, it's a huge elaborate song-and-dance number with no point but to show off how pimp this new prince is. He fuckin' parades into town on an elephant, bringing boats and hoes, and gives the proverbial pimp slap to everyone watching. Then he has his trained elephant KICK DOWN THE PALACE DOOR to demand a marriage to the Sultan's daughter. Fuckin' right! All things aside though, in terms of sheer mindless Disney awesomeness, you don't get much better than this. I could be bleeding from every orifice in my body and if I hear this on my way to the emergency room, I'll stop and sing along. And probably rewind it to rewatch it. Twice. And slowly die from blood loss. But I'll be entertained dammit!

Brian: Robin Williams is my hero....I believe I said that last time as well...hmmmm. I LOVE ALADDIN (third time I've said that :D) So...an entrance on a flying carpet would've been amazing right? I believe it would've been enough...I mean...there's like...1 flying carpet right? Well...this song takes that 1 flying carpet and then multiplies it by infinity...squared. Biggest intro of anybody anywhere....ever. I mean...how would that look on a script in a play *enter stage right-big ass elephant, singing genie, hundreds of swordsmen, hundreds of flagmen, hot ass dancer ladies, a fucking float full of peacocks!, hundreds of slaves carrying gold, tumblers, bakers, animals out the wazoo, 8 people in funny hats, lots of camels, giant fucking gorilla balloon, dancing monkeys, bakers, birds that chirp in unison, FLOATING PEOPLE!!!!!, and a whole lot of other random shit.* FUCK. And did anybody else ever notice how big that damn elephant is?! Holy crap...he's as big as the houses! Anyway...I love Aladdin, and this song. :) Especially this song....also Aladdin...especially Aladdin. "HE'S GOT THE MONKEYS!!!!!"

Franko: "He's got the monkeys!"
Brian: "He's got the monkeys???"
Franko: How many times have we said that in this post dipshit? God damnit I hate you so much. In fact, he doesn't have the monkeys now; they have been chased off by your inane decrepit rotting piece of turd you call a brain. You spew off random nonsense like a volcano spews lava. It's infrequent and unpredictable, and when it happens, it's beautiful, destructive, powerful, and something you DON'T want to miss. So, for the last time, he's got the monkeys.


4. "Be Our Guest" ~ Beauty and the Beast


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Franko: This song is absurd. You know what it's about? NOT A GOD DAMN THING! NOTHING! Listen to it. At most it serves as an introduction to the characters of the castle. That in itself is fucking win. That must mean that after all of the castle workers were transformed into fucking candlesticks, teapots, shoehorns, footballs, tieracks, lettuce crispers, digital picture frames, or whatever the fuck is in the castle, they have spent every moment since writing and choreographing a song just in case some person happens upon the castle and is forced to stay in exchange for her dad's life. How bored do you have to be? Still, I can't deny the song has a luster, setting it above the rest of Disney. It is a flat-out Disney staple, one of the most well-known and most-remembered songs Disney has produced. It's entertaining. It has pretty colors. What more could you want?

Brian: And another Beauty and the Beast song. I don't know what I love the most...the fact that the entire song is nothing but silly french stereotypes repeated over and over...or that the song itself is beyond ridonkulous. All the song is is a sad tale about bewitched people's last few years and how they've been rotting away and then HOLY CRAP! SOMEONE REMEMBERED THEY WERE EXISTING!!!!...by randomly having her father stumble upon the castle near death...that detail isn't important to them though :P Another good thing to notice about this song is that Belle...hardly eats anything...almost nothing actually besides a couple tastes of some nasty looking shit. Oh well...love the song all the same, and the movie.



3. "Beauty and the Beast" ~ Beauty and the Beast


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Brian: And here's the next Beauty and the Beast song. An amazing song. Really beautiful, emotional, heartwarming even. Everything about this song screams gold. GOLD dammit. I absolutely adore it...even if it was sung by a teapot.

Franko: I don't really like Mrs. Potts's singing (throughout the movie, not just this song) but this song is just so magical. This song is the reason the Beauty and the Beast has become perhaps the greatest Disney movie of all time, by perfectly illustrating the fairy-tale qualities of the love that develops between Belle and the Beast, while also reconciling that with how very real that development is. Oh my god I love this movie. And every song in it. It's only featured three times on our list, but it has half of the top 6 spots (and it came damn close to taking No. 5 out form Aladdin. 60% of the top 5? IT'S THAT GOOD DAMMIT!!)

Brian: Also, nearly every Beauty and the Beast song made our first cut. And the ones that didn't make the list...ALMOST made the list. NOTHING from Beauty and the Beast was excluded cause it sucked (some of the other songs in Disney movies are complete ass if you haven't noticed). It's ridiculously great.



2. "Circle of Life" ~ The Lion King



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Brian: I don't think any song starts out as strong as this one. Does anybody have any idea what that dude actually screams?! "NABABABISCO! HAMANEEEEESKEENABOB! HENYA, HENYA AH YAYY! AHM NE O NEH!"...that's what I think. Anyway I don't think Disney has made a more powerful song. This is an amazingly strong song. "There's more to see in your life than you can possible see, more to do than you can ever do, but just like every other creature, we are all driven by the same forces and you'll live your life the best way you can." Very intense message, deep, but intense. And seriously? who doesn't absolutely love this song? It's awesome times walnut. c'mon. Huge props to Circle of Life, Go 2!

Franko: One of the most epic songs I've ever heard. It's so good. Random trivia: when they were building publicity for The Lion King, the teaser trailer they released for the movie was the song/sequence shown to introduce the movie. No combination of footage or dialogue from the movie. Just this song, in all of it's amazing glory. It's all around great animation, with no real relevance to the movie except being completely awesome! And as Brian said, the message is great. "Welcome to life. There's a ton of shit here. Like a lot. So much that you will spend your entire life learning about it...and then die. But that's ok, because if your life is fulfilling, you will find your place!"

Franko presents lyrics to the Circle of Life (as heard in his own head): NAAAAAAAAAAAZI BEND YAAAAAAAAA BY THE BEE YOU BABA! ...when yaaaaa....NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZI BEND YAAAAAAAAAAA WHY' BY A GAY'S EMO BOY ::chants:: Hey pinata penguin on the bottom. Hey pinata penguin on the bottom. Hey pinata penguin on the bottom. Hey pinata penguin on the bottom ::cue real lyrics::.

I was going to do the whole song but that's actually really hard with a sleeping roommate in the room and the fact that I'm bored and want to read Twilight. Regardless, hopefully you'll never hear the song the same way again :)

Brian: ....I think my lyrics are closer....but I took the liberty of looking up the actual lyrics...so here.
Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba [Here comes a lion, Father]
Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it's a lion]
Nants ingonyama bagithi baba
Sithi uhhmm ingonyama
Ingonyama
Siyo Nqoba [We're going to conquer]
Ingonyama
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala [A lion and a leopard come to this open place]

...kinda not what I was expecting, but whatever.


And here it be. Briatt rated number one Animated Disney song...ever. GO









1. "A Whole New World" ~ Aladdin


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Brian: I LOVE ALADDIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (fourth and final time :D) While this song isn't my favorite song in Aladdin...it's definitely the best. Best Disney song ever actually (as rated...right here). This song is...magical. Just, completely blows things out of the water (except circle which was a VERY close 2nd). This song has nearly no flaws, it's just great...over...and...over....forever. done.

Franko: I love Aladdin. So much. Circle of Life is what set off this whole list, and we were pretty in love with it. When we were ranking our final list, this and Circle of Life were actually tied. I thought it was going to be a tough, long and drawn out decision-making process. But when it came to it, there was no contest. A Whole New World is not as grand in scope as Circle of Life, but for what it sets out to achieve, it's completely spot-on perfection. All humor aside here, I'm turning 20 in a month and a half and a student in college. I've been in love and known it's incredible power, and I've dealt with much of the negativity of life and its constant barrage to succumb to cynicism. In spite of such a harsh world, this song, a song about two people who JUST met each other flying on a CARPET from Egypt to CHINA in a little under two minutes, is the most realistic song in Disney's library. The entire song is a monument to the power of love. Opening your eyes to the world in a way that you've never been able to open them before. And each new moment brings some new remarkable beauty into your life that permanently changes you. It's so incredible. Back to the lighter side of awesome, my favorite thing about this song is that EVERY PERSON knows the lyrics. Start singing the song ANYWHERE and you will start a sing-a-long. Several years of band busses will provide sufficient evidence for that (P.S. On that note, GO SING-A-LONG TO PINOCCHIO DAMMIT I KNOW YOU SKIPPED IT!).



That's it. This is the definitive list of awesome Disney songs. Disregard any other list; this is the ultimate pinnacle of human achievement in disney/awesome collaboration. A review of mentioned movies:

Aladdin, The Lion King - 4 times
Beauty and the Beast - 3 times
Mulan, The Little Mermaid, The Jungle Book - 2 times each
Tarzan - 1 time (1 HM)
Pinocchio - 1 time
Pocahontas - 1 time
Snow White and the Seven Hobbits - (2 HM)
Cinderella, Oliver and Company, Toy Story - (1 HM)

Most of the movies tend to fall on the more recent side of Disney. Perhaps we're just biased towards our own generation, or maybe they are actually legitimately better. Either way, we're right and you're wrong, so adjust your opinions and perceptions accordingly.

For our next post, we're looking at several possibilities. The one that's captured our attention most has been "Most Awesome Moments in Star Wars". You'll find out soon.