The 70s POLL - Tracks

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Dear Children of Earth,

Welcome to the 70s poll results. These are the best tracks of the 70s as voted by the beautiful, beautiful cosmic creatures of ILM. I have taken a break from spreading Love throughout the Galaxy to present them for you. You can kiss my shoes later.

http://discoimperium.tripod.com/ammi1.jpg

Being a creature of Cosmic Wonder, I am not angry not to have been nominated. Not at all. Not one bit.

Just a little disappointed.

― Amii Stewart, Monday, 16 May 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

100

points: 209
total votes: 8

TIM BUCKLEY - SONG FOR THE SIREN

http://www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.3/Buckley.Images/tim6.jpg

― Amiii Stewart, Monday, 16 May 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

yeah well song to the siren is pretty neat inn't
wtf he performed this on "the monkees" tv show?!?! maybe i need to start watching "the monkees" tv show?!?!
-- amateur!st (amateur!s...), July 18th, 2004.
I read this thread yesterday, and had a nightmare last night some hipster at a dive bar took pity on me for never having heard "Song to the Siren." I felt very bad.

-- Tonka Trux (artofleg...), February 15th, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart, Monday, 16 May 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

i am so excited for this thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Can the reality live up to the hype?

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Can the reality live up to the hype?

Hopefully.

(Knock on wood)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

points: 212
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 10

JAMES BROWN - THE PAYBACK

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/b/brown_james_payback~~_101b.jpg

Somewhere, in the vast expanse of time and space that is the internet, there is a picture of the single, rather than the album that it came from. Sadly, when I try to google, my headdress falls in front of my eyes.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

James Brown's 'The Payback' - minimalist hypnotic grooves that are also aggressive about it, a rare thing.

-- tarden (scrape10...), July 15th, 2001.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Is this the real thread?

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

points: 218
total votes: 11

CHEAP TRICK - I WANT YOU TO WANT ME

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/13/c8/89504-resized200.JPG

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it is the real thread. I shall try to emulate Hobart's high standards of acruracy adn

sppeed.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

points: 220
total votes: 12

BOBBY WOMACK - ACROSS 110TH STREET

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/w/womack_bobb_across110_101b.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

You really should post YSIs as well.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

not to sound ungrateful, but yeah.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

YSIs?

Expand, please.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

yousendit.com

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps youshareit.com would be a better option, as they don't expire (I don't think)

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Forget it.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

woo-hoo. i didn't vote in the poll but i nominated "across 110th street."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

RS: Consider it forgotten.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

I finally saw Across 110th Street last week. Almost lives up to the song.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

points: 221
total votes: 8

PATTI SMITH - GLORIA

http://www.punk77.co.uk/graphics/pattismithsetfreedm.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Listening to "Gloria" again for what could be the thousandth time, I’m still astounded by what she pulls off. From the iconoclastic opening that’s been quoted to death, she embarks on a poem set to bare rock music, but she’s really transported, singing with a commitment that only comes from being truly blessed with the spirit… and the listener is transported as well, it’s wild. But wait!! Suddenly, the song careens into Them’s "Gloria" and we’re blasted off into a realm that’s all art, poetry, and pure rock and roll that’s unlike anything I had ever imagined as kid, unlike anything anyone back then imagined, and it still works, goddam does it work. I sat grinning on the edge of the sofa, completely excited and into it, as I am every time I hear the track.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

comments by:

-- Sean (saturns...), March 23rd, 2002.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

points: 221
total votes: 9

(both tracks had a highest placing of 2nd, so this goes ahead on total votes)

THE CARS - JUST WHAT I NEEDED

http://www.80salive.com/articles/music/cars/images/header.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Heard The Cars' "Just What I Needed" on the radio today -- I'd forgotten how the snare-on-the-backbeat flips to 1 and 3 for a few lines. It's VERY disorienting because it's too simple to sound "suspicious."
(I'd also forgotten that I rather like this band...)

-- Paul in Santa Cruz (pauna...), April 24th, 2003.
"Just What I Needed" by the Cars. Most people are familiar with that song, and if that won't hook them, nothing will.

-- Johnny Fever (johnnyfeve...), November 19th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Paul in Santa Cruz discoursing on The Cars is a nice surprise. (Sorry I'm making too many comments, I'm at work. And I meant forget the yousendit idea, because it would be way too much work and might draw too much unwanted attention to the board.)

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

points: 225
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 12

JIMMY CLIFF - THE HARDER THEY COME

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000003QGM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

-- RS_LaRue (Al__suca...), May 16th, 2005.

Comments are always good. It makes me feel less like I'm posting in a void. And I realised what you meant.

And I'm still pretending to be Amiiii Stewart. And she'd be much more eloquent. She'd sing you a song possbily - something about the glittering of sunlight upon sequins.

Perhaps its best not to pretend to be Amii Stewart after all.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

No, we like it.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

At some point, there will be lots of wonderful comments about this track, and the album, on this thread:

The Harder They Come Soundtrack

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

points: 229
total votes: 6

STEELY DAN - ANY MAJOR DUDE WILL TELL YOU

http://www.ascap.com/founders/images/steelydan_live.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

I'd nominate "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" too. They're both v v slick (which doesn't bother me) tho, which seems like the problem for a lot of people.
-- Silly Sailor (countandre...), February 13th, 2004.
i LOVE pretzel logic and katy lied. both perfect albums in my book (fave songs: "parker's band," "any major dude," "rikki," "doctor wu," "throw back the little ones," "any world that i'm welcome to

-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...), November 19th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

points: 231
total votes: 11

SQUEEZE - UP THE JUNCTION

http://packetofthree.com/po3/assets/images/db_images/db_up_the_junction1.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

It's really tough to pick only one, but "Up the Junction" condenses everything I like about Squeeze into a tidy 3:10.
-- paul cox (pau...), January 17th, 2003.
Squeeze's "Up The junction" and, uh, Kate Winslet's "What If" have both brought me to tears on occasion, but I'm sure only one of them could ever be considered "bollocks" on any level.

-- CharlieNo4 (charlie_iven...), March 16th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

points: 232
total votes: 9

THE BUZZCOCKS - BOREDOM

http://www.towerblock.co.uk/images/buzzcocks14.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

"Boredom" is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. I'm happy to stop there, personally.

-- Tom (ebro...), March 29th, 2001.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

points: 232
total votes: 10

MACHINE - THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I

http://www.discomusic.com/images/cds/machine-uni.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

Okay, so it had fantastic vocals, it built irresistably to the half-screamed "THERE! GO! I!" at the end and it managed to combine perceptive lyrics about the foolishness of trying to find happiness by running away from other people with a tune that just..soared away...

BUT could they waggle their hips and point in the air whilst intoning the words LIGHTNING and FRIGHTENING and pouting seductively??? HMMM??

Probably.

Fuckers.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, that's enough for tonight because I'm ~~going to bed~~ off to an all-you-can-snort party on the Rings Of Saturn.

ADIOS. AMIIII.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

"There But For The Grace Of God Go I" is probably the greatest song that I always forget to bring up whenever I start rambling about greatest songs ever. It's like they couldn't decide whether they wanted to make a serious record or have the most over-the-top fun-sounding party possible on wax, so they did both. It's probably got some historical weight too, depending on how fond you are of Ze.

Not that I think about any of that whenever this shows up randomly on my iPod, however. God, what a song. I wish to Christ I could find their album anywhere on this earth.

also WTF at "The Harder They Come" turning up so low?!

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

This list has been remarkably less obscure than I had first expected it to be...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

...but the night is still young.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

The night is over for the purposes of the list though.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

now we drink

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

wow, thought Machine'd hit way higher.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

FINALLY. It's a new day and after yesterday I need this thread.

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

I have no faith in anyone so I thought Machine wouldn't even make the 100.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

I wish to Christ I could find their album anywhere on this earth.

I have the vinyl LP. I also have a turntable. And I ALSO have a hookup from my stereo to my computer. FINALLY, I have a sound recording application that can save files as MP3s.

I'll get on that then.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

nate gmail a ysi yo

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

Blimey! So far nothing I would have guessed and nothing I voted for, but nothing I would go "No!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

yeah, so far it's an interesting list.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm upset the Machine pic isn't showing on my screen.

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

It seems to have gone altogether, as does my lovely picture of Amiii Stewart.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000071QU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

ihttp://www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/disco_profiles/amii_stewart/images/amii_stewart.jpg

There, that's better. I'm sure she'll be along in a minute.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Sorry for the delay, my dears. There must have been something peculiar in the cocktails at that party. I am not feeling myself today.

http://www.urbanimage.tv/watermarked/fl_0176.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

points: 240
total votes: 11

EARTH WIND AND FIRE - SEPTEMBER

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=earth+wind+and+fire+september/v=2/SID=e/l=IVI/SIG=12o9gvmv6/EXP=1116413115/*-http%3A//www.stars-on-7-inch.com/index_e/earth_wind_fire/september.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

Did I vote for that one? I sincerely hope so!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

They wore shiny pants. George Clinton hated them. They were cosmic, they were mystical, and boy do they look now like people who were called cosmic and mystical twenty years ago (or at least Verdine does). Awesome or not awesome?
-- My name is Kenny (bogususe...), July 21st, 2003.
my theme song would haavvveee toooo beee........
"September" by Earth Wind and Fire
Cheers!

-- Lola Falana (firedancer135...), June 28th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember what I voted for but that Squeeze song should be a lot higher. It makes me feel very stoical and British.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

Did I vote for that one? I sincerely hope so!

-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), May 17th, 2005.

http://www.musiclovers.de/artist/amiistewart.jpg

Hold on... I will consult the cosmic forces

The cosmic forces are telling me that you probably voted using your real name, rather than your screen name, and as they're rather tired today they can't work out what your real name is.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

points: 246
total votes: 6

AL GREEN - BELLE

http://miul.hihome.com/images/algreen-thebelle.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

Now I definitely voted for that one - it might have been my No.1

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

... it's Al in a menage a trois with his girl and..... GOD!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Are your initials T.D.?

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Yes they ARE!!

The force is strong. You voted well, my son. But not number one.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

I think maybe 'Belle' was my No.2, but I can't remember now.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

T.D. = Teh Dadaismus

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Just checked, and it was indeed. 'There But For The Grace Of God Go I' was my No.3, too, which suggests to me that it wouldn't have made it to the 100 if it weren't for me. Hurrah.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

BELLE BELLE BEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
all christ lo fi soul rules
-- SexyDancer (jjjjj...), March 25th, 2004.
"Belle Album" as far as I can tell has never been maligned. I have the orig. old Hi LP of it--I feel safe in asserting that it's Green's greatest album. "Call Me" is great too.
-- Jess Hill (jesshil...), April 7th, 2003.
Belle Album is incredible. It's self-produced (Green and Mitchell had a falling-out, I believe) and is a little cruder than the earlier LPs--I don't mean that as a fault, either. Also has some nice disco elements. The title track is one of the best things he's done and probably the pivotal song in his transition from love-man to man of God.
Belle Album and Truth 'n' Time were the last of Green's "secular" records (although both contain a lot of gospel or psuedo-gospel) until the late 1990s. I'm realy curious about that "lost' period in between.
-- Amateurist (amateuris...), March 27th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Could that "image hosted by Tripod" nonsense by replaced by a marvellous picture of Amii..er..me.. do you think??

http://stat.discogs.com/A/65939-1112127450.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

points: 247
total votes: 7

BAUHAUS - BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD

http://www.waste.org/bauhaus/i/belalugosisdead.gif

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.waste.org/bauhaus/i/belalugosisdead-picture.gif

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

The 70s were kind of mad

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

I didn't vote for it, but I have to admit that its one of the top ten goth-dub tunes of the late 70s!

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

What a load of cock.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

I concur.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

this thread is not nearly as shambolic as the 70s album thread.

― gspm (gspm), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

bela legosi's dead is awesome.
m.
-- msp (...), February 13th, 2003.
I love Bauhaus. I love them so much. I was even wearing a Bauhaus t- shirt yesterday before I changed into my 1930s German Cabaret Art School Lesbian costume for the neo-Weimar club.
My reasons for loving Bauhaus have already been elucidated on this forum, tho strangely on a thread about sax solos. (Because Bauhaus's fantastic sax squalls were such a brilliant pisstake of the sax solos discolouring everything from Bowie to Spandau Ballet in the 80s.) Bombastic, over the top, overblown art school freaky-weirness, stylistic genre-sluts (Gothic was only one of their many moods). The best BASS of any record in the 80s that wasn't made by Joy Division. And, as Suzy would say, they came with a SYLLABUS!!! They introduced me to many wonderful things, from Bill Burroughs to Lautremont to Joe Orton to German Expressionist silent cinema. (That's Conrad Veidt on the single cover, not Bela Lugosi, for trainspotters...)
And you wouldn't have Suede without them. Oh no.
So you are not wrong, they are very very brilliant. Oh dear, it's winter, my musical taste is about to take a turn for the goth again.
-- kate (masonicboo...), November 17th, 2001.
Driving home tonite Bauhaus sounded so good I could've sworn they were some grate overlooked treasure. Like, why don't people hail Bauhaus the way they do the Beatles? Then I realized they get exactly the praise the deserve, as cult artists just as easy to hate as they are to love - deservedly obscure.
-- Keiko (newaddress@bboy. com), July 7th, 2002.
In Canada, we were like, "yeah, he has been for a few years."
I don't think it really got much attention until we saw it (and them) in that crappy vampire with David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve (okay, it wasn't that crappy if it had CD in it).

-- Huckleberry Mann (handsomishbo...), December 11th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Shockingly low, this...

points: 268
total votes: 12

DONNA SUMMER - LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY

ihttp://www.infonegocio.com/bodegajose/musica/DONNA%20SUMMER-LOVE%20TO%20LOVE%

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

Shockingly low, this...

points: 268
total votes: 12

DONNA SUMMER - LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY

http://www.infonegocio.com/bodegajose/musica/DONNA%20SUMMER-LOVE%20TO%20LOVE%

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Too mucky.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lyred.com/covers/donna_summer_-_love_to_love_you_baby.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM MS. SUMMER.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Hands above the desk NOW!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

This song had it ALL. A bassline that swaggered through the song, Donna's sublime vocals floating over the top and...the rest... is history. Very famous history, and rightly so. Donna's finest moment, as far as I'm concerned. The orgasm that granted the song its notoriety ties it all together. Everything builds slowly, slowing a little here, speeding up there and then, halfway through, it all just flows. Evidence that women really have more fun? Possibly. Donna certainly seems to.

Imagine the male equivalent...builds up, builds up, builds up, pulls a slightly odd face, groans a bit, ends. That's your lot.

Quite why this song didn't get 9870 more points is beyond me. The 17 minute version is a Thing Of Cosmic Splendour.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

points: 271
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 8

CAN - HALLELUWAH

http://www.mutelibtech.com/mute/can/images/can.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

or:

http://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/S=2114717014/K=can+tago/v=2/SID=e/l=IVS/;_ylt=AoixwU3buKdYCucPMyvidGxWBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=129ho95nj/EXP=1116424452/*-http%3A//www.vinylmoon.com/activos/prog/cantagomago.jpg

take your pick

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Imagine the male equivalent...builds up, builds up, builds up, pulls a slightly odd face, groans a bit, ends. That's your lot.

That'll be 'Orgasm Addict' then.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Can -- Halleluwah, the most ass-grindingly sexy beast of a beat EVER.
-- Barry Bruner (brune...), February 20th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Imagine the male equivalent...builds up, builds up, builds up, pulls a slightly odd face, groans a bit, ends. That's your lot.

That'll be 'Relax' then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

The list goes on...

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

I'll get on that then.

God, that would go way past awesome. (I will YSI you the tragically not-in-print Double Exposure album in return.)

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

points: 272
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 8

TODD RUNDGREN - I SAW THE LIGHT

http://re2.mm-a.yimg.com/image/943084983

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Todd Rundgren's "I Saw The Light" is the happiest song ever.
-- zaxxon25 (keith.sawye...), March 11th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm not surprised to see "Love to Love You Baby" so low. There were 583 Donna Summer songs nominated (the dreaded VOTE SPLITTING rears its head) and one of them is "I Feel Love", which almost certainly will finish in the top ten if its placing in mike-t-diva's UK Number Ones poll is any indication. Personally, LTLYB wouldn't make my personal DS POX.

You wanna talk about a song getting robbed? What happened to "Halleluwah", particularly after "Tago Mago"'s high spot in the album's poll? Vote splitting yet again (five Can songs on the noms list)? I hope you all voted for "Moonshake"!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

points: 273
total votes: 13

LED ZEPPELIN - IMMIGRANT SONG

http://www.jipangrecords.com.au/images/singlelarge/led_zeppelin_immigrant_song_.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe Patti Smith's Gloria finished so low. It wouldn't have even made the list if I didn't rank it number 2.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Machine is the only one I voted for so far I think.

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I didn't vote for Patti Smith or Can at all and I wish they weren't on the list, since there's only room for 100 songs.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I voted for Squeeze and Can. I have no idea why I voted for Can, I can't even remember that song. I do like Can though in general, maybe that was it.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Did I vote for Can? I think I voted for singles mostly, so I think I voted for "I Want More"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

(And the only thing I know about Tim Buckley is that I see his name on lists like these.)

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

"Black Dog", "Whole Lotta Love" and especially "Immigrant Song" were the scariest, weirdest things I'd ever heard in the Top Ten when I was a little kid, before I knew anything about their spooky mythology.
I hated them as a teenager. Basically cause they weren't Bowie or Patti Smith and their fans at my school were morons. But I got over it.
-- Arthur (tabren123...), February 21st, 2002.
"The Immigrant Song" is absolutely excellent, as is the ENTIRETY of _IV_. "The Battle Of Evermore" is WONDERFUL.
-- Dan Perry (djperr...), February 22nd, 2002.
I refuse to say negative things about a band that has contributed wonderful things like "The Battle Of Evermore", "Black Dog", "Kashmir", "Good Times Bad Times", "The Lemon Song", "D'Yer Maker", and the blueprint for disco-rock "The Immigrant Song". I DEFY you to tell me you couldn't imagine people dancing their asses off to that one.
Why listen to Led Zep when you have Black Sabbath? Because only listening to one band is boring unless it's The Cure or Prince.
-- Dan Perry (djperr...), September 28th, 2000.
Things that make this album great:
1/ The tape hiss before the first note in 'Immigrant.'
2/ The bass riff in the chorus of 'Immigrant.'
3/ The 'Hammer of the gods' lyric in 'Immigrant.'
(from: Can Led Zeppelin 3 Have Its Own Thread? )

-- 57 7th (midlothia...), May 3rd, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have spotted the deliberate mistake by now.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

OK, so why did ya do it, Amiii?

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Let's backtrack ever so slightly....

87. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi Dead
88. Al Green - Belle
89. Earth, Wind and Fire - September
90. Machine - There But For The Grace Of God Go I
91. Buzzcocks - Boredom
92. Squeeze- Up the Junction
93. Steely Dan - "Any Major Dude Will Tell You"
94. Jimmy Cliff - The Harder they Come
95. Cars - Just What I Needed
96. Patti Smith - Gloria
97. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
98. Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
99. James Brown - The Payback
100. Tim Buckley - Song For The Siren

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

It was all going so well up to this point...here's how it SHOULD have looked:

82. Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
83. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light
84. Can - Halleluwah
85. Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby

Which leaves 86. Rather a big omission, as it happens.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Ahem...

points: 259
total votes: 11

FUNKADELIC - MAGGOT BRAIN

http://www.slothy.com/pfunk/albums/maggot.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I suspect I must take the blame for Amiii's mistake, as I supplied the wrong information. All she does is turn up, smear on a bit of body glitter, and present.

Can't believe I missed this track, out of all of them - perhaps it is a way of blocking out the fact that I only discovered this after I'd voted, and otherwise it would have been in my top 10 and about 20 places higher.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Wow. Maggot Brain at 86? That's really low

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

The song is appropriately named - it worms its way into your brain, and it cocoons itself there, ready to fly out at you when you least expect it.

I borrowed this album off the boyf. He isn't keen. He says this track freaks him out - "You listen to it, and its like it comes from somewhere else, and you end up not being quite where you are".

That's precisely why I like it. This blasts away ANYTHING that might have been lurking in those recesses. It sounds so huge, and hollow, and echoing - this HAS to be what the void sounds like, utterly entrancing, there's no avoiding being pulled in.

And then, at the end, the bizarrely comforting... "crawl, maggot brain, crawl..." are you crawling because you've been re-born? Or possibly I've just heard the words wrong. Ugly rumour suggests it might be "go, maggot brain, go...". Which is still kind of cool, but buggers up the metarphor.

Unlike anything else I own. I think its time to remedy that.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

but anyway, back to your hostess..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh children of the cosmos, what is a number anyway, but an attempt to pin down that which is indefinable?...err...yes...

81 (yes, really)

points: 274
total votes: 10

THE O-JAYS - LOVE TRAIN

http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Lyrics/1973/ojays.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

A love train would look like a technicolour Stephenson's Dream Rocket.
-- PJ Miller (pjmiller6...), April 27th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Possibly the happiest song EVER??

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

points: 275
total votes: 12

SISTER SLEDGE - LOST IN MUSIC

http://www.shima.iplus.to/img/mx/mx001871.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

What a song to get lost in. Throw your cares away as the bassline struts into your consciousness and slip between the clipped chorus and the vocals - somewhere between ecstasy and anguish.

Nile Rogers penned this (I know...you knew that) - I'm thankful he gave it to Sister Sledge rather than Chic. Those glib, perfect vocals that made Chic so fantastic would have ruined this entirely. The Sledge sisters perform with determination, occasionally verging on desperation - they really are seeking salvation in music, and this gives the song an incredible urgency.

The yearning is balanced by a knowledge that they're clinging onto something, that it can't last forever - "I WON'T GIVE UP MY MUSIC. NOT ME NOT NOW NO WAY NO HOW" - it feels as if they know, sooner or later the party has to end, but they aren't going to admit it, and they don't want to hear you talking about it either.

The hope of transformation hangs in front of you. The driving melody and insistent vocals push it on. There's no turning back.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

plus, The Fall covered it.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Caught in a trap-ah!

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

has anyone made a compilation of tracks the fall have covered? do we have a list of such tracks? because i'll make the comp. it'll be fun.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

or maybe there should be a thread about songs we'd like to hear the fall cover?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

or maybe there should be a thread about songs we'd like to hear the fall cover?

And mail it to him as "The ILM Mark E. Smith fanclub"?

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Love the last two, good work ILM.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.visi.com/fall/discog/covers.html

You'll be wanting this, then.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

oh, man, THANKS. this is gonna be fun.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

So "Payback" is where Massive Attack's "Protection" and Total's "Can't You See" come from?

Mind = blown

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

My questions about Why Are People So Grudgeful remain. The credits on Infotainment Scan list Lee Perry, but the above website suggests that its not written by him.

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

mORe ReSuLts pLs!

― Seb (Seb), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

points: 275
total votes: 14

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - BORN TO RUN

http://bruce.orel.ws/images/btr-sp.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

My questions about Why Are People So Grudgeful remain. The credits on Infotainment Scan list Lee Perry, but the above website suggests that its not written by him.

I think it was an answer song to "People Funny Boy" by Lee Perry. Writing credits on Reggae singles have aways been sketchy (around that time anyway).

One of the Trojan box sets has a version of "Come Together" listed as "Unknown"!

(or one of the Len/Mac songs anyway)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

the live performance of "Born To Run" on the 2000 tour was the best thing I've ever seen anywhere any time ever.
-- Andrew Frye (andrewjfry...), August 26th, 2003.
Don't have a deep knowledge of or strong opinion on his work in general but I think this song is great. It's not stripped-down but I don't see why this is more over-the-top than Meat Loaf or The Cure or something (or even, say, Wire's "A Touching Display").
-- sundar subramanian (sundar_subramanian200...), January 4th, 2005.
dave q once said something I liked a lot about him singing like a stoned alien.
-- sundar subramanian (sundar_subramanian200...), January 5th, 2005
I love this song. Never get tired of it.
-- Al (hoteloper...), January 5th, 2005.
I fucking love Born to Run to death....the fuckin' break into "at nite we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway american dream"....fuck yeah it's over the top drama queen theatrics and god bless it....it's one of those songs i instantly loved as a child when i heard it.....it made things seem bigger and more important than they really were.....Coldplay's "Clocks" is prolly like that for little kids now.....but yeah chuck is right Asbury Park is still prolly his best album but HONOR THE BOSS ALEX!!!!!!!!
I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE!
-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), January 5th, 2005.
I'm w/ matos and m@tt and al, this is one of the greatest songs ever, and I've never really gotten sick of it. I don't own the album but I don't remember the other songs living up to the pure surging energy of the title track, so i don't know that I would like it today.
-- deej . (ldirL...), January 5th, 2005.
The moment Born To Run (the song) made sense was when I was on the low level train to Finniestoun on my way back from a mate's flat. I'd borrowed a random mixtape to listen to on my walkman. I was pretty drunk on red wine so I liked the idea of being totally surprised. As I headed from High Street to the Argyle St station For Those About To Rock by AC/DC came on. So far so mighty. Fists pumping in the air. As the train trundled beneath the motorway it was some John Spencer tune. Pretty rocking. Then, just as the train pulls in that trem guitar riff comes in "dahh, dah dah dah daaah". The E Street Band pile in as I leap triumphantly onto the platform and race up the stairs. I feel so fucking mighty. A glorious moment. 5 minutes later I was back at my flat feeling awesome. That's the power of The Boss.
The album that got me over my indie Bruce fear was Nebraska. That album gets better with every listen. Just stunning. Darkness would seem to be my next best step. I can get them all cheap on vinyl easy peasy.
-- stew (stewfsmit...), January 5th, 2005.
An hour before spotting this thread I wondered to myself if the opening lines to the song were possibly the best opening lines for a rock song ever. "At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines" gives me goose pimples, for real. And since I've given up the ghost of boring anti-bombast punk purism (a phase which lasted me more or less the couple months in 1994 between hearing Ramones for the first time and hearing London Calling for the first time), I've come to appreciate how well-structured the track is, going beyond just verse-chorus-verse to a perfectly-contained mini-rock-opera that stays completely focused and builds to a completely immaculate peak (the one around the 3-minute-mark, right before the "1-2-3-4/the highway's jammed with broken heroes..."). 9 times out of 10 this personally, for me, beats some snotty kid plonking on the same chords for 2:30, muttering about boredom. Beats it with a tire iron.
Still, I figure that Darkness on the Edge of Town is his best album overall, with '78-'80 being his peak.

-- What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatri...), January 5th, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

points: 280
total votes: 7

DIANA ROSS - LOVE HANGOVER (12")

http://takamatsu.cool.ne.jp/divamania/image/dianaross.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

In my Top 3 - delighted to see it place.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

LOVE HANGOVER!!

In my Top Five. Best song she's ever done!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

LOVE FUCKING HANGOVER. BEST THING DIANA ROSS EVER DID AND THE BEST DISCO SONG EVER BITCHES.

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), October 1st, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

much props for im coming out and love hangover
-- mo money mo problems (-f...), December 15th, 2003.
Diana Ross, "Love Hangover"... I've played out the rest of what was once my second or third favorite song, pretty much, but that electric-piano-and-strings, descending-chords opening (that ten or so seconds before she starts moaning) captures the sleek, urban ennui side of disco as good as anything ever, in my book.

-- Eric H. (ephende...), September 12th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

points: 285
total votes: 15

SYLVESTER - YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL)

http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Media/Sylvester/sylvesterportrait.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=5790586

Anyone besides me here that finds this to be classic? I was introduced to this masterpeice via VH1 in the late nineties on a special about Studio 54. They showed the video in its entirety and my eyes were glued to the TV trying to figure out what gender Sylvester was and at the same time I was mesmerized by how that beat was commanding me to dance. I was about 12 at the time.

Disco is cool.

-- kevin says relax (cockstar1...), May 13th, 2005.

I think the question actually is: is there anyone who doesn't find this to be a classic? I think even non-disco fans would cite it as a highlight of the genre.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), May 13th, 2005.

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yeah this is def. one of the more loved 54-era disco tunes.
-- The Good Dr. Bill (fadeout9...), May 13th, 2005.

There was a paper on Sylvester at EMP. Apparently he didn't actually like this song much, meant it for a B-Side, thought the disco treatment was inappropriate for a song intended as a gospel/soul number... NEVER LISTEN TO ARTISTS!!! ahem. Anyway the paper also told a moving story of his collaboration with Patrick Cowley just before the latter died and his late conversion to thinking the disco he made was good after all.
-- Tom (freakytrigge...), May 13th, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting worried now that too many good tracks are appearing in the bottom half of the list and the top half will be teh rubbish

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

points: 286
total votes: 10

ELVIS COSTELLO - WATCHING THE DETECTIVES

http://www.popmatters.com/music/top100songs/images/74costello-elvis.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting worried now that too many good tracks are appearing in the bottom half of the list and the top half will be teh rubbish

quite. disappointed to see Sylvester, t'Sledge and "Love Train" so low

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

I find it hard to say what is his best song...I would almost say the real obvious "Alison" and "Watching the Detectives" because they seem to me the simplest, or most direct, or coverable?

-- edd s hurt (eddshur...), March 23rd, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

points: 287
total votes: 17

BOSTON - MORE THAN A FEELING

http://hitparade.ch/cdimg/boston-more_than_a_feeling_s.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

TS: Boston v. Journey
I say Boston for "More Than A Feeling". And the whole spaceships on album covers thing is class.
-- Alan N (ala...), January 14th, 2003.
Boston not only pioneered the sound that dominated FM radio for years afterwards by selecting and fusing the most pop elements of Yes and Zeppelin and southern rock but they could sing in perfect four-part harmony. They were a landmark in recording/production. "Don't Look Back" is incredible with the lead guitars sounding so implausibly massive, announced with their spaceship entries, against the ethereal washes of rhythm guitar, the choir just hovering above it all. And it all sounds so lush and overcoloured. Like, they could actually pull off the longer instrumental bits, which they didn't leave out on their biggest albums, unlike Journey. "Hitch a Ride" is great too. And "A Man I'll Never Be", it just keeps building and dissolving and teasing until the final climax at "I can't keep fighting this feeling" - it takes so long to reach this point. The twin chorus guitars! The riffs from "Don't Look Back" and "Peace Of Mind"! Every moment of "More Than a Feeling"! The fact that when I bought the first album, I realized I'd heard every song but one on the radio numerous times! Then I heard the other one a little later! So Tom Scholz might take the diddly-wah a little far some times. So Don't Look Back (the album) peters out on side 2. So I don't really need to hear "Smokin'" again for a little while. So they got a little formulaic and I don't even really know what they did after the second album. Journey had some catchy tunes but it goes no further. Without Boston there to blaze a trail, I don't even want to think where they'd be.)
-- sundar subramanian (sundar_subramanian200...), January 14th, 2003. only really (consciously) know more than a feeling,which is great,by boston,and can't think of anything off hand by journey,so boston it is,i suppose...
also,sundar makes a fairly persuasive arguement...
-- robin (robin_lace...), January 14th, 2003.

only really (consciously) know more than a feeling,which is great,by boston,and can't think of anything off hand by journey,so boston it is,i suppose...
also,sundar makes a fairly persuasive arguement...
-- robin (robin_lace...), January 14th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

... another one that should have been higher!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

points: 287
total votes: 11

JUNIOR MURVIN - POLICE AND THIEVES

http://www.mp3.com/images/cover/200/drd900/d923/d92362hta34.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

This beat More Than A Feeling on highest placing (6th as opposed to 8th) - the same with Bruce Springsteen and Sister Sledge (2nd/ 4th).

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

points: 288
total votes: 13

PRINCE - I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:qzYazbvJWp0J:www.discocity.it/images/RITORNELLI/PRINCE/PRINCE%25202/PRINCE%2520I%2520WANNA%2520BE%2520YOUR%2520LOVER.JPG

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

No-one had More Than A Feeling higher than 8th? That bites.

Also: this thread is so much better than the totally rubbish 70s 6 CD compilation I got out of the library this week, even without actually listening to any of the songs on the thread.

― alext (alext), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

I once put "I Wanna Be Your Lover" on a crush tape -- I didn't get the guy, but when he listened to the tape he did go "I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!" The same guy has used "Raspberry Beret" on all his crush tapes, often to successful effect (because what girl wouldn't swoon over "Raspberry Beret"?).

-- Jody Beth Rosen (edito...), November 18th, 2002.
'I Wanna Be Your Lover' was always the best song I remember off that album, as well as being pretty much untouchable.
-- Barima (barima_...), December 12th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

"Love Hangover" and "More Than a Feeling"!! Too awesome.

Almost makes up for the Boston s/t not making it.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

points: 290
total votes: 15

THE B52s - ROCK LOBSTER

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/b/5/b52s87098.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Are there any B52's song's that kick more ass that Rock Lobster?

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

No.
See Henry Rollins, who once said something to the effect of, "There is no greater moment in the history of rock'n'roll than Fred Schneider bleating 'Boys in bikinis! Girls on surfboards! Let's ROCK!' at mind-shearing volume." One of Rollins' few spot-on insights.
-- JS Williams (jsw071...), November 27th, 2002.
Fred Schneider is great because every fucking thing he says on any song ever sounds like something that me and a couple of my bestest friends would write while drunk, and think it was brilliant.

-- Ally (mlescau...), November 28th, 2002.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

well that ends that winning streak.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 20 May 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

points: 291
total votes: 15

BEE GEES - STAYIN ALIVE

http://vinil.com.sapo.pt/Bee_Gees-Stayin_Alive.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

grrr..

and that was the only image of the single cover I could find, too.

instead here's an image of them in their full glory:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:Vtm_Yi16h0cJ:www.popmatters.com/music/top100songs/images/65bee-gees.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

ELVIS COSTELLO - WATCHING THE DETECTIVES

This list is getting faster.

I remember getting this on day of release, before I'd heared it anywhere else. (This used to happen.) Probably the last time an Elvis Costello single really surprised me.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh...they've come back.

There's a surprisingly small amount of talk about this song on ILM. perhaps you'd like to add your comments about this one, someone?

I've never loved this song much, to be honest. I wish Lost In Music had beaten it. Or Sylvester.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

I meant Stayin Alive, not Watching The Detectives, although what I wrote would apply to both of them.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

points: 296
total votes: 17

TALKING HEADS - PSYCHO KILLER

http://freeculture.org/blog/wp-content/psycho%20killer.jpeg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I forgot, I'm Amii Stewart...

Amii would say something more like... "Hey, my friends the Bee Gees, they were so beautifully perfumed.." perhaps.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

I've also seen Phish do "Psycho Killer". It was k-rad.
-- nickalicious (nza2342...), January 7th, 2004.
wierd,i've obviously heard loads of drum machine solos,and no doubt many of favourite songs feature them,but when i saw the thread title,the first thing i thought of was the same as jeff,the one on the stop making sense version of psycho killer...
-- robin (robin_lace...), April 25th, 2002.
(from Your Favorite Drum Machine Solo Your Favorite Drum Machine Solo)
I have a dream version of "Psycho Killer" done exactly like Peggy Lee's "Fever," with the walking bass and the finger snaps. Really, it would be brilliant.
-- Marcel Post (marcel_pos...), December 26th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

so far, this list is really really excellent. is there a predictions thread yet?

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

the 70s poll (albs and singles) predictions and things are posted here, i guess

Used for albums so far, but it seems very multi-purpose.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

points: 303
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 11

RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS - BLANK GENERATION

http://www.thecatflap.co.uk/images/childish/b3ta/blank_generation.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Taking Sides: "Blank Generation" VS. "Pretty Vacant"

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Many a learned rock tome is quick to point out that Malcolm McLaren -- after basically interning around NYC's fledgling punk scene and abortively attempting to manage the then-last-legged New York Dolls through their ill-conceived Communist Red Patent Leather phase -- basically latched with slavish fascination onto Richard Hell. Sartorially, tonsorially and philosophically, Hell singularly personified the cultural coup d'etat McLaren had envisioned. Legend has it that he basically projected Hell onto his ragtag ensemble of youthful Sex Pistols, and commissioned them to come up with "their own" version of Hell's classic, "Blank Generation."
The end result was, of course, "Pretty Vacant," featuring some iconoclastic lyrics from Johnny Rotten and an insanely amazing riff, purportedly pilfered from the middle-eight of Abba's "S.O.S". (was it Matlock or Jones who came up with this?)
Decades later, both tracks are regarded as --- wait for it -- seminal anthems of Punk Rock, but I pu it to you....WHICH IS BETTER?
As much as I reside in the Richard Hell camp (I live in New York, thus -- it's the law), I must sheepishly confess to thinking that "Pretty Vacant" is simply a better song -- beefier, catchier and, hell, just a lot more fun. Where Hell yodels and hoots in self-loathing and nihilistic indifference, Rotten spits out verses with vitriolic zeal, followed by a rousing football terrace chant that never fails to get everyone grunting along. "WE'RE SO PRETTY, OH SO PRETTY!". Rotten's gleeful emphasis on the "CUNT" syllable of "vacant" seals the deal -- to say nothing of the classic "AND WE DON'T CARE!" break.
That all said, the disjointed spill of fragmenting guitars that ushers in "Blank Generation" is no less amazing. Much less metallic and more old school rock'n'roll (albeit drunken and wonderfully -retarded sounded), "Blank Generation" doesn't kick down doors like "Pretty Vacant," but it's still a righteous declaration of antipathy.
What say you?

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), October 30th, 2004.

Blank Generation wins by a landslide....Pretty Vacant isn't one of my favortie Pistols songs....Robert Quine was a god, and his solo on this song is one of my favorite moments of music ever....Richard Hell had style for days.
-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), November 1st, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I think "Blank Generation" is the first song I don't like on the list. (Excepting maybe Bauhaus...)

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

points: 307
total votes: 11

NEIL YOUNG - CORTEZ THE KILLER

http://www.musicaememoria.com/zuma.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

One of my favourite songs of all-time. Definitely not a light and funny pop song but why "dumb"? That song shows quite well what I like about Neil. He sings what he thinks no matter if it is politically correct or not. He is courageous. To sing on the white people who slaughtered the Indians is not really popular in America. That is almost like a German rock band singing on the holocaust. I like Neil's lyrics. They are very personal which is rare nowadays.
-- alex in mainhattan (alex6...), March 15th, 2002
While I do think it's a good song, the triteness of Neil's take on the situation reduces its impact for me. I agree that the first line is very powerful, and that's the kind of ominous ambiguous feel he should have tried to keep in the rest of the song, instead of nonsense like "Hate was just a legend/War was never known." I think what Cortez did was evil but idealizing the Aztecs does them no service. And the way it turns into a love song in the last verse seems completely inappropriate. Though I will say that a lot of Dylan's political songs, like "George Jackson," are just as clunky and one-sided.
-- Justyn Dillingham (aubade8...), March 17th, 2002.
The thing about the song that for all the stupid oversimplification of the situation, it's all about that line "He came dancing across the water." Like Shiva, like some sort of chaotic force that's at once mesmerizing and utterly destructive. For all the Dylan talk, frankly I'll take that *one* line -- six words -- over Le Bob any day of the week.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), March 15th, 2002.
I think "Cortez the Killer" is one of his best too.
-- Sean (saturns...), March 15th, 2002.
Live Rust is great, for the most part - some of the guitar lines are so lucid and crunchy and crystalline - and the only possibly suckage on this album would have to be the cod-Jamaican patois Neil adopts for an otherwise-transcendent 'Cortez The Killer' - "what a killer, mon / plenty bad mon" - which truly has to be heard to be believed.
i always mention this when talking to friends about this album, but just receive blank faced responses. please, ILM, tell me yzall hear this too? or have i got a rogue mispressing??

-- stevie (stevie.chic...), July 23rd, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

points: 307
total votes: 14

THE TEMPTATIONS - PAPA WAS A ROLLIN STONE

http://www.vinylmusic.co.uk/cover_pix/10051.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Search:
Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
Psychedelic Shack
Cloud Nine
Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Flawless music!

-- M Carty (mcarty...), May 13th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Temptations highest placing : 2nd
Neil Young highest placing : 6th

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

points: 312
total votes: 13

T REX - METAL GURU

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― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Like a lot of people my age it was Metal Guru at No.1 (backed up by Virginia Plain, Crazy Horses and Mama Weer All Crazee Now) that showed me that pop matters. And unlike anybody else on ILM, probably, it was Nilsson's 'Without You' that showed me that pop can also move you to tears. I was 7.
-- Jeff (cworrel...), November 5th, 2001.

MG is the only song I've ever heard on a jukebox and immediately had to find out what it was. Bought the CD the next day.

-- tha chzza (chzz...), August 13th, 2001.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

And that (MG) was my #2 placing! Which is a bit odd given that I don't think of myself as 'liking T Rex'.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

points: 314
total votes: 17

IGGY AND THE STOOGES - SEARCH AND DESTROY

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drc500/c552/c552952bw10.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Supply your own comments... looking for "Search and Destroy" on ILM is going to be rather difficult.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

points: 315
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 12

ANN PEEBLES - I CAN'T STAND THE RAIN

http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~ds0/s_AnnPeebles.jpg

http://this.is/drgunni/ann%20peebles.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

This sort of reminds me of the sixth form.

when we were in the year six, the year seven kids were all "Led Zep, Skynrd, Purple" and so on. We were the "Clash, Pistols, Xray Spex" all that.

The following year we moved up to year seven, and the new year six were all "La Belle Epoque / SatNightFever / Chic"

Three years, big turnaround.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Try One Harder..

Iggy by a mile. Adam's a grease spot. I'd much rather shout "Search & Destroy," "Bang Bang," "Lust For Life," "Wild America," "Squarehead," or "Dum Dum Boys" than "Stand & Deliver" or "Goody Two Shoes." To say nothing of "No Fun" or "The Passenger." And, as they both play rock, the "rockist" thing is officially vull & noid.
-- John Bullabaugh (Liphedd...), May 13th, 2003.

raw power is the critic's choice and funhouse is for those who hate critics, though i think there's a shift going on a la sgt. pepper's and revolver. the stooges are the best rock band ever though, to my ears, they never made a great album as all of their efforts have something that fuck it up.
anyhow, the debut is all about attitude, funhouse provides the noise, and raw power, by God, IS rock and roll in all of its obscene glory so it's my pick. (we're talking about the iggy mix, accept no substitutes here.) and it has "search & destroy" which makes me want to slay all before me so obviously it's the greatest song ever.

-- fred solinger (fred9157...), April 28th, 2001.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Ann talks to a pane of glass, Ann talks to the pillow, Ann regards the drops hitting her bedroom window and ruminates on how it feels to be alone. The inanimate objects say little in response.

This is good, a pillow and a window singing back would alter the intense, claustrophobic feel of this song. You can feel the frustration and the pent-up passion in the spaces. Ann's performance is perfect - somewhere between repression and release...its the feeling of someone about to break. If the objects around her started speaking back, she might not be entirely surprised.

I've heard a few people attempt this, but nobody touches Ann's version. You should buy the album.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

points: 318
total votes: 17

GARY NUMAN - CARS

http://www.tommcmahon.net/images/GaryNumanCars2.jpg

(please overlook the fact that the image says "sounds of the 80s".

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Amiii, I assume that post of mine you quoted confirms my fear that "Without You" won't make the 100 :(

("Metal Guru" was my #11 btw, Nilsson my #13)

Great chart so far, nonetheless. Will probably be all Clash and Led Zep near the top, mind.

xpost
"Cars"! Fantastic track, but I voted for Tubeway Army instead.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

his heyday is not over and never shall be
-- mark s (mar...), July 3rd, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Jeff...it might, and it might not...

Nilsson was my Hobart's #8, I think. I like it a lot, but am slightly surprised I he put it so high.

Err... Knock on Wood, Dancing, Gold Shoes, The Cosmos.

I don't think Rory Bremner has much to worry about.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

cars was one of the 1st videos that i'd seen on a then-nascent MTV which i loved wholeheartedly (do androids dream of shaking tambourines?)
-- Eisbär (llamasfu...), November 8th, 2004

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

points: 322
total votes: 13

SUGARHILL GANG - RAPPER'S DELIGHT

http://hitparade.ch/cdimg/sugarhill_gang-rappers_delight_s.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Sugarhill Gang: "Rapper's Delight"

The history of hip hop will always deem Sugarhill Gang as plagiarists
and
imitators, but at least they were great imitators with a killer studio
band
to back them up. Copying, stealing, and borrowing - sometimes less,
sometimes more blatant - is a major part of what hip hop is, so it's
fitting
the first rap hit ever is a prime example of this. And in the end it
doesn't
really matter: whenever I play "Rapper's Delight" on a DJ gig, it
always
fills the dance floor. 99% of the people dancing to the song probably
don't
even know it's back story, and no hip hop historian could ever make
them
enjoy it less.

Tuomas

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

points: 323
total votes: 12

ANDREA TRUE CONNECTION - MORE MORE MORE

http://kore.mitene.or.jp/~jamboree/andrea%20true.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

This song is hysterical to me because of Ms. True's totally bored, beyond-blasé performance. I wonder how her porno films were.

-- Sean (saturns...), November 19th, 2002.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh, cosmic ones, I'm afraid I must go. I've just had a phone call from Grace Jones. She's having problems removing her Dirt Devil. I told her to turn it off first.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/germanfist/amii.jpg

Until the stars bring us together once more..

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

YES

"More, More, More" = best disco track ever ever ever

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

So far,

ILM 70's tracks list >>>> ILM 70's albums list

and I'm not too surprised by it, considering that people tended to vote for more tracks than albums, and the higher quality and diversity in the singles noms list.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I Love The 70s

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Best best best disco track ever ever ever!

― Seb (Seb), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I wonder how her porno films were.

Didn't the "More more more/how do you like it?" lines comes from a film she did. I saw it on Vh-1's one-hit-wonder thing I believe.

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

See Henry Rollins, who once said something to the effect of, "There is no greater moment in the history of rock'n'roll than Fred Schneider bleating 'Boys in bikinis! Girls on surfboards! Let's ROCK!' at mind-shearing volume." One of Rollins' few spot-on insights.

This quote made me *run* to my CD shelf to play this song.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 20 May 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

"rock lobster" is the official "a member of your family is trying to call you" blount family ringtone.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 20 May 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

haha. i wanna know why the good dr. bill doesn't like "rock lobster"!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

because Fred Schnieder was put on this earth for the sole purpose of annoying me as much as humanly possible.

THE B-52S DO NOT HAVE ANY GOOD SONGS

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 20 May 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

It's so totally up your alley though!

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 21 May 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

Will probably be all Clash and Led Zep near the top, mind.

Oh god, if fucking Stairway takes #1 the whole world will be drowned in my vomit.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 21 May 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Don't blame me, I used my #1 vote to get Rundgren onto the list ...

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 21 May 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

I voted for EVERY ABBA track available (except one) and none of them have made it yet. You'd think there were Americans voting, or something.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 21 May 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

Haha, was I the only one who actually wrote blurbs for this thing? Or maybe there are more to come...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

By the way, in my "Rappers' Delight" blurb I wasn't talking about Sugar Hill Gang borrowing the bassline from Chic, which was obviously the norm back then, but about them being scene outsiders to cash in on hip hop, and about them borrowing some of their lyrics from the Cold Crush Brothers (admittedly, with Grandmaster Caz's permission - though he was never credited).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

this part of the list is sounding like a 100 parties i've been to

― mentalist (mentalist), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

yes, parties

― mentalist (mentalist), Saturday, 21 May 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Tom, I'm hardly a big Abba fan, and even I voted for at least one, maybe two, of their songs. (I wish I had kept a copy of my ballot.) So, you may be happily surprised.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Saturday, 21 May 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

"Backstabbers" is better than "Love Train," but I bet it won't make it.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Saturday, 21 May 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

"Backstabbers" was in my top 10 I think, so that's a chunk of points, but yes, if we were going to see it we'd have seen it by now I fear :(

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 21 May 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

i think the o'jays are my least favorite of the major 70s soul groups

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 21 May 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

"Dancing Queen" will probably be #1. There will be plenty of Abba in the next 60 I think.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 22 May 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

It is my belief and hope that Dancing Queen doesn't break the top 10.

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 22 May 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Top ten quite possibly, but #1? Unlikely.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 23 May 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh god, if fucking Stairway takes #1 the whole world will be drowned in my vomit.
-- James.Cobo (trdn8...), May 21st, 2005.

Cancel the ark-raising, foax. "Freebird" a lock for #1.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 23 May 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

"Stayin Alive" is the greatest song EVER recorded.

The Mondays version is also sublime.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Monday, 23 May 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

"Dancing Queen" was my #20 pick, with three ABBA songs higher.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 23 May 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

You've changed your tune.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

Urrr....

Who am I? Where am I?

Who are THEY?

ihttp://www.agostinopenna.it/photo/gallery/incontri/big/amii_stewart.jpg

Oh...

Hello, my cosmic chickens. I hope your hearts are full of joy. I shall be back just as soon as I've put on my sparkly frock and my twelve inch heels.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Urrr....

Who am I? Where am I?

Who are THEY?

Oh...

Hello, my cosmic chickens. I hope your hearts are full of splendour and funk. I shall be back just as soon as I've put on my sparkly frock and my twelve inch heels.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Whoever they are, they've gone...

woo woo

There, that's better. On with the poll.. (image linkified b/c of terms of use issues, thnx)

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Eek. Perhaps that picture should be deleted..

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

points: 323
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 13

SPARKS - NO. 1 SONG IN HEAVEN

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/800/sparks.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Big sparks.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

i've listened to "NO. 1 SONG IN HEAVEN" about 20 times today... weirdstrange

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

I like the way towelling top and medallion man was allowed.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

Great, witty, camp as tits wry pop from a band who have made some of the finest records ever made.
-- russ t (russ.thoma...), March 21st, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

points: 326
total votes: 12

LED ZEPELLIN - WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS

http://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/S=2114717014/K=when+the+levee+breaks+led+zeppelin/v=2/SID=e/l=IVS/;_ylt=AoixwU3buKdYCucPMyvidGxWBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=124gis23n/EXP=1116941803/*-http%3A//www.isoladifano.it/zeppelin/foto/foto.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

WtLB has basically the most crushing live drums ever.

-- Jordan (j0rdanc0h3...), March 19th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

points: 332
total votes: 11

THE NORMAL - WARM LEATHERETTE

http://www.cs-net.gr/~contact7/images/normal.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Ooh aren't we all edgy?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

It seems the search facility is not playing along at the moment, so supply your own comments..

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

I would like to confirm that I am edgy.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

points: 339
total votes: 14

KRAFTWERK - NEON LIGHTS

http://eil.com/newgallery/Kraftwerk-Neon-LightsLumin-20750.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

If God made a version of "Neon Lights" it wouldn't be better than Kraftwerk's version
-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), February 18th, 2005.

I'd say this is the quintessential Kraftwerk track off the quintessential Kraftwerk album - Kraftwerk boiled down to pure essence. It's got the Glass-influenced mesmeric minimalism, it's got the nostalgia for the modernism of a pre-Nazi Germany and the yearning romanticism that goes with it, it's got a whiff of transcendentalism in the idea of a city of light, it's got that beat that is robotic and yet suprises you occasionally with an offbeat, it's got a German who can't really sing, it sort of works itself up to a quiet climax, it's got everything.
-- lhooq (lhoo...), February 18th, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 23 May 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I had no idea that ILM liked that song so much. Autobahn = top 10?

The two KW songs we nominated probably wouldn't make my KW POXV. I voted "Autobahn" #41 on this poll. It was mainly out of sympathy.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 23 May 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

The poll results will be convulsive, or not at all!

― RS, Monday, 23 May 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

For predicting what #1 might be, please refer to the predictions thread

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I kind of like that 20 songs are revealed one day, and then a few days later, 4 more.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

Or even this predictions/comment/moan thread...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.prato.turismo.toscana.it/pratomes/2003/10/img/10vedova.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

Hey, hey, hey, its gonna be a sunny polling day...

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it..

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

points: 343
total votes: 17

KRAFTWERK - AUTOBAHN

http://www.thejudge.me.uk/Main/Raves/autobahn-rszd.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007U6V.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://www.busstop-records.co.uk/auto.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

Kraftwerk showdown! What are the chances?

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

How in gods name do you write a 22 minute track and keep in interesting the entire time? How do you write motifs that keep people's attention through that kind of duration of time? I mean Kraftwerk slam-dunked the concept of making audio portraits with Autobahn. When you listen to that track you don't think of the programming, the writing, the performances... You think of a beautful spring day in a well designed german automobile elegantly travelling through the german countryside. You can see the hills and roadsigns, you climb and decend through a winding valley.
They did not do this with a bunch of obvious lyrics that bash you over the head with intention. I don't need to know every last detail about the Autobahn, they just give you enough to let your imagination run. They kept the musique concrete elements to a bare minimum. They did it was a bunch of VCO's and some good processing. The genuis of that track is that you are in that environment when you listen and you can *feel* the tension and release, the graceful beauty of the land, the push/pull of the disconnection between the driver and the land when you deal in the scale of long distance automobile travel.
-- The Rebukes of Hazard (current31...), March 26th, 2004.
The title track is just so joyous, wonderful, beautiful and perfect that I can't imagine criticizing the album. The delay on the guitars alone is enough to make me want to weep (which I actually have while listening to it). TEE is great but cold, the hipster DJ Spooky touchstone ('birth of electro and rap!' 'cold machinery of detroit factories!' blather) -- Autobahn is nourishing, life-affirming, awe-inspiring.
-- Clarke B. (clarkeb...), March 26th, 2004.
God invented Kraftwerk because he loves us and wants us to be happy.
-- The Rebukes of Hazard (current31...), March 28th, 2004.
I love G-d. I love Kraftwerk. Therefore, I am happy.
-- Barry Bruner (brune...), March 28th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm still terrified by the absence of drivers in the vehicles depicted on Autobahn sleeve.

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

Steve it's car heaven!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

Notice the lack of cars too

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.emilschult.com/Video/Autocover_back.jpg
So, who's driving. you guys?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:sUbrrgcQX6sJ:www.emilschult.com/video/Autocover_back.jpg
Ahem. So who's driving, you guys?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

points: 343
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 11

BIG STAR - THIRTEEN

http://www.innersense.com.au/images/top_images/bigstar.jpg

http://www.thirteen.org/bigideas/images/stars_quote1.gif

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

thirteen is the best acoustic ballad ever written (unless you count 'more than words')
-- geeg (gee...), July 10th, 2002.

The hint that something dark and not-quite-right was about to happen (or HAD just happened) in songs like Thirteen, Back Of A Car, El Goodo, You Get What You Deserve... contrasts so well with the sunny pop-ness of the melodies.
-- Dr. C (Daveatcrossdee...), July 11th, 2002.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

points: 346
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 17

AL GREEN - TIRED OF BEING ALONE

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/g/green_al~~~_algreenge_101b.jpg

http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/%A5Blues%20And%20Soul%20Images/Al%20Green%204.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

My favourite singer ever, and the music he made in the early '70s with Willie Mitchell producing and the Hodges Brothers and the peerless Al Jackson among the musicians is my favourite music ever. No one has ever sounded more as if they have explored and thought about and deeply felt every nuance of what he is singing about. Music gets no more beautiful and moving than Tired Of Being Alone, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart or Let's Stay Together.
-- Martin Skidmore (martin.skidmore...), April 6th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

points: 347
total votes: 15

NEU! - HALLOGALLO

http://www.aves.no/images/cover/diverse/neuhallo.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Al Green. Haaaahhh! Al Green. Hohhh-Yeahhhh Woooo!

Do it faster, Do it faster, baby.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

Eh? That's a surprise. Higher than "Autobahn" tho? Not sure about that.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

my ideal driving-in-my-car-tune-of-all-time is Hallogallo
-- peepee (citywideva...), September 7th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

I heard that song on 2am radio when I was like 14 and spent the entire next day scouring kazaa and the internet for "Noi" and "Noy". One of the only times an artist made an immediate impact on me.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

points: 358
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 10

PARLIAMENT - FLASHLIGHT

http://www.mp3.com/images/cover/200/drf500/f554/f55498hxdrb.jpg

http://www.funkyvideos.com/images/P78/pfunk22.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

points: 359
total votes: 14

THE RAMONES - JUDY IS A PUNK

ihttp://www.ramones-discography.com/ramones_discography/ramones_album_studio/album_studio_pictures/cds010.JPG

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

points: 359
total votes: 14

THE RAMONES - JUDY IS A PUNK

http://www.ramones-discography.com/ramones_discography/ramones_album_studio/album_studio_pictures/cds010.JPG

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

I voted for "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" (if that was on the list).

― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

points: 363
total votes: 12

THE FLAMIN GROOVIES - SHAKE SOME ACTION

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/100/102347.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

This chart is seriously good

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

"Shake Some Action" is one of my top 15 favorite songs ever, but I'm not really sure why. Um. Maybe it's the shimmering guitar arpeggios; maybe it's "If you don't dig what I say / Then I will go away," which to my ears is pure dumbass surf-goon perfection.
-- Jody Beth Rosen (edito...), October 27th, 2002.
in an ideal world, I'd like to hear Shake Some Action by the Flamin Groovies when I walked into a bar.
-- Dan Selzer (danselze...), February 12th, 2004.
Flaming Groovies -- Shake Some Action
It fits the rock canon beautifully, was released in the right age for recognition (mid '70s) and features gorgeous British Invasion melodies. I've always been surprised that I've never seen it on one of those lists...
-- Yancey (ystrickle...), September 16th, 2002.
Nah, just deliciously creamy potatoes.
Search: Keith Richards Talk Is Cheap, Flamin' Groovies Shake Some Action.
-- briania (lyriclas...), September 24th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

points: 365
total votes: 13

WIRE - OUTDOOR MINER

http://www.stereosociety.com/jpg/OutdoorMiner220.jpg

Wire - Outdoor Miner

So, Wire's one and only top thirty hit is a description of the process
of an insect eating a leaf, set to a Squeeze backing track, on white
vinyl. And why not.

Mark Grout

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

points: 367
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 15

10CC - I'M NOT IN LOVE

http://www.timelesstracks.com/acatalog/10cc_im_not_in_love.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

....the pillowy smoothness of "I'm Not In Love." Brilliant.
-- Naive Teen Idol (matthewjweine...), October 6th, 2003.
Must say I'm a big fan of humorous 10cc stuff like "Donna", "The Wall Street Shuffle" and "The Dean and I", as well as the *staggeringly sublime* "I'm Not In love", of course.
-- Tom May (joycean_cha...), February 11th, 2004.
"I'm Not In Love" is absolutely immense.
I've only got "The Original Soundtrack" myself, and while it's a good album, its singles are clearly the best things on it, though "The Film of My Love" is a fine cinemascope finale. "How Are You?" also, has this great album track called "Bad Days" IIRC...
One would have liked to see an album, perhaps, with as much complex emotion and insight throughout as in "I'm Not In Love"... they could very easily become quite hidden behind the parodist's screen, and while that worked sublimely with the above 3 early singles, it can be wearing and the phrase 'diminishing returns' seems apt for how they progressed.
-- Tom May (joycean_cha...), April 9th, 2004.
No matter how seeped into the back of my mind 'I'm Not In Love' was from listening to the radio years ago, rediscovering it again was astounding... an utterly perfect piece of pristine, inventive production married to an affecting song. Those vocal overdubs; how near the sublime can you get? In terms of 1970s singles that were 'massive' this is along with 'Dancing Queen', 'Name of the Game', 'Sweet Talkin' Woman', 'I Feel Love', 'Try Me, I Know We Can Make It' as genuinely sublime 1970s singles...

-- Tom May (joycean_cha...), March 1st, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

points: 368
total points: 14

CANDI STATON - YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE

http://www.coolforever.com/temp/sheetmusic/candistaton_youngheartsrunfree_sheetmusic.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Is there a more joyful song about being stuck in an unfulfilling relationship? Candi complains "just can't break awayyyyyy" and her voice, and the music soars. Instant happiness, as long as you don't think too much about what she's singing.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

points: 369
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 10

CAN - VITAMIN C

http://www.furious.com/perfect/graphics/can.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Candi complains "just can't break awayyyyyy" and her voice, and the music soars. Instant happiness, as long as you don't think too much about what she's singing.

-- Amiii Stewart (ilx70...), May 24th, 2005.

Half-assed blurb, badly punctuated. Candi does NOT complain about her voice. Her voice soars.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Candi, darling, you deserved better. Perhaps one of ILM's pertinent pens (clever keyboards??) will provide a more evocative blurb.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

points: 372
total votes: 18

THE RAMONES - SHEENA IS A PUNK ROCKER

http://www.endlessgroove.com/nwslvs/nw254.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rockometer.com/ramones/singles/sheenauk.gif
Here's what mine looks like...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Do you want to share your thoughts on this record, with us, Mark? I'm not finding much when searching ILM.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Umm, what can I say? Sheena is a Punk Rocker was a big hit in the UK, and not a hit in the States. So, all hail us!
-- mark grout (....) (webmail), May 24th, 1978 1:51 PM. (link)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I first heard this song as performed by a cover band (c. early 1978) rehearsing in the basement of the church my father was serving at the time. At first I misunderstood the "Well she's a punk punk, a punk rocker Punk punk a punk rocker Punk punk a punk rocker Punk punk a punk rocker" as saying "I wanna fuck I wanna fuck her," which had me a little concerned about whether I should be listening to it.

― rs, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

here's an awesome damo-era can picture:
ihttp://www.spoonrecords.com/images/c16.jpg

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

points: 372
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 12

BRIAN ENO - BABY'S ON FIRE

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/images/enobrianmain.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

awesome eno picture! ive never seen that one...

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

taking tiger mountain (by strategy) and "baby's on fire" were 2 of the most wonderfully fucked-up things that a 15-year-old me got to listen to (and have his musical tastes forever perverted by).
-- Eisbär (llamasfu...), September 28th, 2004

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

points: 377
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 12

http://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/S=2114717014/K=all+the+young+dudes/v=2/SID=e/l=IVS/;_ylt=AoixwU3buKdYCucPMyvidGxWBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=130ofdqdq/EXP=1117032747/*-http%3A//pentaclerecords.net/covenstead/all_the_young_dudes_front_cover_sm.jpg

Mott the Hoople – “All The Young Dudes”

For the last 30 years, my grandmother has given me grey work socks for Christmas. They were never the right size, and anyway, they were always the wrong color, so I never wore them.
In 1972, David Bowie gave a disintegrating Mott the Hoople a gift: the song “All The Young Dudes.” With this gift, the band were able to sing about a variety of questionable characters while also chanting out a chorus that gives the listener an overriding sense of solidarity. “All The Young Dudes” not only stands as a definitive glam rock track, but it’s anthematic chorus filled with shout-outs connects the song to everyone from any walk of life, and makes you feel cool. How could you not?! Ian Hunter is calling you a dude!

Bowie’s gift is one of the greatest songs of the 70s, if not of all time. But to bring it all back to me (that’s what the song’s about, right?), well, I love my grandmother, but when it comes to giving gifts, I wish she was David Bowie.

Jonathan Hale

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

points: 378
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 21

ROD STEWART - MAGGIE MAY

http://eil.com/newgallery/Rod-Stewart-Maggie-May-255840.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Is it my imagination or was there another song that sounded almost just like the chorus on Bowie's "All The Young Dudes"?
Because I don't remember hearing "All The Young Dudes" until a while after it came out (like some point in the mid-80s), and yet I remember a song I used to hear on the radio that sounded a lot like that chorus. So maybe it actually was that song? Or maybe it's such a common melody that it's not a sensible question.
-- Rockist Scientist (MuoMuothla...), March 21st, 2004.
(My older brother didn't have any Bowie albums, so I only knew his songs from radio play.)
-- Rockist Scientist (MuoMuothla...), March 21st, 2004.
I know what you're talking about. I don't know WHERE I could have heard the chorus, but I had that melody in my head LONG before I knew what "All The Young Dudes" was. I might have heard it in an ad or something.
On a side note, I totally thought the lyrics included the line "fruit of the loom"

-- Anthony Miccio (ant.@com), March 21st, 2004.

That was my favorite response on that thread.

― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

re: "Hallogallo" and Nicholas' comment: I heard that song on 2am radio when I was like 14 and spent the entire next day scouring kazaa and the internet for "Noi" and "Noy". One of the only times an artist made an immediate impact on me.

The immediate impact thing happened to me as well. Ever since I read about Neu! in pieces about Bowie's 'Berlin Years' (in the 80's, after "Let's Dance" led me to my mother's copy of Low) I really wanted to hear them yet I never managed to get my hands on their music. Until the cd-reissues on Grönland were released in 2001 and I heard a stream of "Hallogallo" from a website late at night whilst still at work... Man, it somehow made me want to crawl into the shitty computerspeakers, what a song. It clicked unlike anything I'd heard before or have heard since.

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

awesome eno picture! ive never seen that one...

The Wire, of all publications, used it a few months ago with the caption "Eno: Waiting for the warm jets". Errr...

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

Rod Stewart is perhaps the most influencial artist of the 21st century. His monumental question, "Do you think I'm sexy?" paved the way for generations to come. Men, women, boys, girls, kittens, straights and gays alike... who didn't get wet the first time they saw that pivotal music video?
Discuss.

-- faces and phases (fugghi...), December 7th, 2002.

Hmmm...

I am serious--my Mom only screwed my Dad because she thought he looked like Rod Stewart, ergo I owe my existence to the man. Do you owe your life to anybody?
-- Ashley Andel (allparticlesfal...), November 4th, 2002.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

points: 386
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 9

GRAM PARSONS - $1000 WEDDING

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/images/parsonsmain.jpg

http://www.filmfestivalen.se/2004/program/filmImages/fallenangel.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Please explain the lyrics of "$1000 Wedding".

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

This is probably the first time I've disagreed with a placing - not that i dislike Gram Parsons. I suppose this means we can expect a barreload of Nick Drake

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I don't like Gram Parsons, or the Ramones for that matter, still plenty of good tracks to come I hope but we're getting to the bits of the 70s that bore me now. I still think we're on course for a pretty great 5CD set tho.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

"Thirteen", "Tired of Being Alone", "Flashlight", "Baby's On Fire", "All the Young Dudes", "Maggie May"...this list is becoming so beautiful. That three-scene structure of "Thirteen" is so simple and so masterful.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

On another thread, someone just named Gram Parsons "$1000 Wedding" as a song that makes them cry.
And I agree. It makes me cry too, almost every time. It's a song of almost overwhelming emotional force and resonance.
-- mike t-diva (mikejl...), February 1st, 2005.
I always took it as meaning that the girl "left him at the altar", but I gotta say I ain't sure either.
Reading the lyrics makes me realize how much of the emotion is NOT in the words, but in the presentation. What is it about the combination of his flattish/"plain" voice and Emmylou's???
-- peepee (citywideva...), February 1st, 2005.
this is one of the greatest things ever recorded, and I have no problem saying it's the greatest "country" song ever made. Has anyone else in "country" ever done anything like this? Not that I can recall.
it's pretty straightforward, at least to me. she's gone and the groom showed up anyway. maybe the bride had some history with the groom's friends, hence "old lies." the reverend don't get the score--his proscriptions are "silly" and he doesn't get the fact that the bride-to-be needed to get out and see the world. I think Parsons is comparing the funeral scene, which is a different event, to the wedding, and points out that the platitudes of the Rev don't get at why the bride needed to not show up to the funeral. Parsons shows compassion for both bride and groom.
it's a masterpiece--Parsons's masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned.
-- es hurt (eddshur...), February 1st, 2005
but i also like how those lines place us for a moment in the groom's interiority, which mitigates the way the rest of the song presents the whole fiasco as a spectacle. i think that's indicative actually of the way gram sort of revised country music clichés by merging different modes of country song in unusually and unexpected ways. sorry for the possible banality of that statement.
xpost
-- Amateur(ist) (amateurist@gmail.com), February 1st, 2005
The narrator is protesting that no one cares for the missing girl, not the family, who act as if she never existed, not the friends, who obviously have dismissed her as a whore, not the preacher who's more concerned with revelations than earthly matters.
-- Snappy (jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj...), February 1st, 2005.
i've always loved this song, it reads like Faulkner.
-- gygax! (gygax0...), February 1st, 2005.
I'm floored every time that I listen to "$1000 Wedding" at how emotional I get. The crest of that song is so powerful. I can't explain it properly. Listen to it tonight, if you have the chance.
-- peepee (citywideva...), September 19th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

The next entry will cheer you up.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I am very shallow by the way, as I realised after reading the GP comments.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

(BTW, dudes, is it at all possible you heard Bruce Dickinson's cover of "All the Young Dudes"? Wishful thinking, probably.)

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

points: 386
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 14

ABBA - WATERLOO

http://www.abbafiles.com/albums/waterloo.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

AT LAST!!

1st place votes: 1

That's me that is.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

We really need a picture of them singing this..

ihttp://66.235.213.139/~abbagall/abba04/waterloo4.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Ah well. I suppose they had to show up eventually.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

possibly a different one..

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/5073/images/76waterloo.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

If I forgot to vote for "Rock 'n' Roll, Part 2" by Gary Glitter then I'll cry

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Probably Anni-Frid Lyngstad. She looked really great in the photos I received from the Abba fan club (UK branch: 34 Sheep Street, Swindon) and, while I was aware that Agnetha was supposed to be the pretty one, there was something about her (especially in the 'Name of the Game' video) that made my little heart race. Very distressed by the 'one of us is ugly/one of us is cute' line in the NTNON skit. She looked nothing like Griff Rhys-Jones.
-- Michael Jones (tourajsig...), April 23rd, 2001.
If it would have been possible time-wise, I really would have liked the Velvets doing Abba covers. But maybe Abba covering the Velvets wouldn't have been too bad neither.
-- alex in mainhattan (alex6...), January 20th, 2003.
Dont' ask me why, but a few years ago I wept constantly to most of Gold. I think it was a bit too joyous for my own good . . .Waterloo and Dancing Queen being the most guilty ones, but everything else effected me far too much.
-- Johnney B (john.barlo...), March 24th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I think it was a bit too joyous for my own good . . .Waterloo and Dancing Queen being the most guilty ones, but everything else effected me far too much.

This is exactly the sentiment of my (yucky) upcoming "Dancing Queen" blurb.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Do you like the Redd Kross cover? It took that for me to appreciate that "Dancing Queen" really was a great song.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

points: 402
total votes: 16

http://www.popshop.dk/shop/images/numan_arefriendselectric_7pic.jpg

ihttp://www.musicpassport.org/img/gigs/RW050304GaryNuman-20.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard that! I'll have to track it down!

xpost

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Hmm... a shame the Gary Numan picture didn't come out. It does mean you are spared the contents of his nose, though.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

a much nicer picture:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/800/gary_numan.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Ahem..

It seems I neglected to mention something.. the song is

ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC?

but you'd guessed that, hadn't you??

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

It was 1979 and I was 9 years old and American and living in England for about nine months because, well, that's where my parents thought we should live that year. It was where I discovered pop music. My sister and I watched "Top of the Pops" every week, and I remember most of the songs we heard: something called "Roxanne" by someone called The Police, "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats, "Sunday Girl" by Blondie, "Cracking Up" by Nick Lowe. I even remember "A Little Bit of Soap" by Showaddywaddy. But the one I remember most was "Are Friends Electric" by Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army. I was amazed. Every week I waited to see if it would still be number one, and for an amazing four or five weeks, it was. I was sure this was what the future was going to sound like (and since I was reading Lord of the Rings at the time, I also somehow thought this was what the past sounded like too). I still have the 45. Amazing song. I brought it back home and played it in my 5th grade classroom on Fridays when our teacher let us bring in records. I remember the first time I put it on, my teacher (a pretty cool guy for an elementary school dusty upstate New York vineyard country) pulled me aside and said, "What is that? That's good." Yeah, it was.
-- Jesse Fox (jfmayshar...), January 12th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

points: 408
total votes: 10

THE SEX PISTOLS - HOLIDAY IN THE SUN

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B00000G6PJ.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://www.bobgruen.com/files/sexpistols/files/R.129%20SEX%20PISTOLS-SID%20CUT%20ARM.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

...by Tubeway Army (not Gary Numan or Gary Numan and... grrr). The bassist and drummer were as important to that record and to Replicas as Gary IMO.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

points: 416
total votes: 11

AL GREEN - LOVE AND HAPPINESS

http://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/S=2114717014/K=hi+and+mighty/v=2/SID=e/l=IVS/;_ylt=AuipQpKdzAK8r8A5pdUfDyJWBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=12skhvs3d/EXP=1117039792/*-http%3A//img.epinions.com/images/newworld/4760/292140-music-resized200.JPG

http://musica.aol.com.br/repositorio_imagens/musica/360x285/Al_Green260.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Wow. I didn't know I posted here in '03. I still agree with that comment I made on "Love Hangover." Puts me in a Looking for Mr. Goodbar mood every time.

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't fair enough to Journey in that Boston vs Journey post upthread. The vocal on "Any Way You Want It" is godlike. I was thinking the other day that I might possibly rate Steve Perry over Freddie Mercury.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

59. When the organ breaks in at the beginning of "Love and Happiness" by AL Green. For me, its an all-time great moment!
-- peepee (citywideva...), February 1st, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

points: 422
total votes: 21

CHIC - LE FREAK

http://www.70disco.com/images/lefreak2.jpg

ihttp://petitcurieux.free.fr/Pochettes/Chic%20-%20Le%20freak%20(2).jpg

http://petitcurieux.free.fr/Pochettes/Chic%20-%20Le%20freak.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

points: 422
total votes: 21

CHIC - LE FREAK

http://www.70disco.com/images/lefreak2.jpg

http://petitcurieux.free.fr/Pochettes/Chic%20-%20Le%20freak%20(2).jpg

http://petitcurieux.free.fr/Pochettes/Chic%20-%20Le%20freak.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Yes, my dears, such a lovely record, I felt you deserved to see it twice.. ahem...

Allegedly written when they couldn't get into Studio 54. The original lyrics were "aaahhh... FUYCK OFF!!!". I wonder how the smiley smiley ladies who fronted the band would have sang that? Probably with smiles. And aplomb. Lots of aplomb. Buckets of aplomb

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Le Freak rocked my world.
-- Orbit (cstarrcstar...), April 21st, 2004

...Chic win simply for the basslines of "Le Freak" and "Good Times". Simply monstrous are those basslines.
-- Tantrum The Cat (tantrumtheca...), October 22nd, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

points: 424
total votes: 24

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - SWEET JANE

http://members.aol.com/olandem3/vuspge02a.jpg

http://members.aol.com/olandem3/vuspge02b.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

errr... 24??

that'd be "35". You weren't seeing the future.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

When the ragged middle 8 comes in - "Anyone who had a heart / shouldn't turn around and break it . . ." absolute genius!
-- Johnney B (john.barlo...), December 18th, 2002.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

points: 428
total votes: 13

GANG OF FOUR - DAMAGED GOODS

http://www.cd-wow.com/images/1/1072671124_big.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

*yawwwwwwwwwwwn*

― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

There's something weirdly special about the chords to "Sweet Jane", however simple and obvious they seem to be.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.j-em.org/~boredom/punk/img/gangoffour.jpg
If you see one of these, there it is.

Now now, no-one complained about all the disco stuff now did they?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

I don't care much about the Go4 any more, and I never cared much about the VU, but those two songs are really really good.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Entertainment! sounds like the beginning of something, (1st alb) a kind of simple, brilliant template for a band: solid-state MGs revamped for maximum spike + Frankfurt school shouting, GO! (exercise: play "Damaged Goods" and "Green Onions" back to back)

alphabetically:
1. Mission of Burma - "Academy Fight Song"
2. The Sex Pistols - "Anarchy in the UK"
3. The Fall - "Bingo Master's Break Out"/"Psycho Mafia"/"Repetition"
4. The Ramones - "Blitzkrieg Bop"
5. Dead Kennedys - "California Uber Alles"
6. The Clash - "Clash City Rockers"
7. The Misfits - "Cough/Cool"/"She"
8. Gang of Four - "Damaged Goods"/"Love Like Anthrax"/"Armalite Rifle"
-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...) (webmail), March 26th, 2004 2:21 AM. (Mr. Snrub) (link)

(from Best punk single (Best Punk Single) thread)

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

points: 428
total votes: 12

TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS - PRESSURE DROP

http://www.ska.ru/images/60/Toots.jpg

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drc500/c517/c5178381av4.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

"pressure drop" is sooooooo right! it is the only song I dance to outside of my room!
-- Aaron Grossman (aajjg...), September 26th, 2002.
OTM. "Sitting in Limbo" is a beautiful song, but "Pressure Drop"?Fucking towering.
-- Kenan Hebert (edito...), January 26th, 2004.
shouldn't some songs be off limits, just by comoon sense? i'd never want to hear a cover of this song -- well i've certainly never heard a good cover of it, yey.
though... i was always intrigued by the fact that the maytals sort of 'cover'/ 'sample' themselves in this song, you know: when they break down into "it's you," that's of course a nod/ reminder to their audience that they're the same band who had that hit song back in '63 or '64 or whenever that was, and they sing a few lines of it then go back into "pressure"! kind of awesome and cheesey at the same time, to do that.
-- Michael J McGonigal (yetimik...), April 25th, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

"Pressure Drop" highest ranking 2nd
"Damaged Goods" highest ranking 3rd

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

points: 431
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 15

ALTHEA AND DONNA - UPTOWN TOP RANKING

http://www.play.com/covers/152584m.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/features/reggae/images/fpopreggae2.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

voted high for that iirc. another truly perfect song.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Uptown Top Ranking : Best record ever?

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

it really is the perfect song though. i remember something tom wrote about hearing it for the first time that went roughly "it briefly transported you to a world where common things - girl groups, verse-chorus-verse - seemed new", which i think is very spot on.
-- strongo hulkington (dubplatestyl...), April 1st, 2004.

When they played UPTOWN on TOTP they were singing it live and it goes on FOREVER and Donna (Donna that is if they stand in the same order as their names) is sort of willing to look like she's interested, but Althea has stopped even bothering to sing and is just looking round the top of the pops room.
-- mark s (mar...), February 8th, 2002.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

points: 445
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 14

WIRE - MAP REF.41N93W

http://fusionanomaly.net/wiremapref41n93w.jpg

This could have been a big radio hit if they'd called it "Interrupting
my train of thought lines of longitude and lattitude"

Mark Grout

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

SO INDIE

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

points: 445
1st place votes: 2
total votes: 21

THE SEX PISTOLS - ANARCHY IN THE U.K.

http://www.liberdadepunk.blogger.com.br/anarchy-sex-pistols.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38184000/jpg/_38184418_pp_080802anarchy150.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Glad we got that out of the way.

"God Save the Queen" is better and it wasn't even nominated!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

points: 446
1st place votes: 2
total votes: 18

THE CURE - BOYS DON'T CRY

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H5V.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/scissorsofbabylon/cure14.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

perhaps should have looked like this...

http://www.mcarecords.com/MCAImageUpload/700864-Thumb.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

there is absolutely no arguing with the sprawling, icy majesty of the Cure....sometimes.
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), October 16th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

points: 457
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 16

BLUE OYSTER CULT - DON'T FEAR THE REAPER

http://www.gocontinental.com/photos2/blueoyster2p.jpg

http://www.connollyco.com/discography/boc/agents.jpg

Great, now it's another Will Ferrell punchline. Haha, cowbell. Yeah.
Before that it was just the best song of the '70s, sleek, sinister,
and ridiculously catchy. Just a casual little ditty about death and
how it happens to everyone, so might as well embrace it head-on, take
its hand, and leave it all behind. Or something along those lines. It
makes sense that Stephen King used it like a Greek chorus at the
beginning of "The Stand"; if a plague wipes out 99% of the planet,
this would be the perfect song to usher it in.

Riot Gear!

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

points: 459
total votes: 17

THE CLASH - LONDON CALLING

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004BZ0N.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://www.memorabletv.com/musicworld/images/clash-still5830.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

all the hype about 'London Calling' is, for me, justified. Great, great rock and roll.
-- Dr. C (Daveatcrossdee...), March 20th, 2001.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe B.O.C. placed so highly. Might as well have Bachman Turner Overdrive in this bitch.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Only 27???

:):):):):):):):):)

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

points: 467
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 12

ROXY MUSIC - VIRGINIA PLAIN

http://jackwolak.com/7/4825.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Virginia Plain" is about as perfect as the 7" single ever got.
-- Jeff W (cworrel...), July 29th, 2002

Has their EVER been an oboe-and-synthesizer-driven record aside from "Virginia Plain"?
-- Myonga Von Bontee (scottyfield...), April 27th, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult v Roxy Music

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

One of my favorite bands ever, so no way can I pick only one, but yeah "Virginia Plain" sums them up pretty well.
-- Sean (saturns...), April 28th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

points: 468
total votes: 16

THE CLASH - (WHITE MAN) IN HAMMERSMITH PALAIS

http://www.baywell.ne.jp/users/isshi/white_man_pink_a.JPG

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

That's enough punk now.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

The things they were singing about were the things that were so raw, people's lives, whether it was Protex Blue or White Man in Hammersmith Palais. They sang about drugs, sex, poverty, the music business, and power in a graphic, compelling way. That did change my life in that it encouraged me to pay more attention to current events and more deeply analyze what was going on the world around me. And to play guitar.
-- Orbit (cstarrcstar...), May 5th, 2005.
The Clash were always good in 76/77 but they didn't become *that* important to me until 'White Man In Hammersmith Palais' - I think I finally GOT them then.

-- Dr. C (petethane...), May 5th, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

points: 478
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 19

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/IMAGES/153/430804.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/IMAGES/153/430804.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I guess that means 'The Dream's Dream' didn't make it. Fules.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I was sure I'd typed the title in...maybe not.

TELEVISION - MARQUEE MOON 12"

although that's actually the album cover..

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

28!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo

"Anarchy in the U.K." is way, way too low and much, much better than "God Save the Queen," but whatever.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Marquee Moon is a wonderful one-of-a-kind guitar soul record
-- pete b. (littlebopet...), June 30th, 2004
"Marquee Moon" isn't as good as all the hype would have you believe - it's actually BETTER.
-- Dr. C (Daveatcrossdee...), May 1st, 2001.
Ahh, Marquee Moon. Is there anything it can't do?
-- mark grout (mark.grou...), May 9th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

points: 481
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 15

THE ONLY ONES - ANOTHER GIRL, ANOTHER PLANET

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/130/131395.jpg

http://www.saf.mcmail.com/PERRETT.JPG

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

This seems a little high. Great song and all, but still....

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Wonderful!

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

not better then either of the Clash songs or "Anarchy," but what are you gonna do. It's a pop-friendly board, and I bet "Ever Fallen in Love" will be higher than all of 'em.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

The last time I listened to Another Girl, Another Planet (two weekends ago, at the end of that Optimo Kill The DJ mix thingy), I turned to my partner and said: it doesn't get more perfect than that. Ecstatically bleak.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

points: 494
total votes: 17

BIG STAR - SEPTEMBER GURLS

http://www.naptownamplifier.com/big9.jpg

http://www.micrographic.net/images/bigstar.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Daisy Glaze, September Gurls, O My soul, Life Is White, Whats Goin Ahn, Back Of A Car, Way Out West....these songs don't really sound like anything or anybody else. Thats why attempts to rip them off always sound more like the Raspberries or Cheap Trick and miss out on whatever it is that makes them sound unique.
-- David Nolan (dnola...), January 9th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

points: 513
total votes: 17

MARVIN GAYE - WHAT'S GOING ON

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00007FOMP.03.LZZZZZZZ

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

20-11 tomorrow, top 10 Friday?

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

I hate "What's Goin On."

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

I can live with the song being this high. Album, on the other hand...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

the last five songs have made me decide i love this list

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 26 May 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

Tomorrow is Friday.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I said that last night.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

points: 515
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 17

BLONDIE - ATOMICS

http://thursdays.com/pic200/blondieatomic.jpg

"Atomic"

You've got to start with the sleeve art. That shot of Debbie Harry with
her
head turned to the left while brushing the hair back on the right side
of
her face with her left hand. That's the iconic Harry image for me.
"Your
hair is beautiful... tonight". Oh yeah, and there's a nuclear explosion
going on in the background. I voted for the single edit (although
that's
strictly an 80s creation) cos it's near perfect - if barely a song: one
verse, one chorus, a half-repeat, coda, end. Musically, it's a curious
hybrid between hi energy disco and new romanticism; a genuine bridge
between
the 70s and 80s. Cemented by that classic four note guitar riff.
"Tonight,
make it magnificent".

Jeff Worrell

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

You have just made my day.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

points: 517
total votes: 17

KATE BUSH - WUTHERING HEIGHTS

http://www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-waltergu/Kate/Liedertexte/The_Kick_Inside/Wuthering_Heights.jpg

http://homepage.eircom.net/~twoms/wheights.jpg

I must have been four or five when this came out and not all that aware of music existing outside of my parents' ABBA collection but this song, and the memory of the first time I saw it, has stayed with me. I remember watching television and being utterly entranced by this bizarre, ever-so-slightly-insane woman wailing, waving her arms around and prancing like...whatever it was she was supposed to be..

Its a cliche that there was nothing like her at the time, but the cliche holds a great deal of truth. I didn't love the song then, I love it now. Kate delivers with a pure, unashamed passion that has spawned so many inferior imitators since.

Often imitated, then, but never matched. Nobody even comes close. The song swells and swoons, spectres tap at windows, the wind whistles across the moor and somewhere, in the middle, there's a nutter in a frock wailing and screaming.

Those eyes, that voice, that dancing...

"wuthering
wuthering
WUTHERING"

Apparently she hadn't read the book at this point, just watched the film. Be thankful she didn't watch Mary Poppins instead.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

points: 525
total votes: 16

http://www.punk77.co.uk/graphics/xrayspex/polyvirginpromo.jpg

http://www.punk77.co.uk/graphics/xrayspex/xrayspex.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

That's

X RAY SPEX - OH BONDAGE UP YOURS

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

I have never liked any of these lists, until this one.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

points: 540
total votes: 21

THE UNDERTONES - TEENAGE KICKS

http://theundertones.net/upix17.jpg

Peel's favourite track but for me it captures a popful punk optimism at odds with much of the nihilist content of their punk conemporaries. short, sweet, and essential.

Sean

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

points: 562
total points: 20

STEVIE WONDER - SUPERSTITION

http://hitparade.ch/cdimg/stevie_wonder-superstition_s.jpg

http://vinyljukebox.free.fr/images/products/Wonder_super.jpg

Its that bassline - hooks me every time. Its churlish not to dance along. Stevie hollers along about...err... well, it is a slightly odd subject for a funk song, but that can be forgiven, even embraced - because its what he's all about - ditch the worries, ditch the cares and live your life the fullest you can right now - whatever he was singing, I'd be agreeing with him at this point. Utterly fantastic.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

points: 574
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 17

ABBA - S.O.S.

http://www.stars-on-7-inch.com/index_a/abba/sos.JPG

http://www.raffem.com/images/Abba2/sos.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

sooo... gay...

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

The terms ABBA and Classic are almost interchangeable. Best singles band ever. They had an Olympian aura, when joyous the world feels lighter, more colourful and justified. When they explore sadness trees cry, the world turns grey, loss attains a mythical quality. My 3 favorite ABBA songs are 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', 'S.O.S.' and 'Chiquitita' (the outro always makes me misty-eyed, something to do with perfect childhood memories I guess).
-- Omar (o.muno...), April 19th, 2001.
there are only about 30 songs in existence that make me cry, and "S.O.S." is one of them.
-- Josh Love (heaveninrowboat...), August 2nd, 2004.
All the fire-dishonoring sheep maintain it's the hackneyed, overplayed, bloated whore of a song that is "Dancing Queen," but I'm demanding that it's the British Punk pre-figuring "S.O.S." that wears the goddamn crown! What say you....?
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), April 27th, 2002.
I think I may spend the rest of my recording life trying to capture something as good as the chorus to "S.O.S." though.

-- Michael Jones (tourajsig...), April 28th, 2002.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

points: 580
total votes: 26

THE JACKSON 5 - A.B.C.

http://media.bestprices.com/content/music/60/112960.jpg

http://jackson5ive.free.fr/albums/100_jack5_abc2.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Sooo.... gorgeous. The song, not the boys..

HEY GIRL I THINK I LOVE YOU...NO!...YEAH!...HEY GIRL, TELL ME WHAT YOUR'RE GONNA DO!!!

SHAKE IT SHAKE IT BABY..

God knows what he's talking about, but it doesn't really matter.

(too many comments from me, I know, but using the search with my dial-up connection is taking forever..)

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

points: 584
total votes: 17

CHEAP TRICK - SURRENDER

http://www.rathole.com/search/album_img/2052.jpg

The version of this tune on "Live at Budokan" is as close to perfect
as a late-'70s hard rock tune can get without being called "More Than
A Feeling". Okay, it's better than anything Boston ever did. And fuck
the Beastie Boys for confusing people at parties when the live version
is cued up.

Riot Gear!

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

points: 722
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 23

CURTIS MAYFIELD - MOVE ON UP

http://coverart.last.fm/130x130/1411892.gif

http://www.thisoldsoul.com/images/curtismayfield.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Early-70s funk Curtis is total classic. All that wicky-wack guitar and - bonus! - lyrics that make an effort, go the extra mile, move on up! Fave tune: "Do Do Wap is Strong in Here." Whoo - that's a good 'un!
-- AP (agpalme...), May 10th, 2001.
"move on up" is so mind-bogglingly good.

-- amateur!st (amateur!s...), June 13th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

So glorious.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

points: 724
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 27

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - FAMILY AFFAIR

http://www.bambootrading.com/1100/1140.jpg

http://image.listen.com/img/0/0/0/0/0/1/4/5/8/9/1/1458917.JPEG

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=5735772

I think it just might be. Three minutes and five seconds of raspy-velvet bliss.

-- James Jung (jamesjjun...), April 27th, 2005.

The vocal on this song is legitimately amazing - one of the best I can think of. There's SO much pain and sad understanding in there. Then you add in that feeling of really hazy downness in the music...aaaah damn it's perfect. Probably my favorite Sly, and yes, certainly a contender for best soul/pop.

-- Zack Richardson (teenagequie...), April 27th, 2005.

No, this is why it's the best ever. There are Sly songs that I like better but I can't say any of them are "better." It's just a perfect song that works on a mainstream pop level and yet has a such an amazing dark undercurrent. It's by no means minimalistic and yet it has a strangely minimal, effortless feeling to it. Everything fits together so perfectly that it seems magical to me.

-- walter kranz (kranz_walte...), April 27th, 2005.

How does the song manage to have that intense emotional impact that Zack talks about and yet still sound so poppy and almost breezy? It's the perfect expression of a sort of world weary emotional distance or smiling through the pain.

-- walter kranz (kranz_walte...), April 27th, 2005.

Greatest soul song ever. No need to add the "pop" category.

-- blahbarian (blahbaria...), April 28th, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

The glory continues.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I think I might have forgotten to vote for "Move on Up" so thanks to everyone who picked up the slck for me. Were any of the Superfly singles nominated?

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

was there really no other comments on Teenage Kicks available to use? I feel so exposed.

― gspm (gspm), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, there is really a surprising lack of Undertones discussion on ILM.

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

i'm so stoked cheap trick came in so high

― andrew s (andrew s), Saturday, 28 May 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

i love this. love it, love it.

i doubt joy division will make top 10, which is the only downer about this list.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

This is an ultra-great list. Some things are too high, some things are too low, but some great stuff is there.

The only thing to really irritate me is Sylvester being at like 82 or wherever.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Saturday, 28 May 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

when will top 10 show up?

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

Were any of the Superfly singles nominated?

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. These days, "Superfly" and "I'm Your Pusherman" get more props, I think, but "Move on Up" is still beats those two, as great as they are.

I think I voted for "ABC", tho' I'm not sure why. "Blame It on the Boogie" is far superior, but it wasn't even nominated, or did I miss it?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

http://image.listen.com/img/0/0/0/0/0/1/4/5/8/9/1/1458917.JPEG

looks like 20 Jazz Funk Greats cover

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

points: 728
total votes: 25

MICHAEL JACKSON - DON'T STOP TIL YOU GET ENOUGH

http://www.mjni.com/shop/images/310r.jpg

http://www.neverland-valley.com/neverland-valley/video-clips/videos/04_otw/dont-stop/pix/dont-stop_014.jpg

Michael Jackson: "Don't stop 'til You Get Enough"

Released at the tail end of the seventies, "Don't Stop 'til You Get
Enough" takes everything that was great about the black dance music of the decade and distills it into one gloriously hedonistic mini-epic. All praises to Michael Jackson's performance, but the true star here is the producer/arranger Quincy Jones - even more than Jackson's vocals, the whirling strings of the song have become a part of our collective musical memory.

Tuomas

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

This list doesn't have any Bowie at all. WTF!>! There better be 9 Bowie songs in the top 10.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

points: 729
total votes: 21

BLONDIE- DREAMING

http://hitparade.ch/cdimg/blondie-dreaming_s.jpg

The drums. If there’s one instrument that punk/New Wave/whatchamacallit revived more clearly than the guitar, it’s the drums. After years of the sonorous pillow-in-the-snare-drum pounding of Russ Kunkel, Don Henley and the like, Clem Burke drives “Dreaming” by coming as close to a reincarnation of Keith Moon as the Top 40 had heard (or was likely to hear) in a long time.

The voice. “I,” Debbie Harry shouts to start off. Always a dangerous way to start a song, but this one syllable has power, ambition and neurosis all in one. The verses, brilliantly moving from the complex and personal to the mundane but newly informed (“I sit by and watch the river flow”), alternating with the limpid chorus melody (and the icy synth doubling Harry’s voice) make alienation sound cool. Cold, even. Which is what the song, thebest of Blondie, the best of ‘70s rock and hell, the best of rock in general, is all about.

“Dreaming is free.” And nothing else is, because you and I, honey, are just too cool for this world. Of course, she was way too cool to say that. And we’re way to cool to have to hear it. Right?

Rick Massimo

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

"Dreaming" at #9? This is awesome.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

points: 755
total votes: 23

CHIC - GOOD TIMES

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― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

They don't look like they are having fun.

― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

This list doesn't have any Bowie at all. WTF!>! There better be 9 Bowie songs in the top 10.

"Heroes" *has* to make it. Plus -- MORE BLONDIE AHEAD!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Search And Destroy: The Chic Organisation

Search: .... "Good Times" single.

-- Omar (o.muno...), May 1st, 2001.

There's less about this single on ILM than you'd think..

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

That's because it's way overrated, and "I Want Your Love" is a million times better.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

points: 830
1st place votes: 2
total votes: 25

DAVID BOWIE - HEROES

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David Bowie -- "Heroes"

The first thread I ever started on ILM was about
"Heroes"
(songs you've heard a million times but still don't know what they're about). And
I still have no idea what "Heroes" is about. Unlike
"Slip Inside This House" (mentioned on that thread)
(whose lyrics don't make much sense at all), "Heroes"
makes its point with precision and clarity. And I
know what it's *supposed* to be about (it's a song of
hope), but that's not necessarily what I hear when I
play the song (it is a song about hope? Or about
giving up hope?). Have the lovers at the Wall
achieved a small victory (being together) in the face
of utter hopelessness (the Wall isn't going away)? Or
is this just another victory for the Wall -- the Wall
wins again, the Wall ALWAYS wins, therefore even the
smallest optimism in the face of it is misguided and
silly.

The song swells toward that gigantic fourth verse, at
which point Bowie's pained, desperate voice cuts
through the swarm of synths and guitar. Sometimes
those words sound uplifting. Sometimes they sound
like the disappointed cries of a man who has been
defeated by circumstance yet again. Maybe one day
I'll figure out which it is.

Bary Bruner

In actual fact, the version I love the most, as taped off a Berlin FM radio station in 1984, may not ever have been released; I've never checked. Quite possibly cobbled together by the programme-makers in a few minutes, it swaps seamlessly between the English and German versions, moving from "Heroes" into "Helden" and back out to "Heroes" again.

Up until that point, I'd never been particularly fussed; I was much more of a "Low" man, and had rather lost interest by the time that the rest of the Berlin trilogy came out. I saw Bowie mime to it on Marc Bolan's tea-time kids' TV show, and was unmoved. I saw him perform it at Earl's Court on the Stage tour - my first concert by a name act, where we were seated so far back that we needed binoculars to make out his facial expressions - and remained unmoved. But living in Berlin, only a few minutes' walk from the Wall, and hearing the song again in its proper geographical context, it suddenly took on an awesome Importance and Significance, evoking memories of Bowie's performance in my ultimate Berlin movie, "Christiane F".

(And guess what: I've just Googled, and the bilingual version is taken from the original soundtrack of the film; apparently it can't be found too easily elsewhere. So there you go. )

Star-crossed lovers meeting by the Wall, under the watchful gaze of the Osti sentry towers in No Man's Land. Blah blah cold war blah blah global tension blah blah alienation, und so weiter und so weiter. Scraggy Kreuzberg punker chancers gazing up from the gutter, as the multi-pleated Godhead-on-high imbues their no-mark lives with Symbolism and Meaning. Hey, did it for me.

The next time I saw Bowie was autumn 2003, Birmingham NEC, good seats for once in our lives, wouldn't normally come to a soulless air-hangar like this, but come on, it's David Fucking Bowie, and he's Officially Good Again, and you've got to bear witness while there's still the chance, right? A full twenty-five years on from Earl's Court, the Birmingham show finally made good on the original promise, and made up for the disappointment that had kept me away from big stadium gigs for literally decades. And the single defining moment of transcendent, electrifying, body-shaking, tear-duct-pricking power, which reminded me why I even bother making the effort to travel to see these people in the first place? OK, so there were two. Life On Mars, and this one, which on some days is everything I want music to be: unique and mysterious and anthemic; part of the mass collective consciousness, whilst also not quite being of this world.

Mike t-diva

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

All hail king Bowie.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

points: 847
total votes: 32

THE BUZZCOCKS - EVER FALLEN IN LOVE

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― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

"Heroes" *has* to make it.

When I wrote that comment ten minutes ago , I had completely forgotten that I HAD WRITTEN A BLURB FOR "HEROES". I wasn't trying to spoil the surprise!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Buzzcocks: Classic or Dud

Easy one, this. Absolute pristine classic. The best British pop group since punk

-- Venga (deso_loughli...), March 29th, 2001

Ever Fallen In Love is a great song

-- (neuromance...), March 29th, 2001.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

points: 854
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 31

BLONDIE - HEART OF GLASS

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― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I do remember Debbie Harry, and particularly the way her hair was lit from behind in the "Heart of Glass" video (OK, '79) and thinking she was beautiful but probably unapproachable and a bit rude

-- Michael Jones (tourajsig...), February 8th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I feel like there are more comments out there and its my searching abilities that are falling short.. There must be at least one thread about this song, but apparently not.

Is this a perfect song? It sounds that way to me. From the minute Debbie Oo oo oo ohs us into it it is apparent that you're in for something pretty special. Then the tune kicks in and we're off, flying on the wings of Harry.. The lyrics may be equivocal - he's a pain in the arse, but, sometimes, what I find is pleasing...love is so confusing - but the tune? Sunshine, or ice cream, or both together.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

points: 945
1st place votes: 2
total votes: 29

JOY DIVISION - TRANSMISSION

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― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Why was there any doubt that this would make it? Unknown Pleasures was #6 on the albums list, and it's ILM, and this is Joy Division.

(although admittedly, I didn't expect it to be this high)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

"Transmission" is the greatest song of all time.
-- snazz (vzl;kjvW|\\...), September 16th, 2004.
"Transmission" in particular -- man. That song is a cold blue laser light of power, and I can't put it any other way, really.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), April 4th, 2001.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Got to go. Back as soon as possible with the top 3.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm...the song I was asked to contribute a blurb for has yet to be shown. I can't believe it'll fall in the actual top three, but we shall soon find out.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

so much love for blondie has made my day.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

points: 998
1st place votes: 2
total votes: 25

JONATHAN RICHMAN AND THE MODERN LOVERS - ROADRUNNER

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This song makes me want to drive past the Stop 'n Shop with the radio on. Has anyone ever done more with less? Forget three chords. The Modern Lovers can do it better with two. One of the blueprints for punk, post-punk, new wave, indie rock, alternative, and just about every other form of modern rock and roll. And nearly 35 years after it was recorded, it still sounds better than anything else on the radio.

Rick

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

points: 1057
1st place votes: 2
total votes: 30

ABBA - DANCING QUEEN

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ABBA - Dancing Queen

One of the more strangely transcendent cinemantic moments from my
perspective comes over the final credits of the Watergate/teen comedy
"Dick", as "Dancing Queen" cascades while Kirsten Dunst and Michelle
Williams glide around on rollerskates. I barely remember the rest of
the film, but that's fixed in my memory. Anyone who doesn't get up and
dance to this at a club is probably a horrible, horrible person who
should be beaten about the face and neck. Or hard of hearing.

Riot Gear!

ABBA -- Dancing Queen.

In Melody Maker's "Unknown Pleasures" book from 1995,
Taylor Parkes wrote that "Dancing Queen" was the
saddest song he'd ever heard. Reading that at the
time, I was relieved to discover that I wasn't the
only person who thought so. Say what you will about
skyscraping harmonies and massively emotional choruses
and blah blah blah, but the only way out is to assume
that certain Pantheon Songs, are so gorgeous that they
transcend their subject matter and become sad
regardless of their subject matter(of course there are
exceptions, for instance, the Pet Shop Boys are
capable of achieving this with seemingly every song).

Fittingly, "having the time of your life" is the
saddest line of the bunch.

Barry Bruner

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

This honestly surprises me.

― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

How?

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

So, that's that question answered, then..

By the way, you were WAYYY too dismissive of your blurb. I'd always heard Dancing Queen as slightly unconvincing, I thought it was just because I'd heard it too often - at the end of so many cheesy gay nights in cheesy places. Now I feel slightly daft - of course its a sad song. Partly because the woman singing it isn't a dancing queen any more, and perhaps she's remembering when she once was.

The top 3 all led the poll at one point or another, but the winner looked pretty obvious from about three-quarters of the way through.

Here it is, then..

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

I've been at work all day and am only just looking at all this, so haven't twigged what No.1 must be. I want to keep it this way, to not spoil the surprise. How can I stop my brain thinking?

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

at least it didn't make #1...

it incarnates all the rubbishness of the 70s. i really can't understand the people who grew up with that song everywhere (in the radio, at parties, in pubs) and voted for it. maybe there were none...

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

the only thing i've been sure of about this poll was that this would be the #1 single

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

"this" being what will be the number one single, not "dancing queen"

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www2.gascp.com/starwars/pic/MagnetsHanSolo.jpg
I've got a bad feeling about this...

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

points: 1290
1st place votes: 2
total votes: 34

DONNA SUMMER - I FEEL LOVE

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Donna Summer: "I Feel Love"

What's most striking about "I Feel Love" is it's utter simplicity.
Where
most disco tracks were extravagantly orchestrated, "I Feel Love" has
little
besides a monotone bass drum, a stuttering synth line and Donna
Sumnmer's
improvised vocals you can't even hum to. This makes it, even more than
anything Kraftwerk did at the time, the true predecessor of all
electronic
dance music to follow.

Tuomas

I Feel Love was a chugging electro romp that makes me think of the imagined future that featured driving hot cars through neon lit tunnels (with this song playing maybe the vision includes Moroder driving). The clean, technological feel gives it a sort of THX-1138 kind of vibe except the humourless dystopia would be replaced with a joyful discotopia.

Sean

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

oh wait, this is a good choice

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Right, I'm leaving the country for a week. I'll do 101-200 when I get back. Thanks for your patience.. and for voting, and stuff.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

This was a great, great list! Thanks for all your hard work, and sorry that "Knock on Wood" didn't make it into the top 100.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

WOWOWOWOWOWWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWWOWOWOWOWWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!

― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

best ILX list yet!

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Here's the final list:

1. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
2. ABBA - Dancing Queen
3. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
4. Joy Division - Transmission
5. Blondie - Heart of Glass
6. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
7. David Bowie - Heroes
8. Chic - Good Times
9. Blondie - Dreaming
10. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til Ya Get Enough
11. Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair
12. Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
13. Cheap Trick - Surrender
14. The Jackson Five - A.B.C.
15. ABBA - S.O.S.
16. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
17. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
18. X Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours
19. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
20. Blondie - Atomic
21. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
22. Big Star - September Gurls
23. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
24. Television - Marquee Moon
25. The Clash - White Man In Hammersmith Palais
26. Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
27. The Clash - London Calling
28. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
29. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
30. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
31. Wire - Map Ref. 41 Degrees North 93 Degrees West
32. Althea and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
33. Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop
34. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
35. The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
36. Chic - Le Freak
37. Al Green - Love and Happiness
38. Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun
39. Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
40. ABBA - Waterloo
41. Gram Parsons - $1000 Wedding
42. Rod Stewart - Maggie May
43. Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
44. Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire
45. The Ramones - Sheen Is a Punk Rocker
46. Can - Vitamin C
47. Candi Station - Young Hearts Run Free
48. 10cc - I'm Not In Love
49. Wire - Outdoor Miner
50. The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
51. The Ramones - Judy is a Punk
52. Parliament - Flash Light
53. Neu - Hallogallo
54. Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone
55. Big Star - Thirteen
56. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
57. Kraftwerk - Neon Lights
58. The Normal - Warm Leatherette
59. Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
60. Sparks - No. 1 Song in Heaven
61. Andrea True Connection - More, More, More
62. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
63. Gary Numan - Cars
64. Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain
65. Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
66. T. Rex - Metal Guru
67. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
68. Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
69. Richard Hell and the Voivods - Blank Generation
70. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
71. Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
72. The B52s - Rock Lobster
73. Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
74. Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves
75. Boston - More Than A Feeling
76. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
77. Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
78. Diana Ross - Love Hangover
79. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
80. Sister Sledge - Lost in Music
81. The O-Jays - Love Train
82. Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
83. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light
84. Can - Halleluwah
85. Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
86. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
87. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi Dead
88. Al Green - Belle
89. Earth, Wind and Fire - September
90. Machine - There But For The Grace Of God Go I
91. Buzzcocks - Boredom
92. Squeeze- Up the Junction
93. Steely Dan - Any Major Dude Will Tell You
94. Jimmy Cliff - The Harder they Come
95. Cars - Just What I Needed
96. Patti Smith - Gloria
97. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
98. Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
99. James Brown - The Payback
100. Tim Buckley - Song For The Siren

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

joseph otm, best poll yet

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, can't argue with that - twists, turns, surprises and a righteous victor.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 29 May 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

'tis a thing of beauty and a joy forever even if my No.1 isn't even in the Top 100!

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Sunday, 29 May 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's a good list, though some of the songs I was pretty sure would make it aren't there... "Video Killed the Radio Star", "Chase the Devil", "Les Fleur", "Fernando", for example. Also, as with the albums list, all the music seems to have come from only four countries: the US, UK, Germany and Jamaica. I guess it's inevitable with these polls, but I would've liked to have seen at the least some Brazilian tunes and some Fela there.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 29 May 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Such a glorious list. Like the lone tree upon a grassy hilltop. Just lovely. It screams the word "smile," really it does. I like this better than the 70's album list, and any other ILM poll list so far.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it's great. I think amiii fiddled it.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 29 May 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Never heard of that X-Ray Spex thing...shame about Buggles...dead chuffed at predicting Donna at the top.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Only TWO #1 votes for 'I Feel Love' tho - bizarro

If those two Can tracks really are better than 'I Want More' then I can't wait to hear them.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

"I Want More" is far from the best of Can. In particular, it's too bad that "Moonshake" didn't make the list (perhaps in place of "Vitamin C").

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Highest ranking song I don't know :

13. Cheap Trick - Surrender

Highest ranking song I know and don't like:

28. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper

And even that I don't actively dislike.

I wonder why 70s tracks are so uncontroversial.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

No real indie middle ground for people to bitch about?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Also the supposed 30 year rule meaning in general music from this time is appreciated now more than it has been since the time (evident if you look at trends in rock and dance particularly).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah - but there was loads of shit on the 70s albums list I didn't like.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

did the album list ever finish up????

i didn't know ilm liked blondie so much!!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Of course we do!

Though I'm surprised at Dreaming coming in as their second favourite track, even of the nominations.

Albums:

ILX 70s album poll - results

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 29 May 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

yeah i actually thought 'atomic' would be the top ranking blondie

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 29 May 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I was just listening to "Heart of Glass", and I was wondering, why does it has those weird synth(?) sounds on the background that sound like children or birds shrieking? They're rather distressing.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

Having a heart of glass is a distressing business.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 30 May 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

good poll. thanks for putting it together, powers that put it together.

― gspm (gspm), Monday, 30 May 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Having a heart of glass is a distressing business.

Yeah, but those shrieks feel out of place in a song which is otherwise rather simplistic and light-of-touch. The sound is so far on the background, at first I thought it was just random noise, but it recurs throughout the whole song, so it is seemingly purposeful.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

13. Cheap Trick - Surrender

I don't think I've ever heard this track either, I think you have to be American.

Surprised at the extremely high placing for both "Oh Bondage Up Yours" and "Wuthering Heights" and the Blondie factor. i don't think there are any tracks I actively dislike, tho I suppose I'm no great fan of Bela Lugosi's Dead, Born to Run, Up the Junction and Just What I Needed

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 30 May 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I have to say, even though "I Feel Love" was my #5 choice, I put it that high partly because of it's historical/aesthetical importance. I've never really felt it like I've felt some 70s funk/jazz/Brazilian pop tunes, or the electronic dance music to follow it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

i just hear "wuthering hearts" for the first time!! wtf?!

re. "i feel love," this is one song i am quite sure has to cranked up really, really loud

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

"wtf?!" = good, yes?

Thanks hobart, great job. Up there in the "best thread ever" stakes.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

"Surrender" is really good, ppl who hadn't heard it. It sounds a bit whiney but it's got a great chorus.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.netwalk.com/~truegger/ftrh/Mikey1.jpg

Mike Damone approves of "Surrender" and Blondie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Not to mention "September" ("You got Earth, Wind & Fire tickets?")

― Keith C (kcraw916), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

amateurist otm re: "i feel love"; "l2lyb" was always my fave summer and then i finally heard "i feel love" REALLY LOUD in a club and realized 'omg, it really is the best song ever'.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 30 May 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, could be... I've only heard it really loud when I've played it myself on a DJ gig, never been on the recipient end.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Great list, and such a near radical different list to the albums chart...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it's a good list. could use more 70s soul but oh well.

as for blondie, they've always been a bit "close but no cigar" for me. their *sound* has always seemed a bit thin/tinny (not in a good way) to me, like they were playing in the room next door when they should be right in front of me. i thought perhaps the remastered cds would fix that, but no, its inherent in the production. i also think debbie harry (sp?) is sort of a middling vocalist; she's definitely identifiable and memorable, but her phrasing seems needlessly slack a lot of the time (but when she's on she's definitely on).

they're supposed to be the punk-rock shangri-la's or something but i find the shangri-la's to sound a lot meatier.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

My apologies for the lateness of the lower results, and for the fact that they're not incredibly well presented. In the list below, the first number represents the number of points scored, the second the number of first place votes, and the third the total number of votes. If there is a fourth number, it is used to show the highest placing of each song to determine placings in the event of a tie.

101 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 205 0 10
102 Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number 205 0 7
103 James Brown - Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose 202 0 9
104 Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again 199 0 12
105 Saints - (I'm) Stranded 199 0 9
106 James Brown - Get Up, Get Into it, and Get Involved 195 1 6
107 Gil-Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 195 0 14
108 Raspberries - Go All The Way 194 0 6
109 Pere Ubu - Final Solution 194 0 10
110 Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire 191 1 5

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Where did the Quads single come? I know I voted for it, just wondered if anyone else did...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 June 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

266th, Mark... with 66 points.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

111 Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her 189 0 8
112 Cristina - 'Disco Clone' 188 0 4 2
113 Buggles - "Video Killed the Radio Star" 188 0 11 3
114 Gang Of Four - Love Like Anthrax 188 0 7 6
115 Suicide - Cheree Cheree 187 1 5
116 Kleenex - Ain't You 187 0 4 2
117 Joy Division - New Dawn Fades 187 0 9 10
118 T. Rex - "Cosmic Dancer" 186 0 5 2
119 ABBA - The Name of the Game 186 0 7 3
120 Dolly Parton - Jolene 184 1 11

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

"The Name of the Game" is my favourite Abba song!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

(that'll be only my vote, then, right?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

3 of my top 10 in the next lot...

121 Dionne Warwick - I'll Never Fall In Love Again 182 0 7
122 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 179 0 10
123 Roxy Music - Angel Eyes 178 0 6
124 Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze 177 0 8
125 Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - Tell Me Something Good 176 0 7
126 Art Ensemble Of Chicago Feat. Fontella Bass - Theme De Yoyo 175 1 5
127 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? 175 0 8
128 Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You 173 1 5
129 Max Romeo & The Upsetters - Chase The Devil 172 0 5
130 Charles Wright - Express Yourself 170 0 8

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

131 Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road 169 0 9
132 Lynryd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama 162 0 5 4
133 Delfonics - Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) 162 0 9 7
134 T.Rex - Jeepster 160 0 8
135 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia 159 1 9
136 Jackson Five- The Love You Save 157 0 6
137 Joni Mitchell - Blue 156 1 3
138 Paul Simon - Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard 156 0 8
139 Can - I Want More 154 1 6
140 Isley brothers 'footsteps in the dark' 154 0 5 4

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

141 Clash - Janie Jones 154 0 5 11
142 Carpenters - Goodbye To Love 153 0 4
143 Cars - My Best Friends Girl 152 0 9 5
144 Stevie Wonder 'I believe...' 152 0 6 8
145 Faust - It's A Rainy Day 151 0 4 2
146 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven 151 0 7 4
147 O-Jays - Back Stabbers 151 0 11 11
148 Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Thrasher 150 0 5
149 Harry Nilsson "Without You" 149 0 9
150 Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy 147 0 7

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

151George Jones - A Good Year For The Roses 145 0 4
Melodians - River Of Babylon 145 0 6
Alice Cooper - School's Out 143 0 7
Marvin Gaye -When Did I Stop Loving You (When Did You Stop Loving Me)? 142 0 5 6
Modern Lovers - Girlfriend 142 0 7 9
John Lennon - Imagine 141 0 8 4
Minnie Ripperton - Les Fleur 141 0 6 11
Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes - Get Dancin' 140 0 4
Beach Boys - Surf's Up 139 0 6 6
Iggy Pop - Passenger 139 0 12 9

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

oops... I think I hit submit by mistake..

151 George Jones - A Good Year For The Roses 145 0 4
152 Melodians - River Of Babylon 145 0 6
153 Alice Cooper - School's Out 143 0 7
154 Marvin Gaye -When Did I Stop Loving You (When Did You Stop Loving Me)? 142 0 5 6
155 Modern Lovers - Girlfriend 142 0 7 9
156 John Lennon - Imagine 141 0 8 4
157 Minnie Ripperton - Les Fleur 141 0 6 11
158 Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes - Get Dancin' 140 0 4
159 Beach Boys - Surf's Up 139 0 6 6
160 Iggy Pop - Passenger 139 0 12 9

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

161 Aretha Franklin' - Til You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) 138 0 5
162 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby 134 0 7
163 Roxy Music - Mother Of Pearl 133 0 4 5
164 Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun 133 0 7 7
165 Nerves - Hanging On The Telephone 132 0 6
166 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz 131 0 7
167 Subway Sect - Ambition 130 1 5
168 Big Star - Kanga-Roo 130 0 6
169 Bram Tchaichovsky - Girl Of My Dreams 129 1 4
170 Jorge Ben - Taj Mahal 129 0 5

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

171 Cure - Killing An Arab 127 0 5 4
172 Specials - A Message To You Rudy 127 0 9 8
173 Big Star - Daisy Glaze 123 1 2
174 Esther Phillips - 'Home Is Where The Hatred Is' 123 0 4 7
175 M - Pop Muzik 123 0 11 13
176 Donna Summer - MacArthur Park 122 0 4 2
177 Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls 122 0 7 7
178 Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop 122 0 5 9
179 Robert Wyatt - Sea Song 120 1 2
180 Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat 120 0 7

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

181 Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme 119 0 3
182 Fall "Rebellious Jukebox" 118 0 6
183 Queen - Killer Queen 117 0 6
184 Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 116 0 4
185 B-52's Dance this Mess Around 115 0 4 5
186 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive 115 0 7 14
187 Brian Eno "The Big Ship" 114 0 3 2
188 ABBA - Chiquitita 114 0 4 7
189 Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag 114 0 9 9
190 Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now 112 1 4

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

191 Grand Funk - Bad Time 112 0 2 3
192 Richard and Linda Thompson - Dimming of the Day 112 0 2 5
193 Baccara - Yes Sir I Can Boogie 112 0 5 7
194 Bob Seger - Night Moves 111 0 4 8
195 Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down 111 0 6 11
196 Wings - Live And Let Die 110 0 6 3
197 David Bowie - Panic In Detroit 110 0 4 5
198 Can - Sing Swan Song 110 0 3 7
199 red transistor "not bite" 108 1 2
200 Chuck Brown - Bustin' Loose 106 0 4

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Here are the next 100. I haven't bothered sorting out ties, so songs with the same number of points may not be in the right order:

Black Sabbath - Supernaut 105
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Big Eyed Beans From Venus 105
David Bowie - Jean Genie 105
Faces - 'You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything 104
Rolling Stones - Bitch 104
Roxy Music - If There Is Something 104
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell 103
Wings - Silly Love Songs 103
Records - Starry Eyes 102
Rocket From The Tombs - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo 102
Temptations - Just My Imagination 102
Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing 98
Rotary Connection - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun 98
Aerosmith - Dream On 97
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown 97
5 Stairsteps - O-o-h Child 96
Neil Young - Walk On 96
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion 95
Four Seasons - The Night 94
Clash - Police and Thieves 93
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill 93
Television - The Dream's Dream 93
Neil Young - Albuquerque 90
ABBA - Fernando 89
Milton Nascimento - Cravo É Canela 89
Queen - We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions 89
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic 89
Janet Kay - Silly Games 88
Jam - 'When You're Young' 86
Patti Jo - Make Me Believe In You 85
AC/DC - Highway To Hell 84
Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes 84
OV Wright - Into Something 84
Randy Newman - Rednecks 84
Can - Moonshake 83
Stevie Wonder - Superwoman 81
Caetano Veloso - Maria Bethania 79
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - Working Class Hero 79
Boney M - Rasputin 78
Pere Ubu - Non-Alignment Pact 78
Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles 77
T. Rex - Ride A White Swan 76
Gary Numan - Me! I Disconnect From You 75
Badfinger - Baby Blue 74
Langley Schools Music Project - Desperado 74
Damned - Smash It Up/Burglar 73
Gary Glitter - Rock And Roll Part 2 73
Heart - Magic Man 73
Linda Jones - Your Precious Love 73
Matching Mole - O Caroline 73
Wizzard- See My Baby Jive 73
Donna Summer "heaven knows" 71
Musique - In The Bush 71
Al Green - You Ought to Be With Me 70
Barkays - Holy Ghost 70
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams 70
Ram Jam - Black Betty 70
Willie Colon/Celia Cruz - Usted Abuso 70
Yes - Awaken 70
Elton John - Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters 68
Jackie Wilson - Because Of You 67
Airto Moreira - Tombo In 7/4 66
Donna Summer - I Love you 66
Donna Summer - Sunset People 66
Jerry Reed - Amos Moses 66
Quads - There Must Be Thousands/You Gotta Jive 66
Rose Royce - Love Don't Live Here Anymore 66
Stevie Wonder - Another Star 66
Badfinger - Day After Day 64
Captain & Tenille - Love Will Keep Us Together 64
MacFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stopping Us Now 64
Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again 63
First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder 62
Idris Muhammad - Peace And Rhythm Suite 62
Karin Krog - Hold Out Your Hands 62
Terry Callier - Ordinary Joe 62
Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors 61
Bee Gees - Nights on Broadway 59
Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks - Whenever I Call You 'Friend' 59
Amon Duul II - Archangels Thunderbird 58
Jorge Ben - Errare Humanum Est 58
Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas 58
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Ohio 56
mars "helen fordsdale" 56
Rocket From The Tombs - Ain't It Fun 55
This Heat - 24 Track Loop 55
Grateful Dead - "Ripple" 54
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now 54
Candido - Thousand Finger Man 53
Eddie Kendricks "Girl, You Need A Change of Mind" 53
Neil Young - Don't Be Denied 53
Stylistics - Can't Give You Anything (But My Love) 53
Sun Ra - Strange Celestial Road 53
Ultravox - Slow Motion 51
Lynne Anderson - Rose Garden 49
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine 49
Max Romeo - War Ina Babylon 47
Deep Purple - Fireball 46
Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me 45
Santa Esmeralda - "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" 45

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

And the final lot that scored points:

Cult Hero - "I Dig You 44
Derek & The Dominos - Layla 44
Elton John - Tiny Dancer 44
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee 43
Chicago - If You Leave Me Now 41
Joni Mitchell - Help Me 41
Bee Gees -- More Than A Woman 37
Dylan - Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) 37
Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You 37
Steely Dan - Any World That I'm Welcome To 37
Ann Peebles - 99 Pounds 36
Johnathan Richman - Egyptian Reggae 36
Heart - "Crazy On You" 35
Band - It Makes No Difference 34
Silvio Rodríguez - Ojalá 32
Stiff Little Fingers - "Alternative Ulster" 30
Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love 28
Rush - Fly By Night 25
Cluster - Rosa 24
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing 23
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin About Love 20
MFSB - T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia) 19
10CC - Don't Hang Up 18
Heatwave - Boogie Nights 16
Johnny Clarke - Roots, Natty Roots, Natty Congo 15
Osmonds - Let Me In 15
Supertramp - "School" 15
Saints - Messin With The Kid 14
Aerosmith - Walk This Way 11
Caetano Veloso - London, London 11
David Essex - Rock On 11
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On 11
Roy Harper - Another Day 11
Shirley & Co. - Shame Shame Shame 10
Genesis - Supper's Ready 8
Sweet - Teenage Rampage 8
Glitter Band - Goodbye My Love 6
Sweet - "Blockbuster" 3
Who - Love Reign O'er Me 3
Mfsb - Love Is The Message 2
Foxy - Get Off 1
Sylvia - Pillow Talk 1

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

This lot failed to get any points:

Alice Cooper - Under My Wheels
Chi-Lites - Are You My Woman?
David Bowie - Sweet Thing/Candidate
Donna McGhee - Make It Last Forever
Donna Summer - Dim All The Lights
Dramatics - In The Rain
Electric Eels - Cyclotron
Enemy - Pull Down The Shades
Fleetwood Mac - Brown Eyes
Gene Clark - "No Other"
Isaac Hayes - Joy
Jimi Hendrix - Dolly Dagger
John Cale - Heartbreak Hotel
Judee Sill "The Kiss"
Mexican - Babe Ruth
Milton Nascimento - San Vicente
O-Jays - Rich Get Richer
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Pat Kelly - How Long
Phoebe Snow - "All Over"
Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Three Degrees - Maybe
Toy Love - Squeeze
Twinkeez - Aliens In Our Midst
Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach
ZZ Top - La Grange

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

A couple of blurbs for songs outside the top 100:

I Love You

Donna Summer

This was playing during my first kiss. This was better. Still is.

Rick Massimo

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic*

A fairly traditional bluesy tune from the Dan and one of their most
melancholy. Donald Fagen goes on about wishing he could meet Napoleon
and be in a traveling minstrel show, but that won't be happening
because those days are long past. One listens to Fagen here and
wonders how the hell David Palmer ever got permission to go near the
mic on their earlier albums.

Riot Gear!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

POLL

OVER

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

Many great songs beyond 100 (my # 1 @190), but, despite our various tastes, most of us can probably agree that there's a far greater concentration of them in the top 100.

Thanks for all the work, hobart! A great topic of many conversations over the last month. Well done!

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Cheers. I enjoyed doing some of it. I've bought and listened to some music that I'd otherwise have overlooked as a results of it, too. So its been quite an educational experience for me. Not least in learning how to use html properly.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

GREAT POLL

i voted for both but i'm somehow very very pleased ram jam outscored layla

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

"The Name of the Game" is my favourite Abba song!

It was my #3 on the tracks ballot. Bummer.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

*shocked* by poor showings for The Sweet

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

I didn't hear the original "Cum On Feel the Noize" until after the poll. It might have made the top 100 if I'd had. It totally kicks that Quiet Riot version (which I used to like). There's something happening in the rhythm.

(146, damn.)

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

It is a fantastic poll, thanks for doing it Hobart P.

― Bidfurd, Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

You know, if you did an 80's version, I doubt I could stop at 500 track selections...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Well done. Thanks for doing it and thanks for the extended results - I wondered where my songs went!

(And I don't say that with obscurantist pride; I had pretty mainstream stuff. But "Midnight Train," my #1, at #135? C'mon!)

Thanks loads for doing it. I can't imagine the degree of difficulty.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

1. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
2. ABBA - Dancing Queen
3. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
4. Joy Division - Transmission
5. Blondie - Heart of Glass
6. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
7. David Bowie - Heroes
8. Chic - Good Times
9. Blondie - Dreaming
10. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til Ya Get Enough
11. Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair
12. Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
13. Cheap Trick - Surrender
14. The Jackson Five - A.B.C.
15. ABBA - S.O.S.
16. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
17. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
18. X Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours
19. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
20. Blondie - Atomic
21. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
22. Big Star - September Gurls
23. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
24. Television - Marquee Moon
25. The Clash - White Man In Hammersmith Palais
26. Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
27. The Clash - London Calling
28. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
29. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
30. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
31. Wire - Map Ref. 41 Degrees North 93 Degrees West
32. Althea and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
33. Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop
34. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
35. The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
36. Chic - Le Freak
37. Al Green - Love and Happiness
38. Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun
39. Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
40. ABBA - Waterloo
41. Gram Parsons - $1000 Wedding
42. Rod Stewart - Maggie May
43. Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
44. Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire
45. The Ramones - Sheen Is a Punk Rocker
46. Can - Vitamin C
47. Candi Station - Young Hearts Run Free
48. 10cc - I'm Not In Love
49. Wire - Outdoor Miner
50. The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
51. The Ramones - Judy is a Punk
52. Parliament - Flash Light
53. Neu - Hallogallo
54. Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone
55. Big Star - Thirteen
56. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
57. Kraftwerk - Neon Lights
58. The Normal - Warm Leatherette
59. Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
60. Sparks - No. 1 Song in Heaven
61. Andrea True Connection - More, More, More
62. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
63. Gary Numan - Cars
64. Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain
65. Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
66. T. Rex - Metal Guru
67. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
68. Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
69. Richard Hell and the Voivods - Blank Generation
70. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
71. Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
72. The B52s - Rock Lobster
73. Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
74. Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves
75. Boston - More Than A Feeling
76. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
77. Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
78. Diana Ross - Love Hangover
79. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
80. Sister Sledge - Lost in Music
81. The O-Jays - Love Train
82. Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
83. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light
84. Can - Halleluwah
85. Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
86. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
87. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi Dead
88. Al Green - Belle
89. Earth, Wind and Fire - September
90. Machine - There But For The Grace Of God Go I
91. Buzzcocks - Boredom
92. Squeeze- Up the Junction
93. Steely Dan - Any Major Dude Will Tell You
94. Jimmy Cliff - The Harder they Come
95. Cars - Just What I Needed
96. Patti Smith - Gloria
97. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
98. Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
99. James Brown - The Payback
100. Tim Buckley - Song For The Siren

Dare we try an alternate poll in the same vein as the 70s albums poll? I mean, that's a pretty good list ffs. Anyway, if there's interest, lemme know.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 2 September 2010 06:18 (fifteen years ago)

I'm up for it; I have 30 noms already I think

― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:01 (fifteen years ago)

I wish you well - not a tracks guy.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:02 (fifteen years ago)

for instance there's like only one Bowie song in there...there's lots of room for an alternate poll...

― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

no Fela...

― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

i missed this i guess

― Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 23 February 2013 15:39 (twelve years ago)

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