ILM POLLS THE 20TH CENTURY'S BEST TRACKS (Voting Thread - Ends at Midnight on Friday, November 26 EST)

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Now that we've created an incredibly large master list through nominations, it's time to vote! Everybody thank seandalai for helping out, otherwise we wouldn't be having a very generous 100 vote ballot (without automation, computation would be nearly impossible on my part). Here's how it works for you, the voter:

* Go to this form: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG91cHhoYnZCdVpLTGFzZXF0R214Q0E6MQ
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* The deadline for ballot submission is FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26 at MIDNIGHT EST (that's the day after Thanksgiving for you Americans)

And now the master list of nominations:

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 05:20 (fifteen years ago)

Oh, also...it's important that you enter your ILX username and email address. This is to prevent ballot box stuffing, but also to contact you in case of a problem.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 05:21 (fifteen years ago)

# through P

69 — Jam the Box
"?" and The Mysterians — 96 Tears
.38 Special — Caught Up in You
10cc — Don't Hang Up
10cc — I'm Mandy Fly Me
10cc — I'm Not in Love
10cc — Somewhere in Hollywood
10cc — Une Nuit a Paris
14 Iced Bears — Take It
2Pac — So Many Tears
2Pac and Dr. Dre — California Love
3D's — Outer Space
A Guy Called Gerald — Voodoo Ray
A Taste of Honey — Boogie Oogie Oogie
A Tribe Called Quest — Butter
A Tribe Called Quest — Electric Relaxation
A Tribe Called Quest — Scenario (ft. Leaders of the New School)
A Tribe Called Quest — Sucka Nigga
Aaliyah — Are You That Somebody?
Aaliyah — One in a Million
Aaron Copland — Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copland — Our Town
Aaron Neville — Hercules
ABBA — Dancing Queen
ABBA — S.O.S.
ABBA — The Winner Takes it All
ABC — Date Stamp
ABC — The Look of Love
Abner Jay — Depression
AC/DC — Highway to Hell
AC/DC — Let There Be Rock
Adonis — No Way Back
Afrika Bambaataa — Planet Rock
Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force — Zulu Nation Throwdown
Aimee Mann — Save Me
Airto — Samba de Flora
Al Bowlly — You Couldn't Be Cuter
Al Casey and The KC-Ettes — Surfin' Hootenanny
Al Green — Belle
Al Green — Here I Am
Al Green — Let's Stay Together
Al Green — Love and Happiness
Al Green — You Ought to Be With Me
Al Stewart — Year of the Cat
Albert Ayler — Saints
Albert Ayler — Truth Is Marching In
Albert Mangelsdorff — The Wide Point
Alexander Skip Spence — Diana
Alexander Skip Spence — Grey/Afro
Alice Coltrane — Galaxy in Turiya
Alice Coltrane — Hare Krishna
Alice Coltrane — Om Supreme
Alice Cooper — I'm Eighteen
Altered Images — Don't Talk to Me About Love
Althea and Donna — Uptown Top Ranking
Alvin Lucier — I Am Sitting in a Room
America — Sister Golden Hair
America — Ventura Highway
American Music Club — Big Night
Amon Düül II — Archangels Thunderbird
Amy Grant — Baby, Baby
Andonis Dalgas — Sousta Politiki
Andrea Bocelli — Con te Partirò
Andrea True Connection — More, More, More
Andrew Lloyd Weber — Trial Before Pilate (Including the 39 Lashes) (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Andrews Sisters — Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Angelo Badalamenti — Theme from "Twin Peaks"
Annette Peacock — I'm the One
Another Sunny Day — Anorak City
Anton Karas — The Third Man (aka The Harry Lime Theme)
Anton Webern — Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, Op.6: III. Mässig
Aphex Twin — Flim
Aphex Twin — Rhubarb
Aphex Twin — Windowlicker
Aphrodite's Child — The Four Horsemen
Arab Strap — The Girls of Summer
Archer Prewitt — Good Man
Area — Luglio, Agosto, Settembre (Nero)
Aretha Franklin — Respect
Aretha Franklin — Say a Little Prayer
Armand Van Helden — U Don't Know Me
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers — Moanin'
Art Ensemble of Chicago — Theme de yoyo
Art Garfunkel — Bright Eyes
Arthur Alexander — Soldier of Love
Arthur Russell — A Little Lost
Arthur Russell — In the Light of the Miracle
Arthur Russell — Soon-to-Be Innocent Fun / Let's See
Arthur Russell — This Is How We Walk on the Moon
Artie Shaw Orchestra — Begin the Beguine
Arto Lindsay Trio — Imbue
Arvo Pärt — Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Arvo Pärt — Fratres
Arvo Pärt — Spiegel im Spiegel
Arvo Pärt — Te Deum
Asmahan — Ahwa
Asmus Tietchens — Eisgang
Astor Piazzolla — Libertango
Audio Two — Top Billin'
Autechre — Arch Carrier
AZ and Nas — The Essence
Aztec Camera — Oblivious
Aztec Camera — Somewhere in My Heart
Aztec Camera — We Could Send Letters
B.B. King — The Thrill Is Gone
Backstreet Boys — I Want it That Way
Backstreet Boys — Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)
Bad Brains — Pay to Cum
Badfinger — Day After Day
Baltimora — Tarzan Boy
Barrett Strong — Money (That's What I Want)
Barry Manilow — Mandy
Barry White — Let the Music Play
Basement Jaxx — Romeo
Bauhaus — Bela Lugosi's Dead
Beastie Boys — Shake Your Rump
Beastie Boys — So What'cha Want
Beat Happening — Bewitched
Beck — Lazy Flies
Beck — Loser
Bee Gees — Stayin' Alive
Bel Biv Devoe — Poison
Béla Bartók — Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: III. Adagio
Belle and Sebastian — Dirty Dream Number Two
Belle and Sebastian — Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying
Belle and Sebastian — Lazy Line Painter Jane
Belle and Sebastian — Seymour Stein
Belle and Sebastian — The State I Am In
Ben E. King — Stand By Me
Benny Goodman Orch Carnegie Hall 1938 — Sing, Sing, Sing
Benny More — Barbaro del Ritmo
Berlin — Take My Breath Away
Bert Kaempfert — A Swingin' Safari
Bessie Smith — Hateful Blues
Bessie Smith — St. Louis Blues
Betty Davis — He Was a Big Freak
Big Black — Kerosene
Big Country — In a Big Country
Big Daddy Kane — Ain't No Half Steppin'
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog
Big Star — Holocaust
Big Star — September Gurls
Big Star — Thank You Friends
Big Star — Thirteen
Bikini Kill — Carnival
Bill Dixon — Shrike
Bill Dixon Orchestra — Metamorphosis 1962-1966
Bill Fay — Time of the Last Persecution
Bill Haley and The Comets — Rock Around the Clock
Bill Haley and The Comets — Shake, Rattle and Roll
Bill Monroe — Blue Moon of Kentucky
Billie Holiday — Gloomy Sunday
Billie Holiday — I'm Painting the Town Red
Billie Holiday — Solitude
Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday and Lester Young — When You're Smiling
Billy Bragg — A New England
Billy Bragg — Greetings to the New Brunette
Billy Bragg — Levi Stubbs' Tears
Billy Idol — Dancing With Myself
Billy Ocean — Carribean Queen
Billy Strayhorn — Lush Life
Bing Crosby — Blue Hawaii
Bing Crosby — Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Bing Crosby — Here Lies Love
Bing Crosby — Little Drummer Boy
Bing Crosby — Paradise
Bing Crosby — Pennies From Heaven
Bing Crosby — White Christmas
Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters — Don't Fence Me In
Bix Beiderbecke — In a Mist (Bixology)
Bix Beiderbecke — Rhythm King
Bix Beiderbecke — Riverboat Shuffle
Biz Markie — Pickin' Boogers
Björk — Bachelorette
Björk — Big Time Sensuality
Björk — Come to Me
Björk — Hyperballad
Black Box — Everybody Everybody
Black Flag — Damaged II
Black Sabbath — Into the Void
Black Sabbath — Iron Man
Black Sabbath — Paranoid
Black Sabbath — Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath — Supernaut
Blackstreet — No Diggity
Blind Faith — Can't Find My Way Home
Blind Lemon Jefferson — See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Blind Willie Johnson — God Moves on the Water
Blind Willie Johnson — John the Revelator
Blondie — Atomic
Blondie — Dreaming
Blondie — Hanging on the Telephone
Blondie — Heart of Glass
Blue Öyster Cult — Don't Fear the Reaper
Blue Öyster Cult — Last Days of May
Blur — Country House
Blur — For Tomorrow
Blur — Starshaped
Blur — This Is a Low
Blur — Yuko and Hiro
Bo Diddley — Hey Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley — Who Do You Love
Bo Diddley — You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at its Cover
Boards of Canada — Everything You Do Is a Balloon
Boards of Canada — Happy Cycling
Bob Dorough — Four-Legged Zoo (Schoolhouse Rock)
Bob Dylan — Ballad of a Thin Man
Bob Dylan — Blind Willie McTell
Bob Dylan — Desolation Row
Bob Dylan — Girl From the North Country
Bob Dylan — Idiot Wind
Bob Dylan — If You See Her, Say Hello
Bob Dylan — It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Bob Dylan — Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan — Masters of War
Bob Dylan — Most of the Time
Bob Dylan — Positively 4th Street
Bob Dylan — Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Bob Dylan — Tangled Up in Blue
Bob Dylan — Visions of Johanna
Bob Dylan — You're a Big Girl Now
Bob Marley and The Wailers — Buffalo Soldier
Bob Marley and The Wailers — Get Up, Stand Up
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys — San Antonio Rose
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys — You're Okay
Bobbie Gentry — Ode to Billie Joe
Bobby "Boris" Pickett — Monster Mash
Bobby Darin — Beyond the Sea
Bobby Darin — Mack the Knife
Bobby Please and The Pleasers — The Monster
Bobby Womack — Across 110th Street
Bohannon — Summertime Groove
Bonnie Raitt — Angel from Montgomery
Boogie Down Productions — South Bronx
Booker T and The MGs — Born Under a Bad Sign
Booker T and The MGs — Green Onions
Boots Randolph — Yakety Sax
Boredoms — (circle)
Boredoms — 7→(Boriginal)
Boston — More Than a Feeling
Boswell Sisters — Heebie Jeebies
Bran Van 3000 — Drinking in L.A.
Brenda Lee — I Want to Be Wanted
Brian Eno — An Ending (Ascent)
Brian Eno — Baby's on Fire
Brian Eno — By This River
Brian Eno — Discreet Music
Brian Eno — Everything Merges With the Night
Brian Eno — Needle in the Camel's Eye
Brian Eno — St. Elmo's Fire
Brian Eno — Third Uncle
Brick — Happy
Britney Spears — …Baby One More Time
Bronski Beat — Smalltown Boy
Bruce Haack — Blow Job
Bruce Springsteen — Atlantic City
Bruce Springsteen — Backstreets
Bruce Springsteen — Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen — I'm on Fire
Bruce Springsteen — My Hometown
Bruce Springsteen — The Promised Land
Bruce Springsteen — The River
Buck Owens — Act Naturally
Buddy Holly — Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly — Rave On
Buddy Holly — Well…All Right
Buddy Holly — Words of Love
Buddy Rich — The Beat Goes On
Buffalo Springfield — For What it's Worth
Buffalo Springfield — I Am a Child
Buffy Sainte-Marie — Poppies (For Mr. Allerton)
Bunny Berigan — I Can't Get Started
Burning Spear — Hey Dready
Burning Spear — Marcus Garvey
Burning Spear — Social Living
Busi Mhlongo — Yehlisan'Umoya Ma-Afrika
Busta Rhymes — Gimme Some More
Busta Rhymes — Whoo-hah! Got You All in Check
Butthole Surfers — Freak in the Cellar
Buzzcocks — Boredom
Buzzcocks — Ever Fallen in Love
Buzzcocks — What Do I Get
Cab Calloway — Minnie the Moocher
Cab Calloway — Reefer Man
Cab Calloway — St. James Infirmary
Cabaret Voltaire — Nag Nag Nag
Cameo — Word Up
Can — Future Days
Can — Halleluhwah
Can — Mother Sky
Can — Oh Yeah
Can — Yoo Doo Right
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band — Moonlight on Vermont
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band — Sure 'nuff 'n Yes I Do
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band — Zig Zag Wanderer
Cardiacs — Dirty Boy
Cardiacs — Dog-Like Sparky
Cardiacs — Flap Off You Beak
Cardiacs — R.E.S.
Carl Craig — Bug in the Bassbin
Carl Orff — O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
Carl Perkins — Blue Suede Shoes
Carmen Miranda — Rebola a Bola
Carmen Miranda — Tico Tico
Carpenters — Goodbye to Love
Carpenters — Rainy Days and Mondays
Carpenters — Superstar
Cash Money Millionaires — Bling Bling
Cat Stevens — Wild World
Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco — El Paso del Mulo
Celia Cruz and Willie Colón — Usted Abuso
Cerrone — Supernature
Chaka Khan — I'm Every Woman
Charles Mingus — Better Git it in Yo Soul
Charles Mingus — Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Charles Mingus — Haitian Fight Song
Charles Mingus — The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers
Charles Mingus — Trio and Group Dancers
Charles Trenet — La Mer
Charley Patton — A Spoonful Blues
Charlie Parker — Ko-ko
Charlie Parker — Parker's Mood
Charlie Rich — Don't Put No Headstone on My Grave
Charlie Rich — Feel Like Going Home
Cheap Trick — Surrender
Cheikha Rimitti — Jani el Hob
Chic — Good Times
Chic — My Feet Keep Dancing
Chris Bell — I Am the Cosmos
Chris Isaak — Wicked Game
Christopher Cross — Sailing
Chuck Berry — Johnny B. Goode
Chuck Berry — Let it Rock
Chuck Berry — Nadine
Chuck Berry — Roll Over Beethoven
Chuck Berry — You Never Can Tell
Chuck Wood — Seven Days Too Long
Chumbawamba — Homophobia
Clarence Ashley — The Coo Coo Bird
Claude Debussy — Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque)
Clinic — Porno
Clothilde — Saperlipopette
Cluster — Sowiesoso
Clydie King — One of Those for Crying Over You Days
Coati Mundi — Que Pasa / Me No Pop I
Cocteau Twins — Aikea Guinea
Cocteau Twins — Beatrix
Cocteau Twins — Lorelei
Cocteau Twins — Musette and Drums
Cole Porter — Anything Goes
Cole Porter — You're the Top
Colonel Abrams — Trapped
Commodores — Night Shift
Commodores — Sail On
Commodores — The Zoo (Human Zoo)
Common Sense — Resurrection
Company B — Fascinated
Comus — Diana
Connie — Rock Me
Cornelius Cardew — Paragraph 1 of the Great Learning
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Down on the Corner
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Lodi
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Long As I Can See the Light
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Ramble Tamble
Cromagnon — Caledonia
Crooklyn Dodgers '95 — Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
Crosby, Stills and Nash — Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Crowded House — Better Be Home Soon
Crowded House — Don't Dream it's Over
Crowded House — Four Seasons in One Day
Crude — This Town
Curtis Mayfield — If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go
Curtis Mayfield — Little Child Running Wild
Curtis Mayfield — Move on Up
Curtis Mayfield — Superfly
Curtis Mayfield — The Makings of You
Curve — Horror Head
Cyndi Lauper — Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper — Time After Time
Daft Punk — Around the World
Daft Punk — Da Funk
Daft Punk — Phoenix
Dan Hartman — Vertigo / Relight My Fire
D'Angelo — Cruisin'
Daniel Johnston — Speeding Motorcycle
Darcy Clay — Jesus I Was Evil
Darlene Love — Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Daryl Hall and John Oates — I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
Daryl Hall and John Oates — Method of Modern Love
Daryl Hall and John Oates — Private Eyes
Daryl Hall and John Oates — Rich Girl
Daryl Hall and John Oates — She's Gone
Dave and Ansel Collins — Double Barrel
David Bowie — Ashes to Ashes
David Bowie — Be My Wife
David Bowie — Five Years
David Bowie — Heroes
David Bowie — Letter to Hermione
David Bowie — Life on Mars?
David Bowie — Oh! You Pretty Things
David Bowie — Rebel Rebel
David Bowie — Sound and Vision
David Bowie — Space Oddity
David Bowie — Station to Station
David Bowie — Young Americans
David Bowie — Ziggy Stardust
David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto — Forbidden Colours
Dawn Penn — No No No
De La Soul — Eye Know
De la Soul — Stakes Is High
Dead Boys — Sonic Reducer
Dead Kennedys — Holiday in Cambodia
Dean Martin — Sway
Deee-lite — Groove Is in the Heart
Deep Purple — Highway Star
Del Shannon — Runaway
Delroy Wilson — Dancing Mood
Depeche Mode — Blasphemous Rumours
Depeche Mode — Enjoy the Silence
Desmond Dekker — 007 (Shanty Town)
Desmond Dekker — Israelites
Devo — Beautiful World
Devo — Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy
Devo — Mongoloid
Devo — Uncontrollable Urge
Devo — Whip It
Dexys Midnight Runners — Come on Eileen
Dexys Midnight Runners — This Is What She's Like
Diana Ross — I'm Coming Out
Diana Ross — Love Hangover
Diana Ross — Upside Down
Dick Dale and The Deltones — Misirlou
Dick Powell / Vitaphone Orchestra — I Only Have Eyes for You
Dick Power and Ruby Keeler — You Gotta Know How to Dance
Digital Underground — The Humpty Dance
Dillinja — The Angels Fell
Dinosaur — Kiss Me Again
Dinosaur Jr. — In a Jar
Dinosaur Jr. — The Lung
Dion — Ruby Baby
Dionne Warwick — Walk on By
Disco Inferno — The Last Dance
Disco Tex and His Sex-O-Lettes — Get Dancin'
DJ Shadow — Midnight in a Perfect World
Do or Die — Po Pimp
Dock Boggs — Brother Jim Got Shot
Dock Boggs — Old Rub Alcohol
Dock Boggs — Sugar Baby
Dolly Parton — Jolene
Don Cherry — Brown Rice
Don Drummond — Eastern Standard Time
Don Henley — The Boys of Summer
Donald Fagen — IGY
Donald Fagen — Nightfly
Donna Summer — I Feel Love
Donna Summer — Love to Love You Baby
Donovan — Hurdy Gurdy Man
Donovan — Season of the Witch
Donovan — Sunshine Superman
Doris Day — Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Doug E. Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew — The Show
Dr. Alimantado — Poison Flour
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band — Cherchez La Femme
Dr. Dre — Fuck With Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')
Dr. Dre — Nothin' But a G Thang
Drive-By Truckers — Zip City
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Black and Tan Fantasy
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Caravan
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Cottontail
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — East St. Louis Toodle-oo
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Jack the Bear
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Saddest Tale
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Sentimental Lady
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Take the A-Train
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Transblucency
Duran Duran — Hungry Like the Wolf
Duran Duran — Planet Earth
Duran Duran — Rio
Dusty Springfield — Anyone Who Had a Heart
Dusty Springfield — I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Dusty Springfield — Son of a Preacher Man
Dusty Springfield — Spooky
Dusty Springfield — The Look of Love
Earl Brutus — On Me Not in Me
Earth, Wind and Fire — September
Eartha Kitt — I Want to Be Evil
East River Pipe — Make a Deal With the City
Eazy-E — Boyz-n-the-Hood
Echo and The Bunnymen — Bring on the Dancing Horses
Echo and The Bunnymen — Ocean Rain
Echo and The Bunnymen — The Killing Moon
Eddie Cochran — Summertime Blues
Eddie Kendricks — Girl You Need a Change of Mind
Eddie Murphy — Boogie in Your Butt
Eddie Palmieri — Puerto Rico
Edgard Varèse — Amériques
Edgard Varèse — Poème électronique
Edith Piaf — L'Accordéoniste
Edith Piaf — Milord
Edwin Starr — War
Einstürzende Neubauten — Yu Gung
El Gran Combo — Don Goyo
Elder Curry and His Congregation — Memphis Flu
Electric Eels — Agitated
Electric Light Orchestra — Sweet Talking Woman
Elis Regina — Vou deitar e rolar (Quaquaraquaqua)
Elis Regina and Tom Jobim — Aguas de Marco
Elizabeth Cotton — Shake Sugaree
Ella Fitzgerald — Mack the Knife
Ella Fitzgerald — The Way You Look Tonight
Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb — T'aint What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)
Elliott Smith — Waltz #2 (XO)
Elmore James — Dust My Blues
Elmore James — It Hurts Me Too
Elton John — Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Elton John — Tiny Dancer
Elvis Costello — Watching the Detectives
Elvis Costello and The Attractions — Pump it Up
Elvis Presley — All Shook Up
Elvis Presley — Baby Let's Play House
Elvis Presley — Can't Help Falling in Love
Elvis Presley — Heartbreak Hotel
Elvis Presley — Hound Dog
Elvis Presley — Jailhouse Rock
Elvis Presley — Suspicious Minds
Emerson, Lake and Palmer — Jerusalem
Emerson, Lake and Palmer — The Endless Enigma 1
Emerson, Lake and Palmer — Trilogy
Eminem and Dr. Dre — Guilty Conscience
Emitt Rhodes — Somebody Made for Me
Emmylou Harris — Boulder to Birmingham
Ennio Morricone — Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Ennio Morricone — L'Estasi dell'Oro (The Ecstacy of Gold)
Ennio Morricone — The Man With the Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West)
Erasure — A Little Respect
Erasure — Oh L'Amour
Eric B and Rakim — I Know Who Got Your Soul
Eric B and Rakim — Paid in Full
Eric Serra — The Big Blue Overture
Ernest Gold — Theme from "Exodus"
Ernest Tubb — Walking the Floor Over You
Ernie K. Doe — Mother-in-Law
ESG — UFO
Etta James — At Last
Etta James — I'd Rather Go Blind
Etta Moten and Joan Blondell — Remember My Forgotten Man
Evelyn Champagne King — Love Come Down
Fairouz — Nassam Alayna Al Hawa
Fairport Convention — Chelsea Morning
Fairport Convention — Farewell, Farewell
Fairport Convention — Tam Lin
Fairport Convention — Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Faith No More — Midlife Crisis
Farid el Atrache — Ya Reitni Tir
Fats Domino — Ain't That a Shame
Fats Waller — Ain't Misbehavin'
Fats Waller — Blue Because of You
Faust — J'ai Mal Aux Dents
Faust — Jennifer
Fela Kuti — Dog Eat Dog
Fela Kuti — He Miss Road
Fela Kuti — Shakara
Fela Kuti — Sorrow, Tears and Blood
Felt — Evergreen Dazed
Felt — Primitive Painters
Flamin' Groovies — Shake Some Action
Fleetwood Mac — Dreams
Fleetwood Mac — Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac — Hold Me
Fleetwood Mac — Rhiannon
Fleetwood Mac — Sara
Fleetwood Mac — The Chain
Fleetwood Mac — Tusk
Flipper — Ever
Flipper — Life
Flipper — Sex Bomb
Flower Travellin' Band — Satori pt. 2
Foetus — Sick Man
Foo Fighters — Everlong
France Gall — Laisse tomber les filles
France Gall — Poupée de cire, poupée de son
Francis Lai — Un homme et une femme (Theme)
Frank Hutchison — Stackalee
Frank Loesser — Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat
Frank Sinatra — Brazil
Frank Sinatra — I'm a Fool to Want You
Frank Sinatra — I've Got You Under My Skin
Frank Sinatra — Night and Day
Frank Sinatra — One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
Frank Sinatra — You Make Me Feel So Young
Frank Wilson — Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
Frank Zappa — Bobby Brown Goes Down
Frank Zappa — Inca Roads
Frank Zappa — Peaches en Regalia
Frank Zappa — Watermelon in Easter Hay
Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax
Frankie Knuckles — Your Love
Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers — Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Frankie Ruiz — Me Acostumbre
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons — Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons — The Night
Fred Astaire — Cheek to Cheek
Fred Neil — Faretheewell (Fred's Tune)
Freddie Scott — Are You Lonely for Me Baby
Freddy Fender — Before the Next Teardrop Falls
Fugazi — Shut the Door
Funkadelic — Cosmic Slop
Funkadelic — Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
Funkadelic — Maggot Brain
Funkadelic — One Nation Under a Groove
Gal Costa — Baby
Galaxie 500 — Strange
Galaxie 500 — When Will You Come Home
Gang of Four — Damaged Goods
Gang of Four — I Found That Essence Rare
Gang of Four — Love Like Anthrax
Gang of Four — To Hell With Poverty
Gang Starr — Code of the Streets
Gang Starr — Just to Get a Rep
Gary Burton — Hullo Bolinas
Gary Numan — Cars
Gary Numan / Tubeway Army — Are Friends Electric?
Gary Puckett and The Union Gap — Young Girl
Gary U.S. Bonds — Quarter to Three
Gas — Königsforst 5
Gavin Bryars — The Sinking of the Titanic
Geeshie Wiley — Last Kind Word Blues
Gene Clark — Some Misunderstanding
Gene Kelly — Singin' in the Rain
Gene Pitney — Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
Gene Vincent — Be-Bop-A-Lula
Genesis — Carpet Crawlers
Genesis — Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
Genesis — Firth of Fifth
Genesis — Follow You Follow Me
Genesis — One for the Vine
Genesis — Supper's Ready
Genius/GZA — 4th Chamber
Genius/GZA — Gold
Genius/GZA — Liquid Swords
George Formby — Little Stick of Blackpool Rock
George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin and DuBose Hayward — Summertime
George Jones — He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones — The Grand Tour
George McCrae — Rock Your Baby
George McCrae — You Can Have it All
George Michael — Careless Whisper
George Michael — Faith
George Michael — Freedom '90
George Michael — Hard Day
Geto Boys — Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Ghost Town DJs — My Boo
Ghostface Killah — Daytona 500
Gil Scott-Heron — The Bottle
Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gilberto Gil — Marginalia II
Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben — Taj Mahal
Ginuwine — Pony
Giorgio Moroder — Chase (Midnight Express)
Gladys Knight and The Pips — Midnight Train to Georgia
Glen Campbell — Gentle on My Mind
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Gloria Gaynor — I Will Survive
Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Dead Flag Blues
Go-Go's — Our Lips Are Sealed
Go-Go's — We Got the Beat
Gordon Lightfoot — Sundown
Gordon Lightfoot — The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci — Hush the Warmth
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci — Patio Song
Grace Jones — Demolition Man
Grace Jones — Pull Up to the Bumper
Grace Jones — Slave to the Rhythm
Gracie Fields — Now Is the Hour
Gram Parsons — $1000 Wedding
Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris — Love Hurts
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — The Message
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — White Lines
Grateful Dead — Box of Rain
Grateful Dead — Dark Star
Grateful Dead — Friend of the Devil
Grateful Dead — Touch of Grey
Grateful Dead — Uncle John's Band
Gravediggaz — Diary of a Madman
Grupo Niche — Cielo de Tambores
Guided By Voices — Game of Pricks
Guided By Voices — I Am a Scientist
Guided By Voices — Motor Away
Guided By Voices — Tractor Rape Chain
Guns N' Roses — Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns N' Roses — Welcome to the Jungle
Gustav Holst — Jupiter
Gustav Mahler — Der Abschied from Das Lied Von Der Erde
Guy Clark — Desperados Waiting for the Train
Gwen McCrae — Rockin' Chair
György Ligeti — Atmosphéres
Haircut One Hundred — Love Plus One
Half Man Half Biscuit — A Country Practice
Hamza el Din — Escalay
Hank Mizzell — Jungle Rock
Hank Williams — Alone and Forsaken
Hank Williams — Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Hank Williams — Lost Highway
Hank Williams — Mansion on the Hill
Hank Williams — My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
Hank Williams — Settin' the Woods on Fire
Happy Mondays — Kinky Afro
Happy Mondays — W.F.L. (Think About the Future Mix)
Hardfloor — Once Again Back
Haris Alexiou — I Mangues Then Iparphoun Pia
Harmonia — Deluxe (Immer Wieder)
Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes — If You Don't Know Me By Now
Harry Belafonte — Day-O
Harry Belafonte — Jamaica Farewell
Harry Nilsson — Everybody's Talkin'
Harry Nilsson — I Said Goodbye to Me
Harry Nilsson — Jump Into the Fire
Harry Nilsson — Moonbeam
Harry Nilsson — Without You
Harry Partch — U.S. Highball
Hawkwind — Silver Machine
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard — West Virginia, My Home
Heart — Barracuda
Heart — Magic Man
Henry Castro — Cumbia de Colombia
Henry Mancini — Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Henry Mancini — Theme from "The Pink Panther"
Henry Thomas — Fishing Blues
Henryk Górecki — Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
Herbert Howells — Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
Herbie Hancock — Cantaloupe Island
Herbie Hancock — Chameleon
Herbie Hancock — Hornets
Herbie Hancock — Rain Dance
Herbie Hancock — Rockit
Hildegard Knef — From Here on in it Gets Rough
Hildegard Knef — Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen
Hoagy Carmichael — Stardust
Horace Silver — Song for My Father
Hot Butter — Popcorn
Howard Jones — Hide & Seek
Howard Keel and Company — Sobbin' Women
Howlin' Wolf — Killing Floor
Howlin' Wolf — Smokestack Lightning
Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns — Free, Single & Disengaged
Huggy Bear — Her Jazz
Humble Pie — 30 Days in the Hole
Hunters and Collectors — Talking to a Stranger
Hüsker Dü — Could You Be the One?
Hüsker Dü — Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely
Hüsker Dü — Eight Miles High
Hyper-On Experience — Lord of the Null Lines
Ian Dury — Sweet Gene Vincent
Iannis Xenakis — La Legende d'Eer
Iggy and The Stooges — Search and Destroy
Iggy Pop — Lust for Life
Iggy Pop — The Passenger
Igor Stravinsky — The Rite of Spring: pt. I
Ike and Tina Turner — River Deep, Mountain High
Incredible String Band — First Girl I Loved
Instant Funk — I Got My Mind Made Up
INXS — Need You Tonight
Irma Thomas — Breakaway
Iron Maiden — Aces High
Irving Berlin — Alexander's Ragtime Band
Isaac Hayes — The Look of Love
Isaac Hayes — Theme from "Shaft"
Isaac Hayes — Walk on By
Ismael Rivera — Yo No Quiero Piedras en mi Camino
Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats — Rocket 88
Jackie DeShannon — When You Walk in the Room
Jackie Wilson — (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
Jackie Wilson — Lonely Teardrops
Jackson C. Frank — Blues Run the Game
Jacob Miller — Girl Named Pat
Jacques Brel — Amsterdam
Jacques Brel — Ces Gens-Là
Jacques Brel — La Chanson des Vieux Amants
Jacques Brel — La valse à mille temps
Jacques Dutronc — Les Cactus
Jake Thackray — Lah-Di-Dah
James Brown — Cold Sweat
James Brown — Down and Out in New York City
James Brown — It's a Man's Man's Man's World
James Brown — King Heroin
James Brown — Mother Popcorn
James Brown — Papa Don't Take No Mess
James Brown — Sex Machine
James Brown — Soul Power
James Brown — Super Bad
James Brown — The Payback
James Chance and The Contortions — Contort Yourself
Jane's Addiction — Been Caught Stealing
Janet Jackson — If
Janis Joplin — Half Moon
Japan — Ghosts
Japan — Swing
Javanese Court Gamelan — Gending Tejanata / Ladrang Sembawa / Ladrang Playon
Jay-Z — Big Pimpin'
Jay-Z — Brooklyn's Finest (ft. The Notorious B.I.G.)
Jay-Z — Dead Presidents II
Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra — Clementine (From New Orleans)
Jean Jacques Perrey — E.V.A.
Jean Michel Jarre — Zoolook
Jeanette — Corazon de Poeta
Jeff Buckley — Lover, You Should've Come Over
Jefferson Airplane — White Rabbit
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers — Black Bottom Stomp
Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls of Fire
Jerry Lee Lewis — Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Jerry Reed — Eastbound and Down
Jessie Matthews — By the Fireside
Jill Jones — Mia Bocca
Jim O'Rourke — Ghost Ship in a Storm
Jimi Hendrix — Castles Made of Sand
Jimi Hendrix — Machine Gun
Jimi Hendrix Experience — All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix Experience — Little Wing
Jimi Hendrix Experience — Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Jimmie Rodgers and Louis Armstrong — Standin' on the Corner
Jimmy Ruffin — What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Joan Armatrading — Water With the Wine
Joan Baez — Prison Trilogy
João Gilberto — Chega de Saudade
Joe Arroyo — Por Ti No Morire
Joe Jackson — It's Different for Girls
Joe Turner — Shake, Rattle and Roll
John Anderson — Seminole Wind
John Barry — Capsule in Space (You Only Live Twice)
John Barry — Theme from "Midnight Cowboy"
John Cage — 4'33
John Cale — Fear
John Cale — Paris 1919
John Cale — The Endless Plain of Fortune
John Cale and Terry Riley — Church of Anthrax
John Coltrane — Acknowledgement (A Love Supreme)
John Coltrane — Alabama
John Coltrane — Ascension (Edition 1)
John Coltrane — Blue Train
John Coltrane — Giant Steps
John Coltrane — My Favorite Things
John Coltrane — Naima
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman — Lush Life
John Fahey — America
John Fahey — In Christ There Is No East or West
John Foxx — Underpass
John Lennon — Imagine
John Lennon — Jealous Guy
John Lennon — Mother
John Martyn — Don't Want to Know
John Martyn — Small Hours
John Martyn — Solid Air
John Prine — Sam Stone
John Tavener — The Protecting Veil
John Williams — The Imperial March (Star Wars)
Johnny Cash — Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash — I Walk the Line
Johnny Cash — Ring of Fire
Johnny Cash and June Carter — Jackson
Johnny Hates Jazz — Shattered Dreams
Johnny Nash — I Can See Clearly Now
Johnny Osbourne — Truths and Rights
Jon and Vangelis — The Friends of Mr. Cairo
Joni Mitchell — A Case of You
Joni Mitchell — Amelia
Joni Mitchell — Blue
Joni Mitchell — Both Sides Now
Joni Mitchell — Chinese Café
Joni Mitchell — Coyote
Joni Mitchell — Help Me
Joni Mitchell — River
Jorge Ben — Amor de Carnaval
Jorge Ben — Hermes Trismegisto Escreveu
Jorge Ben — Ponta de Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)
Jorge Ben — Taj Mahal / Fio Maravilha / Pais Tropical
Jorge Ben — Take it Easy My Brother Charles
Jorge Ben — Zumbi
Journey — Don't Stop Believin'
Joy Division — Atmosphere
Joy Division — Disorder
Joy Division — Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division — Transmission
Judee Sill — The Kiss
Judee Sill — The Lamb Ran Away With the Crown
Judee Sill — The Pearl
Judy Collins — Both Sides Now
Judy Garland — Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (original depression version sez Abbott)
Judy Garland — Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Julian Cope — Sunspots
Julie Andrews — The Lonely Goatherd (The Sound of Music)
Juliette Gréco — La valse brune
June Brides — In the Rain
JVC Force — Strong Island
k.d. lang — Big Boned Gal
Kaleidoscope — The Sky Children
Kansas — Dust in the Wind
Karlheinz Stockhausen — Gesang der Jünglinge
Kasenatz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus — Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)
Kate Bush — Cloudbusting
Kate Bush — Hello Earth
Kate Bush — Hounds of Love
Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Kate Bush — Why Should I Love You
Kate Bush — Wuthering Heights
Katrina and The Waves — Walking on Sunshine
KC and The Sunshine Band — Get Down Tonight
K-Ci and Jojo — All My Life
Kenny Rogers — The Gambler
King Crimson — 21st Century Schizoid Man
King Crimson — Exiles
King Crimson — I Talk to the Wind
King Crimson — One More Red Nightmare
King Crimson — Sleepless
King Crimson — Starless
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band — Dippermouth Blues
King Sunny Adé — 365 Is My Number / The Message
King Tubby — 555 Dub Street
Kirsty Maccoll — Terry
KISS — Detroit Rock City
Klaus Nomi — Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
Kool and The Gang — Give it Up
Kool and The Gang — Summer Madness
Kraftwerk — Autobahn
Kraftwerk — Computer Love
Kraftwerk — Neon Lights
Kraftwerk — Numbers
Kraftwerk — Pocket Calculator
Kraftwerk — The Model
Kraftwerk — Trans Europe Express
Kris Kristofferson — Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
Krzysztof Penderecki — Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Kurt Weill — The Cannon Song
La Dusseldorf — Dusseldorf
La Lupe — Amor Gitano
La Monte Young — Poem for Tables, Chairs and Benches etc.
Lady Ann — Informer
Lalo Schifrin — Theme from "Mission:Impossible"
Laura Branigan — Self Control
Laura Nyro — I Am the Blues
Laurent X — Machines
Laurie Anderson — O Superman
Laurie Anderson — Sharkey's Day
Lauryn Hill — Doo Wop (That Thing)
LaVern Baker — Soul on Fire
Le Mystere de Voix Bulgare — Mir Stanke Le
Le Tigre — Deceptacon
Leadbelly — Goodnight Irene
Leadbelly — How Long
Leadbelly — Take a Whiff on Me
Leadbelly — Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Led Zeppelin — Communication Breakdown
Led Zeppelin — In the Evening
Led Zeppelin — Kashmir
Led Zeppelin — Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin — Thank You
Led Zeppelin — When the Levee Breaks
Lee Morgan — The Sidewinder
Lee Perry and The Upsetters — Jungle Lion
Lee Wiley — Oh! Look at Me Now
Len — Steal My Sunshine
Leo Kottke — Vaseline Machine Gun
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Somewhere (West Side Story)
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Tonight (West Side Story)
Leonard Cohen — Avalanche
Leonard Cohen — Famous Blue Raincoat
Leonard Cohen — Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen — Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
Leonard Cohen — Suzanne
Leonard Cohen — The Partisan
Leonard Cohen — Tower of Song
Les Paul and Mary Ford — How High the Moon
Les Rallizes Denudes — Night of the Assassins
Les Rita Mitsouko — Marcia Baïla
Lesley Gore — It's My Party
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs — Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Levi 167 — Something Fresh to Swing To
Lewis Taylor — Satisfied
Lifter Puller — To Live and Die in LBI
Lightning Seeds — Pure
Linda Scott — I've Told Every Little Star
Lindsey Buckingham — Holiday Road
Link Wray and His Ray Men — Rumble
Lionel Hampton — Central Ave. Breakdown
Lionel Hampton — Jack the Bellboy
Lionel Richie — All Night Long
Liquid Liquid — Cavern
Liquid Liquid — Optimo
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam — I Wonder if I Take You Home
Little Anthony and The Imperials — Goin' Out of My Head
Little Junior and The Blue Flames — Feelin' Good
Little Richard — Long Tall Sally
Little Richard — Lucille
Little Richard — Tutti Frutti
Liz Phair — Fuck and Run
LL Cool J — Mama Said Knock You Out
LL Cool J — Rock the Bells
Lloyd Price — Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Lonnie Donegan — Cumberland Gap
Loose Ends — Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)
Loose Joints — Is it All Over My Face
Lord Invader — Rum and Coca-Cola
Lord Rockingham's XI — Hoots Mon
Loretta Lynn — Blue Kentucky Girl
Lorraine Ellison — Stay With Me
Los Del Rio — Macarena
Los Lobos — One Time, One Night
Lou Rawls — You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mind
Lou Reed — Coney Island Baby
Lou Reed — Walk on the Wild Side
Louis Armstrong — Ain't Misbehavin'
Louis Armstrong — Black and Blue
Louis Armstrong — Cake Walking Babies from Home
Louis Armstrong — Christmas Night in Harlem
Louis Armstrong — Heebie Jeebies
Louis Armstrong — Hello Dolly!
Louis Armstrong — I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Louis Armstrong — Potato Head Blues
Louis Armstrong — Stardust
Louis Armstrong — Tight Like That
Louis Armstrong — Weather Bird
Louis Armstrong — West End Blues
Louis Armstrong — What a Wonderful World
Louis Jordan — Choo Choo Ch'boogie
Louis Prima and Keely Smith — That Ol' Black Magic
Love — Alone Again Or
Love — Seven & Seven Is
Love — You Set the Scene
Love Inc. — R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Love Unlimited — I'm So Glad That I'm a Woman
Love Unlimited Orchestra — Love's Theme
Low — Immune
Low — Stars Gone Out
Low — The Plan
Low — Violence
Low — Weight of Water
Lucho Gatica — Un Historia de un Amor
Lucia Pamela — Walking on the Moon
Luciano Berio — Sinfonia: III - In ruhig fliessender Bewegung
Lucinda Williams — Pineola
Luniz — I Got Five on It (Bay Ballas Remix)
Luther Vandross — Never Too Much
M — Pop Muzik
M|A|R|R|S — Pump Up the Volume
Machine — There But for the Grace of God
Madness — Our House
Madonna — Burning Up
Madonna — Into the Groove
Madonna — Like a Prayer
Madonna — Live to Tell
Madonna — Lucky Star
Madonna — Vogue
Magazine — A Song From Under the Floorboards
Magazine — Shot By Both Sides
Magazine — You Never Knew Me
Magma — De Futura
Mahalia Jackson — Trouble of the World
Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds — Crazy Blues
Mansun — Cancer
Marc Almond — Jacky
Marion Brown — Sweet Earth Flying
Mark "45" King — #900 Number
Mark Morrison — Return of the Mack
Mark Snow — Theme from "The X-Files"
Marlena Shaw — The Woman of the Ghetto
Marshall Jefferson — Move Your Body
Marta Eggerth — Ein Lied, ein Kuß, ein Mädel
Martha and The Muffins — Echo Beach
Martha and The Vandellas — Dancing in the Street
Martin Denny — Quiet Village
Martina McBride — Independence Day
Marvin Gaye — I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye — Mercy Mercy Me
Marvin Gaye — Sexual Healing
Marvin Gaye — What's Goin' On
Marvin Gaye — Yesterday
Mary J. Blige — Real Love
Mary Margaret O'Hara — Bodies in Trouble
Massive Attack — Group Four
Massive Attack — Safe from Harm
Massive Attack — Teardrop
Massive Attack — Unfinished Sympathy
Master P. — Burbons and Lacs
Maurice Jarre — Lara's Theme (Dr. Zhivago)
Maurice Ravel — Boléro
Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs — Stay
Max Steiner — Tara's Theme (Gone With the Wind)
Maze and Frankie Beverly — Before I Let Go
Mazzy Star — Fade Into You
MC5 — Ramblin' Rose
McAlmont and Butler — Yes
McCoy Tyner — Passion Dance
Meat Puppets — Up on the Sun
Mecano — Ya Viene El Sol
Meredith Monk — Gotham Lullaby
Meredith Wilson — Till There Was You (The Music Man)
Merle Haggard — Big City
Merle Haggard — Mama Tried
Meshell Ndegeocello — Elliptical
Metal Urbain — Panik
Metallica — Fade to Black
Metallica — One
MF Doom — Dead Bent
MFSB — Love Is the Message (Danny Krivit Edit)
Michael Jackson — Beat It
Michael Jackson — Billie Jean
Michael Jackson — Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Mickey and Sylvia — Love Is Strange
Mighty Sparrow — Jean and Dinah
Mikey Dread — World War III
Miles Davis — He Loved Him Madly
Miles Davis — Rated X
Miles Davis — Shhh/Peaceful
Miles Davis — So What
Ministry — Thieves
Minnie Riperton — Les Fleur
Minor Threat — In My Eyes
Minutemen — Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?
Minutemen — Little Man With a Gun in His Hand
Minutemen — Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
Miriam Makeba — Mbube
Misfits — Where Eagles Dare
Mission of Burma — Academy Fight Song
Mission of Burma — That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate
Mission of Burma — That's When I Reach for My Revolver
Mississippi John Hurt — Avalon Blues
Mississippi John Hurt — Stack O'Lee
Missy Elliott — The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
Mister (Fred) Rogers — It's You I Like
Misty in Roots — Intro/Mankind (Live at the Counter Eurovision)
Mobb Deep — Shook Ones pt. II
Moby — Go
Modest Mouse — Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
Mohammed Rafi — Jaan Pehechan Ho
Momus — Rhetoric
Mongo Santamaria — Afro Blue
Montell Jordan — This Is How We Do It
Moondog — All Is Loneliness
Morphine — Cure for Pain
Morrissey — Everyday Is Like Sunday
Morrissey — Suedehead
Morrissey — Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself
Mory Kanté — Yeke Yeke
Mos Def — Umi Says
Mose Allison — Everybody's Crying Mercy
Motörhead — Ace of Spades
Motorpsycho — Mad Sun
Motorpsycho — The Golden Core
Mott the Hoople — All the Way From Memphis
Mott the Hoople — All the Young Dudes
Mr. Bungle — My Ass Is on Fire
Mr. Bungle — Stubb (A Dub)
Mr. Fingers — Can You Feel It
Mrs. Miller — A Lover's Concerto
Muddy Waters — Hoochy Coochie Man
Muddy Waters — I Can't Be Satisfied
Mudhoney — Touch Me I'm Sick
Murray Head — One Night in Bangkok
Musical Youth — Pass the Dutchie
My Bloody Valentine — Drive All Over Me
My Bloody Valentine — Feed Me With Your Kiss
My Bloody Valentine — Only Shallow
My Bloody Valentine — Sometimes
My Bloody Valentine — Soon
My Bloody Valentine — You Made Me Realise
N.W.A — Straight Outta Compton
Naftule Brandwein — Heyser Bulgar
Nancy Sinatra — These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
Nancy Sinatra — You Only Live Twice
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood — Some Velvet Morning
Napalm Death — You Suffer
Nara Leão — Lindoneia
Nas — Halftime
Nas — Life's a Bitch (ft. AZ)
Nas — N.Y. State of Mind
Nas — Represent
Nas — The World Is Yours
Nat King Cole — Mona Lisa
Nat King Cole — Nature Boy
Nat King Cole — Route 66
Nat King Cole — Unforgettable
Natalie Imbruglia — Torn
Negativland — Christianity Is Stupid
Neil Young — Ambulance Blues
Neil Young — Harvest Moon
Neil Young — The Needle and the Damage Done
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Cortez the Killer
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Cowgirl in the Sand
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Powderfinger
Neneh Cherry — Buffalo Stance
Neu! — Fur Immer
Neu! — Hallogallo
Neurosis — Purify
Neutral Milk Hotel — In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
New Order — Age of Consent
New Order — Bizarre Love Triangle
New Order — Blue Monday
New Order — Ceremony
New Order — Regret
New Order — Temptation
New Order — Thieves Like Us
New Order — True Faith
New Order — World in Motion
New Radicals — You Get What You Give
New York Dolls — Trash
Next — Too Close
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds — From Her to Eternity
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds — Stranger Than Kindness
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds — The Ship Song
Nick Drake — Hazey Jane II
Nick Drake — Northern Sky
Nick Drake — Pink Moon
Nick Drake — Place to Be
Nick Drake — River Man
Nick Drake — Things Behind the Sun
Nick Drake — Which Will
Nick Lowe — So it Goes
Nick Lucas — Painting the Clouds With Sunshine
Nico — Janitor of Lunacy
Nico — These Days
Nina Simone — Cotton Eyed Joe
Nina Simone — Little Girl Blue
Nina Simone — Love Me or Leave Me
Nina Simone — My Baby Just Cares for Me
Nina Simone — Sinnerman
Nina Simone — Work Song
Nine Inch Nails — Head Like a Hole
Nirvana — Aneurysm
Nirvana — Lounge Act
Nirvana — Negative Creep
Nirvana — Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nitro Deluxe — This Brutal House
Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth — Shine On, Harvest Moon
Norman Greenbaum — Spirit in the Sky
Nusret Fateh Ali Khan — Mustt Mustt
Oasis — Champagne Supernova
Oasis — Columbia
Oasis — Supersonic
Offspring — Self Esteem
Ofra Haza — Im Nin'alu
Ohio Players — Fire
Olatunji — Akiwowo
Olivia Newton-John — Xanadu
Olivier Messiaen — Quatuor pour la fin du temps: V. Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus
Onyx — Slam
Oran "Juice" Jones — The Rain
Orange Juice — Blue Boy
Orbital — Belfast
Orbital — Halcyon + On + On
Orbital — Out There Somewhere?
Orbital — The Box
Orbital — The Girl With the Sun in Her Head
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — 2nd Thought
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Electricity
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Joan of Arc
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Maid of Orleans
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Of All the Things We've Made
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Souvenir
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — The Romance of the Telescope
Original Dixieland Jazz Band — Tiger Rag
Ornette Coleman — Humpty Dumpty
Ornette Coleman — Lonely Woman
Os Mutantes — Bat Macumba
Os Mutantes — Panis et Circences
Otis Clay — Trying to Live My Life Without You
Otis Redding — I've Been Loving You Too Long
Otis Redding — Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding — That's How Strong My Love Is
OutKast — Elevators (Me and You)
OutKast — Spottieottiedopalicious
Ozark Mountain Daredevils — Jackie Blue
P.M. Dawn — Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
Parliament — Flashlight
Pat Benatar — Love Is a Battlefield
Pat Metheny Group — Phase Dance
Patrice Rushen — Forget Me Nots
Patrick Cowley — Menergy
Patsy Cline — Crazy
Patsy Cline — I Fall to Pieces
Patsy Cline — Walking After Midnight
Patti Smith — Gloria
Paul Simon — 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Paul Simon — Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
Pavement — Box Elder
Pavement — Frontwards
Pavement — Gold Soundz
Pavement — Stop Breathin'
Pavement — Summer Babe
Peggy Lee — Fever
Peggy Lee — Is That All There Is?
Pentangle — Train Song
Percy Faith — Theme from "A Summer Place"
Pere Ubu — Final Solution
Pere Ubu — Non-Alignment Pact
Perez Prado — Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
Perez Prado and His Orchestra — Rumbalero
Pet Shop Boys — Always on My Mind
Pet Shop Boys — Being Boring
Pet Shop Boys — Can You Forgive Her
Pet Shop Boys — Left to My Own Devices
Pet Shop Boys — Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
Pet Shop Boys — Rent
Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys — What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Pete Namlook — Je Suis Triste Et Seul Ici
Pete Rock and CL Smooth — TROY
Peter Brotzmann Octet — Machine Gun
Peter Gabriel — In Your Eyes
Peter Gabriel — Moribund the Burgermeister
Peter Gabriel — San Jacinto
Peter Gabriel — Shock the Monkey
Peter Gabriel — Solsbury Hill
Peter Tosh — African
Pharoah Sanders — The Creator Has a Master Plan
Phil Ochs — Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
Phil Phillips — Sea of Love
Philip Bailey and Phil Collins — Easy Lover
Phillip Glass — Koyaanisquatsi
Phillip Glass — Music in Twelve Parts (Part I)
Piano Magic — Wrong French
Pierre Boulez — Répons
Pierre Henry — Psyché Rock
Pierre Schaeffer — Etude aux chemins de fer
Pigbag — Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
Pineapples — Come on Closer
Pink Floyd — Astronomy Domine
Pink Floyd — Dogs
Pink Floyd — Echoes
Pink Floyd — Money
Pink Floyd — See Emily Play
Pink Floyd — Shine on You Crazy Diamond pt. I
Pixies — Alec Eiffel
Pixies — Debaser
Pixies — River Euphrates
Pixies — Velouria
Pixies — Wave of Mutilation
Pixies — Where Is My Mind
PJ Harvey — To Bring You My Love
Planxty — The Blacksmith
Planxty — The Well Below the Valley
Plastic Bertrand — Ça plane pour moi
Pola Negri — Paradise
Popol Vuh — Agirre I
Portishead — Cowboys
Portishead — Roads
Portishead — Sour Times
Prefab Sprout — Goodbye Lucile no. 1 (Johnny Johnny)
Pretenders — Back on the Chain Gang
Pretenders — Stop Your Sobbing
Primal Scream — Come Together
Primal Scream — Higher Than the Sun
Prince — Adore
Prince — Controversy
Prince — I Wanna Be Your Lover
Prince — Little Red Corvette
Prince — Pussy Control
Prince — Sign O the Times
Prince — U Got the Look
Prince and The New Power Generation — Sexy M.F.
Prince and The Revolution — Kiss
Prince and The Revolution — Purple Rain
Prince and The Revolution — When Doves Cry
Procol Harum — A Whiter Shade of Pale
Professor Longhair — Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand
Professor Longhair — Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Prolapse — Tina, This Is Matthew Stone
Public Enemy — Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Public Enemy — Bring the Noise
Public Enemy — Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Public Enemy — Don't Believe the Hype
Public Enemy — Fight the Power
Public Enemy — Night of the Living Baseheads
Public Enemy — Welcome to the Terrordome
Public Image Ltd. — Poptones
Public Image Ltd. — Public Image
Public Image Ltd. — Swan Lake
Pulp — Babies
Pulp — Common People
Pulp — Do You Remember the First Time?

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 05:22 (fifteen years ago)

Q - Z

Q Lazzarus — Goodbye Horses
Quad City DJs — Come N' Ride It (The Train)
Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen — Somebody to Love
Queen and David Bowie — Under Pressure
R. Dean Taylor — There's a Ghost in My House
R.E.M. — Camera
R.E.M. — Fall on Me
R.E.M. — Find the River
R.E.M. — Losing My Religion
R.E.M. — Near Wild Heaven
R.E.M. — Orange Crush
R.E.M. — Pretty Persuasion
R.E.M. — Radio Free Europe
R.E.M. — So. Central Rain
Radiohead — Airbag
Radiohead — Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead — Karma Police
Radiohead — Let Down
Radiohead — Paranoid Android
Rainbow — Stargazer
Ram Jam — Black Betty
Rammellzee and K-Rob — Beat Bop
Ramones — Blitzkrieg Bop
Ramones — Bonzo Goes to Bitburg
Ramones — I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Ramones — Judy Is a Punk
Ramones — Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
Randy Newman — Louisiana 1927
Randy Newman — Sail Away
Ray Barretto — A Deeper Shade of Soul
Ray Barretto — Abidjan
Ray Charles — Georgia on My Mind
Ray Charles — I Got a Woman
Ray Charles — Night Time Is the Right Time
Ray Charles — What'd I Say
Ray Parker, Jr. — Ghostbusters
Ray Price — Night Life
Raymond Scott — Powerhouse
Red House Painters — Grace Cathedral Park
Renaldo and The Loaf — Haul on the Bowline
Ricardo Ray — Richie's Jala Jala
Richard "Rabbit" Brown — James Alley Blues
Richard and Linda Thompson — The End of the Rainbow
Richard and Linda Thompson — The Great Valerio
Richard Harris — Macarthur Park
Richard Hell and The Voidoids — Blank Generation
Richard O'Brien — Bitchin' in the Kitchen
Richard O'Brien — Shock Treatment
Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein — You'll Never Walk Alone (Carousel)
Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein — You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
Richard Thompson — 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Richard Thompson — I Misunderstood
Richard Youngs — Soon it Will Be Fire
Rick James — Superfreak
Ride — Dreams Burn Down
Ride — Vapour Trail
Ritchie Valens — La Bamba
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock — It Takes Two
Robbie Basho — Orphan's Lament
Robert Ashley — The Park
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno — Evening Star
Robert Johnson — Come on in My Kitchen
Robert Johnson — Cross Road Blues
Robert Johnson — If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
Robert Johnson — Kindhearted Woman Blues
Robert Johnson — Love in Vain
Robert Johnson — Terraplane Blues
Robert Wyatt — Sea Song
Robert Wyatt — Shipbuilding
Robert Wyatt — The Age of Self
Rod Stewart — Maggie May
Rod Stewart — Mandolin Wind
Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire — Theme from "Dr. Who"
Roxy Music — Amazona
Roxy Music — Do the Strand
Roxy Music — In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Roxy Music — Love Is the Drug
Roxy Music — More Than This
Roxy Music — Street Life
Roxy Music — Virginia Plain
Roy Harper — Another Day
Roy Harper — When and Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease
Roy Orbison — Crying
Roy Orbison — Running Scared
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans — Happy Trails
Rubén Blades and Willie Colón — Pedro Navaja
Ruby Keeler — 42nd Street
Rudy Vallee — Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Rufus Thomas — The Funky Chicken
Run DMC — Hit it Run
Run DMC — It's Like That
Run DMC — Peter Piper
Run DMC — Raising Hell
Run DMC — Run's House
Rush — Hemispheres (full suite)
Rush — Subdivisions
Rush — Tom Sawyer
Ryan Paris — Dolce Vita
S.O.S. Band — Just Be Good to Me
Sade — The Sweetest Taboo
Sagittarius — My World Fell Down
Saint Etienne — Avenue
Saint Etienne — He's on the Phone
Salcos — Demolición
Salt N Pepa — Push It
Sam and Dave — Hold on, I'm Comin'
Sam Cooke — (What a) Wonderful World
Sam Cooke — A Change Is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke — Bring it on Home to Me
Sam Cooke — Cupid
Samsimar — Indang Pariaman
Samuel Barber — Adagio for Strings
Sandy Denny — By the Time it Gets Dark
Sandy Denny — Late November
Sandy Denny — Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Santo and Johnny — Sleep Walk
Sarah Vaughan — Lullaby of Birdland
Scott Joplin — The Entertainer
Scott Walker — Angels of Ashes
Scott Walker — Farmer in the City
Scott Walker — It's Raining Today
Scott Walker — Jackie
Scott Walker — Montague Terrace (In Blue)
Scott Walker — The Old Man's Back Again
Scott Walker — The Seventh Seal
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You
Scritti Politti — Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
Secos e Molhados — Sangue Latino
Seefeel — Spangle
Serge Gainsbourg — Cargo Culte
Serge Gainsbourg — Melody
Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot — Bonnie and Clyde
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin — Je t'aime...moi non plus
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Variation 18
Sex Pistols — Anarchy in the U.K.
Sex Pistols — God Save the Queen
Sex Pistols — Holidays in the Sun
Shannon — Let the Music Play
Sheila E. — The Glamorous Life
Shellac — Wingwalker
Shirley Bassey — Goldfinger
Shuggie Otis — Strawberry Letter 23
Sidney Bechet — Blackstick
Sidney Bechet — Summertime
Silver Apples — Lovefingers
Silver Apples — Program
Simon and Garfunkel — America
Simon and Garfunkel — Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel — Homeward Bound
Simon and Garfunkel — The Sounds of Silence
Simon Dupree and The Big Sound — Kites
Simple Minds — Don't You (Forget About Me)
Simple Minds — New Gold Dream 81 82 83 84
Simple Minds — Promised You a Miracle
Simply Saucer — Illegal Bodies
Sinéad O'Connor — Mandinka
Sinéad O'Connor — Nothing Compares 2 U
Sinéad O'Connor — Troy
Siouxsie and The Banshees — Happy House
Siouxsie and The Banshees — Peek-a-Boo
Sir Mix-A-Lot — Baby Got Back
Sister Rosetta Tharpe — Didn't it Rain
Sister Sledge — Lost in Music
Sister Sledge — We Are Family
Skip James — Devil Got My Woman
Skip James — Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
Slade — Mama Weer All Crazee Now
Slapp Happy — Dawn
Slayer — Angel of Death
Slayer — Raining Blood
Slayer — War Ensemble
Sleater-Kinney — One More Hour
Slim Gaillard — The Flat Foot Floogie
Slint — Good Morning, Captain
Slowdive — Ballad of Sister Sue
Slowdive — Crazy for You
Sly and The Family Stone — Everyday People
Sly and The Family Stone — Family Affair
Sly and The Family Stone — Hot Fun in the Summertime
Sly and The Family Stone — Sing a Simple Song
Sly and The Family Stone — Spaced Cowboy
Sly and The Family Stone — Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Smashing Pumpkins — 1979
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — I Don't Blame You at All
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — Tears of a Clown
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — The Tracks of My Tears
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Snap! — The Power
Snoop Dogg — Gin and Juice
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Soft Machine — Moon in June
Sol Hoopii — Fascinating Rhythm
Solomon Linda — Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
Son House — Death Letter Blues
Son House — Empire State Express
Sonic Youth — Expressway to Yr Skull
Sonic Youth — Schizophrenia
Sonic Youth — Stereo Sanctity
Sonic Youth — Teen Age Riot
Sonic Youth — The Diamond Sea
Sonic Youth — Tom Violence
Sonic Youth — Tuff Gnarl
Sonny Rollins — St. Thomas
Sons of the Pioneers — Way Out There
Sophie B. Hawkins — Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
Soul Coughing — Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago
Souls of Mischief — 93 'Til Infinity
Spacemen 3 — Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)
Spacemen 3 — Suicide
Sparks — For the Girl With Everything
Sparks — Funny Face
Sparks — This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us
Sparks — When Do I Get to Sing "My Way"?
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant — Stratosphere Boogie
Spiritualized — Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space
Spiritualized — Medication
Spratleys Japs — Fanny
Squeeze — Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto — Girl From Ipanema
Stardust — Music Sounds Better With You
Steeleye Span — When I Was on Horseback
Steely Dan — Babylon Sisters
Steely Dan — Deacon Blues
Steely Dan — Josie
Steely Dan — Peg
Steely Dan — Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Steppenwolf — Born to Be Wild
Stereolab — French Disko
Stereolab — Jenny Ondioline
Stereolab — Ping Pong
Steve Reich — Come Out
Steve Reich — Different Trains: I. America (Before the War)
Stevie Wonder — As
Stevie Wonder — Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
Stevie Wonder — I Was Made to Love Her
Stevie Wonder — If it's Magic
Stevie Wonder — Living for the City
Stevie Wonder — Superstition
Stevie Wonder — Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Stevie Wonder — Village Ghetto Land
Subway Sect — Ambition
Suede — Killing of a Flash Boy
Suede — My Insatiable One
Suede — To the Birds
Sugar — The Act We Act
Sugarhill Gang — Rapper's Delight
Suicide — Cheree
Suicide — Dream Baby Dream
Suicide — Ghost Rider
Sun City Girls — Space Prophet Dogon
Sun Ra — Love in Outer Space
Sun Ra — Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus
Sun Ra — Somewhere in Space
Super Furry Animals — Ice Hockey Hair
Swans — Goddamn the Sun
Swans — New Mind
Sweet — Fox on the Run
Swervedriver — Duel
Syd Barrett — Late Night
Sylvester — You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Sylvia — Pillow Talk
T La Rock — It's Yours
T.Rex — Bang a Gong (Get it On)
T.Rex — Jeepster
T.Rex — Life's a Gas
T.Rex — Metal Guru
T.Rex — Raw Ramp
Taana Gardner — Heartbeat
Talk Talk — Desire
Talk Talk — I Believe in You
Talk Talk — It's My Life
Talk Talk — Life's What You Make It
Talking Heads — Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Talking Heads — Crosseyed & Painless
Talking Heads — Once in a Lifetime
Talking Heads — Psycho Killer
Talking Heads — Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
Talking Heads — The Great Curve
Talking Heads — This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)
Tammy Wynette — Stand By Your Man
Tangerine Dream — Birth of Liquid Plejades
Tangerine Dream — Sequent C'
Tantra — The Hills of Katmandu (Patrick Cowley Megamix)
Teddy Hill and His NBC Orchestra — King Porter Stomp
Teddy Pendergrass — Love TKO
Teenage Fanclub — Sparky's Dream
Television — Marquee Moon
Television — See No Evil
Ten City — That's the Way Love Is
Tenor Saw — Ring the Alarm
Terminals — Mr. Clean
Terry Riley — A Rainbow in Curved Air
Terry Riley — In C
The (English) Beat — Save it for Later
The 13th Floor Elevators — Slip Inside This House
The 13th Floor Elevators — You're Gonna Miss Me
The 6ths — San Diego Zoo
The Adventures of Stevie V — Dirty Cash (Money Talks)
The Adverts — One Chord Wonders
The Afghan Whigs — Uptown Again
The Alan Parsons Project — Eye in the Sky
The Animals — The House of the Rising Sun
The Archies — Sugar, Sugar
The Associates — Party Fears Two
The B-52's — Love Shack
The B-52's — Rock Lobster
The Band — The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Band — The Weight
The Bats — Block of Wood
The Beach Boys — Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
The Beach Boys — Don't Worry Baby
The Beach Boys — God Only Knows
The Beach Boys — Good Vibrations
The Beach Boys — Heroes and Villains
The Beach Boys — I Get Around
The Beach Boys — Little Saint Nick
The Beach Boys — Sail on Sailor
The Beach Boys — Surf's Up
The Beach Boys — Wouldn't it Be Nice
The Beatles — A Day in the Life
The Beatles — And Your Bird Can Sing
The Beatles — Because
The Beatles — Eight Days a Week
The Beatles — Happiness Is a Warm Gun
The Beatles — Helter Skelter
The Beatles — Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles — Hey Jude
The Beatles — I Am the Walrus
The Beatles — I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles — In My Life
The Beatles — No Reply
The Beatles — Oh, Darling
The Beatles — Penny Lane
The Beatles — She Loves You
The Beatles — She Said She Said
The Beatles — Strawberry Fields Forever
The Beatles — Twist and Shout
The Beatles — Within You Without You
The Beatles — You Never Give Me Your Money
The Beta Band — Dry the Rain
The Big Bopper — Chantilly Lace
The Blue Nile — I Love This Life
The Blue Nile — Let's Go Out Tonight
The Bob Seger System — Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
The Boomtown Rats — I Don't Like Mondays
The Breeders — Cannonball
The Buggles — Video Killed the Radio Star
The Byrds — 100 Years From Now (Gram Parsons vocal)
The Byrds — Eight Miles High
The Byrds — Going Back
The Byrds — Hickory Wind
The Byrds — I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
The Byrds — Set You Free This Time
The Byrds — Turn! Turn! Turn!
The Byrds — Why
The Cadillacs — Speedo
The Carolina Tar Heels — Peg and Awl
The Cars — Just What I Needed
The Carter Family — Wildwood Flower
The Celestial Choir — Stand on the Word
The Charlie Daniels Band — The Devil Went Down to Georgia
The Chiffons — One Fine Day
The Chills — Pink Frost
The Chills — Rain
The Chordettes — Mr. Sandman
The Chords — Sh-Boom
The Church — Under the Milky Way
The Clash — (White Man in) Hammersmith Palais
The Clash — Complete Control
The Clash — I Fought the Law
The Clash — Janie Jones
The Clash — London Calling
The Clash — Lost in the Supermarket
The Clash — Spanish Bombs
The Clash — Straight to Hell
The Clash — Train in Vain
The Clean — Getting Older
The Clean — Point That Thing
The Clean — Someone
The Clientele — Saturday
The Coasters — Poison Ivy
The Coasters — Riot in Cell Block Number Nine
The Congos — Congoman
The Congos — Open Up the Gate
The Contours — Do You Love Me
The Coup — Fat Cats, Bigga Fish
The Cowsills — The Rain, the Park and Other Things
The Creation — Making Time
The Crystals — And Then He Kissed Me
The Crystals — Da Doo Ron Ron
The Cure — A Forest
The Cure — All Cats Are Grey
The Cure — Close to Me
The Cure — Friday I'm in Love
The Cure — In Between Days
The Cure — Just Like Heaven
The Cure — Let's Go to Bed
The Cure — Pictures of You
The Cure — Plainsong
The Cure — Play for Today
The Cure — The Figurehead
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Blue Rondo a la Turk
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Take Five
The dB's — Black and White
The Del Vikings — Come Go With Me
The Delfonics — La-La Means I Love You
The Delmore Brothers — Brown's Ferry Blues
The Dixie Cups — Iko Iko
The Doobie Brothers — What a Fool Believes
The Doors — Light My Fire
The Dream Academy — Life in a Northern Town
The Drifters — There Goes My Baby
The Drifters — Up on the Roof
The Easybeats — Friday on My Mind
The Everly Brothers — All I Have to Do Is Dream
The Everly Brothers — Cathy's Clown
The Everly Brothers — Wake Up Little Susie
The Faces — Ooh La La
The Fall — Bingo Masters Breakout
The Fall — Bonkers in Phoenix
The Fall — Gross Chapel / British Grenadiers
The Fall — Gut of the Quantifier
The Fall — Hit the North
The Fall — How I Wrote Elastic Man
The Fall — Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
The Fall — New Face in Hell
The Fall — New Puritan (Peel Session)
The Fall — Paintwork
The Fall — Rowche Rumble
The Fall — The Classical
The Fall — Totally Wired
The Fall — Winter (Peel Session)
The Feelies — Crazy Rhythms
The Five Stairsteps — Ooh Child
The Flaming Lips — A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
The Flaming Lips — Halloween on the Barbary Coast
The Flaming Lips — Moth in the Incubator
The Flaming Lips — Race for the Prize
The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You
The Flirtations — Nothing But a Heartache
The Foundations — Build Me Up Buttercup
The Four Kings — Non Stop Dancing
The Four Tops — I Can't Help Myself
The Four Tops — Reach Out I'll Be There
The Four Tops — Standing in the Shadows of Love
The Gap Band — Burn Rubber
The Germs — Forming
The Glenn Miller Orchestra — In the Mood
The Glenn Miller Orchestra — Moonlight Serenade
The Go-Betweens — Cattle and Cane
The Go-Betweens — Streets of Your Town
The Gun Club — Ghost on the Highway
The Gun Club — Mother of Earth
The Hollies — Bus Stop
The Hollies — King Midas in Reverse
The Homosexuals — False Sentiments
The Honeycombs — Have I the Right?
The Hues Corporation — Rock the Boat
The Human League — Being Boiled
The Human League — Don't You Want Me
The Human League — Love Action (I Believe in Love)
The Impressions — It's All Right
The Impressions — People Get Ready
The Impressions — You Must Believe Me
The Index — Israeli Blue
The Ink Spots — I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
The Isley Brothers — Between the Sheets
The Isley Brothers — Shout
The Jackson 5 — ABC
The Jackson 5 — I Want You Back
The Jam — A Town Called Malice
The Jesus and Mary Chain — April Skies
The Jesus and Mary Chain — Just Like Honey
The Jesus and Mary Chain — Never Understand
The Kingsmen — Louie Louie
The Kinks — Dead End Street
The Kinks — Lola
The Kinks — Tired of Waiting for You
The Kinks — Victoria
The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset
The Kinks — You Really Got Me
The KLF — 3am Eternal
The KLF — Justified and Ancient
The La's — There She Goes
The Left Banke — Walk Away Renee
The Louvin Brothers — Knoxville Girl
The Louvin Brothers — When I Stop Dreaming
The Lovin' Spoonful — Do You Believe in Magic
The Lovin' Spoonful — You Didn't Have to Be So Nice
The Magnetic Fields — 100,000 Fireflies
The Magnetic Fields — Strange Powers
The Magnetic Fields — The Book of Love
The Mamas and The Papas — California Dreamin'
The Marx Brothers — Lydia the Tattooed Lady
The McCoys — Hang on Sloopy
The Melodians — You Have Caught Me
The Mills Brothers — The Old Man of the Mountain
The Modern Lovers — I'm Straight
The Modern Lovers — Pablo Picasso
The Modern Lovers — Roadrunner
The Monkees — I'm a Believer
The Monkees — Pleasant Valley Sunday
The Monkees — Porpoise Song
The Monkees — Steppin' Stone
The Monks — Shut Up
The Monotones — (Who Wrote) The Book of Love
The Moody Blues — Nights in White Satin
The Moody Blues — The Actor
The Mountain Goats — Going to Georgia
The Muppets (Piero Umiliani) — Mah Na Mah Na
The Normal — Warm Leatherette
The Notorious B.I.G. — Gimme the Loot
The Notorious B.I.G. — Hypnotize
The Notorious B.I.G. — Juicy
The Notorious B.I.G. — Who Shot Ya
The Oblivians — Bad Man
The O'Jays — I Love Music
The Only Ones — Another Girl Another Planet
The Passions — I'm in Love With a German Film Star
The Penguins — Earth Angel
The Persuaders — Thin Line Between Love and Hate
The Platters — Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale of New York
The Police — Message in a Bottle
The Police — Roxanne
The Police — Walking on the Moon
The Pop Group — She Is Beyond Good and Evil
The Primitives — Really Stupid
The Prodigy — Charly
The Prodigy — Out of Space
The Psychedelic Furs — Love My Way
The Puddle — Into the Moon
The Raincoats — No Side to Fall In
The Red Krayola — Wives in Orbit
The Replacements — I Will Dare
The Replacements — Unsatisfied
The Replacements — Within Your Reach
The Residents — Skratz
The Righteous Brothers — You've Lost That Loving Feeling
The Roches — Hammond Song
The Rolling Stones — 2000 Light Years From Home
The Rolling Stones — Dead Flowers
The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones — Jumpin' Jack Flash
The Rolling Stones — Moonlight Mile
The Rolling Stones — Paint it Black
The Rolling Stones — Rocks Off
The Rolling Stones — Sister Morphine
The Rolling Stones — Street Fighting Man
The Rolling Stones — Sway
The Rolling Stones — Sympathy for the Devil
The Rolling Stones — Under My Thumb
The Rolling Stones — You Can't Always Get What You Want
The Ronettes — Baby, I Love You
The Ronettes — Be My Baby
The Roots — You Got Me (ft. Erykah Badu)
The Saints — (I'm) Stranded
The Saints — Know Your Product
The Sequence — And You Know That
The Shaggs — My Pal Foot Foot
The Shangri-Las — Leader of the Pack
The Shangri-Las — Past, Present and Future
The Shirelles — Soldier Boy
The Slickers — Johnny Too Bad
The Slits — So Tough
The Smiths — How Soon Is Now
The Smiths — Sheila Take a Bow
The Smiths — The Queen Is Dead
The Smiths — There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths — This Charming Man
The Smiths — You Just Haven't Earned it Yet, Baby
The Soul Stirrers — Nearer to Thee
The Sound Stage Orchestra — Theme from "Grandstand"
The Source with Candi Staton — You Got the Love
The Specials — Ghost Town
The Spinanes — Lines and Lines
The Spinners — I'll Be Around
The Standells — Dirty Water
The Staple Singers — Respect Yourself
The Staple Singers — Uncloudy Day
The Steve Miller Band — Abracadabra
The Stone Roses — Fool's Gold
The Stone Roses — I Am the Resurrection
The Stone Roses — I Wanna Be Adored
The Stooges — 1970
The Stooges — Dirt
The Stooges — Down on the Street
The Stooges — Funhouse
The Stooges — I Wanna Be Your Dog
The Stooges — No Fun
The Stooges — TV Eye
The Stranglers — Golden Brown
The Stylistics — You Make Me Feel Brand New
The Sugarcubes — Birthday
The Sundays — Here's Where the Story Ends
The Supremes — Where Did Our Love Go?
The Supremes — You Can't Hurry Love
The Supremes — You Keep Me Hangin' On
The Surfaris — Wipe Out
The Tammys — Egyptian Shumba
The Teardrop Explodes — Treason (It's Just a Story)
The Techniques — Love Is Not a Gamble
The Temptations — Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Temptations — Papa Was a Rolling Stone
The The — This Is the Day
The Tornados — Telstar
The Trashmen — Surfin' Bird
The Troggs — Wild Thing
The Underdogs — Love's Gone Bad
The Undertones — Teenage Kicks
The Undisputed Truth — Smiling Faces Sometimes
The United States of America — Garden of Earthly Delights
The Upsetters — Black Panta
The Velvet Underground — All Tomorrow's Parties
The Velvet Underground — Beginning to See the Light
The Velvet Underground — Candy Says
The Velvet Underground — Femme Fatale
The Velvet Underground — Foggy Notion
The Velvet Underground — Heroin
The Velvet Underground — Rock n' Roll
The Velvet Underground — Sister Ray
The Velvet Underground — Sunday Morning
The Velvet Underground — Sweet Jane
The Velvet Underground — Venus in Furs
The Velvet Underground — Waiting for the Man
The Velvet Underground — What Goes On
The Vengaboys — We Like to Party (The Vengabus)
The Ventures — Walk, Don't Run
The Verlaines — Death and the Maiden
The Verlaines — Joed Out
The Wailers — Mr. Brown
The Walker Brothers — Nite Flights
The Walker Brothers — Shutout
The Walker Brothers — The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
The Wedding Present — Kennedy
The White Stripes — When I Hear My Name
The Who — Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
The Who — Baba O'Riley
The Who — Behind Blue Eyes
The Who — Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand
The Who — My Generation
The Who — The Kids Are Alright
The Who — Won't Get Fooled Again
The Who — You Better You Bet
The Wipers — Can This Be
The Wipers — Tragedy
The Wipers — Youth of America
The Yardbirds — For Your Love
The Yardbirds — Happening Ten Years Time Ago
The Zombies — Beechwood Park
The Zombies — Care of Cell 44
The Zombies — She's Not There
The Zombies — Time of the Season
Thelonious Monk — Bemsha Swing
Thelonious Monk — Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk — Epistrophy
Them — It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Them — My Lonely Sad Eyes
They Might Be Giants — Anna Ng
They Might Be Giants — Birdhouse in Your Soul
Thin Lizzy — Cowboy Song
Thin Lizzy — The Boys Are Back in Town
This Heat — 24 Track Loop
This Heat — Paper Hats
This Mortal Coil — Song to the Siren
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments — Baboon's Liver
Thomas Mapfumo — Moyo Wangu
Throbbing Gristle — Hamburger Lady
Thunderclap Newman — Something in the Air
Tim Buckley — Dream Letter
Tim Buckley — Song to the Siren
Tim Buckley — Sweet Surrender
Timmy Thomas — Why Can't We Live Together
TLC — Creep
TLC — No Scrubs
Todd Rundgren — I Saw the Light
Todd Rundgren — It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Todd Rundgren — The Last Ride
Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan — Song of the Second Moon
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers — American Girl
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers — Jammin' Me
Tom Tom Club — Genius of Love
Tom Waits — Anywhere I Lay My Head
Tom Waits — Cemetery Polka
Tom Waits — In the Neighborhood
Tom Waits — Ol' '55
Tom Waits — Take it With Me
Tom Waits — Tom Traubert's Blues
Tommy James and The Shondelles — Crimson and Clover
Tommy James and The Shondelles — I Think We're Alone Now
Tommy Johnson — Cool Drink of Water Blues
Tone Lōc — Funky Cold Medina
Tony Bennett — Stranger in Paradise
Tony Bennett and k.d. lang — Moonglow
Tony Renis — Quando, Quando, Quando
Toots and The Maytals — Pressure Drop
Toru Takemitsu — A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden
Toru Takemitsu — Waltz from "Face of Another"
Toto — Africa
Touch and Go — Would You…?
Townes Van Zandt — To Live Is to Fly
Townes Van Zandt — Waiting 'Round to Die
Tricky — Aftermath
Tricky — Poems
Tyrone Davis — Turn Back the Hands of Time
U2 — New Year's Day
U2 — Pride (In the Name of Love)
U2 — With or Without You
Uakti — Arrumaçao
UGK — One Day (ft. Mr. 3-2)
Ultra Vivid Scene — Mercy Seat
Ultramagnetic MCs — A Chorus Line
Ultramagnetic MCs — Traveling at the Speed of Thought (Hip House Mix)
Ultravox — Slow Motion
Umm Kulthum — Robaeyat El Khayam
Underworld — Cowgirl
Underworld — Jumbo
Underworld — Moaner
Unit 4 Plus 2 — Concrete and Clay
Unrest — Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl
Urge Overkill — Sister Havana
Van Der Graaf Generator — A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Van Der Graaf Generator — After the Flood
Van Der Graaf Generator — Afterwards
Van Der Graaf Generator — Arrow
Van Der Graaf Generator — Childlike Faith in Childhood's End
Van Der Graaf Generator — La Rossa
Van Der Graaf Generator — Scorched Earth
Van Der Graaf Generator — The Sleepwalkers
Van Halen — Jump
Van Morrison — Astral Weeks
Van Morrison — Into the Mystic
Van Morrison — Linden Arden Stole the Highlights
Van Morrison — Slim Slow Slider
Van Morrison — St. Dominic's Preview
Vangelis — Ask the Mountains
Vashti Bunyan — Rose Hip November
Vera Hall — Wild Ox Moan
Vera Lynn — We'll Meet Again
Vince Guaraldi Trio — Linus and Lucy
Violent Femmes — Kiss Off
War — The World Is a Ghetto
Warren G — Regulate
Warren Zevon — Accidentally Like a Martyr
Wayne Smith — Under Me Sleng Teng
Ween — What Deaner Was Talkin' About
Weezer — Say it Ain't So
Wham! — Everything She Wants
Wham! — Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
White Noise — The Visitations
White Town — Your Woman
Whodini — Magic's Wand
Wilbert Harrison — Kansas City
William Bell — I Forgot to Be Your Lover
William DeVaughn — Be Thankful for What You've Got
Willie Hutch — I Choose You
Willie Nelson — Always on My Mind
Willie Nelson — Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Willie Nelson — I'd Have to Be Crazy
Willie Rosario — La Mitad
Wilson Pickett — In the Midnight Hour
Wilson Pickett — Land of 1,000 Dances
Wire — I Should Have Known Better
Wire — Mannequin
Wire — Map Ref. 41°N 93°W
Wire — Outdoor Miner
Wizzard — See My Baby Jive
Womack and Womack — Teardrops
Woody Guthrie — This Land Is Your Land
World Domination Enterprises — Asbestos Lead Asbestos
World Party — Ship of Fools
World's Famous Supreme Team — Hey DJ
Wreckless Eric — Whole Wide World
Wu Tang Clan — Protect Ya Neck
Wu Tang Clan — Triumph
X — White Girl
Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra — Frenesi
X-Ray Spex — Identity
X-Ray Spex — Oh Bondage Up Yours!
XTC — Complicated Game
XTC — Dear God
XTC — Making Plans for Nigel
Yaz(oo) — Only You
Yaz(oo) — Situation
Yello — Domingo
Yello — Oh Yeah
Yellow Magic Orchestra — Absolute Ego Dance
Yellow Magic Orchestra — La Femme Chinoise
Yellow Magic Orchestra — Rydeen
Yes — Awaken
Yes — Close to the Edge
Yes — Owner of a Lonely Heart
Yes — Your Move
Yes — Yours Is No Disgrace
Yma Sumac — Taki Rari
Yo La Tengo — Autumn Sweater
Yo La Tengo — Ballad of Red Buckets
Yo La Tengo — Big Day Coming
Yo La Tengo — Blue Line Swinger
Yo La Tengo — Center of Gravity
Yo La Tengo — Sugarcube
Yoko Ono — Mrs. Lennon
Yoko Ono — Why
Young Marble Giants — Final Day
Young MC — Bust a Move

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 05:22 (fifteen years ago)

oh wow this is EPIC - love the voting system! Partially weighted/unweighted is the way to go. Get ready for some awesome decimal points...

acoleuthic, Monday, 15 November 2010 05:27 (fifteen years ago)

We only get a week to decide!?

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Monday, 15 November 2010 05:39 (fifteen years ago)

Oh sorry 2 weeks. Ignore me. haha.

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Monday, 15 November 2010 05:40 (fifteen years ago)

Ok already sent mine before I overthink it too much.

Moka, Monday, 15 November 2010 05:55 (fifteen years ago)

Let me know if you got a confirmation email. It's set up to do that.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 06:01 (fifteen years ago)

Mmm is it supposed to get to me immediatly? No confirmation email so far.

Moka, Monday, 15 November 2010 06:03 (fifteen years ago)

Holy mackerel man. Thank you for doing this.

I'm honored to be the first complainer: With only 7 songs, Elvis Presley wuz robbed!

kornrulez6969, Monday, 15 November 2010 06:10 (fifteen years ago)

xp Oops, never mind. The thing I thought was an email confirmation setting was actually just the screen you see after you submit your ballot. SO, if you see a screen after you hit submit that says thank you, we got it.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 06:11 (fifteen years ago)

Ok, I did got that one. Now I'm going to hijack some obscure ILM user's name and send a second ballot.

Moka, Monday, 15 November 2010 06:13 (fifteen years ago)

Campaigning thread here: ILM POLLS THE 20TH CENTURY'S BEST TRACKS (Campaigning thread)

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 08:16 (fifteen years ago)

For Spotify users there's a collaborative playlist http://open.spotify.com/user/unterwasser/playlist/72R1ZIWPdR2sxP5xXfPBko feel free to help fill in the gaps.

State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Monday, 15 November 2010 09:42 (fifteen years ago)

THat spreadsheet link no workie (for me, anyway)

Is there an alternate way?

Mark G, Monday, 15 November 2010 10:09 (fifteen years ago)

Try changing the https to http. If that doesn't work, I'll have you email it directly to me and I'll input it for you. (That goes for anyone else with a problem as well!)

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 10:13 (fifteen years ago)

Hm - first trawl yields a shortlist of 310

Ismael Klata, Monday, 15 November 2010 13:54 (fifteen years ago)

Couple of minor points for maximal transparency:

- If you vote for a song twice, the second vote will be ignored and lower-ranked votes will be moved up one.
- Votes for non-shortlisted songs will similarly be ignored
- If you submit a mixed ballot with more than one blank line, the first one will be treated as the splitting point and the others will be ignored.
- If you vote for more than 100 tracks, only the top 100 will be counted.
- If you submit more than one ballot, your last submission will be assumed to be your real ballot. Please don't do this though, it causes us headaches.

seandalai, Monday, 15 November 2010 14:36 (fifteen years ago)

I just noticed the list includes "Romeo" by Basement Jaxx, even though it came out in 2001.

Tuomas, Monday, 15 November 2010 15:53 (fifteen years ago)

They were ahead of their time.

_Rudipherous_, Monday, 15 November 2010 15:56 (fifteen years ago)

Your unweighted selections will split the remaining points evenly.

OK, quick question: If I submitted a mixed ballot of say, 2 weighted + 2 unweighted = 4 entries total. What points would each track get? Thanks.

daavid, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:00 (fifteen years ago)

I assume the points of your weighed votes are subtracted from the total amount of 10 100 points, and the rest is divided by the number of your unweighed votes to get the amount of points an unweighed entry gets, except that it can't be more than 101.

Tuomas, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

So in your case it would make sense to give a weighed vote to your 4 songs, because the unweighed ones can't have more than 101 points, so if you weigh them they'll have more points than that.

Tuomas, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

lololol Year of the Cat

Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:12 (fifteen years ago)

xpost OK, thanks Tuomas.

daavid, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:16 (fifteen years ago)

OK, quick question: If I submitted a mixed ballot of say, 2 weighted + 2 unweighted = 4 entries total. What points would each track get? Thanks.

Weighted 1 gets 200 points.
Weighted 2 gets 198 points.
All unweighted votes get 99 points each; if you maxed out your unweighed allowance (i.e. 98 unweighted votes) your total points allocation would be 10100.

The formula for allocating unweighted votes is basically 101 minus the number of weighted votes.

seandalai, Monday, 15 November 2010 17:17 (fifteen years ago)

As Tuomas pointed out, if you have a small ballot you should go for all weighted.

seandalai, Monday, 15 November 2010 17:35 (fifteen years ago)

Is everybody having fun yet?

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:16 (fifteen years ago)

I've managed to get my list down to 100, think I'm going to go with an unweighted ballot. Can't wait for the results.

Gavin in Leeds, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:22 (fifteen years ago)

alls i know is i gotta go pee, so quit bogarting that hall-pass, daddy-o!

(and nope, "Charlie Brown" wasn't nominated either.)

hey look at me i'm a drunken asshole, how 'bout that huh? (Ioannis), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:23 (fifteen years ago)

I didn't have much trouble getting my hundred, but ranking them seems impossible (not that it's required).

_Rudipherous_, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:33 (fifteen years ago)

My plan is to rank around 10 tracks that I think might use some extra help to get in the top 100 and leave the rest unweighted. Need to listen to a lot more of the pre-1960 material first though, I barely know any of it.

seandalai, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:37 (fifteen years ago)

I'm planning on ranking the ones that, on their day, I might have as THE best song of the century - probably a couple of dozen of those - and then leave the others unranked. That way the ultra important ones all score big, and the merely very important ones all score reasonably.

Now only to decide which is which.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:41 (fifteen years ago)

I know what my #1 is but ranking beyond that is going to be fucking nuts!

Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:42 (fifteen years ago)

Done! Got the 'thankyou' screen, no going back now.

Gavin in Leeds, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:50 (fifteen years ago)

THat spreadsheet link no workie (for me, anyway)

Is there an alternate way?

― Mark G, Monday, November 15, 2010 5:09 AM

Try changing the https to http. If that doesn't work, I'll have you email it directly to me and I'll input it for you. (That goes for anyone else with a problem as well!)

― Johnny Fever, Monday, November 15, 2010 5:13 AM

Just wondering if this worked for you, btw. If not, my email is johnnyilxfever at gmail dot com.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)

Sent my ballot in, went with partially weighted/unweighted. Woo!

The Porcupine Captain With A Crew of White Rabbits (Viceroy), Monday, 15 November 2010 19:44 (fifteen years ago)

Without giving anything away, I'll say that, with 10 ballots already in (including my own), there is very little consensus to be seen so far. I have no idea how this is going to turn out...and that's exciting!

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 22:19 (fifteen years ago)

A 1000-place tie for 1st and a 1000-place tie for 1001st.

Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Monday, 15 November 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Well, there is some consensus.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 23:05 (fifteen years ago)

I hope that songs with only one vote won't make it in the top 100.

Is there a rule for this? I doubt any of the songs in my top 5 will get a lot of support on other ballots and I would hate it if my vote alone places them on the list.

gospodin simmel, Monday, 15 November 2010 23:14 (fifteen years ago)

Judging by the amount of interest, and the move to 100-vote ballots, I'm pretty sure that won't happen

Ismael Klata, Monday, 15 November 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, that's what I was thinking until Johnny's low consensus comment made me worry.

We can expect approximately 70 ballots, right?

gospodin simmel, Monday, 15 November 2010 23:25 (fifteen years ago)

I'd hope for at least that, but several people have remarked on how daunting the task is. I don't know if that will mean more participation or less.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 November 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)

Also the max vote is 200 points - so unlike some of the freeform polls you can't give all your votes to one track.

seandalai, Monday, 15 November 2010 23:55 (fifteen years ago)

"Eric B and Rakim — I Know Who Got Your Soul"

I realize typos are inevitable, but this one makes me giggle because it sounds like a Jewel song.

lyrics is weak, like taco bell drive-thru speakers (symsymsym), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:09 (fifteen years ago)

Any plan for how many songs the final list will be?

lyrics is weak, like taco bell drive-thru speakers (symsymsym), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:10 (fifteen years ago)

Depends on what the list looks like. If there's some additional variety to be found, I might stretch it to 125 by counting down 25 a day over a M-F period.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:15 (fifteen years ago)

maybe reveal 200-101 on Monday and then 25 for the next 4 days? just an idea

billstevejim, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:21 (fifteen years ago)

also this is such a random assortment i dont see any way the top 10 could be accurately predicted which is a huge reason for this being such an awesome idea

billstevejim, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:22 (fifteen years ago)

we will know too much about the list if 200-101 are revealed before the countdown. might kill the excitement

gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:25 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I much prefer to find out what didn't make it AFTER the countdown is over instead of before it starts.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:26 (fifteen years ago)

right on

billstevejim, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:27 (fifteen years ago)

there is zero chance that this will make the top 100, but "Ana Ng" is misspelled.

skip, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 01:52 (fifteen years ago)

In what way?

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 01:56 (fifteen years ago)

Anna Ng

And just submitted my ballot...including No Scrubs...which is kind of shameful but whatever.

skip, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:00 (fifteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Ng

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:01 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, that's the correct spelling -- it has two N's in the list. But it's not going to matter anyway.

skip, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:10 (fifteen years ago)

o i c, oops.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:12 (fifteen years ago)

this might seem like a stupid question, but if i'm submitting an ordered ballot, should i include the numbers indicating my order of preference ie. #1, #2, #3 etc., or is this unnecessary/ likely to cause problems?

charlie h, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 03:29 (fifteen years ago)

No numbers, no points. Just copy and paste the songs in order of preference.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 03:34 (fifteen years ago)

no prob. cheers.

charlie h, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 03:43 (fifteen years ago)

final list should consist only of those tracks that have received at least 10 votes each

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 04:00 (fifteen years ago)

15 ballots already. Woo!

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 07:41 (fifteen years ago)

no funky drummer (most important recording of the century!) or rebel without a pause = ilm has failed.

hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 09:28 (fifteen years ago)

have made an initial list of about 200, got as far as cutting out the beatles and radiohead (a coincedence as i don't care for the nommed songs)

hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 09:29 (fifteen years ago)

my initial cull was about the same, some 220 songs which i easily cut down to 130 or so. then it got hard.

no funky drummer (most important recording of the century!) or rebel without a pause = ilm has failed.

― hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, November 16, 2010 1:28 AM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark

and shit yeah, so much amazing stuff missing! it's a perverse kind of blessing, actually, cuz it makes it half possible to come up with a top 100. but shit, a lot of artists i'd love to have voted for wound up absent or missing their best songs. hard to complain, though, as we all had weeks to submit (and later expand) our ballots...

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 10:21 (fifteen years ago)

Shit! Just thought of Kris Kross's Jump

gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 13:43 (fifteen years ago)

And Ice Cube's 'It Was A Good Day'

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 13:58 (fifteen years ago)

and Wreckx-n-Effect's Rum Shaker

I remembered Ice-T's New Jack Hustler but figured I would be the only one to vote for it.

gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 17:30 (fifteen years ago)

Rum Shaker, always a fave in the JF household.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 17:39 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rum%20shaker

skip, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 17:53 (fifteen years ago)

JF, nice work on the ballot form - very tasteful color, font choices etc.

strangled by a necklace of mexicans (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 18:15 (fifteen years ago)

As much as I'd like to take credit for that, it was just an option I selected that was provided by Google. Ha!

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 18:16 (fifteen years ago)

was it the "factory records" option?

strangled by a necklace of mexicans (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 18:18 (fifteen years ago)

Spotify marathon currently still at 'A' after over an hour of listening. Haha!

emil.y, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 18:25 (fifteen years ago)

I'm on B, finally. Unfortunately it's the cocking Backstreet Boys.

emil.y, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 20:08 (fifteen years ago)

Take one for the team!

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 20:09 (fifteen years ago)

How did you like the A's?

gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)

Great! Amon Duul, Aphrodite's Child, Art Ensemble of Chicage, Arthur Russell, Arvo Part, Augustus Pablo, etc etc. I think most of the stuff I want to check out again is some of the more traditional classical and jazz, but I'm guessing that'll be a pattern throughout, as they're genres I'm interested in but don't know that much of (more so with trad classical).

emil.y, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 20:16 (fifteen years ago)

I'm really interested how those classical and jazz tracks will do in this thing. Likely to get destroyed by all the pop stuff.

gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 21:23 (fifteen years ago)

Listening to "Yakety Sax" now, I'm glad I voted for it! Even without the Benny Hill connection it's an awesome tune.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, "Yakety Sax" is kind of an island unto itself, regardless of the Benny Hill association.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)

Ha the stronger association for me now is the Dave Chappelle skit of "Roots outtakes."

Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:19 (fifteen years ago)

Hm - first trawl yields a shortlist of 310

251 for me. I didn't actually nominate anything*, and my eventual ballot will bear little relation to what would be my actual choices, but should at least contain a lot of good tunes**.

*because I was mostly ignoring this poll on the basis that it was impossibly broad

**and possibly 'Shattered Dreams' by Johnny Hates Jazz

Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:23 (fifteen years ago)

I did nominate and still found myself wishing for a bunch of stuff that's not on the list.

seandalai, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:31 (fifteen years ago)

Finally put in my ballot...getting it down to 105 tracks was relatively painless, but each cut after that was excruciating. I feel better now that it's over with.

seandalai, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)

Cool, that makes 20 already.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)

I've just built a listening list that's 789 songs long *eep!*

Sméagol-Eye Cherry (NickB), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:06 (fifteen years ago)

I'd like it on record that I've had not a single break from listening since I last posted, and I have only just reached 'C'. That's five and a quarter hours of listening to 'B', I believe.

emil.y, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:26 (fifteen years ago)

and what were the highlights?

acoleuthic, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:28 (fifteen years ago)

Ummmm... I think I've gone catatonic now. Let's see, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, for definite. There was a bunch of big-band sounding stuff, which definitely included Bix Beiderbecke (although a highlight, still not sure I'm going to vote for it). Oh, and Blind Willie Johnson is now a possibility for a vote of mine, I think. Other ones I'd already earmarked for voting would include Big Star ('Holocaust') and Black Sabbath.

My lasting impression of what made up the 'B' section = blues, brass and Bustah Rhymes.

emil.y, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:36 (fifteen years ago)

emil.y since you're at it you could compile a spotify playlist with you rown highlights for the rest of ILM to hear (I don't get Spotify in my country tho...)

Moka, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 02:00 (fifteen years ago)

If you do decide to make it tho I'd like a list so I can listen to them elsewhere.

Moka, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 02:01 (fifteen years ago)

Oof, maybe. Will have a look at it tomorrow, as I'm about to give up in favour of sleep.

emil.y, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 02:02 (fifteen years ago)

I'd take on such titanic task but surely my picks would not be as interesting as yours. Plus I already voted and I'm afraid I'll bump into a new favorite song and then sorely regret not waiting a bit more to make my choices.

Moka, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 02:06 (fifteen years ago)

Right now per example I'm listening to Big Star's holocaust per your recommendation and I'm already dazzledd - regretting not hearing it before / happy about discovering it now.

Moka, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 02:08 (fifteen years ago)

Just saw an early tabulation of the ballots submitted up to this point. Surprising results! Things will change, of course, but not at all what I was expecting.

Also, as seandalai mentioned to me, we're already out of the woods for a one-vote wonder cracking the top 100 (even the top 300).

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 02:29 (fifteen years ago)

Got it down to 230+, and I thought I was doing okay. Then the pain set in. I'm pretty close to 100 now, but I'm suffering the guilt pangs and second-guesswork of a legion of self-flagellants.

Lostandfound, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 05:28 (fifteen years ago)

Super-damn. I'm down to 203 tracks and the cutting's beginning to get truly painful.

a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 05:48 (fifteen years ago)

Goodness, Jacques Brel's a good singer

Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 13:13 (fifteen years ago)

indeed. i put some brel in my top 100

charlie h, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

I've just noticed that 'Taj Mahal' has made it in twice - once in the Gil e Jorge version, and once in medley form with 'Fio Maravilha' and 'Pais Tropical'. I guess I'll probably cast for both, and they're obviously hugely different beasts, but seems to me this should be taken into account in the final reckoning (e.g. a special 86½th place if/when neither makes it in individually)

Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 14:03 (fifteen years ago)

Isn't the Gil e Jorge version the "canonical" one? I voted for that but not the medley, in fact I've never even heard the medley.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)

I only knew the medley from various fierce live versions before today, the recorded one's actually slightly underwhelming I see. The Gil e Jorge is sweet though. I thought the canonical version was a third version altogether, from Africa Brasil.

There are some genres where limiting to one definitive recording doesn't work imo, like jazz, classical or show tunes - 'Brazil' is probably another.

Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

Yo J0rdan s/crumbsinthebutter (if you're reading): the ballots we have for you are pretty short (~50 tracks), is this ok? Just want to make sure nothing got lost.

seandalai, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 16:49 (fifteen years ago)

Apologies, but I don't remember if I saw a confirmation screen after submitting my ballot. Can you guys just confirm here that you got it?

Lostandfound, Thursday, 18 November 2010 18:50 (fifteen years ago)

kind of stalled out in the trimming process. got it down to 100 with great pain and suffering, but then couldn't bring myself to submit my ballot. so i cut about 20 more, provisionally, based on the idea that i'd go back through the master list and reconsider my initial cuts. big mistake...

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:37 (fifteen years ago)

xp yes, we go it.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

submitted!

the coffee of coffees (corey), Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

I'm down to 480. This is going to be tough.

Out of curiosity, what is the most songs you're including by any one artist? I know there are no limits, but I'm struggling with this.

kornrulez6969, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

I limited myself to one song per artist, but that's not the case for other people.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)

picking 100 tracks was not so hard. putting them in order is going to take some time.

you really love meta jokes, this is a thing that you are into (crüt), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:18 (fifteen years ago)

That's where the split ballot came in handy for me. I ranked 45 and let the other 55 split the remaining points equally.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:20 (fifteen years ago)

putting more than maybe 2 or 3 songs for a given artist seems kinda ridiculous, unless you really think that artist totally flat dominated all good music produced in the 20th century. i'm gonna give a couple each to the stooges & the beatles, cut i was weaned on beatles and want to see the stooges well represented in the final list. other than that, 1 per.

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

^ classic rockist

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

I think just going through the list track by track and doing algorithmic-ish sort of "well, this song belongs above this song but below this song" is my only choice

you really love meta jokes, this is a thing that you are into (crüt), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

my list is p rockist/traditional in spots but it's also shit that I genuinely like so I feel no shame

you really love meta jokes, this is a thing that you are into (crüt), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:27 (fifteen years ago)

Down to 112 now and it's agony. And wtf is with nominating specific remixes? I really want to vote for 'I Got 5 On It' but this is NOT the best version

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

putting more than maybe 2 or 3 songs for a given artist seems kinda ridiculous, unless you really think that artist totally flat dominated all good music produced in the 20th century.

I don't think that, but I didn't make any nominations so I don't feel that my ballot will accurately reflect what I'd consider the greatest music of the 20th century, it will just be what I decided were my favourites tunes from the list of nominations. And my favourite tunes might well consist of several by the same artist/group - I'd rather vote for the individual tracks I like most, rather than limit myself to one per group for the sake of diversity.

I think just going through the list track by track and doing algorithmic-ish sort of "well, this song belongs above this song but below this song" is my only choice

Copy tracks into spreadsheet. Mark 1 for things you might vote for, 0 for things you won't. Sort. Delete zeroes. Mark what's left out of ten. Sort. Delete those towards the bottom to shorten the list. Sleep on it. Listen again. Mark everything afresh. Sort again. Delete some more. Repeat until you have 100 then fine tune.

Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:56 (fifteen years ago)

Can't help you there. No one nominated the original. xp

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

I love running polls like this, mostly to see some people AGONIZE over voting. I really didn't (and never do) have a hard time with the actual voting. I may regret a couple things later, but it's nothing I can't live with.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:59 (fifteen years ago)

ismael otm. whoever nominated that luniz remix in favor of the original version is, well, yeah...

meanwhile, in a parallel universe, i'm kicking my own ass for not nominating the roni size/dj die remix of pharoahe monch - "simon says"

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

get the fuck up

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:02 (fifteen years ago)

I'm working on basis that for each track all mixes, live versions, etc are included xp. Otherwise I need to know which specific performance of 'Jupiter' I'm being asked to consider.

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:04 (fifteen years ago)

Quite. I'm probably going to vote for This Charming Man, but in my mind it's all about the Hatful of Hollow version, not the one that most people are probably voting for.

Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:07 (fifteen years ago)

The Hatful of Hollow one only has a half-formed bassline though. It's one of the ones I'm agonising over myself.

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:30 (fifteen years ago)

xp yes, we go it.

Tks, JF.

Lostandfound, Friday, 19 November 2010 05:12 (fifteen years ago)

No Smiths even made my list. No Beatles either. One Stones, but a handful of Dylan. I really was all over the place, but as NB&S said, I just went into it deciding to vote for my favourite songs and to hell with the rest of it.
I think what's interesting for me is where my list veered from the canon, and that will be what's interesting about the final tally, I hope.

Lostandfound, Friday, 19 November 2010 05:15 (fifteen years ago)

i've got two smiths tracks in there (kind of justified given they run pretty close to being my favourite band of all time) and i think three dylan tracks from memory. mostly, i tried to keep it to one song per artist, but in the end there were a few artists i really wanted to rep for.

charlie h, Friday, 19 November 2010 09:14 (fifteen years ago)

putting more than maybe 2 or 3 songs for a given artist seems kinda ridiculous, unless you really think that artist totally flat dominated all good music produced in the 20th century.

I don't think that, but I didn't make any nominations so I don't feel that my ballot will accurately reflect what I'd consider the greatest music of the 20th century, it will just be what I decided were my favourites tunes from the list of nominations. And my favourite tunes might well consist of several by the same artist/group - I'd rather vote for the individual tracks I like most, rather than limit myself to one per group for the sake of diversity.
― Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Co-sign this. At first I started from the viewpoint of which were the 'most important' songs of the century. Then came to the realization that I was in no way remotely qualified to make such a judgement based on the masses of stuff on the list I'd never heard of, gave up, and went with which of the nominated songs meant the most to me personally. Which is how I ended up with 5, yep 5 count 'em, Public Enemy tracks in my 100.

As for agonizing over whether the right or wrong version of a song was nommed I just ignored this. I have never knowingly heard any properly recorded version of 'You'll Never Walk Alone', I'm voting for the song as sung at Anfield before the European Cup Semi Final vs Chelsea in 2005 (technically wrong century then)

List went from 186-153-123-109-103-finally 100. Worth all the hours if only because this list introduced me to Jacques Brel for the first time. Jesus what a singer!

epically swindled (pandemic), Friday, 19 November 2010 09:37 (fifteen years ago)

Done! Ballot sent. Thank you Johnny F and seandalai!

epically swindled (pandemic), Friday, 19 November 2010 10:14 (fifteen years ago)

Ha! It was the 'You'll Never Walk Alone' sung after that game that fianlly sold me on it - there's an amazing youtube out there that I'm saving for if it makes the 100. The recorded versions that I've found so far all seem pretty poor in comparison - Elvis' is okay - though there's a rather sweet 1965 Liverpool rendition at Wembley if you want to be picky about centuries.

Ismael Klata, Friday, 19 November 2010 10:18 (fifteen years ago)

Argh, somehow back up to 142 this morning. I really need to just submit something - anything - today and forget all about it.

Ismael Klata, Friday, 19 November 2010 11:12 (fifteen years ago)

I'm there. Now I only need to order them - that'll be the easy part, right?

Ismael Klata, Friday, 19 November 2010 13:18 (fifteen years ago)

one song per artist on my list. I didn't even vote for some of my favorite bands.

gospodin simmel, Friday, 19 November 2010 13:46 (fifteen years ago)

looking over my list, there are 4 songs listed twice. that's indicative of the effort put into it.

my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Friday, 19 November 2010 14:04 (fifteen years ago)

I only spotted two, but I'll keep looking.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 November 2010 17:41 (fifteen years ago)

one song per artist on my list. I didn't even vote for some of my favorite bands.

Same here - it just worked out that way. Some artists had two in my intial shortlist of about 120+ but not the final 100. Also yeah, even though Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin and Stevie Wonder had a fair few songs nominated each, none were among my three or four absolute favourites by any of them.

Gavin in Leeds, Friday, 19 November 2010 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

Thx for the clarification, abanana.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 November 2010 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

Duplicates are spotted automatically so the only effect was that only 96 songs got points from abanana. No harm done.

seandalai, Friday, 19 November 2010 18:19 (fifteen years ago)

The program is bulletproof

gospodin simmel, Friday, 19 November 2010 18:48 (fifteen years ago)

Nah, it can just be patched up. each time it hits something it can't process. Like Robocop.

seandalai, Friday, 19 November 2010 18:52 (fifteen years ago)

Ordering them seems like part of the fun, so I did it, although a lot of the orders ended up being pretty random. I didn't waste too much time on individual "is this track better than this one" type questions beyond putting the songs I liked the best up top and the ones I liked least at the bottom. I tried to stick to one track per artist, but ended up sneaking in two by Bing, Dylan and the Stones.

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 19 November 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

I had two tracks from a couple of my personal canon artists (Arthur Russell, Kate Bush, Jimi Hendrix, Jacques Brel...), ranked about eight tracks I'd consider worthy overall winners (not that they will win) and left the rest unweighted.

seandalai, Friday, 19 November 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)

done and sent. a few key 20th C figures received multiple entries on my list. cause they rule! top 25 or so are ordered according to personal preference; the rest ain't. fun, baby.

hey look at me i'm a drunken asshole, how 'bout that huh? (Ioannis), Friday, 19 November 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)

according to my rockist meter:

2 Stones
1 Beatles
0 Dylan

hmm...not too bad.

hey look at me i'm a drunken asshole, how 'bout that huh? (Ioannis), Friday, 19 November 2010 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

ballot cast.

inner g pills (crüt), Friday, 19 November 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

Done. In your face, Fever.

Ismael Klata, Friday, 19 November 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

Ha!

Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 November 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)

Actually, something interesting I learned about myself from all this - great tunes and beautiful structures are all very well, but the ones that score really highly for me are all about transcendent moments. Something like 'There She Goes' might be perfect, but it didn't get near my list while a lot of (imo) slightly flawed things did - because those are the ones with the backing vocal or the chord change that just hit me right there.

Ismael Klata, Friday, 19 November 2010 22:13 (fifteen years ago)

I know exactly what you mean. I gave a shit ton of points to "Bela Lugosi's Dead," not because it's really a remarkable piece of music, but because I could ride that groove into eternity.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 November 2010 22:17 (fifteen years ago)

I didn't even vote for Bela Lugosi's Dead! I'm a terrible goth.

inner g pills (crüt), Friday, 19 November 2010 22:35 (fifteen years ago)

i snuck it in there! is it a bit of a dark horse?

charlie h, Friday, 19 November 2010 22:40 (fifteen years ago)

Yes. Yes you are. xp

Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 November 2010 22:40 (fifteen years ago)

Voted.

Not as hard as I first feared. A few dilemmas in the final trim of the list 's all.

Jeff W, Saturday, 20 November 2010 11:13 (fifteen years ago)

Just voted, kept taking stuff in and out, probably a futile exercise as much of it will end up around #1500 probably.

Johnny, how's it shaping up, any consensus showing up yet, any surprises?

State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Saturday, 20 November 2010 13:54 (fifteen years ago)

We have 37 ballots in so far, spanning 1,478 tracks from 873 artists. It's pretty interesting to watch the voting unfold as the lead has changed at least once every day. I'm not sure what is and is not surprising, as most tracks on the shortlist are all-time classics anyway.

seandalai, Saturday, 20 November 2010 14:21 (fifteen years ago)

stupid question probably, but am i ok to copy the noms list out to a text application to edit down my list and copy and paste from that text app into the voting thingummybob?

yeah whatever (whatever), Saturday, 20 November 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, that's cool.

seandalai, Sunday, 21 November 2010 00:28 (fifteen years ago)

that's what I did & I'm hoping it did not screw things up

inner g pills (crüt), Sunday, 21 November 2010 00:29 (fifteen years ago)

As long as the syntax doesn't change, it should work fine.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 21 November 2010 00:44 (fifteen years ago)

It's worth double-checking the number of tracks on your ballot - we've had a few submissions with 99 or 101 tracks. Keep them coming!

seandalai, Sunday, 21 November 2010 13:01 (fifteen years ago)

I just noticed that there are two versions of 'Who Knows Where The Time Goes', one by Fairport Convention and one by Sandy Denny, as Sandy was the vocalist on the Fairport Convention version I wonder if the're actually the same piece?

State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Sunday, 21 November 2010 13:06 (fifteen years ago)

Good point...The Fairport Convention version is the best-known one (by far, probably), but Sandy Denny and The Strawbs also recorded a version on All Our Own Work. Not really sure whether to second-guess the voters, as both the "Fairport Convention" and "Sandy Denny" listings have received points; whatever we decide will make a significant difference to the results.

seandalai, Sunday, 21 November 2010 13:36 (fifteen years ago)

MORE BALLOTS FEED THE MACHINE

Actually, we've got 39 right now, so we're almost half way to 80 with a few days to go.

DAN PERRY COME BACK

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 21 November 2010 22:46 (fifteen years ago)

I hope we haven't lost too many voters to Four Loko/Buckfast-related fatalities.

seandalai, Sunday, 21 November 2010 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

I will vote before the deadline, I'm just having trouble narrowing it down

Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:09 (fifteen years ago)

to Turangalila...fixed the split point per your request.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 November 2010 03:40 (fifteen years ago)

Ballot sent. A brutal final round of cutting, and I couldn't bear to weigh the songs against one another. Maybe could have done a top ten or so, but fatigue had set in and I wanted it gone. Looking forward to the results and subsequent discussion!

a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Monday, 22 November 2010 05:07 (fifteen years ago)

Mary Margaret O'Hara — Bodies in Trouble

^ Johnny Fever please note that I am a total ass and that the title of this song is of course 'Body's In Trouble'

Sméagol-Eye Cherry (NickB), Monday, 22 November 2010 11:04 (fifteen years ago)

Have figured out my untouchable top 40... Now just a 100 left fighting it out. Guess I don't need every illmatic nom...?

hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Monday, 22 November 2010 13:28 (fifteen years ago)

putting more than maybe 2 or 3 songs for a given artist seems kinda ridiculous

I tried really hard to refrain from this but I still ended up voting for 4 David Bowie tracks...
2 tracks went to The Who
1 track for The Beatles
1 track for Bob Dylan

My prediction is that like the 70-50 range will be straight rock cannon and the top 10 will be absolutely bonkers.

Grim Viceroy Tales: Hit the Trail… to Flavor! (Viceroy), Monday, 22 November 2010 18:06 (fifteen years ago)

I was intending to refrain, but I'd been careful about not repeating in the nomination process and in the end I just went with my favourites which meant quite a lot of repeats. The stakes were too high for pity votes.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 November 2010 18:25 (fifteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GpFPTnL-L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

seandalai, Monday, 22 November 2010 18:38 (fifteen years ago)

I just noticed the list includes "Romeo" by Basement Jaxx, even though it came out in 2001.

― Tuomas, Monday, November 15, 2010 9:53 AM (1 week ago)

They were ahead of their time.

― _Rudipherous_, Monday, November 15, 2010 9:56 AM (1 week ago)

oops -- voted for this without hesitation!

ilxor, Monday, 22 November 2010 18:46 (fifteen years ago)

That was bound to happen. I have to say, out of almost 2,200 noms for only one ineligible to slip in was pretty good.

ilxor, if you want to substitute something else in its place, I can fix it for you. (That goes for anyone else who voted for "Romeo".)

Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 November 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

Just voted -- made a half-hearted attempt to order everything, but then gave it up as a lost cause. Voted for more than one track for a bunch or artists, which I had no qualms about doing.

falkor johnson (askance johnson), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

If we want to be really pedantic about it, technically the new century didn't start until 2001. Furthermore, our calender is four years off anyway.

Grim Viceroy Tales: Hit the Trail… to Flavor! (Viceroy), Monday, 22 November 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I know...that's how time works. But not lists!

Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 November 2010 19:26 (fifteen years ago)

I just voted. I feel quite relieved, I actually dreamt about making my final list last night.

Kitchen Person, Monday, 22 November 2010 21:07 (fifteen years ago)

johnny, plz sub in:

The Cure — A Forest

not that it'll actually place but hey

ilxor, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 03:06 (fifteen years ago)

i was pretty f;in strict w/ my ballot, got it down to about 130 incl. duplicates for same artists, then did the math & by removing ALL duplicates i got to 100 unique artists, so did just that. & removed 9 cure songs from my ballot as a result :(

ilxor, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 03:07 (fifteen years ago)

"A Forest" is my consolation vote

ilxor, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 03:08 (fifteen years ago)

fixed.

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 03:09 (fifteen years ago)

thx!

ilxor, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 03:24 (fifteen years ago)

46 ballots in, four days left to vote! Results countdown begins next Monday, so...FUN FUN FUN!

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 09:24 (fifteen years ago)

:-)

pretty hat machine (crüt), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 09:52 (fifteen years ago)

You guys, I can't stress enough how much you all need to be thanking seandalai for working behind the scenes on this. I'm just the front man, he's the rhythm section.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 09:56 (fifteen years ago)

have narrowed this down to about 110 but now it is too hard. ain't no half steppin v. god only knowws? cannonball v. teenage riot? ascension v. fight the power? how the hell could anyone do this?

hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:14 (fifteen years ago)

easy. you just fight the power, man.

hey look at me i'm a drunken asshole, how 'bout that huh? (Ioannis), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 11:08 (fifteen years ago)

god only knows, cannonball, and fight the power. of course.

lyrics is weak, like taco bell drive-thru speakers (symsymsym), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 11:10 (fifteen years ago)

I'm just the front man, he's the rhythm section.

It's true - Johnny gets all the groupies, I get premature hearing loss.

seandalai, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 14:16 (fifteen years ago)

I thought bass players get the most action.

Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 16:18 (fifteen years ago)

Gahhhh I have no idea how I'm going to order mine. Don't want to do it all unordered, though. (Still have a shortlist of over 100 but I'm fairly confident I can chop that down.)

emil.y, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 16:29 (fifteen years ago)

emil.y, did you ever make it to "D"?

seandalai, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 17:05 (fifteen years ago)

Haha, yeah, I made it to the Fs, I think, but have been busy so not had a chance to finish. Think I'm going to have to concentrate on just finding the stuff I need to re-listen to. There's a few artists who need to be in my list but I can't remember specific song titles so they take priority.

emil.y, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 17:45 (fifteen years ago)

I didn't bother putting them into order--it's hard enough picking 100, and that way all the choices get a nice bump in the rankings.

skip, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 17:51 (fifteen years ago)

johnny, plz sub in:

The Cure — A Forest

not that it'll actually place but hey

― ilxor, Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:06 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

I wouldn't be so sure. It'll definitely be in my ballot. In fact it will me my only Cure track.

daavid, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:27 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah 'A forest' is the only Cure track I voted for as well.

Moka, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:44 (fifteen years ago)

I didn't vote a Cure track, chiefly because "Fascination Street" wasn't nom'ed, but "A Forest" would've been my second choice.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)

I was going to say you're all crazy, but I've been checking me out some early Cure instead and hey, it's pretty good

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:04 (fifteen years ago)

"A Forest" was also my only Cure track.

sofatruck, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:11 (fifteen years ago)

i feel like some artists had curious tracks nominated, but i guess that's my fault for not participating in noms

mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

aw, of the songs nominated everyone should really be rallying around "All Cats Are Grey"

ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

^^ yes

charlie h, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

I like "All Cats Are Grey" while I'm listening to it, but afterwards I don't remember much. "A Forest" is imprinted on my brains.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

There were some curious nominees, but in the end I think it made the editing of my ballot easier. I cut a few of my favorite artists entirely because my fav track wasn't nom'd.

sofatruck, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:18 (fifteen years ago)

Yes! We've got 50 ballots. Can we get 50 more before Friday night? Probably not, but DAN PERRY SHOULD VOTE.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:22 (fifteen years ago)

I voted for "A Forest" as well!

nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:14 (fifteen years ago)

stop giving up information!

gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

Everybody start posting on other threads about how voting has made you a better person/cured your leprosy/fixed your economy.

Feels like a bunch of people on this thread haven't voted yet, so hopefully the votes will keep coming in.

seandalai, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, please stop talking about which tracks you voted for...

seandalai, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 00:20 (fifteen years ago)

Nobody's voting today :(

seandalai, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:37 (fifteen years ago)

ok, i'm going to start on this later today. i'll go over it tomorrow at thanksgiving and send in my ballot that night or the next day.

daunting task ahead.

Gukbe, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:39 (fifteen years ago)

may have it down to 100, now in a ranking place.

previous experience means you need to keep this at the top of sna, even if you have nothing more than 'bump' to add

wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:40 (fifteen years ago)

Ok, I'll keep posting sad faces at irregular intervals. It does seem to work, we just got our first ballot of the day!

seandalai, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:03 (fifteen years ago)

3 minutes without a message? This thread is slacking.

wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

:(

seandalai, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:09 (fifteen years ago)

I will vote in this thing soon. Many headaches though.

Albert mangles dwarf (NickB), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 16:53 (fifteen years ago)

"bump"

I hope this list will be insane. How many different tracks got voted for so far?

gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:33 (fifteen years ago)

I've got it down to 100, now I'm listening to them all to see if anything makes any last minute jumps. I had forgotten how cool The Coo Coo Bird is.

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)

Vote, suckas

Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

Dude, I'm mulling it over...

Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 22:35 (fifteen years ago)

OK, I believe this is the first time I have actually voted and not just nominated. Picking 100 tracks out of this list was pretty much epic. A lot of great tracs were included (more than 100) while a lot of great tracks were absent (also more than 100) :)

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:21 (fifteen years ago)

What we have so far:

53 ballots
1650 songs have been voted for.
The most votes for one song is 20.
The top-scoring track has 2163 points.

seandalai, Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

We ended up with a master noms list of 2,190 songs, and we could EASILY have doubled or tripled that. The more I think about it, the more I regret not tacking on an extra week for nominations.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 November 2010 01:01 (fifteen years ago)

True, but my guess is that the top 100 (or top 125) wouldn't change much.

seandalai, Thursday, 25 November 2010 01:08 (fifteen years ago)

I am sick right now and submitted the most half-assed ranking ever. Good stuff.

Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 25 November 2010 02:52 (fifteen years ago)

Preparing my ballot now. It's gonna be horribly biased towards 80s stuff but whatever, I'd be dishonest with myself if it wasn't. The weirdest thing for me though is the ranking part, like having to actually decide whether to put "Adagio for Strings" before or after "Push It".

daavid, Thursday, 25 November 2010 05:54 (fifteen years ago)

I've already made peace with the fact most people are going about voting in a subjective manner rather than an objective manner, which is...a thing, so there will be far less canon on the ILM list than the one this poll was actually a reaction to (though I cannot remember now who conducted it, as the NPR list wasn't the one I was thinking of). If nothing else, we'll have a fun week of infighting and tomfoolery. :)

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:31 (fifteen years ago)

Abbbott, I thought your list was awesome!

seandalai, Thursday, 25 November 2010 10:39 (fifteen years ago)

most people are going about voting in a subjective manner rather than an objective manner
Explain. What would an objective ballot look like?

Jeff W, Thursday, 25 November 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)

This has probably been answered 20 times already, but: if I go through the list, pick out the songs I really love, and end up with, say, 37 or something, how many points does each get if I leave them unranked?

clemenza, Thursday, 25 November 2010 13:02 (fifteen years ago)

101.

Tuomas, Thursday, 25 November 2010 13:05 (fifteen years ago)

If you have 50 tracks or fewer on your list and submit a weighted ballot, each track will get more points than it would have from an unweighted ballot.

seandalai, Thursday, 25 November 2010 13:13 (fifteen years ago)

Explain. What would an objective ballot look like?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles_worldwide

;)

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 25 November 2010 14:26 (fifteen years ago)

Mind boggles at Baccara "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" being the 7th best selling single of all time (assuming that list's accurate). Not sure I've even heard The Ink Spots "If I Didn't Care" (6th!).

seandalai, Thursday, 25 November 2010 14:42 (fifteen years ago)

voting in a subjective manner rather than an objective manner

The only honest way to vote, IMO. I suppose "objective" in this case would mean voting for things one appreciates for various reasons, including historical context, but not necessarily love?

daavid, Thursday, 25 November 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, Johnny Fever, you say that as though it's such an unproblematic concept. Personally, I did include some oldies/classics partly because of their importance and out of some sort of abstract admiration for them, but only if I liked them, or if they had at least hit him for me at one point or another.

_Rudipherous_, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

I voted for stuff based on:

1. subjective historical value
2. ????
3. profit

pretty hat machine (crüt), Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)

2. ????

There were some things I voted for in a snap decision and then thought to myself: really? I'm voting for that? In fact, that might have been my favorite part of the whole exercise.

_Rudipherous_, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:17 (fifteen years ago)

I did take historical imnportance into account, but ultimately it came down to whether I considered a track to be an exceptional example of its genre and whether I simply love it (subjectively).

seandalai, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:27 (fifteen years ago)

What's "imnportance"?

seandalai, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:27 (fifteen years ago)

Some kind of objective thing.

_Rudipherous_, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

i subjectively objectify all y'alls. but only selectively.

hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Thursday, 25 November 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

Y'all, forget that subjective/objective mumbo jumbo. I say things when I'm punchdrunk in the middle of the night.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 25 November 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)

Nicely bumped.

61 ballots!

seandalai, Thursday, 25 November 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

Mind boggles at Baccara "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" being the 7th best selling single of all time (assuming that list's accurate).

Same here. In Norway it stayed at the number one position for half a year, but I didn't realize it sold that much worldwide.
You shouldn't underestimate the power of the German market though. Measured in items sold, it is a bigger market than the UK market. Just look at the sales numbers of that Modern Talking single as well - a song that flopped in both the UK and US market.

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 25 November 2010 21:21 (fifteen years ago)

(at least until its 1998 remix)

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 25 November 2010 21:21 (fifteen years ago)

At some point, I would love to know in some detail everyone's process, whether "subjective" or "objective", or whatever. I don't think the conversation or concept is trivial, and it might lead to the most satisfying ILM clusterfuck conversation ever.

In all seriousness, I suspect many of us brought a whole bunch of criteria to the table, and (going by my own) I'll bet some of the internal monologues and contortions would be fascinating. As daavid wrote, how do you decide whether "Adagio for Strings" ranks above or below "Push It"? I'm probably strange that way, but I'd love to know how some of these calls end up being made.

Lostandfound, Thursday, 25 November 2010 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

i don't know whether i could detail my thought processes in coherent fashion. i'm whittling down a long list of 400+, mainly by choosing one song per artist and then by deleting ones i'd like to see in the top 100 but which aren't better (or more worthy) than others in my list.

one problem is that when i come close to deleting a track i'm only comparing it to ones around it in alphabetical order. but that is the nature of the beast: too many songs, too little time, too few votes.

xavi hoarder type (whatever), Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:06 (fifteen years ago)

We ended up with a master noms list of 2,190 songs, and we could EASILY have doubled or tripled that. The more I think about it, the more I regret not tacking on an extra week for nominations.

― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Thursday, November 25, 2010 1:01 AM (22 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

let's do it all again this time next year.

xavi hoarder type (whatever), Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:13 (fifteen years ago)

The only honest way to vote, IMO. I suppose "objective" in this case would mean voting for things one appreciates for various reasons, including historical context, but not necessarily love?

this is still just subjective "appreciation" vs. subjective "love"

(i.e., there's a difference between "appreciation" and "love" perhaps, but both are still subjective voting methods)

i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:15 (fifteen years ago)

Well, you could make a fist of evaluating influence on subsequent music and broader historical importance - Bob Dylan is more important than Guided By Voices, whether or not you'd rather listen to "Game of Pricks" than "Like a Rolling Stone". Obviously this shifts some of the subjectivity to judging "importance" but it does assume the existence of some sort of canon that's removed from the immediate and ahistorical listening experience. This would probably lead to something like the RIAA's Songs of the Century list, which I think is a pretty good summary of the 20th century in American popular music but is far less fun to argue about than the ILM version will be.

seandalai, Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:27 (fifteen years ago)

almost suggest banned ilxor for that post.

xp

hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:29 (fifteen years ago)

nothing personal to seandalai but that approach is the very opposite of where i've ended up, which is 'which songs from the last century that i can vote for in this poll are the ones i couldn't do without if there were only 100 left to listen to?' it's - for me anyway - the best way of avoiding 'canon' considerations.

xavi hoarder type (whatever), Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

also gutted i didn't finish my nominations

xavi hoarder type (whatever), Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:33 (fifteen years ago)

What I just wrote isn't the approach I actually took btw (see further upthread for that), it was just a suggestion of how one could aspire to an objective selection method.

seandalai, Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

i think pretty much all the selections i made with the mindset of including "canonical" songs got whittled away gradually as i began the ruthless process of condensing my shortlist. with a few songs i asked myself "is this really a reflection of something i really love or am i just being compliant"?. in the end there was a whole lot of widely revered stuff in my top 100 that happened to coincide with my personal views.

charlie h, Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)

It's interesting that the highest ranking Rolling Stones song ("(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction") on that songs of the century list wasn't even nominated here.

Two Red Ducks, Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:51 (fifteen years ago)

Also true of Hank Williams "Your Cheatin Heart".

Two Red Ducks, Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)

As daavid wrote, how do you decide whether "Adagio for Strings" ranks above or below "Push It"?

That'd have to be subjective. Which means classical music loses for most (I'd rank "Adagio" way about "Push It" though. Particularly the Orbit version ;) )

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 25 November 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

i think we have a very solid bunch of stones songs in the nom list, all of which are superior to 'satisfaction'.

charlie h, Friday, 26 November 2010 00:03 (fifteen years ago)

sorry seandalai i was being lazy not reading the rest of the thread.

xavi hoarder type (whatever), Friday, 26 November 2010 00:13 (fifteen years ago)

I don't disagree charlie, but it's interesting to me that nonetheless what might be considered the song for stones fans to rally behind wasn't even nominated

Two Red Ducks, Friday, 26 November 2010 00:17 (fifteen years ago)

oh for sure, it's definitely interesting, but very ILM at the same time.

charlie h, Friday, 26 November 2010 00:23 (fifteen years ago)

submitted!

xavi hoarder type (whatever), Friday, 26 November 2010 01:44 (fifteen years ago)

Mmm I've no idea how I'd qualify my own votes. Voted for many quintessential new-wave and post-rock songs but for the most part voted with my heart. Gave preference to songs that I thought had a chance to make it but this particular poll turned out quite eclectic so no idea if my perception holds true.

Moka, Friday, 26 November 2010 01:53 (fifteen years ago)

I definitely made room in my own ballot for some things I don't listen to very often, but are certainly important/respected compositions from the last century. Not that they're tokens or anything (I truly like them), but I probably skewed a little more toward broad regard than personal pet songs.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Friday, 26 November 2010 01:56 (fifteen years ago)

I'm just praying that a rap song is going to make it

lyrics is weak, like taco bell drive-thru speakers (symsymsym), Friday, 26 November 2010 02:32 (fifteen years ago)

i've had so much time on my hands and have made so many attempts to put together a ballot even after narrowing the noms down to the hundreds and hundreds of songs i know and like, and my eyes just keep glazing over. i think my capacity for getting into ILM polls has finally been exceeded.

the pussy re-upholstery gang (some dude), Friday, 26 November 2010 03:39 (fifteen years ago)

nah dude this poll is just rly retarded

samosa gibreel, Friday, 26 November 2010 03:39 (fifteen years ago)

Went through quickly, had some bar in my mind that the song had to clear, and ended up with 54 (unweighted). Very easy--took about 10 minutes. The list, of course, is nuts.

clemenza, Friday, 26 November 2010 04:32 (fifteen years ago)

I came out with a longlist of about 300, about any song that I would have considered voting for, plus a bunch of stuff that wasn't necessarily what I'd consider a particular artist's best work but that I could still get behind. Like, I think the most singular and powerful thing the Feelies ever did was "Moscow Nights", but I wasn't about to split the slim Feelies vote by nominating such an outlier; and for sure I'm voting for something by those guys. There were also a bunch of songs on my longlist that I wouldn't be able to hum and probably wouldn't take to a desert island - mostly prewar stuff - that I wanted to bump because of historical importance & geneaology-of-pop purposes. A lot of that stuff had to go, in the end, but I kept some that I had genuine affection for. I would always cut a rad 80s song before cutting anything pre-1960 just because I smelled the poll swinging hard toward the 80s. I figured "When Doves Cry" was going to get a bazillion votes anyhow, but Blind Willie Johnson always needs a leg up.

Although come to think of it, I don't imagine I had the heart to cut "When Doves Cry". It's just too good.

I'm the least confident about the balancing act I tried to pull off was balancing how much I like and would want to hear a song nowadays with what songs have meant to me throughout the years, regardless of whether I even want to hear another Hank Williams or Neil Goddamn Young song again (much less "In the Mood") in my entire future. I mean, I'm currently on a big Kraut kick, but I wasn't going to fill up my goddamn list with Can and NEU! songs at the expense of Bessie Smith and the Everly Brothers.

a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Friday, 26 November 2010 05:17 (fifteen years ago)

hey kornrulez6969, can you resubmit your ballot w/o it being numbered?

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Friday, 26 November 2010 06:27 (fifteen years ago)

Very difficult. I think after a while fatigue just sets in and you just throw caution to the wind and go with whatever. Be good to have a brainstorming session with a group of like minded people- whiteboards, felt pens, the works. We could eat in. Make a night of it.

Hinklepicker, Friday, 26 November 2010 06:46 (fifteen years ago)

Crap as I was reading RIAA list I noticed that somehow I forgot to vote for "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" ...and it would've been in my top 10. :(

daavid, Friday, 26 November 2010 06:55 (fifteen years ago)

Done it. I submitted a weighted ballot, but to be honest it's a bit random and if I did the whole thing again from scratch it would probably be about 30% different at least.

Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 26 November 2010 07:47 (fifteen years ago)

Objective/subjective dichotomy - I probably went for a bit of both. I tried to include something from every genre I like (i.e. everything but prog), but went for the 'best' rather than 'most important' in each. No way was I voting for 'Adventures on the Wheels of Steel' just cos it was first.

As for what 'best' is, I mentioned upthread that what does it most for me is transcendent moments - having worked that out, it was kind of a question of identifying which tunes had best/most of these (great lyric, scintillating solo, neat harmonic changes, smokin' live version, whatever). Much as I love 'Cortez the Killer', there's not actually that much going on there, so out it went.

The track I ended up with at #1 I hadn't expected, but on listening this way it seemed obviously the best amazing-moment-after-amazing-moment, so there it is. That said, ask me later and I'll give you a totally different answer, so...

I'm a bit worried about the eventual list now though. If 'best of the 20th century' turns out to mean a pile of early Cure tracks, hardly any universals, and nothing before 1965, we might as well not have bothered imo

Ismael Klata, Friday, 26 November 2010 09:33 (fifteen years ago)

wow, i really don't get why people are having such great difficulty narrowing their choices down here. i mean, yeah, i get that "the list" can seem daunting at first. and, sure, i started out with a personal list of some 400+ songs that i well and truly love, any of which could have easily made it on my ballot. yet, still, i found i had no problem whatsoever in whittling it down to 106 or so from there. my criterion for inclusion in the top 100 was simple: "has X track meant something more to me beyond it being, you know, just another great/important song?" if so, in it went. if not, tuff shit. only problem i encountered was in shaving off the excess six tracks really. kinda like excising bits and pieces of my soul there, tbh. but so what? i mean, hell, what did my soul ever do for me anyway?

oh, and ordering the damn thing after deciding on a final 100 or so was a bitch, tru. but, eh, i survived.

hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Friday, 26 November 2010 09:43 (fifteen years ago)

@People who can't face cutting from 400 down to 100: maybe it would be easier to cut 400 down to ~50 and just pick the tracks that are indisputably better than everything else for you? A couple of people have submitted half-size ballots.

seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 14:06 (fifteen years ago)

apologies if this has been covered, but does the email address u enter into the ballot form have to be the same one you are registered to on ILX?

the 'Friends' experiment (Pillbox), Friday, 26 November 2010 14:14 (fifteen years ago)

Nope - it's just in case we need to contact you for some reason.

seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 14:25 (fifteen years ago)

70 ballots! Can we hit 80?

seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 14:28 (fifteen years ago)

seandalai, my web is a bit spotty this morning. Could u just confirm that you got my ballot plz?

the 'Friends' experiment (Pillbox), Friday, 26 November 2010 14:35 (fifteen years ago)

hey kornrulez6969, can you resubmit your ballot w/o it being numbered?

Done

kornrulez6969, Friday, 26 November 2010 14:38 (fifteen years ago)

@Pillbox: got it.

seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 14:43 (fifteen years ago)

Almost there. Pretty sure I'm not going to order my ballot, it's difficult enough to work out which tracks should go in it.

emil.y, Friday, 26 November 2010 14:44 (fifteen years ago)

bump happy thanksgiving or whatever

wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Friday, 26 November 2010 16:35 (fifteen years ago)

It is done. Got it to exactly 100 and submitted straight away. No regrets. (Actually, no 'Je Ne Regret Rien' either.)

One of my criteria was to make a list that I'd really like to play to people, so that included prioritising a couple of 'important' songs (though only ones that I think are important AND great) and trying to make sure I represented a reasonable range of styles. Not sure how much I succeeded in getting a proper range, but I feel pretty satisfied with what I ended up with. Although I'm probably going to kick myself for some exclusions.

emil.y, Friday, 26 November 2010 17:06 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks korn!

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Friday, 26 November 2010 18:20 (fifteen years ago)

I think choosing a priority ballot made it easier for me to narrow the choices down to 100, as I simply just cut everything after 100.

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 26 November 2010 18:40 (fifteen years ago)

More ballots please! Nyom nyom.

- The Ballot Monster

seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 18:45 (fifteen years ago)

Yes! There's just a smidgen over 10 hours left of voting. If we get one more ballot per hour, we'll hit 80.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Friday, 26 November 2010 18:50 (fifteen years ago)

Got my longlist. Watching Strangers on a Train before I continue.

Gukbe, Friday, 26 November 2010 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

I kind of have an issue with trying to make sure "important" choices are represented because to me it just seems like a subconscious way of perpetuating existing the canon. I wonder what would be wrong with a list in which people simply chose their own favourite tracks, period, completely disregarding things like historical importance and range of styles. Like, this things should take care of themselves when it's all averaged out, right? I feel this is the reason so many lists end up looking like boring textbooks. True, complete indulgence could produce some heavily skewed results that end up reflecting more about the music that is relevant today (for ILM in this case). But I think that's somehow inevitable anyway so why not embrace it?

daavid, Friday, 26 November 2010 19:01 (fifteen years ago)

^perpetuating the existing cannon

daavid, Friday, 26 November 2010 19:03 (fifteen years ago)

lol ^canon

daavid, Friday, 26 November 2010 19:04 (fifteen years ago)

...not that I wasn't guilty of this to a certain degree myself.

daavid, Friday, 26 November 2010 19:06 (fifteen years ago)

My mindset has slightly evolved re: this issue over the course of voting. While I will still cringe seeing some things get overlooked in the countdown (as I'm sure other people will as well, though maybe not the same things), I'm comfortable with whatever kind of list we get. It's a reflection of this one little collection of tastes in one corner of the world (ILM) and should be embraced.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Friday, 26 November 2010 19:08 (fifteen years ago)

Well, range of styles was more because I hate making playlists which are all the same - I get bored. If I'm trying to compile something that I'd be happy to bombard my friends with enthusiasm about it'd rarely be a single stylistic venture. That's how I grew up making mixtapes, it's how I'll always remain. I actually didn't make it into a playlist proper but kept all tracks in alphabetical order, as I like the strange patterns that can be imposed by that. But then I'd look at it critically as in 'hmm, should I really be making a list with these three songs together?' and maybe cut something.

But yeah, judging by 'importance' is difficult. I would say I only really went for two tracks by that criterion, and they were ones that were on the borderline of making it in, fighting with a couple of other tracks for inclusion. 'Importance' won out because they're things that I like in my version of the canon. I guess it's similar to what I was saying in the nomination thread about wanting to vote for things like 'Gloomy Sunday'; they ARE canon, but they're hella good canon, and if we can use them to crowbar out shitty canon like the Beatles, then all for the better.

xposts to daavid

emil.y, Friday, 26 November 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)

In the end I think it comes down to what "important" means, which to me it should be more "what people like"/"are moved by", as opposed to "what influenced X or Y".

daavid, Friday, 26 November 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

http://autumnplease.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/i-voted.gif

wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Friday, 26 November 2010 19:41 (fifteen years ago)

voted for what i like most, fuck historical importance.

wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Friday, 26 November 2010 19:41 (fifteen years ago)

done! 100, unranked and it got pretty excruciating at the end...

Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Friday, 26 November 2010 20:10 (fifteen years ago)

Woot. I just rushed my vote somewhat, as I have to go do stuff all day long for a state election. Not sure which result I'm most anxious about...

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 26 November 2010 20:21 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/madhouse/dash2.gif

Gukbe, Friday, 26 November 2010 21:02 (fifteen years ago)

Hang in there dude.

seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 21:23 (fifteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V7lJdZi_T9A/Sn-y8I9JhSI/AAAAAAAAO0w/JQhSX8O1Ttw/s400/hang_in_there_kitty.jpg

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Friday, 26 November 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)

are we close to 80?

gospodin simmel, Friday, 26 November 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

75

seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

ye olde vote caste

caloma, Friday, 26 November 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)

ten minute bump

wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Friday, 26 November 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

wot? ware?

hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Friday, 26 November 2010 21:42 (fifteen years ago)

Whew. That was hard!

Obelisk Strategies (doo dah), Friday, 26 November 2010 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

this is stupid. this list is stupid. this board is stupid.

Gukbe, Friday, 26 November 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

There are a lot of musical tastes represented on this site so I am sure if everyone votes according to their taste, the finished list will still contain a huge variety of styles and genres, and probably contain most of the "important" tracks as well. Although with a typical ILM twist, naturally.

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 26 November 2010 22:40 (fifteen years ago)

this is stupid. this list is stupid. this board is stupid.

y u say this like it bad thing, huh? y?

hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Friday, 26 November 2010 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

lol just so frustrated i didn't mean it.

Down to 114. I say it's getting impossible but it's felt that way since it was about 230.

Gukbe, Friday, 26 November 2010 23:03 (fifteen years ago)

I went in w/a certain set of criteria and picked out exactly 99 songs. It was freaky deaky.

Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Friday, 26 November 2010 23:06 (fifteen years ago)

xp - Hey Gubke, if you've got to a point where you like every song about the same, maybe just start cutting randomly? Or maybe cut the songs you don't think anyone else will vote for?

seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 23:06 (fifteen years ago)

Still no clear idea about how this will finish...There are 50 tracks within one unweighted vote of making the top 125, and 100 tracks within one first place vote.

seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 23:09 (fifteen years ago)

Down to 100!

Now to rank them :/

Gukbe, Friday, 26 November 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

there will be a lot of ties?

gospodin simmel, Friday, 26 November 2010 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

No - there's only one tie in the current top 125, taking "number of votes" into account as well as points totals.

seandalai, Friday, 26 November 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

sounds great! I can't wait to see this monster

gospodin simmel, Friday, 26 November 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)

this driving me nuts

Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 26 November 2010 23:56 (fifteen years ago)

5 Hours! Still working on ranking at least some of them.

Gukbe, Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Dunnit. Last thing I cut: Cluster - Sowiesoso. That hurt :(

Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Saturday, 27 November 2010 00:44 (fifteen years ago)

Fuck me - that was so difficult. I mean, deciding which Stooges songs to leave out was difficult enough without even considering anything else... Went unweighted A-Z.

Kent Burt, Saturday, 27 November 2010 01:01 (fifteen years ago)

79 in with about 3.5 hrs to go!

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 01:38 (fifteen years ago)

shitty canon like the Beatles

― emil.y

lol emily, you crazy.

a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Saturday, 27 November 2010 02:20 (fifteen years ago)

hooookay, finally got my ballot in, with only hours remaining. it's a giant mess, of course. i'm not even working on the computer that has the list i spent hours fretting over last week. i just threw my ballot together tonight. excelsior!

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Saturday, 27 November 2010 02:29 (fifteen years ago)

Voted! and Weighted! Only took the better part of 6 hours (with breaks for food/some football/a walk to the shops/a bit of Starship Troopers).

Gukbe, Saturday, 27 November 2010 02:34 (fifteen years ago)

holla gna do this in the last 20 mins b4 closing AND IT WILL BE ORDERED

underrated aeroflot disasters i have wikisearched (acoleuthic), Saturday, 27 November 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)

I saved myself a fair degree of intensive deliberation by limiting myself, from the outset, to one song per artist. Doing so was its own interesting challenge b/c u are left in each case trying to weigh your personal preferences with which song choice would be the most appropriate 'representative'- moreso in a general thematic sense than an attempt to predict ilxor consensis. I still ended up w/ a clusterfuck in the end, tho, & had to axe 50+ songs, all of which I LOVE DEARLY. Yeah, this was a v tough exercise, but that will make it all the more interesting to watch the results roll in.

the 'Friends' experiment (Pillbox), Saturday, 27 November 2010 03:03 (fifteen years ago)

'consensus' goddam it

the 'Friends' experiment (Pillbox), Saturday, 27 November 2010 03:06 (fifteen years ago)

I had two tracks from a couple of artists. Generally down to me trying to whittle them down and just being plain unable and justified as different representations of the same band.

I deliberated on which Smiths track for ages and then scrapped them altogether. I think it worked out.

Gukbe, Saturday, 27 November 2010 03:10 (fifteen years ago)

Ha, that was what I ended up doing w/the Smiths too.

Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Saturday, 27 November 2010 03:13 (fifteen years ago)

in keeping w/ my criteria, 'there is a light..' was an easy choice for me, tho if "I Know it's Over" had been nominated, I would def had gone w/ the dark horse.

the 'Friends' experiment (Pillbox), Saturday, 27 November 2010 03:17 (fifteen years ago)

I have a bad feeling that the results of this poll will feel somewhat like the results of a pitchfork poll. And I expect the more obscure nominations to remain obscure (mostly on account of people not having listened to everything on the list - me included)... We'll see. I'm still looking forward to the results

On a sidenote, can we extend the poll deadline to Pacific time? I'm stuck in a car and I won't be home until around 1:30 am EST (I've already copied most of my choices to the memopad on my blackberry)

more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 27 November 2010 03:28 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I'll make the deadline soft for you. I presume seandalai has already gone to bed and won't be tabulating anything until morning over there.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 03:31 (fifteen years ago)

Trayce, you still haven't voted btw! (unless I missed seeing your ballot)

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 03:32 (fifteen years ago)

OK, i just sent in a ballot that i kind of impulsively splattered together in under and hour, and it probably turned out way better than if i'd just kept laboring over it for as long as i'd tried to. sorry for whining so much when i was frustrated about the idea of doing this!

some dude, Saturday, 27 November 2010 03:55 (fifteen years ago)

Ha, that was what I ended up doing w/the Smiths too.

Oh god, me too. Poor Smiths. :(

Lostandfound, Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:00 (fifteen years ago)

Woah! I just got sent an email by seandalai where he showed me the top 3, and #1 is now different than it's ever been and is only ahead of #2 by one point.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:03 (fifteen years ago)

The greater the frustration the better the reward?

All I know is that I basically went batshit insane during the process of whittling my list down, and although I haven't gone there in forever, my Catholic roots almost made me go to confession for leaving out some of the good shit I left out.

Lostandfound, Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:06 (fifteen years ago)

o_0, JF!

Lostandfound, Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:07 (fifteen years ago)

"Forgive me Beatles, for I have sinned."

Lostandfound, Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:08 (fifteen years ago)

lol

I only voted for one Beatles song, and it's one a lot of people hate.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:08 (fifteen years ago)

ok, I still think doing a whole century is an overbroad load of spank, but I voted anyway

Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:11 (fifteen years ago)

You're probably right, but the countdown will be fun.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:11 (fifteen years ago)

oh the countdown will be tons of fun. it was really the work to get there that i was apprehensive about.

some dude, Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:14 (fifteen years ago)

85 ballots right now with 45ish minutes to go (plus an extension for CaptainLorax's ballot). The Alt '70s album poll had 88 ballots. Can we better it?

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)

just did mine, frontin' upthread haha

underrated aeroflot disasters i have wikisearched (acoleuthic), Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:16 (fifteen years ago)

30 MINUTES

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:30 (fifteen years ago)

15 MINUTES

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 04:46 (fifteen years ago)

FIN!

(except for CaptainLorax, who requested an extension prior to closing...hurry up!)

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 05:00 (fifteen years ago)

Ended up with 87 ballots (and presumably an 88th), which is great!

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 05:01 (fifteen years ago)

did trayce submit her ballot???? I want to make sure goth got its fair shake in this poll

mormon's marmots (crüt), Saturday, 27 November 2010 05:12 (fifteen years ago)

esp since I didn't vote for Bauhaus

mormon's marmots (crüt), Saturday, 27 November 2010 05:13 (fifteen years ago)

also I just realized I left Dr. Dre off my ballot even though he was totally supposed to be on there. Fuck!!!

mormon's marmots (crüt), Saturday, 27 November 2010 05:15 (fifteen years ago)

No Trayce. :(

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 05:24 (fifteen years ago)

Lorax, where you at?

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 07:14 (fifteen years ago)

I can create a sock and submit a totally different ballot if you want to hit 88!

Gukbe, Saturday, 27 November 2010 07:25 (fifteen years ago)

Ha! I'd prefer you didn't.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 07:36 (fifteen years ago)

Lorax, I'm going to have to cut you off soon...like, by 4am EST.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 08:06 (fifteen years ago)

Deduct 10% off his votes for being a day late.

Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Saturday, 27 November 2010 08:07 (fifteen years ago)

haha

mormon's marmots (crüt), Saturday, 27 November 2010 08:10 (fifteen years ago)

hey curtis, we did a terrible job of nomming the chameleons here

Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Saturday, 27 November 2010 08:34 (fifteen years ago)

I need my soft-deadline to extend 1 more hour :/

more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 27 November 2010 08:55 (fifteen years ago)

I have been wasting time copying/pasting songs into youtube to see if I know them

more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 27 November 2010 08:56 (fifteen years ago)

I thought you had your list pretty much ready to go, though!

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 09:01 (fifteen years ago)

I mean, since you're already knee-deep in it, we'll accept it. But not cool.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 09:04 (fifteen years ago)

thanks

more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 27 November 2010 09:07 (fifteen years ago)

^should be demoted to Lieutenant (at the very least!) for such gross conduct unbecoming a commissioned officer, imo.

hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Saturday, 27 November 2010 10:06 (fifteen years ago)

Yo Lorax, hurry up!

seandalai, Saturday, 27 November 2010 10:27 (fifteen years ago)

done

more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 27 November 2010 10:27 (fifteen years ago)

You only voted for 99 tracks - do you want me to add another one?

seandalai, Saturday, 27 November 2010 10:30 (fifteen years ago)

okay, King Crimson - Starless

sorry yall I took so long. I would of been more on top of this if I was in town the last few days

more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 27 November 2010 10:34 (fifteen years ago)

My work here is done. Now we must wait.

While we wait, some numbers:

88 ballots: 17 weighted, 37 unweighted, 34 mixed
1901 tracks received points
The most votes for one track is 32
The most first-place votes for one track is 2
Votes for Eddie Murphy - Boogie in your Butt: 0

seandalai, Saturday, 27 November 2010 10:47 (fifteen years ago)

we should make another thread where we try to guess what track got 32 votes (everyone gets only 1 guess)

more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 27 November 2010 11:00 (fifteen years ago)

Let's just use this one:

The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

Ismael Klata, Saturday, 27 November 2010 11:06 (fifteen years ago)

Eddie Murphy - Boogie in your Butt: 0

^^^wuz robbed. again!

xp

awesome, seandalai! can't wait to see the results of this poor, misshapen beast you guys coaxed into being.

hipity-hopity muzik ftw! (Ioannis), Saturday, 27 November 2010 11:09 (fifteen years ago)

Whoops, sorry I missed this!

Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 27 November 2010 11:21 (fifteen years ago)

I'm going to enjoy going back and listening to all the songs I've never heard before. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to do that before I voted (the number of new songs I listened to was < 10)

One thing I noticed was that the choices for Led Zeppelin were severely lacking

more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 27 November 2010 11:23 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry I missed this too!

If I'd seen it two hours ago I would have hastily given 10100 points to Stand On The Word and regretted nothing

i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Saturday, 27 November 2010 11:40 (fifteen years ago)

Well, I've been making custom images for the countdown kind of like what was used in the movie poll earlier this year, but it took about 2 hours just to get the first 10 of them looking right. I think I'm just going to skip that and post youtubes.

Sad too, because they look nice, but I just don't have the time to make 125 of them.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 15:56 (fifteen years ago)

Maybe you could do it for the top 20? Sounds great, shame to give it up.

gospodin simmel, Saturday, 27 November 2010 15:59 (fifteen years ago)

Go with whatever you can. Do post youtubes though.

Ismael Klata, Saturday, 27 November 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

When will the countdown start?

Tuomas, Saturday, 27 November 2010 17:05 (fifteen years ago)

Do it now do it now do it now. While I'm still excited, before the crushing disappointment of ilx having voted for a bunch of tedious shit.

emil.y, Saturday, 27 November 2010 17:07 (fifteen years ago)

haha

mormon's marmots (crüt), Saturday, 27 November 2010 17:12 (fifteen years ago)

One thing I noticed was that the choices for Led Zeppelin were severely lacking

noticed this & i am not even a huge fan

i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Saturday, 27 November 2010 17:16 (fifteen years ago)

Maybe you could do it for the top 20? Sounds great, shame to give it up.

Great idea! I'll do that instead.

When will the countdown start?

Monday.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:13 (fifteen years ago)

think u should post 150-101 on monday, then 25 per day for the next four days

i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:19 (fifteen years ago)

I was just going to do 125 total, with 25 per day.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)

hey johnny, how would you feel about bumping that number up to 200? I mean, let's not get lazy now ;)

the 'Friends' experiment (Pillbox), Saturday, 27 November 2010 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

do the top 1,000, with 200 per day

my beautiful deej twisted fantasy (symsymsym), Saturday, 27 November 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

20 per hour

my beautiful deej twisted fantasy (symsymsym), Saturday, 27 November 2010 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

Maybe seandalai can write a program to autopost ALL the results 20 per hour, 24 hours a day, until we get down to #1.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 22:21 (fifteen years ago)

I'll write a program to hypnotize seandalai to do this

more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 27 November 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

If I'd seen it two hours ago I would have hastily given 10100 points to Stand On The Word and regretted nothing

― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Saturday, November 27, 2010 4:40 AM (10 hours ago)

I will now remember that sic is #1 coolest person.

Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Saturday, 27 November 2010 22:24 (fifteen years ago)

hey Johnny Fever - did my last minute ballot change the #1 spot?

more like "Age of Nadz" (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 27 November 2010 22:33 (fifteen years ago)

seandalai would know. I don't.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 November 2010 23:10 (fifteen years ago)

I know.

seandalai, Sunday, 28 November 2010 01:06 (fifteen years ago)

Ok, I'll disclose: it didn't change the top spot.

There are some great tracks that fell just outside the top 125, but I guess it's best to stick with the original plan.

seandalai, Sunday, 28 November 2010 01:11 (fifteen years ago)

you can probably reveal 200-125 afterwards or some shit.

charlie h, Sunday, 28 November 2010 01:15 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, people are going to be sick about what fell behind #125. I was.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 28 November 2010 01:15 (fifteen years ago)

no yakety sax, no cred

the 'Friends' experiment (Pillbox), Sunday, 28 November 2010 01:17 (fifteen years ago)

I really hope the Shaggs make it into the top 125.

skip, Sunday, 28 November 2010 03:16 (fifteen years ago)

I'll go ahead an spoil the fact that Edwin Starr's "War" didn't make it, and I am pissed at you people.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 28 November 2010 03:40 (fifteen years ago)

good god y'all

iatee, Sunday, 28 November 2010 03:42 (fifteen years ago)

what are polls good for?

iatee, Sunday, 28 November 2010 03:42 (fifteen years ago)

say it again.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 28 November 2010 03:59 (fifteen years ago)

lmao

teledyldonix, Sunday, 28 November 2010 04:25 (fifteen years ago)

still think you should reveal 150-101 the first day

i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Sunday, 28 November 2010 04:52 (fifteen years ago)

I can do that, but I don't want anyone complaining about fast I'm posting them. If I wait 15 or 20 mins between them (as is usual), I'll be on here all damn day.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 28 November 2010 05:01 (fifteen years ago)

I'd prefer if it was a top 100 list.

daavid, Sunday, 28 November 2010 06:35 (fifteen years ago)

wouldn't revealing 150-101 on the first day (before the top 100) spoil the fun a bit?

gospodin simmel, Sunday, 28 November 2010 13:43 (fifteen years ago)

Well, revealing 100-51 kind of spoils the top 50 a bit. JF said from the beginning he was going to break with boring ILM convention and do a top 125. Not sure about 150 though.

seandalai, Sunday, 28 November 2010 13:49 (fifteen years ago)

do a warm-up thread

i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Sunday, 28 November 2010 14:07 (fifteen years ago)

Counting up from 1-1,600 would solve all of these issues

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 28 November 2010 14:19 (fifteen years ago)

^ Yes. Do 1-1,000 on Monday, 1,000-1,500 on Tuesday, and then the remainder can have one day each until March.

Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 28 November 2010 14:40 (fifteen years ago)

I'm down with this

gospodin simmel, Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:55 (fifteen years ago)

How about a thread of just the ones that got no votes?

john. a resident of chicago., Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:08 (fifteen years ago)

top 100 in completely random order

22, 63, 5, 48, 19, 84...

i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Sunday, 28 November 2010 18:35 (fifteen years ago)

JF said from the beginning he was going to break with boring ILM convention and do a top 125.

Yeah, I was never really going to NOT do a top 125. I was just playing along. imo, 125-102 are some of the most interesting results in the entire poll.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 28 November 2010 21:59 (fifteen years ago)

that's a damning slight on whatever's #101

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 28 November 2010 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

101 = Johnny Hates Jazz 'Shattered Dreams'

Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 28 November 2010 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

Not really, because there is no 101 (99 is a three-way tie).

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 28 November 2010 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

How about a thread of just the ones that got no votes?

You mean, the ones who nominated their favourite tracs and forgot to vote in the actual poll? :)

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)

i nommed, i voted, i missed out some of my noms

wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 28 November 2010 23:22 (fifteen years ago)

results thread: ILM POLLS THE 20TH CENTURY'S BEST TRACKS ››› YOUR RESULTS THREAD ‹‹‹

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Monday, 29 November 2010 05:03 (fifteen years ago)


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