1001 Song You Must Hear Before You Die - 1975

tough year, too many i can't deny: jive talkin', fight the power, that's the way, bohemian (fucking) rhapsody, gloria, walk this way. in the end so hard to call between queen and the isley brothers. going with fight the power, not sure why

* never heard and boggle at several of these, esp the anthemic & romantic european pop stuff. and that mystere des voix track! good news to me: boulder to birmingham, born to be with you and eugenio finardi (?) - musica ribelle, sucker for the uplift

great jpg

also:

abba - SOS
ac/dc - it's a long way to the top
america - sister golden hair
foghat - slow ride
hawkwind - motorhead
fleetwood mac - rhiannon
funkadelic - get off your ass and jam
kiss - i wanna rock & roll all night
harold melvin & the bluenotes - don't leave me this way
ohio players - love rollercoaster
parliament - give up the funk
rainbow - man on the silver mountain
jonathan richman - roadrunner
donna summer - love to love you baby
thin lizzy - wild one
gary wright - dream weaver

The most glaring omission, the way I see it, is "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc. Forget about all those funk tracks (there are way too many of them and they have had to make a selection), but "I'm Not In Love" is unique and special and there is nothing else quite like it.

Pink Floyd are of course represented with the wrong track, but then, the authors hate long prog tracks with the same passion as Spotify does, so no wonder there was no room for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" here.

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 08:41 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The authors hate you to have access to long tracks because you haven't paid enough?

Jesus blood saved somebody's sins but failed mine...

(Blimey, some bootmixes are tough!)

The authors hate you to have access to long tracks because you haven't paid enough?

Well... Maybe not in exactly the same way. Btw. I guess there is UMG who hate the combination of Spotify and long tracks rather than Spotify alone. :)

"I'm Not In Love" should've walked this, true.

Doubting between Patti Smith and Gavin Bryars here

this poll made me discover "Jesus' Blood". 1001 songs polls REDEEMED

also:

abba - SOS
ac/dc - it's a long way to the top
america - sister golden hair
foghat - slow ride
hawkwind - motorhead
fleetwood mac - rhiannon
funkadelic - get off your ass and jam
kiss - i wanna rock & roll all night
harold melvin & the bluenotes - don't leave me this way
ohio players - love rollercoaster
parliament - give up the funk
rainbow - man on the silver mountain
jonathan richman - roadrunner
donna summer - love to love you baby
thin lizzy - wild one
gary wright - dream weaver

― Looking for that #Swagu? (contenderizer)

Many of this are actually 1976, not 1975.

There's a pic of Barry Gray (of TV ad music fame) in Mojo, and he looked exactly like the face I imagined was singing "Jesus Blood" ...

The "classics" here all leave me fairly cold. Some are good songs, but none really excite me, which left me to pick between Willie Nelson, Alice Cooper, and Gavin Bryars. I finally decided on Gavin Bryars because it's a wholly unique work, and there's lots of great rock and country ballads. Pretty specious reasoning but you gotta go with something.

Born To Run

One song that won't get many votes is Dion Born To Be With You. It's just not that well-known. But it's such a great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es02qEiV3ZE

tangled up in blue is sick nasty

Tangled Up in Blue

Marcus Garvey

There are a couple great songs here but I'm surprised Born 2 Run isn't getting more love. To me it is without a doubt one of the greatest rock songs ever. I sort of assumed that was a given.

Neu!: Leb'Wohl

this is maybe my least favourite track on the greatest rock lp

I suspect Born To Run will get the lurker vote. I voted for it. It's too absurdly perfect not to.

xp I voted for Dion for exactly that reason.

Many of this are actually 1976, not 1975.

― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Wednesday, July 6, 2011 5:16 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

maybe so, but i ran em through wikipedia & discogs, and all allegedly came out in 75, either as singles or on albums. fwiw, several were december 75 releases: AC/DC, foghat, parliament, donna summer.

"roadrunner" is the real oddball, in that it was first recorded in 72 but wasn't released until 75, on the beserkley chartbusters comp. different versions appeared on the 76 modern lovers album and the 77 "roadrunner" single.

best song not on this list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p02-77XI1Gs

Only Women Bleed is an absolutely amazing song, thats my vote, second place to those bulgarian ladies

Burning Spear easy.

There are a couple great songs here but I'm surprised Born 2 Run isn't getting more love.

Is this Prince's version?

I thought we didn't talk about lurkers anymore. I voted for Born "2" Run too

Dion track is the real underrated classic here - a huge chunk of the rest of these are pretty well known greatest hits fodder

I voted for Born "2" Run too

it's an amazing song, lots of fun to sing along w, but it isn't a personal favorite, not sure why. prefer later & less anthemic bruce, esp "atlantic city" and "i'm on fire". well, and "blinded by the light", though that's hardly less anything...

Dion track is the real underrated classic here - a huge chunk of the rest of these are pretty well known greatest hits fodder

yeah, though that mystére de voix bulgares track came as an equally pleasant surprise. have heard later (80s era) LMDVB tracks that didn't move me anywhere near so much.

who produced the dion track? sounds like psychedelic country by way of brian eno. and phil spector. like it, but don't know that it justifies the running time.

Is this Prince's version?

― Number None, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 3:46 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

The Dion album was produced by Spector

whole album is pretty amazing, one of my favorite discoveries of recent years

I don't think it quite deserves "undiscovered masterpiece" status but it's pretty good yeah.

That Dion album was pretty strong, yeah. It may be argued that the Spector sound was a bit dated by 1975, but he brought out the best in Dion in terms of pop songwriting.

Gotta go with Tangled, though I would have voted for "Cortez the Killer" had it been on the list.

Going with my AM Radio memories: the Bee Gees and KC are the best AM songs here. Going Bee Gees.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

if this list had the song that played over the opening credits of Rocky Horror...I wd still vote Burning Spear

but I have wanted to cover the Rocky Horror song

(^aka "Science Fiction-Double Feature")

Dana Andrews said prunes
gave him the runes
and passing them used lots of skill

^ yeah, one of my very favorite songs. my early teenage devotion to the RHPS soundtrack gave my stepdad the fantods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MHNvOVl8Y

Wow! Look at this list! Dylan, Springsteen, Patti Smith, the Bee Gees, Pink Floyd. So what record is the best? The award goes to: Emmylou Harris for "Boulder to Birmingham."

Even Beavis and Butthead liked Jive Talkin.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ha Not unlikely, but I figured Tangled would have done better

i knew it was gonna be Springsteen vs. Dylan; probably should've known that Born to Run would win