Sasha Frere Jones Perfect Recordings Volume 2 - Poll

Making Plans for Night - b-side club mix?

whoops! (Should be "Nigel", obv)

Numbers on the Boards way out of place on this list.

SFJ kinda deflating the concept of perfect songs by just including whatever songs pop into his head.

The Nas song he chose to put on one of these lists was "Made You Look". The song w/ the hook:

"They shootin! Ha Made You Look! Youre a slave to a page in my rhyme book! Getting big money playboy your times up, where the gangstas at, where the dimes at"

If Nas isn't coming with lyrics theres no point listening to Nas.

well he's no travis scott

I don't like this list nearly as much as the first one..."Good Times Bad Times."

"kerosene" probably? or "at last i am free"

William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got

truly is a perfect song

or yeah that one

wtf is "tennis court" doing here

ikr, horrible song. also that substandard tove lo remix...

such perfect, so song

they're not songs, they're recordings >:(

Johhny Fever OTM. This does really seem like a random list of basically good songs. What's the point again? Does he have a list of Top 10 Unhappy Young Foster Children For Your Amusement?

he has a list of Top 10 Unhappy Foster the People songs

I had no idea my music taste was aligned so much with his. These two playlists are pretty much comprised of songs I also have on my favorite songs of all time playlist

What's the point again?

Exactly. Sasha doesn't want to research and write about old music he hasn't listened to before, or much new music either

cool list sfj

It's Sly even though it's not much fun. But fun isn't the point when there's a riot going on. Heavy heavy stuff

I like this as a personal canon. Which has repercussions as the personal canon of the Critic For The New Yorker, but I like that he is using his vaunted position to like big up bad brains or whatever. (Nb I have never knowingly heard a bad brains song in my life.)

Like I think that is a big part of what is going here. He is trying to be like ok I have the authority of the critic of the New Yorker and I want to state that Rob base and ez rocks it takes two is the best song of 1976 to 1991 or whatever

#spinmagazine #nowhiney

hate to be that guy, but y'know, maybe "be thankful for what you got" would be a perfect song if the dude had GOTTEN AROUND TO WRITING A SECOND VERSE.

seriously though, i love these songs, no hate from me

Can't imagine what value a second verse would've added to a song that's already got diamonds in the back, a sun-roof top, and a gangsta lean.

i can't imagine what value a second part would've added to "in xanadu did kubla khan a stately pleasure-dome decree", either, but that doesn't mean i wouldn't still like to read it. :)

i have long been deeply undecided between the short version and the long version of 'be thankful'

you know what the extra time adds to the diamonds, leaning, etc.

VIBRAPHONE

minutes and minutes of vibraphone

one of these is genuinely perfect though, and it's Chic.

Chic would be a shoe in on this poll if Robert Wyatt hadn't recorded an even more perfect version.

i really like tons of songs on this one

This is like someone's idea of a Diverse Mixtape.

i have long been deeply undecided between the short version and the long version of 'be thankful'

After listening to the Tom Moulton rework, I'm not conflicted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzbDhE5_YbM

Voted The Knife - Tom Tom Club a close second.

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persuasive long version tbh

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awooooo oooo

Thanking you, 6 other voters.

prob woulda gone jolene

or jeez, maybe buggin out or big payback; this is not a fair choice here

Would have voted Sponji Reggae. Lyrically terrible, but a top 10 Sly & Robbie groove.