Who should Uncut cover next in their "40 Greatest Songs" series?

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You know what I'm talking about. Those issues that have a lavish article on a legendary Rock institution showcasing a list of the artists "40 Greatest" songs as voted on by an illustrious panel of musicians, producers, critics, actors, and film-makers. The packege is then topped-off with not one but two discs of both new and old interpretations of the honoree's songs by a wide cast of performers. So far, they've done The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and most recently, Bruce Springsteen.

I think that should cover Neil Young next. What do you think?

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Anal Cunt

― Adam A. (Keiko), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Need you really ask?

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The Sisters of Mercy

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 2 May 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Half Japanese

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, Alex, that's a really horrible logo

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Would be interesting to see them doing a M/A/R/R/S special, considering M/A/R/R/S only made 2 songs in total. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

More seriously: How about Stevie Wonder or Depeche Mode?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck, can we please find a way to snuff out the ceaseless deification of Stevie Wonder? Hasn't sacharine piffle of his later excrement cancelled out the merits of his vintage work?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I just bought Uncut for the first time ever the other day (only for the Psychedelic CD - every home should have a copy of "Rainbow Chaser" but what are the Pink Fairies doing on it?!!??) and what a pile of shite it is. Look at the people who write for it: Max Bell, Ian Macdonald, Gavin Martin - they must all be in their 50s by now and STILL writing about pop groups. Obviously old music journalists never die they just join the staff at Uncut, they even have Brian Case there, who's in his 60s, but at least he's a good writer.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Parliament-Funkadelic or Public Enemy.

― Franklin Ambrose (Franklin Ambrose), Sunday, 4 May 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The Homosexuals

― Jens (brighter), Sunday, 4 May 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, Keith, I write for Uncut...any more of this and I will have to compose a stiff reply to your D Bailey letter in this month's Wire ahem.

(then again you're not far wrong about the rest of 'em)

― Marcello Carlin, Sunday, 4 May 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

well I haven't looked at Uncut for at least a year or two. the only good thing abt it is that it pays marcello.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 4 May 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

amen to that! ;-)

― Marcello Carlin, Sunday, 4 May 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

What's it like working in a old people's home Marcello?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 4 May 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

You talking about the day job or Uncut? Could apply to both. But then I have progressively less tolerance for "young" people.

btw:

Dear Editor,
Your correspondent Keith Coyne was too kind to Derek Bailey by half. Anyone in possession of half a brain cell knows that a music hall performer like Bailey has no business trying to get by on a jazz reputation. And that goes for all the other conmen like Nurse With Wound, Matthew Herbert, Eugene Chadbourne and the rest of the "stop-me-if-you-hear-a-tune" brigade. Come on Wire, it's time to get back to your jazz roots. More writing about Jamiroquai, Cassandra Wilson, Terence Blanchard, Diana Krall, Jamie Cullum and Simply Red, please. Who knows - you might get some of your readership back.

Yours,
D Lambert (Ms), London

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 5 May 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Kind of a misreading of my letter, but what the hell, it's all good fun ain't it?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 5 May 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Jandek
Black Sabbath (don't know if there are 40 great Sabbath songs though.)
Lou Reed (incl. VU, of course)

Neil Young is also a great suggestion, I say.

― Ian Johnson, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Elvis Presley.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smiths

― russ t, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Guided by Voices

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't care much for "greatest" lists in magazines, because they are always so bloody boring, so I'd say nobody

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

also, DANIEL FUCKING JOHNSTON

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Fleetwood Mac

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

FUCKING NURSE WITH WOUND, THEN, IF YOU BLOODY INSIST!!!!1 OR COIL, CHANCE WOULD BE A FINE THING!!!1!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Galaxie 500 (that'd be every song they released, then)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince. Just his unreleased stuff.

― Erick H (Erick H), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck, can we please find a way to snuff out the ceaseless deification of Stevie Wonder? Hasn't sacharine piffle of his later excrement cancelled out the merits of his vintage work?

What "saccharine piffle" are you talking about? I haven't heard anything really bad from the later work. "I Just Called to Say I Love You", to give an obvious example, is a brilliant song. And the vintage stuff is deathless - you might as well say that the Stones classic period has been cancelled out by their indefatigable hackwork in recent years.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Curtis OTM (re Daniel Johnston)

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 7 May 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Just Called to Say I Love You", to give an obvious example, is a brilliant song.

If you think that particularly rancid dollop of smegma is "a brilliant song," then you and I have precious little else to discuss, I suppose.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Wu-Tang Clan

― Nick H, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex in NYC, I think this whole idea that an artist's late output can cancel out the value of their earlier work is nonsense.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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