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All this RS list contoversy got me thinking about classic songs (or songs I've understood are considered classics) that I've never actually heard in my life.

Here's some I thought of:
Grateful Dead: Dark Star
Massive Attack: Unfinished Symphathy
Led Zeppelin: Hats off to Roy Harper (okay I'm stretching here but it's the ONLY zep song I've never heard)
John Coltrane - Giant Steps

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

..I meant to ask: What classic songs have you not heard?

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

How could you have never heard "Hats off to Roy Harper" but heard, i dunno, "Out on the Tiles"?

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never heard 96 Tears for some reason - it just seems to have eluded me on my journey through life. Same goes for A Love Supreme.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald.

― maura (maura), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, yep I haven't heard out on the tiles either (I think that's the only two then)....I have every album except III and then the 4-CD box set from 90....I just went on AMG and did the math and those should be it.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

(haha that should be a rock mensa IQ question: If Matt owns the Led Zep 4-CD box set and has every album except III, what songs hasn't he heard?)

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

never heard a single pink floyd song...it's really odd.

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never (knowingly) heard a solitary note by Sleater-Kinney.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Sad to say, I just heard "Free Your Mind...and Your Ass Will Follow" for the first time today.

Not bad.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I've heard ANY songs by any nu-metal band of your choice. Maybe I'd love the stuff!

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 24 November 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

How can you not have heard any nu-metal?? You have not really lived. There will prob. be a good late-nite sold on tv comp someday that will have all the good stuff, though.

also, a few threads down reminds me that I've never heard O Superman by Laurie Anderson

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Any Velvet Underground song

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Any Velvet Underground song

How can you claim to give a damn about music and not have heard the Velvet Underground? That's sickening.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

What if you claim to give a damn about music, have heard them, and don't like them?

("The Gift" excluded, of course.)

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I never said you had to like them, but considering what was spawned in their sizable wake, they're a particularly significant milestone that one should really avail themselves to.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

No argument.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hats off to Roy Harper" is a decent blues workout, but I dunno about labelling it a "classic"... "Out on the tiles" on the other hand rocks...

― steve, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

wow i wasn't gonna embarrass myself, but jesus, guys...Coltrane?? VU??

here's some stuff I have heard of but never heard:
"McCarthur Park"
"Allentown"
and
"99 Lines about 88 Women" or whatever the fuck its called

― roger adultery, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

My ignorance of jazz is not something I'm proud of. I have a 2 disc Essential Miles Davis, a David S Ware's Go See the World, and Ornette Coleman Live at the Golden Circle and that's it. I figure I'm going to save jazz for when I'm an old codger and stop liking new music.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Maggot Brain" (guess what's going on the ol Xmas list)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I hadn't heard "Free Bird" until a few months ago.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Massive Attack: Unfinished Symphathy

How could you have missed that? Tis a classic!

I figure I'm going to save jazz for when I'm an old codger and stop liking new music.

Philistine!;> Jazz is for we young'uns too.

So far, I'm not embarrassed by what I've missed

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Where have you people been all your life? Under a rock?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The highest charting song (single) on the Acclaimed Music site that I have never heard is number 111, "People Get Ready" by the Impressions.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

This thred is ded.

― Patrick Kinghorn, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by Nick Drake. Everybody tells me I'd like him and I keep meaning to buy something...

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

before the post abou t the velvet undregrtound I hadn't heard aany of this shit.... i really like vu! i really like funkadelic!@ i reallyu like nick drake!!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Strange Fruit, Dark Star, the whole of Dark Side of the Moon

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

One that springs to mind is "Hold On I'm Comin'" by Sam And Dave. I'm sure I'd like it too.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That Acclaimed Music site is useful, inasmuch as I'd otherwise have no idea what "classic" songs were supposed to be, so thank you Geir. Out of the Top 50 I have never knowingly heard:

19 The Four Tops - Reach Out (I'll Be There)

26 The Doors - The Crystal Ship

32 Ray Charles - What'd I Say
1959

35 Stevie Wonder - Superstition

37 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary/Born on the Bayou

How the fuck did that last one get in there? Wait, I've never heard it so I wouldn't know.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Looking at that acclaimed music site the top one I haven't knowingly heard (i.e. can't remember and don't own) is Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On".

Oh I've not knowingly heard The Crystal Ship either but I have heard Light My Fire.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

more from acclaimed music

Highest 'Rated' 60s track I've not heard - Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs, "Wooly Bully"

70s track - James Taylor, "Fire And Rain"

80s track - AC/DC, "Back In Black" (except I'm sure I'd know it if I heard it having been exposed to lots of their stuff, so the real answer is Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'")

90s track - Santana feat Rob Thomas, "Smooth"

00s track - Squarepusher, "My Red Hot Car"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Tico, not hearing "Smooth" does not rate as one of life's major tragedies

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The most embarrassing thing is when you HAVE heard the song and just didn't know the title, and even worse, told everybody you thought it was 'overrated, nothing special', and then when you finally match the title to the piece it turns out to be something you really liked all along! This happened to me with "Renegade Snares"

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Whaaat? Check out its credentials!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"Unfinished Sympathy" you might have actually heared, and known, if they'd called it "Really hurt me baby" or "Heyyyyy hey hey hey."

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

But with renegade snares you can always claim you'd heard a remix. Dance culture has abolished shame!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

What!? "I heard a remix once" = the d.c. equiv to "y'know, that track...um...guitars, big chorus...sounds like the Beatles?"!

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe anyone could have really not heard "Unfinished Sympathy". If you're a sentient being who occasionally listens to the radio or just overhears other people's radios, or ever goes to a clothes shop, or has ever been to a party/dinner party, or has ever watched MTV/VH1 it's just impossible you didn't hear it in the 90s. I don't particularly like the band, have no records by them, and yet I must have heard that song dozens of times.

That said, I don't think I've heard Nick Drake.

― Jonathan Z., Tuesday, 25 November 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Looking at that acclaimed music site the top one I haven't knowingly heard (i.e. can't remember and don't own) is Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On".

You haven't heard the *song* ever or you just haven't ever heard Jerry Lee Lewis's version? Cuz it's on Sister Lovers... though Jerry Lee's version is much better than Alex Chilton's.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Bands I've never heard: Velvet Underground, Parliament, Sly & the Family Stone, Spiritualized, John Coltrane's sixties bands (except for one song on a compilation), The Grateful Dead, Yes, Neil Young (I've only heard cover versions of "Blowin' in the Wind").

Admittedly I've never listened to rock, but Parliament and John Coltrane are sore spots because I love jazz and funk.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, as music in a rock context goes you might like Sister Ray by the Velvet Underground, Tuomas. And *possibly* the first, very low-key and ambient, Spiritualized album, although I'm less confident with this one.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

things listed here that i HAVE heard: unfinished sympathy, giant steps, 96 tears, the velvet underground, nu-metal, nick drake, santana w. rob thomas, my red hot car, sly & family stone, spiritualized. the rest i haven't.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, pink floyd, sleater kinney and 'o superman', i've heard those too. i shouldn't have done this reverse-style.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't believe Tico hasn't heard 'Wooly Bully' - mind you i only heard it when i was a kid due to it being used as part of an intro to an episode of Moonlighting once

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm not sure i've heard 'The Immigrant Song' because I cannot hear it in my head, I probably have though

i went years without hearing 'Mull Of Kintyre' - but it got me in the end

i don't think i've heard 'A Day In The Life' by The Beatles

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, it goes like this:

"A day in the life look at me and my wife
ert ert ert
Look at the sun and the moon everyone
rak rak rak"

Hope this helps...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread really depresses me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

as if you needed this thread to do that, chortle

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 38 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I've never liked rock. I've never heard Velvet Underground, yet I consider myself a huge music buff. There's a huge world outside rock, and it's a bit presumptuous to presume that a thread about "classic songs" is automatically a thread about classic rock songs. Each genre has it's classics.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never knowingly heard killing joke, john coltrane, "freebird," gram parsons, robyn hitchcock, lloyd cole, orange juice, cat power, ornette coleman, solo alex chilton, sun ra, the wedding present, tim buckley, stereolab, husker du, nick cave, throwing muses, butthole surfers, lucinda williams, or (one song on a compilation aside for each) the grateful dead or al green.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I live in Ohio, USA.

"Smooth" was a strictly American phenomenon? I didn't know that. (unless of course you were making a joke which you most certainly were)

Darn it, why are there so many friggin' bands that are REALLY REALLY popular everywhere except the U.S., but there's very very few REALLY REALLY-popular-in-the-US,-obscure-everywhere-else kinda deals (off the top of my head the only ones I can think of are Kiss (who SUCK!!) and the Dave Matthews Band (who DON'T!!)). Rant over thankyougoodbye.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

'Smooth' was a big hit in the UK too - I heard it here and there, tho i SAW it more - as in the video - on fuckwit MTV

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

stuff I never listened to and I guess I should:

Neu!
Brainiac
Spacemen 3
John Coltrane
Leo Kottke
et al.

Stuff I never listened to (properly) and I don't give a fuck:

Kiss
Elvis
most classical
most jazz w/ vocals

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh JP. No Neu! and Spacemen 3, you really must listen in! If you've trusted me this far (you poor soul). I like what Coltrane I know and have, which isn't all that much but still.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

VU OK but 'rock'?

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, Ned, you've been a trustful musical advisor... Spacemen 3 and Neu! have been on my buying lists for ages, but I just can't seem to get it anywhere (cheap, at least... ;)

Well, I could always download...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

JP - a good place to start with classical is "Fractured Mirror", from the Ace Frehley solo album

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"McArthur Park" seconded! Also, absolutely *tons* of Dylan, Stones and Beach Boys stuff. I'll do it all one day I'm sure.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave: lol.

Is it a case of synergy (result better than the sum of its parts)?

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never heard Scott Walker (but I guess that's not so unusual).

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

from the acclaimed list:

cliff richard - "schoolboy crush"
grateful dead - "dark star"
dexy's midnight runners - "geno"
johnnie ray - "cry"
thunderclap newman - "something in the air"
spiller - "groovejet"
heaven 17 - "(we don't need this) fascist groove thang"
martha and the muffins - "echo beach"
the libertines - "what a waster"
manic street preachers - "if you tolerate this your childern will be next buy me taco"
blur - "for tomorrow"
the vines - "get free"
manic street preachers - "motorcycle emptiness"
dick dale - "let's go tripping"
future sound of london - "papua new guinea"
mcalmont & butler - "yes"
billy bragg - "sexuality"
azzido da bass - "dooms night"
teenage fanclub - "ain't that enough"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

er...THE FUCKING LIBERTINES? in which mad universe are they "acclaimed"?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"england"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i am very interested in hearing:

johnnie ray - "cry"
thunderclap newman - "something in the air"
spiller - "groovejet"
heaven 17 - "(we don't need this) fascist groove thang"
martha and the muffins - "echo beach"
dick dale - "let's go tripping"
azzido da bass - "dooms night"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

and fukkit - grateful dead - "dark star"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"McArthur Park" seconded!

You'd probably recognise it if you heard it, you might have heard Donna Summer's version. It's a gloriously ludicrous song...

Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

thunderclap newman - "something in the air"

That's a fucking wonderful song that is! Also check out Matthews Southern Comfort's version of 'Woodstock'.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I will!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone on here actually heard Dark Star....I have an aversion to jam band music, but then sometimes I suspect the Dead might have these big epic groovy prog moments that I might like (although I have no proof that they actually do)....What Grateful Dead should I check out?

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dunno about the American MTV, but MTV Europe has shown the "Unfinished Sympathy" video a lot. It is considered a groundbreaking music video in that it was all filmed in one take."

Is that really the reason? I decided to download it two or three years ago, after seeing it mentioned so often and getting praised by all these musicians, I think Radiohead was one of them. So I finally watched it, and at the end I couldn't help but think "um, so how is this groundbreaking?" I had never heard the song until probably 1999.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The version of Dark Star on 'Live Dead' ('69) is classic, and epic and groovy and jazzy and astonishing. Check it out without delay.

― Pete S, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The closest I've come (that I can think of) was my aversion to Minor Threat. I heard them for the first time, a few weeks ago. After admitting this to a friend, he put their cover of 12XU on a mix-tape for me (it's rather good!)

Even if you don't like The Grateful Dead, I highly recommend the widely-available bootleg recording of Jerry Garcia solo at Oregon(?) State prison. It's beautiful.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Seeing/hearing something 9-10 years after it came out and not finding it revolutionary because it has been imitated to death in the intervening time period: C/D?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

alright, I've got to hear Unfinished Sympathy asap - so controversial!

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

occasionally my roommate professes to have never heard some ridiculously well-known song, like, say "Everybody Wants To Rule The World", and just shrugs "I didn't listen to much music in the 80's". i think he's full of shit.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i had never heard any outkast until ILM made such a stink about Hey Ya and i finally caved in a month ago. i feel like such a shithead for missing out.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

o man... If I start talkin' about the music I discovered because of ILM, I'll never shut up...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

That always pisses me off....It's like that Onion article someone posted on another thread about the guy that brags about not owning a television....

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Blount:
dick dale - "let's go tripping"

but you have heard "miserlou" which is a far better song and much more [insert meta rock canon word like "relevant", "important", "seminal"] than "let's go tripping" (which is kinda a silly little novelty a-side compared to the massive middle-east meets malibu upside down glissando of "miserlou")

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

also: i was in a hotel room in the middle of the night watching movies with closed captioning last weekend and pulp fiction was on and during the misirlou opening the closed captioning captured dick's "ha... ha... ha..."s.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Back to the Acclaimed Music site, the highest entries on each decade's lists of highest-rated tracks that I haven't heard:

50's: Cliff Richard, "Schoolboy Crush"

60's: Pink Floyd, "See Emily Play"

70's: David Bowie, "Starman"

80's: The Jam, "Going Underground"

90's: Manic Street Preachers, "A Design for Life"

00's: New Order, "Crystal"

This proves one thing: I'm not British.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, you ain't kidding. I went through the top 200 of that acclaimed.net "all time" list, and these were the songs that I haven't knowingly heard:

82 Pulp - "Common People"
86 Oasis - "Live Forever"
90 Underworld - "Born Slippy (Nuxx)"
93 Massive Attack - "Unfinished Symphony"
127 Oasis - "Wonderwall"
129 Radiohead - "Creep
152 The Prodigy - "Firestarter"
180 Coldplay - "Yellow"
184 Stardust - "Music Sounds Better Than You"

I've never even *heard* of "Stardust", owner of the 184th best song ever. Then again at no point in my life have I ever been an anglophile, thank fucking god.

― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Stardust are French. They're actually Daft Punk.

― Pete S, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael you should go out of your way to hear See Emily Play by Pink Floyd. I'd dare to suggest you might be the only poster on ILM who hasn't heard Creep. Or Firestarter.

― Pete S, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry the last sentence is addressed to Broheems

― Pete S, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Stardust are actually Daft Punk? I'll look for them then! I like Daft Punk. And as I wrote, I haven't knowingly heard the songs I listed; they certainly may have come on the radio at some point while I was listening ... and just failed to make an impression.

― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm terribly sorry, Alex. I really do want to listen to VU. I just.. haven't.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(I think I have plenty of time; you never heard them until you were in college, so come on, give me a break here!)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Right, I'm off to this acclaimed list. So far on this thread, the only one is "any Grateful Dead", but I can't even say that as I have heard that one with the video and the skeletons and "I will get by" etc.

Shall report back....

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

50's

Five Satins - In the still of the night
Ray Price - Crazy arms
Hank Snow - I'm movin on
Muddy Waters - Rollin Stone
Kitty Wells - God -> Honky tonk angels
Lefty Frizzell - If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)
LaVern Baker - Jim Dandy
Hank Williams - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Dale Hawkins - Suzie-Q
Hank Ballard and The Midnighters - Work with Me Annie
The Moonglows - Sincerely
Little Walter - Juke
The Cadillacs - Speedo
The Del-Vikings - Come Go with Me
Jerry Butler with The Impressions - For Your Precious Love
Ruth Brown - Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean

More than I thought, but that's the fifties for you. 16/100

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

60's

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner
Sly and the Family Stone - Thank You (Falettime Be Mice Elf Again)
The Band - The Weight/I Shall Be Released
B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone
Grateful Dead - Born Crosseyed/Dark Star
Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels - Devil with a Blue Dress & Good Golly Miss Molly
Patsy Cline - I Fall to Pieces
Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is
George Jones - She Thinks I Still Care
The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River/Commotion
James Carr - The Dark End of the Street
Freddie King - Hide Away
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried
Bobby Bland - Turn On Your Love Light

Hmmm 15/200 getting better...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Umm, I hadn't even heard the title of that song before... Whose is it?

Then again, I was born in 1979, so I don't have that much memories of 80's pop music. I've only familiar with the songs that were still played in the nineties.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

70's

Aerosmith - Dream On
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Parliament - Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)
Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter
Big Star - September Gurls
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen the Rain/Hey Tonight

6/200 - not bad now. I have got a creedence best of bought at a sale, pt it on in keenness, halfway through got bored turned it off...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

from the 90s 'Acclaimed' list:

My Bloody Valentine 'Glider EP'
Veruca Salt 'Seether'
Geto Boys 'Mind Playing Tricks On Me'
Pete Rock & CL Smooth 'They Reminisce Over You' (MIGHT have heard it but can't be sure)
Nick Cave 'The Ship Song'
Pavement 'Summer Babe'
Teenage Fanclub 'Ain't That Enough' and 'Star Sign' (probably heard them as i did see TFC live in 2001)
The Folk Implosion 'Natural One'
Quad City DJs 'C'mon Ride It (The Train)'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the 80's

R.E.M.- Radio Free Europe
Pixies - Gigantic
George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Doug E. Fresh - The Show/La-Di-Da-Di
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Rythim Is Rythim - Strings of Life
Def Leppard - Photograph
Taana Gardner - Heartbeat
Prince - Controversy/When You Were Mine
Double Dee & Steinski The Payoff Mix/Lesson 2/Lesson 3 (Promo EP)
Afrika Baambaata & The Soul Sonic Force - Looking for the Perfect Beat
Young M.C. - Bust a Move
Hüsker Du - Makes No Sense at All
Barrington Levy - Here I Come
Modern English - I Melt with You
The Replacements - I Will Dare
Run DMC - Rock Box

18/200 slipping.....

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

the 90's

Dr. Dre - Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang
Naughty by Nature - O. P. P.
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
Tricky - Aftermath
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Santana Feat. Rob Thomas - Smooth
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
N.W.A. - F*** Tha Police
Craig Mack - Flava in Ya Ear
Jeru the Damaja - Come Clean
Hole - Miss World
Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody
Erykah Badu - On and On
Massive Attack - Risingson

17/200 - It's the rap stuff that gets me (not totally, not exclusively)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The 2000's

OutKast - B. O. B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)
Jay-Z - IZZO (H.O.V.A.)
Nelly - Country Grammar (Hot S**t)
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Queens of the Stone Age The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
N.E.R.D. - Lapdance

So finally, 6/50.

So what does all that prove....?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never heard "I Feel Love" :(

― sucka (sucka), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

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