The 70s POLL - Tracks

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Dear Children of Earth,

Welcome to the 70s poll results. These are the best tracks of the 70s as voted by the beautiful, beautiful cosmic creatures of ILM. I have taken a break from spreading Love throughout the Galaxy to present them for you. You can kiss my shoes later.

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Being a creature of Cosmic Wonder, I am not angry not to have been nominated. Not at all. Not one bit.

Just a little disappointed.

― Amii Stewart, Monday, 16 May 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

100

points: 209
total votes: 8

TIM BUCKLEY - SONG FOR THE SIREN

http://www.hotshotdigital.com/WellAlwaysRemember.3/Buckley.Images/tim6.jpg

― Amiii Stewart, Monday, 16 May 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

yeah well song to the siren is pretty neat inn't
wtf he performed this on "the monkees" tv show?!?! maybe i need to start watching "the monkees" tv show?!?!
-- amateur!st (amateur!s...), July 18th, 2004.
I read this thread yesterday, and had a nightmare last night some hipster at a dive bar took pity on me for never having heard "Song to the Siren." I felt very bad.

-- Tonka Trux (artofleg...), February 15th, 2005.

― Amiii Stewart, Monday, 16 May 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

i am so excited for this thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Can the reality live up to the hype?

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Can the reality live up to the hype?

Hopefully.

(Knock on wood)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

points: 212
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 10

JAMES BROWN - THE PAYBACK

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/b/brown_james_payback~~_101b.jpg

Somewhere, in the vast expanse of time and space that is the internet, there is a picture of the single, rather than the album that it came from. Sadly, when I try to google, my headdress falls in front of my eyes.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

James Brown's 'The Payback' - minimalist hypnotic grooves that are also aggressive about it, a rare thing.

-- tarden (scrape10...), July 15th, 2001.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Is this the real thread?

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

points: 218
total votes: 11

CHEAP TRICK - I WANT YOU TO WANT ME

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― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it is the real thread. I shall try to emulate Hobart's high standards of acruracy adn

sppeed.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

points: 220
total votes: 12

BOBBY WOMACK - ACROSS 110TH STREET

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/w/womack_bobb_across110_101b.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

You really should post YSIs as well.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

not to sound ungrateful, but yeah.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 16 May 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

YSIs?

Expand, please.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

yousendit.com

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps youshareit.com would be a better option, as they don't expire (I don't think)

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Forget it.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

woo-hoo. i didn't vote in the poll but i nominated "across 110th street."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

RS: Consider it forgotten.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

I finally saw Across 110th Street last week. Almost lives up to the song.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

points: 221
total votes: 8

PATTI SMITH - GLORIA

http://www.punk77.co.uk/graphics/pattismithsetfreedm.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Listening to "Gloria" again for what could be the thousandth time, I’m still astounded by what she pulls off. From the iconoclastic opening that’s been quoted to death, she embarks on a poem set to bare rock music, but she’s really transported, singing with a commitment that only comes from being truly blessed with the spirit… and the listener is transported as well, it’s wild. But wait!! Suddenly, the song careens into Them’s "Gloria" and we’re blasted off into a realm that’s all art, poetry, and pure rock and roll that’s unlike anything I had ever imagined as kid, unlike anything anyone back then imagined, and it still works, goddam does it work. I sat grinning on the edge of the sofa, completely excited and into it, as I am every time I hear the track.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

comments by:

-- Sean (saturns...), March 23rd, 2002.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

points: 221
total votes: 9

(both tracks had a highest placing of 2nd, so this goes ahead on total votes)

THE CARS - JUST WHAT I NEEDED

http://www.80salive.com/articles/music/cars/images/header.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Heard The Cars' "Just What I Needed" on the radio today -- I'd forgotten how the snare-on-the-backbeat flips to 1 and 3 for a few lines. It's VERY disorienting because it's too simple to sound "suspicious."
(I'd also forgotten that I rather like this band...)

-- Paul in Santa Cruz (pauna...), April 24th, 2003.
"Just What I Needed" by the Cars. Most people are familiar with that song, and if that won't hook them, nothing will.

-- Johnny Fever (johnnyfeve...), November 19th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Paul in Santa Cruz discoursing on The Cars is a nice surprise. (Sorry I'm making too many comments, I'm at work. And I meant forget the yousendit idea, because it would be way too much work and might draw too much unwanted attention to the board.)

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

points: 225
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 12

JIMMY CLIFF - THE HARDER THEY COME

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― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

-- RS_LaRue (Al__suca...), May 16th, 2005.

Comments are always good. It makes me feel less like I'm posting in a void. And I realised what you meant.

And I'm still pretending to be Amiiii Stewart. And she'd be much more eloquent. She'd sing you a song possbily - something about the glittering of sunlight upon sequins.

Perhaps its best not to pretend to be Amii Stewart after all.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

No, we like it.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 May 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

At some point, there will be lots of wonderful comments about this track, and the album, on this thread:

The Harder They Come Soundtrack

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

points: 229
total votes: 6

STEELY DAN - ANY MAJOR DUDE WILL TELL YOU

http://www.ascap.com/founders/images/steelydan_live.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

I'd nominate "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" too. They're both v v slick (which doesn't bother me) tho, which seems like the problem for a lot of people.
-- Silly Sailor (countandre...), February 13th, 2004.
i LOVE pretzel logic and katy lied. both perfect albums in my book (fave songs: "parker's band," "any major dude," "rikki," "doctor wu," "throw back the little ones," "any world that i'm welcome to

-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...), November 19th, 2003.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

points: 231
total votes: 11

SQUEEZE - UP THE JUNCTION

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― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

It's really tough to pick only one, but "Up the Junction" condenses everything I like about Squeeze into a tidy 3:10.
-- paul cox (pau...), January 17th, 2003.
Squeeze's "Up The junction" and, uh, Kate Winslet's "What If" have both brought me to tears on occasion, but I'm sure only one of them could ever be considered "bollocks" on any level.

-- CharlieNo4 (charlie_iven...), March 16th, 2004.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

points: 232
total votes: 9

THE BUZZCOCKS - BOREDOM

http://www.towerblock.co.uk/images/buzzcocks14.jpg

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

"Boredom" is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. I'm happy to stop there, personally.

-- Tom (ebro...), March 29th, 2001.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

points: 232
total votes: 10

MACHINE - THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I

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― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

Okay, so it had fantastic vocals, it built irresistably to the half-screamed "THERE! GO! I!" at the end and it managed to combine perceptive lyrics about the foolishness of trying to find happiness by running away from other people with a tune that just..soared away...

BUT could they waggle their hips and point in the air whilst intoning the words LIGHTNING and FRIGHTENING and pouting seductively??? HMMM??

Probably.

Fuckers.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, that's enough for tonight because I'm ~~going to bed~~ off to an all-you-can-snort party on the Rings Of Saturn.

ADIOS. AMIIII.

― Amiii Stewart (Amiii Stewart), Monday, 16 May 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

"There But For The Grace Of God Go I" is probably the greatest song that I always forget to bring up whenever I start rambling about greatest songs ever. It's like they couldn't decide whether they wanted to make a serious record or have the most over-the-top fun-sounding party possible on wax, so they did both. It's probably got some historical weight too, depending on how fond you are of Ze.

Not that I think about any of that whenever this shows up randomly on my iPod, however. God, what a song. I wish to Christ I could find their album anywhere on this earth.

also WTF at "The Harder They Come" turning up so low?!

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

This list has been remarkably less obscure than I had first expected it to be...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

...but the night is still young.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

The night is over for the purposes of the list though.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

now we drink

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

wow, thought Machine'd hit way higher.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

FINALLY. It's a new day and after yesterday I need this thread.

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

I have no faith in anyone so I thought Machine wouldn't even make the 100.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

I wish to Christ I could find their album anywhere on this earth.

I have the vinyl LP. I also have a turntable. And I ALSO have a hookup from my stereo to my computer. FINALLY, I have a sound recording application that can save files as MP3s.

I'll get on that then.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

nate gmail a ysi yo

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

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I was just listening to "Heart of Glass", and I was wondering, why does it has those weird synth(?) sounds on the background that sound like children or birds shrieking? They're rather distressing.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

Having a heart of glass is a distressing business.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 30 May 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

good poll. thanks for putting it together, powers that put it together.

― gspm (gspm), Monday, 30 May 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Having a heart of glass is a distressing business.

Yeah, but those shrieks feel out of place in a song which is otherwise rather simplistic and light-of-touch. The sound is so far on the background, at first I thought it was just random noise, but it recurs throughout the whole song, so it is seemingly purposeful.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

13. Cheap Trick - Surrender

I don't think I've ever heard this track either, I think you have to be American.

Surprised at the extremely high placing for both "Oh Bondage Up Yours" and "Wuthering Heights" and the Blondie factor. i don't think there are any tracks I actively dislike, tho I suppose I'm no great fan of Bela Lugosi's Dead, Born to Run, Up the Junction and Just What I Needed

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 30 May 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I have to say, even though "I Feel Love" was my #5 choice, I put it that high partly because of it's historical/aesthetical importance. I've never really felt it like I've felt some 70s funk/jazz/Brazilian pop tunes, or the electronic dance music to follow it.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

i just hear "wuthering hearts" for the first time!! wtf?!

re. "i feel love," this is one song i am quite sure has to cranked up really, really loud

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

"wtf?!" = good, yes?

Thanks hobart, great job. Up there in the "best thread ever" stakes.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

"Surrender" is really good, ppl who hadn't heard it. It sounds a bit whiney but it's got a great chorus.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.netwalk.com/~truegger/ftrh/Mikey1.jpg

Mike Damone approves of "Surrender" and Blondie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Not to mention "September" ("You got Earth, Wind & Fire tickets?")

― Keith C (kcraw916), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

amateurist otm re: "i feel love"; "l2lyb" was always my fave summer and then i finally heard "i feel love" REALLY LOUD in a club and realized 'omg, it really is the best song ever'.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 30 May 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, could be... I've only heard it really loud when I've played it myself on a DJ gig, never been on the recipient end.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 May 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Great list, and such a near radical different list to the albums chart...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it's a good list. could use more 70s soul but oh well.

as for blondie, they've always been a bit "close but no cigar" for me. their *sound* has always seemed a bit thin/tinny (not in a good way) to me, like they were playing in the room next door when they should be right in front of me. i thought perhaps the remastered cds would fix that, but no, its inherent in the production. i also think debbie harry (sp?) is sort of a middling vocalist; she's definitely identifiable and memorable, but her phrasing seems needlessly slack a lot of the time (but when she's on she's definitely on).

they're supposed to be the punk-rock shangri-la's or something but i find the shangri-la's to sound a lot meatier.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

My apologies for the lateness of the lower results, and for the fact that they're not incredibly well presented. In the list below, the first number represents the number of points scored, the second the number of first place votes, and the third the total number of votes. If there is a fourth number, it is used to show the highest placing of each song to determine placings in the event of a tie.

101 Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 205 0 10
102 Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number 205 0 7
103 James Brown - Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose 202 0 9
104 Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again 199 0 12
105 Saints - (I'm) Stranded 199 0 9
106 James Brown - Get Up, Get Into it, and Get Involved 195 1 6
107 Gil-Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 195 0 14
108 Raspberries - Go All The Way 194 0 6
109 Pere Ubu - Final Solution 194 0 10
110 Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire 191 1 5

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Where did the Quads single come? I know I voted for it, just wondered if anyone else did...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 June 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

266th, Mark... with 66 points.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

111 Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her 189 0 8
112 Cristina - 'Disco Clone' 188 0 4 2
113 Buggles - "Video Killed the Radio Star" 188 0 11 3
114 Gang Of Four - Love Like Anthrax 188 0 7 6
115 Suicide - Cheree Cheree 187 1 5
116 Kleenex - Ain't You 187 0 4 2
117 Joy Division - New Dawn Fades 187 0 9 10
118 T. Rex - "Cosmic Dancer" 186 0 5 2
119 ABBA - The Name of the Game 186 0 7 3
120 Dolly Parton - Jolene 184 1 11

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

"The Name of the Game" is my favourite Abba song!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

(that'll be only my vote, then, right?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

3 of my top 10 in the next lot...

121 Dionne Warwick - I'll Never Fall In Love Again 182 0 7
122 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 179 0 10
123 Roxy Music - Angel Eyes 178 0 6
124 Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze 177 0 8
125 Rufus featuring Chaka Khan - Tell Me Something Good 176 0 7
126 Art Ensemble Of Chicago Feat. Fontella Bass - Theme De Yoyo 175 1 5
127 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? 175 0 8
128 Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You 173 1 5
129 Max Romeo & The Upsetters - Chase The Devil 172 0 5
130 Charles Wright - Express Yourself 170 0 8

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

131 Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road 169 0 9
132 Lynryd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama 162 0 5 4
133 Delfonics - Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) 162 0 9 7
134 T.Rex - Jeepster 160 0 8
135 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia 159 1 9
136 Jackson Five- The Love You Save 157 0 6
137 Joni Mitchell - Blue 156 1 3
138 Paul Simon - Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard 156 0 8
139 Can - I Want More 154 1 6
140 Isley brothers 'footsteps in the dark' 154 0 5 4

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

141 Clash - Janie Jones 154 0 5 11
142 Carpenters - Goodbye To Love 153 0 4
143 Cars - My Best Friends Girl 152 0 9 5
144 Stevie Wonder 'I believe...' 152 0 6 8
145 Faust - It's A Rainy Day 151 0 4 2
146 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven 151 0 7 4
147 O-Jays - Back Stabbers 151 0 11 11
148 Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Thrasher 150 0 5
149 Harry Nilsson "Without You" 149 0 9
150 Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy 147 0 7

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

151George Jones - A Good Year For The Roses 145 0 4
Melodians - River Of Babylon 145 0 6
Alice Cooper - School's Out 143 0 7
Marvin Gaye -When Did I Stop Loving You (When Did You Stop Loving Me)? 142 0 5 6
Modern Lovers - Girlfriend 142 0 7 9
John Lennon - Imagine 141 0 8 4
Minnie Ripperton - Les Fleur 141 0 6 11
Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes - Get Dancin' 140 0 4
Beach Boys - Surf's Up 139 0 6 6
Iggy Pop - Passenger 139 0 12 9

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

oops... I think I hit submit by mistake..

151 George Jones - A Good Year For The Roses 145 0 4
152 Melodians - River Of Babylon 145 0 6
153 Alice Cooper - School's Out 143 0 7
154 Marvin Gaye -When Did I Stop Loving You (When Did You Stop Loving Me)? 142 0 5 6
155 Modern Lovers - Girlfriend 142 0 7 9
156 John Lennon - Imagine 141 0 8 4
157 Minnie Ripperton - Les Fleur 141 0 6 11
158 Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes - Get Dancin' 140 0 4
159 Beach Boys - Surf's Up 139 0 6 6
160 Iggy Pop - Passenger 139 0 12 9

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

161 Aretha Franklin' - Til You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) 138 0 5
162 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby 134 0 7
163 Roxy Music - Mother Of Pearl 133 0 4 5
164 Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun 133 0 7 7
165 Nerves - Hanging On The Telephone 132 0 6
166 Sweet - Ballroom Blitz 131 0 7
167 Subway Sect - Ambition 130 1 5
168 Big Star - Kanga-Roo 130 0 6
169 Bram Tchaichovsky - Girl Of My Dreams 129 1 4
170 Jorge Ben - Taj Mahal 129 0 5

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

171 Cure - Killing An Arab 127 0 5 4
172 Specials - A Message To You Rudy 127 0 9 8
173 Big Star - Daisy Glaze 123 1 2
174 Esther Phillips - 'Home Is Where The Hatred Is' 123 0 4 7
175 M - Pop Muzik 123 0 11 13
176 Donna Summer - MacArthur Park 122 0 4 2
177 Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls 122 0 7 7
178 Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop 122 0 5 9
179 Robert Wyatt - Sea Song 120 1 2
180 Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat 120 0 7

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

181 Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme 119 0 3
182 Fall "Rebellious Jukebox" 118 0 6
183 Queen - Killer Queen 117 0 6
184 Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 116 0 4
185 B-52's Dance this Mess Around 115 0 4 5
186 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive 115 0 7 14
187 Brian Eno "The Big Ship" 114 0 3 2
188 ABBA - Chiquitita 114 0 4 7
189 Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag 114 0 9 9
190 Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now 112 1 4

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

191 Grand Funk - Bad Time 112 0 2 3
192 Richard and Linda Thompson - Dimming of the Day 112 0 2 5
193 Baccara - Yes Sir I Can Boogie 112 0 5 7
194 Bob Seger - Night Moves 111 0 4 8
195 Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down 111 0 6 11
196 Wings - Live And Let Die 110 0 6 3
197 David Bowie - Panic In Detroit 110 0 4 5
198 Can - Sing Swan Song 110 0 3 7
199 red transistor "not bite" 108 1 2
200 Chuck Brown - Bustin' Loose 106 0 4

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Here are the next 100. I haven't bothered sorting out ties, so songs with the same number of points may not be in the right order:

Black Sabbath - Supernaut 105
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Big Eyed Beans From Venus 105
David Bowie - Jean Genie 105
Faces - 'You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything 104
Rolling Stones - Bitch 104
Roxy Music - If There Is Something 104
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell 103
Wings - Silly Love Songs 103
Records - Starry Eyes 102
Rocket From The Tombs - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo 102
Temptations - Just My Imagination 102
Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing 98
Rotary Connection - I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun 98
Aerosmith - Dream On 97
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown 97
5 Stairsteps - O-o-h Child 96
Neil Young - Walk On 96
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion 95
Four Seasons - The Night 94
Clash - Police and Thieves 93
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill 93
Television - The Dream's Dream 93
Neil Young - Albuquerque 90
ABBA - Fernando 89
Milton Nascimento - Cravo É Canela 89
Queen - We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions 89
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic 89
Janet Kay - Silly Games 88
Jam - 'When You're Young' 86
Patti Jo - Make Me Believe In You 85
AC/DC - Highway To Hell 84
Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes 84
OV Wright - Into Something 84
Randy Newman - Rednecks 84
Can - Moonshake 83
Stevie Wonder - Superwoman 81
Caetano Veloso - Maria Bethania 79
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - Working Class Hero 79
Boney M - Rasputin 78
Pere Ubu - Non-Alignment Pact 78
Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles 77
T. Rex - Ride A White Swan 76
Gary Numan - Me! I Disconnect From You 75
Badfinger - Baby Blue 74
Langley Schools Music Project - Desperado 74
Damned - Smash It Up/Burglar 73
Gary Glitter - Rock And Roll Part 2 73
Heart - Magic Man 73
Linda Jones - Your Precious Love 73
Matching Mole - O Caroline 73
Wizzard- See My Baby Jive 73
Donna Summer "heaven knows" 71
Musique - In The Bush 71
Al Green - You Ought to Be With Me 70
Barkays - Holy Ghost 70
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams 70
Ram Jam - Black Betty 70
Willie Colon/Celia Cruz - Usted Abuso 70
Yes - Awaken 70
Elton John - Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters 68
Jackie Wilson - Because Of You 67
Airto Moreira - Tombo In 7/4 66
Donna Summer - I Love you 66
Donna Summer - Sunset People 66
Jerry Reed - Amos Moses 66
Quads - There Must Be Thousands/You Gotta Jive 66
Rose Royce - Love Don't Live Here Anymore 66
Stevie Wonder - Another Star 66
Badfinger - Day After Day 64
Captain & Tenille - Love Will Keep Us Together 64
MacFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stopping Us Now 64
Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again 63
First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder 62
Idris Muhammad - Peace And Rhythm Suite 62
Karin Krog - Hold Out Your Hands 62
Terry Callier - Ordinary Joe 62
Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors 61
Bee Gees - Nights on Broadway 59
Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks - Whenever I Call You 'Friend' 59
Amon Duul II - Archangels Thunderbird 58
Jorge Ben - Errare Humanum Est 58
Teardrop Explodes - Sleeping Gas 58
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Ohio 56
mars "helen fordsdale" 56
Rocket From The Tombs - Ain't It Fun 55
This Heat - 24 Track Loop 55
Grateful Dead - "Ripple" 54
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now 54
Candido - Thousand Finger Man 53
Eddie Kendricks "Girl, You Need A Change of Mind" 53
Neil Young - Don't Be Denied 53
Stylistics - Can't Give You Anything (But My Love) 53
Sun Ra - Strange Celestial Road 53
Ultravox - Slow Motion 51
Lynne Anderson - Rose Garden 49
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine 49
Max Romeo - War Ina Babylon 47
Deep Purple - Fireball 46
Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me 45
Santa Esmeralda - "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" 45

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

And the final lot that scored points:

Cult Hero - "I Dig You 44
Derek & The Dominos - Layla 44
Elton John - Tiny Dancer 44
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee 43
Chicago - If You Leave Me Now 41
Joni Mitchell - Help Me 41
Bee Gees -- More Than A Woman 37
Dylan - Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) 37
Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You 37
Steely Dan - Any World That I'm Welcome To 37
Ann Peebles - 99 Pounds 36
Johnathan Richman - Egyptian Reggae 36
Heart - "Crazy On You" 35
Band - It Makes No Difference 34
Silvio Rodríguez - Ojalá 32
Stiff Little Fingers - "Alternative Ulster" 30
Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love 28
Rush - Fly By Night 25
Cluster - Rosa 24
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing 23
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin About Love 20
MFSB - T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia) 19
10CC - Don't Hang Up 18
Heatwave - Boogie Nights 16
Johnny Clarke - Roots, Natty Roots, Natty Congo 15
Osmonds - Let Me In 15
Supertramp - "School" 15
Saints - Messin With The Kid 14
Aerosmith - Walk This Way 11
Caetano Veloso - London, London 11
David Essex - Rock On 11
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On 11
Roy Harper - Another Day 11
Shirley & Co. - Shame Shame Shame 10
Genesis - Supper's Ready 8
Sweet - Teenage Rampage 8
Glitter Band - Goodbye My Love 6
Sweet - "Blockbuster" 3
Who - Love Reign O'er Me 3
Mfsb - Love Is The Message 2
Foxy - Get Off 1
Sylvia - Pillow Talk 1

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

This lot failed to get any points:

Alice Cooper - Under My Wheels
Chi-Lites - Are You My Woman?
David Bowie - Sweet Thing/Candidate
Donna McGhee - Make It Last Forever
Donna Summer - Dim All The Lights
Dramatics - In The Rain
Electric Eels - Cyclotron
Enemy - Pull Down The Shades
Fleetwood Mac - Brown Eyes
Gene Clark - "No Other"
Isaac Hayes - Joy
Jimi Hendrix - Dolly Dagger
John Cale - Heartbreak Hotel
Judee Sill "The Kiss"
Mexican - Babe Ruth
Milton Nascimento - San Vicente
O-Jays - Rich Get Richer
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Pat Kelly - How Long
Phoebe Snow - "All Over"
Santana - Samba Pa Ti
Three Degrees - Maybe
Toy Love - Squeeze
Twinkeez - Aliens In Our Midst
Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach
ZZ Top - La Grange

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

A couple of blurbs for songs outside the top 100:

I Love You

Donna Summer

This was playing during my first kiss. This was better. Still is.

Rick Massimo

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic*

A fairly traditional bluesy tune from the Dan and one of their most
melancholy. Donald Fagen goes on about wishing he could meet Napoleon
and be in a traveling minstrel show, but that won't be happening
because those days are long past. One listens to Fagen here and
wonders how the hell David Palmer ever got permission to go near the
mic on their earlier albums.

Riot Gear!

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

POLL

OVER

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

Many great songs beyond 100 (my # 1 @190), but, despite our various tastes, most of us can probably agree that there's a far greater concentration of them in the top 100.

Thanks for all the work, hobart! A great topic of many conversations over the last month. Well done!

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Cheers. I enjoyed doing some of it. I've bought and listened to some music that I'd otherwise have overlooked as a results of it, too. So its been quite an educational experience for me. Not least in learning how to use html properly.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

GREAT POLL

i voted for both but i'm somehow very very pleased ram jam outscored layla

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

"The Name of the Game" is my favourite Abba song!

It was my #3 on the tracks ballot. Bummer.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

*shocked* by poor showings for The Sweet

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

I didn't hear the original "Cum On Feel the Noize" until after the poll. It might have made the top 100 if I'd had. It totally kicks that Quiet Riot version (which I used to like). There's something happening in the rhythm.

(146, damn.)

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

It is a fantastic poll, thanks for doing it Hobart P.

― Bidfurd, Thursday, 16 June 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

You know, if you did an 80's version, I doubt I could stop at 500 track selections...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 June 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Well done. Thanks for doing it and thanks for the extended results - I wondered where my songs went!

(And I don't say that with obscurantist pride; I had pretty mainstream stuff. But "Midnight Train," my #1, at #135? C'mon!)

Thanks loads for doing it. I can't imagine the degree of difficulty.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

1. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
2. ABBA - Dancing Queen
3. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
4. Joy Division - Transmission
5. Blondie - Heart of Glass
6. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
7. David Bowie - Heroes
8. Chic - Good Times
9. Blondie - Dreaming
10. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til Ya Get Enough
11. Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair
12. Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
13. Cheap Trick - Surrender
14. The Jackson Five - A.B.C.
15. ABBA - S.O.S.
16. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
17. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
18. X Ray Spex - Oh Bondage Up Yours
19. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
20. Blondie - Atomic
21. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
22. Big Star - September Gurls
23. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
24. Television - Marquee Moon
25. The Clash - White Man In Hammersmith Palais
26. Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
27. The Clash - London Calling
28. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
29. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
30. Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
31. Wire - Map Ref. 41 Degrees North 93 Degrees West
32. Althea and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
33. Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop
34. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
35. The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
36. Chic - Le Freak
37. Al Green - Love and Happiness
38. Sex Pistols - Holiday in the Sun
39. Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
40. ABBA - Waterloo
41. Gram Parsons - $1000 Wedding
42. Rod Stewart - Maggie May
43. Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
44. Brian Eno - Baby's On Fire
45. The Ramones - Sheen Is a Punk Rocker
46. Can - Vitamin C
47. Candi Station - Young Hearts Run Free
48. 10cc - I'm Not In Love
49. Wire - Outdoor Miner
50. The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
51. The Ramones - Judy is a Punk
52. Parliament - Flash Light
53. Neu - Hallogallo
54. Al Green - Tired Of Being Alone
55. Big Star - Thirteen
56. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
57. Kraftwerk - Neon Lights
58. The Normal - Warm Leatherette
59. Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
60. Sparks - No. 1 Song in Heaven
61. Andrea True Connection - More, More, More
62. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
63. Gary Numan - Cars
64. Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain
65. Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
66. T. Rex - Metal Guru
67. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
68. Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
69. Richard Hell and the Voivods - Blank Generation
70. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
71. Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
72. The B52s - Rock Lobster
73. Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover
74. Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves
75. Boston - More Than A Feeling
76. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
77. Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
78. Diana Ross - Love Hangover
79. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
80. Sister Sledge - Lost in Music
81. The O-Jays - Love Train
82. Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
83. Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light
84. Can - Halleluwah
85. Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
86. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
87. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi Dead
88. Al Green - Belle
89. Earth, Wind and Fire - September
90. Machine - There But For The Grace Of God Go I
91. Buzzcocks - Boredom
92. Squeeze- Up the Junction
93. Steely Dan - Any Major Dude Will Tell You
94. Jimmy Cliff - The Harder they Come
95. Cars - Just What I Needed
96. Patti Smith - Gloria
97. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
98. Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
99. James Brown - The Payback
100. Tim Buckley - Song For The Siren

Dare we try an alternate poll in the same vein as the 70s albums poll? I mean, that's a pretty good list ffs. Anyway, if there's interest, lemme know.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 2 September 2010 06:18 (fifteen years ago)

I'm up for it; I have 30 noms already I think

― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:01 (fifteen years ago)

I wish you well - not a tracks guy.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:02 (fifteen years ago)

for instance there's like only one Bowie song in there...there's lots of room for an alternate poll...

― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

no Fela...

― rotting-month story (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:03 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

i missed this i guess

― Vote in the ILM 70s poll please! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 23 February 2013 15:39 (twelve years ago)

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