A New Top 100 List to Nitpick: 100 Songs of the South

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100 Songs of the South as decided by the Atlanta Journal & Constitution. Good luck with the flash. :/

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

well, i was prepared to say "where's 'strange fruit'?", but it's #1. i gotta give them some respect for that list. good picks on nappy roots, the band, erika badu, bill monroe. my main nitpick would be that REM only makes it to 99, but uncle tupelo is at 79- where are they from, illnois? i had a fellow south carolinian tell me that all REM songs, and in particular "stand", are about the south. and another thing...i would have picked neil young's "southern man" over "alabama". other tracks left out: sonic youth "chapel hill", superchunk "driveway to driveway" (?), and how about "brown sugar"? oh yeah, and peabo bryson.

― viborgu, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Wait a minute -- there’s not one Elvis song on this list??? but room for Little Feat, Glen Cambell, Vicki Lawrence, and TWO Randy Newman songs?

― Burr (Burr), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

elvis was a hero to most

― viborgu, Thursday, 15 September 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm from the south and "Strange Fruit" is probably the only song I have some semblance of liking on this list!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 15 September 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

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