The Heart of Rock and Soul Poll: the 1001 Greatest Singles Part 32: 201-225

It's not the best, but it's my favourite of these: Let Her Dance.

Oh Double Dee and Steinski easy!! Just tonight I did the "Don't Make Me Wait" handclaps* which I'll forever hear in my head on top of "Stop in the Name of Love." Took me 3 years to find the fucker before the interwebs. Cry for me.

* But my friend thought I was doing the handclaps to Dschinghis Khan's "Moskau." "You must not listen to a lot of dub disco," I replied mock-snottily.

"In The Midnight Hour" over "Pressure Drop" and "Mr. Tambourine Man"

Maybellene over Pressure Drop & Duke Of Earl

'Funkytown'. Was the original list ranked, or just 1001 singles at random? A suspicious amount of Dylan cover-Dylan cover-Dylan type runs keep cropping up.

FUN FUN FUN!!!!!!

Pressure Drop

good list!

Was the original list ranked, or just 1001 singles at random?

Ranked.

"Duke Of Earl"'s dukedom, over "Walk Like A Man"'s crawling on the earth, over "Pressure Drop"'s oh yeah, over "Rock N Roll Baby"'s orthopedic shoes

"Pressure Drop", but this keeps getting harder.

xpost - Ranked, yeah; but there's numerous occasions where he combines two (or more) consecutive records into a single writeup for comparative purposes if they share a specific attribute (ie. Bob Dylan authorship, electric 12-string guitar, etc.)

Great list of songs here: Voted Pickett over the Byrds and Toots. But lots of good choices here.

Toots

I'm surprised by how many mid-60s Dylan singles Marsh includes--not that I don't agree they absolutely belong, I just would have guessed that, for Marsh, Dylan = album artist...I'll go with Jerry Butler, followed by Bobby Fuller, the Byrds, and Gene Chandler. We're really moving into what amounts to a dead zone for me: "You Can't Always Get What You Want," "In the Midnight Hour," "All Along the Watchtower," "I Got You"--I'd be very happy to never hear any of them for the rest of my life.

The Dead Zone's a very subjective call; I realize "Mr. Tambourine Man" would show up on a lot of other people's never-need-to-hear-again list.

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I don't get why you never want to hear them again. Overexposure?

That's sure why I don't care whether I hear most of those again, and tend to change away from any oldies station they might come in ("Mr. Tambourine Man" included.) Honestly, I've been tired of most of those for as long as I can remember hearing them.

Will never get tired of the Coasters' "That Is Rock & Roll," though -- just noticed that one.

Yes, overexposure--which probably applies to a large percentage of Marsh's list, so everyone'll have a different idea of which songs are overexposed and which aren't. "Cinnamon Girl" and "Layla" get about the same amount of airplay on hard-rock stations; I'm sick to death of the latter, the former sounds as good as ever to me.

it's funkytown inneh?

So much good stuff (esp Lipps Inc, Steinski, Hendrix, Aretha) but Mr Tambourine Man is just perfect. Glad I don't listen to oldies stations.

Kornrulez OTM

i usually go by what i would like to hear at the moment for these polls. so "Funkytown" it is then.

If I'm interpreting Clemenza correctly, I probably agree that the more "classic" these lists get, the less interested I will be -- though there's still a lot of good stuff in this batch, so who knows? I would definitely add Lipps Inc. to the overexposed pile, and probably the two Platters songs as well (one of which -- "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" -- I otherwise consider a perfect recording). I do put "Mr. Tambourine Man" in that pile also, but not "Can't Always Get What You Want" (which I heard the other day for the first time in about eight years and loved every second of it).

Anyway, for me this is a toss-up between the Diamonds and Toots & Maytals. I'm not feeling particularly nationalistic this afternoon, so probably Toots.

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