The Heart of Rock and Soul Poll: the 1001 Greatest Singles Part 33: 176-200

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
187 1984 Prince Let's go crazy	9
199 1982 Afrika Bambaataa Looking for the perfect beat	8
196 1970 Sly and the family Stone Thank you (Faletinme be mice elf again)	5
192 1956 Frankie Lymon Why do fools fall in love	4
185 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet home Alabama	4
190 1966 Rolling Stones 19th Nervous breakdown	3
177 1964 Beatles Twist and shout	3
198 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival Bad moon rising	3
197 1970 Van Morrison Domino	3
183 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis Great balls of fire	2
179 1981 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5 GM Flash on the Wheels of Steel	2
178 1963 Stevie Wonder Fingertips, part 2	2
193 1955 Drifters White Christmas	1
176 1965 Impressions People get ready	1
200 1964 Shangri-Las Give him a great big kiss	1
188 1958 Five Royales Dedicated to the one I love	1
180 1959 Chuck Berry Sweet little sixteen	0
181 1959 Wilbert Harrison Kansas city	0
182 1972 Ricky Nelson Garden party	0
184 1954 Jewels Hearts of stone	0
195 1963 Darlene Love Today I met the boy I'm gonna marry	0
194 1961 Jive Five My true story	0
186 1966 Marvin Gaye One more heartache	0
191 1966 Wilson Pickett Ninety-nine and a half won't do	0
189 1959 Shirelles Dedicated to the one I love	0

― President Keyes, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:13 (sixteen years ago)

Many brilliant songs here, but "Let's Go Crazy" is the one that has most enriched my life.

― Mark, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

this strikes me as the weakest of these imo. Kind of surprised at how much I believe that.

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:24 (sixteen years ago)

Voted "Great Balls of Fire" just past Prince, Stones, Creedence, Sly.

― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:31 (sixteen years ago)

Afrika Bambaataa

― Enoki Doki (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:33 (sixteen years ago)

Skynyrd > Bambaataa > Shangri-Las > Sly > Frankie Lymon > Grandmaster Flash > Rick Nelson

Have honestly never liked "Let's Go Crazy" much.

― xhuxk, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:43 (sixteen years ago)

I try not to check ahead on these lists--only once or twice so far--but I'm not sure it matters at this point; all the surprises seem to have ended somewhere around #300..."Bad Moon Rising," but I'm suprisingly not sick of "Sweet Home Alabama" and would be okay voting for that too. I'm not sure if I've ever heard the Marvin Gaye song, although maybe it's on the Super Hits LP I have.

― clemenza, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:46 (sixteen years ago)

xp uh, emphasis on the much -- I'm not saying I dislike it. Just have never liked it anywhere near as much as the ones I listed, or lots of other ones up there (CCR, Shirelles, Chuck Berry, Stones, Jerry Lee, Beatles, etc -- a few of which I might love more now if I'd heard them less over the years.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:50 (sixteen years ago)

this strikes me as the weakest of these imo

My thoughts also. It's an overplayed batch, mixed with some stuff I don't consider all that awesome to begin with.

The few that retain (some) interest: Shangri-Las, Berry, Ricky Nelson, Stones, Bambaata, Grandmaster Flash. All of which it wouldn't kill me to never hear again tbh.

― sw00ds, Monday, 25 January 2010 01:55 (sixteen years ago)

Bambaataa

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:27 (sixteen years ago)

Flash, easy.

― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:30 (sixteen years ago)

Grandmaster Flash changed my life. So that.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 25 January 2010 02:34 (sixteen years ago)

still love "domino" despite its frat-party cover-band trappings. (nb: i used to play in a frat-party cover band so maybe that's my problem.)

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Monday, 25 January 2010 02:41 (sixteen years ago)

i voted "bad moon rising"

― waka shame (J0rdan S.), Monday, 25 January 2010 03:07 (sixteen years ago)

frankie lymon by a mile, then prince

― k3vin k., Monday, 25 January 2010 03:10 (sixteen years ago)

hated it at the time but skynard do manage to do it for me these days

― nonightsweats, Monday, 25 January 2010 03:32 (sixteen years ago)

I'd have to think real hard to remember the last time I thought to myself: "I gotta hear '19th Nervous Breakdown' right now."

― Mark, Monday, 25 January 2010 03:38 (sixteen years ago)

I've never thought that to myself, but whenever it pops up out of nowhere on an oldies station, there is definite thrillpower.

― the end times are coming, but they're just the beginning (WmC), Monday, 25 January 2010 03:41 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96ylFiQK_I

come on now

― k3vin k., Monday, 25 January 2010 03:43 (sixteen years ago)

Amazing.

― Mark, Monday, 25 January 2010 03:48 (sixteen years ago)

Thank you (Faletinme be mice elf again)

― Popture, Monday, 25 January 2010 04:03 (sixteen years ago)

CCR, Van, Sly, Jerry Lee, Lymon, Rick Nelson, Beatles, Jive Five and the Drifters are just some of the great ones here.
But voting for Skynyrd (slightly over Jerry Lee).

― jetfan, Monday, 25 January 2010 05:45 (sixteen years ago)

I think this is probably THE best chunk so far. The Flash is epic, paradigm-shifting. And I'll have to do some sort of penance for passing up Frankie floating free (maybe listen to the Bear Family box again). But "Looking For The Perfect Beat" it is. It may not be the greatest single of all-time (and then again, it just might). But it's become my template for what a great single should be - something that's constantly turning corners and jammed with as many sounds as inhumanly possible. Also something irritating. And funky.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 25 January 2010 07:46 (sixteen years ago)

Been reading about the history of People Get Ready recently, especially its influence on reggae and its more compassionate reworking of the old "This Train Is Bound for Glory" trope, and it now seems even more unimpeachably classic. Just ahead of Flash, Creedence and Sly.

― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 25 January 2010 14:58 (sixteen years ago)

bump

― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 09:48 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 30 January 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

I missed this one; I'd have voted for the Drifters.

― Euler, Sunday, 31 January 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)

dang. woulda voted frankie

― tube socks and a box of krispy kreme (los blue jeans), Monday, 1 February 2010 06:10 (fifteen years ago)

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