The Heart of Rock and Soul Poll: the 1001 Greatest Singles Part 38: 51-75

Chic vs. Little Richard vs. the Beach Boys... uh

i don't really care for any of these songs. chic i guess.

heh "back in the usa" bookended w/beach boys

i don't really care for any of these songs.
that's amazing to me. is it due to hearing them too much?

here's The Wind, since i don't see much doo-wop talk ppl might not know it

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

56 1965 Rolling Stones Get off of my cloud
57 1968 Sly and the family Stone Dance to the music
59 1963 Crystals Then he kissed me
60 1956 Chuck Berry Roll over Beethoven
61 1969 Clarence Carter Making love (at the dark end of the street)
64 1964 Beatles I saw her standing there
65 1967 Sam and Dave When something is wrong with my baby
66 1963 Roy Orbison In dreams
69 1965 Them Gloria
71 1983 Police Every breath you take
72 1961 Ben E. King Stand by me
74 1979 Chic Good times

Any one of these.

you don't rate "Don't Worry Baby"?!?

on first look, this is shockingly easy for me, so i guess i'll go with that first instinct.

don't worry baby > get off my cloud > then he kissed me

a weird slice of 25 entries, this is. the fact that 23 of the 25 are from 1969 or earlier makes the book appear much more dated and babyboomery than it actually is.

1. "Good Times," 2. "Don't Worry Baby," 3. "The Wind" (without checking as to what's still to come, the most obscure record in the top 75, I'm guessing; there's a Nolan Strong song called "Since You're Gone" I like even better). "Then He Kissed Me" gets a special prize--the Now-Go-Get-Your-Fuckin'-Shinebox-Prize--for the Copa scene in Goodfellas.

Rave On

you don't rate "Don't Worry Baby"?!?

Prefer Bryan Ferry's version.

"Good Times" is still mysterious, beautiful, and irresistible on millionth listen.

I love a ton of these; am tired of a ton of them; frequently it's the same ton.

Voting for "Party Lights"; would probably rank "Good Times" second.

Getting to the rank of songs that suffer the most from overexposure ("Good Times" and "Get Off of My Cloud" are great, but I'm not sure I ever need to hear either again). A few surprises, like "The Wind," which I'm not sure I ever heard before the Youtube post above. Still, it's an easy one for me, because I it's probably my single favorite recording of all time - The Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby."

bump

Was a dead heat between "Rave On" and "Don't Worry Baby" for me-- Beach Boys FTW, in the end.

Saw "The Loco-Motion" and didn't look any further. Which may have been a mistake, but the hell with it.

Little Richard

You know what would be interesting for this list? If, instead of putting the year they were released, Marsh listed his own age at the time the songs first came out. It seems the music of his teenage years was generally the best. That is true for many.

Get Off My Cloud is a fine song, but there are about a dozen better Stones songs ranked lower. For instance, Street Fighting Man.

stand by me

this one is near impossible

the fact that 23 of the 25 are from 1969 or earlier makes the book appear much more dated and babyboomery than it actually is.

Eh. He's down with 1959-1963 which doesn't fit the traditional Boomer portrait. But there's a strong sense of a fall from grace after 1969 in the book which is about as Boomer as one can get.

You know what would be interesting for this list? If, instead of putting the year they were released, Marsh listed his own age at the time the songs first came out. It seems the music of his teenage years was generally the best. That is true for many.

Too damn many. Glasvegas beats all of the above.

Voting for "Party Lights"; would probably rank "Good Times" second.

― xhuxk

This. Chic didn't take it cuz there's waaay better even (especially!) off of Risqué (namely, "My Feet Keep Dancing"). "Party Lights" is one of those gifts from pop music that lend the weight of high Shakespearean tragedy to a banal situation. Or rather, it upholds the experiences of a tweenage girl as its own enormously affecting reality with no need for a measuring stick like Shakespeare to validate it.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

in dreams X1000000

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