1001 Song You Must Hear Before You Die - 1975

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is probably my favourite track in the entire book, so impossible not to vote for that one.
Kind of regret that means I am not able to vote for a very underrated Alice Cooper song from a very underrated Alice Cooper album though.

Pink Floyd are of course represented with the wrong track, but then, the authors hate long prog tracks with the same passion as Spotify does, so no wonder there was no room for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" here.

Boulder to Birmingham vs. Born to Run = the death of me.

'Leb Wohl' is a bizarre song choice for Neu! 75. It's one of the most unremarkable songs of the album for me. Either 'Isi' or 'Hero' would have been better choices imho.

Appendix: Songs You Must Hear Before You Die 1975 (Non-featured)

Amanaz - History of Man
Betty Davis - F.U.N.K.
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit / Water No Get Enemy
Fleetwod Mac - Rhiannon / Landslide
Francesco De Gregori - Buonanotte fiorellino
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
Jean Yanne - Coït
Lea Roberts - All Right Now
Goblin - Profondo Rosso
Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From
Neil Young - Cortez the Killer
Neu! - Isi / Hero
Nino Ferrer - Le Sud
Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover
Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
Stretch - Why Did You Do It?
Susan Cadogan - Hurt So Good
Silvio Rodriguez - Sueño con serpientes
War - Low Rider

In this case, I would say the featured list is a long stronger than the non-featured one.

And generally, the lack of prog is a lot less deserved than the lack of funk in this book. Funk is a generally overrated genre, prog is underrated.

I'm not posting this appendixes to compete against the featured lists. I kind of agree on most of the songs featured on these lists so far. It's just an addendum of other songs you should check out for this specific year, asides the ones in the featured list. Just some recommendations and omissions, that's all.

You could make a case for the 1974 selections being kind of weird, but I feel the 1975 are much more representative.

Born to Run vs. That's the Way (I Like It) for me. Tough choice.

If it had been Welcome To The Machine instead of Wish You Were Here, I'd vote for that, though.

Gavin Bryars. Bee Gees next best.

what a horrible list. never cared for these particular reggae tracks, so going for queen.

The Isley Brothers: Fight The Power (Parts 1 & 2)
KC & The Sunshine Band: That's The Way (I Like It)
Patti Smith: Gloria
Aerosmith: Walk This Way

4 of my favorite songs from any year so this one will be tough

If it had been Welcome To The Machine instead of Wish You Were Here, I'd vote for that, though.

I love "Welcome To The Machine", but it would have been a strange choice from a more general public opinion viewpoint.

Gonna go bulgarian on this.

this is right hard but i think i might remember old "Marcus Garvey" in a tight field

that Burning Spear joint rules my world

oh c'mon

Born To Run by miles and miles.

I can't play my music
They say my music's too loud
I kept talkin about it
I got the big run around
When I rolled with the punches
I got knocked on the ground
With all this bullshit going down

Jive Talkin' for me.

jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine

"Tangled Up in Blue" and "Gloria" pretty close for me--"Gloria" seems a little more of the moment, so I'll vote for that.

My favourites: Captain & Tenille's "Love Will Keep Us Together" (no lie!), Creme Soda's "Tonight" (didn't hear that one till 2007 or so), Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide," Harold Melvin's "Bad Luck," K.C.'s "Get Down Tonight" (I think the guy messed up there), Neil's "Albuquerque" or "Roll Another Number" or "Barstool Blues," O'Jays' "I Love Music" (long version), the Outlaws' "There Goes Another Love Song," Ronee Blakley's "Dues" from Nashville, Sailor's "Glass of Champagne," Steely Dan's "Dr. Wu," Steve Harley's "Make Me Smile," and Sweet's "Fox on the Run." Actually, I like '75 better than '74.

Maxine Nightingale, too, for sure--I've got it filed away as '76, not realizing it was a hit in the UK a year earlier.

went for bryars for the sheer hell of it

Gloria! Gloria!

this is a hard one to pick for me. it is between "Jive Talkin'" "That's The Way (I Like It)," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Gloria," "Walk This Way" but voting "Tangled Up In Blue."

some other omissions, Foghat "Slow Ride," The Miracles "Love Machine (Part 1)," Jefferson Starship "Miracles," Earth Wind & Fire "Shining Star," and War "Why Can't We Be Friends?"

You should never have opened that door.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd6PJqbPj6M

Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
Fleetwod Mac - Rhiannon
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
Goblin - Profondo Rosso
Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From
Neu! - Hero
Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover
Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
War - Low Rider

― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka)

yeah, i mean damn

75 list >>> 74 list. That's The Way, Gloria, Marcus Garvey, & Walk This Way are all more than worthy of the book title. But I'll have to vote for Tangled Up In Blue.

Oh, meant to give some love to Time For The Preacher. Willie's singing is spectacular. Can't vote for it because the Red Headed Stranger album is too much of a piece for any one track to rise above the strong competition in '75.

tough year, too many i can't deny: jive talkin', fight the power, that's the way, bohemian (fucking) rhapsody, gloria, walk this way. in the end so hard to call between queen and the isley brothers. going with fight the power, not sure why

* never heard and boggle at several of these, esp the anthemic & romantic european pop stuff. and that mystere des voix track! good news to me: boulder to birmingham, born to be with you and eugenio finardi (?) - musica ribelle, sucker for the uplift

great jpg

also:

abba - SOS
ac/dc - it's a long way to the top
america - sister golden hair
foghat - slow ride
hawkwind - motorhead
fleetwood mac - rhiannon
funkadelic - get off your ass and jam
kiss - i wanna rock & roll all night
harold melvin & the bluenotes - don't leave me this way
ohio players - love rollercoaster
parliament - give up the funk
rainbow - man on the silver mountain
jonathan richman - roadrunner
donna summer - love to love you baby
thin lizzy - wild one
gary wright - dream weaver

The most glaring omission, the way I see it, is "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc. Forget about all those funk tracks (there are way too many of them and they have had to make a selection), but "I'm Not In Love" is unique and special and there is nothing else quite like it.

Pink Floyd are of course represented with the wrong track, but then, the authors hate long prog tracks with the same passion as Spotify does, so no wonder there was no room for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" here.

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 08:41 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The authors hate you to have access to long tracks because you haven't paid enough?

Jesus blood saved somebody's sins but failed mine...

(Blimey, some bootmixes are tough!)

The authors hate you to have access to long tracks because you haven't paid enough?

Well... Maybe not in exactly the same way. Btw. I guess there is UMG who hate the combination of Spotify and long tracks rather than Spotify alone. :)

"I'm Not In Love" should've walked this, true.

Doubting between Patti Smith and Gavin Bryars here

this poll made me discover "Jesus' Blood". 1001 songs polls REDEEMED

also:

abba - SOS
ac/dc - it's a long way to the top
america - sister golden hair
foghat - slow ride
hawkwind - motorhead
fleetwood mac - rhiannon
funkadelic - get off your ass and jam
kiss - i wanna rock & roll all night
harold melvin & the bluenotes - don't leave me this way
ohio players - love rollercoaster
parliament - give up the funk
rainbow - man on the silver mountain
jonathan richman - roadrunner
donna summer - love to love you baby
thin lizzy - wild one
gary wright - dream weaver

― Looking for that #Swagu? (contenderizer)

Many of this are actually 1976, not 1975.

There's a pic of Barry Gray (of TV ad music fame) in Mojo, and he looked exactly like the face I imagined was singing "Jesus Blood" ...

The "classics" here all leave me fairly cold. Some are good songs, but none really excite me, which left me to pick between Willie Nelson, Alice Cooper, and Gavin Bryars. I finally decided on Gavin Bryars because it's a wholly unique work, and there's lots of great rock and country ballads. Pretty specious reasoning but you gotta go with something.

Born To Run

One song that won't get many votes is Dion Born To Be With You. It's just not that well-known. But it's such a great song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es02qEiV3ZE

tangled up in blue is sick nasty

Tangled Up in Blue

Marcus Garvey

There are a couple great songs here but I'm surprised Born 2 Run isn't getting more love. To me it is without a doubt one of the greatest rock songs ever. I sort of assumed that was a given.

Neu!: Leb'Wohl

this is maybe my least favourite track on the greatest rock lp

I suspect Born To Run will get the lurker vote. I voted for it. It's too absurdly perfect not to.

xp I voted for Dion for exactly that reason.

Many of this are actually 1976, not 1975.

― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), Wednesday, July 6, 2011 5:16 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

maybe so, but i ran em through wikipedia & discogs, and all allegedly came out in 75, either as singles or on albums. fwiw, several were december 75 releases: AC/DC, foghat, parliament, donna summer.

"roadrunner" is the real oddball, in that it was first recorded in 72 but wasn't released until 75, on the beserkley chartbusters comp. different versions appeared on the 76 modern lovers album and the 77 "roadrunner" single.

best song not on this list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p02-77XI1Gs

Only Women Bleed is an absolutely amazing song, thats my vote, second place to those bulgarian ladies

Burning Spear easy.

There are a couple great songs here but I'm surprised Born 2 Run isn't getting more love.

Is this Prince's version?

I thought we didn't talk about lurkers anymore. I voted for Born "2" Run too

Dion track is the real underrated classic here - a huge chunk of the rest of these are pretty well known greatest hits fodder

I voted for Born "2" Run too

it's an amazing song, lots of fun to sing along w, but it isn't a personal favorite, not sure why. prefer later & less anthemic bruce, esp "atlantic city" and "i'm on fire". well, and "blinded by the light", though that's hardly less anything...

Dion track is the real underrated classic here - a huge chunk of the rest of these are pretty well known greatest hits fodder

yeah, though that mystére de voix bulgares track came as an equally pleasant surprise. have heard later (80s era) LMDVB tracks that didn't move me anywhere near so much.

who produced the dion track? sounds like psychedelic country by way of brian eno. and phil spector. like it, but don't know that it justifies the running time.

Is this Prince's version?

― Number None, Wednesday, July 6, 2011 3:46 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

The Dion album was produced by Spector

whole album is pretty amazing, one of my favorite discoveries of recent years

I don't think it quite deserves "undiscovered masterpiece" status but it's pretty good yeah.

That Dion album was pretty strong, yeah. It may be argued that the Spector sound was a bit dated by 1975, but he brought out the best in Dion in terms of pop songwriting.

Gotta go with Tangled, though I would have voted for "Cortez the Killer" had it been on the list.

Going with my AM Radio memories: the Bee Gees and KC are the best AM songs here. Going Bee Gees.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

if this list had the song that played over the opening credits of Rocky Horror...I wd still vote Burning Spear

but I have wanted to cover the Rocky Horror song

(^aka "Science Fiction-Double Feature")

Dana Andrews said prunes
gave him the runes
and passing them used lots of skill

^ yeah, one of my very favorite songs. my early teenage devotion to the RHPS soundtrack gave my stepdad the fantods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MHNvOVl8Y

Wow! Look at this list! Dylan, Springsteen, Patti Smith, the Bee Gees, Pink Floyd. So what record is the best? The award goes to: Emmylou Harris for "Boulder to Birmingham."

Even Beavis and Butthead liked Jive Talkin.

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

ha Not unlikely, but I figured Tangled would have done better

i knew it was gonna be Springsteen vs. Dylan; probably should've known that Born to Run would win