1001 Song You Must Hear Before You Die - 1978

Another strong list. Between Blondie, Queen and Magazine for me. Voting Magazine.

Also kind of suspect the funk section of the ILM'ers will have a hard time picking between Funkadelic, Chic and Sylvester (actually all pretty good songs IMO too).

not so impressive compared to 1977

another girl, another planet

Jeez. Bloody hard. I'm all about the Punk tunes here (Everything except for The Clash) plus Human League of course. Coin Flip. Very hard to get Teenage Kicks out of my head. But then Buzzcocks and Pere Ubu and The Cramps keep gnawing away at me. Plus Being Boiled is just great. I could just pretend it all DOESN'T REALLY MATTER and vote anyway.

Cramps cuz no one else will vote for them

It's a strong list that contains a song better than Teenage Kicks.

Public Image

Going with Funkadelic, partly because it's my favorite song here (barely nosing out Ubu, Chic, and the Clash), and partly because, inexplicably, this is the first appearance of a George Clinton project on the list.

Clash in a close call over Blondie and Buzzcocks.

can't do this or choose between

* Non-Alignment Pact
* Le Freak
* You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
* Das Model
* Public Image
* White Man in Hammersmith Palais
* Ambition
* Rock Lobster
* Another Girl, Another Planet
* Running with the Devil

couldn't narrow it down from them

but if this is gonna be mundane New Wave a-go-go I might be forced to go Chic or Sylvester

Have to say I am seriously missing "Down In The Tube Station By Midnight" here though. The Jam's best ever moment surely should have been represented.

Blondie-heart of glass-a true classic

I want to vote Running With The Lobster.

But I'll go with the latter part narrowly over the former.

Lots of bad choices here.

"Running with the Devil" tho

buzzcocks

Chelsea

teenage kicks easy

gotta new non-alignment pact for me

Jacksons!

Clash number two.

I like this list overall much more than '77. I'll vote for "Another Girl, Another Planet," but I also think "Le Freak," "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)," "Public Image," "Alternative Ulster," "Hong Kong Garden," "Running with the Devil," and (especially) "Germ Free Adolescents" are all great, and there are others on top of that I like a lot. A few others: the Adverts' "Gary Gilmore's Eyes," the Avengers' "The Amerikan in Me," Black Flag's "Nervous Breakdown," Cheap Trick's "Surrender," the Germs' "Lexicon Devil," the Mekons' "Where Were You," Television Personalities' "Part-Time Punks," Walter Egan's "Magnet and Steel," Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London," Wire's "Too Late." Almost as great a year as '65 or '72 for me.

Actually, I think I'm going to have to go "Alternative Ulster" number two.

Clash number three!

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Adverts' "Gary Gilmore's Eyes," -- 1977

Have to go with the Cramps here. I like pretty much all these songs.

This is harder for me than 1977!

Went with Non Alignment Pact because I've been enjoying it recently. The Waits song is nothing special. Could've been kraftwerk or magazine or anyone really.

Only Ones

The Clash by a million miles, then Blondie, then a lot of favorites that don't come close.

clemenza otm about "Surrender"; in fact, the big Over the Edge three (Surrender/Just What I Needed/Teenage Lobotomy) are missing. Also, list could use some Devo.

Still a killer list; bit presumptuous but I'm thinking '77-'79 could stand up with '65-'67

Anyways, I'm thinking this is either Ever Fallen in Love or Heart of Glass (w/ Rock Lobster, Le Freak, & Public Image not far behind)

Sylvester

The Human League: Being Boiled
The B-52's: Rock Lobster

heh

Finding it incredibly hard to choose between Buzzcocks and Blondie

Wow, is "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" not one of people's favorite MJ songs?

It's good but it's not the one

Don't know. Did he ever have anything more James Brown than this great, great song?

Buzzcocks: Ever Fallen In Love... (with Someone You Shouldn't've
The Undertones: Teenage Kicks
The Clash: (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
And maybe even <3 would likely all be in a top ten off all time list for me so this is really hard but it's between eithe Ever Fallen and Teenage for me.

Fuck.

Voted buzzcocks because I get 100 pts every time I sing it on rock band and I can't say that about the others.

Pts? %, rather.

this list is OK, doesn't excite me that much.

voting "Rock Lobster."

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

Babatunde Tony Ellis - Punky Reggae
Barnes & Barnes - Fish Heads
Devo - Mongoloid
Dr. Alimantado - I Killed the Barber
Earth, Wind & Fire - September
Gang of Four - Damaged Goods
Ian Dury - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Mistral - Starship 109
Sun Ra - Where Pathways Meet
Thomas Leer - Private Plane
The Cars - Just What I Needed
The Cure - Killing an Arab
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
The Residents - Constantinople
The Rolling Stones - Miss You
Throbbing Gristle - United
Pere Ubu - Street Waves
Wire - Ex-lion tamer

I can't be the only person who finds Cheap Trick's "Surrender" awful.

Earth, Wind & Fire - September

How ... HOW did this miss the cut?!

XXX Post: I suppose you mean 1978?

Anyway, I don't really consider "Killing An Arab" to be among The Cure's best moments. They have so many great songs, so no wonder that particular one was left out.

Man this year!

Eric OTM re Sept too.

September: ruined by Pomplamoose (rip)

Don't Stop Me Now is the one I enjoy the most, could easily go for Blondie and Buzzcocks as well.

geir: yep sorry, meant 1978. The Cure do have better moments but I think 'Killing an Arab' is a particular highlight of the year. I don't see why a band shouldn't be featured several times on the list.

prefer the B-side (10:15 Saturday Night) tbh.

Mongoloid came out in 1977 btw.

I thought "10.15 Saturday Night" was a stand alone single (and I guess it was in 1979)

I didn't know it was released separately but apparently it was in France in 1979.

prefer the B-side (10:15 Saturday Night) tbh.

Mongoloid came out in 1977 btw.

― Operation Pooting (Colonel Poo)

You're right Mongoloid as a single came out in 1977... and it's still missing from the list.... I was thinking of it in album format ( 'Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!' being released 1978)... maybe substitute for Uncontrollable Urge or Jocko Homo.

Was deciding between Germ-Free Adolescents and Don't Stop Me Now. Went with Germ.

xpost lol Mongoloid was a double A-side with Jocko Homo, so that's 1977 as well!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Voted for Milk & Alcohol, it's the only one that I haven't heard just too damn much of.

this is insane

ok fuck it i cant not vote for alternative ulster

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

Fair enough

hope everything is OK with you and yours Geir!

Jacksons: Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) 1

Mentioned it before, but I don't get this.

ouch Siouxie & The Banshees "Hong Kong Garden" with zero votes got robbed~!!

That whole late-70s/early-80s thing of making a song about Asia featuring an Asian-sounding xylophone melody might have dated that track a bit.

The fact that only two songs didn't get any votes shows how deep this year was for music.

Would've voted for "Rock Lobster."

First-generation punk just hasn't done well in these polls so far (unless you count Television as punk, which seems like a stretch). Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones, Damned, X-Ray Spex, Stiff Little Fingers, Siouxsie, they've all maxed out at 5 or 6 votes. I don't know why that it is.

I'd have voted for Stiff Little Fingers if the track had been "Suspect Device" instead of "Alternative Ulster".

Whatever happened to these threads? Somebody poke Geir with a stick.

he said that he was going to be awhile because of that tragically that happened to his country.

Actually more because I was hardly online during a rare period of good summer weather after that. Will try to continue now.