ILM 20th century tracks poll: your ballot

listening club + poll, imo

The Police - Roxanne (can't explain this one, won't even try)

That was one I voted for that left me scratching my head.

I'm wondering why I voted for two Kate Bush tracks (off the same album). They're both stunning, but still...

I meant to revisit that Umm Kulthum track before voting. I do enjoy the couple of her discs I have...

84 Abbbottt 100 13 0.130 67490 674.900
85 daavid 100 13 0.130 76812 768.120
86 Tuomas 100 13 0.130 57128 571.280
87 CaptainLorax 100 11 0.110 59446 594.460
88 acoleuthic 74 5 0.068 32112 433.946

Hi five for the different kids! Though I guess we're also too different from each other to findany common ground? From what I've gathered at least Lorax and LJ tend to dig totally different things than I.

Ha, I went in and deliberately tried to avoid any guitar rock, tho I made a few exceptions. I ranked about ten songs, though I forget which ones, here's the 100 songs I chose:

"?" and The Mysterians — 96 Tears
Aaliyah — Are You That Somebody?
Alexander Skip Spence — Grey/Afro
Althea and Donna — Uptown Top Ranking
Andrea True Connection — More, More, More
Betty Davis — He Was a Big Freak
Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman — Lush Life
Bo Diddley — Hey Bo Diddley
Brian Eno — Needle in the Camel's Eye
Cabaret Voltaire — Nag Nag Nag
Cardiacs — R.E.S.
Cat Stevens — Wild World
Charles Mingus — Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Comus — Diana
Daryl Hall and John Oates — I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
David Bowie — Ashes to Ashes
David Bowie — Sound and Vision
Del Shannon — Runaway
The Sequence — And You Know That
Depeche Mode — Blasphemous Rumours
Dexys Midnight Runners — Come on Eileen
Digital Underground — The Humpty Dance
Donna Summer — I Feel Love
Donovan — Hurdy Gurdy Man
Earth, Wind and Fire — September
Eartha Kitt — I Want to Be Evil
Edith Piaf — L'Accordéoniste
Etta James — At Last
Fela Kuti — Dog Eat Dog
Fela Kuti — He Miss Road
The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You
Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax
George Gershwin and DuBose Hayward — Summertime
Geto Boys — Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Grace Jones — Pull Up to the Bumper
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — The Message
Gustav Holst — Jupiter
Harold Melvin and The Bluenotes — If You Don't Know Me By Now
Heart — Magic Man
Henry Thomas — Fishing Blues
Jackie Wilson — Lonely Teardrops
Japan — Ghosts
Joni Mitchell — Help Me
Kate Bush — Cloudbusting
K-Ci and Jojo — All My Life
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Somewhere (West Side Story)
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Tonight (West Side Story)
Lucia Pamela — Walking on the Moon
Madness — Our House
Madonna — Live to Tell
Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs — Stay
McCoy Tyner — Passion Dance
• Minnie Riperton — Les Fleur
• Meredith Monk — Gotham Lullaby
Mister (Fred) Rogers — It's You I Like
• Mos Def — Umi Says
Mr. Fingers — Can You Feel It
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood — Some Velvet Morning
Olivia Newton-John — Xanadu
Ofra Haza — Im Nin'alu
Peggy Lee — Fever
Peter Gabriel — Moribund the Burgermeister
Peter Gabriel — In Your Eyes
Prince — U Got the Look
Public Enemy — Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Raymond Scott — Powerhouse
Sade — The Sweetest Taboo
Roy Orbison — Crying
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin — Je t'aime...moi non plus
Shuggie Otis — Strawberry Letter 23
Siouxsie and The Banshees — Happy House
Sly and The Family Stone — Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Sly and The Family Stone — Hot Fun in the Summertime
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — You've Really Got a Hold on Me
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Stevie Wonder — As
Laura Branigan — Self Control
T.Rex — Life's a Gas
The Big Bopper — Chantilly Lace
The Celestial Choir — Stand on the Word
Terry Riley — In C
The Doobie Brothers — What a Fool Believes
The Four Tops — Reach Out I'll Be There
The Jackson 5 — I Want You Back
The Muppets (Piero Umiliani) — Mah Na Mah Na
The Persuaders — Thin Line Between Love and Hate
The Shaggs — My Pal Foot Foot
The Shangri-Las — Past, Present and Future
The Supremes — You Keep Me Hangin' On
The Walker Brothers — The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
This Heat — 24 Track Loop
Throbbing Gristle — Hamburger Lady
Tom Tom Club — Genius of Love
War — The World Is a Ghetto
Warren G — Regulate
White Noise — The Visitations
Wire — Map Ref. 41°N 93°W
XTC — Dear God

Those 3 w/bullets were ranked, and then there were a couple others. Celestial Choir was my #1, it only got one other vote.

I don't remember if I nommed White Noise or not, but I was so happy to vote for it.

mixed ballot:

Elis Regina and Tom Jobim — Aguas de Marco
Gladys Knight and The Pips — Midnight Train to Georgia
Pete Rock and CL Smooth — TROY
Marvin Gaye — I Heard it Through the Grapevine
The Specials — Ghost Town
Desmond Dekker — Israelites
Pulp — Common People
The Breeders — Cannonball
Dr. Dre — Nothin' But a G Thang
Aaliyah — Are You That Somebody?
Otis Redding — Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
Wu Tang Clan — Protect Ya Neck
Prince — Little Red Corvette
Television — Marquee Moon
Randy Newman — Sail Away
Leadbelly — Goodnight Irene
Leonard Cohen — Tower of Song
The Supremes — Where Did Our Love Go?
Young Marble Giants — Final Day
Sinéad O'Connor — Nothing Compares 2 U
Richard Thompson — 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Nas — N.Y. State of Mind
Henry Mancini — Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Van Morrison — Slim Slow Slider
Missy Elliott — The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)

"?" and The Mysterians — 96 Tears
Althea and Donna — Uptown Top Ranking
Belle and Sebastian — The State I Am In
Big Star — September Gurls
Bob Dylan — Positively 4th Street
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son
Curtis Mayfield — If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go
Deee-lite — Groove Is in the Heart
DJ Shadow — Midnight in a Perfect World
Doug E. Fresh and The Get Fresh Crew — The Show
Elvis Presley — Suspicious Minds
Eric B and Rakim — I Know Who Got Your Soul
George Jones — He Stopped Loving Her Today
Geto Boys — Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Guns N' Roses — Sweet Child O' Mine
Iggy Pop — The Passenger
Ike and Tina Turner — River Deep, Mountain High
Isaac Hayes — Walk on By
Jay-Z — Big Pimpin'
Jay-Z — Brooklyn's Finest (ft. The Notorious B.I.G.)
Jimi Hendrix — Castles Made of Sand
John Lennon — Jealous Guy
Johnny Cash — Folsom Prison Blues
Joy Division — Love Will Tear Us Apart
Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
LL Cool J — Mama Said Knock You Out
Michael Jackson — Billie Jean
Mary J. Blige — Real Love
Mobb Deep — Shook Ones pt. II
Montell Jordan — This Is How We Do It
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds — From Her to Eternity
Nick Drake — Pink Moon
Nirvana — Smells Like Teen Spirit
Norman Greenbaum — Spirit in the Sky
Pavement — Summer Babe
Peggy Lee — Is That All There Is?
Pet Shop Boys — Being Boring
Pixies — Wave of Mutilation
Plastic Bertrand — Ça plane pour moi
Prince and The Revolution — When Doves Cry
Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody
Ramones — Blitzkrieg Bop
Ritchie Valens — La Bamba
Sam Cooke — Bring it on Home to Me
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin — Je t'aime...moi non plus
Sex Pistols — Anarchy in the U.K.
Sonic Youth — Expressway to Yr Skull
Stevie Wonder — I Was Made to Love Her
Stevie Wonder — Living for the City
The Animals — The House of the Rising Sun
The Beatles — Because
The Beatles — I Saw Her Standing There
The Clash — (White Man in) Hammersmith Palais
The Go-Betweens — Cattle and Cane
The Kingsmen — Louie Louie
The Magnetic Fields — Strange Powers
The Modern Lovers — Roadrunner
The Mountain Goats — Going to Georgia
The Notorious B.I.G. — Gimme the Loot
The Notorious B.I.G. — Juicy
The Replacements — I Will Dare
The Only Ones — Another Girl Another Planet
The Ronettes — Be My Baby
The Roots — You Got Me (ft. Erykah Badu)
The Smiths — The Queen Is Dead
The Velvet Underground — All Tomorrow's Parties
This Mortal Coil — Song to the Siren
Toots and The Maytals — Pressure Drop
Warren G — Regulate
William DeVaughn — Be Thankful for What You've Got
Yo La Tengo — Sugarcube
Pixies — Debaser
Gang of Four — To Hell With Poverty
Bobbie Gentry — Ode to Billie Joe

I was the only person to vote for Mary J Blige

ok this is too much -- y'all should post like yr top five that *didn't* make it

Celestial Choir was my #1, it only got one other vote.

Hi!

Gladys Knight and The Pips — Midnight Train to Georgia
Pete Rock and CL Smooth — TROY
The Breeders — Cannonball
Aaliyah — Are You That Somebody?
Wu Tang Clan — Protect Ya Neck

I didn't save a text file with my ballot but I did make an itunes playlist. If you're curious about one that you don't recognize feel free to ask. Here are mine:

http://i.imgur.com/KdwfW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JxjOs.jpg

Note: There's one error I ended up switching Dolly Parton's Jolene for either The Shaggs or Gershwin's summertime. Not really sure which one was it in the end, maybe jf or seandalai could clear that up for me.

"Summertime"

okay, so the one and only song that really took me by surprise in the top 125 was of Althea and Donna's "Uptown Top Ranking". like i said in the results thread, i don't think i'd ever knowingly heard the song or so much as heard of the duo prior to its placing. i don't claim to keep up on everything, but come on: according to ILM, it's the 25th best song of the 20th century! feel i should have been aware.

so i don't mean to bust on anyone's choices, but was curious as to how many of the exposed ballots contained it. turns out that 5 of 20 do. interesting thing is that it's the only reggae song on most of those ballots, not counting UK ska. Which again isn't to fault anyone (i had the fucking police on my list ... GLASS HOUSES), just to point out that it does seems to be the 20th century's single standout reggae classic in a lot of people's minds. which weirds me out, cuz it was so utterly off my radar.

seems to be a UK vs. US thing, right? the song went to #1 in the UK in '78, but never made a dent in the US charts, that i know of. and it's not one of those secret classics that turns up on coffee shop speakers and in movies & TV shows all the time, regardless of whether or not it made the hit parade - not over here, anyway. none of which really matters. it's wonderful, and i'm glad to have finally heard it, if 33 years late. woke up with it running through my head this morning. ...along with "wichita lineman".

i'm impressed how lj got the most contrary (in sd terms) list despite not making a list that was all that alt

every time someone posts "i can't believe (your hobbyhorse song of choice) is/isn't on this list" on any of these 20th C poll threads, God bloodily rips the wings off an angel and puts its eyes out with a cigarette

didn't submit ballot cuz i've had lol shit do u but mainly some difficulty w/ how to integrate classical works.....however that is easily solved by considering single-movement pieces only.....so it'd probably be something like

debussy - jeux
scriabin - poem of ecstasy
varèse - arcana
ligeti - lontano
xenakis - tetora
john cage - in a landscape
scelsi - de natura renovatur
les rallizes denudes - night of the assassins
pink floyd - see emily play
the stooges - death trip
neu! - hallogallo
public image ltd - poptones
schooly d - psk
aphex twin - tha
jane's addiction - three days
acen - trip 2 the moon
sonic youth - the diamond sea
autechre - drane2

contenderizer: Don't know if you counted it but 'Uptown Top Ranking' was also on my list. Here's a transcript:

Althea and Donna — Uptown Top Ranking
Alvin Lucier — I Am Sitting in a Room
Aphex Twin — Windowlicker
Aphrodite's Child — The Four Horsemen
Art Ensemble of Chicago — Theme de yoyo
Arthur Russell — A Little Lost
Arvo Pärt — Te Deum
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog
Billie Holiday — Gloomy Sunday
Billie Holiday and Lester Young — When You're Smiling
Björk — Hyperballad
Black Sabbath — Supernaut
Bo Diddley — Hey Bo Diddley
Brian Eno — Needle in the Camel's Eye
Buddy Rich — The Beat Goes On
Cabaret Voltaire — Nag Nag Nag
Can — Future Days
Can — Yoo Doo Right
Carl Perkins — Blue Suede Shoes
Claude Debussy — Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque)
David Bowie — Letter to Hermione
Dawn Penn — No No No
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)
Dusty Springfield — Spooky
Elis Regina and Tom Jobim — Aguas de Marco
ESG — UFO
Fred Neil — Faretheewell (Fred's Tune)
Gang of Four — Damaged Goods
George Gershwin and DuBose Hayward — Summertime
Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Grateful Dead — Friend of the Devil
Iggy and The Stooges — Search and Destroy
Iggy Pop — Lust for Life
Jackson C. Frank — Blues Run the Game
Jimi Hendrix — Castles Made of Sand
Jimi Hendrix Experience — All Along the Watchtower
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman — Lush Life
Jorge Ben — Ponta de Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)
Jorge Ben — Take it Easy My Brother Charles
Kate Bush — Hounds of Love
Kraftwerk — Computer Love
Led Zeppelin — When the Levee Breaks
Liquid Liquid — Optimo
Little Anthony and The Imperials — Goin' Out of My Head
Louis Armstrong — Hello Dolly!
M|A|R|R|S — Pump Up the Volume
Marlena Shaw — The Woman of the Ghetto
Massive Attack — Unfinished Sympathy
Mazzy Star — Fade Into You
Miles Davis — Shhh/Peaceful
My Bloody Valentine — Soon
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood — Some Velvet Morning
Neu! — Hallogallo
New Order — Age of Consent
Nick Drake — Pink Moon
Nina Simone — My Baby Just Cares for Me
Nina Simone — Sinnerman
Norman Greenbaum — Spirit in the Sky
Olivier Messiaen — Quatuor pour la fin du temps: V. Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus
Peggy Lee — Is That All There Is?
Peter Brotzmann Octet — Machine Gun
Pink Floyd — See Emily Play
Pixies — Debaser
Prince and The Revolution — Kiss
Radiohead — Fake Plastic Trees
Rammellzee and K-Rob — Beat Bop
Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire — Theme from "Dr. Who"
Saint Etienne — Avenue
Salcos — Demolición
Secos e Molhados — Sangue Latino
Sonic Youth — The Diamond Sea
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto — Girl From Ipanema
Stereolab — Jenny Ondioline
Sugarhill Gang — Rapper's Delight
T.Rex — Raw Ramp
Tenor Saw — Ring the Alarm
The Clash — Lost in the Supermarket
The Cure — A Forest
The Faces — Ooh La La
The Fall — Totally Wired
The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You
The Human League — Being Boiled
The Ink Spots — I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
The Jesus and Mary Chain — Never Understand
The Modern Lovers — Roadrunner
The Normal — Warm Leatherette
The Slickers — Johnny Too Bad
The Specials — Ghost Town
The Standells — Dirty Water
The Stone Roses — I Wanna Be Adored
The Stooges — No Fun
The Sugarcubes — Birthday
The Tammys — Egyptian Shumba
The Undertones — Teenage Kicks
The Zombies — Time of the Season
Timmy Thomas — Why Can't We Live Together
Tom Tom Club — Genius of Love
Tricky — Poems
XTC — Making Plans for Nigel
Young Marble Giants — Final Day

There were two reggae songs on my list (ring the alarm, uptown top ranking)... three if you count 'ghost town'. I'm not from the UK and the song might not have any social criticism in its lyrics but I have no problem with it being the most representative reggae song of all time. Granted I'm not a reggae connoisseur but for me it resumes everything I like about the genre, listening to this song immediatly gives me the sensation of being young, of feeling free, of wanting to frolic in the summer. I can't think of many others #1 hits as authentically fun as this one.

I think I may have first noticed that Althea and Donna song on an Elvis Costello list of greatest songs. I'm hoping that will shame any Elvis Costello haters who voted for it, although I personally don't mind Elvis Costello; I find it easy enough to ignore his more annoying moments. Actually, I wish I had kept a copy of that Elvis Costello list. It's probably online somewhere though. I think it was in Vanity Fair or something weird like that.

I don't see why Elvis Costello loving it would shame his haters. For all I know everybody loves this song.

moka otm. awesome list btw

Way behind on all this, but here's my ballot. Top 20 ranked, but mostly just to give a little bump to somethings I thought could use it:

Miles Davis — He Loved Him Madly
Miles Davis — Shhh/Peaceful
Stevie Wonder — As
Wu Tang Clan — Protect Ya Neck
The Underdogs — Love's Gone Bad
The Rolling Stones — Sway
Neu! — Hallogallo
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Cortez the Killer
George Gershwin and DuBose Hayward — Summertime
Bob Dylan — Girl From the North Country
10cc — I'm Not in Love
Blind Willie Johnson — John the Revelator
Blue Öyster Cult — Don't Fear the Reaper
Steely Dan — Peg
Black Sabbath — Supernaut
Can — Mother Sky
David Bowie — Station to Station
Funkadelic — Maggot Brain
N.W.A — Straight Outta Compton
The Stooges — TV Eye

Al Green — Love and Happiness
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers — Moanin'
Arthur Russell — A Little Lost
Bauhaus — Bela Lugosi's Dead
Big Star — Thirteen
Blind Faith — Can't Find My Way Home
Brian Eno — Everything Merges With the Night
Bruce Springsteen — I'm on Fire
Charles Mingus — Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Daft Punk — Da Funk
Daryl Hall and John Oates — I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
Depeche Mode — Enjoy the Silence
Dolly Parton — Jolene
Etta James — At Last
Fleetwood Mac — Sara
Frank Sinatra — I've Got You Under My Skin
Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Giorgio Moroder — Chase (Midnight Express)
Gordon Lightfoot — The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Grateful Dead — Box of Rain
James Brown — The Payback
Johnny Cash — Folsom Prison Blues
Kate Bush — Cloudbusting
King Crimson — 21st Century Schizoid Man
Kraftwerk — Autobahn
Leonard Cohen — Famous Blue Raincoat
Louis Armstrong — What a Wonderful World
Magma — De Futura
Marvin Gaye — What's Goin' On
Michael Jackson — Billie Jean
Minutemen — Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?
Mission of Burma — Academy Fight Song
My Bloody Valentine — Soon
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood — Some Velvet Morning
Nas — N.Y. State of Mind
New Order — Ceremony
Nina Simone — Sinnerman
Patsy Cline — Crazy
Pavement — Summer Babe
Pet Shop Boys — Always on My Mind
Pink Floyd — Echoes
Pixies — Debaser
Prince and The Revolution — Purple Rain
Public Enemy — Fight the Power
R.E.M. — So. Central Rain
Radiohead — Let Down
Rainbow — Stargazer
Ramones — Judy Is a Punk
Rush — Subdivisions
Sam Cooke — (What a) Wonderful World
Santo and Johnny — Sleep Walk
Scott Walker — Farmer in the City
Slayer — Raining Blood
Slint — Good Morning, Captain
Sly and The Family Stone — Everyday People
Sonic Youth — Teen Age Riot
Suicide — Ghost Rider
Swans — New Mind
Talk Talk — I Believe in You
Talking Heads — Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
Television — Marquee Moon
The Alan Parsons Project — Eye in the Sky
The Beach Boys — Heroes and Villains
The Cure — A Forest
The Faces — Ooh La La
The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You
The Jackson 5 — I Want You Back
The Notorious B.I.G. — Juicy
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale of New York
The Replacements — I Will Dare
The Ronettes — Be My Baby
The Supremes — Where Did Our Love Go?
The Velvet Underground — Heroin
The Zombies — Care of Cell 44
Thin Lizzy — The Boys Are Back in Town
Todd Rundgren — I Saw the Light
Van Morrison — St. Dominic's Preview
Vince Guaraldi Trio — Linus and Lucy
Wire — Mannequin
Yes — Close to the Edge

moka otm. awesome list btw

― The Dumbest Jews on the Planet (and Maureen Dowd) (symsymsym)

Thanks I also like yours. Completely forgot to vote for 'la bamba' it was one of my favorite childhood songs.

Moka, I don't think Bill Withers was nominated. If it was, I would've put it in my top 10 or 20.

Yes you're right what a grave mistake we've all made.

I already published the text version of my ballot and I think it's the same one I send out. Mmm so there's two erros on the playlist, I didn't vote for Bill Withers nor Dolly Parton. Ended up switching for 'summertime' and 'pink moon'... In the end I didn't vote for the Shaggs, that I sorely regret.

Also regret not voting 'johnny b. goode' thought it has a big chance of making it high on the list without my help.

Actually just noticed there's two more reggae tracks on my ballot:

Dawn Penn - No no no
The Slickers - Johnny too bad

I had Dawn Penn's "No No No" and Desmond Dekker's "Israelites" on my shortlist, but had to cut them to to get to 100 songs. I'm not well versed in reggae, I hadn't heard the Althea & Donna song before it showed up in the ILM 70s poll a few years ago, but I immediately realized how brilliant it is (though in my opinion their "No More Fighting" is even better). Sadly, besides Althea & Donna, none of my favourite reggae tunes ("The Harder They Come" by Jimmy Cliff, "Chase the Devil" by Max Romeo, "In These Times" by Errol Alkan) were nominated at all.

Sorry, that's "In These Times" by Errol Walker, Errol Alkan is some other guy.

If you haven't heard that one, you should check it out, it's an utterly brilliant version of "Summertime":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtOwMIdQ-3A

This is more or less what I went for as I chopped and changed stuff at the bottom of the ballot, ordered/unordered mix.

This Mortal Coil — Song to the Siren
Big Star — Thirteen
Rod Stewart — Maggie May
The Human League — Love Action (I Believe in Love)
Grace Jones — Slave to the Rhythm
The Lovin' Spoonful — Do You Believe in Magic
R.E.M. — Fall on Me
Bran Van 3000 — Drinking in L.A.
The Band — The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Nick Drake — Northern Sky
Marvin Gaye — Sexual Healing
John Barry — Theme from "Midnight Cowboy"
Kraftwerk — Computer Love
Harry Nilsson — Everybody's Talkin'
Kate Bush — Why Should I Love You
Loose Ends — Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)
Electric Light Orchestra — Sweet Talking Woman
Roy Harper — When and Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease
Underworld — Jumbo
Vangelis — Ask the Mountains
Saint Etienne — He's on the Phone
Talking Heads — Once in a Lifetime
Massive Attack — Unfinished Sympathy
Jake Thackray — Lah-Di-Dah
Nick Lowe — So it Goes
Queen and David Bowie — Under Pressure
R.E.M. — Find the River
Nico — These Days
Bob Dylan — Like a Rolling Stone
Tom Waits — In the Neighborhood
Pretenders — Stop Your Sobbing
Jimmy Ruffin — What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Fairport Convention — Who Knows Where the Time Goes
The Teardrop Explodes — Treason (It's Just a Story)
The Associates — Party Fears Two
Aphex Twin — Rhubarb
Frank Wilson — Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
Lord Rockingham's XI — Hoots Mon
Al Bowlly — You Couldn't Be Cute
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Massive Attack — Teardrop
Steve Reich — Come Out
Rainbow — Stargazer
Richard Thompson — 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Richard Thompson — I Misunderstood
Sister Sledge — Lost in Music
Little Junior and The Blue Flames — Feelin' Good
Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Kate Bush — Wuthering Heights
Otis Redding — Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
The Saints — (I'm) Stranded
The Shangri-Las — Past, Present and Future
Roxy Music — More Than This
Sam Cooke — A Change Is Gonna Come
Patrick Cowley — Menergy
Pet Shop Boys — What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Public Enemy — Night of the Living Baseheads
Gary Numan / Tubeway Army — Are Friends Electric?
Aphrodites Child – The Four Horsemen
Motörhead — Ace of Spades
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Theme de Yoyo
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Lodi
Blur — Yuko and Hiro
George Formby — Little Stick of Blackpool Rock
New Radicals — You Get What You Give
Henryk Górecki — Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
Brian Eno — An Ending (Ascent)
Bruce Springsteen — The River
Carpenters — Rainy Days and Mondays
Chic — Good Times
Kate Bush — Cloudbusting
Curtis Mayfield — Move on Up
Suicide — Ghost Rider
Talking Heads — This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)
Teenage Fanclub — Sparky's Dream
The Archies — Sugar, Sugar
The Beatles — And Your Bird Can Sing
The Tornados — Telstar
The Undertones — Teenage Kicks
Thunderclap Newman — Something in the Air
Ultramagnetic MCs — Traveling at the Speed of Thought (Hip House Mix)
Wreckless Eric — Whole Wide World
Yaz(oo) — Only You
New Order — Thieves Like Us
The Crystals — Da Doo Ron Ron
The Faces — Ooh La La
The Flaming Lips — Race for the Prize
The Human League — Don't You Want Me
The Impressions — People Get Ready
The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset
David Bowie — Heroes
Echo and The Bunnymen — Bring on the Dancing Horses
Nirvana — Smells Like Teen Spirit

Unordered, I couldn't face trying to rank them. Maybe there were one or two changes to my final entry, can't remember. Sorry for multiple entries by the same artists but hey I had to follow my heart, would have done it a bit differently with hindsight but polling the 20th century is a tall order.

10cc — I'm Mandy Fly Me
10cc — I'm Not in Love
ABBA — Dancing Queen
ABBA — The Winner Takes it All
Aphrodite's Child — The Four Horsemen
Area — Luglio, Agosto, Settembre (Nero)
Aretha Franklin — Say a Little Prayer
Art Ensemble of Chicago — Theme de yoyo
Bill Fay — Time of the Last Persecution
Black Sabbath — Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath — Supernaut
Blondie — Heart of Glass
Blue Öyster Cult — Don't Fear the Reaper
Boston — More Than a Feeling
Can — Mother Sky
Can — Yoo Doo Right
Carpenters — Rainy Days and Mondays
Carpenters — Superstar
Chris Bell — I Am the Cosmos
Comus — Diana
Daryl Hall and John Oates — Private Eyes
David Sylvian and Ryuchi Sakamoto — Forbidden Colours
Dock Boggs — Sugar Baby
Donna Summer — I Feel Love
Edgard Varèse — Amériques
Genesis — Supper's Ready
Gravediggaz — Diary of a Madman
György Ligeti — Atmosphéres
Harry Partch — U.S. Highball
Hüsker Dü — Could You Be the One?
Iannis Xenakis — La Legende d'Eer
Japan — Ghosts
Javanese Court Gamelan — Gending Tejanata / Ladrang Sembawa / Ladrang Playon
John Barry — Capsule in Space (You Only Live Twice)
John Martyn — Solid Air
Joni Mitchell — Coyote
Journey — Don't Stop Believin'
Kate Bush — Hello Earth
Kate Bush — Wuthering Heights
King Crimson — 21st Century Schizoid Man
Kraftwerk — Autobahn
Kraftwerk — Computer Love
Kraftwerk — Neon Lights
Kraftwerk — Trans Europe Express
Laurie Anderson — O Superman
Leadbelly — Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Love — Alone Again Or
Magma — De Futura
Moondog — All Is Loneliness
Motörhead — Ace of Spades
Nancy Sinatra — You Only Live Twice
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Cowgirl in the Sand
Nick Drake — Pink Moon
Ornette Coleman — Lonely Woman
Pere Ubu — Final Solution
Peter Gabriel — Moribund the Burgermeister
Pharoah Sanders — The Creator Has a Master Plan
Phillip Glass — Music in Twelve Parts (Part I)
Pink Floyd — Astronomy Domine
Popol Vuh — Agirre I
Rainbow — Stargazer
Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire — Theme from "Dr. Who"
Roxy Music — Virginia Plain
Rush — Hemispheres (full suite)
Rush — Subdivisions
Rush — Tom Sawyer
Slayer — Angel of Death
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — Tears of a Clown
Sparks — This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us
Steeleye Span — When I Was on Horseback
Steely Dan — Peg
Steve Reich — Music For 18 Musicians
Sun Ra — Love in Outer Space
Swans — New Mind
Tangerine Dream — Birth of Liquid Plejades
Television — Marquee Moon
The Band — The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Beach Boys — God Only Knows
The Beach Boys — Good Vibrations
The Beach Boys — Surf's Up
The Beach Boys — Wouldn't it Be Nice
The Byrds — Eight Miles High
The Byrds — Turn! Turn! Turn!
The Chills — Pink Frost
The Chills — Rain
The Jackson 5 — I Want You Back
The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset
The Monkees — Porpoise Song
The Ronettes — Be My Baby
The Supremes — You Keep Me Hangin' On
The Zombies — Time of the Season
This Heat — 24 Track Loop
Todd Rundgren — I Saw the Light
Tom Waits — Cemetery Polka
Tom Waits — In the Neighborhood
Toru Takemitsu — Waltz from "Face of Another"
Townes Van Zandt — Waiting 'Round to Die
Van Der Graaf Generator — Arrow
Yellow Magic Orchestra — Rydeen
Yes — Close to the Edge

Songs I would've picked if I'd remembered to nominate them :
Neil Young - Revolution Blues
Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo

Surprised at Aretha's no-show. I thought everything was lining up in her favour - canonical artist impossible to dislike, little vote-splitting, excellent position in the alphabet, etc

I voted for Althea and Donna and The Congos, but only the latter was on the basis of being a standout representative of reggae. Uptown Top Ranking was more along the lines of "this was an excellent pop song".

This lurker's list below, with songs that made the list marked with an asterisk. I too decided it would be too daunting to try and put songs in any order.

*ABBA — Dancing Queen
*Al Green — Let's Stay Together
*Althea and Donna — Uptown Top Ranking
Arthur Russell — A Little Lost
Arthur Russell — In the Light of the Miracle
Beastie Boys — Shake Your Rump
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys — You're Okay
Bobby "Boris" Pickett — Monster Mash
Bobby Please and The Pleasers — The Monster
*Bobby Womack — Across 110th Street
Brian Eno — By This River
*Brian Eno — St. Elmo's Fire
Can — Future Days
Charlie Parker — Parker's Mood
*Chic — Good Times
Chic — My Feet Keep Dancing
Coati Mundi — Que Pasa / Me No Pop I
Daryl Hall and John Oates — I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
David Bowie — Ashes to Ashes
Diana Ross — Upside Down
DJ Shadow — Midnight in a Perfect World
*Donna Summer — I Feel Love
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Sentimental Lady
*Elis Regina and Tom Jobim — Aguas de Marco
Ernest Tubb — Walking the Floor Over You
Fats Waller — Ain't Misbehavin'
Fleetwood Mac — Tusk
France Gall — Laisse tomber les filles
Genesis — Carpet Crawlers
Genesis — Firth of Fifth
Genesis — Supper's Ready
Gwen McCrae — Rockin' Chair
Harry Nilsson — Moonbeam
Isaac Hayes — Theme from "Shaft"
James Brown — The Payback
Jean Goldkette and His Orchestra — Clementine (From New Orleans)
Jeanette — Corazon de Poeta
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers — Black Bottom Stomp
John Cale — Fear
John Cale — Paris 1919
*John Coltrane — My Favorite Things
Joni Mitchell — Help Me
Jorge Ben — Amor de Carnaval
Jorge Ben — Take it Easy My Brother Charles
Julian Cope — Sunspots
Katrina and The Waves — Walking on Sunshine
Kraftwerk — The Model
*Kraftwerk — Trans Europe Express
Kurt Weill — The Cannon Song
Laurie Anderson — Sharkey's Day
Les Paul and Mary Ford — How High the Moon
*Link Wray and His Ray Men — Rumble
Love — You Set the Scene
Machine — There But for the Grace of God
*Michael Jackson — Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Mickey and Sylvia — Love Is Strange
Nara Leão — Lindoneia
New Order — True Faith
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Souvenir
Os Mutantes — Panis et Circences
Pet Shop Boys — Left to My Own Devices
*Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys — What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Peter Brotzmann Octet — Machine Gun
Peter Gabriel — Moribund the Burgermeister
Pink Floyd — See Emily Play
*Prince and The Revolution — Kiss
R.E.M. — Radio Free Europe
Roxy Music — Street Life
Ruby Keeler — 42nd Street
Sagittarius — My World Fell Down
Saint Etienne — He's on the Phone
Scott Walker — Montague Terrace (In Blue)
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin — Je t'aime...moi non plus
Sparks — When Do I Get to Sing "My Way"?
*Stereolab — Jenny Ondioline
Talking Heads — The Great Curve
The Associates — Party Fears Two
*The Beatles — Penny Lane
The Big Bopper — Chantilly Lace
The Chords — Sh-Boom
The Easybeats — Friday on My Mind
The Fall — How I Wrote Elastic Man
The Fall — Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
The Fall — Paintwork
*The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You
The Flirtations — Nothing But a Heartache
The Hues Corporation — Rock the Boat
The Mamas and The Papas — California Dreamin'
The Rolling Stones — Street Fighting Man
The Spinners — I'll Be Around
*The Supremes — You Keep Me Hangin' On
The Tammys — Egyptian Shumba
The Velvet Underground — All Tomorrow's Parties
They Might Be Giants — Birdhouse in Your Soul
*Tom Tom Club — Genius of Love
*Vince Guaraldi Trio — Linus and Lucy
William DeVaughn — Be Thankful for What You've Got
*Wire — Map Ref. 41°N 93°W
*Yes — Close to the Edge

I'm from the US and first discovered "Uptown Top Ranking" through one of the Avalanches' mixes, "Brains." Matter of fact, I think "I Can't Go for That," which also made my ballot, didn't really enter my consciousness (though I can't NOT have heard it) until I listened to "Gimix."

I didn't think too much about the representative aspects of my list apart from attempting to get some votes for the earlier half of the century, though I still ended up voting more for my favorites rather than being more strategic. Even then, I still had only two to four songs each from the twenties to the fifties. While on the main thread there was a lot of understandable discussion about the paucity of material from these years, I would guess that (at least prior to the fifties) there were probably comparatively fewer sound recordings being made and distributed... so maybe in that sense the list is less empirically disproportionate than it seems, apart from the low '90s count? (Did anyone talk about "tracks" prior to the development of the LP?)

Anyway, I'd love to do whatever kind of poll Johnny Fever or whoever wants to put up, though I never seem to contribute anything besides a ballot. And thanks for this one, too, Johnny and seandalai!

ordered, ilm poll rank in parentheses.

1.Charles Mingus — Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (223)
2.Cheap Trick — Surrender (52)
3.Black Sabbath — Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (220)
4.Yes — Close to the Edge (67)
5.The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter (2)
6.The Beatles — I Am the Walrus (533)
7.The Replacements — I Will Dare (297)
8.Wire — Map Ref. 41°N 93°W (64)
9.The Stone Roses — I Wanna Be Adored (622)
10.Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls (54)
11.Guided By Voices — Game of Pricks (337)
12.Motörhead — Ace of Spades (123)
13.Parliament — Flashlight (449)
14.Bob Dylan — Ballad of a Thin Man (248)
15.Bill Haley and The Comets — Rock Around the Clock (615)
16.Thin Lizzy — The Boys Are Back in Town (442)
17.Guns N' Roses — Welcome to the Jungle (222)
18.Nick Drake — River Man (715)
19.Bruce Springsteen — Born to Run (117)
20.Bob Marley and The Wailers — Get Up, Stand Up (709)
21.Marvin Gaye — What's Goin' On (161)
22.Prince — I Wanna Be Your Lover (555)
23.The Band — The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (427)
24.Todd Rundgren — I Saw the Light (171)
25.Depeche Mode — Enjoy the Silence (42)
26.The Zombies — Time of the Season (276)
27.Daryl Hall and John Oates — She's Gone (761)
28.Big Country — In a Big Country (647)
29.Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman (6)
30.My Bloody Valentine — You Made Me Realise (226)
31.Japan — Ghosts (210)
32.Swervedriver — Duel (1126)
33.Dionne Warwick — Walk on By (176)
34.Aztec Camera — Oblivious (953)
35.Funkadelic — One Nation Under a Groove (366)
36.Nick Lowe — So it Goes (501)
37.The Beach Boys — Wouldn't it Be Nice (56)
38.Frank Sinatra — I've Got You Under My Skin (334)
39.R.E.M. — Radio Free Europe (714)
40.KISS — Detroit Rock City (1170)
41.Mott the Hoople — All the Way From Memphis (1342)
42.Rush — Tom Sawyer (574)
43.The Delfonics — La-La Means I Love You (1555)
44.The Spinners — I'll Be Around (258)
45.The Chills — Pink Frost (570)
46.Chris Bell — I Am the Cosmos (185)
47.Michael Jackson — Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (21)
48.Led Zeppelin — Kashmir (806)
49.Ride — Dreams Burn Down (349)
50.Blue Öyster Cult — Don't Fear the Reaper (23)
51.Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You (50)
52.Television — See No Evil (324)
53.The Byrds — Eight Miles High (130)
54.Richard Hell and The Voidoids — Blank Generation (473)
55.Mission of Burma — Academy Fight Song (673)
56.Madonna — Into the Groove (85)
57.Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (61)
58.Earth, Wind and Fire — September (174)
59.The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Take Five (424)
60.Sex Pistols — Holidays in the Sun (355)
61.Neil Young — The Needle and the Damage Done (371)
62.Daryl Hall and John Oates — I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) (148)
63.Chic — Good Times (45)
64.10cc — I'm Not in Love (119)
65.Nine Inch Nails — Head Like a Hole (1185)
66.Radiohead — Paranoid Android (60)
67.The Glenn Miller Orchestra — In the Mood (351)
68.Bee Gees — Stayin' Alive (634)
69.Fats Domino — Ain't That a Shame (1398)
70.Big Star — Thirteen (70)
71.Ohio Players — Fire (1054)
72.Buddy Holly — Peggy Sue (317)
73.David Bowie — Life on Mars? (76)
75.The Smiths — The Queen Is Dead (405)
76.Duran Duran — Planet Earth (1456)
77.Aphex Twin — Windowlicker (206)
78.Eddie Kendricks — Girl You Need a Change of Mind (1496)
79.Iggy and The Stooges — Search and Destroy (73)
80.The Psychedelic Furs — Love My Way (509)
81.The Velvet Underground — Rock n' Roll (188)
82.XTC — Dear God (689)
83.Boards of Canada — Happy Cycling (1498)
84.The Church — Under the Milky Way (520)
85.Fleetwood Mac — Dreams (194)
86.Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers — Why Do Fools Fall in Love (756)
87.The The — This Is the Day (507)
88.Stevie Wonder — I Was Made to Love Her (640)
89.Lou Rawls — You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mind (1893)
90.Sparks — This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us (144)
91.Shuggie Otis — Strawberry Letter 23 (346)
92.Steely Dan — Peg (203)
93.The Who — My Generation (499)
94.The Hollies — Bus Stop (1567)
95.Blur — For Tomorrow (575)
95.U2 — Pride (In the Name of Love) (1182)
96.Digital Underground — The Humpty Dance (495)
97.Little Richard — Tutti Frutti (363)
98.Public Enemy — Bring the Noise (40)
99.Lou Reed — Walk on the Wild Side (412)
100.Willie Nelson — Always on My Mind (1249)

Not ordered--and for a few of these (but not many), I'd pick a different song by that person.

Al Green — Let's Stay Together
Aretha Franklin — Say a Little Prayer
Arvo Pärt — Spiegel im Spiegel
Beck — Loser
Big Star — September Gurls
Bo Diddley — Who Do You Love
Bob Dylan — Desolation Row
Carpenters — Rainy Days and Mondays
Cheap Trick — Surrender
Chic — Good Times
Company B — Fascinated
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Ramble Tamble
Crosby, Stills and Nash — Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
David Bowie — Rebel Rebel
De La Soul — Eye Know
Dionne Warwick — Walk on By
Dr. Dre — Nothin' But a G Thang
Fairport Convention — Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Flamin' Groovies — Shake Some Action
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Guided By Voices — Motor Away
Hüsker Dü — Eight Miles High
John Coltrane — My Favorite Things
Johnny Cash — I Walk the Line
Joy Division — Disorder
Kate Bush — Cloudbusting
Lauryn Hill — Doo Wop (That Thing)
Liz Phair — Fuck and Run
Mott the Hoople — All the Young Dudes
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Cowgirl in the Sand
Nico — These Days
Pet Shop Boys — What Have I Done to Deserve This?
R.E.M. — Radio Free Europe
Rod Stewart — Mandolin Wind
Sly and the Family Stone — Family Affair
Sonic Youth — Teen Age Riot
Steely Dan — Rikki Don't Lose That Number
The Beatles — Eight Days a Week
The Byrds — Eight Miles High
The Clash — Complete Control
The Creation — Making Time
The Germs — Forming
The Jesus and Mary Chain — Never Understand
The Modern Lovers — Roadrunner
The Only Ones — Another Girl, Another Planet
The Replacements — I Will Dare
The Rolling Stones — Sway
The Velvet Underground — Heroin
The Zombies — Care of Cell 44
Todd Rundgren — I Saw the Light
Tommy James and the Shondelles — Crimson and Clover
Vince Guaraldi Trio — Linus and Lucy
Wire — Mannequin
Yo La Tengo — Blue Line Swinger

(I'm one of those annoying schoolmarms who's driven up the wall by all those "The"s at the beginning of band names...)

Unranked. Those that made the 125 in bold, bands that got a different track in the 125 in italics.

"?" and The Mysterians — 96 Tears
Alvin Lucier — I Am Sitting in a Room
Amon Düül II — Archangels Thunderbird
Aphrodite's Child — The Four Horsemen
Art Ensemble of Chicago — Theme de yoyo
Arthur Russell — A Little Lost
Arvo Pärt — Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Belle and Sebastian — The State I Am In
Bessie Smith — Hateful Blues
Big Star — Holocaust
Billie Holiday — Gloomy Sunday
Blind Willie Johnson — John the Revelator
Boredoms — (circle)
Brian Eno — Baby's on Fire
Bruce Haack — Blow Job
Cabaret Voltaire — Nag Nag Nag
Carl Orff — O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
Can — Mother Sky
Can — Yoo Doo Right
Charles Mingus — Haitian Fight Song
Clothilde — Saperlipopette
Cluster — Sowiesoso
Comus — Diana
Cornelius Cardew — Paragraph 1 of the Great Learning
Cromagnon — Caledonia
Curtis Mayfield — If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go
Del Shannon — Runaway
Desmond Dekker — 007 (Shanty Town)
Devo — Mongoloid
Donna Summer — I Feel Love
Dusty Springfield — I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Edgard Varèse — Poème électronique
Ella Fitzgerald — Mack the Knife
Eric B and Rakim — Paid in Full
Faust — J'ai Mal Aux Dents
Flower Travellin' Band — Satori pt. 2
France Gall — Poupée de cire, poupée de son
Gang of Four — Love Like Anthrax
George Gershwin and DuBose Hayward — Summertime
Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Giorgio Moroder — Chase (Midnight Express)
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — The Message
Harmonia — Deluxe (Immer Wieder)
Hawkwind — Silver Machine
Hildegard Knef — From Here on in it Gets Rough
Hot Butter — Popcorn
Huggy Bear — Her Jazz
Jacques Brel — Amsterdam
John Cale — Paris 1919
Joy Division — Transmission
Kraftwerk — Trans Europe Express
La Dusseldorf — Dusseldorf
Laurie Anderson — O Superman
Lucia Pamela — Walking on the Moon
Magma — De Futura
Marlena Shaw — The Woman of the Ghetto
Meredith Monk — Gotham Lullaby
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood — Some Velvet Morning
Negativland — Christianity Is Stupid
Neu! — Hallogallo
Os Mutantes — Panis et Circences
Pentangle — Train Song
Pere Ubu — Final Solution
Pet Shop Boys — What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Prolapse — Tina, This Is Matthew Stone
Public Enemy — Bring the Noise
Raymond Scott — Powerhouse
Renaldo and The Loaf — Haul on the Bowline
Richard Harris — Macarthur Park
Robert Johnson — Kindhearted Woman Blues
Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire — Theme from "Dr. Who"
Scott Walker — Jackie
Scott Walker — The Seventh Seal
Serge Gainsbourg — Cargo Culte
Silver Apples — Program
Slapp Happy — Dawn
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto — Girl From Ipanema
Stereolab — French Disko
Sugarhill Gang — Rapper's Delight
Terry Riley — In C
The Fall — How I Wrote Elastic Man
The Flirtations — Nothing But a Heartache
The Go-Betweens — Streets of Your Town
The KLF — Justified and Ancient
The Modern Lovers — Roadrunner
The Monks — Shut Up
The Normal — Warm Leatherette
The Pop Group — She Is Beyond Good and Evil
The Residents — Skratz
The Shaggs — My Pal Foot Foot
The Shangri-Las — Leader of the Pack
The Specials — Ghost Town
The United States of America — Garden of Earthly Delights
The Velvet Underground — Sister Ray
This Heat — Paper Hats
Wayne Smith — Under Me Sleng Teng
White Noise — The Visitations
World Domination Enterprises — Asbestos Lead Asbestos
Yellow Magic Orchestra — La Femme Chinoise

Just noticed this curious run:

Jacques Brel — Amsterdam
John Cale — Paris 1919
Joy Division — Transmission
Kraftwerk — Trans Europe Express
La Dusseldorf — Dusseldorf

I must have been feeling very continental while whittling these down.

Smart list! Think we were the only 2 people to vote for these:

The United States of America — Garden of Earthly Delights
World Domination Enterprises — Asbestos Lead Asbestos

*sad face*

You forgot to bold out the Shaggs, emily.

I love your list, btw. A couple of artists in there that I've never heard before (Hildegard Knef, Huggy Bear, Lucia Pamela, Slapp Happy, Renaldo and The Loaf ) but considering how much I love the rest of the list I'm going to search out these songs immediatly.

I'm smashing my head for not including: Nothing But a Heartache, Silver Machine, Popcorn and Powerhouse.

Oh and the Shaggs, of course, but that was an honest mistake I was pretty certain I had modified my ballot to include them before submitting.

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(...and I was the other Knef voter, emil.y)

My list is on another PC, but looking at the tracks with 101 points, I think I must've been the sole voter for these:

Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
Dan Hartman - Vertigo / Relight My Fire
Disco Tex and His Sex-O-Lettes - Get Dancin'
Jean Jacques Perrey - E.V.A.
Kasenatz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus - Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)
Luciano Berio - Sinfonia: III - In ruhig fliessender Bewegung
Pierre Boulez - Repons
Pierre Henry - Psyche Rock
Subway Sect - Ambition
Tantra - The Hills of Katmandu (Patrick Cowley Megamix)
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
Wizzard - See My Baby Jive

I'm not too surprised about the ones we were the only two voters for, to be honest, Nick. There are definitely some tracks with only one vote that I thought many more people would vote for - not my solo votes, so much, but things like 'Ode to Billie Joe', 'E.V.A.', 'Rockit' and Gal Costa's 'Baby' - the latter not because it's famous, but it is very well regarded by everyone I know who knows it.

The Hildegard Knef track is actually misnamed on the poll, it should be 'From Here On It Got Rough'. That was tough for me as I'd already gone for the Shaggs and Lucia Pamela, so wasn't sure whether to also include Hildegard - she won out for being a bit different and genuinely groovy.

Also, I can't believe Abbott didn't vote for Slapp Happy. So disappointed.

The United States of America — Garden of Earthly Delights

I would have voted for "The American Way of Love".

I might have voted for "Coming Down."

Actually just checked itt and my ballot is very different but I still love this one.

This was a fun poll.