ILM 20th century tracks poll: your ballot

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Here's mine, I bolded the one that made it to the top 125. The first 25 was in order, the rest unordered.

1. Alice Coltrane — Hare Krishna
2. Juliette Gréco — La valse brune
3. Love Inc. — R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
4. Marlena Shaw — The Woman of the Ghetto
5. Art Ensemble of Chicago — Theme de yoyo
6. Dean Martin — Sway
7. Curtis Mayfield — The Makings of You
8. Edith Piaf — Milord
9. Pharoah Sanders — The Creator Has a Master Plan
10. Uakti — Arrumaçao
11. Herbie Hancock — Hornets
12. Sarah Vaughan — Lullaby of Birdland
13. The Coup — Fat Cats, Bigga Fish
14. Grace Jones — Demolition Man
15. Hardfloor — Once Again Back
16. Arvo Pärt — Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
17. Prince — Controversy
18. AZ and Nas — The Essence
19. Bronski Beat — Smalltown Boy
20. Fela Kuti — He Miss Road
21. Sam Cooke — A Change Is Gonna Come
22. Cheikha Rimitti — Jani el Hob
23. Wu Tang Clan — Triumph
24. Sister Rosetta Tharpe — Didn't it Rain
25. Airto — Samba de Flora

2Pac — So Many Tears
Afrika Bambaataa — Planet Rock
Alice Coltrane — Om Supreme
Althea and Donna — Uptown Top Ranking
Astor Piazzolla — Libertango
Billie Holiday — Gloomy Sunday
Boots Randolph — Yakety Sax
Busi Mhlongo — Yehlisan'Umoya Ma-Afrika
Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco — El Paso del Mulo
Chaka Khan — I'm Every Woman
Chumbawamba — Homophobia
Curtis Mayfield — Move on Up
Diana Ross — I'm Coming Out
Donna Summer — I Feel Love
Donna Summer — Love to Love You Baby
Doris Day — Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Caravan
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)
Elis Regina — Vou deitar e rolar (Quaquaraquaqua)
Ella Fitzgerald — Mack the Knife
Frank Sinatra — I've Got You Under My Skin
Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax
Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben — Taj Mahal
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Grace Jones — Slave to the Rhythm
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — The Message
Gravediggaz — Diary of a Madman
Harry Belafonte — Jamaica Farewell
Herbie Hancock — Rockit
Jacques Brel — La valse à mille temps
Jill Jones — Mia Bocca
Jon and Vangelis — The Friends of Mr. Cairo
k.d. lang — Big Boned Gal
Laura Branigan — Self Control
Laurent X — Machines
Laurie Anderson — O Superman
Lionel Hampton — Jack the Bellboy
Louis Armstrong — Christmas Night in Harlem
Luther Vandross — Never Too Much
Marc Almond — Jacky
Mark Morrison — Return of the Mack
Massive Attack — Unfinished Sympathy
Maurice Ravel — Boléro
Meshell Ndegeocello — Elliptical
Michael Jackson — Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Miles Davis — Shhh/Peaceful

Minnie Riperton — Les Fleur
Miriam Makeba — Mbube
Mongo Santamaria — Afro Blue
Mory Kanté — Yeke Yeke
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood — Some Velvet Morning
Nas — N.Y. State of Mind
Nat King Cole — Mona Lisa
Neneh Cherry — Buffalo Stance
Nina Simone — Work Song
Ofra Haza — Im Nin'alu
Patrick Cowley — Menergy
Perez Prado and His Orchestra — Rumbalero
Prince — Sign O the Times
Prince and The Revolution — Kiss
Ray Parker, Jr. — Ghostbusters
Salt N Pepa — Push It
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You
Sinéad O'Connor — Nothing Compares 2 U
Sister Sledge — Lost in Music
Snap! — The Power
Sparks — When Do I Get to Sing "My Way"?
Sylvester — You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Take Five
The Glenn Miller Orchestra — In the Mood
The Impressions — People Get Ready
Thomas Mapfumo — Moyo Wangu
TLC — Creep
Tony Bennett — Stranger in Paradise
Yello — Domingo

Tuomas, Friday, 3 December 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link

Mixed ballot:

Umm Kulthum — Robaeyat El Khayam
Sun Ra — Somewhere in Space
Fairouz — Nassam Alayna Al Hawa
Farid el Atrache — Ya Reitni Tir
Celia Cruz and Willie Colón — Usted Abuso
Rubén Blades and Willie Colón — Pedro Navaja
La Lupe — Amor Gitano
Joan Armatrading — Water With the Wine
Grupo Niche — Cielo de Tambores
Eddie Palmieri — Puerto Rico
El Gran Combo — Don Goyo
Elis Regina and Tom Jobim — Aguas de Marco
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno — Evening Star
Benny More — Barbaro del Ritmo
Frankie Ruiz — Me Acostumbre
Haris Alexiou — I Mangues Then Iparphoun Pia
Ismael Rivera — Yo No Quiero Piedras en mi Camino
Joe Arroyo — Por Ti No Morire
Lucho Gatica — Un Historia de un Amor
Willie Rosario — La Mitad
Asmahan — Ahwa

Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
Black Box — Everybody Everybody
Bob Dylan — Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan — Tangled Up in Blue
Burning Spear — Social Living
Carpenters — Superstar
Chaka Khan — I'm Every Woman
Chic — Good Times
Cole Porter — Anything Goes
Daryl Hall and John Oates — She's Gone
David Bowie — Space Oddity
Dionne Warwick — Walk on By
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Caravan
Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb — T'aint What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)
Elton John — Tiny Dancer
Fela Kuti — Sorrow, Tears and Blood
Fleetwood Mac — Go Your Own Way
Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gladys Knight and The Pips — Midnight Train to Georgia
Gloria Gaynor — I Will Survive
Gordon Lightfoot — Sundown
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — White Lines
Hank Williams — Settin' the Woods on Fire
Henry Castro — Cumbia de Colombia
Hüsker Dü — Eight Miles High
Jimi Hendrix Experience — All Along the Watchtower
João Gilberto — Chega de Saudade
John Coltrane — Giant Steps
John Coltrane — My Favorite Things
Johnny Nash — I Can See Clearly Now
Joni Mitchell — Help Me
Joy Division — Love Will Tear Us Apart
Judy Collins — Both Sides Now
Judy Garland — Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (original depression version sez Abbott)
Judy Garland — Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Kraftwerk — Trans Europe Express
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Tonight (West Side Story)
Michael Jackson — Billie Jean
Mikey Dread — World War III
Nat King Cole — Unforgettable
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Cowgirl in the Sand
New Order — Ceremony
Patsy Cline — Crazy
Paul Simon — Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
Peggy Lee — Is That All There Is?
Peter Tosh — African
Pink Floyd — See Emily Play
Pretenders — Back on the Chain Gang
Prince and The Revolution — When Doves Cry
Public Enemy — Bring the Noise
Public Enemy — Night of the Living Baseheads
Ramones — Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
Roxy Music — Do the Strand
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You
Siouxsie and The Banshees — Happy House
Steely Dan — Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Steve Reich — Come Out
Stevie Wonder — Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
Stevie Wonder — Superstition
Tammy Wynette — Stand By Your Man
The Beach Boys — Good Vibrations
The Beatles — And Your Bird Can Sing
The Beatles — In My Life
The Cars — Just What I Needed
The Easybeats — Friday on My Mind
The Glenn Miller Orchestra — In the Mood
The Jackson 5 — ABC
The Mamas and The Papas — California Dreamin'
The Monkees — I'm a Believer
The Police — Roxanne
The Roches — Hammond Song
The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
The Spinners — I'll Be Around
The Supremes — Where Did Our Love Go?
The Velvet Underground — What Goes On
Todd Rundgren — I Saw the Light
Vince Guaraldi Trio — Linus and Lucy
X — White Girl

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 3 December 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link

RANKED
Claude Debussy — Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque)
Karlheinz Stockhausen — Gesang der Jünglinge
Ray Charles — What'd I Say
Herbie Hancock — Chameleon
The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
Tommy Johnson — Cool Drink of Water Blues
Pierre Schaeffer — Etude aux chemins de fer
The Big Bopper — Chantilly Lace
Herbie Hancock — Rain Dance
Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan — Song of the Second Moon
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — White Lines
Simply Saucer — Illegal Bodies
John Coltrane — Giant Steps
Carl Orff — O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
James Brown — Cold Sweat
Brian Eno — Discreet Music
Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Dr. Dre — Fuck With Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')
Chuck Berry — Nadine
The Beatles — Here Comes the Sun
Johnny Cash — Ring of Fire
Donna Summer — I Feel Love
Vince Guaraldi Trio — Linus and Lucy
Bo Diddley — Hey Bo Diddley
Elder Curry and His Congregation — Memphis Flu
Leadbelly — Goodnight Irene
Miles Davis — So What
Jerry Lee Lewis — Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Chuck Berry — Johnny B. Goode
Afrika Bambaataa — Planet Rock
Can — Mother Sky
Peter Tosh — African
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — The Message
The Velvet Underground — Sister Ray
The Beatles — I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles — Penny Lane
The Beach Boys — I Get Around
Hank Williams — Settin' the Woods on Fire
Laurie Anderson — O Superman
Al Green — Let's Stay Together
Aretha Franklin — Respect
"?" and The Mysterians — 96 Tears
Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats — Rocket 88
N.W.A — Straight Outta Compton
The Stooges — TV Eye
Steppenwolf — Born to Be Wild
David Bowie — Ziggy Stardust
Funkadelic — Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
Hawkwind — Silver Machine
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son
Jimi Hendrix Experience — Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Neu! — Hallogallo
Suicide — Dream Baby Dream
Kraftwerk — Trans Europe Express
New Order — Blue Monday
Black Sabbath — Paranoid
Eazy-E — Boyz-n-the-Hood
Terry Riley — In C
Elvis Presley — Suspicious Minds
Michael Jackson — Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Gary Numan — Cars
The Stooges — I Wanna Be Your Dog
Samuel Barber — Adagio for Strings
Can — Future Days
Johnny Osbourne — Truths and Rights
Andrews Sisters — Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Michael Jackson — Billie Jean
ABBA — Dancing Queen
Alvin Lucier — I Am Sitting in a Room
Booker T and The MGs — Green Onions
The Rolling Stones — Paint it Black
John Williams — The Imperial March (Star Wars)
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog
The Cars — Just What I Needed
The Jesus and Mary Chain — Never Understand
King Crimson — 21st Century Schizoid Man
Scott Walker — It's Raining Today
Maurice Ravel — Boléro
Marvin Gaye — I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Throbbing Gristle — Hamburger Lady
The Beach Boys — Good Vibrations
Nick Drake — Northern Sky
Cromagnon — Caledonia
The Beatles — A Day in the Life
Michael Jackson — Beat It
Negativland — Christianity Is Stupid

UNRANKED
Norman Greenbaum — Spirit in the Sky
Johnny Cash — I Walk the Line
Bo Diddley — Who Do You Love
Elvis Presley — All Shook Up
Aphex Twin — Rhubarb
Bruce Haack — Blow Job
Ben E. King — Stand By Me
Jay-Z — Big Pimpin'
Os Mutantes — Bat Macumba
Joy Division — Atmosphere
Ornette Coleman — Lonely Woman
Robert Johnson — Cross Road Blues
Steve Reich — Come Out

captayn cronch (crüt), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link

i didnt save mine but just add some old soul records and sleater kinney to the ego trip big book of rap records

purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link

IN ORDER

1 Soft Machine — Moon in June
2 Cardiacs — Dirty Boy
3 Spratleys Japs — Fanny
4 Wire — I Should Have Known Better
5 King Crimson — 21st Century Schizoid Man
6 Talk Talk — Desire
7 Boredoms — 7→(Boriginal)
8 The Fall — Bonkers in Phoenix
9 Cardiacs — Flap Off You Beak
10 Van Der Graaf Generator — Childlike Faith in Childhood's End
11 Orbital — Out There Somewhere?
12 Foetus — Sick Man
13 Van Der Graaf Generator — La Rossa
14 The Fall — New Puritan (Peel Session)
15 Cardiacs — Dog-Like Sparky
16 The Fall — Winter (Peel Session)
17 Half Man Half Biscuit — A Country Practice
18 XTC — Complicated Game
19 Van Der Graaf Generator — Scorched Earth
20 The Fall — Gross Chapel / British Grenadiers
21 Mansun — Cancer
22 Van Der Graaf Generator — A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
23 Neurosis — Purify
24 Cardiacs — R.E.S.
25 Julian Cope — Sunspots
26 Simple Minds — New Gold Dream 81 82 83 84
27 Van Der Graaf Generator — After the Flood
28 The Cure — The Figurehead
29 Mr. Bungle — My Ass Is on Fire
30 Faust — Jennifer
31 Laurie Anderson — O Superman
32 Gary Puckett and The Union Gap — Young Girl
33 Van Der Graaf Generator — Afterwards
34 Alvin Lucier — I Am Sitting in a Room
35 Mr. Bungle — Stubb (A Dub)
36 Van Der Graaf Generator — The Sleepwalkers
37 The Fall — Paintwork
38 Magazine — You Never Knew Me
39 Yes — Awaken
40 Earl Brutus — On Me Not in Me
41 The Beta Band — Dry the Rain
42 Suede — To the Birds
43 Magazine — A Song From Under the Floorboards
44 The Cure — A Forest
45 Van Der Graaf Generator — Arrow
46 Yo La Tengo — Autumn Sweater
47 Massive Attack — Group Four
48 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci — Hush the Warmth
49 The The — This Is the Day
50 Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Dead Flag Blues
51 Suede — My Insatiable One
52 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — The Romance of the Telescope
53 The Cure — All Cats Are Grey
54 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band — Moonlight on Vermont
55 The Beatles — Happiness Is a Warm Gun
56 Radiohead — Paranoid Android
57 Scott Walker — Farmer in the City
58 Portishead — Cowboys
59 Joe Jackson — It's Different for Girls
60 Arvo Pärt — Te Deum
61 Duran Duran — Rio
62 Radiohead — Airbag
63 This Heat — 24 Track Loop
64 Slint — Good Morning, Captain
65 Yes — Close to the Edge
66 Duran Duran — Hungry Like the Wolf
67 Devo — Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy
68 Robert Wyatt — Sea Song
69 Prince — Little Red Corvette
70 Bob Dylan — Visions of Johanna
71 Yes — Yours Is No Disgrace
72 Roxy Music — In Every Dream Home a Heartache
73 Aphrodite's Child — The Four Horsemen
74 Primal Scream — Come Together

Ends there. Didn't feel like throwing in any more. Songs I probably would have voted for had I been thinking rationally: Like A Rolling Stone, Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link

High five for I Am Sitting In A Room, crut! :D

gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link

My partly ranked list.

1.The Associates — Party Fears Two
2.The Blue Nile — I Love This Life
3.Sly and The Family Stone — Family Affair
4.Björk — Hyperballad
5.New Order — Regret
6.Dexys Midnight Runners — This Is What She's Like
7.Morrissey — Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself
8.Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons — The Night
9.Stereolab — French Disko
10.McAlmont and Butler — Yes
11.Disco Inferno — The Last Dance
12.Pet Shop Boys — Being Boring
13.Sparks — This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us
14.David Bowie — Be My Wife
15.Talk Talk — It's My Life
16.Billy Bragg — Levi Stubbs' Tears
17.Prince — Controversy
18.Luther Vandross — Never Too Much
19.Wire — Outdoor Miner
20.The Beach Boys — Surf's Up
21.Kraftwerk — Autobahn
22.The Modern Lovers — Roadrunner
23.Todd Rundgren — I Saw the Light
24.Commodores — The Zoo (Human Zoo)
25.Madness — Our House
26.Earl Brutus — On Me Not in Me
27.Roxy Music — Amazona
28.Al Green — You Ought to Be With Me
29.Sparks — When Do I Get to Sing "My Way"?
30.Japan — Ghosts
31.New Order — Bizarre Love Triangle
32.The Human League — Being Boiled
33.Pet Shop Boys — Left to My Own Devices
34.Pulp — Babies
35.Oran "Juice" Jones — The Rain
36.Felt — Primitive Painters
37.Suede — Killing of a Flash Boy
38.Pet Shop Boys — Rent
39.Saint Etienne — Avenue
40.Grace Jones — Pull Up to the Bumper
41.Roxy Music — Virginia Plain
42.ABC — Date Stamp
43.Blur — For Tomorrow
44.The Walker Brothers — Nite Flights
45.Brian Eno — St. Elmo's Fire
46.Cameo — Word Up
47.Orange Juice — Blue Boy
48.Sly and The Family Stone — Hot Fun in the Summertime
49.Magazine — A Song From Under the Floorboards
50.Underworld — Jumbo
51.The Beach Boys — Wouldn't it Be Nice
52.Brick — Happy
53.Kate Bush — Wuthering Heights
54.Curtis Mayfield — Little Child Running Wild
55.New Order — Thieves Like Us
56.Frank Wilson — Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
57.Prefab Sprout — Goodbye Lucile no. 1 (Johnny Johnny)
58.Shuggie Otis — Strawberry Letter 23
59.Pretenders — Back on the Chain Gang
60.Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

Barry White — Let the Music Play
Buzzcocks — What Do I Get
Cardiacs — Dirty Boy
Cerrone — Supernature
Chic — My Feet Keep Dancing
Chuck Wood — Seven Days Too Long
Curtis Mayfield — Move on Up
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band — Cherchez La Femme
Elvis Costello — Watching the Detectives
Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax
Funkadelic — One Nation Under a Groove
Gary Numan / Tubeway Army — Are Friends Electric?
Genius/GZA — Liquid Swords
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
John Foxx — Underpass
Klaus Nomi — Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
Love Unlimited — I'm So Glad That I'm a Woman
Marvin Gaye — What's Goin' On
Massive Attack — Unfinished Sympathy
Minnie Riperton — Les Fleur
OMD-Souvenir
Patrick Cowley — Menergy
Portishead — Roads
S.O.S. Band — Just Be Good to Me
Scott Walker — The Old Man's Back Again
T.Rex — Metal Guru
Television — Marquee Moon
The Beta Band — Dry the Rain
The Buggles — Video Killed the Radio Star
The Fall — The Classical
The Flaming Lips — Race for the Prize
The Normal — Warm Leatherette
The Shangri-Las — Past, Present and Future
The Smiths — There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Specials — Ghost Town
Tyrone Davis — Turn Back the Hands of Time
UGK — One Day (ft. Mr. 3-2)
Wire — Map Ref. 41°N 93°W
Womack and Womack — Teardrops
XTC — Dear God

Kitchen Person, Friday, 3 December 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link

1. The Spinners — I'll Be Around
2. Yo La Tengo — Blue Line Swinger
3. New Order — Ceremony
4. New Order — Regret
5. Radiohead — Let Down
6. The Rolling Stones — Sway
7. Queen and David Bowie — Under Pressure
8. Stereolab — Jenny Ondioline
9. Björk — Hyperballad
10. Marvin Gaye — I Heard it Through the Grapevine
11. The Police — Message in a Bottle
12. Fleetwood Mac — Go Your Own Way
13. Pavement — Summer Babe
14. Henryk Górecki — Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
15. Ray Charles — What'd I Say
16. Isaac Hayes — Walk on By
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AC/DC — Let There Be Rock
Al Green — Let's Stay Together
Andrea True Connection — More, More, More
Aretha Franklin — Respect
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers — Moanin'
Barrett Strong — Money (That's What I Want)
Beastie Boys — So What'cha Want
Big Black — Kerosene
Big Star — Thirteen
Björk — Bachelorette
Blind Faith — Can't Find My Way Home
Blue Öyster Cult — Don't Fear the Reaper
Bobby Womack — Across 110th Street
Boston — More Than a Feeling
Bruce Springsteen — Born to Run
Buddy Holly — Peggy Sue
Carl Orff — O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
Chuck Berry — Johnny B. Goode
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son
David Bowie — Heroes
Deee-lite — Groove Is in the Heart
Depeche Mode — Enjoy the Silence
Dick Dale and The Deltones — Misirlou
Dolly Parton — Jolene
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)
Dusty Springfield — The Look of Love
Earth, Wind and Fire — September
Eddie Cochran — Summertime Blues
Elton John — Tiny Dancer
Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax
Funkadelic — Maggot Brain
George Gershwin and DuBose Hayward — Summertime
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Gloria Gaynor — I Will Survive
Go-Go's — Our Lips Are Sealed
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — White Lines
Guided By Voices — Motor Away
Iggy and The Stooges — Search and Destroy
Jimi Hendrix Experience — Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
John Coltrane — My Favorite Things
Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Lalo Schifrin — Theme from "Mission:Impossible"
Led Zeppelin — When the Levee Breaks
Link Wray and His Ray Men — Rumble
LL Cool J — Mama Said Knock You Out
Michael Jackson — Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Mission of Burma — Academy Fight Song
Motörhead — Ace of Spades
Muddy Waters — Hoochy Coochie Man
Patsy Cline — Walking After Midnight
Peter Gabriel — In Your Eyes
Pink Floyd — Shine on You Crazy Diamond pt. I
Pixies — Where Is My Mind
Portishead — Sour Times
Prince and The Revolution — Purple Rain
Procol Harum — A Whiter Shade of Pale
R.E.M. — Fall on Me
Ride — Vapour Trail
Roxy Music — Virginia Plain
Roy Orbison — Crying
Sam and Dave — Hold on, I'm Comin'
Sam Cooke — A Change Is Gonna Come
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You
Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot — Bonnie and Clyde
Shuggie Otis — Strawberry Letter 23
Stevie Wonder — Superstition
The Beatles — A Day in the Life
The Breeders — Cannonball
The Byrds — Turn! Turn! Turn!
The Clean — Getting Older
The Cure — Plainsong
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Take Five
The Four Tops — Reach Out I'll Be There
The Human League — Don't You Want Me
The Impressions — People Get Ready
The Kinks — You Really Got Me
The KLF — 3am Eternal
The Smiths — How Soon Is Now
The Stooges — I Wanna Be Your Dog
The Supremes — You Keep Me Hangin' On
The Velvet Underground — Rock n' Roll
The Who — Won't Get Fooled Again
William DeVaughn — Be Thankful for What You've Got
Wire — Mannequin

33 of 125: i am the hivemind

mookieproof, Friday, 3 December 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link

Ends there. Didn't feel like throwing in any more. Songs I probably would have voted for had I been thinking rationally: Like A Rolling Stone, Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

ALSO HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN, FUCK

gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link

I did a mixed ballot. The first portion is weighted, the second was unweighted. Tracks that made it into the top 125 are IN BOLD.

Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus and Lucy
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - The Romance of the Telescope
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
Fairport Convention - Farewell, Farewell
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
Kaleidoscope - The Sky Children
Echo and The Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
Comus - Diana
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Leonard Cohen - The Partisan
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
Brian Eno - Baby's on Fire
The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
Don Henley - The Boys of Summer
Pink Floyd - Dogs
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Cortez the Killer
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence
Devo - Beautiful World
Leonard Cohen - Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
Scott Walker - Jackie
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Jerusalem
America - Ventura Highway
Genesis - Carpet Crawlers
The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Sandy Denny - Late November
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu
Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie
Desmond Dekker - Israelites
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Gary Numan / Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Misfits - Where Eagles Dare
Mark Snow - Theme from "The X-Files"
Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring
New Order - Ceremony
Master P. - Burbons and Lacs
The Drifters - Up on the Roof
Scott Walker - Angels of Ashes
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto - Girl From Ipanema
The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack
Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
The Who - The Kids Are Alright
Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube
Big Country - In a Big Country
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Souvenir
David Bowie - Heroes
Crowded House - Don't Dream it's Over
Kraftwerk - Neon Lights
Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire - Theme from "Dr. Who"
Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond pt. I
Eazy-E - Boyz-n-the-Hood
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
Tommy James and The Shondelles - I Think We're Alone Now
The McCoys - Hang on Sloopy
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Scott Walker - Montague Terrace (In Blue)
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
Link Wray and His Ray Men - Rumble
Gustav Holst - Jupiter
T.Rex - Metal Guru
The Velvet Underground - Beginning to See the Light
Daryl Hall and John Oates - Private Eyes
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Public Enemy - Fight the Power
Richard O'Brien - Shock Treatment
The Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
Madness - Our House
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along the Watchtower
Eartha Kitt - I Want to Be Evil
Giorgio Moroder - Chase (Midnight Express)
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
XTC - Dear God
Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Pet Shop Boys - Rent
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Angelo Badalamenti - Theme from "Twin Peaks"
Ennio Morricone - Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
The Specials - Ghost Town
Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
Siouxsie and The Banshees - Peek-a-Boo
The Sugarcubes - Birthday

So that's 19/100! I think that makes me a boring, canon-loving rockist.

the structuralist constructions of (Viceroy), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link

oops that's 20/100, I forgot that Rumble made it in... pretend I put that in bold too.

the structuralist constructions of (Viceroy), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link

i don't think you should be allowed to post your ballot in this thread until you have carefully read and commented on everyone else's

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link

haha

Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link

everyone else's sux, obviously

mookieproof, Friday, 3 December 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link

except tuomas's

mookieproof, Friday, 3 December 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link

i don't remember my ballot, also it was like 30 songs only & just shit i knew wasn't gonna get in like backstreet boys & lauryn hill

my #1 vote was aaliyah's "one in a million" tho

gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link

after seeing the results tho i regret not putting "straight outta compton" higher, cuz really wtf

gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link

tracks that received one #1 vote and nothing else:

Ernie K. Doe - Mother-in-Law
Les Rallizes Denudes - Night of the Assassins
Soft Machine - Moon in June
Umm Kulthum - Robaeyat El Khayam

mookieproof, Friday, 3 December 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link

unique votes in italics. unordered ballot, ordered here by year.

Scott Joplin — The Entertainer 1902
Maurice Ravel — Boléro 1928
Louis Armstrong — West End Blues 1928
Leadbelly — Goodnight Irene 1932 (#208)
Cole Porter — Anything Goes 1934
Cole Porter — You're the Top 1934
Fred Astaire — Cheek to Cheek 1935
Carl Orff — O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) 1936 (#175)
Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit 1939 (#5)
Judy Garland — Somewhere Over the Rainbow 1939 (#264)
Woody Guthrie — This Land Is Your Land 1944 (#190)
Leadbelly — Where Did You Sleep Last Night 1944
Hank Williams — Lost Highway 1949
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog 1952
Peggy Lee — Fever 1953
Ray Charles — I Got a Woman 1954
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Tonight (West Side Story) 1956
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You 1956 (#50)
Bo Diddley — Who Do You Love 1956 (#151)
Mighty Sparrow — Jean and Dinah 1956
Thelonious Monk — Brilliant Corners 1957
Ray Charles — What'd I Say 1958 (#160)
Link Wray — Rumble 1958 (#118)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Blue Rondo a la Turk 1959
Ray Charles — Georgia on My Mind 1960
Etta James — At Last 1961 (#201)
György Ligeti — Atmosphéres 1961
John Coltrane — My Favorite Things 1961 (#112)
Sam Cooke — Cupid 1961 (#296)
Terry Riley — In C 1964
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto — Girl From Ipanema 1964 (#122)
Dionne Warwick — Walk on By 1964 (#176)
Shirley Bassey — Goldfinger 1964
Ennio Morricone — L'Estasi dell'Oro (The Ecstacy of Gold) 1966
The Rolling Stones — Paint it Black 1966 (#114)
The Beach Boys — Good Vibrations 1966 (#9)
The Beatles — Strawberry Fields Forever 1967 (#17)
The Beatles — A Day in the Life 1967 (#31)
Nancy Sinatra — You Only Live Twice 1967
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood — Some Velvet Morning 1967 (#53)
Pink Floyd — Astronomy Domine 1967
James Brown — Cold Sweat 1967 (#277)
The Rolling Stones — Sympathy for the Devil 1968
William Bell — I Forgot to Be Your Lover 1968
Os Mutantes — Bat Macumba 1969
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son 1969 (#93)
Isaac Hayes — Walk on By 1969
Scott Walker — The Old Man's Back Again 1969
Miles Davis — Shhh/Peaceful 1969 (#113)
Pharoah Sanders — The Creator Has a Master Plan 1969
Toots and the Maytals — Pressure Drop 1970 (#91)
The Who — Baba O'Riley 1971 (#202)
The Who — Won't Get Fooled Again 1971
Funkadelic — Maggot Brain 1971 (#33)
Can — Halleluhwah 1971
Stevie Wonder — Superstition 1972 (#13)
Al Green — Love and Happiness 1972
Neu! — Hallogallo 1972 (#133)
Ennio Morricone — The Man With the Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West) 1972 (#227)
Sun Ra — Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus 1972
Robert Wyatt — Sea Song 1974 (#145)
Big Star — Holocaust 1975
David Bowie — Heroes 1977 (#12)
Donna Summer — I Feel Love 1977 (#3)
Steely Dan — Peg 1977 (#203)
Television — Marquee Moon 1977 (#8)
Parliament — Flashlight 1977
Rubén Blades and Willie Colón — Pedro Navaja 1978
The Adverts — One Chord Wonders 1978
The B-52's — Rock Lobster 1978 (#289)
Earth, Wind and Fire — September 1978 (#174)
Sylvester — You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) 1978
M — Pop Muzik 1979
Gang of Four — Damaged Goods 1979
Joy Division — Transmission 1979 (#68)
Talking Heads — Once in a Lifetime 1981 (#16)
Taana Gardner — Heartbeat 1981
Kraftwerk — Computer Love 1981 (#106)
Kraftwerk — Pocket Calculator 1981
The Specials — Ghost Town 1981 (#15)
New Order — Temptation 1982 (#43)
Michael Jackson — Billie Jean 1982 (#7)
George Michael — Careless Whisper 1984
Prince and The Revolution — When Doves Cry 1984 (#22)
Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 1985 (#11)
Mr. Fingers — Can You Feel It 1986
Adonis — No Way Back 1986
M|A|R|R|S — Pump Up the Volume 1987 (#63)
Public Enemy — Fight the Power 1989 (#137)
Madonna — Vogue 1990
Sinéad O'Connor — Nothing Compares 2 U 1990 (#164)
Pete Namlook — Je Suis Triste Et Seul Ici 1993
New Order — Regret 1993
Scott Walker — Farmer in the City 1995
Sonic Youth — The Diamond Sea 1995 (#255)
Aphex Twin — Windowlicker 1999 (#206)

a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link

JF and seandalai, thanks for compiling (even though I still think polling an entire century was crazy/folly). I'm very interested in the proposed 1950s tracks poll.

pixel farmer, Friday, 3 December 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link

meant to post that on the other thread

pixel farmer, Friday, 3 December 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link

s'okay...I saw it. Yeah, I'm really excited about a 50s tracks poll, but I probably won't initiate it until May at the earliest. I need time to consume a lot of the music first.

Señor Mexico (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Unranked:

10cc – I’m Not in Love
Aaliyah – One in a Million
ABC – The Look of Love
AC/DC – Let There Be Rock
Al Green – You Ought To Be With Me
Al Stewart – Year of the Cat
Audio Two – Top Billin’
Beastie Boys — So What'cha Want
Big Daddy Kane — Ain't No Half Steppin'
Big Star — September Gurls
Björk — Hyperballad

Black Sabbath — Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Blondie — Dreaming
Blue Öyster Cult — Don't Fear the Reaper
Blur — For Tomorrow
Brian Eno — St. Elmo's Fire
Brick — Happy
Bruce Springsteen — I'm on Fire
Carl Craig — Bug in the Bassbin
Cheap Trick — Surrender
Chic — My Feet Keep Dancing
Cyndi Lauper — Time After Time
David Bowie — Be My Wife
Diana Ross — I'm Coming Out
Disco Inferno — The Last Dance
Earth, Wind and Fire — September
Fleetwood Mac — Hold Me
Foo Fighters — Everlong
Frank Zappa — Watermelon in Easter Hay
Frankie Knuckles — Your Love
Funkadelic — Maggot Brain
George McCrae — Rock Your Baby
Geto Boys — Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Ginuwine — Pony
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Guided By Voices — Game of Pricks
Hüsker Dü — Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely
Hyper-On Experience — Lord of the Null Lines
James Brown — King Heroin
Jimi Hendrix Experience — Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
John Cale — The Endless Plain of Fortune
John Coltrane — My Favorite Things
John Martyn — Small Hours
Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
King Crimson — 21st Century Schizoid Man
Kraftwerk — Computer Love

Madonna — Live to Tell
Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Mission of Burma — Academy Fight Song
Mobb Deep — Shook Ones pt. II
N.W.A — Straight Outta Compton
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood — Some Velvet Morning

Nas — Represent
Neneh Cherry — Buffalo Stance
Neu! — Fur Immer
Nick Lowe — So it Goes
Nico — Janitor of Lunacy
Oran "Juice" Jones — The Rain
OutKast — Elevators (Me and You)
Ozark Mountain Daredevils — Jackie Blue
Pet Shop Boys — Rent
Prince — Controversy
Queen and David Bowie — Under Pressure

R.E.M. — Fall on Me
Richard and Linda Thompson — The End of the Rainbow
Roxy Music — More Than This
Roy Orbison — Running Scared
Ryan Paris — Dolce Vita
S.O.S. Band — Just Be Good to Me
Sade — The Sweetest Taboo
Sam Cooke — A Change Is Gonna Come
Scott Walker — Montague Terrace (In Blue)
Scritti Politti — Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
Simple Minds — Promised You a Miracle
Slayer — Raining Blood
Sly and The Family Stone — Hot Fun in the Summertime
Smashing Pumpkins — 1979
Sonic Youth — The Diamond Sea
Sophie B. Hawkins — Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
Souls of Mischief — 93 'Til Infinity
Steely Dan — Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Stereolab — Ping Pong
Talk Talk — It's My Life
Talking Heads — This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)
The Alan Parsons Project — Eye in the Sky
The Beach Boys — Surf's Up
The Beatles — You Never Give Me Your Money
The Byrds — Why
The Chills — Pink Frost
The Chords — Sh-Boom
The Everly Brothers — Cathy's Clown
The Notorious B.I.G. — Juicy
The Police — Walking on the Moon
The Replacements — Unsatisfied
The Spinners — I'll Be Around
Weezer — Say it Ain't So
William Bell — I Forgot to Be Your Lover
Womack and Womack — Teardrops
Wu Tang Clan — Triumph
Young Marble Giants — Final Day

Gavin in Leeds, Friday, 3 December 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm not doing the bolding and whatnot, but here's my own ballot. 45 are weighted, 55 are unweighted.

The Platters — Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Bauhaus — Bela Lugosi's Dead
The Troggs — Wild Thing
Link Wray and His Ray Men — Rumble
Henryk Górecki — Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile
Edwin Starr — War
Cab Calloway — St. James Infirmary
U2 — With or Without You
Santo and Johnny — Sleep Walk
Claude Debussy — Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque)
Leonard Cohen — Hallelujah
Lorraine Ellison — Stay With Me
Patsy Cline — Crazy
Henry Mancini — Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
The Byrds — Turn! Turn! Turn!
Sam Cooke — Cupid
Booker T and The MGs — Green Onions
Marvin Gaye — What's Goin' On
Elvis Presley — Heartbreak Hotel
Cameo — Word Up
M|A|R|R|S — Pump Up the Volume
Queen and David Bowie — Under Pressure
Chuck Berry — Johnny B. Goode
The Beatles — Hey Jude
The Ronettes — Be My Baby
Max Steiner — Tara's Theme (Gone With the Wind)
Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls
LL Cool J — Mama Said Knock You Out
Dolly Parton — Jolene
Billie Holiday — Gloomy Sunday
John Lennon — Imagine
Louis Armstrong — What a Wonderful World
The Everly Brothers — All I Have to Do Is Dream
Simon and Garfunkel — The Sounds of Silence
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds — The Ship Song
Michael Jackson — Billie Jean
Bruce Springsteen — Born to Run
Eddie Cochran — Summertime Blues
Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax
The Animals — The House of the Rising Sun
The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
Ray Charles — Night Time Is the Right Time
The Glenn Miller Orchestra — In the Mood
Nina Simone — Sinnerman
George Michael — Freedom '90

Astor Piazzolla — Libertango
Bob Dylan — Masters of War
Boots Randolph — Yakety Sax
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Long As I Can See the Light
Donna Summer — Love to Love You Baby
Dusty Springfield — The Look of Love
Emmylou Harris — Boulder to Birmingham
Ernest Gold — Theme from "Exodus"
Etta James — At Last
Fleetwood Mac — The Chain
Frank Sinatra — Night and Day
Hank Williams — Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Harry Nilsson — Without You
Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Kris Kristofferson — Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
Led Zeppelin — Stairway to Heaven
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Somewhere (West Side Story)
Nat King Cole — Route 66
New Order — Blue Monday
Phil Phillips — Sea of Love
Pulp — Common People
Ramones — Blitzkrieg Bop
Robert Johnson — Cross Road Blues
Run DMC — It's Like That
Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot — Bonnie and Clyde
Sex Pistols — God Save the Queen
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — The Tracks of My Tears
Son House — Death Letter Blues
Talking Heads — This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody)
The B-52's — Rock Lobster
The Beach Boys — Good Vibrations
The Charlie Daniels Band — The Devil Went Down to Georgia
The Five Stairsteps — Ooh Child
The Four Tops — Reach Out I'll Be There
The Kinks — You Really Got Me
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl — Fairytale of New York
The Shaggs — My Pal Foot Foot
The Smiths — How Soon Is Now
The Staple Singers — Respect Yourself
The Supremes — Where Did Our Love Go?
The Temptations — Papa Was a Rolling Stone
The Velvet Underground — All Tomorrow's Parties
Tim Buckley — Song to the Siren
Vince Guaraldi Trio — Linus and Lucy
Willie Nelson — Always on My Mind
Wilson Pickett — Land of 1,000 Dances
XTC — Dear God
Carl Orff — O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
The Dixie Cups — Iko Iko
Gene Kelly — Singin' in the Rain
Fred Neil — Faretheewell (Fred's Tune)
Leadbelly — Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock — It Takes Two
The Church — Under the Milky Way
The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You

Señor Mexico (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link

No order here:

Carl Craig — Bug in the Bassbin
Sun Ra — Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam — I Wonder if I Take You Home
Dave and Ansel Collins — Double Barrel
Yellow Magic Orchestra — Rydeen
Krzysztof Penderecki — Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Loose Joints — Is it All Over My Face
Hank Mizzell — Jungle Rock
Grace Jones — Pull Up to the Bumper
Nico — Janitor of Lunacy
Sly and The Family Stone — Everyday People
The Fall — Totally Wired
The Left Banke — Walk Away Renee
The Pop Group — She Is Beyond Good and Evil
The Source with Candi Staton — You Got the Love
Edgard Varèse — Amériques
Throbbing Gristle — Hamburger Lady
James Brown — Sex Machine
Hüsker Dü — Eight Miles High
Igor Stravinsky — The Rite of Spring: pt. I
Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
Fairport Convention — Tam Lin
John Coltrane — My Favorite Things
Public Enemy — Bring the Noise
The Beatles — She Said She Said
The Go-Betweens — Cattle and Cane
Billie Holiday — Gloomy Sunday
Love — Alone Again Or
Sister Sledge — Lost in Music
Albert Ayler — Truth Is Marching In
Big Star — September Gurls
Iggy and The Stooges — Search and Destroy
John Martyn — Small Hours
Liquid Liquid — Optimo
My Bloody Valentine — You Made Me Realise
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Cortez the Killer
Swans — New Mind
The 13th Floor Elevators — Slip Inside This House
The Saints — (I'm) Stranded
The Velvet Underground — Sweet Jane
Wilson Pickett — In the Midnight Hour
The Byrds — Eight Miles High
TLC — Creep
Curtis Mayfield — Move on Up
LL Cool J — Mama Said Knock You Out
Mary Margaret O'Hara — Body's in Trouble
Meredith Monk — Gotham Lullaby
New Order — Temptation
Ramones — Blitzkrieg Bop
Scott Walker — Farmer in the City
Sun City Girls — Space Prophet Dogon
The Trashmen — Surfin' Bird
Wire — Map Ref. 41°N 93°W
Art Ensemble of Chicago — Theme de yoyo
Bob Dylan — Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Brian Eno — St. Elmo's Fire
Cabaret Voltaire — Nag Nag Nag
Can — Future Days
David Bowie — Five Years
Donna Summer — I Feel Love
Dr. Alimantado — Poison Flour
Gavin Bryars — The Sinking of the Titanic
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — White Lines
Howlin' Wolf — Smokestack Lightning
John Cale — The Endless Plain of Fortune
Joy Division — Transmission
Kraftwerk — Computer Love
Ornette Coleman — Lonely Woman
Miles Davis — Shhh/Peaceful
Prince and The Revolution — When Doves Cry
Skip James — Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Suicide — Cheree
Terry Riley — In C
Little Richard — Tutti Frutti
Mory Kanté — Yeke Yeke
The Teardrop Explodes — Treason (It's Just a Story)
The United States of America — Garden of Earthly Delights
Tim Buckley — Song to the Siren
World Domination Enterprises — Asbestos Lead Asbestos
Fleetwood Mac — Rhiannon
Blue Öyster Cult — Don't Fear the Reaper
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band — Moonlight on Vermont
Lonnie Donegan — Cumberland Gap
Nina Simone — Sinnerman
Talking Heads — Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
The Supremes — You Keep Me Hangin' On
Toots and The Maytals — Pressure Drop
X-Ray Spex — Oh Bondage Up Yours!
Astor Piazzolla — Libertango
Bo Diddley — Who Do You Love
Robert Johnson — Come on in My Kitchen
Robert Wyatt — Sea Song
Sarah Vaughan — Lullaby of Birdland
The Zombies — Time of the Season
Blondie — Dreaming
"?" and The Mysterians — 96 Tears
Black Sabbath — Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Electric Light Orchestra — Sweet Talking Woman

Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link

note that i have read and mentally commented on every ballot posted so far. even yours. it was great.

Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Carl Orff - O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
Cab Calloway - St. James Infirmary
The Stooges - TV Eye
Phil Phillips - Sea of Love
Prince and The Revolution - Kiss
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto - Girl From Ipanema
The Saints - Know Your Product
Solomon Linda - Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
Boredoms - 7 (Boriginal)
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Jay-Z - Big Pimpin'
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Brian Eno - Baby's on Fire
Big Star - September Gurls
Can - Yoo Doo Right
Cheap Trick - Surrender
Devo - Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy
Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia
Flower Travellin' Band - Satori pt. 2
The Wipers - Youth of America
Salt N Pepa - Push It
Santo and Johnny - Sleep Walk
Yaz(oo) - Only You
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Harry Nilsson - Jump Into the Fire
Blue Öyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick

ABBA - S.O.S.
Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen
Arvo Pärt - Te Deum
Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Billy Bragg - A New England
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
Bruce Springsteen - I'm on Fire
Cameo - Word Up
Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos
David Bowie - Heroes
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Del Shannon - Runaway
Desmond Dekker - Israelites
Don Cherry - Brown Rice
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Caravan
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Grace Jones - Pull Up to the Bumper
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - White Lines
Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band
Hamza el Din - Escalay
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire
John Coltrane - Acknowledgement (A Love Supreme)
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene
Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
Luniz - I Got Five on It (Fuck the Bay Ballas Remix)
M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up the Volume
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Powderfinger
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Nina Simone - Sinnerman
Otis Redding - Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
Pere Ubu - Final Solution
Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Master Plan
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise
Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire - Theme from Dr. Who
Scott Joplin - The Entertainer
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence
Sly and The Family Stone - Family Affair
Steve Reich - Come Out
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Suicide - Ghost Rider
T.Rex - Bang a Gong (Get it On)
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
The B-52's - Rock Lobster
The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
The Beatles - She Said She Said
The Coasters - Poison Ivy
The Kinks - Lola
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
The Police - Roxanne (can't explain this one, won't even try)
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
The Stooges - 1970
The Troggs - Wild Thing
The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
The Zombies - Time of the Season
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus and Lucy

^ lotta dumb stuff in there, can't deny. also robbed my unranked selections by ranking a few too many. ah well.

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link

28 of my votes made the final list, including 4 i nominated. which means, i guess, that my tastes square pretty much with ILX's. pleased to make your acquaintance.

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link

this is my ranked ballot -- I kinda threw it together at the last minute after a few failed attempts at being thorough and methodical about it, and feel pretty good about it, even though there are definitely a few things I regret not voting for or would've nominated if I'd used all my nominations:

Queen and David Bowie — Under Pressure
Katrina and The Waves — Walking on Sunshine
Stevie Wonder — Superstition
George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue
John Coltrane — Naima
Al Green — Let's Stay Together
Dexys Midnight Runners — Come on Eileen
Guns N' Roses — Sweet Child O' Mine
Peter Gabriel — Solsbury Hill
Michael Jackson — Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Audio Two — Top Billin'
Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody
Cyndi Lauper — Time After Time
The Notorious B.I.G. — Juicy
Jackie Wilson — (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
Aaliyah — Are You That Somebody?
The B-52's — Love Shack
Ben E. King — Stand By Me
Marvin Gaye — I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Prince — Little Red Corvette
Thin Lizzy — Cowboy Song
Jeff Buckley — Lover, You Should've Come Over
The Police — Roxanne
The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)
The Who — Won't Get Fooled Again
Television — Marquee Moon
A Tribe Called Quest — Scenario (ft. Leaders of the New School)
Big Daddy Kane — Ain't No Half Steppin'
Bel Biv Devoe — Poison
Ramones — Blitzkrieg Bop
The Beatles — She Loves You
They Might Be Giants — Birdhouse in Your Soul
Isaac Hayes — Walk on By
Jimi Hendrix Experience — All Along the Watchtower
Backstreet Boys — I Want it That Way
Pete Rock and CL Smooth — TROY
Rick James — Superfreak
Madonna — Like a Prayer
Afrika Bambaataa — Planet Rock
Black Sabbath — Iron Man
Journey — Don't Stop Believin'
LL Cool J — Rock the Bells
Madness — Our House
Foo Fighters — Everlong
Peter Gabriel — In Your Eyes
Yello — Oh Yeah
Otis Redding — I've Been Loving You Too Long
Pretenders — Back on the Chain Gang
Beastie Boys — So What'cha Want
Mobb Deep — Shook Ones pt. II
Led Zeppelin — When the Levee Breaks
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Down on the Corner
Marvin Gaye — Sexual Healing
Prince — Adore
Rush — Tom Sawyer
Snoop Dogg — Gin and Juice
Sam and Dave — Hold on, I'm Comin'
Sonic Youth — Schizophrenia
Steely Dan — Babylon Sisters
Billy Idol — Dancing With Myself
David Bowie — Young Americans
Stevie Wonder — Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Love Unlimited Orchestra — Love's Theme
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock — It Takes Two
Eric B and Rakim — I Know Who Got Your Soul
Pulp — Common People
The B-52's — Rock Lobster
George Jones — He Stopped Loving Her Today
Sam Cooke — A Change Is Gonna Come
Nas — Life's a Bitch (ft. AZ)
Nico — These Days
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam — I Wonder if I Take You Home
Meat Puppets — Up on the Sun
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers — American Girl
The Beatles — Twist and Shout
The Faces — Ooh La La
Tom Tom Club — Genius of Love
Warren G — Regulate
Steely Dan — Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Sun Ra — Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus
Morphine — Cure for Pain
Thin Lizzy — The Boys Are Back in Town
Violent Femmes — Kiss Off
Simple Minds — Don't You (Forget About Me)
The Clash — Train in Vain
The Doobie Brothers — What a Fool Believes
Run DMC — Run's House
Sir Mix-A-Lot — Baby Got Back
Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You
Geto Boys — Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Ghost Town DJs — My Boo
James Brown — It's a Man's Man's Man's World
Led Zeppelin — Stairway to Heaven
Blondie — Dreaming
George Michael — Freedom '90
Big Star — September Gurls
Lindsey Buckingham — Holiday Road
Michael Jackson — Beat It
Minutemen — Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing

My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro) (some dude), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link

stuff i nominated that made it across the finish line:

#122 Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto - Girl From Ipanema
#83 Prince and The Revolution - Kiss
#57 Nina Simone - Sinnerman
#52 Cheap Trick - Surrender

of my other nominations, i'm kinda shocked that Stevie Wonder - Superstition didn't make it, tbh. was hoping for Push It, too, but i guess ain't too many ILXorz love that song like i do...

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link

"Superstition" was, like, #12

Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link

sorry, #13

Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link

Very apt number

Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link

1. The Ronettes — Be My Baby
2. Michael Jackson — Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
3. Ray Charles — What'd I Say
4. The Velvet Underground — Waiting for the Man
5. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Black and Tan Fantasy
6. Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
7. Bing Crosby — Pennies From Heaven
8. Blondie — Heart of Glass
9. The Drifters — There Goes My Baby
10. Ramones — I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
11. The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset
12. Louis Armstrong — Black and Blue
13. The Shangri-Las — Leader of the Pack
14. Billie Holiday — Gloomy Sunday
15. Barrett Strong — Money (That's What I Want)
16. The Five Stairsteps — Ooh Child
17. New Order — Blue Monday
18. The Beach Boys — Don't Worry Baby
19. The Supremes — You Can't Hurry Love
20. Tommy James and The Shondelles — Crimson and Clover
21. Stevie Wonder — I Was Made to Love Her
22. Al Green — Belle
23. Curtis Mayfield — Superfly
24. James Brown — Down and Out in New York City
25. The Everly Brothers — All I Have to Do Is Dream
26. Roxy Music — More Than This
27. Sly and The Family Stone — Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
28. Link Wray and His Ray Men — Rumble
29. The Beatles — She Said She Said
30. Sam Cooke — Cupid
31. Talking Heads — Once in a Lifetime
32. Ray Parker, Jr. — Ghostbusters
33. Merle Haggard — Mama Tried
34. Otis Redding — I've Been Loving You Too Long
35. Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — You've Really Got a Hold on Me
36. Miles Davis — So What
37. Prince — Little Red Corvette
38. Ramones — Blitzkrieg Bop
39. Louis Armstrong — Ain't Misbehavin'
40. Sly and The Family Stone — Family Affair
41. The Velvet Underground — Sweet Jane
42. The Beach Boys — God Only Knows
43. Sam Cooke — Bring it on Home to Me
44. Bing Crosby — Here Lies Love
45. Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot — Bonnie and Clyde
46. The Crystals — Da Doo Ron Ron
47. The Kinks — You Really Got Me
48. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Take the A-Train
49. Stevie Wonder — Superstition
50. Ben E. King — Stand By Me
51. The Jackson 5 — I Want You Back
52. James Brown — Sex Machine
53. Mickey and Sylvia — Love Is Strange
54. The Velvet Underground — Sister Ray
55. The Who — The Kids Are Alright
56. The Troggs — Wild Thing
57. Prince and The Revolution — Kiss
58. Louis Armstrong — West End Blues
59. Wilson Pickett — Land of 1,000 Dances
60. The Kingsmen — Louie Louie
61. Ray Charles — I Got a Woman
62. The Everly Brothers — Wake Up Little Susie
63. The Trashmen — Surfin' Bird
64. Wreckless Eric — Whole Wide World
65. The Mills Brothers — The Old Man of the Mountain
66. The Rolling Stones — Rocks Off
67. The Impressions — People Get Ready
68. The Beatles — Penny Lane
69. Sam Cooke — A Change Is Gonna Come
70. Tommy James and The Shondelles — I Think We're Alone Now
71. The Tammys — Egyptian Shumba
72. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — East St. Louis Toodle-oo
[b]73. The Zombies — Care of Cell 44

74. The Kinks — Lola
75. The Beach Boys — Good Vibrations
76. The Supremes — You Keep Me Hangin' On
77. The Rolling Stones — Paint it Black
78. The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Take Five
79. The Four Tops — Reach Out I'll Be There
80. Tom Tom Club — Genius of Love
81. Louis Armstrong — Stardust
82. Big Star — Thirteen
83. Bobby Womack — Across 110th Street
84. The Who — Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
85. Billie Holiday — Solitude
86. The Velvet Underground — Rock n' Roll
87. Marvin Gaye — Mercy Mercy Me
88. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)
89. Roy Orbison — Running Scared
90. Miles Davis — Shhh/Peaceful
91. The Easybeats — Friday on My Mind
92. The Temptations — Papa Was a Rolling Stone
93. Del Shannon — Runaway
94. Ike and Tina Turner — River Deep, Mountain High
95. Blondie — Dreaming
96. The Crystals — And Then He Kissed Me
97. The Left Banke — Walk Away Renee
98. Louis Armstrong — I Can't Give You Anything But Love
99. Howlin' Wolf — Smokestack Lightning
100. James Brown — Cold Sweat

MumblestheRevelator, Friday, 3 December 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link

Ignore the formatting snafu I couldn't seem to fix with 70-72.

MumblestheRevelator, Friday, 3 December 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link

"Superstition" was, like, #12

― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, December 3, 2010 2:39 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

gah, i'm breaking down here. i remember reading the talk about it in the thread, like just after it apparently placed, and swear i scrolled and reloaded and everything looking for it. couldn't find it, and decided that it hadn't made it after all. sometimes my brain just goes out the winda.

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Friday, 3 December 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link

but GREAT!

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Friday, 3 December 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link

this is what it's gonna be like to be senile i bet (assuming an awful lot there)

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Friday, 3 December 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link

17. The Beatles — Strawberry Fields Forever
384. Stevie Wonder — Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
250. The Beatles — She Loves You
62. Curtis Mayfield — Move on Up
227. Ennio Morricone — The Man With the Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West)
2. The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
494. Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein — You'll Never Walk Alone (Carousel)
308. Wu Tang Clan — Triumph
1330. Frank Loesser — Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat
929. Kate Bush — Hello Earth
107. Bobby Womack — Across 110th Street
528. Prince — Sign O the Times
1374. The Prodigy — Charly
11. Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
105. The Supremes — You Keep Me Hangin' On
124. Fleetwood Mac — Go Your Own Way

915. David Bowie — Young Americans
396. Grace Jones — Pull Up to the Bumper
811. Roxy Music — Love Is the Drug
645. Charles Mingus — Haitian Fight Song
79. Led Zeppelin — When the Levee Breaks
1141. Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben — Taj Mahal
5. Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
15. The Specials — Ghost Town

130. The Byrds — Eight Miles High
1. The Beach Boys — God Only Knows
463. Michael Jackson — Beat It
30. The Jackson 5 — I Want You Back
500. Simon and Garfunkel — Bridge Over Troubled Water
278. Fleetwood Mac — Rhiannon
1042. The Chordettes — Mr. Sandman
182. George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue
307. Elvis Presley — Hound Dog
1138. Lord Invader — Rum and Coca-Cola
402. Machine — There But for the Grace of God

131. Afrika Bambaataa — Planet Rock
300. Aretha Franklin — Say a Little Prayer
1838. Armand Van Helden — U Don't Know Me
634. Bee Gees — Stayin' Alive
558. Benny Goodman Orch Carnegie Hall 1938 — Sing, Sing, Sing
322. Blondie — Atomic
709. Bob Marley and The Wailers — Get Up, Stand Up
217. Bronski Beat — Smalltown Boy
388. Bruce Springsteen — Atlantic City
1074. Can — Oh Yeah
482. Chris Isaak — Wicked Game
912. Cole Porter — Anything Goes
900. Crowded House — Four Seasons in One Day
417. David Bowie — Station to Station
212. Don Henley — The Boys of Summer
57. Dr. Dre — Nothin' But a G Thang
554. Elton John — Tiny Dancer
213. Fleetwood Mac — The Chain
260. Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Relax
33. Funkadelic — Maggot Brain
366. Funkadelic — One Nation Under a Groove
323. Gene Kelly — Singin' in the Rain
1280. George Formby — Little Stick of Blackpool Rock
444. George Michael — Careless Whisper
239. Guns N' Roses — Sweet Child O' Mine
316. Howlin' Wolf — Smokestack Lightning
73. Iggy and The Stooges — Search and Destroy
495. Jacques Brel — Amsterdam
335. James Brown — It's a Man's Man's Man's World
59. Kate Bush — Cloudbusting
1123. Luniz — I Got Five on It (Bay Ballas Remix)
63. M|A|R|R|S — Pump Up the Volume
472. Madonna — Like a Prayer
1416. Madonna — Vogue
36. Marvin Gaye — I Heard it Through the Grapevine
147. Massive Attack — Unfinished Sympathy
818. Murray Head — One Night in Bangkok
1074. Nas — The World Is Yours
1142. Paul Simon — 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
54. Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls
1142. Philip Bailey and Phil Collins — Easy Lover
22. Prince and The Revolution — When Doves Cry
523. Scott Joplin — The Entertainer
13. Stevie Wonder — Superstition
967. Suede — Killing of a Flash Boy
143. Talking Heads — Psycho Killer
31. The Beatles — A Day in the Life
533. The Beatles — I Am the Walrus
89. The Beatles — Penny Lane
419. The Beatles — You Never Give Me Your Money
1132. The Clash — I Fought the Law
128. The Mamas and The Papas — California Dreamin'
587. The Police — Roxanne
806. The Prodigy — Out of Space
114. The Rolling Stones — Paint it Black
158. The Rolling Stones — Under My Thumb
37. The Smiths — There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
20. The Smiths — This Charming Man

519. The Source with Candi Staton — You Got the Love
859. The Stone Roses — Fool's Gold
1159. The Stranglers — Golden Brown
303. The Velvet Underground — Venus in Furs
425. TLC — Creep
357. Warren G — Regulate
785. Womack and Womack — Teardrops

Ismael Klata, Friday, 3 December 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link

^ that must've taken some work!

Señor Mexico (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 December 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, I pretty quickly regretted having started it.

Ismael Klata, Friday, 3 December 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link

Stuff I voted for and which made the top 125:

Althea and Donna — Uptown Top Ranking
Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
David Bowie — Heroes
Deee-lite — Groove Is in the Heart
Elis Regina and Tom Jobim — Aguas de Marco
Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Kraftwerk — Autobahn
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Cortez the Killer
New Order — Ceremony (NOMINATED)
Prince and The Revolution - When Doves Cry
Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire — Theme from "Dr. Who"
Roxy Music — Virginia Plain (NOMINATED)
Sonic Youth — Teen Age Riot
The Specials — Ghost Town
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto — Girl From Ipanema
Stereolab — Jenny Ondioline
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Television — Marquee Moon (NOMINATED)
The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You
The Smiths — There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths — This Charming Man

Stuff from the 125 that I would have found room for if I hadn't inexplicably overlooked them in nominations list:

Laurie Anderson - O Superman
M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up the Volume
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You

Artists for whom I backed the 'wrong' song:

Nina Simone - Sinnerman
Pulp - Common People

Some stuff that placed outside the top 125:

Afrika Bambaataa — Planet Rock
Art Ensemble of Chicago — Theme de yoyo
Audio Two — Top Billin' (NOMINATED)
Bela Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: III. Adagio (NOMINATED)
Charles Trenet - La Mer
Dionne Warwick — Walk on By
Edgard Varèse — Poème électronique
Ennio Morricone — L'Estasi dell'Oro (The Ecstacy of Gold)
Ennio Morricone — The Man With the Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West)
Eric B and Rakim — Paid in Full
France Gall — Laisse tomber les filles
Francis Lai — Un homme et une femme (Theme)
György Ligeti — Atmosphéres
Iannis Xenakis — La Legende d'Eer
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: pt. I (NOMINATED)
Jacques Brel — Ces Gens-Là
John Barry — Theme from "Midnight Cowboy"
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Junglinge (NOMINATED)
Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme (NOMINATED)
Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps (NOMINATED)
Orange Juice - Blue Boy
Pierre Schaeffer - Etude aux chemins de fer (NOMINATED)
The Associates - Party Fears Two (NOMINATED)
The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies (NOMINATED)
The Pop Group — She Is Beyond Good and Evil
The Saints — Know Your Product (NOMINATED)
The Shaggs — My Pal Foot Foot
The Slits — So Tough
The Sugarcubes — Birthday (NOMINATED)
The Walker Brothers — The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
The Yardbirds — Happening Ten Years Time Ago
Vera Lynn — We'll Meet Again (NOMINATED)
Wu Tang Clan — Protect Ya Neck
X-Ray Spex — Oh Bondage Up Yours!
Yoko Ono — Why

Some stuff I was utterly alone in voting for:

Anton Webern - Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, Op.6: III. Massig
Gal Costa - Baby (NOMINATED)
Incredible String Band - First Girl I Loved (NOMINATED)

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 3 December 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link

My ballot - most of the weighted section failed to get much love (apart from Sister Ray).

The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
Arthur Russell - In the Light of the Miracle
Albert Ayler - Truth is Marching In
Jorge Ben - Hermes Trismegisto Escreveu
Jacques Brel - La Chanson des Vieux Amants
Planxty - The Blacksmith
Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baïla
Sly and the Family Stone - Sing a Simple Song

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Theme de yoyo
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun
Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need a Change of Mind
Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again
The Beach Boys - Don't Talk (Put Your Head on my Shoulder)
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Taana Gardner - Heartbeat
Richard Youngs - Soon it will be Fire
Al Green - Belle
Bob Dylan - If You See Her, Say Hello
Minnie Riperton - Les Fleur
Sam and Dave - Hold On, I'm Comin'
Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
War - The World Is A Ghetto
Diana Ross - Love Hangover
Ricardo Ray - Richie's Jala Jala
Mecano - Ya Viene El Sol
Popol Vuh - Agirre I
Frankie Knuckles - Your Love
Amon Düül II - Archangels Thunderbird
Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Charles Mingus - Better Git It in Yo Soul
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gilberto Gil - Marginalia II
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Madonna - Into the Groove
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song
Parliament - Flashlight
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - TROY
Prince - Sign O the Times
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal
Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte
Shuggie Otis - Strawberry Letter 23
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
Sun Ra - Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus
The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
William Bell - I Forgot to Be Your Lover
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
Althea and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Moonlight in Vermont
David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Faust - J'ai Mal Aux Dents
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Isaac Hayes - Theme from "Shaft"
Jacques Brel - Ces Gens-Là
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Martha and The Vandellas - Dancing in the Street
Marvin Gaye - I Heard it Through the Grapevine
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
Neil Young - Ambulance Blues
Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long
Pineapples - Come on Closer
Planxty - The Well Below the Valley
Rainbow - Stargazer
Rammellzee and K-Rob - Beat Bop
Sly and The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Talk Talk - I Believe in You
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
The Celestial Choir - Stand on the Word
The Mamas and The Papas - California Dreamin'
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
Toots and The Maytals - Pressure Drop
Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land
Bob Dylan — Ballad of a Thin Man
Curtis Mayfield — Move On Up
Love — You Set the Scene
Marlena Shaw — The Woman of the Ghetto
Os Mutantes — Panis et Circences
Steve Reich — Come Out
The Spinners — I'll Be Around
Elis Regina and Tom Jobim — Aguas de Marco
Blind Willie Johnson — God Moves on the Water
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
The Congos — Congoman
Béla Bartók — Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: III. Adagio
Herbie Hancock — Hornets
Alice Coltrane — Hare Krishna
Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues
Ennio Morricone - The Man With the Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West)
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love

seandalai, Friday, 3 December 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link

29 of my top 100 made the hot 125. On my ballot, the top 40 are ranked.

The Rolling Stones — Street Fighting Man
Bob Dylan — Like a Rolling Stone
The Rolling Stones — Jumpin' Jack Flash
Pavement — Summer Babe
Bruce Springsteen — Born to Run
Son House — Death Letter Blues
The Clash — Complete Control
Otis Redding — Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
Funkadelic — Maggot Brain
The Modern Lovers — Roadrunner
Sonic Youth — Teen Age Riot

Bruce Springsteen — The Promised Land
Buddy Holly — Well…All Right
Flamin' Groovies — Shake Some Action
Love — You Set the Scene
The Beatles — A Day in the Life
Neil Young — The Needle and the Damage Done
Prince — Little Red Corvette
Public Enemy — Bring the Noise

Public Image Ltd. — Public Image
Clarence Ashley — The Coo Coo Bird
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Van Morrison — St. Dominic's Preview
Merle Haggard — Mama Tried
Wire — Mannequin
Bob Dylan — Tangled Up in Blue
Nirvana — Smells Like Teen Spirit

Patti Smith — Gloria
The Velvet Underground — Heroin
The Who — Baba O'Riley
Talking Heads — Once in a Lifetime
Pulp — Common People

Sex Pistols — Anarchy in the U.K.
Bruce Springsteen — Atlantic City
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — You've Really Got a Hold on Me
The Replacements — I Will Dare
The Go-Betweens — Cattle and Cane
Elvis Costello — Watching the Detectives
Toots and The Maytals — Pressure Drop
New Order — Temptation

Big Star — September Gurls
Bob Dylan — Girl From the North Country
Buddy Holly — Rave On
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band — Zig Zag Wanderer
Cheap Trick — Surrender
Chuck Berry — Roll Over Beethoven
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son
Curtis Mayfield — If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go
David Bowie — Station to Station
Desmond Dekker — Israelites
Dolly Parton — Jolene

Don Henley — The Boys of Summer
Donna Summer — I Feel Love
Elmore James — Dust My Blues
Elvis Presley — All Shook Up
Elvis Presley — Suspicious Minds
Frank Sinatra — I've Got You Under My Skin
Gang of Four — Damaged Goods
Gene Clark — Some Misunderstanding
George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue
Gram Parsons — $1000 Wedding
Hank Williams — Lost Highway
James Brown — Super Bad
Jimi Hendrix Experience — Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
Johnny Cash — Ring of Fire
Led Zeppelin — When the Levee Breaks
Louis Armstrong — What a Wonderful World
Metallica — One
Mississippi John Hurt — Avalon Blues
Motörhead — Ace of Spades
Mott the Hoople — All the Way From Memphis
My Bloody Valentine — Soon
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Powderfinger
New York Dolls — Trash
Nirvana — Lounge Act
Pavement — Gold Soundz
Radiohead — Let Down
Ramones — Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
Randy Newman — Sail Away
Ray Charles — Georgia on My Mind
Ray Charles — What'd I Say
Richard "Rabbit" Brown — James Alley Blues
Robert Johnson — If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
Rod Stewart — Maggie May
Sam Cooke — Bring it on Home to Me
Simon and Garfunkel — Bridge Over Troubled Water
Sly and The Family Stone — Family Affair
Steely Dan — Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Stevie Wonder — Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
Television — Marquee Moon
The Beach Boys — Good Vibrations

kornrulez6969, Friday, 3 December 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Looks like you missed the bottom of your ballot there kornrulez :)

seandalai, Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link

Ok, I'll dump this here: which voters are "boring indie canon" and which voters are "fringe loose canon" (sorry). It's ordered by the proportion of votes that made it into the top 125. Again I've checked the output only briefly, but it seems to be right.

The format is: rank, user, #votes cast, #votes in top 125, proportion of votes in top 125, points total for all tracks on ballot, average points per track

1 NotEnough 100 37 0.370 110247 1102.470
2 monster_xero 76 27 0.355 76280 1003.684
3 President Keyes 100 35 0.350 101670 1016.700
4 mookieproof 100 34 0.340 94939 949.390
5 Pillbox 100 33 0.330 99198 991.980
6 breaks 100 33 0.330 99228 992.280
7 peanut 100 32 0.320 102537 1025.370
8 kornrulez6969 100 32 0.320 95805 958.050
9 Ari 100 31 0.310 93066 930.660
10 sofatruck 100 30 0.300 91879 918.790
11 MitchellStirling 100 30 0.300 92798 927.980
12 that's not my post 100 30 0.300 95629 956.290
13 symsymsym 100 29 0.290 94340 943.400
14 contenderizer 100 29 0.290 90775 907.750
15 abanana 96 27 0.281 91658 954.771
16 mike t-diva 100 28 0.280 99604 996.040
17 SSS 100 28 0.280 92192 921.920
18 maarten 100 28 0.280 87244 872.440
19 john. a resident of chicago. 100 28 0.280 98114 981.140
20 clemenza 54 15 0.278 47622 881.889
21 Dr. C 69 19 0.275 55137 799.087
22 corey 77 21 0.273 66016 857.351
23 "Nasty, Brutish & Short" 100 27 0.270 98853 988.530
24 justfanoe 99 26 0.263 92200 931.313
25 Ismael Klata 100 26 0.260 90725 907.250
26 Ioannis 100 26 0.260 90357 903.570
27 WmC 43 11 0.256 39267 913.186
28 whatever 100 25 0.250 86226 862.260
29 crüt 100 25 0.250 85954 859.540
30 le hague 48 12 0.250 46958 978.292
31 Turangalila 100 25 0.250 89190 891.900
32 iatee 100 25 0.250 86445 864.450
33 charlie h 100 25 0.250 89899 898.990
34 Lostandfound 100 24 0.240 85360 853.600
35 MumblestheRevelator 100 24 0.240 85009 850.090
36 skip 100 24 0.240 89228 892.280
37 Matt #2 100 24 0.240 79521 795.210
38 Gukbe 100 24 0.240 89757 897.570
39 Nag! Nag! Nag! 100 24 0.240 85822 858.220
40 crumbsinthebutter 39 9 0.231 30861 791.308
41 p-dog 100 23 0.230 90769 907.690
42 Moka 100 23 0.230 72774 727.740
43 sleeve 100 23 0.230 79779 797.790
44 Zachary Taylor 100 23 0.230 81403 814.030
45 staggerlee 100 23 0.230 83523 835.230
46 a hoy hoy 87 20 0.230 70411 809.322
47 nakamura 99 22 0.222 89629 905.343
48 Johnny Fever 100 22 0.220 79649 796.490
49 rat bat bruce 100 22 0.220 82092 820.920
50 Neue Jesse Schule 100 22 0.220 67804 678.040
51 billstevejim 100 22 0.220 80279 802.790
52 Gavin in Leeds 100 22 0.220 72134 721.340
53 dog latin 100 22 0.220 84574 845.740
54 Kent Burt 100 22 0.220 78922 789.220
55 j0rdan s 47 10 0.213 37709 802.319
56 Jeff W 99 21 0.212 78656 794.505
57 askance johnson 100 21 0.210 79804 798.040
58 pandemic 100 21 0.210 85180 851.800
59 NickB 100 21 0.210 80221 802.210
60 seandalai 100 21 0.210 75719 757.190
61 calumerio 88 18 0.205 73654 836.977
62 nicky lo-fi 98 20 0.204 75684 772.286
63 Viceroy 100 20 0.200 74171 741.710
64 peter in montreal 100 20 0.200 76881 768.810
65 ilxor 100 20 0.200 78898 788.980
66 Two Red Ducks 100 20 0.200 74143 741.430
67 rudipherous 100 20 0.200 71374 713.740
68 glynn 71 14 0.197 64800 912.676
69 mizzell 68 13 0.191 48878 718.794
70 Spectrist 100 19 0.190 75534 755.340
71 purrington 100 19 0.190 79331 793.310
72 geirhong 100 19 0.190 73273 732.730
73 gospodin simmel 100 19 0.190 78345 783.450
74 Billy Dods 100 19 0.190 72231 722.310
75 Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs 100 18 0.180 79096 790.960
76 Kitchen Person 100 18 0.180 67010 670.100
77 some dude 100 16 0.160 74881 748.810
78 hinklepicker 100 16 0.160 63959 639.590
79 caloma 100 16 0.160 78802 788.020
80 emil.y 100 15 0.150 66730 667.300
81 pauls00 89 13 0.146 62479 702.011
82 doo dah 100 14 0.140 67781 677.810
83 ogmor 72 10 0.139 49857 692.458
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

seandalai, Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link

<3 lj

captayn cronch (crüt), Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link

tracks that received one #1 vote and nothing else:

Ernie K. Doe - Mother-in-Law
Les Rallizes Denudes - Night of the Assassins
Soft Machine - Moon in June
Umm Kulthum - Robaeyat El Khayam

I am so shocked by that last one, let me tell you.

_Rudipherous_, Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link

listening club + poll, imo

gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link

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

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

_Rudipherous_, Saturday, 4 December 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link

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, Saturday, 4 December 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 4 December 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

Moka, Saturday, 4 December 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Moka, Saturday, 4 December 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link

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

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

Moka, Saturday, 4 December 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

Tuomas, Sunday, 5 December 2010 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Tuomas, Sunday, 5 December 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Tuomas, Sunday, 5 December 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link

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

State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Sunday, 5 December 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Satantango! (Matt #2), Sunday, 5 December 2010 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 5 December 2010 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link

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".

seandalai, Sunday, 5 December 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link

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!

Neue Jesse Schule, Sunday, 5 December 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link

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)

rat bat bruce, Sunday, 5 December 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link

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...)

clemenza, Sunday, 5 December 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link

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

emil.y, Sunday, 5 December 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

emil.y, Sunday, 5 December 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link

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*

O Permaban (NickB), Sunday, 5 December 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link

You forgot to bold out the Shaggs, emily.

Moka, Sunday, 5 December 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

Moka, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Moka, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

Moka, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link

xp
(...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

Jeff W, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

emil.y, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link

The United States of America — Garden of Earthly Delights

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

seandalai, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link

I might have voted for "Coming Down."

_Rudipherous_, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link

emil.y – I don't think I saw SH were nominated or I know I would have noted for them. Shitty excuse, but true!

Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link

"Coming Down" is my favorite US of A song.

Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link

Doomed to split votes whatever they do.

seandalai, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

Wow, totally forgot about 'Rockit'.

O Permaban (NickB), Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link

'Coming Down' is my favourite, too, but was more than happy to vote for 'Garden of Earthly Delights' as the only nom.

emil.y, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link

These are the songs only I voted for, excluding 'secos & molhados' they were all my nominees. All of them are personal favorites but I'm honestly surprised noone else voted for 'hello dolly' and 'blues run the game':

Billie Holiday and Lester Young - When You're Smiling
Tricky - Poems
T.Rex - Raw Ramp
Salcos - Demolicion
Louis Armstrong - Hello Dolly!
Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run the Game
Dusty Springfield - Spooky
David Bowie - Letter to Hermione
Secos e Molhados - Sangue Latino

Moka, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link

I think the tracks that I alone or just me and one other voted for make up most of my favourites of my ballot. A few notable exceptions, mind you.

emil.y, Sunday, 5 December 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link

Here's my fully weighted ballot:

Bing Crosby — White Christmas
Bob Dylan — Like a Rolling Stone
The Beach Boys — God Only Knows
Michael Jackson — Billie Jean
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog
Fred Astaire — Cheek to Cheek
Henry Mancini — Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Fleetwood Mac — Rhiannon
Claude Debussy — Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque)
Peggy Lee — Fever
The Beatles — She Loves You
Guns N' Roses — Welcome to the Jungle
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Take the A-Train
The Glenn Miller Orchestra — In the Mood
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You
The Who — Won’t Get Fooled Again
“?” and The Mysterians — 96 Tears
Prince and The Revolution — Purple Rain
Bill Monroe — Blue Moon of Kentucky
Depeche Mode — Enjoy the Silence
Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats — Rocket 88
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto — Girl From Ipanema
George Jones — He Stopped Loving Her Today
Fats Waller — Ain’t Misbehavin’
The Rolling Stones — Under My Thumb
Willie Nelson — Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Madonna — Into the Groove
Cab Calloway — Minnie the Moocher
Chuck Berry — Roll Over Beethoven
Nirvana — Smells Like Teen Spirit
Miles Davis — So What
Robert Johnson — Love in Vain
Bob Dylan — Desolation Row
The Velvet Underground — Heroin
The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset
Johnny Cash — Folsom Prison Blues
Chic — Good Times
Maurice Ravel — Boléro
The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
The Platters — Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Jefferson Airplane — White Rabbit
The Tornados — Telstar
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — The Message
Alvin Lucier — I Am Sitting in a Room
Patsy Cline — I Fall to Pieces
Nancy Sinatra — These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
Dick Dale and The Deltones — Misirlou
Orbital — Halcyon + On + On
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Take Five
George McCrae — Rock Your Baby
Carl Perkins — Blue Suede Shoes
Dr. Dre — Nothin' But a G Thang
Britney Spears — …Baby One More Time
Iggy and The Stooges — Search and Destroy
Talking Heads — Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Sex Pistols — Anarchy in the U.K.
The Four Tops — Reach Out I'll Be There
Leonard Cohen — Hallelujah
James Brown — Cold Sweat
ABBA — The Winner Takes it All
Carl Orff — O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
Julie Andrews — The Lonely Goatherd (The Sound of Music)
The Jesus and Mary Chain — Just Like Honey
Sam Cooke — A Change Is Gonna Come
Elvis Presley — Can't Help Falling in Love
The Beach Boys — Good Vibrations
Judy Garland — Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (original depression version sez Abbott)
Raymond Scott — Powerhouse
Benny Goodman Orch Carnegie Hall 1938 — Sing, Sing, Sing
Dolly Parton — Jolene
Etta James — At Last
Johnny Nash — I Can See Clearly Now
X-Ray Spex — Oh Bondage Up Yours!
Bo Diddley — Hey Bo Diddley
Marvin Gaye — What's Goin' On
The Magnetic Fields — The Book of Love
Link Wray and His Ray Men — Rumble
Tom Waits — Anywhere I Lay My Head
Frank Sinatra — Night and Day
Brian Eno — Baby's on Fire
Bing Crosby — Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Tommy James and The Shondelles — Crimson and Clover
The Kingsmen — Louie Louie
Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
Backstreet Boys — I Want it That Way
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — The Tracks of My Tears
Tammy Wynette — Stand By Your Man
Shuggie Otis — Strawberry Letter 23
Martina McBride — Independence Day
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Pet Shop Boys — Being Boring
They Might Be Giants — Anna Ng
Earth, Wind and Fire — September
Black Sabbath — Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Blondie — Atomic
My Bloody Valentine — Only Shallow
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers — American Girl
Cheap Trick — Surrender
Dead Kennedys — Holiday in Cambodia

I hated to submit such a consensus ballot at the top, but it was honest. I thought the rap/R&B nominations were particularly poor.

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 6 December 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link

this doesn't really belong here, but nor does it belong anywhere else, so...

NOBODY LIKES ME (the abandoned):

.38 Special - Caught Up in You
14 Iced Bears - Take It
A Tribe Called Quest - Sucka Nigga
Abner Jay - Depression
Aimee Mann - Save Me
Albert Mangelsdorff - The Wide Point
Alexander Skip Spence - Diana
Altered Images - Don't Talk to Me About Love
American Music Club - Big Night
Amy Grant - Baby, Baby
Andonis Dalgas - Sousta Politiki
Andrew Lloyd Weber - Trial Before Pilate (Including the 39 Lashes) (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Another Sunny Day - Anorak City
Anton Karas - The Third Man (aka The Harry Lime Theme)
B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone
Barry Manilow - Mandy
Beat Happening - Bewitched
Belle and Sebastian - Seymour Stein
Big Star - Thank You Friends
Bill Dixon - Shrike
Bill Dixon Orchestra - Metamorphosis 1962-1966
Bill Haley and The Comets - Shake, Rattle and Roll
Billie Holiday - I'm Painting the Town Red
Billy Ocean - Carribean Queen
Billy Strayhorn - Lush Life
Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy
Bing Crosby - Paradise
Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters - Don't Fence Me In
Bix Beiderbecke - In a Mist (Bixology)
Bix Beiderbecke - Rhythm King
Bix Beiderbecke - Riverboat Shuffle
Björk - Big Time Sensuality
Björk - Come to Me
Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Blue Öyster Cult - Last Days of May
Boards of Canada - Everything You Do Is a Balloon
Bob Dorough - Four-Legged Zoo (Schoolhouse Rock)
Bob Dylan - Most of the Time
Bohannon - Summertime Groove
Booker T and The MGs - Born Under a Bad Sign
Boswell Sisters - Heebie Jeebies
Brenda Lee - I Want to Be Wanted
Buffalo Springfield - I Am a Child
Burning Spear - Hey Dready
Busta Rhymes - Gimme Some More
Butthole Surfers - Freak in the Cellar
Cab Calloway - Reefer Man
Carmen Miranda - Rebola a Bola
Carmen Miranda - Tico Tico
Charlie Rich - Don't Put No Headstone on My Grave
Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell
Clydie King - One of Those for Crying Over You Days
Common Sense - Resurrection
Connie - Rock Me
Crude - This Town
D'Angelo - Cruisin'
Daniel Johnston - Speeding Motorcycle
De la Soul - Stakes Is High
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Dick Powell / Vitaphone Orchestra - I Only Have Eyes for You
Dick Power and Ruby Keeler - You Gotta Know How to Dance
Dillinja - The Angels Fell
Do or Die - Po Pimp
Dock Boggs - Old Rub Alcohol
Drive-By Truckers - Zip City
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Saddest Tale
East River Pipe - Make a Deal With the City
Eddie Murphy - Boogie in Your Butt
Emitt Rhodes - Somebody Made for Me
Erasure - Oh L'Amour
Etta Moten and Joan Blondell - Remember My Forgotten Man
Evelyn Champagne King - Love Come Down
Fats Waller - Blue Because of You
Fela Kuti - Shakara
Felt - Evergreen Dazed
Flipper - Life
Frank Hutchison - Stackalee
Frank Sinatra - Brazil
Frank Sinatra - I'm a Fool to Want You
Frank Sinatra - You Make Me Feel So Young
Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown Goes Down
Freddy Fender - Before the Next Teardrop Falls
Fugazi - Shut the Door
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
Gang Starr - Code of the Streets
Gary Burton - Hullo Bolinas
Gene Vincent - Be-Bop-A-Lula
Genesis - Follow You Follow Me
Genius/GZA - Gold
George McCrae - You Can Have it All
George Michael - Hard Day
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Patio Song
Gracie Fields - Now Is the Hour
Gustav Mahler - Der Abschied from Das Lied Von Der Erde
Haircut One Hundred - Love Plus One
Harry Nilsson - I Said Goodbye to Me
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard - West Virginia, My Home
"Henry Mancini - Theme from ""The Pink Panther"""
Herbert Howells - Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
Hildegard Knef - Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen
Hoagy Carmichael - Stardust
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Howard Keel and Company - Sobbin' Women
"Huey ""Piano"" Smith and His Clowns - Free, Single & Disengaged"
Hunters and Collectors - Talking to a Stranger
Instant Funk - I Got My Mind Made Up
Irma Thomas - Breakaway
Irving Berlin - Alexander's Ragtime Band
Isaac Hayes - The Look of Love
Jacob Miller - Girl Named Pat
Janet Jackson - If
Janis Joplin - Half Moon
Japan - Swing
Jay-Z - Dead Presidents II
Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolook
Jerry Reed - Eastbound and Down
Jessie Matthews - By the Fireside
Joan Baez - Prison Trilogy
John Cale and Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax
John Coltrane - Alabama
John Fahey - America
John Tavener - The Protecting Veil
Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams
Joni Mitchell - Amelia
Joni Mitchell - Chinese Café
Jorge Ben - Taj Mahal / Fio Maravilha / Pais Tropical
Judee Sill - The Lamb Ran Away With the Crown
Judee Sill - The Pearl
June Brides - In the Rain
King Crimson - Sleepless
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Dippermouth Blues
Kool and The Gang - Give it Up
Kraftwerk - Numbers
Lady Ann - Informer
Laura Nyro - I Am the Blues
LaVern Baker - Soul on Fire
Le Mystere de Voix Bulgare - Mir Stanke Le
Leadbelly - How Long
Leadbelly - Take a Whiff on Me
Led Zeppelin - In the Evening
Led Zeppelin - Thank You
Lee Wiley - Oh! Look at Me Now
Leo Kottke - Vaseline Machine Gun
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Lewis Taylor - Satisfied
Lifter Puller - To Live and Die in LBI
Lightning Seeds - Pure
Linda Scott - I've Told Every Little Star
Lionel Hampton - Central Ave. Breakdown
Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Loretta Lynn - Blue Kentucky Girl
Los Lobos - One Time, One Night
Louis Armstrong - Cake Walking Babies from Home
Louis Armstrong - Heebie Jeebies
Louis Prima and Keely Smith - That Ol' Black Magic
Love - Seven & Seven Is
Low - The Plan
Lucinda Williams - Pineola
Marion Brown - Sweet Earth Flying
Marta Eggerth - Ein Lied, ein Kuß, ein Mädel
Marvin Gaye - Yesterday
Maurice Jarre - Lara's Theme (Dr. Zhivago)
Maze and Frankie Beverly - Before I Let Go
MC5 - Ramblin' Rose
Meredith Wilson - Till There Was You (The Music Man)
Merle Haggard - Big City
MF Doom - Dead Bent
Ministry - Thieves
Minutemen - Little Man With a Gun in His Hand
Mission of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate
Mose Allison - Everybody's Crying Mercy
Mrs. Miller - A Lover's Concerto
My Bloody Valentine - Drive All Over Me
Naftule Brandwein - Heyser Bulgar
Napalm Death - You Suffer
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue
Nusret Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt
Oasis - Supersonic
Olatunji - Akiwowo
Onyx - Slam
Orbital - The Girl With the Sun in Her Head
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Tiger Rag
Ornette Coleman - Humpty Dumpty
Otis Clay - Trying to Live My Life Without You
Pat Metheny Group - Phase Dance
Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto
Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
Phil Ochs - Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
Phillip Glass - Koyaanisquatsi
Pola Negri - Paradise
Prince - Pussy Control
Prince and The New Power Generation - Sexy M.F.
Professor Longhair - Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand
R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Ray Barretto - Abidjan
Ray Price - Night Life
Red House Painters - Grace Cathedral Park
Richard O'Brien - Bitchin' in the Kitchen
Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein - You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
Robbie Basho - Orphan's Lament
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans - Happy Trails
Rudy Vallee - Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Samsimar - Indang Pariaman
Sandy Denny - By the Time it Gets Dark
Seefeel - Spangle
Sidney Bechet - Blackstick
Silver Apples - Lovefingers
Simon Dupree and The Big Sound - Kites
Sinéad O'Connor - Mandinka
Slade - Mama Weer All Crazee Now
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - I Don't Blame You at All
Sol Hoopii - Fascinating Rhythm
Sonic Youth - Tom Violence
Sonic Youth - Tuff Gnarl
Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
Sons of the Pioneers - Way Out There
Soul Coughing - Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago
Spacemen 3 - Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie
Stevie Wonder - If it's Magic
Sugar - The Act We Act
Sylvia - Pillow Talk
Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It
Teddy Hill and His NBC Orchestra - King Porter Stomp
Teddy Pendergrass - Love TKO
Ten City - That's the Way Love Is
The Afghan Whigs - Uptown Again
The Beatles - Within You Without You
The Blue Nile - Let's Go Out Tonight
The Byrds - 100 Years From Now (Gram Parsons vocal)
The Coasters - Riot in Cell Block Number Nine
The Delmore Brothers - Brown's Ferry Blues
The Fall - Bingo Masters Breakout
The Fall - Gut of the Quantifier
The Fall - New Face in Hell
The Four Kings - Non Stop Dancing
The Impressions - It's All Right
The Impressions - You Must Believe Me
The Index - Israeli Blue
The Isley Brothers - Between the Sheets
The Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl
The Marx Brothers - Lydia the Tattooed Lady
The Melodians - You Have Caught Me
The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday
The Oblivians - Bad Man
The O'Jays - I Love Music
The Passions - I'm in Love With a German Film Star
The Primitives - Really Stupid
The Raincoats - No Side to Fall In
The Replacements - Within Your Reach
The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home
The Soul Stirrers - Nearer to Thee
"The Sound Stage Orchestra - Theme from ""Grandstand"""
The Spinanes - Lines and Lines
The Staple Singers - Uncloudy Day
The Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
The Surfaris - Wipe Out
The Techniques - Love Is Not a Gamble
The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Vengaboys - We Like to Party (The Vengabus)
The Who - You Better You Bet
The Wipers - Can This Be
Them - My Lonely Sad Eyes
Tim Buckley - Sweet Surrender
Todd Rundgren - It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Todd Rundgren - The Last Ride
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Jammin' Me
Tom Waits - Take it With Me
Tone Lo-c - Funky Cold Medina
Tony Bennett and k.d. lang - Moonglow
Tony Renis - Quando, Quando, Quando
Toru Takemitsu - A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden
Touch and Go - Would You…?
Urge Overkill - Sister Havana
Vera Hall - Wild Ox Moan
Whodini - Magic's Wand
Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City
Willie Hutch - I Choose You
World Party - Ship of Fools
World's Famous Supreme Team - Hey DJ
Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra - Frenesi
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Absolute Ego Dance
Yes - Your Move
Yma Sumac - Taki Rari
Yo La Tengo - Ballad of Red Buckets
Yo La Tengo - Big Day Coming
Yo La Tengo - Center of Gravity

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link

^ 289 songs that were nominated but that no one voted for. some real surprises in that list, the louvin brothers "knoxville girl" not the least of them. includes my leadbelly nom, "take a whiff on me", abandoned cuz i had to vote for "goodnight irene".

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link

songs that got no votes that i'd have been perfectly happy to vote for. but didn't:

Anton Karas - The Third Man (aka The Harry Lime Theme)
Bill Haley and The Comets - Shake, Rattle and Roll
Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell
Daniel Johnston - Speeding Motorcycle
East River Pipe - Make a Deal With the City (didn't notice this in the list the 1st time around! so good.)
Fela Kuti - Shakara
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
Jerry Reed - Eastbound and Down
Leadbelly - Take a Whiff on Me
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown (what the fuck is wrong with me that i didn't vote for this?)
Love - Seven & Seven Is (!!!)
MC5 - Ramblin' Rose
Minutemen - Little Man With a Gun in His Hand
Mission of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate (both of these two cut at the last minute from my ballott)
Phil Ochs - Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
Phillip Glass - Koyaanisquatsi
Ram Jam - Black Betty (goddam, another i missed that i would have voted for in a heartbeat)
Rudy Vallee - Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (dunno whether or not this is the essential version, but a hell of a song no matter what)
The Beatles - Within You Without You
The Fall - Bingo Masters Breakout
The Louvin Brothers - Knoxville Girl
The Rolling Stones - 2000 Light Years From Home
The Surfaris - Wipe Out (!!!)
The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Who - You Better You Bet
Tone Lo-c - Funky Cold Medina
Urge Overkill - Sister Havana (a guilty pleasure, really struggled to cut this one)
Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City
Yma Sumac - Taki Rari

phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Monday, 6 December 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link

I voted for the Bing Crosby version of "Brother Can You Spare a Dime", kinda ridiculous that it had 2 versions nominated. Sad to see "Alexander's Ragtime Band" get shut out, but I already had 2 Irving Berlin songs in my top 10 and didn't really feel like voting for another.

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 6 December 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link

There are quite a few on the no-voters list that I came very close to voting for, but cut at the last minute (for instance, having Hildegard Knef, Lucia Pamela, the Shaggs AND Mrs Miller was just far too much). Particularly sad about Daniel Johnston and the Raincoats, as those weren't even the victim of vote-splitting. 'Magic's Wand' by Whodini was on my ballot for ages until I realised I was being a bit silly.

emil.y, Monday, 6 December 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link

Also, I don't think I actually noticed Love on the list, even though they had more than one song nominated - don't remember them even being on my first shortlist of around 300 songs, and they definitely would have been had I seen them.

emil.y, Monday, 6 December 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link

I nominated "Sweet Surrender" and it was the last song I cut. Wish I hadn't.

sofatruck, Monday, 6 December 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Herbert Howells - Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
Would've totally voted for this if I'd noticed it on the ballot. And Slade. And The Primitives.

(I wasn't keen on the clustering of all the artists starting with 'The' on the ballot btw, my eyes just glazed over after a while)

Jeff W, Monday, 6 December 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link

didn't keep a copy of my ballot but i know that i ranked at least all of the elvis tracks at the top. i don't think there were any others in the ranked section. 'Baby let's play house' was definitely no.1, can't remember the order of the other 3.

Elvis Presley — Baby Let's Play House
Elvis Presley — All Shook Up
Elvis Presley — Can't Help Falling in Love
Elvis Presley — Hound Dog

10cc — I'm Mandy Fly Me
ABBA — S.O.S.
Al Green — Here I Am
Arab Strap — The Girls of Summer
Aretha Franklin — Say a Little Prayer
Bee Gees — Stayin' Alive
Ben E. King — Stand By Me
Big Star — September Gurls
Bo Diddley — Who Do You Love
Bob Dylan — Visions of Johanna
Britney Spears — …Baby One More Time
Buddy Holly — Well…All Right
Carpenters — Goodbye to Love
Chic — Good Times
Chris Bell — I Am the Cosmos
Chuck Berry — Johnny B. Goode
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Lodi
David Bowie — Life on Mars?
Desmond Dekker — Israelites
Devo — Uncontrollable Urge
Dolly Parton — Jolene
Donna Summer — I Feel Love
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra — Jack the Bear
Eddie Cochran — Summertime Blues
Elvis Costello and The Attractions — Pump it Up
Fleetwood Mac — Go Your Own Way
Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers — Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Fred Astaire — Cheek to Cheek
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris — Love Hurts
Hank Mizzell — Jungle Rock
Jerry Lee Lewis — Great Balls of Fire
Jerry Lee Lewis — Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Johnny Cash — I Walk the Line
Johnny Nash — I Can See Clearly Now
Joni Mitchell — A Case of You
Joy Division — Atmosphere
Kate Bush — Wuthering Heights
Laurie Anderson — O Superman
Les Paul and Mary Ford — How High the Moon
Little Richard — Lucille
Louis Armstrong — What a Wonderful World
Love — You Set the Scene
Marvin Gaye — I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs — Stay
Misty in Roots — Intro/Mankind (Live at the Counter Eurovision)
New Order — Temptation
Nick Drake — Northern Sky
Nick Drake — Which Will
Nirvana — Lounge Act
Olivia Newton-John — Xanadu
Otis Redding — I've Been Loving You Too Long
Patsy Cline — I Fall to Pieces
Pavement — Stop Breathin'
Prince and The Revolution — When Doves Cry
Public Enemy — Welcome to the Terrordome
Pulp — Common People
Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody
R.E.M. — Find the River
Robert Johnson — Terraplane Blues
Roy Orbison — Crying
Sister Sledge — Lost in Music
Slint — Good Morning, Captain
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — The Tracks of My Tears
Sonic Youth — Expressway to Yr Skull
Steely Dan — Babylon Sisters
Stevie Wonder — Superstition
Super Furry Animals — Ice Hockey Hair
Talk Talk — I Believe in You
Tammy Wynette — Stand By Your Man
The Beach Boys — Surf's Up
The Beatles — Strawberry Fields Forever
The Byrds — I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
The Carter Family — Wildwood Flower
The Crystals — Da Doo Ron Ron
The Everly Brothers — All I Have to Do Is Dream
The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You
The Glenn Miller Orchestra — Moonlight Serenade
The Penguins — Earth Angel
The Platters — Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
The Ronettes — Be My Baby
The Smiths — This Charming Man
The Specials — Ghost Town
The Stylistics — You Make Me Feel Brand New
The Supremes — You Keep Me Hangin' On
The Undertones — Teenage Kicks
The Upsetters — Black Panta
The Wedding Present — Kennedy
Toots and The Maytals — Pressure Drop
Tricky — Aftermath
Van Morrison — Astral Weeks
Van Morrison — Into the Mystic
Warren Zevon — Accidentally Like a Martyr
Wilson Pickett — In the Midnight Hour
Wreckless Eric — Whole Wide World

thanks johnny fever and seandalai, it was a blast.

xavi hoarder type (whatever), Monday, 6 December 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Ah, found mine at last.

WEIGHTED:
1. The Beach Boys — God Only Knows
2. The Kinks — Waterloo Sunset
3. Yes — Close to the Edge
4. David Bowie — Heroes
5. Carpenters — Goodbye to Love
6. Blondie — Dreaming
7. Chic — Good Times
8. The Clash — Complete Control
9. Flamin' Groovies — Shake Some Action
10. Gary Numan / Tubeway Army — Are Friends Electric?
11. Gram Parsons — $1000 Wedding
12. The Beatles — Penny Lane
13. Stevie Wonder — Living for the City
14. Joni Mitchell — Both Sides Now
15. Aretha Franklin — Say a Little Prayer
16. The Jackson 5 — I Want You Back
17. Kraftwerk — Autobahn
18. Magazine — A Song From Under the Floorboards
19. Sylvester — You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
20. Leonard Cohen — Hallelujah
21. Lionel Richie — All Night Long
22. Pink Floyd — Shine on You Crazy Diamond pt. I
23. Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
24. Donna Summer — I Feel Love
25. Eric B and Rakim — I Know Who Got Your Soul
26. Michael Jackson — Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
27. Gladys Knight and The Pips — Midnight Train to Georgia
28. Marvin Gaye — I Heard it Through the Grapevine
29. Roxy Music — Street Life
30. The Only Ones — Another Girl Another Planet
31. Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — The Tracks of My Tears
32. The Righteous Brothers — You've Lost That Loving Feeling
33. The The — This Is the Day
34. Patti Smith — Gloria
35. Loose Ends — Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)

UNWEIGHTED:
ABBA — The Winner Takes it All
Al Green — Let's Stay Together
Althea and Donna — Uptown Top Ranking
Blue Öyster Cult — Don't Fear the Reaper
Boston — More Than a Feeling
Bronski Beat — Smalltown Boy
Buzzcocks — Ever Fallen in Love
Diana Ross — Upside Down
Dionne Warwick — Walk on By
Earth, Wind and Fire — September
Etta James — At Last
Fleetwood Mac — Tusk
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons — The Night
Go-Go's — Our Lips Are Sealed
Henry Mancini — Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Isaac Hayes — Theme from "Shaft"
Japan — Ghosts
Jimi Hendrix Experience — Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Joe Jackson — It's Different for Girls
John Martyn — Solid Air
Kate Bush — Cloudbusting
Led Zeppelin — Stairway to Heaven
LL Cool J — Rock the Bells
Luther Vandross — Never Too Much
M — Pop Muzik
Madonna — Like a Prayer
Neneh Cherry — Buffalo Stance
New Order — Blue Monday
Nirvana — Smells Like Teen Spirit
Orange Juice — Blue Boy
Otis Redding — I've Been Loving You Too Long
Patrice Rushen — Forget Me Nots
Patsy Cline — Crazy
Pet Shop Boys — Being Boring
Prince and The Revolution — Kiss
Public Enemy — Fight the Power
Public Image Ltd. — Swan Lake
Ramones — Blitzkrieg Bop
Robert Wyatt — Shipbuilding
Rubén Blades and Willie Colón — Pedro Navaja
S.O.S. Band — Just Be Good to Me
Sex Pistols — Holidays in the Sun
Shuggie Otis — Strawberry Letter 23
Simon and Garfunkel — Bridge Over Troubled Water
Sister Sledge — Lost in Music
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Sparks — This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto — Girl From Ipanema
Television — Marquee Moon
The Archies — Sugar, Sugar
The Breeders — Cannonball
The Doobie Brothers — What a Fool Believes
The Four Tops — Reach Out I'll Be There
The Monkees — I'm a Believer
The Pop Group — She Is Beyond Good and Evil
The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
The Ronettes — Be My Baby
The Saints — (I'm) Stranded
The Shangri-Las — Leader of the Pack
The Smiths — There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Temptations — Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Tom Tom Club — Genius of Love
Wire — Outdoor Miner
Womack and Womack — Teardrops
Yaz(oo) — Only You

mike t-diva, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link

'Magic's Wand' by Whodini was on my ballot for ages until I realised I was being a bit silly.

If I'd known anyone else anywhere was seriously considering voting for it, I'd have organized an off-board voting block.

Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link

#1) Otis Redding — I've Been Loving You Too Long
Can — Future Days
King Crimson — Exiles
Lionel Richie — All Night Long
Motorpsycho — The Golden Core
Motorpsycho — Mad Sun
Nick Drake — Hazey Jane II
Eric Serra — The Big Blue Overture
Ray Charles — Georgia on My Mind
Jim O'Rourke — Ghost Ship in a Storm
Smashing Pumpkins — 1979
Nirvana — Lounge Act
Madness — Our House
King Crimson — I Talk to the Wind
Kraftwerk — Computer Love
Kate Bush — Cloudbusting
Genesis — Firth of Fifth
Emerson, Lake and Palmer — The Endless Enigma 1
Daryl Hall and John Oates — Method of Modern Love
Big Country — In a Big Country
Mickey and Sylvia — Love Is Strange
Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth — Shine On, Harvest Moon
Souls of Mischief — 93 'Til Infinity
The Moody Blues — The Actor
The Psychedelic Furs — Love My Way
Q Lazzarus — Goodbye Horses
Simon and Garfunkel — America
Robert Wyatt — Sea Song
Christopher Cross — Sailing
Arthur Russell — A Little Lost
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons — Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Grateful Dead — Friend of the Devil
Kansas — Dust in the Wind
Nirvana — Aneurysm
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Maid of Orleans
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — Tears of a Clown
The Monkees — Porpoise Song
The Smiths — This Charming Man
XTC — Making Plans for Nigel
The Beatles — Penny Lane
Nick Drake — Northern Sky
Nick Drake — Place to Be
Nick Drake — River Man
Offspring — Self Esteem
Fleetwood Mac — Rhiannon
Brian Eno — St. Elmo's Fire
Belle and Sebastian — Dirty Dream Number Two
Archer Prewitt — Good Man
Arto Lindsay Trio — Imbue
Donovan — Hurdy Gurdy Man
Elis Regina and Tom Jobim — Aguas de Marco
Cyndi Lauper — Time After Time
The Beach Boys — God Only Knows
The Stone Roses — I Wanna Be Adored
Yes — Close to the Edge
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — The Message
Emerson, Lake and Palmer — Trilogy
Emerson, Lake and Palmer — Jerusalem
Aztec Camera — Somewhere in My Heart
Daryl Hall and John Oates — Private Eyes
George Michael — Careless Whisper
Grateful Dead — Box of Rain
Guided By Voices — Tractor Rape Chain
Marvin Gaye — What's Goin' On
Peter Gabriel — In Your Eyes
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno — Evening Star
Robert Wyatt — The Age of Self
Robert Wyatt — Shipbuilding
The Everly Brothers — Cathy's Clown
Toto — Africa
Tommy James and The Shondelles — I Think We're Alone Now
Van Der Graaf Generator — A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
Vince Guaraldi Trio — Linus and Lucy
The Stylistics — You Make Me Feel Brand New
John Lennon — Jealous Guy
Joe Jackson — It's Different for Girls
Belle and Sebastian — The State I Am In
#78) Michael Jackson — Billie Jean

#79) Beck — Loser
Belle and Sebastian — Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying
Bob Marley and The Wailers — Buffalo Soldier
Brian Eno — Third Uncle
Bronski Beat — Smalltown Boy
Buzzcocks — Ever Fallen in Love
Cat Stevens — Wild World
Don Henley — The Boys of Summer
Elvis Presley — Heartbreak Hotel
Faust — Jennifer
Genesis — Carpet Crawlers
Grateful Dead — Uncle John's Band
Guided By Voices — I Am a Scientist
Heart — Magic Man
Harry Nilsson — Everybody's Talkin'
Musical Youth — Pass the Dutchie
Nirvana — Negative Creep
Oasis — Champagne Supernova
Paul Simon — Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard
Pink Floyd — Astronomy Domine
Aztec Camera — Oblivious
#79) King Crimson — Starless

ZOUNDS! (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link

Ernie K. Doe — Mother-in-Law
Mickey and Sylvia — Love Is Strange
Del Shannon — Runaway
Andrea True Connection — More, More, More
Ray Parker, Jr. — Ghostbusters
Fela Kuti — Sorrow, Tears and Blood
Public Enemy — Bring the Noise
Randy Newman — Louisiana 1927
The Rolling Stones — Under My Thumb
New York Dolls — Trash
The KLF — Justified and Ancient
Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock — It Takes Two
Burning Spear — Marcus Garvey
Stevie Wonder — Superstition
Marvin Gaye — I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Elmore James — It Hurts Me Too
Patsy Cline — I Fall to Pieces
Pet Shop Boys — Can You Forgive Her
Prince — Little Red Corvette
Pulp — Common People
Ike and Tina Turner — River Deep, Mountain High
Geto Boys — Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Buzzcocks — What Do I Get
The Spinners — I'll Be Around
Madonna — Into the Groove

Aaron Neville — Hercules
Al Green — Here I Am
Althea and Donna — Uptown Top Ranking
Backstreet Boys — I Want it That Way
Barrett Strong — Money (That's What I Want)
Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
Blondie — Hanging on the Telephone
Bo Diddley — Who Do You Love
Buddy Holly — Peggy Sue
Chuck Berry — Roll Over Beethoven
De La Soul — Eye Know
Dusty Springfield — I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Elvis Presley — Suspicious Minds
Fleetwood Mac — Dreams
Frank Sinatra — Night and Day
Funkadelic — One Nation Under a Groove
Gary U.S. Bonds — Quarter to Three
George Jones — He Stopped Loving Her Today
George McCrae — Rock Your Baby
Ginuwine — Pony
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five — The Message
Howlin' Wolf — Smokestack Lightning
Iggy Pop — Lust for Life
James Brown — Papa Don't Take No Mess
Joe Turner — Shake, Rattle and Roll
Joni Mitchell — Help Me
Joy Division — Transmission
Kate Bush — Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
KC and The Sunshine Band — Get Down Tonight
Little Richard — Lucille
Los Del Rio — Macarena
Louis Armstrong — Stardust
Michael Jackson — Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Mississippi John Hurt — Stack O'Lee
Mott the Hoople — All the Young Dudes
Muddy Waters — Hoochy Coochie Man
New Order — Temptation
New Radicals — You Get What You Give
Next — Too Close
Otis Redding — Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
Pere Ubu — Non-Alignment Pact
Phil Phillips — Sea of Love
Professor Longhair — Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Ramones — Bonzo Goes to Bitburg
Ray Charles — What'd I Say
Robert Johnson — Come on in My Kitchen
Rod Stewart — Maggie May
Sam and Dave — Hold on, I'm Comin'
Sam Cooke — Cupid
Sister Sledge — Lost in Music
Sly and The Family Stone — Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Smashing Pumpkins — 1979
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles — The Tracks of My Tears
Sonic Youth — Teen Age Riot
Sylvester — You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
The (English) Beat — Save it for Later
The 13th Floor Elevators — You're Gonna Miss Me
The Big Bopper — Chantilly Lace
The Byrds — I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
The Cadillacs — Speedo
The Chiffons — One Fine Day
The Chords — Sh-Boom
The Clash — Train in Vain
The Crystals — And Then He Kissed Me
The Drifters — There Goes My Baby
The Easybeats — Friday on My Mind
The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You
The Gap Band — Burn Rubber
The Human League — Don't You Want Me
The Modern Lovers — Roadrunner
The Psychedelic Furs — Love My Way
The Velvet Underground — Rock n' Roll
Tommy James and The Shondelles — I Think We're Alone Now
Warren G — Regulate
Willie Nelson — Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain

gospodin simmel, Thursday, 9 December 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Stuff I voted for and which made the top 125:

Althea and Donna — Uptown Top Ranking
Billie Holiday — Strange Fruit
David Bowie — Heroes
Deee-lite — Groove Is in the Heart
Elis Regina and Tom Jobim — Aguas de Marco
Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Glen Campbell — Wichita Lineman
Kraftwerk — Autobahn
Neil Young and Crazy Horse — Cortez the Killer
New Order — Ceremony (NOMINATED)
Prince and The Revolution - When Doves Cry
Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire — Theme from "Dr. Who"
Roxy Music — Virginia Plain (NOMINATED)
Sonic Youth — Teen Age Riot
The Specials — Ghost Town
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto — Girl From Ipanema
Stereolab — Jenny Ondioline
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Television — Marquee Moon (NOMINATED)
The Flamingos — I Only Have Eyes for You
The Smiths — There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths — This Charming Man

Stuff from the 125 that I would have found room for if I hadn't inexplicably overlooked them in nominations list:

Laurie Anderson - O Superman
M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up the Volume
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You

Artists for whom I backed the 'wrong' song:

Nina Simone - Sinnerman
Pulp - Common People

Some stuff that placed outside the top 125:

Afrika Bambaataa — Planet Rock
Art Ensemble of Chicago — Theme de yoyo
Audio Two — Top Billin' (NOMINATED)
Bela Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta: III. Adagio (NOMINATED)
Charles Trenet - La Mer
Dionne Warwick — Walk on By
Edgard Varèse — Poème électronique
Ennio Morricone — L'Estasi dell'Oro (The Ecstacy of Gold)
Ennio Morricone — The Man With the Harmonica (Once Upon a Time in the West)
Eric B and Rakim — Paid in Full
France Gall — Laisse tomber les filles
Francis Lai — Un homme et une femme (Theme)
György Ligeti — Atmosphéres
Iannis Xenakis — La Legende d'Eer
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring: pt. I (NOMINATED)
Jacques Brel — Ces Gens-Là
John Barry — Theme from "Midnight Cowboy"
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Junglinge (NOMINATED)
Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme (NOMINATED)
Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps (NOMINATED)
Orange Juice - Blue Boy
Pierre Schaeffer - Etude aux chemins de fer (NOMINATED)
The Associates - Party Fears Two (NOMINATED)
The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies (NOMINATED)
The Pop Group — She Is Beyond Good and Evil
The Saints — Know Your Product (NOMINATED)
The Shaggs — My Pal Foot Foot
The Slits — So Tough
The Sugarcubes — Birthday (NOMINATED)
The Walker Brothers — The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
The Yardbirds — Happening Ten Years Time Ago
Vera Lynn — We'll Meet Again (NOMINATED)
Wu Tang Clan — Protect Ya Neck
X-Ray Spex — Oh Bondage Up Yours!
Yoko Ono — Why

Some stuff I was utterly alone in voting for:

Anton Webern - Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, Op.6: III. Massig
Gal Costa - Baby (NOMINATED)
Incredible String Band - First Girl I Loved (NOMINATED)

― Nag! Nag! Nag!

Are you me?

Moka, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 04:41 (ten years ago) link

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

Moka, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 04:46 (ten years ago) link

This was a fun poll.

Moka, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 04:46 (ten years ago) link


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