and WHISTLE BAIT agghghg
― lemon kerrang! (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote or follow this thread at all but yay Flamingos!
― she choots, she pah! (DJP), Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
13. Shirley Collins - The Cherry Tree Carol
this was the last song i cut, and i had such a goddam hard time with it. so beautiful. ultimately let it go mostly because i'd never heard it prior to this poll, and it's hard for me to sacrifice and old and true love in favor of something new and untried.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
amazing poll Johnny, thanks!
PS: did you add my vote for Go to the Mardi Gras to the points of Mardi Gras In New Orleans? I changed the title because I thought we agreed that was the right version (recorded in the 50's), but I see you didn't change the name.
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
If it had made the top 101, i would've.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
My own ballot
The Platters - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes*The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You*Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons*Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk*Link Wray & His Ray Men - Rumble*Ray Charles - (Night Time Is) The Right TimeBarret Strong - Money*Dinah Washington - What a Diff'rence a Day MakesThe Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle*Phil Phillips - Sea of Love*Jackie Wilson - Lonely Teardrops*Miriam Makeba – Pata PataJerry Butler & The Impressions - For Your Precious LoveThe Chantels - MaybeHenry Mancini & His Orchestra - Peter GunnClarence 'Frogman' Henry - Ain't Got No Home*Elvis Presley – That's All RightThe Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do Is Dream*Mighty Sparrow — Jean and Dinah*Ilene Woods - A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
Big Mama Thornton — Hound Dog*Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?*Bud Powell – Un Poco LocoEddie Cochran - Summertime Blues*Frank Sinatra - I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last NightFrankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall in Love*Gene Vincent - Cat Man*George Jones - White Lightning*Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome BluesHarry Belafonte - Day-OJerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin'*Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues*Johnny Mathis - Chances AreKen Nordine - Flibberty JibLefty Frizzell - Long Black Veil*Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim — Tonight (West Side Story)Les Paul & Mary Ford - Vaya Con DiosLittle Richard - The Girl Can't Help ItMarty Robbins - El PasoNat King Cole - Unforgettable*Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium*Screamin' Jay Hawkins — I Put a Spell on You*The Champs - Tequila*The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman*The Chords - Sh-Boom*The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night*The Isley Brothers - Shout*The Monotones - Book of Love*The Penguins - Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)*The Treniers - Poontang
31/50 on my ballot made the top 101.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
this is interesting
307 Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk 100 1 1 gospodin simmel307 Elvis Presley - Baby, Let's Play House 100 1 1 whatever307 Gene Vincent - The Night Is So Lonely 100 1 1 (fizzles the chimp) gamalielratsey307 Professor Longhair - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand 100 1 1 PeteScholtes
― whatever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
i'd like to fap with the other three. it's worth a night out.
Take that, Rudipherous.
If anything, I resent losing last place.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote for Elvis. I've been regretting it a little as we've counted down, and my internal jukebox is telling me That's Alright Mama is his best song.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
It was between That's All Right and Mystery Train for me. Ending up going with the former, but was totally happy to see the latter take #6.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
quick observations
1. thanks johnny and seandalai2. phil philips - what??3. no dion and the belmonts :-(4. the capris - way too low5. suspicious of hivemind love for flamingos. it's good but it's not 'smoke gets in your eyes' or a host of others6. great how the electronic 50s made such an impact in the poll.7. 50s jazz should get its own poll (but i'm not volunteering)8. thanks johnny and seandalai - if I can paraphrase IK, it's been a week of exceptional added value.9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92iwC-xI3mE
― whatever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
phil philips what what?
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
Agree there are better renditions of "Sea of Love" than the original, but the original is solid.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
no wai
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
phil philips' version is one of my favorite songs of all time, no one else even comes close.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
The Phil Phillips version is the one, I think.
hivemind #1! My ballot did exceedingly well. The only two of my top ten not to place were the Marcels' "Blue Moon", & the Edsels' "Rama Lama Ding Dong". You can see from those two how my tastes run.
― Euler, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
ashamed to say, as a 50s lover, i'd never heard 'sea of love' before. my life has not changed one iota since hearing it.
― whatever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I wasn't really blow away by it either...? Actually most of the stuff in the top 10 is fairly "blah" to me
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
im trying to save my outrage but i am so baffled that my number 1 didnt make the cut that i cant evenalso how did les paul mary ford not make it?!!so confused― lemon kerrang! (jjjusten), Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:42 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
also how did les paul mary ford not make it?!!
so confused
― lemon kerrang! (jjjusten), Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:42 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
given the diversity of material in this poll, throw me to the lions for suggesting this but could a poll within a poll work? so the first votes would be on the full long list, in order to get to a short list of, say, 100.
― whatever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I don't want to have too many "as god is my witness, I swear I thought turkeys could fly" moments here, but I am kinda shocked "Blue Suede Shoes" didn't make the top 100.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
My moment like that is "El Paso".
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPEfdjvTqE
― whatever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
hey WmC which blue suede shoes version are you repping for?
Carl Perkins'
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
The consensus that Professor Longhair belongs in the upper echelons of all things self-evidently awesome, with Chuck Berry or Elvis: not as strong as I'd thought.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
A small sample of 40 people will always produce eccentric results. (I'm being a hypocrite here, seeing as I post supplemental lists for the 1001 polls, and they're based on one guy's selections.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
my ballot (ranked):
John Cage - Williams MixTom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the 2nd MoonEdgard Varèse - Poème électroniqueIannis Xenakis - MetastasisRaymond Scott - Cindy ElectroniumOrnette Coleman - Lonely WomanCecil Taylor - Excursion on a Wobbly RailRay Charles - I Got A WomanLester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain BreakdownKarlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der JünglingeMuddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie ManElmore James - Dust My BroomChuck Berry - Sweet Little SixteenJerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin'Ray Charles - What'd I SayKarlheinz Stockhausen - EtudeGyörgy Ligeti - ArtikulationEddie Cochran - Summertime BluesElvis Presley - Don't Be CruelThe Isley Brothers - ShoutJames Brown - Please, Please, PleaseMuddy Waters - Got My Mojo WorkingBo Diddley - Who Do You Love?Charles Mingus - Better Git It In Your SoulMoondog – All Is LonelinessBob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Sittin' on Top of the WorldJohnny Burnette - The Train Kept A-Rollin'Hank Williams - Settin' the Woods on FireBig Mama Thornton - Hound DogElvis Presley - All Shook UpMiles Davis - So WhatJerry Lee Lewis - BreathlessThe Five Blobs - The BlobThe Dave Brubeck Quartet — Take FiveLink Wray & His Ray Men - RumbleJohnny Guitar Watson - Space GuitarThe Everly Brothers – Bye Bye LoveCarl Perkins - Blue Suede ShoesElvis Presley - Heartbreak HotelBig Bopper - Chantilly LaceLittle Richard - Tutti FruttiHank Williams - Hey, Good Lookin'Johnny Cash - I Walk the LineJerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of FireThe Penguins - Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of LoveSonny Rollins – St. ThomasBuddy Holly - Oh Boy!Sam Cooke - You Send MeDale Hawkins - Suzie Q
― dave barry (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it got my vote WmC, much as i think elvis's version rocks better.
― whatever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
house point for picking the correct chuck berry track, absolutely clean glasses :)
― whatever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for both "Blue Suede Shoes" & "El Paso" but I can see why they'd be ones to give. I'm puzzled about Carl Perkins' legacy; as a kid I read lots of George Harrison interviews where he'd rep Perkins as his main influence, but even in those days (the late 1980s) his profile was nothing.
― Euler, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
A rough guess, but I'd say Miles Davis suffered the most from vote-splitting. Or at least Kind of Blue.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
xp: But yeah, thanks Johnny Fever and seandalai! Hugely entertaining.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
Algerian Goalkeeper/pfunkboy's list:
John Coltrane – Blue TrainThe Storey Sisters - Bad MotorcycleThelonious Monk — Brilliant CornersJohnny Guitar Watson - Space GuitarLester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain BreakdownMiles Davis – So WhatCharles Mingus - Better Git It In Your SoulCharles Mingus - Haitian Fight SongSonny Rollins - Tenor MadnessCharles Mingus – Fables of FaubusJohn Coltrane - Cousin MaryJohn Coltrane - Lush LifeHank Williams - Cold, Cold HeartSun Ra – Kingdom of NotSun Ra and the Cosmic Rays – DreamingWoody Guthrie - Why, Oh WhyArt Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Nica's DreamArt Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk - In Walked BudCannonball Adderley – Autumn LeavesCecil Taylor - Excursion on a Wobbly RailClifford Brown and Max Roach - The Blues WalkFlatt & Scruggs - Roll In My Sweet Baby's ArmsGene Vincent – JezebelJacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte PasJames Brown - Please, Please, PleaseJames Brown - Try MeJohnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of LoveLonnie Donegan - Cumberland GapMiles Davis - Bess, You Is My Woman NowMiles Davis - Blue in GreenMiles Davis - Flamenco SketchesMiles Davis – Gone, Gone, GoneOrnette Coleman - CongenialityOrnette Coleman - Lonely WomanSonny Rollins – St. ThomasThelonious Monk - Ruby, My DearThe Three Cats - Yellow CherriesPierre Schaeffer - EroticBuchanan and Goodman - The Flying SaucerRaymond Scott - Cindy ElectroniumProfessor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New OrleansThe Champs - TequilaKarlheinz Stockhausen - EtudeKarlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der JünglingeJohn Cage - 4'33"Iannis Xenakis - MetastasisJohn Fahey – Sligo River Blues
― dave barry (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks to all, lovely poll!
― bentelec, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
(pfunkboy's ballot = ranked up through Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart, then unranked after that)
― dave barry (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
and yes, this has been my favorite ILM poll I think.
can we do the 60s next?
60s have been done before, but it was a long time ago and fuck if I can find it in the archives.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
AH! ILX 60'S POLL PART ONE - THE SONGS
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
That's the thread with "The Mysterians"
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
that 60s list has like no jazz :(
― dave barry (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
I know the jukebox!
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
tough on morale, being ringmaster for that 60s poll
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
I think the results of another 60s trax poll would be sorta different now, but I may not be in a position much longer to run big polls. (possible job, yay! no time for poll running, boo!)
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
I have to wonder what the hell else was occupying my time in the summer of 2006 that prevented me from voting in/participating in the 60s poll. I should've been all over it!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
congrats on possible job!
redoing 60s would make my head essplode. did the albums poll ever happen?
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
huh, that 2006 60s poll is odd. much more rolling stone/mojo rock & pop traditionalist than this one. no jazz, early electronics, avant-garde weirdness, soundtrack stuff, forgotten oddities, or world music, and almost no reggae. was it deliberately constructed that way?
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
like, were there open nominations?
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
I like seeing Frank Kogan quoted so much (just quoted...he didn't seem to be a voter.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link