Pollin' Tracks Spo-Dee-O-Dee! ILM does the 1950s—THE TOP 101 RESULTS THREAD

this is interesting

307 Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk 100 1 1 gospodin simmel
307 Elvis Presley - Baby, Let's Play House 100 1 1 whatever
307 Gene Vincent - The Night Is So Lonely 100 1 1 (fizzles the chimp) gamalielratsey
307 Professor Longhair - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand 100 1 1 PeteScholtes

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.

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.

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.

quick observations

1. thanks johnny and seandalai
2. phil philips - what??
3. no dion and the belmonts :-(
4. the capris - way too low
5. suspicious of hivemind love for flamingos. it's good but it's not 'smoke gets in your eyes' or a host of others
6. 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

phil philips what what?

Agree there are better renditions of "Sea of Love" than the original, but the original is solid.

no wai

phil philips' version is one of my favorite songs of all time, no one else even comes close.

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.

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.

yeah I wasn't really blow away by it either...? Actually most of the stuff in the top 10 is fairly "blah" to me

im trying to save my outrage but i am so baffled that my number 1 didnt make the cut that i cant even

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.

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.

My moment like that is "El Paso".

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

hey WmC which blue suede shoes version are you repping for?

Carl Perkins'

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.

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.)

my ballot (ranked):

John Cage - Williams Mix
Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the 2nd Moon
Edgard Varèse - Poème électronique
Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
Cecil Taylor - Excursion on a Wobbly Rail
Ray Charles - I Got A Woman
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge
Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin'
Ray Charles - What'd I Say
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Etude
György Ligeti - Artikulation
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
The Isley Brothers - Shout
James Brown - Please, Please, Please
Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love?
Charles Mingus - Better Git It In Your Soul
Moondog – All Is Loneliness
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Sittin' on Top of the World
Johnny Burnette - The Train Kept A-Rollin'
Hank Williams - Settin' the Woods on Fire
Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
Miles Davis - So What
Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless
The Five Blobs - The Blob
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Take Five
Link Wray & His Ray Men - Rumble
Johnny Guitar Watson - Space Guitar
The Everly Brothers – Bye Bye Love
Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
Hank Williams - Hey, Good Lookin'
Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire
The Penguins - Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love
Sonny Rollins – St. Thomas
Buddy Holly - Oh Boy!
Sam Cooke - You Send Me
Dale Hawkins - Suzie Q

yeah it got my vote WmC, much as i think elvis's version rocks better.

house point for picking the correct chuck berry track, absolutely clean glasses :)

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.

A rough guess, but I'd say Miles Davis suffered the most from vote-splitting. Or at least Kind of Blue.

xp: But yeah, thanks Johnny Fever and seandalai! Hugely entertaining.

Algerian Goalkeeper/pfunkboy's list:

John Coltrane – Blue Train
The Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle
Thelonious Monk — Brilliant Corners
Johnny Guitar Watson - Space Guitar
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Miles Davis – So What
Charles Mingus - Better Git It In Your Soul
Charles Mingus - Haitian Fight Song
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
Charles Mingus – Fables of Faubus
John Coltrane - Cousin Mary
John Coltrane - Lush Life
Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart
Sun Ra – Kingdom of Not
Sun Ra and the Cosmic Rays – Dreaming
Woody Guthrie - Why, Oh Why
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Nica's Dream
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk - In Walked Bud
Cannonball Adderley – Autumn Leaves
Cecil Taylor - Excursion on a Wobbly Rail
Clifford Brown and Max Roach - The Blues Walk
Flatt & Scruggs - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Gene Vincent – Jezebel
Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas
James Brown - Please, Please, Please
James Brown - Try Me
Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love
Lonnie Donegan - Cumberland Gap
Miles Davis - Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Miles Davis - Blue in Green
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
Miles Davis – Gone, Gone, Gone
Ornette Coleman - Congeniality
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
Sonny Rollins – St. Thomas
Thelonious Monk - Ruby, My Dear
The Three Cats - Yellow Cherries
Pierre Schaeffer - Erotic
Buchanan and Goodman - The Flying Saucer
Raymond Scott - Cindy Electronium
Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans
The Champs - Tequila
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Etude
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge
John Cage - 4'33"
Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
John Fahey – Sligo River Blues

Thanks to all, lovely poll!

(pfunkboy's ballot = ranked up through Hank Williams - Cold, Cold Heart, then unranked after that)

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.

AH! ILX 60'S POLL PART ONE - THE SONGS

That's the thread with "The Mysterians"

that 60s list has like no jazz :(

i'd like to fap with the other three. it's worth a night out.

I know the jukebox!

tough on morale, being ringmaster for that 60s poll

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!)

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!

congrats on possible job!

redoing 60s would make my head essplode. did the albums poll ever happen?

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?

like, were there open nominations?

I like seeing Frank Kogan quoted so much (just quoted...he didn't seem to be a voter.)

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 (1 hour ago) Permalink

Sorry to hear that. "Sea Of Love" is one of the earliest songs I can remember hearing on my parents' radio, a weird example of regional Gulf Coast swamp pop making it onto the airwaves in Minnesota. (I wouldn't hear Earl King's "Those Lonely Lonely Nights" or anything by Cookie and The Cupcakes until YEARS later.) I saw Phil Phillips at Jazzfest in New Orleans in a small interview situation a few years ago, and when he sang the song I bawled like a baby; there's something about his voice and that chord progression that triggers my goosebump reaction every time. Love the song so much my wife and I included it in our wedding ceremony.

why wasn't "the thing" included on this list? not nominated?

Only thing I know of that I missed in the noms thread was "Nat King Cole - Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" (wonder how many votes it would've received).

I would have nominated Bo Diddley s/t

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, July 14, 2011 1:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

problem w fess is that much of his 50s stuff, however brilliant, wasn't all that well recorded (*contentious*) and was almost unknown outside the LA area until his revival/reappearance in the 70s. he's still something of a cult figure, though unfairly so. bummed by the fact that "tipitina" didn't make the hot 100, but then i had it near the bottom of my own top 20...

<3 Johnny & Seandalai <3

Just browsing through the final countdown and results and aftermath. Obviously very glad 'Sea of Love' made the top ten!

Well done guys, excellent job