― Patrick, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Bill
― Bill, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i seem to remember that even the smiths-haters liked "how soon is now?" i dissed it but more because it's not one of my favourites. i'll happily vote for it over "radioactivity" or something. i also remember nobody casting a dud vote for joy division. "transmission" maybe?
― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kerry Keane, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
New Suggestions : Beck - Loser Nirvana - All Apologies Leonard Cohen- Chelsea Hotel Jerry Lee Lewis-High School Confidental (sp?) Madonna- Cherish Bob Dylan _ Rainy Day Woman
and Dave Suggests : Traveling Wilburys- Tweeter and the Monkey Man Janis Ian- Seventeen Joan Jett - Cherry Bomb Low-Lazer Beam
― anthony, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― scott p., Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
don't know if I'm more surprised by the level of consensus or some of the out of line vetoes (someone hates everything on motown? c'mon!)
we probably don't need any more nominations, but how about "be my baby" by the ronettes? can you really dislike this song?
more than happy to go along with most others esp. roadrunner, heroes, crazy, all early elvis & jerry lee, all apologies, cherry bomb.
nix on the mary poppins and melt with you & rattlesnakes (purely on the basis of it being defended because of its potential to be covered by tori amos).
― fritz, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Beck gets shot down (just to make sure you know). No Dylan :)
Yes to: "Heroes", "Be my Baby" and hell everybody loves "Move on Up".
AS much as I love "Brown Sugar" et al. I just know Sundar is waiting to veto ;) [btw. can't anyone -you know- delete that post by that fool who nixed all of Kraftwerk, we scientifically proved that Kraftwerk is classic with no dud votes].
― Omar, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
"Move On Up" - actually no - Curtis sounds like he's wheedling you into celebration. "People Get Ready" yes, though.
Not going to argue with "Be My Baby" though it's a middling Spector track for me.
Also agree with you re. the silly and overrated J Richman (what the heck is this 'Roadrunner' anyway?), will back Ronettes, am surprised at all-rock-and-roll nix. Shocked, in fact.
'Papa Don't Preach'.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'll be waiting (and still have ace up sleeve, but someone has to keep Masonic Boom from her computer ;)
Okay new ones, since all of mine have died. Hey Mr Postman- Ronettes Leader of the Pack- Shangri Las (its John Waters favorite) Night Clubbing - Iggy Pop Blackbird- Beatles Love on a farm boys wages- XTC God save the Queen -sex pistols Rock the Casbah- The Clash
and what is the singer songwriter hatred here, Dylan,Cohen,Janis Ian grrrr
― anthony, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Dubious on grounds of unheard by too many, unless can be proven otherwise : that Low song, "Love On A Farmboy's Wages", "Counting Backwards" (sorry again, Pinefox).
I'm strongly tempted to retaliate against Tom's nixing of all early rock and roll by dismissing all Brit indie from this thread, but I'm too much of a gentleman ;)
I think Ned needs to get his butt on here. My tastes go along with the consensus too much. By the time HE gets done with this thread, we'll be lucky if 3 songs are left standing.
― Patrick, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Patrick, thoughts on Sly Stone?
OR
'I Say a Little Prayer' - Dionne Warwick
― stevie t, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I venture: The Banana Splitz Theme Tune. Something so cheesy, how can you not love it?
― masonic boom, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I've liked most of the songs mentioned except "You Shook Me All Night Long." SERIOUS redneck song where I come from.
How can anyone not like "Waterloo Sunset?" Or "ABC?" You haven't an ear for melody if you don't like those songs (unless you have something personal against them, as I with "You Shook Me...").
How about "Ziggy Stardust?" It has the pop hooks for the people who like that, plus it's really wierd for the people that like that.
― Blake, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Virginia Plain: yes, of course.
Gareth...is that by Nightmare on Wax? Already I hear Patrick complain Nightmare on Who? In that case: yes.
And even the cRockford Files theme had not a patch on the utter and complete BLOCKBUSTER that was the Dallas theme. Oh, the glitz, oh the glamour shining in the sunlight with those horns!
― Add, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Pearl Jam: dud. Mercury Rev: can't remember so not one of their best. Flaming Lips: dud dud dud dud dud dud. How Soon Is Now: yes but we've vetoed it already.
Shake Your Booty - KC & the Sunshine Band/Death Disco - PIL/Sh-Boom - The Chords/Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind & Fire/Jump Around - House of Pain/Surf City - Jan & Dean/I'm A Boy - The Who/Goin' Back - The Byrds/Higher & Higher - Jackie Wilson/Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells
But would happily settle for Virginia Plain or the Rockford Files theme tune or God Save the Queen
― scott, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
No disco. Any and all disco will immediately be rejected by me. Only genre I hate worse than wibbling twee is disco.
As a sign of good will I'll free 'Papa was Rolling Stone' by Tempations from the veto.
Let's Stay Together (Al Green) Don't You Want Me Ace Of Spades Unfinished Sympathy Surfin' Bird Cum On Feel The Noize (Slade) Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Saint Etienne) These Boots Are Made For Walkin' Back In Black Buffalo Stance Sign O' The Times A New England (Kirsty MacColl) Pablo Picasso (Modern Lovers) I'm Only Sleeping (Beatles) Surrender (Cheap Trick) Honky Tonk Women God Only Knows Souvenirs (OMD) Word Up Transmission Cherry Bomb (Runaways) Crazy (Patsy Cline) Be My Baby Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones) People Get Ready (C. Mayfield) Leader Of The Pack Nightclubbing (Iggy) Blackbird (Beatles) God Save The Queen Virginia Plain Ziggy Stardust Death Disco Sh-Boom (The Chords) Jump Around Surf City I'm A Boy (The Who) Goin' Back (Byrds) Higher And Higher (J. Wilson) Tighten Up (Archie Bell)
I would suggest tearing down a couple of these before making any new suggestions :)
a. "Buffalo Stance" is being dismissed on the Neneh Cherry thread, but other threads don't count, so it stays.
b. Anthony wasn't clear about whether he thinks "Honky Tonk Women" is a dud, so it stays.
c. Surely "Death Disco" is too weird to fall under the many disco vetoes.
Also not yet dismissed : "Walk On By" and "The Look Of Love".
Junk the following: Ziggy, House of melon-farming Pain, Cameo (!?!?!), all the Stones songs mentioned to this point, Sex Pistols, Lemmy, Ms. Sinatra, "Pablo Pisacco".
I'd shoot down more, but I didn't want to be a ballhog. (Or a tugboat, for that matter.)
― David Raposa, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link