ILM POLLS THE 20TH CENTURY'S BEST TRACKS ››› YOUR RESULTS THREAD ‹‹‹

xpost Yeah I was going to say a break up mix is an interesting idea. Was the compilation meant to win her back or just show how much you were hurting?

I'm not really a Dylan fan at all but Tangled Up In Blue is a really good song.

I'm glad to see "Smells Like Teen Spirit" here (I voted for it), though huge overplay has significantly hurt its impact today. Still a great song though.

Yeah, it was a totally self-indulgent self-pitying mix to show her I was a broken man. Not my finest hour. xp

do you remember the tracklist?

Terrible, but I guess inevitable.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:10 PM (4 minutes ago)

Is this a reaction to Nirvana being in the list or the low position?

image of dave grohl & his kit on that youtube frame is astounding, want to paint it like 8x12

True story: when she was a teen, a friend of mine made a friend of hers a mixtape after she'd broken up with a boyfriend, and on that tape every other track was "Everybody Hurts" by REM. Like, first it had some sad song, then "Everybody Hurts", then some other sad song, then "Everybody Hurts" again, etc.

lol

(at the concept, not at her heartbreak)

"here. if you don't feel bad enough about your breakup, you might try listening to this tape."

do you remember the tracklist?

I've already forgotten it again, but I do remember putting "I Know You Love Me" by Smoking Popes on there. WHAT A PRESUMPTUOUS MOVE.

breakups are a key ingredient for a transcendent listening experience

This next track is SOLID FUCKING GOLD...

breakups are a key ingredient for a transcendent listening experience

sadly true

94. (TIE) CAMEO "Word Up" (1986) [1,275 points, 12 votes]

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

YES!!!

YES!!!

hell yes. first song i voted for to show today (though i voted for others songs by some of those artists)

Didn't actually vote for it, but it's a monster and it' making me feel real good about this list

xpost I remember making a tape for a friend who had their heartbroken when I was younger. I can remember it started with Speedway Morrissey then had Mellow my Mind by Neil Young and somewhere on there it had Holocaust by Big Star. Looking back it seems I just wanted to make her feel worse, I should have gone for the everything's going to be okay angle.

So good to Cameo make it. If anyone hasn't already heard it the whole album is ridiculously good. I actually might like the follow up single Candy more.

Word Up is my fourth choice to appear after The Beach Boys, Prince and Kate Bush.

Yay!! Voted this. Strangely even though I have much love for it I have never felt compelled to search out any other Cameo stuff except 'Single Life'(?)

Oh no I meant Candy is the only other Cameo I've heard.

This is the first one to show up that I feel genuine regret not voting for. Just didn't notice it on the nomination list.

hoping we'll get something, anything, from the first half of the century

Not sure they had music back then.

musical butter churns and shit

the world wasn't even in color back then

93. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL "Fortunate Son" (1969) [1,276 points, 14 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I

I don't think I ever realized how short this song is until I looked at the lengths on the youtube videos. Could anyone get away with a 2:18 single these days?

if it's as good as this, hell yeah

I voted Big Mama Thornton, Duke Ellington and Claude Debussy... not sure if there were any other pre-1950s on my ballot. Starting to lose hope of seeing them around here but anything could happen.

they sure pack a ton of storytelling and emotion into that 2:18 too.

I actually might like the follow up single Candy more.

"Candy" is a better song IMO, but yeah that entire album! "Back and Forth" is also a monster of a song.

Have never knowingly listened to CCR, mainly because I loathe the name, but that was excellent :)

xxpost: It makes no sense to me why we aren't going back to 2 minute singles. What's the point of having pop songs that run over 3 minutes? All the new generations including mine have the attention span of a housefly and whatever you're going to sing in 4 minutes I'm sure you could reduce it by half and it wouldn't lose any of its catchy banality.

Voted Creedence, but not this one, still happy to see it though.

I didn't vote but I think I love (or at least like a lot) every single song on this list. Good work, consensus.

I voted for several pre-1950 tracks and would be surprised if at least a few of them didn't show up around here somwhere.

Oh no I meant Candy is the only other Cameo I've heard.

― Hey Christian, Poulsen Sugar On Me (pandemic), Tuesday, November 30, 2010 6:32 PM (10 minutes ago)

Along with Word Up some of their earlier albums are worth getting, their debut Cardiac Arrest is a classic. They started out quite gritty and funky similar to someone like The Ohio Players but Word Up is really where they peaked.

I think Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday are probably the only artists from the first half of the century who are certain to appear, though I do hope we get to see some Piaf, Debussy, Ella, Satchmo, Ravel, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sinatra, Glenn Miller, and Scott Joplin.

if we are still on the breakup songs subject (i know we are not but stay with me) I feel a need to correct my earlier remark about "All The Young Dudes" being the best thing Ian Hunter did. "I Wish I Was Your Mother" is. devastating song

I think the Ellington and Louis Armstrong votes may have gotten split up among the dozens of songs nominated. I think I gave big points to "John The Revelator" and "Summertime" at least.

I can think of five songs from the first half of the century that got my vote. there might be more

forgot about John The Revelato and Summertime. idiot

I originally thought Kanye West was brilliant for making 'power' a 1:30 single and wished more artists followed on this path before I realized it was just a promo and the original song was actually 4:52 long. It lost most of its appeal to me shortly after that.

Oh I did vote for 'summertime' and a couple of Billie Holiday songs, forgot they're pre50s.

91. (TIE) TOOTS & THE MAYTALS "Pressure Drop" (1970) [1,282 points, 13 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rb13ksYO0s

another YES!!!

I really need more Toots in my life.

everybody does

Can you just post a lousy song please Johnny F.? I should be in bed as I've got to get up at 2am for work and the current run of tracks aren't helping to persuade me to call it a night ;)