image of dave grohl & his kit on that youtube frame is astounding, want to paint it like 8x12
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
(at the concept, not at her heartbreak)
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
"here. if you don't feel bad enough about your breakup, you might try listening to this tape."
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
breakups are a key ingredient for a transcendent listening experience
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
This next track is SOLID FUCKING GOLD...
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
sadly true
― skip, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
94. (TIE) CAMEO "Word Up" (1986) [1,275 points, 12 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
YES!!!
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
― seandalai, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
hell yes. first song i voted for to show today (though i voted for others songs by some of those artists)
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't actually vote for it, but it's a monster and it' making me feel real good about this list
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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'(?)
― Hey Christian, Poulsen Sugar On Me (pandemic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh no I meant Candy is the only other Cameo I've heard.
― Hey Christian, Poulsen Sugar On Me (pandemic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
hoping we'll get something, anything, from the first half of the century
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure they had music back then.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
musical butter churns and shit
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
the world wasn't even in color back then
― for the next throbbing minutes (corey), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
93. CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL "Fortunate Son" (1969) [1,276 points, 14 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
if it's as good as this, hell yeah
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
they sure pack a ton of storytelling and emotion into that 2:18 too.
― skip, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Have never knowingly listened to CCR, mainly because I loathe the name, but that was excellent :)
― Hey Christian, Poulsen Sugar On Me (pandemic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Voted Creedence, but not this one, still happy to see it though.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't vote but I think I love (or at least like a lot) every single song on this list. Good work, consensus.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I did vote for 'summertime' and a couple of Billie Holiday songs, forgot they're pre50s.
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
91. (TIE) TOOTS & THE MAYTALS "Pressure Drop" (1970) [1,282 points, 13 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rb13ksYO0s
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
another YES!!!
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I really need more Toots in my life.
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
everybody does
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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 ;)
― Hey Christian, Poulsen Sugar On Me (pandemic), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Love "Pressure Drop", first of my votes to place today.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
yeah, this list is on a winning streak
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
idk 'smells like teen spirit' was pretty lousy.
― Moka, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Good list so far, I'm surprised there is so much consensus based off of such a huge list of choices. I tried voting but only managed to get down to about 300 songs before I had to leave town for Thanksgiving. Not really sad though because a lot of stuff I like is showing up here.
First time hearing Cameo though - good stuff!
― Moodles, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
If that's the only positive to come of this exercise, then I have done my job!
― Lightning Is For Babies (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link