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Finn speaks out against skinny white guys.

"In Every Dream Home a Heartache" was my Roxy vote.

Hopefully not, we've had enough skinny white guys in a row already.

You must have missed the part yesterday where we discovered an error in the tabulation, bumping the Iggy & The Stooges song up to #73. In other words it's no mystery that Iggy is coming up next.

^^ mine too. i also had another roxy song in there that wasn't 'virginia plain'. x-post

Surely Kraftwerk are also skinny white guys? But rock????

JF: I know, I was trying to be sarcastic. (The sentiment was real, nevertheless.)

Surely Kraftwerk are also skinny white guys? But rock????

Who said "rock"?

I'm just hoping that this arty/indie canon stretch ends soon and we can get back to some other stuff. Some pretty rad songs in here though.

"In Every Dream Home a Heartache" was my Roxy vote.

― seandalai, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 12:50 (5 minutes ago)

and me

if this is arty then give me death tbh

xp - I did, I guess. I think Kraftwerk have been adopted into the same canon as Roxy/MBV/Bowie, which I guess is more of a "rock fan" canon than a "rock music" one.

3. IGGY & THE STOOGES "Search and Destroy" (1973) [1,351 points, 15 votes]

++++++++++++++++++++++

72. ELIS REGINA & ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM "Águas de Março" (1974) [1,352 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

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

oops, that should be 73. on Iggy, der.

That's not the Elis Regina tune I voted for, but it's a good song, and I'm glad it broke the arty white dude domination.

xp - "Virginia Plain" is great and all, but for me it's not too far from Bowie or some glam stomper. The dynamics of "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" are on another level imo.

First song which is new to me and what a treat it is.

Voted for "Águas de Março" on the back of the Campaigning thread, really happy to see it here.

genuinely arty white dudes be suing this poll

That's seven songs in a row from the '70s. Hopefully the next song comes from a different decade. (Oh wait, I've seen the list! And it does!)

h8 wite ppl

but is it an arty white dude, is the real question

if that was the only jobim song that could get on this poll than fair enough i guess

"Girl from Ipanema" was in the top 125 too.

933. Proper Arty Dudes - "Something in 11/4 time" (1971). (200 points, 1 vote)

71. THE ZOMBIES "Care of Cell 44" (1968) [1,355 points, 13 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWfRbW-ObHk

nice. but not the zombies i voted for.

Who saw that coming instead of a "Leave Me Be" or "She's Not There" or even a "Time of the Season"? Not me, and I like this song just fine.

or... or even 'beechwood park'

That went over well.

70. BIG STAR "Thirteen" (1972) [1,362 points, 14 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pte3Jg-2Ax4

i kinda predicted there'd be some vote-splitting going on with the old zombies. interesting to see 13 people repping behind that song.

thirteen. total classic. think it was one of the songs i felt bad about culling.

I can't remember if I put "Thirteen" in the weighted or unweighted portion of my ballot, but listening to it now I'm sure I didn't give it enough points (eleventybajillion!).

i like how almost every song on that zombies album is built around an unusual chord change. cell 44 flaunts it a bit more than the others

I do love Thirteen, I thought September Gurls would be the Big Star song to make it. Same with The Zombies really surprised that is more popular than Time Of The Season.

given september gurls was #9 on my ballot, i'm still holding out hope!

Very happy to see this place, hummed and hawed before putting it at #2. In general I think Big Star are a little overrated but this is just 24 carat genius.

In general I think Big Star are a little overrated but this is just 24 carat genius.

Ditto. I voted for "September Gurls" (which I'm sure will be high), but "Thirteen"'s great.

69. TOM TOM CLUB "Genius of Love" (1981) [1,373 points, 16 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN1t5qdBUzs

Great stuff,KEEP IT COMING!

reminds me of 'chewing gum'

Would have voted for that, but felt a bit guilty with Talking Heads already on my ballot. Which is silly of me I know.

Oh yeah, Tom Tom Club! They had much better dance tunes than Talking Heads.

serious

Great stretch here of three songs I didn't vote for but easily could have. My fave Zombies is "Maybe After He's Gone", which wasn't nominated, but this was the best of the nominated ones. Not sure why I didn't vote for "Thirteen", looking over my ballot I like it more than several tracks I did vote for. Whoops.

"Care Of Cell 44" was one song I voted for (and nominated) that I actually never dreamt about ending up this high. Well deserved though, of course.:)

Couple more, then I'm going on hiatus for a few hours...

68. JOY DIVISION "Transmission" (1979) [1,379 points, 14 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQ73TOhfMQ

Kind of an overrated band imo but that song is 100% stellar.

Bah! I was hoping that the stretch of this poll would ensure it'd be less dominated by rock than the previous decade-width polls, but I guess not...

Tom Tom Club! I think this may be my favourite pop/dance song of all time.

"Transmission" is unfuckwithable and obviously too low. Always loved that Something Else clip and the John Cooper Clarke intro/outro.