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That's a good list! The Brigitte Fontaine is nuts but only tangentially jazz, I'd say - I was thinking earlier I would have voted for the title track if it had been nominated.

AND Jimmy Smith - The Sermon!

my bridge for getting seriously into jazz was 'hot rats' even though it's a fusion-y affair. that album really made my jaw drop.

And some Bill Evans, and Ornette Coleman...we're getting back to the overload that LJ was complaining about in the first place. Just listen to Mingus Ah Um and get back to us.

i went to such annoying pains to clarify the sort of art-pop i meant precisely because the phrase can describe so many different things

― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 December 2010 01:06 (14 minutes ago)

yeah I know, and I said I didn't think an enormous deal of most of those bands in an art context

thanks everyone! will do so

'Jimmy Smith' reminds me that there were no Jimmy Scott tunes nommed for this poll. For shame.

also I don't rly mean like Steely Dan (although I may well end up getting into them), I mean like Shining, Zorn or Saccharine Trust :P

That's a good list! The Brigitte Fontaine is nuts but only tangentially jazz, I'd say - I was thinking earlier I would have voted for the title track if it had been nominated.

― seandalai

Yes maybe you're right... always thought of it as some sort of chamber pop jazz thing and I have it laying around with my other jazz records since I have no idea where else to classify it... perhaps 'les stances a sophie' is a better recommendation.

Here are a few more favorites:

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Art Blakey - Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers [Moanin']
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Larry Young - Lawrence of Newark
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Horace Silver - Song for My Father
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream

i second those thelonious monk and a. coltrane records in a big way.

I haven't saved my vote, but I believe I voted for these so far:

119. 10CC "I'm Not in Love" (1975) [1,167 points, 12 votes]
115. THE BEACH BOYS "Surf's Up" (1971) [1,184 points, 10 votes]
109. KATE BUSH "Wuthering Heights" (1978) [1,197 points, 13 votes]
89. THE BEATLES "Penny Lane" (1967) [1,290 points, 11 votes]
76. DAVID BOWIE "Life on Mars?" (1973) [1,336 points, 13 votes]
71. THE ZOMBIES "Care of Cell 44" (1968) [1,355 points, 13 votes]
67. YES "Close to the Edge" (1972) [1,386 points, 12 votes]
60. RADIOHEAD "Paranoid Android" (1997) [1,417 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
56. THE BEACH BOYS "Wouldn't it Be Nice" (1966) [1,460 points, 12 votes]

Kinda surprised that, other than Kraftwerk, nothing close to synthpop is in the last so far. I guess "Enjoy The Silence" and "Don't You Want Me" may both be in the Top 50 though.

Pet Shop Boys aren't synth-pop?

I call 'em that.

Geir, I just sent your ballot via ilx mail if you care to have it.

Some late responses:

Re: "Sinnerman", I first heard a Bob Dylan version, which was great (where did I hear it? A cursory google's not helping), but the Nina Simone kills. When it appeared at the end of Inland Empire, my whole body froze and I welled up tbh.

9 of my votes showed up, btw, yet regrets? I have a few...

Dr Who, Johnny Cash, as I may have already mentioned, but also (since) Queen and Bowie, "Águas de Março". The latter is exquisite, and I did pay attention on the campaigning thread, but then forgot about it. Elis Regina fans can now kick me.

And as a few others have mentioned, I would have voted "Joga" higher than (and probably in place of) "Hyperballad", so I think Björk might have benefited from different nominations there.

Oh, and as the person who nominated it, I agree "Awaken" is better than "Close to the Edge"!

i didn't vote but just noticed that my two favourite sons ever were both nominated, will be interested to see if either appears

amidst all this jazz talk I would like LJ to know that I voted for THREE Alice Coltrane songs in this poll. Looks like none will place though.

I've been totally cool w/ the representatives of mid-century jazz on the board. Others otm about Mingus having too many tracks on the list. Could Louie still make it, I wonder? Pretty sure Jellyroll will get snubbed (and for that reason, I snubbed him!) & I think Tito Puente was another who didn't even surface on the nom list. What about Duke Ellington? Prob no T. Monk either..

imo the real glaring oversight of these results has been the complete lack thusfar of any of the old bluesmen. Mississippi, Chicago, Detroit - really any of them. I know those guys are probably at the core of whatever kneejerk anti-rockist sentiment might linger around these parts, but surely they do not deserve to be shut out wholesale?

any thoughts on the chances of "iko iko" making it at this point? fuckin 'yackety sax' better be up there somewhere or I quit ilx!

sons

songs obv

I voted for both Iko Iko and Yakety Sax. I can't comment, though.

Also, I voted for a few old bluesmen, but I also can't comment.

Also voted for some blues.

i'm really curious about what dylan is still left in the mix. it would be extremely refreshing to see the likes of either 'visions of johanna' or 'it's all over now, baby blue' being acknowledged as his most vital track, but i fear my thinking may be of the wishful variety in that regard.

i voted positively 4th street. list is really really 70s focused, but am happy so many people are giving regina and jobim love, bcz aguas de marco is the best song ever.

shit i prob shouldn't mention what i actually voted for, but i really dont think it's making the top 50

Pet Shop Boys aren't synth-pop?

Pet Shop Boys became synthpop in 1990 IMO. Has to do with analogue vs. digital synths. They didn't use analogue ones until then.

That seems like nitpicking.

I don't think analogue synths are in themselves a signifier of synth-pop.

haha

Being Boring is still going to place, right?

Pet Shop Boys became synthpop in 1990 IMO. Has to do with analogue vs. digital synths. They didn't use analogue ones until then.

Pretty sure they didn't use any after 1990 either.

i can't tell who is taking the piss anymore but PSB used an extensive array of analogue and digital synths

this is why there was once a startrekman

before he got all loosey-goosey

I'll veto myself from ILM if not at least one of the following places:

Human League - Being Boiled
Marlena Shaw — The Woman of the Ghetto
The Normal — Warm Leatherette
Gang of Four - Damaged Goods

God, I hope "The Woman of the Ghetto" still has a chance. It was my #4 vote, in my opinion it's the best soul song of all time, even beating than anything that Curtis Mayfield or Donny Hathaway or Aretha Franklin ever did.

like "woman of the ghetto" but don't get the ecstasies, certainly wouldn't hold it up over the best of curtis, aretha, etc. good song though, gets awesome in the 2nd half. for ref:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXJx2NnnxA0&feature=related

christ just the last 40 seconds alone. that this was not nominated seems criminal to me.

^ really, if you've not heard it (imaginary not hearing it person), the last 40 seconds, listen to them

Here's a Spotify playlist of the first few tracks (ie up to 100).

is any other rap song gonna be top 50? i thought g thang would be the highest one

there's always "The Message" or "White Lines"

There's no Public Enemy on here yet, and I find it hard to believe they weren't nominated at all.

Also, Paid In Full.

*FLAG* I SB'd everybody who dissed "Genius of Love" on here. Cheers guys.

There were a couple of Wu nominated and a lot of Nas - would like to see 'Triumph' at least but there must be a chance of splitting for both. 'California Love' maybe most likely now?

protect ya neck would be great. i voted for a different eric b track sadly...

PE will definitely make it, but they would have been somewhat spavined by vote splitting.

I voted for "Triumph" too, but I assume "Protect Ya Neck" is the one with the biggest chance of making it to the top 50, even though it is one of the weaker tracks on 36 Chambers.

Also, surely "Planet Rock" will be in the top 50? Many people probably voted for it for historical importance alone.

People who do stuff like that are idiots imo

Why would historical importance be a lesser reason for voting than any other?