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

nice!

aw, that should have been top 10

whoa, awesome placement!

like ioannis, i love sonic youth, even voted for "schizophrenia", but "teenage riot" does nothing for me

made up for by the flamingos, such a gorgeous song, though i didn't vote for it

This was a surprise to me - is it considered canon? Great to see it anyway.

Hell yeah. I love Alt-Rock Gold as much as the next man but something a little older was long overdue.

This was a surprise to me - is it considered canon?

as far as I know that is considered one of the greatest songs of all time

After I first heard this I spent a while going through loads of doo-wop trying and failing to find something as eerie and magical.

makes me wonder: anyone else vote for "sea of love"? it is eerie and magical.

Wow, that came out of nowhere as far as I'm concerned. Has it been featured in a Lynch film or something? It has that '50s eeriness down perfectly.

flamingos is peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerfect.

are any other doo wap records as anywhere as great?

(I have heard it before, by the way, just never really sat down and listened to it, and certainly didn't expect it to be here. xpost to self)

emil.y - the buffy the vampire slayer episode named after it is p. great viewing, dunno about movies.

as far as I know that is considered one of the greatest songs of all time

34th greatest anyway...somehow I'd never heard it before this poll, really glad to have discovered it.

i'm pretty sure my best friend proposed to his wife with that as the soundtrack.

I voted for "Sea of Love" too.

What other pre-1960 songs are dead certs for the top 33? Strange Fruit, surely.

"I Only Have Eyes For You" was used in "American Graffiti"

was it also used in the wonder years?

The more I think about it, the more a 50s tracks poll sounds like a good idea. I'll put that on the to-do list for 2011.

didnt we already do a 50s poll?

"I Only Have Eyes For You" was used in "American Graffiti"

if you say so, gramps.

I haven't looked. If so, I didn't catch it.

Wikipedia sez so

also i thought 11 was designated 00s music poll time

What other pre-1960 songs are dead certs for the top 33? Strange Fruit, surely.

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yeah, i'm almost certain that's in. better be...

i meant to nominate the ink spots' "i don't want to set the world on fire" from 1941, but forgot. frown. suspect it would have had a decent shot at the top 100.

just say oh noes.

xp

yeah, "The Queen Is Dead", "Sweet and Tender Hooligan", "London"... I love it when they rock out

― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP)

Yeah, the Smiths are often derided/adored for their mopy side, but I'm with you: I love them as a real rock band. The first half of Louder Than Bombs is desert-island stuff for me.

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Flamingos WTF! What a great song; can't believe I've never (rememberingly) heard it before! Will be on full repeat for days. Makes up for myriad sins and omissions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7AZIvDD5Lw

The chorus is haunting in the Flamingos track -- that has to be one of the crunchiest chords in canon pop. Sonic Youth doesn't count

better quality youtube vid here: 63nlhoda2MY

Am I right in thinking that JF hinted that there was going to be at least one pre-50s track still to come?

Yeah that Flamingos song is great and a total curveball. I need that Rhino doo-wop boxed set don't I.

see, in my mind that song isn't a curveball at all, largely because it's one of the doo-wop songs my dad played incessantly while I was growing up

33. FUNKADELIC "Maggot Brain" (1971) [1,908 points, 16 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3bleXWaCk

Man, the only doo-wop song my dad ever played was "The Longest Time" xp

That Ink Spots song was in the nominations, btw.

maggot brain sucks dudes sorry

That Ink Spots song was in the nominations, btw.

Man, how did I miss it?! I should've voted for it, I love that tune!

Voted for Maggot Brain - possibly wouldn't have been my choice of Funkadelic, but it definitely doesn't suck.

I voted for the Ink Spots song. That and 'Java Jive' are two of my favorite songs in this style.

that ink spots track is sooo much better than Maggot Brain.

I first heard "I Put a Spell on You" in Jim Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise, in which it figures fairly prominently, in a way.

Agreed.

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I wanted to vote for 'super stupid' by Funkadelic but it wasn't in the noms. Don't really care about Maggot Brain.

I think I might turn into noodle vague with those anti maggot brain comments
xps

32. JOY DIVISION "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (1980) [1,909 points, 18 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUcv7UMW4Ck

milk is so much better than orange juice. discuss.

Maggot Brain is okay, but it has too much guitar.