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I'm sorry. I'm trying to be open-minded to other tastes, but the idea that Midnight Train to Georgia isn't an obvious contender for the top 25 is really upsetting to me at the moment

I'd never even heard it til just now and it sounds like a pretty bog-standard R&B/discoey kind of track to me. Nothing special, and the kind of thing I find really boring in all honesty.

If it had been a part of your life for 30+ years, you'd feel differently. Maybe positive, maybe negative, but definitely differently.

It's sort of amazing to me that people haven't heard 'midnight train to georgia' or 'I put a spell on you'.

But then again that Pulp track "common people" sounds absolutely boring to me and I never heard of it until that stupid pitchfork list

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That's a very generously diplomatic response, but maybe it's also exactly on the mark. On the other hand, it doesn't explain the song's impact on me 30+ years ago when it hadn't been part of my life for 30 years.

On the subject of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" being redone in a way that Tuomas approves of, I was just clicking around youtube looking for covers and remixes and came across this. I actually don't hate it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xal-5SI-kc

predictions for tomorrow:

billie jean, boys of summer, god only knows

boys of summer?

haha

God I hope not.

(Re Boys of Summer, that is.)

Wichita Lineman, Gimme Shelter, Good Vibrations, Anarchy in The UK, Superstition, Dock Of The Bay

FWIW I dont get the love for Pulp in the *slightest*, and I was saturated in 80s-90s indie.

I dont much like the Smiths either FWIW (tho "there is a light" is lovely)

fwiw fwiw imo smdh

You need to listen to "midnight train to georgia" again. You oughta be embarrassed by what you wrote up thread. Maybe someday you will be. For your sake, I hope so.

omg sanctimoniousness is the hot new 2k10 look

lay it on, brother

rooting for The Zombies, Glen Campbell, Chris Bell, Aaliyah, Patsy Cline, The Trashmen

Still holding out for The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald

Did 32 people vote for "Cars" by Gary Numan?

A tiny bit sad I can't make predictions.

you could have before you knew the results

I gave 89 pts to "cars."

I can totally understand how someone might shrug off "Midnight Train to Georgia" the first time they heard it, btw. Like a lot of pop-soul classics, the beauty is in the details.

I'm sorry. I'm trying to be open-minded to other tastes, but the idea that Midnight Train to Georgia isn't an obvious contender for the top 25 is really upsetting to me at the moment. Maybe I'm being ridiculous.

― Two Red Ducks, Thursday, December 2, 2010 7:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

well, you are being ridiculous. at least a little. not because it isn't deserving, but because it isn't anywhere near as universally known or celebrated as a whole bunch of other songs, even here on ILX. and while i know the song well, it doesn't do a lot for me, not even after a couple decades of familiarity. there are tons of songs i feel a whole lot worse about leaving off my ballot, like hundreds.

was any steely dan nominated?

Oh yeah, that's another safe prediction.

C'mon Hank Williams and Bo Diddley.

and the Shaqgs.

Yes. xps

Steely Dan — Babylon Sisters
Steely Dan — Deacon Blues
Steely Dan — Josie
Steely Dan — Peg
Steely Dan — Rikki Don't Lose That Number

would bet on Peg there i guess but they could have gotten votesplit out of it, no obvious pick there

Here's the voting thread again if anyone wants to peep the whole list.

ILM POLLS THE 20TH CENTURY'S BEST TRACKS (Voting Thread - Ends at Midnight on Friday, November 26 EST)

so no Can in the top 125 I guess, that's just not right

But Kraftwerk got three...so go figure.

one of the great joys of this poll has been (re)discovering stuff and watching others do the same. like ismael k. freaking out over "sinnerman", and a whole bunch of people having their eyes opened to "i only have eyes for you". me too, fwiw. i remember cutting it from my ballot early on, looking at the title, thinking, "oh yeah, that one," and letting it go without a moment's regret. but my memory was so vague and denatured, accurate but empty. i mean, i remembered the words, the tempo, the outlines of a melody, but all the detail was gone, all the tone. it's a song that lives or dies on atmosphere and intimacy. have to admit that i was astonished when i went back and really listened to it, in response to others' astonishment. such a wonderful collective moment.

Flamingos had to be my #1.. I woulda been sad if it didn't place well.

I voted for it, but left it in the unweighted part of my ballot. I wish I would've given it some more points.

gimme shelter has GOT to be on this list

Lotsa opportunity for vote splitting re: Stones

The Rolling Stones — 2000 Light Years From Home
The Rolling Stones — Dead Flowers
The Rolling Stones — Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones — Jumpin' Jack Flash
The Rolling Stones — Moonlight Mile
The Rolling Stones — Paint it Black
The Rolling Stones — Rocks Off
The Rolling Stones — Sister Morphine
The Rolling Stones — Street Fighting Man
The Rolling Stones — Sway
The Rolling Stones — Sympathy for the Devil
The Rolling Stones — Under My Thumb
The Rolling Stones — You Can't Always Get What You Want

yes but GIMME SHLETER

also, shelter

gimme shelter is the only stones song i like. still didn't vote for it though

GIMME SHLETER

ITS JUST A TOSH AWAY

Sounds Yiddish to me.

From the album Let it Blutikn.

it looks like the only stones song on my ballot was fucking "sympathy for the devil". this is [not retarded but a word that means the same thing yet is inoffensive], cuz "gimme shelter" is obviously the best thing they ever goddam did, by a country mile, a city mile, whatever kind of mile you got. both were on there until the very last second and i guess i wound up cutting the wrong one. fug.

woooord

boneheaded? absentminded? INCONCEIVABLE?!

pretty sure I voted for gimme shelter

I didn't save my ballot plus I was also slightly drunk when I made it so I can't be sure

i mean, i like sympathy for the devil, like like a lot, but...

it's far from the most embarrasing thing about my ballot though. there's at least one vote on there (and one in particular) that makes me just wanna cringe myself into a little corner and die. you cut "gimme shelter" for that? louis armstrong for that?!?