haven't heard song in ages and forgot how good the 'do you remember....' bit is
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
14. THE KINKS "Waterloo Sunset" (1967) [2,350 points, 21 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpL4xbfmXlQ
― Señor Mexico (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
(and "Burning Down The House" was their real mainstream breakthrough)
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i go out on friday night and i come home on saturday morning
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, December 3, 2010 6:42 PM (41 seconds ago)
I possibly like that one even more than Ghost Town, when people ask me about my favourite lyrics in songs (they never really do) I would always say that song.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
OK yeah, fine with this too.
― Gavin in Leeds, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Eh, I'm not sure; I think if you were looking for the US Talking Heads impact song, it would be "Life During Wartime" or "Take Me To The River"
Ok. I thought there was something about the video for Once in a Lifetime being huge on early MTV.
― seandalai, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
if you were looking for the US Talking Heads impact song, it would be "Life During Wartime" or "Take Me To The River"
Really? I think "Once in a Lifetime" had more impact than those, but I could be wrong. "Psycho Killer" is pretty well-known too, I would think, but people who might otherwise not know their music.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess Burning Down the House, too.
Yeah, my own first exposure to Talking Heads was the Once in a Lifetime video on MTV. They played it about once an hour, even in 1983/84.
― Señor Mexico (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
oh that is possible; I never had MTV in its heyday so I am fuzzy on the history there. I was going off of what I heard on the radio at the time and Wikipedia info on single performance
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
beautiful track, voted for this one. sincere and cheeky at the same time.
― skip, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember (fondly) my Kinks immersion period ca. 1995. I bought everything by them I could get my hands on, to the point of not being able to concentrate on any one album in particular...except Something Else. "Waterloo Sunset" and "David Watts" are absolutely terrific.
― Señor Mexico (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
MN rock radio played "Life During Wartime" and "Take Me To The River" to DEATH in the early/mid 80s; I didn't know anything about "Once In A Lifetime" until Stop Making Sense came out (but I did know "I Zimbra", lol)
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
This is turning out way better and surprising than I expected. Happy to see The Specials and Althea and Donna so high.
I'll give a meh for 'once in a lifetime' 'waterloo sunset' and 'this charming man'. All of them are songs I like but wouldn't consider them as the best of each band's respective output, let alone the best of the century.
― Moka, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
in my experience you can hear Burning Down the House, Once in a Lifetime, and Psycho Killer in generally equal proportions on rock radio but not much past that.
― skip, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
this poll is reminding me to go get all of those old Talking Heads albums since I don't live with my brother anymore
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Add "And She Was," I remember that being unavoidable on the dial when it came out. xp
― Spectrist, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Waterloo Sunset is my favourite Kinks song, but I'm not really a fan.
― seandalai, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
13. STEVIE WONDER "Superstition" (1972) [2,358 points, 22 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE
― Señor Mexico (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
hell yeah
― captayn cronch (crüt), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
two hours of meetings, have fun everybody
― skip, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
The Sesame Street performance of this is one of my favourite live clips ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
― seandalai, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Shit, sorry!
oh fuck yea, that song is for all time
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
A childhood favorite, still a favorite now.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Superstition is my least favourite track of the list so far. It bores me to tears.
― daavid, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
OUT
― Yeezy reupholstered my pussy (DJP), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
hope Santa brings you a heart for christmas
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Why are you even on a board called I LOVE MUSIC?
― Señor Mexico (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I prefer this performance to the sesame street one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjsVWSHw5fQ
― Fetchboy, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
daavid is obv. some kind of cartoon villain that the Care Bears usually take 'care' of.
― the structuralist constructions of (Viceroy), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Glad 'O Superman' made it, but wish it had been higher. Also, as many people have pointed out, it was NUMBER 2 IN THE CHARTS, so not sure where the dig about actually popular comes from.
Wasn't thinking about "O Superman" or anything else in particular, tbh. Wasn't trying to put in a dig. Yes, I'm North American and no, I'd never heard 'O Superman' before. I think you could go to pretty much any point on the globe and play the intro to "Strawberry Fields" and people would know it, so... anyhow, I stand behind my statement, without meaning to step on the heads of other contenders. ("Once in a Lifetime" is pretty fucking forward-thinking, too, and "When Doves Cry", and "Superstition", and... )
― a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i voted for 2 other stevie songs but this is also cool
― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"forward-thinking" is a bit nebulous and pointless but so is "all the world knows a Beatles"
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't believe Stevie's only 60 years old.
― Spectrist, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
12. DAVID BOWIE "Heroes" (1977) [2,444 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgcc5V9Hu3g
― Señor Mexico (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
waterloo sunset has had too much said about it but for the guy who YAWNed at YRGM, i love that song.
― purblind snowcock splattered (a hoy hoy), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
So, staggerlee, would you say the Beatles were the most omnipresent music ever, except maybe behind Christmas music? Because if so, I know a thread for you...
― emil.y, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
This is one of the trademark Bowie songs that's never done a damn thing for me. Where's Golden Years?
― Señor Mexico (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
One of my favorites, and one of the 3 Bowie tracks I voted for.
― the structuralist constructions of (Viceroy), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
nice. i voted heroes at #13, so i can't complain with where it placed at all. obviously just a fantastic song.
― charlie h, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty meh about both 'Superstition' and 'Heroes', to be perfectly honest.
― emil.y, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ITT: Tell The Beatles to Fuck Off
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I am also a humungous Bowie fan who thinks "'Heroes'" is a bit boring.
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes I hate when people think The Beatles are the most omnipresent music ever. I could play the 'strawberry fields' intro to all of my friends and I think less than half would actually recognize it.
― Moka, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, LJ, I was actually thinking of the Whiney thread. That thread seems more purpose built for me.
― emil.y, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
So, staggerlee, would you say pizza is the most omnipresent food ever, except maybe behind cooked/steamed rice? Because if so, I know a thread for you...
― the structuralist constructions of (Viceroy), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Shit that comment upthread probably got me a few SBs.
― daavid, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
might as well be the Fripp masturbation
― Spectrist, Friday, 3 December 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link