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

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)

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.

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.

this poll is reminding me to go get all of those old Talking Heads albums since I don't live with my brother anymore

Add "And She Was," I remember that being unavoidable on the dial when it came out. xp

Waterloo Sunset is my favourite Kinks song, but I'm not really a fan.

13. STEVIE WONDER "Superstition" (1972) [2,358 points, 22 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE

hell yeah

two hours of meetings, have fun everybody

The Sesame Street performance of this is one of my favourite live clips ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

The Sesame Street performance of this is one of my favourite live clips ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

Shit, sorry!

oh fuck yea, that song is for all time

A childhood favorite, still a favorite now.

Superstition is my least favourite track of the list so far. It bores me to tears.

OUT

hope Santa brings you a heart for christmas

Why are you even on a board called I LOVE MUSIC?

I prefer this performance to the sesame street one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjsVWSHw5fQ

daavid is obv. some kind of cartoon villain that the Care Bears usually take 'care' of.

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... )

i voted for 2 other stevie songs but this is also cool

"forward-thinking" is a bit nebulous and pointless but so is "all the world knows a Beatles"

Can't believe Stevie's only 60 years old.

12. DAVID BOWIE "Heroes" (1977) [2,444 points, 23 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgcc5V9Hu3g

waterloo sunset has had too much said about it but for the guy who YAWNed at YRGM, i love that song.

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...

This is one of the trademark Bowie songs that's never done a damn thing for me. Where's Golden Years?

One of my favorites, and one of the 3 Bowie tracks I voted for.

nice. i voted heroes at #13, so i can't complain with where it placed at all. obviously just a fantastic song.

I'm pretty meh about both 'Superstition' and 'Heroes', to be perfectly honest.

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...

ITT: Tell The Beatles to Fuck Off

Yeah I am also a humungous Bowie fan who thinks "'Heroes'" is a bit boring.

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.

Ha, LJ, I was actually thinking of the Whiney thread. That thread seems more purpose built for me.

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...

Shit that comment upthread probably got me a few SBs.

might as well be the Fripp masturbation

Fetchboy, that Stevie video has the edge for dancing - but I prefer the extended jam with full band on Sesame Street.

'superstition' is nice, just overplayed, which has dulled me to everything that's good about it.

Can't get with everything posted today but a few classix for sure. Fripp masturbation line gonna haunt y'all.

I'm slowly beginning to realize that it seems likely this poll will have no Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Jacques Brel, Sarah Vaughan, Edith Piaf, or Frank Sinatra. Even though the top 25 has been mostly good so far, the lack of those giants seems all kinds of wrong, especially considering that artistically limited bands like Smiths or Joy Division have multiple songs in the top 100.

this thread (list) has really got me obsessing over 'surf's up'. i've been playing it over and over the last couple of days, having previously not given it its due.

I voted for some Fripp and Eno mutual masturbation.

surfin usa > xp

I'm slowly beginning to realize that it seems likely this poll will have no Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Jacques Brel, Sarah Vaughan, Edith Piaf, or Frank Sinatra. Even though the top 25 has been mostly good so far, the lack of those giants seems all kinds of wrong, especially considering that artistically limited bands like Smiths or Joy Division have multiple songs in the top 100.

the last bit is completely otm, the first bit probably otm too

I only listened to David Bowie's Heroes after I heard the Wallflowers cover. I think that made me appreciate it even more. Killer bassline!

oh my god, an overwhelmingly former-and-current indie audience voted a bunch of classic rock and indie heroes into the top 100 songs of the century over a bunch of jazz standards, surely this is the most unexpected result to come out of this poll aside from the shocking lack of Britten

tuomas - screw that, it has no eric b and rakim, nas, melle mel or premo. or grandmaster flash! seriously, no planet rock? i will be slightly annoyed

heroes is nice though.

Exactly how are The Smiths and Joy Division "artistically limited", Tuomas?