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If my 70-year-old father was voting in this, there most definitely would be Prince on the list; possibly also Seal.

(And... Vanilla Fudge)

I mean, if you stop a random person on the street, even if he isn't an old geezer, he's a 1000 times more likely to recognize a Sinatra tune than a Joy Division tune.

ha my 70-year old dad would probly vote for the Killers god help us.

Your father is an outlier.

lol, The Killers?!

Thanks for reposting that, Johnny, I thought I'd read that sentiment mentioned earlier upthread but couldn't place it among the 2000+ posts.
uh xp

dude don't think I've ever heard a Sinatra or Ellington song on the radio, for real. but really, I don't think that's the reason for the lack of representation. agree with combination of other explanations that have been offered: temporal distance from it, pre vs post rock n roll, etc

itt, massive stereotyping of old people

OKAY ANYWAY...WHO WANTS TO SPECULATE ON THE TOP 10? It's coming up...

Tuomas, I think part of it is that the whole generation gap thing was more of an issue for baby boomers and early generation x people like myself than it is for the generations that have come since. There was much more of a sense of making a break with previous generations, in the 60s, than I think there was in later decades. This is just a general sense I have, I could be wrong. I mean, if anything hearing my mom play her old music and definitely having her watching her old movies tended to turn me off to those things. They seemed like they were not mine. That's moderated for me somewhat over the years, but not entirely.

srsly, he got really obsessed with "Human" when it came out

Worst absences in this poll so far: Roy Orbison, James Brown

Also, what seandalai said.

If my Dad voted it'd still be full of Beatles songs but you could swap New Order for Johnny & The Hurricanes.

what weirds me out are the hardcore camp followers of a particular artist, sound, scene or era. i mean, i LOVE sonic youth to death and they are like my eternal flaming badge of 80s artrock allegiance, but i'd have felt unbearably corny voting for more than one sonic youth song. the world just isn't that small, you know?

i have in my head this imaginary army of enemy ILXors who not only voted for five smiths songs, but five kraftwerk songs AND five new order songs, etc. EACH. like in my mind there are few of them, but they are united and they all wear the same clothes. which i'm sure is not actually the case, but thinking the worst of the enemy gets my dander up (do i have a dander? where is it?).

Agreed on both. xp to NickB

they probably voted for a bunch of kate bush songs, too. how i hate them.

#10 coming up...

Kraftwerk, Wire, The Smiths, Kate Bush, Steeley Dan to feature heavily in this ILM top ten...

(j/k... at least I hope!)

OKAY ANYWAY...WHO WANTS TO SPECULATE ON THE TOP 10? It's coming up...

God Only Knows
Good Vibrations
Wichita Lineman (would love this to be #1)
Er...

what weirds me out are the hardcore camp followers of a particular artist, sound, scene or era. i mean, i LOVE sonic youth to death and they are like my eternal flaming badge of 80s artrock allegiance, but i'd have felt unbearably corny voting for more than one sonic youth song. the world just isn't that small, you know?

i have in my head this imaginary army of enemy ILXors who not only voted for five smiths songs, but five kraftwerk songs AND five new order songs, etc. EACH. like in my mind there are few of them, but they are united and they all wear the same clothes. which i'm sure is not actually the case, but thinking the worst of the enemy gets my dander up (do i have a dander? where is it?).

― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Friday, 3 December 2010 19:36 (1 second ago)

^^^mirrors my own feelings

If I had voted, my ballot would likely have been stuffed with Cure and Prince songs

haha i think about those imaginary people too xxxp

in reality its probably just lots of different people each voting for 2 or 3 songs by those bands

(Some of that post to Tuomas was too someone else but I was too lazy to go back and see who I was responding to.)

being a drummer, i may be biased but I think a lack of a heavy yet simple rhythm (kick snare kick snare) played on a well-mic'd/mixed trap set plays a large part in why pre-60 stuff is not felt as much by subsequent generations.

THE SHAGGS THE SHAGGS THE SHAGGS.

Will someone please make a fake #1 for 'My Pal Foot-Foot' for me?

Alright, I'm out. Enjoy the top 10, guys.

I speculate that Paid In Full is in the top 10 along with 'Black Steel In the Hour Of Chaos' and Shook Ones Part II and Close To Me and Protect Ya Neck. okay I don't speculate, I hope :)

Hoping God Only Knows.... that would be a good #1.

I think it's less a case of "I want 5 New Order songs in the top 125" than "I really want a New Order song, and I don't know which ones other fans will vote for, so I'd better vote for a bunch of them".

10. GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE "The Message" (1982) [2,474 points, 26 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY

YEEEESSSSS!

WOOP!

whee

like, the point of voting for your favorite songs from a list of nominees isn't to flex about how broad your musical tastes are, it's to tell someone what your favorite songs are; doing otherwise is gaming the system and totally dishonest

xp: OH YES GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT

Also thanks to whoever posted that Stevie @ sesame Street link!

FUCK YES! Great start to the Top 10!

I predict/hope "Be My Baby" is coming up.

I was obsessed with "The Message" when it came out :D

Now that's what I'm talking 'bout!

That is very worthy! It's both historically important, and a great tune too, sonically and lyrically.

spent many years pondering what a sacroliliac might be

Gimme Shelter
I Feel Love
Billie Jean
Wichita Lineman
Anarchy In The UK
Good Vibrations

artistically limited imo

Personally, I would like to have seen a less ethnocentric selection of songs, but oh well. (I don't go much beyond adding Latin music and Arabic music anyway, which still leaves out most of the rest of the world.) The fact that we can't even have some Celia Cruz or Willie Colon (and we could have gotten them together in one song) or Benny More bums me out a bit.

Okay, still here just to say YEAH, another one of mine.

Happy to see the Message, though it's not the Grandmaster Flash song I voted for.

really, this is still the first song that comes to my mind when I think of hip-hop (which probably explains why I feel so much antipathy towards modern hip-hop)

it's frequently the first song that comes to mind when I think of Sugar Ray Leonard tbh

xpost It is the sacrum and ilium bones, which are typically fused together as part of the overall pelvic girdle. The sacroiliac basically refers to the backside of your pelvis.

your eyes will sing a song of deep hate...