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

Here's the full voting results...see where the GOOD songs actually placed ;)

http://mondosalvo.com/TOP20th.htm

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I'm also a massive beach boys fanboy and this is my 2nd least favorite song on pet sounds

― iatee, Friday, 3 December 2010 21:28 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

still glad they won tho

― iatee, Friday, 3 December 2010 21:29 (43 seconds ago) Bookmark

says it all about ilx' depraved fanboyism

he may be a cunt, but he's our cunt

gimme shelter - really ilm?

really?

over like a 1000 awesome songs?

hell over like a 100 awesome stones songs?

rest of the 10 is great.

;_; at no planet rock, wtf is rong with you ppl. also no james brown?

ILM 20th century tracks poll: your ballot

god only knows is the lee cattermole of pop

another i'd have love to have seen mixed in with the 80s brit stuff = yazoo - "only you". i think that's sort of my "wichita lineman".

"Sex Machine" was at #169... so low. Vote splitting?

Thanks for posting that, JF - I'll post the list of highest-scoring artists and highest-scoring voters later on.

god only knows is the lee cattermole of pop

― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 December 2010 21:31 (8 seconds ago) Bookmark

???

surely the iniesta and xavi of pop.

126-200 is quite a mix of sublime and WTF.

The highest Elvis track was #196, and it was "Suspicious Minds". oh ilmpaws

and "gimme shelter" is massive, towering, without blemish. sounded like all holy hell when i was a kid and still gives me chills in its final moments. will not hear a word said against it.

Gawd, so many of my votes missed by a whisker:

130 The Byrds - Eight Miles High
131 Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
136 Wu Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck
140 Art Ensemble of Chicago - Theme de yoyo
147 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

etc

wau, as brutal as y'all were to The Cure, you were even worse to poor Siouxsie

515 Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Master Plan

I can't believe only 4 people besides me voted for this! I thought it was a certain lock for the top 100.

01. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE "My Girls" (2009) [5,528 points, 42 votes, 10 first place votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE

Wronf century.

at least I still like that AC song

Where the rightful #1 and #2 ended up:

189 Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full
207 The Shaggs - My Pal Foot Foot

515 Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Master Plan

I can't believe only 4 people besides me voted for this! I thought it was a certain lock for the top 100.

you can't be serious

that would be like me going "Oh my God, I was certain 'All Cats Are Grey' was a lock for the top 100!"

Anyway, thanks Johnny Fever and seandalai. Nice work!

the creator has a master plan is amazing tho

515 Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Master Plan

I can't believe only 4 people besides me voted for this! I thought it was a certain lock for the top 100.

you can't be serious

I am, based on this thread I thought it'd get more love in this poll:

is Karma by Pharoah Sanders the best record ever?

132 Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
133 Neu! - Hallogallo
139 Del Shannon - Runaway
175 Carl Orff - O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
199 Simon and Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence
204 Pere Ubu - Final Solution
207 The Shaggs - My Pal Foot Foot
208 Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene
215 Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - White Lines

so near and yet

so based on a 5 year old conversation between no more than 5 ppl at any given time, you thought it was a dead lock?

268 Love - You Set the Scene 825 6

o_O

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to understand how Tuomas' brain works, but then I quickly realize that I really don't actually want to understand.

Top 300 is mostly A to A+ imo.

515 Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Master Plan

I can't believe only 4 people besides me voted for this! I thought it was a certain lock for the top 100.

― Tuomas, Friday, December 3, 2010 1:36 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, no. i mean, i voted for it, it's fantastic, but i knew i was just making the gesture.

thing that's really killing me is that i put cab calloway's "st. james infirmary" in at number 4 on my ballot, and i really thought it had a shot! wound up at #486. fuckers.

Dan, you know wringing logic out of Tuomas is as likely as wringing it out of Geir, or Randy Quaid's wife.

I'm just glad I could cast my #1 for 4'33"

elis regina singing "aguas de marco," like Ignition Remix, makes fucking happy against my will.

haven't gotten a chance to watch all the youtubes here, but that was the one that really made me giddy.

understanding how tuomas' brain works involves first pretending like you don't understand how anyone else's brain works

okay now you guys are just being mean

just realised that "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" wasn't nommed at all. O.o

I Think I'm Alone Now Galleria of Sadness:
1250 Ernie K. Doe - Mother-in-Law 200 (gospodin simmel)
1250 Les Rallizes Denudes - Night of the Assassins 200 (Spectrist)
1250 Soft Machine - Moon in June 200 (acoleuthic)
1250 Umm Kulthum - Robaeyat El Khayam 200 (rudipherous)
1258 Frank Zappa - Inca Roads 198
1258 Juliette Gréco - La valse brune 198
1258 Sleater-Kinney - One More Hour 198
1258 Sparks - For the Girl With Everything 198
1263 Fairouz - Nassam Alayna Al Hawa 196
1263 King Crimson - Exiles 196
1263 Love Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T. 196
1263 Spratleys Japs - Fanny 196
1273 Cash Money Millionaires - Bling Bling 194
1273 Farid el Atrache - Ya Reitni Tir 194
1273 Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart 194
1273 Jorge Ben - Hermes Trismegisto Escreveu 194
1273 Pixies - River Euphrates 194
1273 The Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies 194
1273 Wire - I Should Have Known Better 194
1283 Celia Cruz and Willie Colón - Usted Abuso 192
1283 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Black and Tan Fantasy 192
1283 Fairport Convention - Farewell, Farewell 192
1283 Motorpsycho - The Golden Core 192
1283 The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic 192
1283 The Underdogs - Love's Gone Bad 192
1283 The Wipers - Tragedy 192
1295 Dean Martin - Sway 190
1295 Dexys Midnight Runners - This Is What She's Like 190
1295 Motorpsycho - Mad Sun 190
1295 Planxty - The Blacksmith 190
1295 The Beach Boys - Sail on Sailor 190
1295 The Notorious B.I.G. - Who Shot Ya 190
1307 10cc - Don't Hang Up 188
1307 Bing Crosby - Pennies From Heaven 188
1307 Curtis Mayfield - The Makings of You 188
1307 Kaleidoscope - The Sky Children 188
1307 La Lupe - Amor Gitano 188
1307 Morrissey - Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself 188
1307 Tommy Johnson - Cool Drink of Water Blues 188
1318 Berlin - Take My Breath Away 186
1318 Dusty Springfield - Anyone Who Had a Heart 186
1318 Edith Piaf - Milord 186
1318 Eric Serra - The Big Blue Overture 186
1318 Hank Williams - My Bucket's Got a Hole in It 186
1318 Joan Armatrading - Water With the Wine 186
1318 Sly and The Family Stone - Sing a Simple Song 186
1318 The Fall - Bonkers in Phoenix 186
1330 Frank Loesser - Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat 184
1330 Grupo Niche - Cielo de Tambores 184
1330 The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine 184
1337 Eddie Palmieri - Puerto Rico 182
1337 Herbie Hancock - Rain Dance 182
1337 Jim O'Rourke - Ghost Ship in a Storm 182
1337 Uakti - Arrumaçao 182
1337 Van Der Graaf Generator - Childlike Faith in Childhood's End 182
1351 El Gran Combo - Don Goyo 180
1351 Orbital - Out There Somewhere? 180
1351 The Police - Message in a Bottle 180
1357 A Tribe Called Quest - Butter 178
1357 Alexander Skip Spence - Grey/Afro 178
1357 Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) 178
1357 Blur - Country House 178
1357 Foetus - Sick Man 178
1357 Lorraine Ellison - Stay With Me 178
1357 Louis Armstrong - Black and Blue 178
1357 Pat Benatar - Love Is a Battlefield 178
1357 Ray Barretto - A Deeper Shade of Soul 178
1374 Chuck Berry - Let it Rock 176
1374 Howard Jones - Hide & Seek 176
1374 Simply Saucer - Illegal Bodies 176
1374 Sonic Youth - Stereo Sanctity 176
1374 T La Rock - It's Yours 176
1374 The Prodigy - Charly 176
1374 Van Der Graaf Generator - La Rossa 176
1381 Benny More - Barbaro del Ritmo 174
1381 Grace Jones - Demolition Man 174
1381 King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind 174
1381 Mahalia Jackson - Trouble of the World 174
1381 Orbital - The Box 174
1381 Perez Prado - Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White 174
1391 Cardiacs - Dog-Like Sparky 172
1391 Frankie Ruiz - Me Acostumbre 172
1391 Hardfloor - Once Again Back 172
1391 Kate Bush - Why Should I Love You 172
1391 Slowdive - Ballad of Sister Sue 172
1391 The Cure - Friday I'm in Love 172
1391 Underworld - Moaner 172
1402 Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon 170
1402 Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too 170
1402 Haris Alexiou - I Mangues Then Iparphoun Pia 170
1402 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Of All the Things We've Made 170
1402 The Fall - Winter (Peel Session) 170

SO what was the highest placing song that was *NOT* from either Europe or the Americas?

Closest Black Sabbath track was:

220. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (907, 9, 0)

xp Probably:

409 Boredoms - 7→(Boriginal) 671 5 0

Actually the Go-Betweens - Cattle & Cane wins the world music award

1283 Fairport Convention - Farewell, Farewell 192

That was one of mine!

there's quite a few of mine in there

TOO LOW

SO what was the highest placing song that was *NOT* from either Europe or the Americas?

No songs from Oceania in the Top 125?

SO what was the highest placing song that was *NOT* from either Europe or the Americas?

25 Althea and Donna - Uptown Top Ranking

Actually surprisingly many songs I voted for ended up in the Top 20... I guess because "everyone" voted for them and everyone includes me....

Althea and Donna is from the Americas, no? Jamaica=Americas. There was also some Bob Marley in there.

Ten of mine in that list :D

SO what was the highest placing song that was *NOT* from either Europe or the Americas?