The last decade was like the Academy Award winning documentary, the botched biopic, the Watch the Throne sample, the Kanye sample, the Jay-Z sample the Kanye sample, Lauryn going to bat for her all the time, appearing in stuff like The Watchmen and then getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame like decades after she was eligible
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
Worst for me is "Bohemian Rhapsody". I would pay a not insignificant sum if there was a way to block me from ever having to hear it again.
― stirmonster, Thursday, September 16, 2021 3:33 PM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
"Runaway"would probably get my vote for worst, but amen to this nonetheless.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
its really funny how after all that Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" didn't even make the rolling stone list.
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
which to be clear i'm totally ok with, but it kind of goes against all the people telling me this list is supposed to be a measure of the temperature today rather than some historical narrative
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
I am oblivious to most of those things except for the documentary & the botched biopic but it has always felt to me she has been iconic and very present my whole life, with perhaps the odd heightened boost here and there.
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― stirmonster, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
the Academy Award winning documentary
Nominated.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-nina-simone-captivated-a-new-generation-203955/
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
Not arguing against the notion that Nina is still cresting. That's what these updates are kind of all about tho.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Must be right if it's in Rolling Stone. LOL
Maybe it is different in the UK to the USA? She was always bigger and had more hit records here.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
this is "Dreams" for me
― Bee OK, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
I scrolled through this too fast and thought Daddy Yankee was the Damn Yankees and was like "man no wonder everyone is pissed about this list"
― chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
I love or at least like about 40 out of these 50, but at the moment "My Girl" has the strongest claim, for me, of being one of humanity's finest achievements.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, September 16, 2021 1:24 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes
― J. Sam, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
Listening to a playlist of the list on random and getting a few pleasant surprises here and there, like Marshall Jefferson "Move That Body."
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
did it make the list? I didn't even scroll thru the thing.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
I'm devastated Noel's "Silent Morning" and Sylvester-Patrick Cowley's "Do You Wanna Funk" didn't make the list, apparently.
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
xps RS makes it impossible to scroll thru the whole thing ... a Spotify playlist of the purported full list has it on it
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
You can also see the full list in one place here: http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=149454#p149454
― jaymc, Thursday, 16 September 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
326 Rilo Kiley, 'Portions for Foxes' 2004324 Billy Joel, 'Scenes From an Italian Restaurant' 1977
!!
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 16 September 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
that rilo kiley track showing up is maybe the most 'huh?' pick
― ufo, Thursday, 16 September 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
Seven nation army really? That stupid riff
― calstars, Thursday, 16 September 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link
I really have to stretch to find a song I'm not at least a little bit tired of. Probably Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg or Lauryn Hill.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
Meant to say that I played about two minutes each of the Top 10 for a grade 6 class today (three minutes for Sam Cooke--played a Malcolm X clip). And held my breath during a clean version of Missy Elliott, because clean to the uploader doesn't necessarily mean clean in a school setting. Stuff I miss about having my own class.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
One guy really surprised me by asking if the J5's "I Want You Back" was on the list. Evidently should have been give a vote.
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
"given"
"fremme neppa ventte" is INAPPROPRIATE for the classroom, Mr Clemenza! Please take the rest of the week off -unpaid!
― you had me at "giallo" (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
I'm fired!
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
I would love to have had you as my 6th grade teacher. Instead I got the harsh Sister Julianna
didn't ever see the Fight the Power video before now
― Dan S, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:14 (two years ago) link
Our French teacher played us "Je t'aime... moi non plus" in class, and blew our minds
― juristic person (morrisp), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
I was a little nervous about "Fight the Power," too, but I think "never meant shit to me" is all there is, right (which came later in the song anyway). With "Hey Ya," I played the actual video and was more wary of the visuals with some of the women (and the lawn jockey imagery was potentially a problem, although a little too esoteric for grade 6s; I did flash back to playing Culture Club on a remote job last spring and having blackface pop up.) "Je t'aime"? Wow--don't think I'd risk that
― clemenza, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
my eye-rolling moment:
120. X-Ray Spex, 'Oh Bondage! Up Yours!'121. Marvin Gaye, 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'
These lists never seem to know if they are rating milestones or performances or recordings or songwriting or what.
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
Went with "A Day in the Life," which still has a lot of magic for me.
― jmm, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
Eric is there not some other poll you could be dealing with right now
― ignore the blue line (or something), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:38 (two years ago) link
Maybe a little something called The Last Dangerous Morbsies, aka I Have NO POLL and I Must Screen?
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
Please stop making lists
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
Voted Missy without reading any further down, get ur freak on is a really good song. strawberry feilds forever is also very good.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
'Respect' wouldn't even make it into in my top ten Aretha songs, I don't think.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
This might be 'When Doves Cry' for me. If they'd included 'Long Tall Sally' instead of 'Tutti Frutti' I might've gone with Little Richard.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:37 (two years ago) link
"Superstition" over "Satisfaction"
― aegis philbin (crüt), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
I love Unknown Pleasures but I will never understand why "Love Will Tear Us Apart" gets so much acclaim, it's kinda wack
― aegis philbin (crüt), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 September 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z, "Crazy in Love"
I know I am way TF out of touch, but don't remember this one at all. Looking at the list of her big hits, I know most of them but this one even listening to it, I kinda don't remember it.
Did not know the MIA, Kanye or the Daddy Yankee tune either...
I can't believe that Idioteque is on this list. Seems odd to me that tune would be the one on this list.
― earlnash, Friday, 17 September 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
If you asked a bunch of people who are interested in this kind of stuff "What is the most surprising song in the Top 10?" I expect most would pick either Outkast or Missy Elliott. Weirdly--I'd have to give my explanation some thought--it was "Dreams" that surprised me the most (pleasantly so).
― clemenza, Friday, 17 September 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
The vibe man skateboarded and drank juice
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 September 2021 01:08 (two years ago) link
― clemenza, Thursday, September 16, 2021 7:07 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah "I Want You Back" at 104 was the most shocking thing about this list for me
― J. Sam, Friday, 17 September 2021 01:48 (two years ago) link
Have to admit I heard the Graham Parker version first.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 September 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
You guys know the thing about the second verse of “The Love You Save,” right?
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 September 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
“be my baby”
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Friday, 17 September 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
I'd like to announce and renounce my ignorance, and write capsule reviews of the eight songs I wasn't familiar with till this morning:
08. Missy Elliott, "Get Ur Freak On” - Good, though I wish the whole song was as rhythmically exciting as the coda
16. Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z, "Crazy in Love” - boring sample, boring song, boring rap
20. Robyn, "Dancing on My Own” - adequate, but about 40% as good as Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder. There’d better be something else amazing about your song if you want me to sit through another I - V - IV pattern
25. Kanye West feat. Pusha T, “Runaway" - intriguing, but I think you’d have to be way more invested in him than I am to know what this all signifies
30. Lorde, “Royals" - very well done, but it’s a protest song about nothing
45. Kendrick Lamar, “Alright" - I know his previous record, and this is obviously great
46. M.I.A., "Paper Planes” - any annoyance on my part is intentional on her part, but I still prefer Elastica. I’d be more impressed if someone told me this came out in 1982
50. Daddy Yankee feat. Glory, “Gasolina” - this wouldn’t be my kind of thing even if I spoke Spanish
I was most pleased to see "Waterloo Sunset" and "B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" on here, and I voted for the former.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 19 September 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
man someone boarded Challop Airlines today
― you had me at "giallo" (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 September 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
I'm actually not against what you're doing at all - all you're asking for is lists. If I ran a publication, I'd pay for an article, whether it was pitched to me or if I assigned it to someone, but if I got a list of 50 songs put on my desk, regardless of how much time or thought is put into it, it's still a list of 50 songs. I don't think Sight & Sound or Pazz & Jop give any monetary compensations for any of the thousands of ballots they've sent out for their esteemed polls, and though they don't require comments, people frequently give them.
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
Pazz & Jop used to pay a tiny bit, then they stopped a few years ago. For what it's worth, this is to help a friend--it's his site.
(xpost) Here's the very first iteration of rockcritics.com, going back to 2000. It's changed over the years, but I think the right answer is "no."
https://web.archive.org/web/20000823130535/http://www.rockcritics.com/
― clemenza, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link
Pazz & Jop used to pay a tiny bit, then they stopped a few years ago.
Wow, I stand corrected. When you say stopped, do you mean because the Voice (before it was re-animated) closed shop?
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
we'd get paid for blurbs too
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
No, this was before they went under. It wasn't much, believe me--$10 per printed P&J comment?
― clemenza, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
I might be able to submit one! Not really sure if I have that unique of a perspective and I suck at blurbs since I’m not a writer or a native english speaker but yeah… I could maybe give it a try. I have probably such a list more or less curated by now.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 15 October 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
Please do! If you look at the short intros that are there, I think you'll find them as informal as humanly possible.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 October 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
In that case, I definitely prefer a free record (as long as I get to choose)!
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 October 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
Thanks to this thread, I dreamt someone gave me a pizza. I didn't have to provide any lists in exchange though.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 16 October 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
ILX'ors cryptosicko and Kevin J. Bozelka have their lists up there.
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
I've discovered the Tammys' "Egyptian Shumba" (1964) off KJB's list.
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 October 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link