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
You know “B.O.B.” but not "Get Ur Freak On”(?)
― juristic person (morrisp), Sunday, 19 September 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
I saw some of her other videos, OutKast I made a point of listening to.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
I'm trying to calculate age and location probabilities for hearing Crazy in Love for the first time in 2021. I have 8, Papua New Guinea or 72, Idaho.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
own private Idaho, makes sense
― you had me at "giallo" (Neanderthal), Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
The declaration that Robyn and M.I.A. made two of the 50 greatest songs of all time is as much of a challop as anything in that post imo.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
I personally took the rankings of the songs with a grain of salt as I read thru the list, but I guess ppl will inevitably critique the rankings
― juristic person (morrisp), Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
156 The Kingsmen, 'Louie Louie' 1963155 The Strokes, 'Last Nite' 2001
This one made me laugh.
― jmm, Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
Mostly agree with stirmonster and Eric's picks. Went with James Brown on principle, even if that song probably isn't in my top 50 JB.
― g simmel, Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
This recent Rolling Stone list has had me thinking about what an ILX version of this list would look like. I ended up going down a huge rabbit hole this morning and tried to find the #1 track in all the ILM polls over the years. Here's the results (I'm sure I missed some):
Donna Summer - I Feel LovePavement - Summer BabeBlur - This is a Low Ol’ Dirty Bastard f/Kelis - Got Your MoneyBlue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear the ReaperPulp - Common PeopleThe Beach Boys - Good VibrationsThe Beatles - A Day in The LifeU2 - Where The Streets Have No NameThe Beach Boys - God Only KnowsMissy Elliott - Get Ur Freak OnJames Brown - Papa’s Got a Brand New BagPaul Simon - GracelandNeil Young - PowderfingerPJ Harvey - DressThe Doors - The Crystal ShipXTC - Senses Working OvertimeMetallica - For Whom the Bell TollsStereolab - Dymaxion LoopCan - Future DaysDionne Warwick - Walk On ByThe Cramps - GarbagemanPink Floyd - EchoesSpacemen 3 - Walkin’ With JesusPrince and the Revolution - When Doves CryREM - HarborcoatPet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This?Led Zeppelin - When the Levee BreaksGuided By Voices - Game of PricksStevie Wonder - SuperstitionDavid Bowie - Life on Mars?Beastie Boys - Shake Your RumpThe Cure - A ForestLindstrome - I Feel SpaceMiles Davis - Shhh/PeacefulSonic Youth - SchizophreniaThe Clash - (White Man) In Hammersmith PalaisMarvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The GrapevineJay Z - Dead Presidents IISam and Dave - Hold On, I’m A Comin’R. Kelly - Step In The Name Of LoveSylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)Elvis Costello - Beyond BeliefOutkast - SpottieOttieDopalisciousBrian Eno - St. Elmo’s FireRadiohead - There ThereAutechre - CichiliFunkadelic - Maggot BrainMr. Flagio - Take a ChanceOasis - Live ForeverIggy & The Stooges - Search & DestroyChaka Khan - I Feel for YouVan Morrison - Astral WeeksJohn Lennon - Instant Karma!Tori Amos - Silent All These YearsPrefab Sprout - AppetiteBig Black - KeroseneMy Bloody Valentine - SoonManic Street Preachers - Motorcycle EmptinessThe Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for YouThe Rolling Stones - Gimme ShelterThe Kinks - Waterloo SunsetDepeche Mode - Never Let Me Down AgainThe Bee Gees - To Love SomebodyFleetwood Mac - DreamsKate Bush - Running Up That HillThe Who - SubstituteSaint Etienne - AvenueHusker Du - Eight Miles HightThe Orb - Little Fluffy CloudsBruce Springsteen - Thunder RoadThe Fall - SlatesNew Order - TemptationThe Cocteau Twins - Aikea-GuineaLou Reed - Satellite of LoveRoxy Music - Mother of PearlSleater-Kinney - Get UpBob Dylan - Like a Rolling StoneThe Ramones - Sheena Is a Punk RockerPixies - DebaserYo La Tengo - Tom CourtenayCreedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate SonSpoon - Everything Hits at OnceQueen/David Bowie - Under PressureTom Petty and The Heartbreakers - The WaitingSlayer - Reign In BloodThe Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes OutVan Halen - Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout LoveDevo - Uncontrollable UrgeCeltic Frost - Monotheist George Michael - Freedom ’90Curtis Mayfield - Move On UpBlondie - DreamingSmashing Pumpkins - MayonaiseWu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.They Might Be Giants - Ana NgBeck - LoserCat Power - Cross Bones StyleJimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)Janet Jackson - EscapadeThe Replacements - I Will DareTodd Rundgren - Hello It’s MeThe Afghan Whigs - FadedABBA - SOSJoni Mitchell - A Case of YouNirvana - Smells Like Teen SpiritTalking Heads - The Great CurveBelle & Sebastian - The State I Am InUnderworld - Rez & CowgirlNick Cave - Sleeping AnnaleahMF Doom - DoomsdayTelevision - Marquee MoonBauhaus - Dark EntriesJoy Division - DisorderElton John - Someone Saved My Life TonightMadonna - Into the GrooveB-52’s - 52 GirlsSteely Dan - Deacon BluesThe Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane Bjork - Hyperballad
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Sunday, 19 September 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
Yes, ILX could get there. We just need to work a bit more on canonizing global pop history (the stuff that gave birth to afrobeats, reggaeton, k-pop...). Rolling Stone even tried to do it with the top 50 latin pop songs list and that was an ok start.
― g simmel, Sunday, 19 September 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
i stupidly found out how universal 'gasolina' is around 2017.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 19 September 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
literally everything on 'honey' > "dancing on my own"
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 19 September 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
"Gasolina" is the "You Shook Me All Night Long" of reggaeton, or something like that.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 19 September 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 19 September 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
gucci gucci should be on hereprobably #1 or so
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 19 September 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
I honestly wonder if we could get D-40 to admit that it isn’t one of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 19 September 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
Imagine all the songsWere living yesterdayThey'd have to be much higher on the RS 500.
Imagine there are no rankingsIt isn't hard to doNothing to argue for And no year-end poll too
― Nabozo, Sunday, 19 September 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
This recent Rolling Stone list has had me thinking about what an ILX version of this list would look like.
an approximation: ILM POLLS THE 20TH CENTURY'S BEST TRACKS ››› YOUR RESULTS THREAD ‹‹‹
― bespoke sausages (seandalai), Sunday, 19 September 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
This whole thing inspired me to make a list of my own 50 favorites… is there a place we can post & share without being unwelcome or clogging another thread?
― juristic person (morrisp), Sunday, 19 September 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
I love that ILM results. Good job everyone involved.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 19 September 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
is there a place we can post & share without being unwelcome or clogging another thread?
Feel free to clog this thread with fantasy ballots.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, 20 September 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link