I thought I knew every song in the top 50 but just listened to "Gasolina," and cannot recall ever hearing this curiosity. Wish I could change my vote. Video is heinous.
― Indexed, Monday, 20 September 2021 18:43 (two years ago) link
Sorry, should have posted that in the Worst songs thread.
just listened to Gasolina in full for first time and I love it
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 September 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
Is there an Apple Music playlist of the whole 500 up anywhere? A few quick searches revealed only partial lists, older lists, people's personal selections from the master list, etc.
Here you go:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4EdmaJCUXvXsXJKXZGvj2r?si=bc91434935b6452d
I also made a playlist of all ILX track poll winers that I listed in my post from yesterday, in case anyone's interested:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cgduOuzi3ut0Lq2zmz0rt?si=d27239fd317645f0
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Monday, 20 September 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
ILXors discovering "Gasolina," perhaps one of the most consequential songs of the 21st Century, is very entertaining, plz do not stop
It's a good example of how fractured music is in the 21st Century!
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 September 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
I don't know about "discover" as I have heard it many times in bits and pieces, first time I have actually listened to it properly
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 September 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
#14 - The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset"I like quite a lot of The Kinks music that I've heard quite a lot but I do not like this at all!
this is truly one of the most baffling opinions i've ever heard on ilx
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 September 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link
don't know what to tell you!
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 September 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
nor I you!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 September 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
"purple rain" ranking over "when doves cry" is really grinding my gears
also
42. Bob Marley & the Wailers, "Redemption Song"
isn't even a top 20 marley song much less representing reggae as a whole in the top 50
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 September 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
I never thought Gasolina was one of the best 50 songs of all time but in a dour playlist like this, it certainly feels like a “hell yeah!” moment when it comes on.
― Siegbran, Monday, 20 September 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
the ranking is, in general, hilarious here but it's such an obvious attempt at "sparking discourse" that i can hardly let it bother me.
as with all top whatever lists, this is a list of songs where most of them are well known and pretty good to excellent. which is not to say they are < or > than anything else.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 September 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
Gasolina was inescapable for years in huge parts of the world, but yeah, living in the US you could easily have never heard it. Of course, the same was true of Las Ketchup, and I don't see them in the top 50.
― enochroot, Monday, 20 September 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
I kinda like The Ketchup Song (Asereje), something about the slightly out-of-time, slightly-out-of-rhythm unharmonised descending-scale vocals paired with the generic upbeat backing produces this distinctive kind of unintended melancholy, it's like a V/VM version of itself.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 September 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
very tempted to troll whiney and bring up crazy frog here
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 September 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
I’m not much of a fan of “Waterloo sunset” either. I’d put 10 Kinks’ songs ahead of that one easily.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 September 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
That said I don’t mind it and can see why some people think it’s one of their best songs.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 20 September 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
There was a People's Songs episode on Radio 4 about Waterloo Sunset, and can report that after half an hour or so it becomes pretty tiresome to listen to, my wife asked me to turn the radio off.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 September 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
I still subscribe to the Challopian Christgovian orthodoxy about "Waterloo Sunset" being "the most beautiful song in the English language," in no small part due to the ethereal harmonizing of Dave and Rasa Davies, but don't expect others to share this belief and hesitate to brand them as infidels, especially someone as nice as forks.
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
I saw Jon Brion do "Waterloo Sunset" with Benmont Tench & Glenn Kotche, and if memory serves me right, he called it the greatest song ever written.
― Indexed, Monday, 20 September 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
Pulp will never top "Disco 2000" imo
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 September 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
The other perfect song on Different Class
― Indexed, Monday, 20 September 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
So many good Pulp songs, hard to pick one.This video may have the opposite effect. Found it whilst looking for a quote from Steve Jones which I couldn't locate.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0qnHaWfQXg
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, September 20, 2021 3:50 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Is this supposed an indictment of the song somehow?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 September 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
I listened to “People Get Ready” for 24 hours straight and you know what, it’s just not that good a song.
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 20 September 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
Sometimes I can listen to a song over and over for hours on end and sometimes I have to turn it off right away and take a break from it for a few years, not necessarily a reflection on the quality of the song.Ha, xpost!
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 September 2021 22:22 (two years ago) link
think my favourite songs I could listen to for half an hour on repeat and wouldn't tire of them at all, since that's the format of the show and there were lots of episodes, I would say that approx 40% of the songs got fairly annoying by the end (worst was Part Of The Union)
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 September 2021 22:31 (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.
I did see the video at the time, but never made it to the end till now. I haven't trusted her since she turned Destiny's Child to a trio.
What if I told you this song … did come out in 1982
Oh I hear the Clash in it now, must have been subconscious. Another I - V - IV progression, too, which I criticized in the Robyn song, and then realized is also in "Waterloo Sunset", my poll choice! (hypocrisy)
Sometimes I can listen to a song over and over for hours on end
I have a rule never to listen to a song more than once a day (unless I'm learning to play it, or practicing it); I don't want to have a song I like "go dead" on me.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link
Is the going dead related to semantic satiation?
― I, the Jukebox Jury (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
Looks like it. I remember the phrase from film critic/teacher Robin Wood, talking about Hitchcock's films.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 01:53 (two years ago) link
Waterloo Sunset is one of those songs that's special to me not because I want to listen to it all the time or on repeat, but because it captures a particular mood that I have felt often and there's nothing else that quite captures that particular nuance of feeling and POV for me. When you want to listen to Waterloo Sunset there are no substitutes, and if Waterloo Sunset didn't exist, there would be a big empty space where it's supposed to be.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link
That perfect balance of loneliness and beauty; the way you can feel that the singer both is and isn't lying to himself when he says he doesn't need anything but this. There's genuine awe and wonder in it, and a real joy in being an observer, and yet you never lose the knowledge that all this beauty is born out of loneliness and that loneliness will be waiting again when the moment is over.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
this is incredible
― ✖, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
lol
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
For fellow Apple Music users: https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/rolling-stone-500-greatest-songs/pl.u-DdANeoqIaa7PdR
The only error I've encountered on this playlist so far: the Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson cover of "Pancho & Lefty" is included in place of the original.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
To be honest, that's probably the version people actually voted for/think of when they think of that song.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
Blasphemy
― Indexed, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
Looks like they missed one: https://exclaim.ca/music/article/smash_mouth_want_to_know_why_all_star_isnt_on_that_rolling_stone_list-the_band_took_to_twitter_to_demand_answers
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 04:10 (two years ago) link
Feel free to clog this thread with fantasy ballots.
OK – I'm gonna do it (timing it after hours, for minimal annoyance).
These are in no particular order; I just listed til I hit 50, then made a few swaps. It's purely personal faves – songs that are close to my heart, for whatever reason – and not going for objective/historical significance. (The list probably has some "recency bias" – 2 songs from this year! – but I think that's OK)
I Missed the Point - Neko CasePush It - Salt-N-PepaMatch Made Up in Heaven - JillYou Dropped a Bomb on Me - Gap BandTumbling Dice - Rolling StonesStart Me Up - Rolling StonesLoretta's Scars - PavementFound a Job - Talking HeadsMan, I Feel Like a Woman - Shania TwainGive Him a Great Big Kiss - Shangri-LasOut in the Streets - Shangri-LasWhen U Were Mine - PrinceShe Makes Me Shake Like a Soul Machine - UnrestShivers - Boys Next DoorMamma Mia - ABBAThe Drum - Slapp Happy + all covers (Bongwater, Impossibles, Love and Hates)Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man - Loretta Lynn & Conway TwittyBreak Free - Ariana Grande ft. ZeddNASA - Ariana GrandeShe's Your Lover Now - Bob DylanPlekhanov - Red Crayola w/Art & LanguageA Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part 1 - Red Crayola w/Art & LanguageThe United States vs. One 1974 Cadillac El Dorado Sedan - Royal TruxGreen Limousine - Howling HexInto the Groove - MadonnaIs It True - Brenda LeeLook in My Diary - Reparata and the DelronsTrash - New York DollsTossin' and Turnin' - Bobby LewisFather Figure - George MichaelDon't Change - INXSThe Great Pretender - PlattersNanou2 - Aphex TwinGood 4 U - Olivia RodrigoWatch - Billie EilishShine a Light - Wolf ParadeBreakin' Down the Walls of Heartache - The BandwagonWhen It All Comes Down - MiaowL.A. Mist - The Sharp EasePart of Your World - Jodi Benson (Little Mermaid soundtrack)What Goes On - Velvet UndergroundRare - Selena GomezGarden - The FallTen Years Gone - Led ZeppelinBand of Gold - Freda PayneWish You Were Here - Pink FloydThese Are Days - 10,000 ManiacsChris Michaels - Fiery Furnaces Centerfold - J. Geils BandLaw Man - Jefferson Airplane
― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 05:46 (two years ago) link
(oh, it's just one from this year... OK, I feel better, lol)
― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 05:48 (two years ago) link
Here’s a top 10 ballot I whipped up with a few days ago
Al Green - Love and HappinessBeach Boys - God Only KnowsDonna Summer - I Feel Love Glenn Campbell - Wichita Lineman Stevie Wonder - Superstition Fela Kuti - Zombie Nina Simone - SinnermanKate Bush - CloudbustingDeee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart Talk Talk - New Grass
― Chris L, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 06:35 (two years ago) link
I've got 40 or so and am just deciding what 10 will round it out.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
That’s a pretty good top 10
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 13:51 (two years ago) link
i did a top 50 a couple years ago, probably would swap a few out and i never ordered it, but i wouldn't change that much: 50 of My Favorite Songs - choose one
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
Yeah love that list, I see at least 5 songs which I’d probably consider top 10 of their respective decade.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
i honestly think i would be hard pressed to do an unnumbered top 500 so i am cool with whatever anybody wants to do with anything forever
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
I'll give it a shot:
Judee Sill - The KissSly and the Family Stone - Family AffairSteely Dan - King of the WorldWillie Nelson - One Day at a TimeErnie (from Sesame Street) - I Don't Want to Live on the MoonLaura Nyro - Up On the RoofThe Incredible String Band - MayaArthur Russell - That's Us/Wild CombinationTracy Chapman - Fast CarPrimitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My HandGrateful Dead - Dark StarSheryl Crow - If It Makes You HappyOMD - SouvenirJoni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer LawnsMilton Nascimento - Ponta De AreiaSeal - Kiss From a RoseThe Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable NowDolly Parton - Down From DoverBelle and Sebastian - The ModelTommy James & The Shondells - Crystal Blue PersuasionJimmy Webb - Met Her on a PlaneCocteau Twins - LoreleiBroadcast - CorporealYo La Tengo - Let's Save Tony Orlando's HousePrefab Sprout - The Sound of CryingSandy Denny - No EndBob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No CryThe Beatles - Dear PrudenceThe Temptations - My GirlOMC - How BizarrePrince - AdoreMoondog - Do Your ThingRichard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See the Bright Lights TonightGal Costa - BabyBruce Springsteen - Tougher Than the RestJoanna Newsom - EsmeHatfield & the North - Son Of 'There's No Place Like Homerton'Scott Walker - JoeGong - Love Is How Y Make ItVan Morrison - Snow In San AnselmoThe Cosmic Rays w/Sun Ra - DreamingThe Rolling Stones - Dead FlowersAl Green - Funny How Time Slips AwayRufus Wainwright - Greek SongCarly Rae Jepsen - Warm BloodYes - Starship TrooperRandy Newman - Living Without YouKraftwerk - Computer LoveHüsker Dü - Flexible FlyerBjörk - Hyperballad
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
(no particular order)
Grateful Dead - Dark Star
Which version??
― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 22 September 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
Ideally all of them, but if I have to pick one it's 8/1/73
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 22 September 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link