all the diana ross hate ITT is embarrassing. you should all be embarrassed
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 23:32 (eight years ago) link
otm, wtf
― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 23:36 (eight years ago) link
otmmmmmmmmmmm^^^
― marcos, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link
fuck the pixies
fuck the smiths
fuck rem
and completely fujuuuuuuuuuuck guns n roses I mean seriously gtfo with that complete bullshit
― marcos, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
ok the smiths were ok I guess but guns n roses is like the worst band
― marcos, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
pixies are F/G, i'm not crazy about them
smiths EX+
rem are VG+
guns and roses i feel like a total herb for not liking them (although the intro to "welcome to the jungle" is Classic)
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link
It's kind of comforting and familiar to be able to cast a knee-jerk vote for New Order in every poll like this.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 00:12 (eight years ago) link
Think I'm gonna say Pixies, for reasons no one will agree with. Partly for the weird critical over-rating of them, treating a creepy schtick band with a good sound into something MAJOR; partly because they are the mainstreaming of a certain kind of trash-horror ironic aesthetic, and for that reason I kinda hate them. I mean, to pick up on a comparison upthread, he Cure are an immensely limited band and only really have two songs, but their miserableness feels earned and their two songs (the funereal one and the fast aching one) are both really good. This is no doubt some authenticity bullshit, but Robert Smith seems to have a personality, call it a self if you will; the various Pixies just seem to have comic books they like....
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 03:06 (eight years ago) link
I'm a fan, but I think more than one Frankie Knuckles track is excessive. I would gladly swap “Baby Wants to Ride” for "Father Figure."
― Chantilly Bass, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 04:24 (eight years ago) link
I wonder how PF would've even policed a one-track-per-artist filter when putting together the final results. I don't think anyone would've been happy if Purple Rain had been the only Prince song in the top 200, but who's happy about him having four either?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 04:31 (eight years ago) link
Guns n Roses. no contest. I could make a case for Joy Division too probably in second place. Everyone else on the list is cool although some of them are certainly over-represented. I love Prince as much as everybody else but 5 songs including the top spot feels like overkill.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:17 (eight years ago) link
Should have limited songs to one per artist and Raspberry Beret should have been the Prince pick.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
You're probably in a small club thinking Raspberry Beret should be the lone representation of Prince, especially when Pop Life comes from the same album.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
Tears For Fears by a million miles.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:26 (eight years ago) link
Ok, it's a personal favorite and I'm not being serious. Purple Rain at #1 and nothing else from Prince would have been okay with me. If there's a rule that only the top voted song for the artist places I don't see what's so polemical about that particular choice. They can eventually release the list including duplicated artists.
Will pitchfork release the rest of the votes? Would be good to see what placed below the 200s
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:26 (eight years ago) link
Regarding "pop life" this might sound like heresy but I absolutely love the lo-fi and miserable Yo La Tengo cover (under the DUMP alias) whereas the original Prince version just sounds ok to me.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:30 (eight years ago) link
They don't usually release the full list, but they used to release the ballots. Do they still do that? Dunno.
Purple Rain is like the most NOT-80s song Prince released in the 80s. Might as well have come from 1970.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:32 (eight years ago) link
The tears for fears record from Donnie Darko is overrated but dudes...everybody wants to rule the world is a 10/10 classic masterpiece
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:35 (eight years ago) link
― marcos, Tuesday, August 25, 2015 6:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What corny ass challoping bs is this
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link
everybody wants to rule the world is a 10/10 classic masterpiece
^ this
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link
I mean I don't care about REM and don't listen to the pixies but come on
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:37 (eight years ago) link
I don't know... in my mind Prince is hard to pin down to a certain decade. Some of his 70's songs sound very 80's and some of the 80's sound like 90's or per example Raspberry Beret could have sounded comfortable next to any song from 1968.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
The whole purpose of this thread is to show how anti-rockist you are but I gotta be me. Diana Ross solo sux 4eva
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, August 25, 2015 8:04 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think this has to be the dumbest post in the thread
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
You know, a lot of people are probably going to listen to Frankie Knuckles' Your Love for the first time and recognize it as the song that AnCo sampled for My Girls
― misterjoshua, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:42 (eight years ago) link
I guess we're getting into the weeds here, but Raspberry Beret sounds completely 80s to me run through a flower power filter. 60s pastiche with an eye on 80s charts. It's to the 60s what Groove Is in the Heart is to the 70s.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:43 (eight years ago) link
the song that AnCo sampled for My Girls
I could've gone through the rest of my life happily never having this brought to my attention.
Your Love 4EVA. Death to My Girls!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:44 (eight years ago) link
Lol I like both AnCo and Knuckles songs and never made the connection until now. It's so obvious, how could I have missed it? Is it really a sample? Or did they re-recorded it? It sounds like the same line and melody but the sound isn't quite the same.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:50 (eight years ago) link
I'm doing some quick google search and apparently it's not a direct sample and it's not credited. Even the wikipedia page brushes it off as 'the song resembles the frankie knuckles song"
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 05:57 (eight years ago) link
Also it seems like it's not really a Frankie Knuckles song. It's by Jamie Principle and Knuckles just liked to play it and attached his name to it to make it more famous:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Love_(Frankie_Knuckles_song)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:04 (eight years ago) link
oops
― misterjoshua, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:09 (eight years ago) link
this thread is super informative. like I had no idea the Pixies are a "creepy schtick" band with no personality.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:17 (eight years ago) link
Holding up Robert Smith as doing everything right the Pixies are doing wrong is weird. Dude sings so many songs about mouths and parts of mouths. Pixies sing about aliens and three day parties.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:20 (eight years ago) link
― alpine static, miércoles 26 de agosto de 2015 7:17 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This comment was also very weird to me but decided to pay no mind. I have never heard anyone associating the Pixies with horror aesthetics nor do I think there's anything particularly creepy about their sound.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:23 (eight years ago) link
Maybe surrealism but not horror.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:24 (eight years ago) link
ugh polls ugh bands ugh "one artist one song" ugh ugh but i had to pop in to say "Head Over Heels" is a zillion times waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the cheeseball "Everybody Wants To Run the World"
― MC Whistler (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:35 (eight years ago) link
Incorrect. Thank you for playing.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:37 (eight years ago) link
I don't like DRoss much, but those singles listed upthread are pretty great.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:43 (eight years ago) link
Diana Ross saved my damn life, she's underrated - her '79/'80 stuff just rules imo
TFF has rad keyboard sounds but are one of the most insufferable bands, they have that proggy "here let me explain the world to you chumps" style lyrically. they're essentially Billy Joel with better taste
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 07:01 (eight years ago) link
u2 obviously, but otoh the pixies songs in question don't really make the pixies seem amazing
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
like, literally every other song they released in the 80s > 'where is my mind'
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 09:11 (eight years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, August 26, 2015 7:04 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thats not what this says
― just sayin, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 09:41 (eight years ago) link
AnCo did not sample 'Your Love' - three note arpeggios are a pretty common thing.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
this thread is odd. not bad, but kind of challop central.
i really like a couple tears for fears songs but this:
they have that proggy "here let me explain the world to you chumps" style lyrically.
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, August 26, 2015 3:01 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
is very true and nails something i have sometimes felt in an inchoate way, so thanks for that.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
i don't think i have a problem in theory with some artists owning huge amounts of real estate on this list. i mean i don't really care about this list full stop, so why am i even posting? because school hasn't started yet. new order should not have four songs, but i'd be okay with prince having ten tbh.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 12:21 (eight years ago) link
MJ, too. Janet, for that matter. could have ten and it would seem fair to me, i mean.
Hello, Andy Partridge.
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
Gonna hop in here as much as possible to say Guns N Roses suck.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
This post makes me feel unsafe. I will not be bullied by you and I will not put up with you mansplaining why I'm wrong to think that Diana Ross sux 4eva.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
That would be a textbook example of mansplaining, I'll grant.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
(In reverse.)
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link