Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1965 poll

this is impossible.

Watched A Charlie Brown Christmas twice today. I think the students noticed how much the ending affects me.

1965 is the greatest Top 40 year ever, so yes, impossible.

1) "Desolation Row"
2) "Ticket to Ride"
3) "A Love Supreme"
4) "Positively 4th Street"
5) "Uptight"
6) "Norwegian Wood"
7) "Nowhere to Run"
8) "Do You Believe in Magic"

Put "Like a Rolling Stone" very high if I'm in the car or a public space.

I'm a bit bored with most of these. 1964 is a lot fresher still to me.

Going with "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)".

Uptight or I Can't Explain

1 1 Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone

Anything but this.

lol

i would think "Satisfaction" would be the overall number one song of all time.

and by that i mean the Devo cover.

j/k

even though it is also great.

for me it's between "california dreamin'" and "these boots are made for walkin'"

Otis

I think 1965 is my least favourite Beatles year.

I think it has to be Otis. So many better songs from the albums these songs came from.

What I meant was that the songs in this list are, by and large, not necessarily the most exemplary songs on their respective albums. No slight on the Otis song, as it's sublime.

This would be completely impossible if "My Generation" wasn't on the list. But "My Generation" is my all-time favorite piece of recorded sound.

considered

Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
The Beatles - Ticket to Ride
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man
The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic
Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man
The Byrds -0 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
The Byrds - I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better
Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

went with the spoonful

just gonna be a partisan and vote the Beach Boys from here on out

fave 1965 hits:

Fontella Bass "Rescue Me"
Marvin Gaye "Ain't That Peculiar"
Beach Boys "Help Me Rhonda"
We Five "You Were On My Mind"
Kinks "Tired of Waiting For You"

on this list, never ever tired of "I Can't Explain"

Like A Rolling Stone. It goes without saying that this was a doozy of a year.

I thought for the longest time that Fontella Bass was the name of a band (I believe I was conflating her name with Tijuana Brass).

to be honest i'd vote for anything on the vince guaraldi CBC soundtrack over any of these.

Me too! Reading her obit was sad because it led with "'Rescue Me' has been called the best record Aretha Franklin never made." Which is just wrong on multiple levels, most of all that it preceded the first Aretha hit by two years!

xpost....although yeah the vince guaraldi, great

OTM on Guaraldi. If I really paid attention to what isn't represented in these lists, I could all-too-easily lapse into "Sgt. Pepper isn't even one of the twenty best albums of '67 let alone the best album of all time" invective over the options.

i guess if i had to pick one from the list i'd go with "these boots," since i somehow managed to never listen to it properly till a few years ago, and it hasn't worn out its welcome the way a lot of these have. i love the stones but hearing "satisfaction" now is a little like hearing the opening notes of beethoven's fifth.

My wife and I were just enjoying the 'boots' video the other day. And with 'Satisfaction' I remember when it seemed so primal. Was that kinda not so great acoustic guitar in the back always that high in the mix, or was that an unfortunate digital remix outcome?

I figure it's fair game for me to mention legit hit singles. I too would draw the line at album tracks, not that these lists with their Dylan & Beatles album tracks do.

Bob Dylan and The Beatles made 35% of the most acclaimed music of 1965. No.

I would imagine that the Beatles also maintained their percentage of Acclaimed Music for a handful of years thereafter.

And "Yesterday" is the top one of all?

Sorry for being complain-y though - these lists do give us something quantifiable to rate - and maybe 35% is not too high but too low for Dylan-Beatles that year in terms of long term acclaim.

Except, wow. Mathematically it means that all-the-rest-of-pop-music-put-together adds up to less than one of these two acts in 1965.

Wait, scratch that last idiot statement.

voting Satisfaction, still sounds fresh 2 me

And with 'Satisfaction' I remember when it seemed so primal. Was that kinda not so great acoustic guitar in the back always that high in the mix, or was that an unfortunate digital remix outcome?

I think this is the stereo mix, which is not the version anybody should be listening to

Thanks --- definitely not hearing this by choice. Usually in a supermarket.

"Tracks of My Tears" over "Help" and "Do You Believe in Magic."

Change that! "Do You Believe in Magic" over "Help" and "Tracks of My Tears." "I Second That Emotion" is my favorite Miracles hit.

fave 1965 hits:

Fontella Bass "Rescue Me"
Marvin Gaye "Ain't That Peculiar"
Beach Boys "Help Me Rhonda"
We Five "You Were On My Mind"
Kinks "Tired of Waiting For You"

Acclaimed Music Next 35 Songs from 1965 poll (# 41 - 75 Bonus)

lol the Kinks "Tired of Waiting For You" is also listed but came in at number 80.

http://open.spotify.com/user/frazze/playlist/2PElNTlBbBBDnoNN6U8Xm1

This looked very hard until I got to the end and realized it can be very easily done.

Nowhere Man might top it, though

the fact that all of these dylan songs came out this year is insane. years must have been longer back then.

'Day Tripper'.

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the fact that all of these dylan songs came out this year is insane. years must have been longer back then.

5 57 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

32 837 Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man

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