So many great things about The Chain, especially that final section with the awesome bass riff, and "RUNNING IN THE SHADOWs!"
― voodoo chili, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
It feels like, "Remember that counterculture stuff we used to be into? What was THAT about? This is so much nicer! With two cats in the yard, oh shit, did the cats get out again?"
Huh, yeah, that's pretty hate-able - I read it as much more like hippies coupling up in a shabby old hippie house, walls leaning, "If it's yellow, let it mellow" in the bathroom, etc. The fact that they are yard cats seems key here, also note that all their amenities are nature-driven: flowers, sun through windows. Still totally self-satisfied and ex-activist, but closer to McCartney or even the bohemian urbanites in "I Do It For Your Love" than sneering ex-hippie "yeah, money rules!" anthems.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
(Two cats may also indicate two couples: this may not look like a family to anybody else, but our house is a very fine house.)
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
Loving the photos.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
(Sorry, I have nothing to say about "The Chain" - always enjoy it when it's on, nicely shaded, cool opening, just never connected with me beyond that.)
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/M7P2uWl.jpg
96. The Kinks – Lola833 points, 15 votes
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
THIS
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:20 (nine years ago) link
I heard "Yoda" before I ever heard "Lola," and therefore always consider it sort of a novelty song...despite a deep and abiding love for all things Kinks.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
i first heard about 'lola' on 'family ties,' so
― maura, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
I read it as much more like hippies coupling up in a shabby old hippie house, walls leaning, "If it's yellow, let it mellow" in the bathroom, etc.
haha, yeah, I never thought of it like that, but that totally makes sense.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
at some point in the last few years "Gypsy" became my go-to FMac radio jam, but for a number of years "The Chain" was my shit, glad it made the cut.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
on the cassette of it's hard that i had, the end of eminence front was abruptly cut off
scarred me for lyfe
love the chain but kinda wish the bass/runnin in the shadows part rocked harder
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
i'm 0/5 so far
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
heads up, folx: believe it or not, we've got a three-way tie coming up for the ninety-three spot...
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GGJraHM.jpg
93. (tie) Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’ 834 points. 14 votes, 1 first place vote
love these crazy thin point margins. This poll is going to be so unpredictable.
― intheblanks, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
xxpost i'm still not sure whether i love or hate "lola," which i guess is just right.
gr80 that pic is amazing and OTM
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
Yeah there were several more songs in the 800 point range that just missed the cut. For a while I was sure "Don't Stop Believin'" was out of the running entirely, which woulda kept people guessing a bit more.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
i still believe
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
honestly a little stunned by DSB coming in so low.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
High five to the one first place voter!
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
That's me.
― campreverb, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
I had it at 28.
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
it's no stone in love
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
the first track from the top 100 to also appear on our "worst" list.... will it be the last??
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
Hopefully not! I need "Takin' Care of Business" to make this poll.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
― mookieproof, Monday, July 28, 2014
it's not even "wheel in the sky"
wonder if either of those will make the cut...
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpGVUuvPKmk
― pplains, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
SS at the top there stands for "Steve Smith" naturally.
― pplains, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
that little turnaround they do on 'niiiiight' at the end of the chorus before it goes back to the intro chords drives me insane.
― campreverb, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
Heaven is a funky moose.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
I do kind of wish I felt the same way now about "Don't Stop Believin'" as I did when I first heard it.
― nxd, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
You stopped belevin'!
― Jeff, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
Believin' too!
Feel like a poll of the same people 10 years ago would have led to far higher placement for Don't Stop Believin
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
Expecting a few more Detroit shout-outs before poll is through
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
this is still one of my favorite viral videos ever (it is also from, like, 2000, pre-viral)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCWD1PFkFQ
― maura, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
2001 iirc!
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Probably no more for South Detroit, tho.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
shout out to windsor ontario
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
ehh, I love both big universal sentiment songs and concept albums, I'm kind of an outlier.
― campreverb, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
I still love this song, have never gotten burned out on it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
93/900 seems about right
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
lets drag out another hit....
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kti9OJu.jpg
93. (tie) Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty – Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around834 points, 16 votes
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" has a particular statistical significance to the poll that I will explain later in the week...
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
I love this woman and like this guy but this song bores the hell out of me.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
good song! I didn't vote for it though.
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
The Chain and SDMHA are two of the few times I can tolerate Stevie Nicks, obv because they aren't her dopey songs.
― PEOPLE LIVING IN COMPETITION (Sandy), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
she wrote most of "The Chain."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 July 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link