2525 haters begone!!!!
― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I too surprised myself with an Elvis vote.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"Dizzy" over "Sugar Sugar" (over Elvis and Stones and "Wedding Bell Blues" etc), though I will always be proud to overrate "In the Year 2525," which was one of the first songs I ever consciously liked.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
It took Dalida's version of "2525" to make me realize the brilliance of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxN8yX4Qv0
― Josefa, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
The slow intro to "2525," before it goes all flamenco, sounds like the melody line to "Epitaph" by King Crimson (also released '69.)
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd never heard this 2525 song before ... seems like the kinda thing I'd be into but it really has nothing going on except for that one melody line/chord progression and is otherwise totally boring. how the fuck did something like this get to #1?
― Sleep Causes Cancer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
2525 (Exordium and Terminus) [RCA Victor, 1969]Zager & Evans make Simon & Garfunkel sound like Marx & Engels. The only reason this is not an E is that the title song has sold a million copies. That means they have to be doing something right. D-
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
it isn't even a remotely clever song - there's no lyrical twist (its just "this is what things will be like IN THE FUTURE!"), no hook, no changes (apart from ooh a key change where they go up a whole step - lazy). its just weird, why was this successful.
― Sleep Causes Cancer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
IIRC a "one-hit wonders" piece from Mojo, "2525" was kind of a fluke, a b-side that took off in the midwest that had a little help from a "future shock" tangent in the media.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
History from wiki:
The song was originally written in 1964 and recorded and released in 1967 on the Truth Records label. After a radio station in Odessa, Texas popularized the two-year old record, RCA Records distributed the song nationwide. Sales of the original hit recording (including singles sales, album usage and compilation inclusions) now total over 10 million units worldwide.
More fun
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Their followup single on RCA-Victor, "Mr. Turnkey" (a song about a rapist who nails his own wrist to the wall as punishment for his crime), failed to chart.
hahaha waht
― Sleep Causes Cancer (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
bahahaha ok that kind of makes their existence worthwhile
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUQuXwNKMkU
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 July 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
10,000,000 Zager & Evans Fans Can't Be Wrong
― Josefa, Thursday, 9 July 2009 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe this is heretical, but I prefer FYC's version of "Suspicious Minds" and Joan Jett's "Crimson and Clover" (proving what great songs they are).
Thus, it frees me to vote for the Temptations.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 July 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
1. come together2. everyday people3. suspicious minds
― why is Barack Obama rarely seen dancing (hmmmm), Thursday, 9 July 2009 03:00 (fourteen years ago) link
<333 "Take a Letter Maria."
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 9 July 2009 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
― why is Barack Obama rarely seen dancing (hmmmm), Thursday, July 9, 2009 3:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
those are my top 3 too, but i'd make "come together" #3 and bump the other two up.
("crimson and clover" is one of my favorite songs ever, but i think it took joan jett to realize its full potential.)
― us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
The "50 Worst Records of All Time" guys were right: Stupidest thing about "2525" is when they exhaust all the rhymes for "five" and are forced to use 7510.
Like Alfred, I'll take FYC's "Suspicious Minds" over the King's. Frankly I've never known why it's considered one of his greats, it could practically be anyone's unremarkable voice among the doubletracked harmony and background singers.
Voted "Wedding Bell Blues", with Sly and the Archies coming close.
― Stop wishing death on people just for the cool thread titles (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 9 July 2009 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
more cowbell
― Ioannis, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
How would one decide that "Come Together" should be on this list and not "Something"?
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Great list. I went with the Tempts, but it's good to see the love for "Suspicious Minds." I could just as easily have voted for that, Tommy James, Sly, or the Stones.
― Brad C., Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
its that whole "double A-side" issue
― Sleep Causes Cancer (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
(x-post)
(Something is waaaaaay better than Come Together btw, and I probably would've voted for it over Everyday People too)
Am I the only "Leaving On A Jet Plane" lover??
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 9 July 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Fantastic year for #1s--all that's missing is CCR, who I think had a few #2s that year. Anyway...1. "Wedding Bell Blues"2. "Crimson and Clover"3. "Dizzy"4. "Everyday People"5. "Leaving on a Jet Plane"6. "Someday We'll Be Together"The top three are almost dead even. The Rolling Stones, Elvis, and Archies records are great, but I'm a little tired of all three. The Beatles check in near the bottom with Steam and Henry Mancini!
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 July 2009 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Poor, poor Beatles.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Get Back is really not that great a song
― Sleep Causes Cancer (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
PP, on double a-sides I've taken the first listed. I've been consistent about this.
― Sarges B. Mackin! (The Reverend), Thursday, 9 July 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
And here's 1969 rated for ya.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 April 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
wrong link, it seems?
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 7 April 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link
lol of course.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 April 2019 02:00 (five years ago) link
Just the #1s.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 May 2021 01:51 (two years ago) link