“Seven Nation Army” wouldn’t even make my list of best songs released by a male/female duo in 2003.
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 17 September 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
I will flip if even a single one of you votes for Gasolina
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 17 September 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
Oh fuck can a mod delete my vote? I voted for my favorite not the worst.
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 September 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
NM I was able to change my vote to Imagine, which is objectively terrible on its own merits and has been made unbearable by it's ubiquity.Plus Lennon would totally be a covidiot or a reactionary today.
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 September 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
This Kinks song doesn't belong anywhere near the top 500. Probably between that and Radiohead.
― peace, man, Friday, 17 September 2021 13:24 (two years ago) link
I wonder how much gamesmanship goes into this for the voters, like it's not really my favorite Kinks song but I do like The Kinks a lot so I'd vote it highly just to get it on the list
― frogbs, Friday, 17 September 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
I voted Kanye. for one because fuck Kanye but more because I was going to the bars a lot back then and someone would always play that fucking song on the jukebox, it's so goddamn loud and blown out. the first time I heard it I thought "holy shit the speakers in this place are blown". and then the second time "wow their speakers are blown too"
― frogbs, Friday, 17 September 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
The Beatles choice feels particularly picked out of a hat of 50 for them so that
― nashwan, Friday, 17 September 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
Can I change my vote?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX2FmsH_MYk
― jmm, Friday, 17 September 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
"Seven Nation Army" and "Crazy in Love" are ubiquitous songs that don't do much for me, but for me the most head-scratching inclusion here is "Dancing on my Own", seems instantly forgettable.
― o. nate, Friday, 17 September 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
don’t really hate any of these but “royals” is comically high so it has my vote here― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, September 16, 2021 7:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, September 16, 2021 7:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
yep
― Indexed, Friday, 17 September 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
Easy "Seven Nation Army"
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 17 September 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
Lennon seemed like the most joyless cynical misanthropic creep in the 70s and it’s hilarious that he’s held up as some kind of hippie lovey doves dude cause of (mis)?interpretations of this song.
― brimstead, Friday, 17 September 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
Redemption Song, harmless enough but seems to be the Bob song of choice for every acoustic troubadour wannabe. Also the intro is terrible.
― it's gonna take a spiracle (Matt #2), Friday, 17 September 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
"Paper Planes" for me, but mostly because I was a regular at a mixed/mostly lesbian bar in the three years following its release and it often played multiple times on the jukebox during my daily drinking sessions, so much so that the bartenders eventually had the whole record removed from the jukebox because they were so tired of it. I hate that fucking song, absolutely the worst song on this list afaic.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 17 September 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
It ranks up there with MGMT's "Kids" for me. Just abysmal crap.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 17 September 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
Paper Planes came on a mix the other day and I actively cringed at the gunshots
― Indexed, Friday, 17 September 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
I think I accidentally voted for the "best" pick. Ah whatever
― birdistheword, Friday, 17 September 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
I love 'Paper Planes,' hasn't worn out yet.
I voted for "Runaway" cuz I hate that damn album.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 September 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
? All three are major canonical songs for them.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 17 September 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
The top 50-placing Beatles songs on the 2004 list were
8. "Hey Jude" 13. "Yesterday," 16. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" 20. "Let It Be" 23. "In My Life"26. "A Day in the Life"29. "Help!"
All of them but "Help!" make more sense to me than "Strawberry Fields Forever," but who knows
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
At least we can all agree that the Beatles have only written two songs better than Robyn's "Dancing on My Own"
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
"Strawberry Fields" among my all-time favourite singles and I'd rank it as a peak in their psychedelic period; great surreal mix of pop melody with studio experimentation.
It's their second-highest ranked song here fwiw: http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/year/alltime_songs.htm
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
as someone who would put at least two solo lennon tracks in any list i ever made of my favorite songs, i'm still tempted to vote for "imagine," not because i hate it but because it's come to play such an unfortunately prominent place in the post-1980 lennon "brand," the international ambassador for peace and love or whatever who bears very little resemblance to the actual john lennon. i think it's pretty minor next to "instant karma," "cold turkey," or anything on the plastic ono band album; it's not even my favorite track on the imagine album. a lot of solo lennon is genuinely weird and interesting and it's regrettable that people just associate him with that one dippy song.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
One of these four...
04. Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone"19. John Lennon, "Imagine"25. Kanye West feat. Pusha T, "Runaway"47. Elton John, "Tiny Dancer"
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
"Strawberry Fields" has always been a touchstone for a certain side of the Beatles. Perhaps its recent popularity has been helped by the beautifully restored promotional video and much improved stereo mix that is now the top hit on Youtube. This mix does away with the hard-panning that afflicted earlier stereo mixes and brings out the bass end of the sound to emphasize the proto-trip-hop aspects.
― o. nate, Friday, 17 September 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
what, the hard panning is fucking awesome, what the hell. That's psychedelia!
― Porking level G4 (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
Hard panning gives me a headache.
― o. nate, Friday, 17 September 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
music that causes physical pain is goodstrawberry fields is one of my very favorite Beatles songs for sure, great atmosphere, never sounds old or rote, really sounds like the semi-pasted together thing it is, the weird shifts in momentum, like fucked up transmissions from a dream
― brimstead, Friday, 17 September 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
I love all the weird tape manipulation Beatles stuff tho
Hard panning gives me a headache.Lennon was also into Trepanning, is that related?
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 17 September 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
Would be interesting to graph the results against the recency of the songs... most of the discussion seems to be about the newest songs in the list.
― enochroot, Friday, 17 September 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
Credit for the way "Strawberry Fields" sounds should probably go at least as much to George Martin as to any of the actual Beatles. To me it sounds like it's trying too hard to be trippy. I'd rather listen to "Octopus's Garden".
― o. nate, Friday, 17 September 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
I will flip if even a single one of you votes for Gasolina― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, September 17, 2021 3:34 AM (eighteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
That's my vote. Hate that song. Hate even more that it's the only song here from the pan-latin world. It is laughable really. The rest goes from god-like (Get ur freak on) to obvious to indifferent to mildly annoying. Such a pandering safe and incoherent list. What a bunch of wankers. I guess it's a list for 60 year-olds plus their granddaughters.
― Nabozo, Friday, 17 September 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
Also, this list is the definition of white guilt
― Nabozo, Friday, 17 September 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
https://cdn0.scrvt.com/0b415e9fe7995370c62ceab2d1317f1c/6a4fd1c37d27e4ea/38658a2ded54/v/933f1b78b278/discoverFP-Logo-Blue-RGB.jpg
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 September 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Tempted by “Redemption Song” but voted for “Love Will Tear Us Apart”; the basic unison playing drives me to distraction.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 17 September 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
Finally listening to the entire list on Spotify. This Miranda Lambert song is good!
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Friday, 17 September 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 September 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
When did ilx decide to hate Royals? I feel like I missed a meeting. Voted Tutti Frutti.
― 29 facepalms, Friday, 17 September 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
Most of these are great to pretty good. Imagine is the worst.
― chap
X2
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 September 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
I've loved Royals since I first heard it. I guess it's not the 30th Greatest Song of all time, but whatevs
― juristic person (morrisp), Friday, 17 September 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
dunno if this is a controversial opinion but i think the b-side version of “love will tear us apart,” the one that sounds more like a typical JD track, is better
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 17 September 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
“Idioteque” isn’t even top 20 Radiohead, what the hell is it doing here?Voted that over the turgid bong hit of “Imagine”.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 17 September 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
wait voting for tutti frutti as worst, seriously?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 17 September 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
"gasolina" was a genuine cultural moment. "dancing on my own" is beloved by music bloggers who read music blogs
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 17 September 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
“Idioteque” isn’t even top 20 Radiohead, what the hell is it doing here?
music bloggers go dancing
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 September 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link
Xpost: tbh they picked headscratching picks for Radiohead: karma police, creep and idioteque. If you’re making a case for greatest Radiohead songs I think Paranoid Android is surely more of a consensus pick than those?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 September 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
voted “Runaway,” there’s plenty of Kanye that I like but that being thought of as one of the greatest songs of all time really bums me out.
― JoeStork, Friday, 17 September 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
music bloggers go dancing― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, September 17, 2021 5:11 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, September 17, 2021 5:11 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://i.gifer.com/7DPd.gif
― the 45-year-old gaz coomber (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 September 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
Oh, it's the "toast for the douchebags" song. I do know it and actually like it OK, ha. Definitely wouldn't change my vote.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:42 (two years ago) link
32. The Notorious B.I.G., "Juicy" 2
DIE
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
^^ one of those was an accidental vote from me, because i absent-mindedly voted for the *best* track in this worst track poll
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
pretend there’s one less for that one and one more for royals
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, October 5, 2021 8:46 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
you know very wellwho you are
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
I’ve never understood why Runaway is considered one of his best songs, let alone one of the best songs ever (lol?) MBDTF has way better songs - power, all of the lights, monster… - Runaway just seems to go on and on and on and on and then it ends with a 3 minute bullshit outro. Why do people always flock to the longest tracks as if they were bigger statements? Runaway is about 5 minutes too long.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
it's the centerpiece of an album that everyone (ilm-excluded) loves, and it's kanye at his most self-aware and self-loathing which im sure people like for voyeuristic reasons
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
It's the aural equivalent of a bad comedown, and yeah that outro isn't anywhere close to earning its welcome
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
Haha. I spent this whole thread thinking people were talking about Del Shannon's Runaway. I could not figure out why it was garnering so much hate.
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
Marnie singing Kanye at her ex's party on that one episode of Girls casts a long shadow over everything he's done in the last 10 years including "Runaway"
xp Imagine if Rolling Stone had put "Run Away" by The Real McCoy on the all-time best songs list!? I'd respect the hell out of it
― Nature's promise vs. Simple truth (bernard snowy), Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
Runaway by Del Shannon is an excellent song.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
I still think Paper Planes is the worst on that list.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 7 October 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
Voted Dylan, heartened by two other votes. Don’t tell me they don’t bought they were voting for the best
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 October 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
These songs are no fun to listen to at all. Have some fun, goddammit. I guess “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “Hey Ya” maybe a little. Dance, you motherfuckers!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 7 October 2021 18:11 (two years ago) link
Absence of "Fox on the Run" basically disqualifies RS from making lists.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 7 October 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
rs revised list in 2036
1. fox on the run2. fox in the snow3. eye in the sky4. hole in the sky
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 October 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
oh yah, loved listening to Del Shannon's "Runaway" cued up by Dick Biondi on the oldies station when I was 5
― Indexed, Thursday, 7 October 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
Voodoo Chili OTM.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 7 October 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
Wow dick biondi is still alive
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 October 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
1st US dj to play the Beatles!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 7 October 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
Voted Dylan, heartened by two other votes. Don’t tell me they don’t bought (sic) they were voting for the best
In my case, yes. (That's what I get for reading hastily while cooking.) So it's actually just you and one other vote.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 7 October 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
xp
"His ambition is to become the oldest active Rock and Roll disc jockey in the US. Biondi has said "I'd like to die with my earphones on.""
― Indexed, Thursday, 7 October 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
Dog Latin absolutely OTFM about 2010s Kanye
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 7 October 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
Yeah I agree with that post too. It's a big reason why The College Dropout remains my favorite even if the productions got better and more sophisticated. Watch the Throne was the first album that I didn't like, and it felt like a huge drop-off to me even though it did pretty well with most fans and the press.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 7 October 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
sorry, Eric
― bulb after bulb, Thursday, 7 October 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
wow, you too? I'm curious as to how many votes in general were mistakes?
― birdistheword, Thursday, 7 October 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
Wow dick biondi is still aliveWow indeed. I listened to him regularly in 1983-84…and my mom listened to him in 1960-61. 1st US dj to play the Beatles!He definitely predated the Washington, DC dj who claimed to be first, but I think Biondi may have been scooped by whoever played a Beatles record on a southern Illinois station when George Harrison visited his sister in 1963.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 7 October 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link
I’ve never understood why Runaway is considered one of his best songs
think it's just "wow he released a 9 minute single" was enough to blind everyone? i think it's alright but not some sort of masterpiece, beat is nice & sounds very grand but he's at his most lyrically obnoxious and the outro is really wasted
― ufo, Thursday, 7 October 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
funny how the one element of College Dropout that really informed his later work was that endless monologue at the end
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 October 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
think it's just "wow he released a 9 minute single" was enough to blind everyone?
If that's true, it's funny that it worked for Kanye but not for "Like a Rolling Stone" anymore
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 7 October 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
"Like a Rolling Stone" is a tremendously good song, even if you may be sick of hearing it or w/e
― juristic person (morrisp), Thursday, 7 October 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
how were there so many voting mistakes ITT? literally "worst" is the first word in the title!
y'all are like some of the people in my classes ;)
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
how were there so many voting mistakes ITT?
This is how Bush Jr. and Trump won their elections.
― birdistheword, Friday, 8 October 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
90% of this thread title is the same as the other opposite thread title, not too surprised people mixed them up
― ✖, Friday, 8 October 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
so like if a newspaper ran two articles on back to back days
"76ers Win 110-108"
and
"76ers Lose 110-108"
the average person would react AWESOME TWO GAME WINNING STREAK?
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 October 2021 01:16 (two years ago) link
But doesn't that mean less disappointed readers and more happy ones? How can you be so critical about that?
― birdistheword, Friday, 8 October 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link
they wouldn't say that, the average person does not root for the 76ers
― ✖, Friday, 8 October 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
It's a bit heads I win tails you lose
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Friday, 8 October 2021 01:29 (two years ago) link
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 8 October 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
Didn't realize everyone felt "Runaway" was as bad as I did. I only heard the album for the first time a few years ago, without having heard any of its songs prior. Mostly liked it except for that really long boring track in the middle - I was puzzled to learn THAT was the big track from the album
― Vinnie, Friday, 8 October 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link