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poptimistsI've still not decided (see yesterday evening's poll) about what to do with the P&J results, but it struck me reading ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
epicharmus' suggestion of a poll of polls (the very thought!) that it's frustrating the the Village Voice didn't do singles/tracks polls before 1979. How can the opinion of Poptimists towards older music be best assessed?
Not like this, probably. What we have here is a poll based on the most recent Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs Of All Time. I ran out of patience after a mere 45 songs so this is the much-pored-over cream of the "rock canon" in its single-tracked form (not in 'singles form' - a few weighty album numbers sneak in). I removed the tracks that also appeared in Pazz and Jop polls, for comparability purposes with the gigantic spreadsheet. In practise this was only THREE songs - can anyone guess which they were (without peeking at rollingstone.com)?
Anyway I thought it would be interesting to get some poptimists perspectives on the 'rock canon' as it has been handed down to us by J Wenner Esq and friends.
You get FIFTEEN picks from an inapt 45 tracks.
[Poll #907822]
The second 'week in pop' poll will appear tomorrow, for the selfish reason that I can listen to a few of the tracks in it before then.
epicharmus' suggestion of a poll of polls (the very thought!) that it's frustrating the the Village Voice didn't do singles/tracks polls before 1979. How can the opinion of Poptimists towards older music be best assessed?Not like this, probably. What we have here is a poll based on the most recent Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs Of All Time. I ran out of patience after a mere 45 songs so this is the much-pored-over cream of the "rock canon" in its single-tracked form (not in 'singles form' - a few weighty album numbers sneak in). I removed the tracks that also appeared in Pazz and Jop polls, for comparability purposes with the gigantic spreadsheet. In practise this was only THREE songs - can anyone guess which they were (without peeking at rollingstone.com)?
Anyway I thought it would be interesting to get some poptimists perspectives on the 'rock canon' as it has been handed down to us by J Wenner Esq and friends.
You get FIFTEEN picks from an inapt 45 tracks.
[Poll #907822]
The second 'week in pop' poll will appear tomorrow, for the selfish reason that I can listen to a few of the tracks in it before then.
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Re: Ballads
Date: 2007-01-16 02:01 pm (UTC)also "most recent poll"? is it from 1988 or summat (ha, and if it wasn't for "born to run" it could be from 1981!)?
Re: Ballads
Date: 2007-01-16 02:03 pm (UTC)Remember there are three more 'modern' songs in this that I've taken out of the poll.
It's from 2004, though, staggeringly.
Re: Ballads
Date: 2007-01-16 02:08 pm (UTC)