The History Of Rock Part Alpha and Omega aka You Got No Secrets To Conceal

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I've still not decided (see yesterday evening's poll) about what to do with the P&J results, but it struck me reading 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.

Comments

SHOCKTIMISTS!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I would not have predicted a Dylan lead before the poll started!

(I love it, and I ticked it, but it's not the best thing here and I'm still surprised)

Re: SHOCKTIMISTS!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I would have used the word "disgusted" in place of "surprised". I thought 'Respect' and 'Be My Baby' would have been way out in front :(

Re: SHOCKTIMISTS!

[koganbot]

I'm baffled by "Sympathy for the Devil"'s leading "Satisfaction." "Sympathy" is a groove song with an exciting vocal and a great guitar solo, and the groove itself - being swiped from "You Can't Hurry Love" - is not bad, but not nearly as good as many other groove bands' grooves [Sly, JB, Kool, etc. etc.], and the whole thing seems rather lax for the Stones.

Re: SHOCKTIMISTS!

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I can barely listen to "Satisfaction" any more due to overplaying which is probably at least part of the reason I ticked "Sympathy" but not that.

Re: SHOCKTIMISTS!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I still have lots of love for Sympathy, but I actively turn Satisfaction off.