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

Re: Clueless when it comes to black music

[koganbot]

http://www.rollingstone.com, if you want to take a look. James Brown is on the cover, 1st feature on the Website is whether TRL is going to shut down (that's the teen-oriented MTV viewer-voted countdown show); also about effect of V2's restructuring on the White Stripes and Moby. Movie review likes Timberlake in Alpha Dogs, gossip items about Brandon Flowers, Britney, etc., Bright Eyes are on the listening station, Senator Obama is exploring a presidential bid.

Re: Clueless when it comes to black music

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I am now clueless as to their list-drawing-up methods/madness!

Re: Clueless when it comes to black music

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well, bear in mind that the list magazine was a special edition, presumably with a longer self-life and relying more heavily on casual buyers as well as the regular readership. My guess is the driver was more "what will make the business guy who hasn't bought RS for years pick this up in an airport" than "how can we provoke and entertain our readers?"

Re: Clueless when it comes to black music

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

At least it's not as bad as Virgin radio's (or whoever's) list that had Slow Patrol at the top and the all-white, all-male top 25. Yikes.