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

THE JUDGE IS THE DECIDER

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i am obv more pro the "goilden age of rock and roll" in porinciple than in fact -- in argt w.youngsters i always big up chuck berry and little richard but i never really actually want to listen to em

i prefer the very contrary ornery bob to his TUBEWAY ANTHEMS

i like the stones bcz they are THE PORTABLE KOGAN -- he completely turned me round on em and thinking abt them is thinking about him

"in yr life" is one of my favourite beatles songs

too much of this soul is "the only one i heard by this famous soul guy so must tick it to prove i am not a bigot": "field-day for ethan" material

i hate the beach boys

the live version of layla is the best -- it is like a YEAR LONG and goes into a whole months-worth of vietnamese drone-style wailing

""heroes"" is prob bowie's MOST SENTIMENTAL SONG hence i wub it most -- "my deathless period" is like 76-82 anyway; i honestly prefer "London Calling" (actually my fave clash song anyway) to 95% of these

simon&garfunkel i have very strong parents-loved-this associations with, but i always found bridge a bit impersonal THE JUDGE

I Can Turn The Beatles Into The Stones

[koganbot]

These are my top 15 Beatles songs:

1. She Loves You
2. You Can't Do That
3. Not A Second Time
4. Ticket To Ride
5. I Want To Hold Your Hand
6. Yes It Is
7. You Really Got A Hold On Me
8. Anna
9. Don't Bother Me
10. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
11. Money
12. Girl
13. It's Only Love
14. A Day In The Life*
15. I Am The Walrus

*But this is not as good as Deep Purple's "Hush" or Jimi Hendrix's version of "Hey Joe." It might not be as good as Lisette Melendez's "A Day In My Life (Without You)", either. (Also, listen to Brie Larson.)

Re: THE JUDGE IS THE DECIDER

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With the 'golden age' of rock n' roll (is it called a golden age like there is a golden age for TV?) I don't listen often enough.. but when I do, I really do -- as a result of this thread I've been listening to Tutti Frutti over and over again for the last couple of days (11 votes?! fuck that)