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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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PTS OF ORDER
Date: 2007-01-16 01:50 pm (UTC)- One of those ticks was for 'Satisfaction'. I don't like the original but I do like the covers by Bjork/PJ Harvey, Britney Spears and Cat Power.
- Another of those ticks was for 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. I have not heard the original but I love Leona Lewis's cover.
- Conclusion: bollocks to the rock canon innit.
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Date: 2007-01-16 01:55 pm (UTC)I may have to spend the rest of the afternoon listening to Bob Dylan.
Ballads
Date: 2007-01-16 01:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-16 01:57 pm (UTC)Also I don't think I ticked anything from after 1970.
Conclusion: soul canon >>>>>>>>> rock canon.
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Date: 2007-01-16 01:58 pm (UTC)Info For The Lex
Date: 2007-01-16 02:00 pm (UTC)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!)?
THEY'RE, obviously
Date: 2007-01-16 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-16 02:02 pm (UTC)correction
Date: 2007-01-16 02:02 pm (UTC)obv.
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: Info For The Lex
Date: 2007-01-16 02:03 pm (UTC)Re: Info For The Lex
Date: 2007-01-16 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-16 02:06 pm (UTC)http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,1990758,00.html
Other songs I was sad not to tick
Date: 2007-01-16 02:06 pm (UTC)Heroes (not Bowie's best by a long way* but still good)
Hound Dog
J Cash
Tutti Frutti
Ike & Tina
*Golden Years wuz robbed!
Re: Ballads
Date: 2007-01-16 02:08 pm (UTC)Re: Info For The Lex
Date: 2007-01-16 02:09 pm (UTC)Re: Info For The Lex
Date: 2007-01-16 02:11 pm (UTC)Omissions
Date: 2007-01-16 02:11 pm (UTC)Is "Wonderwall" (another) one of the THREE?
What about "London Calling"?
Re: Omissions
Date: 2007-01-16 02:13 pm (UTC)"Grapevine" no - I'm sure it's in the top 500, can't be botherd to check though. Also if this had been a UK poll you'd see Bo Rhap in there I guess.
Re: Omissions
Date: 2007-01-16 02:18 pm (UTC)Re: Omissions
Date: 2007-01-16 02:19 pm (UTC)And the other one is "Shall We Take A Trip" by Northside.
Soul Bowl Mole Foal
Date: 2007-01-16 02:22 pm (UTC)I don't really know enough about music critic history (perhaps I should go on Xgau's course!) to say why - were they all big r4ci4lists?
Re: Info For The Lex
Date: 2007-01-16 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-16 02:26 pm (UTC)