tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-29:952954 It's an Eastern thing that's what I'm saying Poptimists 2007-01-16T13:35:00Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-07-29:952954:288313 ext_281244 2007-01-16T13:35:00Z 2007-01-16T13:35:00Z public 86 Posted by: <span lj:user='freakytigger.livejournal.com' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?userid=310057&amp;t=I'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png' alt='[identity profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://freakytigger.livejournal.com/' rel='nofollow'><b>freakytigger.livejournal.com</b></a></span><br /><br />I've still not decided (see yesterday evening's poll) about what to do with the P&J results, but it struck me reading <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://epicharmus.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://epicharmus.livejournal.com/'><b>epicharmus</b></a></span>' 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?<br /><br />Not like this, probably. What we have here is a poll based on the most recent <i>Rolling Stone</i> 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)?<br /><br />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.<br /><br />You get FIFTEEN picks from an inapt 45 tracks.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://poptimists.dreamwidth.org/288313.html#cutid1">Can't you see I'm on a losing streak?</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=poptimists&ditemid=288313" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments