Getcha passports ready - the middle-aged dummies are going to the British Isles! Top 31 song countdown. (1 Viewer)

[Ilov80s]

Love the 2 Van Morrison picks

 

[Don Quixote]

Don Quixote:

Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols
(new song)

Since I “own” this one (maybe it will show up higher, or maybe others including some Sex Pistols went with other songs of theirs), I guess I should comment on it…

Right… now… hahahahaha….

It was a close call on my Sex Pistols selection (and God Save the Queen probably is the better song), but those first 14 blistering seconds of Anarchy just never cease to blow me away every time that I hear it. And then those first lyrics of “I am an anti-christ” hit and you realize you are nowhere in the realm of all of the British pop songs about relationships/unrequited love/whatever. If it’s not the greatest debut single in music history, it’s got to be up there. Just laying down a pronouncement.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I don't mind the Megadeth version of Anarchy.

Sure, it's metal and not punk. Still...good energy.

 

[falguy]

There Goes The Fear - Doves
(new song)

On first run through, enjoyed this one quite a bit. None of the other new-to-me's stood out but I may give them another go.

 

[Mister CIA]

Dr. Octopus:

Every Picture Tells A Story - Rod Stewart
(duplicate – second vote)

This song just rocks so hard. It also has some of the most clever lyrics I've come across:

Spent some time feeling inferior
Standing in front of my mirror
Combed my hair in a thousand ways
But I came out looking just the same
Daddy said, son, you better see the world
I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to leave
But remember one thing, don't lose your head
To a woman that'll spend your bread
So I got out, whoo
Paris was a place you could hide away
If you felt you didn't fit in
The French police wouldn't give me no peace
They claimed I was a nasty person
Down along the Left Bank, minding my own, whoo
Was knocked down by a human stampede
Got arrested for inciting a peaceful riot
When all I wanted was a cup of tea
I was accused, whoo
I moved on
Down in Rome, I wasn't getting enough
Of the things that keep a young man alive
My body stunk, but I kept my funk, whoo
At a time when I was right outta luck
Getting desperate, indeed I was, yeah
Looking like a tourist attraction
Oh my dear, I better get out of here
For the Vatican don't give no sanction
I wasn't ready for that, no, no
I moved right out east, yeah
Listen, on the Peeking ferry, I was feelin merry
Sailing on my way back here
I fell in love with a slit-eyed lady
By the light of an eastern moon
Shanghai Lil never used the pill
She claimed that it just ain't natural
She took me up on deck and bit my neck
Oh, people, I was glad I found her
Oh, yes I was glad I found her, woo-hoo
Wait a minute
I firmly believed that I
Didn't need anyone but me
I sincerely thought I was so complete
Look how wrong you can be
The women I've known I wouldn't let tie my shoe
They wouldn't give you the time of day
But the slit-eyed lady knocked me off my feet
God, I was glad I found her
And if they had the words I could tell to you
To help you on the way down the road
I couldn't quote you no Dickens, Shelley or Keats
'Cause it's all been said before
Make the best out of the bad, just laugh it off, ha
You didn't have to come here anyway
So remember, every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it, whoo
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it, whoo
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it, whoo
Every picture tells a story, don't it, whoo
Every picture tells a story, don't it, whoo
Every picture tells a story, don't it, whoo
Every picture tells a story, don't it, whoo
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it
Every picture tells a story, don't it

...stupid French

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[MAC_32]

The road to Dublin is indeed rocky - and pretty short when you're allowed to skip songs.

Looks like you're going to need to tee up that skip finger at least one more time.

 

[Zegras11]

very strong list today

as it should be - were getting lower on the countdown!!

(higher ranked ...for those that may be a little confused)

(Binky very confused)

 

[jwb]

Mister CIA:

That Was A Wonderful Remark - Van Morrison
(new song)

Nice pick. Van has so many great songs like this. Not a radio hit but quite catchy and just... so good.

ETA: This one too

The Dreaded Marco:
Madame George - Van Morrison
(new song)

 

[Eephus]

My class song was "Year of the Cat" . Ick.

Our prom song was "Without You" by Motley Crue. It's safe to say that even with my hair metal background, I was slightly appalled by the selection of a bad metal ballad when there were so many other good ones to choose from by even Motley themselves, including maybe my favorite ever, which is "On With The Show" off of Too Fast For Love. It's a Frankie and Johnny song, as Eephus once taught me.

Frankie died just the other night
Some say it was suicide
But we know
How the story goes

or Frankie and Albert as the case may be

 

[Eephus]

Class songs must have started in the 80s

 

[Eephus]

I think the Enya song got a lot of play after 9/11. She re-released it with all the profits going to some sort of firefighter based charity. It became a huge hit in the US from that and became a sort of unofficial anthem of that tragedy.

See also macaroni and cheese

 

[KarmaPolice]

Class songs must have started in the 80s

I don't remember having one either.

 

[Eephus]

krista4:

There Goes The Fear - Doves
(new song)

I am not the only vote for this song, but I am the first, so this song belongs to me! Me me me!!! Mine mine mine!!!

At seven minutes, it might also be my longest song. The anti-Pip. Listen all the way through. It picks up and twists and turns, and every direction is interesting.

I love how the ending fades into the samba drums

 

[KarmaPolice]

Hell yeah - a Portishead double up!!

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Nice to see some Andrew Lloyd Webber love. I know a lot of people don’t like him but the guy really is genius. Especially the early stuff like JCS and Evita.

I have no issues with him. He composed some great songs. There's something to be said for craftmanship. Folks like Webber, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lieber & Stoller, the kids in the Brill Building, Holland-Dozier-Holland, the guys in Grand Funk. Those songs will far outlive us and be loved and covered as long as humans listen to music.

Reaction.

there will be no GFR **** talkin' around here!!

Damned straight, Binky. I'll beat someone like Mr T did in his 1st fight with Balboa in Rocky III if my boys get dissed. That said, I know Pip is a Philly AND Todd guy so he's safe.

 

[Eephus]

Mrs. Eephus: Rebel Rebel - David Bowie
She could have a different favorite Bowie song every day of the month but Rebel, Rebel made her list. It's Bowie at his most rocking and rebellious with his own bad self on guitar.


@ditkaburgers: Say Something - Karen Harding
ditkaburgers went out last night so she didn't give me any content on Karen Harding. I listened to it and don't have a lot to add other than its 120bpm fits squarely into ditkaburgers' sweet spot.

But bless her heart, she brought us some donuts from Bob's. In the immortal words of Rod Stewart every donut tells a picture story and since a picture is worth a 1000 words, here's my 1000 word essay on her pick.


Eephus: Bonny - Prefab Sprout
I adore Paddy McAloon and Prefab Sprout. I have a copy of their Steve McQueen album (Two Wheels Good in the USA) on many of the desert islands I've acquired via various drafts on this board.

I know it's an irrational love; I've never seen them play live. In fact, they've never even played a show in the US. But something about their music speaks to me in a way that few others do.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

The road to Dublin is indeed rocky - and pretty short when you're allowed to skip songs.

Looks like you're going to need to tee up that skip finger at least one more time.

Just so you know, although I’m sure you do, I’m not saying it’s bad. The musicianship is excellent. I’ve actually never really liked it, even out live, and I have a few friends that thought I was crazy for thinking so.
Now I may continue it as schtick in here though.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Just came home to my daughter listening to ABBA's SOS while playing her toy piano and singing along.

 

[krista4]

Just came home to my daughter listening to ABBA's SOS while playing her toy piano and singing along.

Tell her ABBA is not eligible! The toy piano probably isn't either.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Just came home to my daughter listening to ABBA's SOS while playing her toy piano and singing along.

Tell her ABBA is not eligible! The toy piano probably isn't either.

Her: Are you ****in' kidding me??!!



Sorry - that's going to be the running joke for life now.

 

[krista4]

Whoa, that Roots Manuva song made me feel like I was having a seizure. (Not an insult - it held my interest.)

 

[KarmaPolice]

Not sure anybody dug the Sabbath pick that I landed on for this thing. I think mentioned when @rockaction took Fairies that I always gravitated to Side B of Paranoid and when I was listening Hand of Doom is what stood out. When I was thinking about it, that song was one of the first times that I encountered a metal song that dark and real. Mostly it was stuff like Maiden based on history, or even stuff like Metallica that seemed to just be telling stories. Hand of Doom just hits you in a way that I would encounter again several years later with the Dirt album. Plus I just love that opening drum beat and how the music gets back to that after the badass guitar solo.

Today's pick was probably the biggest surprise I was going through albums for research. The fact that I was having trouble narrowing down a Bowie song and couldn't be bothered with any Zeppelin was weird. I never really listened to Bowie much before the last year or so as well. Life on Mars? just kept sticking out from the rest of his tunes I had written down, and it kept climbing up my ranks as I listened to the playlist a few times. The 8yr old said it was the right pick too - of course because it was on Goodnight Oppy.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Whoa, that Roots Manuva song made me feel like I was having a seizure. (Not an insult - it held my interest.)

so Roots Manuva is your "Mary Hart"?

 

[krista4]

Whoa, that Roots Manuva song made me feel like I was having a seizure. (Not an insult - it held my interest.)

so Roots Manuva is your "Mary Hart"?

I don't know?

Not a lot of new-to-me songs today. My favorites were from the Ee family with the Prefab Sprout and Karen Harding songs, cos's Jeff Beck selection, and Val's "Superstar," which was a shockingly fabulous version of the song.

 

[Mister CIA]

Just came home to my daughter listening to ABBA's SOS while playing her toy piano and singing along.

Introduce her to this version: S.O.S.

 

[Don Quixote]

Not sure anybody dug the Sabbath pick that I landed on for this thing. I think mentioned when @rockaction took Fairies that I always gravitated to Side B of Paranoid and when I was listening Hand of Doom is what stood out. When I was thinking about it, that song was one of the first times that I encountered a metal song that dark and real. Mostly it was stuff like Maiden based on history, or even stuff like Metallica that seemed to just be telling stories. Hand of Doom just hits you in a way that I would encounter again several years later with the Dirt album. Plus I just love that opening drum beat and how the music gets back to that after the badass guitar solo.

Today's pick was probably the biggest surprise I was going through albums for research. The fact that I was having trouble narrowing down a Bowie song and couldn't be bothered with any Zeppelin was weird. I never really listened to Bowie much before the last year or so as well. Life on Mars? just kept sticking out from the rest of his tunes I had written down, and it kept climbing up my ranks as I listened to the playlist a few times. The 8yr old said it was the right pick too - of course because it was on Goodnight Oppy.

I mentioned Wes Anderson movies earlier in the thread. Life on Mars? could go into that bucket with Life Aquatic. Loved its use there. Also like the Seu Jorge cover in the movie (not eligible).

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Whoa, that Roots Manuva song made me feel like I was having a seizure. (Not an insult - it held my interest.)

so Roots Manuva is your "Mary Hart"?

cos's Jeff Beck selection

The Truth album is quite the thing. It came out around the same time as Led Zeppelin's debut and was very much considered a competitor to it. There are a lot of similarities. Unfortunately Beck didn't play nice with others and was never able to keep a band for long.

 

[plinko]

I am even farther behind on comments on my picks.

There are two of my picks in recent playlists that tie 100% to these adventures and drafts - DAMAGED GOODS and FREELANCE FIEND. Gang of Four was taken for something probably a decade+ ago, as I remember it being on one of those CDs I had in my car of the playlists, and I had the whole Gang of Four album going for awhile as well. I wanted a few on here that were shoutouts to how much these things have shaped my music tastes in the past 15 or so years. The Leaf Hound pick was the one that I said tied directly to @scorchy , but that was when I thought he was JZilla, but that could be @plinko or somebody else. Anyway, after all that - I might not even be giving the correct credit, but somebody took this in a draft and I was immediately hooked. It hit right at the time I was digging pretty deep into the 70s rock bands, and evidently UK ones as I also remember bands like Budgie, Lucifer, and others.

I have known Leaf Hound for a while but I can't remember now for the life of me how I heard of them... like with most things I would assume here or ye ole hoof the moose

I have been enjoying this stuff and am still way behind where you all are but I think my favorite thing so far I never ever heard of was Babe Ruth, the Mexican, that is damn good

 

[MAC_32]

The road to Dublin is indeed rocky - and pretty short when you're allowed to skip songs.

Looks like you're going to need to tee up that skip finger at least one more time.

Just so you know, although I’m sure you do, I’m not saying it’s bad. The musicianship is excellent. I’ve actually never really liked it, even out live, and I have a few friends that thought I was crazy for thinking so.
Now I may continue it as schtick in here though.

Lol, it's all good. Most of this sorta music never interested me before I married into an Irish family. If it wasn't fast tempo with fiddles optional, generally hard pass. My perspective on other Irish genres is A LOT different now than it was before I met my wife.

 

[MAC_32]

Hell yeah - a Portishead double up!!

I thought of you when that back-to-back hit my ears. KP's gonna love this...

 

[titusbramble]

Adjusted avatar to the group I SHOULD have included somewhere higher than my long list

 

[plinko]

I am even farther behind on comments on my picks.

There are two of my picks in recent playlists that tie 100% to these adventures and drafts - DAMAGED GOODS and FREELANCE FIEND. Gang of Four was taken for something probably a decade+ ago, as I remember it being on one of those CDs I had in my car of the playlists, and I had the whole Gang of Four album going for awhile as well. I wanted a few on here that were shoutouts to how much these things have shaped my music tastes in the past 15 or so years. The Leaf Hound pick was the one that I said tied directly to @scorchy , but that was when I thought he was JZilla, but that could be @plinko or somebody else. Anyway, after all that - I might not even be giving the correct credit, but somebody took this in a draft and I was immediately hooked. It hit right at the time I was digging pretty deep into the 70s rock bands, and evidently UK ones as I also remember bands like Budgie, Lucifer, and others.

I have known Leaf Hound for a while but I can't remember now for the life of me how I heard of them... like with most things I would assume here or ye ole hoof the moose

I have been enjoying this stuff and am still way behind where you all are but I think my favorite thing so far I never ever heard of was Babe Ruth, the Mexican, that is damn good

after some thought I am almost 55% sure Leaf Hound was brought to us by either @AhrnCityPahnder or his gb Fiddles

that would have been like 17-18 years ago :deadbanana:

 

[Eephus]

Nineteen-Point Selections:


A lot of tremendous songs today but that's kind of expected since we're getting down to serious business at #13.

I liked pretty much everything except for Cream and the Irish #### but that's about me, not about you.

Random thoughts on new songs:

worrierking: I Found That Essence Rare - Gang of Four
Great song but I'm saving my Go4 material for Mrs. Eephus.


titusbramble: Dreamy Days - Roots Manuva
Nice to see some British Rap represented. I listen to a lot of BBC6 when I'm in the kitchen so I probably hear as much UK hip hop as American these days. The accents and dancehall influences are an interesting twist on the genre. I have no idea what they're talking about a lot of the time but that's true of American rappers too.


Just Win Baby: In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
I could have sworn this was picked before but it must have been some other Gabriel song. I didn't have my boombox with me so I just held Lou over my head.


Don Quixote: Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols
The Pistols' record sounded more powerful than a lot of their contemporaries. A lot of that was Johnny but some credit should go to the great producer Chris Thomas who's been well represented here already by Roxy Music, Badfinger and Pulp.


MAC_32: The Rocky Road To Dublin - The Dubliners
How do you say enough in Gaelic? I kid, I dug the tin whistle.


timschochet: Everything Counts - Depeche Mode
There should be a definitive history of the synthesizer in Pop music. When this record was made in 1983, synths were capable of creating sounds that weren't possible just a few years earlier.


Yankee23Fan: Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
zamboni: Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
Sullie: Billy's Got A Gun - Def Leppard
The double LP was the hallmark of a serious artist for a long time. Looking down the current leaderboard, Def Leppard is the top scorer among artists who never put out a double. Their career spans the LP/CD transition which put an end to the notion of the double album.



DrIanMalcolm: Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
This song moves Armed Forces into second place behind My Aim is True in the Costello mini-game.


KarmaPolice: Life On Mars? – David Bowie
The string section adds a lot to this song. I've been listening to Bowie for 50 years and am still baffled by the line about Mickey Mouse growing up a cow.



Manster: Glory Box (live Roseland NYC) - Portishead
scorchy: All Mine – Portishead
I realize they came out of Bristol around the same time and used samples and beats but I've always thought Portishead transcends Trip-Hop.



Mister CIA: That Was A Wonderful Remark - Van Morrison
Nice to see some post-70s Morrison picked. I just watched King of Comedy and don't remember this song.


higgins: Coming Up - Paul McCartney
The live version is on the playlist but my vote's for the studio release. It was such a strange sounding record that was like Paul's reminder that the Old Wave was still capable of new things.


The Dreaded Marco: Madame George - Van Morrison
It's amazing how Morrison can carry a 9 1/2 minute song with jsut his voice. There are no extended instrumental passage or the wordplay of a Dylanesque epic poem. It's Van's voice and that's more than enough.


simsarge: No Frontiers - Mary Black
Squeezebox alert. Nice song, lovely voice.


landrys hat: Safety In Numbers - Heads Hands & Feet
Kind of a throwback act. The bass player needs to relax a little.


Hov34: Planet Earth - Duran Duran
Unapologetically disco


Doug B: I Go Swimming - Peter Gabriel
Solo Gabriel is beating Genesis and Phil Collins combined. You can even throw in Mike & The Mechanics.


Ilov80s: Set Fire To The Rain – Adele
Back to back Enya and Adele from ilov80s. This song shows you can do a power ballad without guitars.


Val Rannous: Superstar (Original JCS Concept Album Version) - Murray Head
I listened to this album a ton when I was a kid because it and Led Zeppelin II were the only Rock albums in the house.


Chaz McNulty: Yesterday – The Beatles
Zegras11: Day Tripper - The Beatles
I have a feeling we're going to be hearing more from these lads in the next two weeks.


Oliver Humanzee: Five Years - David Bowie
I was surprised when this song ended and Soul Love didn't come up next. I've posted this take here before but Ziggy is one of the best sounding Rock albums of all time.


cosjobs: Blues DeLuxe - Jeff Beck
This is the template for Led Zeppelin's sound.


krista4: There Goes The Fear - Doves
Great song that sustains its momentum for almost seven minutes.

 

[titusbramble]

Nineteen-Point Selections:


titusbramble: Dreamy Days - Roots Manuva
Nice to see some British Rap represented. I listen to a lot of BBC6 when I'm in the kitchen so I probably hear as much UK hip hop as American these days. The accents and dancehall influences are an interesting twist on the genre. I have no idea what they're talking about a lot of the time but that's true of American rappers too.

Should have picked the other single off the album where he references drinking ten pints of bitter if that makes things clearer?

 

[plinko]

Yankee23Fan: Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
zamboni: Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John

On my shortlist of bang-for-your-buck jukebox selections
Nothing beats 2112

 

[timschochet]

Oliver’s Army is so edgy and cool. I feel like a hipster just for referencing it.

 

[krista4]

I didn't have my boombox with me so I just held Lou over my head.

 

[Eephus]

On my shortlist of bang-for-your-buck jukebox selections
Nothing beats 2112

except me running for the exit

 

[timschochet]

I’m listening to late 60s/early 70s Stones today. There’s about 50 songs that should have been in my top ten here.

 

[simey]

A few personal favorites from round 13 excluding repeats and the Foursome.

Blues Deluxe - I love the piano in this and also Rod's vocals.
Oliver's Army - One of my EC favorites
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding -
Life on Mars, Five Years, and Rebel Rebel - love them all
Anarchy in the UK
Superstar - One of my sister's friends used to work for Andrew Lloyd Webber when she lived in England. She had good and bad things to say.
Yesterday and Day Tripper
Coming Up - I like when he gets a bit hoarse from singing a lot, but still sounds great like in this version.
I Found the Essence Rare
Wonderful Remark and Madame George

I like everything else too.

New to me favorites:

Glory Box - All Mine
Bonny
There Goes the Fear
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone you Shouldn't've?)
No Frontiers
Safety in Numbers

 

[simey]

put on a couple cds

Ok, boomer.

LOL - ****, I actually thought about that when I typed it.

we actually use spotify most of the time these days ...

I still play disc sometimes. It depends on where I am, and what I am listening to. Last night I made a disc of mixed songs by one artist for a friend that wanted it done. I filled up the 80 minute limit. I haven't done that in forever, and it seems like it took forever.

 

[Ilov80s]

Just came home to my daughter listening to ABBA's SOS while playing her toy piano and singing along.

SZA's SOS is a lot more popular right now

 

[Manster]

put on a couple cds

Ok, boomer.

LOL - ****, I actually thought about that when I typed it.

we actually use spotify most of the time these days ...

I still play disc sometimes. It depends on where I am, and what I am listening to. Last night I made a disc of mixed songs by one artist for a friend that wanted it done. I filled up the 80 minute limit. I haven't done that in forever, and it seems like it took forever.

I still have all my CD's. I mostly keep em in my truck, and our camp trailer.

 

[Mister CIA]

@Hawks64 ,

A favor, por favor.

Can you replace the Wonderful Remark track by Van Morrison with the version from Philosopher's Stone album?

Thank you.

 

[Tau837]

My top 10 from the 17 point round, excluding my own selection:

1. @Andy Dufresne : Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
2. @MAC_32 : Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
3. @simsarge : While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
4. @Val Rannous : When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
5. Chap : Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones
6. @Westerberg, @cosjobs : Baba O'Riley - The Who
7. @Yankee23Fan : Another Brick In The Wall – Pink Floyd
8. @falguy : Hysteria - Def Leppard
9. @Zegras11 : Pictures Of You (live in Boise) - The Cure
10. Scooter : Yellow - Coldplay

 

[Tau837]

As I did with the US countdown, I've been ranking all of your rankings. Here's how this is going to convey a sense of whose tastes are most similar to mine so far. I'll post this every time we get to a number that ends in 0 or 5.

Number of songs by participant that are on my list or in the top 10 of songs not on my list:

Don Quixote: 5
DrIanMalcolm: 4
Zegras11: 3
AAABatteries: 2
Binky: 2
Scorchy: 2
Simey: 2
Simsarge: 2
Val Rannous: 2
Yankee23Fan: 2
Andy: 1
Doc Oc: 1
Eephus: 1
Falguy: 1
Hov34: 1
Ilov80s: 1
Just Win Baby: 1
Krista4: 1
MAC 32: 1
Marco: 1
Mrs. Eephus: 1
OH: 1
Shuke: 1
Westerberg: 1

Number of songs by participant that are on my list or in the top 25 of songs not on my list:

Zegras11: 6
Don Quixote: 5
AAABatteries: 4
DrIanMalcolm: 4
Scorchy: 3
Binky: 2
Chaz: 2
Cosjobs: 2
Hawks64: 2
Hov34: 2
Ilov80s: 2
Just Win Baby: 2
Krista4: 2
MAC 32: 2
Simey: 2
Simsarge: 2
Val Rannous: 2
Westerberg: 2
Worrierking: 2
Yankee23Fan: 2
Andy: 1
Doc Oc: 1
Doug B: 1
Eephus: 1
Falguy: 1
Landryshat: 1
Marco: 1
Mrs. Eephus: 1
Mrs. Rannous: 1
OH: 1
Rockaction: 1
Shuke: 1
Tim: 1
Titusbramble: 1
Zamboni: 1

Number of songs by participant that are on my list or in the top 50 of songs not on my list:

Zegras11: 8
Don Quixote: 5
AAABatteries: 4
DrIanMalcolm: 4
Scorchy: 4
Worrierking: 4
Yankee23Fan: 4
Binky: 3
Chaos34: 3
Doc Oc: 3
Hov34: 3
Krista4: 3
Andy: 2
Chaz: 2
Cosjobs: 2
Eephus: 2
Hawks64: 2
Ilov80s: 2
Just Win Baby: 2
MAC 32: 2
Mrs. Rannous: 2
Mt. Man: 2
Shuke: 2
Simey: 2
Simsarge: 2
Sullie: 2
Tim: 2
Titusbramble: 2
Zamboni: 2
Val Rannous: 2
Westerberg: 2
Doug B: 1
Falguy: 1
jwb: 1
Landryshat: 1
Manster: 1
Marco: 1
Mrs. Eephus: 1
OH: 1
Rockaction: 1

Number of songs by participant that are on my list or in the top 75 of songs not on my list:

Zegras11: 8
Don Quixote: 7
Binky: 6
Yankee23Fan: 6
AAABatteries: 5
Eephus: 5
Scorchy: 5
Worrierking: 5
Chaos34: 4
Cosjobs: 4
Doc Oc: 4
DrIanMalcolm: 4
Hawks64: 4
Just Win Baby: 4
Krista4: 4
Rockaction: 4
Simey: 4
Simsarge: 4
Westerberg: 4
Chaz: 3
Hov34: 3
jwb: 3
Shuke: 3
Sullie: 3
Tim: 3
Zamboni: 3
Andy: 2
Doug B: 2
Ilov80s: 2
MAC 32: 2
Manster: 2
Marco: 2
Mister CIA: 2
Mrs. Rannous: 2
Mt. Man: 2
Titusbramble: 2
Val Rannous: 2
Falguy: 1
Higgins: 1
Landryshat: 1
Mrs. Eephus: 1
OH: 1

There are 27 cases of songs on my list being selected. Two are Suspect Device. Two are Cruel to Be Kind. Six are any version of Valerie. Two are Rolling in the Deep. Four are Son of a Preacher Man. One is Showdown. The other 10 are higher (Binky: lower) than #15 on my list.

Hey, maybe it would be cool if you put these in spoilers or something like that, so the lists didn't take up so much of the page. Two cents.

 

[krista4]

My power has been out for nearly three hours and is still predicted to be out a few more hours. Good chance I won’t be able to do the day-before prep I usually would, so good chance I won’t post in timely fashion tomorrow.

 

[Mister CIA]

Feel like this contest is about to get a lot more top-heavy. Lotta heavyweight material looming.

 

[krista4]

Feel like this contest is about to get a lot more top-heavy. Lotta heavyweight material looming.

Yes, that’s going to happen.

 

[rockaction]

Right… now… hahahahaha….

It was a close call on my Sex Pistols selection (and God Save the Queen probably is the better song), but those first 14 blistering seconds of Anarchy just never cease to blow me away every time that I hear it. And then those first lyrics of “I am an anti-christ” hit and you realize you are nowhere in the realm of all of the British pop songs about relationships/unrequited love/whatever. If it’s not the greatest debut single in music history, it’s got to be up there. Just laying down a pronouncement.

It certainly is a mission statement. I don't think anybody who is familiar with this board would be surprised that I think it's a great pick, so no surprises here. God Save The Queen is a better rock song qua rock song, but "Anarchy" has the opening menace and snarling laugh (that you speak of) followed by the Pistols sort of raison d'être, which is shock, anger, and castigation. The embrace of that which is forbidden. But those things alone cannot carry an landmark album. There also has to be performance and delivery, and the Pistols had it in droves.

For those that might like an American analogy, they were to British youth what Marshall Mathers was back when America recognized its own class system the way England made their lower-middle class and undesirables reckon with theirs back in the seventies and before that. If our version of class movement is considered dynamic, it's amazing to look at another country and see how rigid it is. Anyway, the Pistols were less personal than Mathers, and their one album is gussied up in an artistic/social/fashion movement that includes a good deal of nihilism, but it includes the same sort of finger pointing at bourgeois society, shaming of the elites, and announcing a new way pop and art would be done and in what form it would take. All of it.

That's not to say I politically approve of it nor sanction it. It was just explicitly stated to be such and it found a huge audience.