Where in the world are the middle-aged dummies? Worldwide top 31 song countdown. (4 Viewers)

[Pip's Invitation]

Last night I had a dream about Rush.

 

[rockaction]

Last night I had a dream about Rush.

Guess it was a fly by night thing.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I'd planned on joining the club, but since someone let the private jet info slip out and there's no seats left, I'll be spending my time between now and the ides of March returning the 26 different Carmen San Diego hats I've already bought for the trip and shopping for new furniture since I sold my old couch to pay for the hats.

Nooooooo! I'll do your furniture shopping for you. Do you like very expensive bean bags? We need you in the countdown!

Oh THAT'S what a Love Sac is!

My local mall has a Love Sac. I was surprised that they allowed such a store in a family type atmosphere.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I'm going to be a jerk-face again and watch from the sidelines.

Every party has a pooper, that's why we invited you.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I'd planned on joining the club, but since someone let the private jet info slip out and there's no seats left, I'll be spending my time between now and the ides of March returning the 26 different Carmen San Diego hats I've already bought for the trip and shopping for new furniture since I sold my old couch to pay for the hats.

Nooooooo! I'll do your furniture shopping for you. Do you like very expensive bean bags? We need you in the countdown!

Those things are called "LOVESAC"?

Nope.

Nope.

Hell nope.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Those things are called "LOVESAC"?

Nope.

Nope.

Hell nope.

I don't blame you. One never knows what could pop up out between those cushions.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Those things are called "LOVESAC"?

Nope.

Nope.

Hell nope.

I don't blame you. One never knows what could pop up out between those cushions.

I'm not looking for loose change in there, that's for sure.

 

[titusbramble]

Will be in

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

I'm not looking for loose change in there, that's for sure.

my change purse.

available at "Funslurp" if anyone else is interested.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I'm not looking for loose change in there, that's for sure.

my change purse.

available at "Funslurp" if anyone else is interested.

Oh, Binky. (NSFW)

 

[titusbramble]

Started making shortlist in head in the pub, thought I might have needed to go full meme/EDM/repeated artist, then loaded up the ineligible lists and my main playlist and I've now got to make a boatload of cuts

 

[krista4]

I saw @Sullie in here earlier. Join us, my friend!

Also paging @simey @MAC_32 @Hawks64 (who might still be on his DMB tour) @falguy @DrIanMalcolm @KarmaPolice @Manster @scorchy @Westerberg @Chaz McNulty @ditkaburgers @Eephus

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

I'm not looking for loose change in there, that's for sure.

my change purse.

available at "Funslurp" if anyone else is interested.

Oh, Binky. (NSFW)

you can just call me "Mr. Belvedere"

 

[KarmaPolice]

Running blacklist of (possibly surprisingly) ineligible artists mentioned in the thread:
Entire discography ineligible:

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
4 Non Blondes
10,000 Maniacs
The Apples in Stereo
Big Thief
The Breeders
Clem Snide
CSN/CSNY
The Dave Matthews Band
Death Cab for Cutie
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Foreigner
Doug E. Fresh
Fugees
Garbage
Geto Boys
Kiss
Lake Street Dive
LCD Soundsystem
Living Colour
Los Lobos
The Lovin' Spoonful
The Mamas and the Papas
Mandrill
Metallica
Ministry
The Monkees
No Doubt
The Pixies
Porno for Pyros
Quiet Riot
The Rascals
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Slick Rick
The Smithereens
Sniff 'n' the Tears
Dusty Springfield
The Strokes
Talking Heads
‘Til Tuesday
Tom Tom Club
Van Halen
War
The Waterboys
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Young the Giant

Partial discography ineligible – releases that include any of the individuals in parentheses or as otherwise indicated are ineligible:

Against Me! (Inge Johannson)
The Avett Brothers (Joe Kwon)
The Beach Boys (Ricky Fataar, Blondie Chaplin)
The Black Crowes (Eddie Harsch, Sven Pipien)
Blondie (Nigel Harrison)
Concrete Blonde (Paul Thompson)
Bob Dylan (albums credited to Bob Dylan and The Band)
Guns N' Roses (Slash)
Heatwave (Rod Temperton)
Hole (Melissa Auf der Maur)
Jefferson Starship (Pete Sears, Anysley Dunbar)
Jerry Garcia Band (Nicky Hopkins)
Jimi Hendrix (Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell on Jimi Hendrix Experience recordings)
Journey (Aynsley Dunbar)
Love (Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer )
Megadeth (Nick Menza)
Modest Mouse (Johnny Marr)
Mötley Crüe (Tommy Lee)
Mountain (Corky Laing)
New York Dolls (Sylvain Sylvain)
Nine Inch Nails (Atticus Ross, 2016 recordings and beyond)
Poi Dog Pondering (Steve Goulding)
The Pretenders (all albums other than Alone and Packed! ineligible)
Queensrÿche (Geoff Tate)
Ramones (Tommy Ramone)
Ratt (Juan Croucier)
Anything Rihanna guests on, sorry
The Shins (Dave Hernandez)
Patti Smith (Ivan Kral on Patti Smith Group recordings)
Three Dog Night (Danny Hutton)
Tool (Justin Chancellor)
The Velvet Underground (John Cale, Nico)
Frank Zappa (Anysley Dunbar on Mothers of Invention recordings)

@Raging weasel

 

[simey]

Also paging @simey

I'm not sure yet, but I'll let you know in March.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I saw @Sullie in here earlier. Join us, my friend!

Also paging @simey @MAC_32 @Hawks64 (who might still be on his DMB tour) @falguy @DrIanMalcolm @KarmaPolice @Manster @scorchy @Westerberg @Chaz McNulty @ditkaburgers @Eephus

Yeah, I will be doing this.

Just let me know - do you prefer 31 songs from Opeth or Tool?

 

[KarmaPolice]

Last night I had a dream about Rush.

With those song run times it probably wasn't a dry one.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Let's get this started right away...

I have an unpopular opinion of Rush.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Let's get this started right away...

I have an unpopular opinion of Rush.

Of course - the one thing you DO like would be Rush.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Let's get this started right away...

I have an unpopular opinion of Rush.

Of course, the one thing you DO like would be Rush.

People LIKE Rush?

Just kidding. I like 2/3 of just about every Rush song. It's usually the middle I have trouble with.

 

[titusbramble]

Now I pop upstairs, look at my CD rack and see another two albums which contain one track which will be in top ten probably except I just forgot it initially, then another one which will probably miss the cut but is at least in consideration. This is why you don't turbo submit

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Last night I had a dream about Rush.

With those song run times it probably wasn't a dry one.

There was a battle of the bands to play Madison Square Garden and they won.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I finally got around to making a "new-to-me favorites" playlist from the first two countdowns, 25 songs from each. Hopefully y'all will come up with 25 songs I'll want to add to it.

While for my own picks, the Brits averaged much longer song lengths than the Americans, on this playlist, there are more tracks lasting 10+ minutes from the Americans (4 vs. 0). This can basically be attributed to never having heard of Elder until Manster picked them a squillion times.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I saw @Sullie in here earlier. Join us, my friend!

Also paging @simey @MAC_32 @Hawks64 (who might still be on his DMB tour) @falguy @DrIanMalcolm @KarmaPolice @Manster @scorchy @Westerberg @Chaz McNulty @ditkaburgers @Eephus

I emailed Dr. Ian yesterday. Guess he hasn't been online much lately. We had talked about this countdown so I'm sure he'll say he's in once he's back on his devices.

 

[Sullie]

I'm in.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

David Hasselhoff just turned up on my YouTube feed. Not okay, dudes.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

This is torture. And Mr R isn't helping. He keeps finding other stuff.

Brace yourself for the Rush onslaught.

 

[zamboni]

Brace yourself for the Rush onslaught.

We're due for another bout of Rush love/hate.

That's all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. /Clemenza

 

[DrIanMalcolm]

I saw @Sullie in here earlier. Join us, my friend!

Also paging @simey @MAC_32 @Hawks64 (who might still be on his DMB tour) @falguy @DrIanMalcolm @KarmaPolice @Manster @scorchy @Westerberg @Chaz McNulty @ditkaburgers @Eephus

I emailed Dr. Ian yesterday. Guess he hasn't been online much lately. We had talked about this countdown so I'm sure he'll say he's in once he's back on his devices.

I'm here. I'm in!

 

[zamboni]

I saw @Sullie in here earlier. Join us, my friend!

Also paging @simey @MAC_32 @Hawks64 (who might still be on his DMB tour) @falguy @DrIanMalcolm @KarmaPolice @Manster @scorchy @Westerberg @Chaz McNulty @ditkaburgers @Eephus

I emailed Dr. Ian yesterday. Guess he hasn't been online much lately. We had talked about this countdown so I'm sure he'll say he's in once he's back on his devices.

I'm here. I'm in!

All this time I thought your username was Drlan, as in Dylan with an "r".

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Just let me know - do you prefer 31 songs from Opeth or Tool?

Opeth. The older and growlier the better.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Just let me know - do you prefer 31 songs from Opeth or Tool?

Opeth. The older and growlier the better.

So if Joe Cocker is Ol’ Yowly, does that mean the Opeth singer is Ol’ Growly?

 

[Sullie]

Rush hate - wow - whatever. . . the problem is that. . . you know that you want to be Canadian, please!

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I have an unpopular opinion of Rush.

It's probably not as unpopular as you think.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Rush hate - wow - whatever. . . the problem is that. . . you know that you want to be Canadian, please!

Don't wanna be a Canadian idiot.

 

[Hov34]

I saw @Sullie in here earlier. Join us, my friend!

Also paging @simey @MAC_32 @Hawks64 (who might still be on his DMB tour) @falguy @DrIanMalcolm @KarmaPolice @Manster @scorchy @Westerberg @Chaz McNulty @ditkaburgers @Eephus

I emailed Dr. Ian yesterday. Guess he hasn't been online much lately. We had talked about this countdown so I'm sure he'll say he's in once he's back on his devices.

I'm here. I'm in!

All this time I thought your username was Drlan, as in Dylan with an "r".

Me too

 

[krista4]

I was having more trouble with this one than I expected. Last night only came up with 27 artists off the top of my head, and a couple of the artists were stretches and one was listed as "that Australian band that sings that one song" (getting old is fun). But then I went through my favorite songs playlist and realized I'm a dummy. It's an embarrassment of riches.

 

[DrIanMalcolm]

I was having more trouble with this one than I expected. Last night only came up with 27 artists off the top of my head, and a couple of the artists were stretches and one was listed as "that Australian band that sings that one song" (getting old is fun). But then I went through my favorite songs playlist and realized I'm a dummy. It's an embarrassment of riches.

it is indeed! Even if your plan is to just run 30 Neil Young songs and the theme from "Strange Brew."

 

[rockaction]

theme from "Strange Brew."

Or the organ's chord progression that makes everybody fight.

Hoser.

My musical excuse for that, and a great intro to a song in its own right.

National Movie Review

 

[AAABatteries]

I was having more trouble with this one than I expected. Last night only came up with 27 artists off the top of my head, and a couple of the artists were stretches and one was listed as "that Australian band that sings that one song" (getting old is fun). But then I went through my favorite songs playlist and realized I'm a dummy. It's an embarrassment of riches.

I had forgotten about Nickelback at first too.

 

[Tau837]

I was having more trouble with this one than I expected. Last night only came up with 27 artists off the top of my head, and a couple of the artists were stretches and one was listed as "that Australian band that sings that one song" (getting old is fun). But then I went through my favorite songs playlist and realized I'm a dummy. It's an embarrassment of riches.

I had forgotten about Nickelback at first too.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

I was having more trouble with this one than I expected. Last night only came up with 27 artists off the top of my head, and a couple of the artists were stretches and one was listed as "that Australian band that sings that one song" (getting old is fun). But then I went through my favorite songs playlist and realized I'm a dummy. It's an embarrassment of riches.

found the same for an Australian band that was a no doubter ...and maybe the same one that hadn't realized there were way more than a handful of songs I may want (so many of these are one or just a couple) outside of the obvious big names

 

[timschochet]

Picking 30 Neil Young songs, or even 31, seems like a reasonable option.

 

[DrIanMalcolm]

Looking over the landscape, I can't help but think that this countdown...


...is going to feature more artists that nobody has ever heard of and yet...

...will have the closest thing to a consensus #1 pick than either the US or UK countdowns.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Picking 30 Neil Young songs, or even 31, seems like a reasonable option.

I think I'd have ten Rush songs before I had one Neil Young song.

And I don't think I can name ten Rush songs.

 

[Mister CIA]

I have Canada, France, Denmark, Australia (spoiler alert, I hope to own Jacko and Yahoo Serious), Germany, New Zealand, and Peru on the playlist, so far.

 

[Mister CIA]

Looking over the landscape, I can't help but think that this countdown...


...is going to feature more artists that nobody has ever heard of and yet...

...will have the closest thing to a consensus #1 pick than either the US or UK countdowns.

I was about to say, not so fast, but I think you are right that the consensus #1 is fairly easy to identify. In fact, I'll put up a $100 charitable donation bet to the first one who wants to take the field vs my sole pick; and by pick, I mean prediction, as I'm certain I won't be selecting the song for my playlist.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I was having more trouble with this one than I expected. Last night only came up with 27 artists off the top of my head, and a couple of the artists were stretches and one was listed as "that Australian band that sings that one song" (getting old is fun). But then I went through my favorite songs playlist and realized I'm a dummy. It's an embarrassment of riches.

it is indeed! Even if your plan is to just run 30 Neil Young songs and the theme from "Strange Brew."

I have a list of 204 Neil songs everyone is free to borrow from!

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Picking 30 Neil Young songs, or even 31, seems like a reasonable option.

I have yet to move off of my plan to pick 31 Queen songs.

 

[krista4]

Looking over the landscape, I can't help but think that this countdown...


...is going to feature more artists that nobody has ever heard of and yet...

...will have the closest thing to a consensus #1 pick than either the US or UK countdowns.

Do you mean artist or song? Or both?