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Interesting that the Kinks' Waterloo Sunset is higher than You Really
Got Me, arguably the more influential record. My favorite Bowie song is
his top-rated.

If I made this list, I'd have a time limit that includes "Like a Rolling
Stone" and "Stairway to Heaven" but eliminates "Hey Jude".

Stephen

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Whiter Shade of Pale is only no 67.
I have seen several lists ranking it No 1 or 2

another comment:
not surprising that 8 of top 9, 11 of top 14, and 14 of top 20
were between 1963 and 1971

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Yes, Rolling Stone is a magazine for a nostalgic population aged around
50-60 years old. ;-)

I would love to hear GeoGag singing "Mr Tambourine Man" or "California
Dreamin'"... And ScottW "Born to be wild".

NO FUTURE !!!!


)

Pepe LePew crooned:

I would love to hear GeoGag singing "Mr Tambourine Man" or "California Dreamin'"... And ScottW "Born
to be wild".

Glen Campbell may be the "Wichita Lineman"
but poor Lionel is the "Paris Sewerman" ...

where he bellows at the top of his lungs:

"When there's no future how can there be sin
"We're the flowers in the dustbin
"We're the poison in your human machine
"We're the future your future
"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."

NO FUTURE !!!!


GeoSynch

GeoGag sang :

"When there's no future how can there be sin
"We're the flowers in the dustbin
"We're the poison in your human machine
"We're the future your future
"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."

Whaooo I am astonished, you are a real rebel...
I am sure that you also perfectly remember all the lyrics of
"surrealistic pillow".

)

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I look through the first 100 songs and I was expecting to see at least
one or two songs from CCR, Pink Floyd, and Everly Bros. higher up
into the first 50 songs. As it is base on rank, CCR comes in at #99,
Ever. Bros. at #141, PF at #314. I understand that among the criteria
includes industry figures.

Pepe LePew swooned:

"When there's no future how can there be sin
"We're the flowers in the dustbin
"We're the poison in your human machine
"We're the future your future
"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."

Whaooo I am astonished, you are a real rebel...
I am sure that you also perfectly remember all the lyrics of "surrealistic pillow".

"Go ask Alice. I think she'll know..."


GeoSynch

JBorg wrote:

I look through the first 100 songs and I was expecting to see at least
one or two songs from CCR, Pink Floyd, and Everly Bros. higher up
into the first 50 songs. As it is base on rank, CCR comes in at #99,
Ever. Bros. at #141, PF at #314. I understand that among the criteria
includes industry figures.

Alright, so how 'bout a top 5 list?

Off the top of my head, I'd come up with:

1. Procol Harum "Conquistador"
2. Pink Floyd "One Of These Days"
3. Led Zeppelin "Misty Mountain Hop"
4. The Clash "London Calling"
5. The Faces "Stay With Me"


GeoSynch

SchizoGeo answered :

Pepe LePew swooned:


"When there's no future how can there be sin
"We're the flowers in the dustbin
"We're the poison in your human machine
"We're the future your future
"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."


Whaooo I am astonished, you are a real rebel...
I am sure that you also perfectly remember all the lyrics of "surrealistic pillow".


"Go ask Alice. I think she'll know..."

LOL !

"You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic..."

GeoSynch wrote
JBorg wrote:




I look through the first 100 songs and I was expecting to see at least
one or two songs from CCR, Pink Floyd, and Everly Bros. higher up
into the first 50 songs. As it is base on rank, CCR comes in at #99,
Ever. Bros. at #141, PF at #314. I understand that among the criteria
includes industry figures.

Alright, so how 'bout a top 5 list?

Off the top of my head, I'd come up with:

1. Procol Harum "Conquistador"
2. Pink Floyd "One Of These Days"
3. Led Zeppelin "Misty Mountain Hop"
4. The Clash "London Calling"
5. The Faces "Stay With Me"


GeoSynch


5 out of the first 100, it would be:


1. All Along the Watch Tower
2. Crazy (Cline)
3. Like a Rolling Stone
4. When Doves Cry
5. God Only Knows

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:30:36 GMT, "GeoSynch"
wrote:

Pepe LePew crooned:

I would love to hear GeoGag singing "Mr Tambourine Man" or "California Dreamin'"... And ScottW "Born
to be wild".

Glen Campbell may be the "Wichita Lineman"
but poor Lionel is the "Paris Sewerman" ...

where he bellows at the top of his lungs:

"When there's no future how can there be sin
"We're the flowers in the dustbin
"We're the poison in your human machine
"We're the future your future
"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."

I'd certainly rank that song in the top 20, if not the top 10.

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Any such list is hopelessly arbitrary (not to mention subjective). At one point
they call it the "Top" 500 songs. At another point they call it the "Greatest"
500 songs. At another point they call it "Favorite" 500 songs. Whatever.

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Old news and currently irrelevant just like the magazine.

Cheers,

MvBB

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Any such list is hopelessly arbitrary (not to mention subjective). At one
point
they call it the "Top" 500 songs. At another point they call it the
"Greatest"
500 songs. At another point they call it "Favorite" 500 songs. Whatever.



Note, they never called it the 'best' 500 songs.

dave weil wrote:

"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."

I'd certainly rank that song in the top 20, if not the top 10.

But not the top 5?


GeoSynch

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:55:39 GMT, "GeoSynch"
wrote:

dave weil wrote:

"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."

I'd certainly rank that song in the top 20, if not the top 10.

But not the top 5?

No, not for me. At least during most weeks. It would have to crowd out
Joe Le Taxi, and we can't have *that*.

Yes, Jann Wenner and his crew were completely impartial. Not only is
the presence of the magazine's title in the title of the first song
and the second song's artist a complete coincidence, but Mr.Wenner is
the song arbiter of all time. He has proven that not only is Mr.
Robert Allan Zimmerman the greatest songsmith to have ever lived, but
that old saps like Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Cahn, Van
Heusen, the whole bunch, were nobodies whose lives were spent in vain.
The 500 songs selected by Wenner and co. are the five hundred greatest
songs ever written anywhere anytime or which may ever be written.

Paul Dormer wrote:


"Lionel" emitted :

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Yes, Rolling Stone is a magazine for a nostalgic population aged around
50-60 years old. ;-)

Agreed. It's a very tired looking US-centric MoR poll.

I would love to hear GeoGag singing "Mr Tambourine Man" or "California
Dreamin'"... And ScottW "Born to be wild".

NO FUTURE !!!!

Pistols are No.53 on the list.



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What is the title of the song that goes (and I'm not making this up) "
duh.....duh......duh, ...........duh......duh........duh" That is the
background vocal along with instrtumentation, but it's very prominent in the
song.

I'd like to get a copy of it to play whenever I see one of Mikey's posts.



Bruce J. Richman

On 24 Nov 2004 20:31:30 GMT, (Bruce J. Richman)
wrote:

Paul Dormer wrote:


"Lionel" emitted :

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Yes, Rolling Stone is a magazine for a nostalgic population aged around
50-60 years old. ;-)

Agreed. It's a very tired looking US-centric MoR poll.

I would love to hear GeoGag singing "Mr Tambourine Man" or "California
Dreamin'"... And ScottW "Born to be wild".

NO FUTURE !!!!

Pistols are No.53 on the list.



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What is the title of the song that goes (and I'm not making this up) "
duh.....duh......duh, ...........duh......duh........duh" That is the
background vocal along with instrtumentation, but it's very prominent in the
song.

I'd like to get a copy of it to play whenever I see one of Mikey's posts.

Canada's Crash Test Dummies.

It's actually called "MMM, MMM, MMM, MMM".

So, you *were* making this up g.

It's from the album, "God Shuffled His Feet", an album that had a
title track that Julia Sweeney used as the theme song for her totally
FINE one woman show based on her brother's death from cancer and her
subsequent bout with ovarian cancer. Highly recommended. I love her
and want to marry her. But she'll have to move to Nashville, which I
don't think is going to happen.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:40:18 +0000, in rec.audio.opinion you wrote:

"dave weil" emitted :

I would love to hear GeoGag singing "Mr Tambourine Man" or "California Dreamin'"... And ScottW "Born
to be wild".

Glen Campbell may be the "Wichita Lineman"
but poor Lionel is the "Paris Sewerman" ...

where he bellows at the top of his lungs:

"When there's no future how can there be sin
"We're the flowers in the dustbin
"We're the poison in your human machine
"We're the future your future
"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."

I'd certainly rank that song in the top 20, if not the top 10.

Likewise. I'd like to see Holidays in the Sun in there too.

Well, for me, there's only room for one Pistols song, in the top 100
at least, as much as I like their stuff. When compiling a list like
that, you have to prioritize, since there are so many great songs to
choose from.

If I were FORCED to choose another Pistols song, it wouldn't be
Holidays in the Sun. It would probably be Pretty Vacant, but, then
that's a cultural divide, I suspect.

Of course, if I had been one of those middle-class 'mericans whose
family wintered and springed in Florida, I might feel differently. I'm
sure that for UK'ers who were draggd to Ibiza year after year, it's a
diffrent kettle of calimari entirely.

dave weil said:

It's from the album, "God Shuffled His Feet", an album that had a
title track that Julia Sweeney used as the theme song for her totally
FINE one woman show based on her brother's death from cancer and her
subsequent bout with ovarian cancer. Highly recommended. I love her
and want to marry her. But she'll have to move to Nashville, which I
don't think is going to happen.

Persuade her to go singing country songs :-)

--
Sander de Waal
" SOA of a KT88? Sufficient. "

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:44:29 +0000, Paul Dormer
wrote:

"dave weil" emitted :

"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."

I'd certainly rank that song in the top 20, if not the top 10.

But not the top 5?

No, not for me. At least during most weeks. It would have to crowd out
Joe Le Taxi, and we can't have *that*.

Those hot socks really were something or wot! ;-) Whatever happened to
Vanessa Paradis? I have her self titled album with Lenny Kravitz, it's
actually pretty damn good.

With LENNY KRAVITZ? That's something that I don't know about at all.
I'll have to check into that - not that I'm a big Kravitz fan or
anything.

Besides being Mrs. Johnny Depp, I think that she's had a pretty
respectable career as an actress over the past decade or so.

I've still got the 12 in. of Joe Le Taxi and it's on a beloved mix
tape that I play alot. Reminds me of 1986 or so in Germany. Fond
memories indeed.

You DO know that Steve Nieve from Costello's band is/was her "musical
director", right?

dave weil said:

Those hot socks really were something or wot! ;-) Whatever happened to
Vanessa Paradis? I have her self titled album with Lenny Kravitz, it's
actually pretty damn good.

With LENNY KRAVITZ? That's something that I don't know about at all.
I'll have to check into that - not that I'm a big Kravitz fan or
anything.

Where have you been? They even married and got divorced.

--
Sander de Waal
" SOA of a KT88? Sufficient. "

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:56:59 +0100, Sander deWaal
wrote:

dave weil said:

It's from the album, "God Shuffled His Feet", an album that had a
title track that Julia Sweeney used as the theme song for her totally
FINE one woman show based on her brother's death from cancer and her
subsequent bout with ovarian cancer. Highly recommended. I love her
and want to marry her. But she'll have to move to Nashville, which I
don't think is going to happen.

Persuade her to go singing country songs :-)

Well, if she were to marry me, she'd certainly have plenty of call to
do so chuckle.

Dave Weil wrote:


On 24 Nov 2004 20:31:30 GMT, (Bruce J. Richman)
wrote:

Paul Dormer wrote:


"Lionel" emitted :

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Yes, Rolling Stone is a magazine for a nostalgic population aged around
50-60 years old. ;-)

Agreed. It's a very tired looking US-centric MoR poll.

I would love to hear GeoGag singing "Mr Tambourine Man" or "California
Dreamin'"... And ScottW "Born to be wild".

NO FUTURE !!!!

Pistols are No.53 on the list.



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What is the title of the song that goes (and I'm not making this up) "
duh.....duh......duh, ...........duh......duh........duh" That is the
background vocal along with instrtumentation, but it's very prominent in the
song.

I'd like to get a copy of it to play whenever I see one of Mikey's posts.

Canada's Crash Test Dummies.

It's actually called "MMM, MMM, MMM, MMM".

So, you *were* making this up g.

It's from the album, "God Shuffled His Feet", an album that had a
title track that Julia Sweeney used as the theme song for her totally
FINE one woman show based on her brother's death from cancer and her
subsequent bout with ovarian cancer. Highly recommended. I love her
and want to marry her. But she'll have to move to Nashville, which I
don't think is going to happen.



I'm not sure of the title - perhaps this is the same song - but the one I've
heard numerous times on TV and/or radio, DEFINITELY has the words "dah, dah,
dah" (repeated several times). Maybe there's another song with this lyric?


Bruce J. Richman

In article ,
(Bruce J. Richman) wrote:

What is the title of the song that goes (and I'm not making this up) "
duh.....duh......duh, ...........duh......duh........duh" That is the
background vocal along with instrtumentation, but it's very prominent in the
song.

I'd like to get a copy of it to play whenever I see one of Mikey's posts.

Canada's Crash Test Dummies.

It's actually called "MMM, MMM, MMM, MMM".

So, you *were* making this up g.

It's from the album, "God Shuffled His Feet", an album that had a
title track that Julia Sweeney used as the theme song for her totally
FINE one woman show based on her brother's death from cancer and her
subsequent bout with ovarian cancer. Highly recommended. I love her
and want to marry her. But she'll have to move to Nashville, which I
don't think is going to happen.



I'm not sure of the title - perhaps this is the same song - but the one I've
heard numerous times on TV and/or radio, DEFINITELY has the words "dah, dah,
dah" (repeated several times). Maybe there's another song with this lyric?

From the VW ad?

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,1325,00.html

http://www.obscurasite.com/soundz/(Trio)-dadada.mp3

Stephen

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:01:00 +0100, Sander deWaal
wrote:

dave weil said:

Those hot socks really were something or wot! ;-) Whatever happened to
Vanessa Paradis? I have her self titled album with Lenny Kravitz, it's
actually pretty damn good.

With LENNY KRAVITZ? That's something that I don't know about at all.
I'll have to check into that - not that I'm a big Kravitz fan or
anything.

Where have you been? They even married and got divorced.

Actually, I don't think that they were every married (I vaguely
remember that they dated for a time).

For that matter, I don't think she's ACTUALLY Mrs. Johnny Depp either.

So I guess we're even...

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 21:18:56 GMT, MINe 109
wrote:

In article ,
(Bruce J. Richman) wrote:

What is the title of the song that goes (and I'm not making this up) "
duh.....duh......duh, ...........duh......duh........duh" That is the
background vocal along with instrtumentation, but it's very prominent in the
song.

I'd like to get a copy of it to play whenever I see one of Mikey's posts.

Canada's Crash Test Dummies.

It's actually called "MMM, MMM, MMM, MMM".

So, you *were* making this up g.

It's from the album, "God Shuffled His Feet", an album that had a
title track that Julia Sweeney used as the theme song for her totally
FINE one woman show based on her brother's death from cancer and her
subsequent bout with ovarian cancer. Highly recommended. I love her
and want to marry her. But she'll have to move to Nashville, which I
don't think is going to happen.



I'm not sure of the title - perhaps this is the same song - but the one I've
heard numerous times on TV and/or radio, DEFINITELY has the words "dah, dah,
dah" (repeated several times). Maybe there's another song with this lyric?

From the VW ad?

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,1325,00.html

http://www.obscurasite.com/soundz/(Trio)-dadada.mp3

Stephen

Ahhhh, forgot about that one. Maybe that's the one he was talking
about...another German band namechecked...

Stephen wrote:


In article ,
(Bruce J. Richman) wrote:

What is the title of the song that goes (and I'm not making this up) "
duh.....duh......duh, ...........duh......duh........duh" That is the
background vocal along with instrtumentation, but it's very prominent in
the
song.

I'd like to get a copy of it to play whenever I see one of Mikey's posts.


Canada's Crash Test Dummies.

It's actually called "MMM, MMM, MMM, MMM".

So, you *were* making this up g.

It's from the album, "God Shuffled His Feet", an album that had a
title track that Julia Sweeney used as the theme song for her totally
FINE one woman show based on her brother's death from cancer and her
subsequent bout with ovarian cancer. Highly recommended. I love her
and want to marry her. But she'll have to move to Nashville, which I
don't think is going to happen.



I'm not sure of the title - perhaps this is the same song - but the one
I've
heard numerous times on TV and/or radio, DEFINITELY has the words "dah,
dah,
dah" (repeated several times). Maybe there's another song with this lyric?

From the VW ad?

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,1325,00.html

http://www.obscurasite.com/soundz/(Trio)-dadada.mp3

Stephen



That's the one! It's interesting that it's described as a song about nothing.
That fits perfectly with McKelvy's posts - they are about nothing also.

Da,, da, da sound a lot like duh, duh, duh and in either case, is much more
sensible and truthful than anything McKelvy has to say.

Thanks for the "research".



Bruce J. Richman

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I find Pretty Vacant and Anarchy in the UK to be amongst
their weaker songs.

The guitar intro to Pretty Vacant is iconic! For punks, anyway.

Stephen

dave weil wrote:

"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."

I'd certainly rank that song in the top 20, if not the top 10.

But not the top 5?

No, not for me. At least during most weeks. It would have to crowd out
Joe Le Taxi, and we can't have *that*.

So, what constitutes the top 5 in Dave's world?


GeoSynch

"dave weil" wrote in message
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It's from the album, "God Shuffled His Feet", an album that had a
title track that Julia Sweeney used as the theme song for her totally
FINE one woman show based on her brother's death from cancer and her
subsequent bout with ovarian cancer. Highly recommended. I love her
and want to marry her. But she'll have to move to Nashville, which I
don't think is going to happen.


We can start a RAO collection for your Lasik surgery.

dave weil wrote:

Ahhhh, forgot about that one. Maybe that's the one he was talking
about...another German band namechecked...

Did you forget about this one, too: Kraftwerk "Music Non Stop"
and don't forget The Police "All I Want To Say To You"


GeoSynch

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:54:42 -0600, dave weil
wrote:

Well, for me, there's only room for one Pistols song, in the top 100
at least, as much as I like their stuff. When compiling a list like
that, you have to prioritize, since there are so many great songs to
choose from.

If I were FORCED to choose another Pistols song, it wouldn't be
Holidays in the Sun. It would probably be Pretty Vacant, but, then
that's a cultural divide, I suspect.

Of course, if I had been one of those middle-class 'mericans whose
family wintered and springed in Florida, I might feel differently. I'm
sure that for UK'ers who were draggd to Ibiza year after year, it's a
diffrent kettle of calimari entirely.

I think it's pretty funny they put three Ramones songs on there.
Other than "I Wanna Be Sedated," I wonder how they chose which ones,
and how they narrowed it down to three. Their early songs sounded
almost identical.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:24:32 GMT, "GeoSynch"
wrote:

dave weil wrote:

"God save the queen we mean it man
"There is no future in england's dreaming..."

I'd certainly rank that song in the top 20, if not the top 10.

But not the top 5?

No, not for me. At least during most weeks. It would have to crowd out
Joe Le Taxi, and we can't have *that*.

So, what constitutes the top 5 in Dave's world?


GeoSynch

There's no way that I could make a top 5 "greatest songs of all time"
list. The minimum size list that I could make is a top 20, and it
would have to be understood that the order wasn't fixed in stone. Even
then, a top 20 is difficult. The problems are several-fold. Someone
else has already outlined the perils of such listing (was it Norm?)
The main problem is trying to fold in the ideas of "personal favorite"
and "important". Having said that, I'll simmer on this and see if I
can't come up with something.

"MINe 109" wrote in message

If I made this list, I'd have a time limit that includes "Like a Rolling
Stone" and "Stairway to Heaven" but eliminates "Hey Jude".

Er, isn't Stairway to Heaven longer than Hey Jude?

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"MINe 109" wrote in message

If I made this list, I'd have a time limit that includes "Like a Rolling
Stone" and "Stairway to Heaven" but eliminates "Hey Jude".

Er, isn't Stairway to Heaven longer than Hey Jude?

I could live with losing "Stairway". Perhaps a discontinuous limit...

Stephen

"MINe 109" wrote in message

"Schizoid Man" wrote:

"MINe 109" wrote in message

If I made this list, I'd have a time limit that includes "Like a
Rolling
Stone" and "Stairway to Heaven" but eliminates "Hey Jude".

Er, isn't Stairway to Heaven longer than Hey Jude?

I could live with losing "Stairway". Perhaps a discontinuous limit...

So could I. On my drive back from work I would hear it at least one on 93.7
and 102.3, I don't remember which one of them was Austin's Rock.

Now that I am living in San Francisco, I have mercifully been spared (I am
using the bus). However, the local "classic rock" station also plays the
usual dreck.

Hey Jude, on the other hand, is an absolute classic. Possibly my third
favorite Beatles song, after Tomorrow Never Knows and Love To You.

"Paul Dormer" wrote in message

"Schizoid Man" emitted :

Hey Jude, on the other hand, is an absolute classic.

Definitely a Paul song.

Yes. Undoubtedly his sole contribution to the Beatles' artistic development.

Possibly my third favorite Beatles song, after Tomorrow Never Knows and
Love To You.

"Love You To"?

Revolver. Track 4.



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