Entertainment For Lively Minds
And the winner is.............
I sometimes have good ideas, just not always necessarily in the right order (thank you Eric Morecambe). This was one of those times, however once committed I had to follow through, so in the comments is the final list of songs as voted by The Massive in vote order. Sorry if you haven't had the chance to vote and sorry if I've miscounted or swapped band name for the song title on the more obscure selections.
The one with the most votes is by the Blogs most Marmite group, only 24 songs had more than one vote, 160 songs by 130 different artists were voted for, 201 votes were cast, there is no definitive top 100, the winner only had 7 votes so there were 194 votes for other songs (thank you Captain U for your advice on AV) and if anyone wants to analyse it further you are welcome.
This site is one filled with like minded people with hugely varied taste if that makes sense, I don't really know what this list proves except that it would make one hell of a box set.
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The final list
1 The Clash (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais 7
2 The Beach Boys God Only Knows 5
3 Glen Campbell Wichita Lineman 5
4 The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever 4
5 Todd Rundgren Just One Victory 4
6 The Beatles A Day In The Life 3
7 Bob Dylan Like A Rolling Stone 3
8 The Kinks Waterloo Sunset 3
9 Justin Currie If I ever Loved you 2
10 Aretha Franklin Say A Little Prayer 2
11 XTC Chalkhills and Children 2
12 Smokey Robinson The Tracks Of My Tears 2
13 Only Ones Another Girl Another Planet 2
14 Bruce Springsteen Born To Run 2
15 The Stone Roses I Am The Resurrection 2
16 Blue Oyster Cult Don't Fear The Reaper 2
17 Nick Drake River Man 2
18 Mcalmont and Butler Yes 2
19 Madness Yesterdays Men 2
20 Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart 2
21 Aural Morphine Surfs Up 2
22 The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter 2
23 The Black Crowes Thorn In My Pride 2
24 The Smiths There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 2
25 The The Uncertain Smile
25 Ultravox Vienna
25 Depeche Mode Enjoy The Silence
25 John Prine The Glory of True Love
25 Richard Thompson The Dimming Of The Day
25 The Decemberists Sleepless
25 New Order Temptation
25 Nick Drake Northern Sky
25 Sam Cooke A Change Is Gonna Come
25 Irma Thomas I Need Your Love So Bad
25 Pixies River Euphrates
25 Stevie Ray Vaughan Pride and Joy
25 Thunderclap Newman Something In the Air
25 The Swinging Cats Away
25 Robert Wyatt Shipbuilding
25 T Rex Metal Guru
25 Tubeway Army Are Friends Electric
25 David Bowie Life On Mars
25 Stackridge Teatime
25 David Bowie Stay
25 David Bowie Can You Here Me?
25 Green On Red Time Ain't Nothing
25 Felt Primitive Painters
25 James Carr Dark End Of The Street
25 Buzzcocks What Do I Get
25 Bob Dylan Tangled Up In Blue
25 Tim Buckley Song To The Siren
25 Any Trouble Playing Bogart
25 Gillian Welch Revelator
25 Electronic Get The Message
25 Lowell George Twenty Million Things
25 Junior Walker & The All Stars Take Me Girl I'm Ready
25 Joni Mitchell Hejira
25 The Smiths Rubber Ring
25 The Beach Boys Do It Again
25 The Velvellettes Needle In A Haystack
25 The Cure Just Like Heaven
25 Waterboys Fishermans Blues
25 Big Country Fields Of Fire
25 Laura Nyro Stone Soul Picnic
25 Sigur Ros Ara Batur
25 Sigur Ros Saeglopur
25 David Bowie Young Americans
25 Emmylou Harris Pancho and Lefty
25 MGMT Of Moons and Monsters
25 Fairport Convention She Moves Through The Fair
25 The Beatles If I Fell
25 Brinsley Schwarz Surrender To the Rhythm
25 Paul Simon Hearts and Bones
25 AC / DC Whole Lotta Rosie
25 Waterboys The Pan Within
25 Jackie Leven Single Father
25 Family My Friend The Sun
25 Argent Hold Your Head Up
25 Portishead Glory Box
25 Thin Lizzy Emerald
25 Aztec Camera Walk Out To Winter
25 The Smiths This Charming Man
25 Fairport Convention Who Knows Where The Time Goes
25 Al Green Belle
25 Thin Lizzy Boys Are Back in Town
25 Manic Street Preachers Motorcycle Emptiness
25 Luke Kelly Raglan Road
25 Aretha Franklin Till You Come Back to Me
25 Massive Attack Unfinished Symphony
25 Aretha Franklin Respect
25 The Crystals Da Doo Ron Ron
25 The Big Black Kerosene
25 Pulp Common People
25 George Harrison Run Of The Mill
25 Ian Dury Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
25 Sleater-Kinney Turn It On
25 Penguin Café Orchestra Music For A Found Harmonium
25 The Jackson 5 Can You Feel It?
25 Bob Dylan Simple Twist of Fate
25 Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road
25 Divine Comedy A Lady Of A Certain Age
25 Bill Withers Harlem
25 John Martin Solid Air
25 The Beatles She Loves You
25 Vangelis To The Unknown Man
25 Big Star Thirteen
25 The Edwin Hawkins Singers Oh Happy Day
25 Dexys Midnight Runners Reminisce (Part 2)
25 The Velvet Underground Sunday Morning
25 Pink Floyd Shine On You Crazy Diamond
25 Frank Sinatra Under My Skin
25 Al Green Love and Happiness
25 Bob Dylan 4th Street
25 Gram Parsons A Song For You
25 The Associates Party Fears Two
25 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit
25 The Byrds Lady Friend
25 Richard Hawley The Ocean
25 The Faces You Can make Me Dance Sing Anything
25 Elvis Costello & The Attractions I Want You
25 Michael Jackson Don't Stop Till You get Enough
25 Sparks No. 1 Song In Heaven
25 Mcalmont and Butler You Do
25 Smokey Robinson Tears Of A Clown
25 Duncan Browne Journey
25 REM New Test Leper
25 Cee Lo Green Forget You
25 Charlie Rich Feel Like Going Home
25 David Crosby Laughing
25 Spencer Davis Group Gimme Some Loving
25 Don't Interrupt The Sorrow Joni Mitchell
25 Matching Mole O Caroline
25 Stranger and Patsy Down By the Train Line
25 The Fannies Everything Flows
25 Jean Michelle Jarre Ethnicolour
25 REM Find The River
25 The Beatles Penny Lane
25 Ry Cooder Get Rhythm
25 A House Endless Art
25 REM Fall On Me
25 Van Der Graaf Generator Pilgrims
25 Bobby Womack Happy Hippie
25 Little Feat Long Distance Love
25 Magazine Song From Under The Floorboards
25 Roy Harper Another Day
25 Karen Dalton Something On Your Mind
25 Mama Cass It's Getting Better
25 Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime
25 Pink Floyd Dogs
25 Roy Harper Hallucinating Light
25 Sabres Of Paradise Smokebelch II
25 Ella Fitzgerald Manhattan
25 Prefab Sprout When Love Breaks Down
25 Don Williams Till The Rivers All Run Dry
25 The Jam Tales From The Riverbank
25 Brain Eno Very Very Hungary
25 Prince When Doves Cry
25 Joy Division Transmission
25 Everything Everything Final Form
25 The Smiths What Difference Does It Make?
Well done
Excellent work, Dave.
The work of many Trojans, I'm sure.
As you say, it would make a great box set. Though I'm not familiar with the Todd song (will be soon...) I would say that the first ten on the list are a pretty concise summary of popular music since the 60s.
What's the next project?
tomorrow's just another day
I do subsribe to the (Danny Baker I Think) theory that your favourite records change from minute to minute so on that basis having speed read the list I am prompted to nominate Cruel Prefab Sprout, Aztec Camera Jump, a favourite of Paul Kelly whose excellent book How to make gravy I've just read and in his honour Every **ucking city.
The best part of the list are the one nominees and therefore I think it would make a dreadful boxset, but finding odd tracks on line is a different matter. Great read this weekend
Ta
I'm pleased to see
that I have such good taste that my choice came in at No 25
Never heard
numbers 5 and 9. Will remedy now and see if they deserve to beat Felt's Primitive Painters.
Excellent work
Have an up
Spotify Playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/marbles22/playlist/6AnyPhW19MbwPUJ3eU9uLr
Thank
you! A wonderful effort.
Top marks...
..for finding my pick!
Wow!
I was just going to ask where the Spotify playlist was and you beat me to it. Great work. Many thanks.
Sterling job
I'm enjoying listening to the ones I hadn't heard before.
Bravo
Mr Amitri. Excellent job.
And there was me
counting the arrows. I'll learn to read for the 200th edition.
Excellent, Mr A
much appreciated.
Interesting
"Hugely varied taste", yes, but reading that list I can't find a single song that I dislike ( but of course there are a few that I've never heard ).
Top show Dave.
Have a tick and a great big gold star.
Well done Dave
I will listen to that on spotify whilst at work
Terrific effort
That sounds like a great playlist - well done
Er
Unless I've gone blind, I can't see what I voted for. Buffalo Springfield.
Sorry 5C
I meant to check with you as you put The The down as well, got to the end and forgot. I'm sure we can add it to the Spotify list.
Fantastic
And, from a personal point of view, very controversial! Plenty of songs I can't stand as well as plenty of songs I love!
Good work Dave
.
Dave
I understand you were faced with an overwhelming task and compliment you on your effort. Just one small thing, unless I'm mistaken. Surfs Up is by The Beach Boys. It was described as aural morphine, i.e., a pleasure inducing drug for the ears. Great work all the same.
That was "Surfs Up"
from Aural Morphine, two more from them later......... I could lie and say well done for spotting my deliberate mistake to keep the pedants happy but it sounded so plausible I didn't Google it as I did with some others, apparently there really IS a band called The Beatles, who knew?
Surely I am not the only one
Surely I am not the only one who has never heard of Justin Currie ?
It refers to
Coriander.
Is this where I talk about getting my coat?
I think
I would buy this if released. Perhaps Messrs Hepworth and Ellen can start the Word record label and make this their first box set.
Great work.
Great Work Dave
Have another up
Never knowingly heard the number one.
Ballad is it?
Sterling work
that man. Well done!
Phew.
I can't say I dislike any of them. Every one I've heard I like. But the bugger of it is there's a lot I haven't heard. Trouble is we ain't got no stinking Spotify round these parts, so it's unlikely I"ll ever find out. Can someone please take the Australian record industry out back of the woolshed and do the decent thing ? They achieve 2/5ths of sod all and just prevent the world of progress.
Sacre blue
I must have spoiled (or soiled) my ballot paper or got there too late because I voted for Very Very Hungry (Byrne/Eno) and it ain't there. Well done with this, unnerving to see how many of them I have (75% maybe?) which might explain the appeal of this place I suppose, there's always SOMETHING to talk about or that you recognise however obliquely.
A really nice thing to do cheers
Sorry
another "deliberate" error, it is there just under Brian Eno