Subject: Best Rock n' Roll Songs Ever
Date: Sat Jul 23 00:59:59 2011
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:Freecell Netizens, any opinions?
This topic is a minor obsession of mine. I've got my own list but tastes vary widely. Although not necessarily my favorites, here's a list of songs I think are defensible as best ever Rock n' Roll song:
1: Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison. 1964. Great voice, great guitars, still sounds modern. I lucked out and saw Roy in Concert before he died. Timeless.
2. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix. 1968. Dylan had this song out in late 1967 but he's just a modestly good musician while Hendrix rules as a guitar player. Is there a better opening 5 seconds in all of Rock n' Roll history? I could see defending Hey Joe also.
3. Go to the Mirror Boy - The Who. 1969. Rock and Roll is about Guitars and Drums and Keith Moon was the singular drummer savant in all of Rock and Roll history. Couple him with John Entwistle, a top ten bassist, and Pete Townshend, a very good guitarist, and you can't find a better group of musicians in rock'n'roll history. The drumming on any Who song from 1969 to 1971 is sublime. Baba O Reilly, The Punk and the Godfather, Behind Blue Eyes, and Won't Get Fooled Again could all be swapped in here.
4. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin. 1969. Led Zeppelin was the Miami Heat basketball team of the late 1960's. Jimmy Page was stuck on a lame team and wanted to join up with some winners. From wikipedia: "Page wanted to form a supergroup with himself and (Jeff) Beck on guitars, and The Who's rhythm section—drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle...". Well, he got Robert Plant on vocals (a slight upgrade on Roger Daltry but a major upgrade as a songwriter) John Bonham on drums (awesome, but Hey he's not Keith Moon) and John Paul Jones on bass (who was OK but definitely no Entwistle) and the rest is history. For later Led Zeppelin songs I could accept "Kashmir" here but if you pick "Stairway to Heaven" I'd have to ask when you had your lobotomy.
5. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen. 1975. The thing about Springsteen is he's the best live act in the history of Rock by a landslide. If you wanted to attend the twenty best live performances in rock ever, you'd be watching The Boss at least eighteen times. If you've seen any Springsteen show from 1978 you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, think of the best concert you've ever seen, make it twice as good, and you have an average Springsteen show. Read "Songbook" by Nick Hornby if you want to know why Thunder Road is the clear choice here.
6. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana. 1991. The song captures teenage angst as well as any song ever written and isn't that half of what Rock n' Roll is all about? Further, it brought alternative rock into the mainstream.
7. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys. 1966. The other half of the teenage experience - hormones running wild. The version from "Smile" stands up.
8. I Wanna Hold Your Hand - The Beatles. 1963. The group that shaped Rock'n'Roll more than any other. Their output from 1963 to 1970 puts all other Rock'n'Roll groups to shame (twelve albums in the time that most groups do 3-4 now if they're lucky). "Day in the Life" from 1967 gets most of the critical acclaim but it's a bit too pretentious I think. If you pick Revolver as the best Album ever, you are standing on bedrock. Most groups have more bad songs in one album than The Beatles had in their entire discography. It's too bad that the Beatles never paired the raw emotions of some of their songs from their first few albums withe the more timeless sound of their later albums.
9. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry. 1955/1958. Besides being about Angst and Hormones, Rock 'n Roll is also about mixing Black and White and this song is the song that made the biggest leap.
10. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits. 1977. If Chuck Berry represents the black guitarist playing white, this is my choice for a white guitarist (Scotland's Mark Knopfler) playing black. Of course, Mark was also influenced by Chet Atkins, a country guitarist playing a bit black. This song doesn't get much critical acclaim but it seems to get more airplay now than in 1978.
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Honorable Mention. If you defend any of the following, I won't think less of you:
11. Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones. 1968. I just can't place the Stones any higher because they always seemed to be behind the Beatles; the Who was better in concert; and both the Who and Led Zep. had better musicians. "Satisfaction" doesn't stand the test of time but you can defend a handful of songs from Sticky Fingers here in place of this one.
12. Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan. 1963. Easy to pick half-a-dozen Dylan songs but this one best sums up the Folk/Rock mix of the early 60's. Personally, my favorite Dylan by Dylan song is Hurricane but it's a bit out-of-favor.
13. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen. 1975. Another awesome band in concert. Freddy Mercury laid it out every time. Need we say more.
14. I Wanna be Sedated - Ramones. 1978. A band that defined the late '70s.
15. London Calling - The Clash. 1979. 1B to the Ramones 1A for the late 70's. Perhaps if the economy had been better in the UK Clash, songs might have been a bit less dark. The shining exception is Rock the Casbah which still amuses and exhilarates despite numerous airplays.
16. Aqualung - Jethro Tull. 1972. Another pick influenced by concert performance. Ian Anderson never disappointed live and Jethro Tull helped broaden the rock music spectrum with the flute. Locomotive Breath and Thick as a Brick are easily substituted here.
17. Because the Night - Patti Smith. 1978. Patti really brought women into the rock'n roll fold versus earlier pop act girl bands such as the Supremes, the Shirelles and the Ronettes.
18. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson. 1982. Even white guys with no rhythm can dance to this song. Another great black/white fusion cross-over that seems to be missing from music now.
19. Misirlou - Dick Dale. 1962. Really made shredding an acceptable part of Rock 'n Roll. Quentin Tarantino gave this song the ultimate endorsement in Pulp Fiction.
20. When Doves Cry - Prince. 1984. I wanted to pick a heavy metal torchbearer song here (Iron Man, Back in Black?) but couldn't do it. I'd think more of you with anything from Eminem or Drop Kick Murphys.
Date: Sat Jul 23 02:25:08 2011
User: TNmountainman
Message:I know you're in the NW and all, but sorry, putting Nirvana (and Michael Jackson, for that matter) ahead of Neil Young's rendition of "Like a Hurricane", or "Cortez the Killer" is simply impossible. And the entire "Live at Fillmore East" album outweighs several there, too, imo. Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", Clapton's "Why Does Love Got to be So Sad" and "Let It Rain" (among others), any of several Santana songs, scads of other Beatles songs, and "Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida" are some others that must be in the mix. Of course I could go on, but, well......what's the point? It's to a large extent subjective, but I guess fun to talk about.........
(I *would* move "Johnny B. Goode" closer to the top, myself....)
Well, we all know there's really no way to select 10 or 30, or even 100 top rock 'n' roll songs.
Date: Sat Jul 23 09:36:33 2011
User: EZ-Ed3-LAnseMI
Message:Being a creature of the late 1950's and 1960's, perhaps my scope is rather limited. And I'm not even sure all of these qualify as rock n' roll. But I feel it's all subjective. In no particular order, my list:
*Respect - Aretha Franklin
*Louie Louie - Kingsmen
*(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
*Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
*You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Righteous Brothers (This could my favorite)
*Hey Jude - Beatles
*Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
*Light My Fire - Doors (or this one as my favorite)
* In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
*Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown (What's a list like this without James Brown)
*Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds
*Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival (or anything else CCR)
*Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
*When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
*House Of The Rising Sun - Animals
*Yesterday - Beatles
Date: Sat Jul 23 10:08:15 2011
User: EZ-Ed3-LAnseMI
Message:Somehow I entered the above before I was finished, so the list continues:
*House Of The Rising Sun - Animals
*Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes
*The Sounds Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel (or most anything else by S&G)
*Reach Out, I'll Be There - Four Tops
*Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
*I Get Around - Beach Boys (So does mrbuck)
*Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
*Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison (And most everything else Roy did)
*Ticket To Ride - Beatles
*California Dreamin' - The Mamas & the Papas (Can't get enough of this group)
*Nights In White Satin - Moody Blues
*Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Or could this be my No. 1)
*Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan
*Will You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles
*Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles (Was Ray great, or what!)
*Wild Thing - Troggs (Could this be my favorite?)
*The Loco-Motion - Little Eva
*The Times They Are A'Changin' - Bob Dylan
*Do You Believe In Magic - Lovin' Spoonful
*The Wanderer - Dion
*Under The Boardwalk - Drifters
*Runaround Sue - Dion
*Crying - Roy Orbison
*I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown
*Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles (This could be my favorite)
*I Fought The Law - Bobby Fuller Four (Threw this one in for mrbuck & dede)
*Runaway - Del Shannon
*My Guy - Mary Wells
*Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
*Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison (I could vote this for No. 1)
*Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
*A Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin
*Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett (This would be right up there)
*Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
*You Can't Hurry Love - Supremes
*Devil With A Blue Dress On - Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
*Crimson And Clover - Tommy James & the Shondells
*We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - Animals
*Summer In The City - Lovin' Spoonful
*Hang On Sloopy - McCoys
*Try A Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
*Running Scared - Roy Orbison
*Cathy's Clown - Everly Brothers (Or most anything else by the E.B.)
*Duke Of Earl - Gene Chandler (Gawd, did I love this song)
*I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
And I could list so many more...but this list is way too long now.
Date: Sat Jul 23 11:37:06 2011
User: hotnurse
Message:Wow Dr. B., this is a subject I love to talk about, BUT, R&R is such a tight genre and I think a lot of the songs posted here don't really belong in that category; although they are all great tunes.
We did this topic a few years back and it was incredible some of the stuff I had forgotten about good music.
Fyi, I have been hooked lately on Twilight Zone by Golden Earring. Great tune and lyrics, but probably not my all time fav.
I would at this point have to say Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison for the moment.
Date: Sun Jul 24 18:13:01 2011
User: The_Longhorn
Message:):o Any list of the best rock & roll songs will only reflect the bias of the person(s) making the list. My list would include:
"California Dreamin'", by the Beach Boys*
"I Feel the Earth Move", by Carole King
"I'm Always Here", by Jimi Jamieson**
"Think of Laura", by Christopher Cross
"Try", by Janis Joplin
"Love Will Come Back", by Chicago®
"Long Train Runnin'", by the Doobie Brothers
"Band on the Run", by Paul McCartney & Wings
"Tiny Dancer", by Elton John
"You're So Vain", by Carly Simon
):o That's just off the top of my head.
*The soprano saxophone solo is an improvement over the off-key flute the Mamas & Papas used
**If it's good enough for «Baywatch», it's good enough for me.
):o Moo.
Date: Sun Jul 24 18:18:18 2011
User: The_Longhorn
Message:<<hotnurse:
R&R is such a tight genre and I think a lot of the songs posted here don't really belong in that category;...>>
):o That, too, can be a topic for contentious debate. A lot of people define rock & roll in different ways. Personally, I get really irritated at heavy metal fans who insist that their genre is the only "real" rock & roll. Buddy Holly & Elvis Presley must be spinning in their graves every time that comment is made.
):o Moo.
Date: Sun Jul 24 19:12:10 2011
User: EZ-Ed3-LAnseMI
Message:Ahhhh, Longhorn, how could I have forgotten "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon. Love that song. Thanks for the reminder.
And, agree with your comment about "...A lot of people define rock & roll in different ways. Personally, I get really irritated at heavy metal fans who insist that their genre is the only 'real' rock & roll. Buddy Holly & Elvis Presley must be spinning in their graves every time that comment is made."
I might be the only one who has posted in this thread who remembers when the term "rock n' roll" originated. It started with DJ's and then black-and-white grade-B movies were made using the term that had not quite become universally well known. It was the early part of the mid-1950's. If there was a song that put rock n' roll over the top it was "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets. Rock n' roll had nothing to do with heavy metal at its inception.
According to Wikipedia, in 1953, "Rock Around the Clock" was written for Haley. It was not recorded until April 1954. It was initially unsuccessful, staying on the charts for only one week. When "Rock Around the Clock" appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle" starring Glenn Ford and an early Sidney Portier, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks. The single is commonly used as a convenient line of demarcation between the "rock era" and the music industry that preceded it. After the record rose to number one, Haley was quickly given the title "Father of Rock and Roll," by the media, and by teenagers that had come to embrace the new style of music.
Every song on my lenghthy list was considered rock n' roll by the radio stations that played the music when it originated. Btw, most all of Johnny Cash's early songs (through at least the early to mid-1960s) were considered rock n' roll. So was soul (Wilson Pickett and the like) at the time. And that list goes on and on. It was later when folks started picking apart all the popular music of that era and putting the songs in different genres.
Longhorn, thanks for mentioning Buddy Holly. When I finished my list, I felt bad when I didn't have one of his songs on it. You Texas boys take care of each other. I should have had some Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard on my list, along with "Chantilly Lace" by The Big Bopper (which is definitely one of my favorites). I remember that cold February night in 1959 when Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens went down together in that airplane crash in my native Iowa. My oldest sister went into hysterics when the news came over the TV.
Always enjoy your posts, Longhorn, as I do the ones by Dr. Bombay who started this thread.
Date: Mon Jul 25 02:16:27 2011
User: mrbuck
Message:I could go on forever with this list, but today I'll limit myself to the 50's 60's and 70's
Buddy Holly-Rave On
Chuck Berry-Roll Over Beethoven (Johnny B Goode could work as well, but Roll Over Beethoven has a bit more of a rebellious anthem feel to it)
Elvis Presley-Hound Dog
Johnny Cash-Folsom Prison Blues
Jerry Lee Lewis-Whole Lot of Shakin Going On (whose barn? my barn)
Johnny O'Keefe-Wild One
Sam Cooke-Chain Gang
Louie Louie-The Kingsmen
Hard Days Night-The Beatles (lots of Beatles songs should probably be included, but I never really caught the fever although I appreciate their contribution to rock and roll)
Rolling Stones-I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Rolling Stones-Honky Tonk Woman
Jimi Hendrix-Voodoo Child (man I love that opening rift)
Janis Joplin-Bobby McGee
Janis Joplin-Piece of my Heart
The Who-My Generation
The Who-Squeeze Box
The Band-The Weight
The Grateful Dead-Truckin
CCR-Fortunate Son
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young-Ohio
Ike and Tina Turner-Proud Mary (we always do it nice and rough)
The Doors-Roadhouse Blues
The Kinks-Lola
Black Sabbath-Iron Man
Ozzy Ozbourne-Crazy Train (Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay Ay)
Stevie Wonder-Superstition
James Brown-It's a Man's World
James Brown-Sex Machine (get up, get on up, stay on the scene)
David Bowie-Modern Love
David Bowie-Space Oddity
The Sex Pistols-Anarchy In The UK
The Ramones-I Wanna Be Sedated
I didn't list crossover genres like folk, soft rock, doowop etc and I'm sure I'll go back and read this list list and wonder how I missed certain songs. Maybe later I'll go back and do the 80's til now.
mrbuck
Date: Mon Jul 25 02:21:47 2011
User: mrbuck
Message:Queen, how did I miss Queen?
mrbuck
Date: Mon Jul 25 02:43:45 2011
User: .!.
Message:Love ALL this stuff you all listed here. Cant say its all rock but you gotta admit,theres NO difinitive list. Just checked the net and theyre all completely different. If you are you going by instruments,chronology,region,genre,its all still rock.
When you get some time,crank up the volume and reminisce with these youtube clips of great,earlier rock songs from Dr.Bombays list in chronological order.
Link: Check Berry
Date: Mon Jul 25 02:46:30 2011
User: .!.
Message:This is some great historical stuff here,tho looks synched.
Link: Chuck Berry
Date: Mon Jul 25 02:49:10 2011
User: .!.
Message:This one is SO neat. Grab a friend,some fun stuff,head up to the upper balcony at sunset and crank this one.
Link: Let Jimmy take over
Date: Mon Jul 25 02:53:41 2011
User: .!.
Message:The Springsteen entry.
Link: Thunder Road
Date: Mon Jul 25 03:03:19 2011
User: .!.
Message:Finally,not on the Docs list,but one I love from the Stones. Sometimes that could surely be me up on that microphone.
Link: Go find your own,pal!
Date: Mon Jul 25 11:48:35 2011
User: hotnurse
Message:Ahhhhh, Queen; the quintessential definition of "classic rock'n roll", to me. :)
Date: Sat Jul 30 16:41:07 2011
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:TNmountainman wrote:
"I know you're in the NW and all, but sorry, putting Nirvana (and Michael Jackson, for that matter) ahead of Neil Young's rendition of "Like a Hurricane", or "Cortez the Killer" is simply impossible. And the entire "Live at Fillmore East" album outweighs several there, too, imo."
I get that you love Neil Young (I love Neil Diamond) but I'm not sure there is any criteria that gets him on the short list of Best Rock'n'Roll song ever. I'm not a big Nirvana fan (perhaps if I was younger) but tourists from all over the world find there way to Aberdeen, WA to visit places from Kurt Cobain's youth. Still, if I was from the South, I'd likely have slipped in something from the Allman Brothers Band such as "Midnight Rider" or "Whipping Post". Seems like the Allman Brothers have a strong case in that they get credit as the southern rock pioneers and Duane could certaily shred a guitar.
TNmountainman wrote:
''Clapton's "Why Does Love Got to be So Sad" and "Let It Rain" (among others), any of several Santana songs, scads of other Beatles songs, and "Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida" are some others that must be in the mix.''
I could see where you could make a case for Clapton at the bottom of the second ten. He's got a tremendous reputation as a guitarist and "Layla" has always been popular. But, you're much more likely to walk into store/bar/cafe now and hear "Sultan's of Swing" than anything Clapton ever did.
I'm surprised no one has brought up "Satisfaction". Not having a Stones song in the top ten can't be right. They definitely win the award for longevity in a business where five years on top is an eternity. Still, "Satisfaction" sounds oh so dated.
Putting "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" in the top ten might be the biggest case of being a homer. Led Zep has always been extremely popular in the Seattle area. I think "Stairway to Heaven" was voted the best Rock'n'Roll song ever here in Seattle for over twenty years in a row and still comes out on top with the Heavy Metal listeners.
Link: Led Zep rules in Seattle
Date: Mon Aug 1 03:58:27 2011
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well, Dr. Bombay, you mention "popular", "longevity", and "reputation". Although those are important adjectives, the thread title started with the word "best", and I was working with that. It *is* possible that including the word "song" would remove both the Young classics I mentioned, and also the two Clapton/Derek masterpieces. In my parlance, it wouldn't, but I can understand someone's insistence(?) that it be something that would have been "top 40" back in the day, or "popular" in more recent decades.
Certainly the two Clapton/Derek 'songs' I noted are superior to "Layla", if for no other reason than they're longer and allow the band to stretch out. (Although I would also argue that they're both more intense and fervent.)
That being said, would the 7/8-minute "Hey Jude" qualify? Well, yes, because most radio stations played it.
Do as many people visit Cobain's old haunts as visit the general area of Hwy. 61? (I don't know, I'm just asking.)
"Midnight Rider" and "Whipping Post", for all their immense glory, don't quite match up with "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", at the margin, if you know what I mean.
I certainly don't object to "Sultans of Swing" being on your list. I vividly remember the first instant I first heard the first bars of that song. I was heading west into the outskirts of Nashville on I-40 when it came on a Nashville station. I realized immediately that it was a whole new thing. Curiously(?), I've not been enamored of Knopfler since he left that band.
Ultimately, part of the subjectivity, I'm realizing as I read others' comments, is that how heavily one weighs any ax work is a big determining factor. Although one doesn't think of ax work in either "Oh Pretty Woman", or "Good Vibrations", it would be hard to argue against their inclusion in your list.
You must have missed it, but Mr. Buck brings up "Satisfaction" above in one of his July 25 posts. And speaking of that, I have to agree with you on "Sympathy for the Devil" - I put it ahead "Satisfaction", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", and "Honky Tonk Women". I would even put "Paint it Black" ahead of both because of how hard it rocks.
And speaking of mr. buck's list, it's hard to ignore "Hound Dog", "Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On" (not to be confused with Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On?", which deserves honorable mention), "Louie Louie", and "My Generation" (which I almost mentioned in my first post). (But it becomes critical on some of those if one insists on "best", as opposed to "most influential"....)
I would put some of the other Who classics ahead of "Go to the Mirror Boy" from your original list, but that's minor. But in fact, it's hard to argue that "My Generation", "Baba O'Reilly" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" shouldn't be in just about any top 20 top of R'n'R songs.
"Born to be Wild" and the Doors' "Light My Fire", mentioned by EZ-Ed, should be somewhere in there, too.
I think I'd put "Kashmir" ahead of both "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" and "Stairway to Heaven", but the latter has to be (artificially) downgraded by me personally because I'd heard it enough by 1980, ya know? And what about "When the Levee Breaks"? I mean, that rocks pretty dang hard...
Lastly, as to the list in your link........I have to fault that list on many counts. First, it's WAY WAY WAY WAY too metal-flavored. Secondly, any list that would put the songs it does at #s 2-6 is so fatally flawed as to be nonsensical. I think it's pretty obvious that (most of) the voters on that poll were too young to have fully experienced the early decades of R'n'R, and thus, bluntly, not qualified to judge "Rock songs of all time". Try finding "Born to Run", "Born to be Wild", "Light My Fire"; any song by the Kinks, the Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Janis Joplin, ROLLING STONES, THE BEATLES; or even "Good Vibrations" on that list, for just a few inexcusable omissions. Perhaps(?) worse, there are 18, by my quick count, Guns 'n' Roses songs in that top 1000, as well as 3 of the top 25 -- plus freakin' 23 Nirvana songs. Clearly many of those voters have such a deficit in knowledge/taste as to be irrelevant, and I say that with caution, not rashly. If they wanted to call that the top 1000 *Hard* Rock songs of all time, it would still be very wrong, but at least somewhat less so....
I think it's much more satisfactory to make list of the top albums of all time, as they are much more complete artistic statements. But on the same hand, that sort of goes against some of the spirit of r'n'r by merely saying that.
Anyway, sorry for the too long post - there's just too much music that's come down the pike to narrow it down like this in any effective way. But kudos to you, Dr. Bombay, for giving it a shot.
Date: Mon Aug 1 10:40:25 2011
User: LumberJack
Message:Oh, man! That KISW list was truly odd. Must be purely a reflection of the demographics and the regionality of the station. Thirty one (31) Alice in Chains songs in the top 1000! If you gave me a piece of paper and a pencil and said, "Write down every Alice in Chains song you can think of", I'd use maybe one line on the piece of paper. Sam Kinnison had a song in there? Really?
That's why lists are fun -- agreeing with some stuff and snorting at the rest.
Date: Wed Sep 7 13:21:49 2011
User: BuzzClik
Message:And on the flipside, Rolling Stones worst songs of the 1990s.
All big sellers, most are cringe worthy.
1. Aqua, "Barbie Girl"
2. Los Del Rio, "Macarena"
3. Billy Ray Cyrus, "Achy Breaky Heart"
4. Vanilla Ice, "Ice Ice Baby"
5. Chumbawamba, "Tubthumping"
6. Hanson, "MMMBop"
7. Celine Dion, "My Heart Will Go On"
8. Baha Men, "Who Let The Dogs Out?"
9. Right Said Fred, "I'm Too Sexy"
10. 4 Non Blondes, "What's Up?"
Link: And how many of these did YOU like?
Date: Wed Sep 7 23:56:08 2011
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well, actually I liked "Barbie Girl", but I didn't hear it until maybe 2005?? Still like it. Loved "Ice Ice Baby" from the first time I heard it and still do. In fact, I happen to think it's wonderful, although obviously flawed.
Not sure what those facts say about me, or my taste, but so be it....
Date: Thu Sep 8 07:20:15 2011
User: BuzzClik
Message:It probably does not say anything, TNmountainman, just that you like the songs.
I think putting two novelty songs in the top 10 and one at #1 is pretty silly.
Although there are 5 songs in the top 10 that I despised from the first time I heard them, I've always liked "Tubthumping" and "What's Up?" Rolling Stone provided a video with each song, and I'll confess to being surprised that the lead vocalist in 4 Non Blondes was female; I also found the video to be generally nauseating.
Date: Thu Sep 8 08:31:07 2011
User: xeena
Message:I loved "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" by Julie Brown. With the classic line: "Why did you do what you just did? Are you having a really bad period?" (....while her best friend Debi (played by Julie) is shooting up the prom.)
Yeah, it was done in the 80s, before school shootings probably made that sort of thing too gauche.
Please tell me what that says about me.
Date: Thu Sep 8 13:31:42 2011
User: SkippyTheBushKangaroo
Message:Skippy, Our Friend Ever True
Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
Those are the only songs I know.
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