THE FINAL PLAYLIST THUNDERDOME.
Thanks for the ride, everyone. 52 weeks, over a year of unfairly pitting songs against each other. Take a minute and review the playlist. Some great songs!
The newest edition is Stars, “One More Night (Your Ex-Lover Remains Dead),” which more than half of the SEVEN voters preferred.
This week: three great ending songs. Poll’s at the top of the post. Vote, for the last time! [poll=26]
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The winners thus far:
Elvis Costello – Allison
Jet – Look What You’ve Done
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
Guns N Roses – Paradise City
Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze
Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues
The New Pornographers – Letter From An Occupant
The Smiths – There is a Light that Never Goes Out
The Police – King of Pain
Violent Femmes – Kiss Off
Cat Stevens – Wild World
Aretha Franklin – River’s Invitation
Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride
Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
The Doors – L.A. Woman
The Carpenters – On Top of the World
Boston – More Than a Feeling
Prince – When Doves Cry
Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl
The Chemical Brothers – Let Forever Be
U2 – I Will Follow
The Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)
Coldplay – God Put a Smile on Your Face
The Shins – Caring is Creepy
Adam Ant – Goody Two-Shoes
REM – Man On The Moon
Barenaked Ladies/Sarah McLachlan – God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
The Beatles – She’s Leaving Home
Stevie Nicks – Edge of Seventeen
Public Enemy – Night of the Living Baseheads
The Who – Baba O’Riley
The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Led Zeppelin – Ramble On
Massive Attack – Teardrop
The Frames – Cry Me A River
Uncle Tupelo – New Madrid
Big Star – Thirteen
Everything But The Girl – Mirrorball
Simon & Garfunkel – 59th Street Bridge Song
Rob Base & DJ EZ-E – It Takes Two
Radiohead – High and Dry
The B-52s – Private Idaho
Sufjan Stevens – To Be Alone With You
Tracy Chapman – Fast Car
The Ramones – Judy Is A Punk
The Beach Boys – Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Danzig – Mother
Jackson Browne – These Days
Stars – One More Night (Your Ex-Lover Remains Dead)
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I had to vote for the piece of the Abbey Road medley. In my opinion it is the single greatest musical acheivement in the last 50 years.
The Final Countdown wins, mostly because Gob endorses it.
REM wins a Rory for most gratuitous use of the name “Leonard Bernstein” in a song.
I love (LOVE!) Abby Road, but I have to say I’ve always been irritated by the medley. It just sounds like several woulda-been-great songs that a band on its way down slapped together and never bothered to finish.
Then again, I can’t handle the vocals on “The Final Countdown” and I’m tired of the REM pick, great as it is. I’m mulling. This may take a while. I may have to come back to the question when I’m in a happier mood.
Geez grumpy!!
But can you really argue with anything I’ve said? I may be grumpy, but I’m right.
since all you said was that you are irritated by the medley, it’s tough to argue! I agree — you’re irritated by the medley.
Now, I think you’re smoking crack if you don’t completely love the medley forever.
No, I said the medley sounds like several songs that would be great if anyone had bothered to finish them. And (in so many words) that the REM song has unfortunately been played to death.
I’ll agree with you on your second point, but not at all on your first. NO, NO, NO.
I just cast my vote for the medley. Unfinished or no, it’s at least clips of songs that never get old.
Yes, yes yes!
maybe if you were Superallison I’d agree. but no.
I’m tempted to vote for The Final Countdown, but I prefer this version so much more.
Agree with the pregnant lady- just agree with her!
Beatles medley all the way. Back when it was about albums, the “second side” of Abbey Road was my favorite thing ever.
Golden Slumbers is simply a gorgeous set of lyrics and Carry That Weight has got some of my favorite beats to it.
“The Final Countdown” is a musical abomination.
I gotta go with Gob.
Tracy, I thought it was just BTD Greg that had to agree with Allison. For the sake of all, I humbly accept her word as Bible.
Agghhh. I’m a Beatlemaniac, so I feel I have to vote for the Abbey Road selection, but I really really really like that REM song (even if it has been played to death). Hmmm. Tough choice tonight.
Nobody *has* to agree with me. My being right has absolutely nothing to do with my being pregnant.*
*Actually, my grumpiness yesterday was also due to a confluence of factors not related to pregnancy.
I agree with SuperAllison.
I wish the Beatles had finished these songs and yet even in medley form they are a stunning musical acheivement. Gotta go with it. I dig the REM song but I’ve played it too many times in cover bands to be able to take it any more…
REM hands down. I’ve always loved this song (despite the play it gets), but the context in which it was written makes me love it even more. Apparently Michael Stipe went to a debate tournament and was appalled by what he saw — namely, constant cries about the end of the world coming from people who were (often) very well educated on the critical issues of the day but who cared only about using this vital information to win meaningless debates (at mock speed no less — e.g., “listen to yourself churn”).
The most damning lines: “A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.”
Ouch.