200 Greatest Songs of All Time

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 10:52 am

Kapitano wrote:10 Skunkwhippet - Suck my Tonsure
9 DJ Dummkopf - Velco Headlamp Siezure (Part 5)
8 My Favourite Lycanthropy - Zippity Hotmuggins
7 Kid Gaylord and the Brooms - Aaah Aaah (Spoonwinder Remix)
6 Massive Brain Failure - McGyver In Raspberry Jam
5 Brontosaurus Haystax III - Becomming More Like Adolf
4 Glooo - Syphoning Mucus Through My Mother (15-16 Radio Edit)
3 The Rectal Telephone Band - Let's Do The Frump-Frump
2 Blind Jimmy Toastrack - Stencilhead City Mastication Blues
1 Tepid Bonobo Nautiloid Therapy - Theme from Gargling Flatweasle

...I stand corrected.

joshw · Post by **joshw** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:13 am

Leaf wrote:5.Do't Call Me Dude ~ Scatterbrain

Whoa, thanks for the trip down memory lane on that one! That whole CD was great. They're proof that you can drill anything into brains by getting 100 fratboys around a microphone to scream it at once.

*scampering off to DC++*

john m · Post by **john m** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:20 pm

Leaf, if you hadn't been trying to offend with that list, I probably would find you and punch you in the face. Had Creed not existed, Metallica would easily be worst band of all time. And to place Roxanne visibly below them adds insult to... well, insult, I guess.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:28 pm

john m wrote:Leaf, if you hadn't been trying to offend with that list, I probably would find you and punch you in the face. Had Creed not existed, Metallica would easily be worst band of all time. And to place Roxanne visibly below them adds insult to... well, insult, I guess.

...having seen your photo, that would be an amusing encounter.

For the record, I love Metallica, and while we are all entitled to our own tastes, I stand by mine!!

Master of Puppets is my Desert Island pick.... you know, the one album you'd pick if you were stranded on a desert island.

While I'm at it... I borrowed a Modest Mouse album yesterday.

Modest Mouse = terrible impression of REM. Terrible band. I do not understand the hoopla about them.

...and I gathered there was a huge anti-metallica contigent around here... they still rock. ...

And Roxanne is the greatest Police song of all time!!!!!!!

You are totally right about Creed though. They are also terrible. Suprised they aren't on that Rolling Stone list....

john m · Post by **john m** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 12:38 pm

Leaf wrote:...having seen your photo, that would be an amusing encounter.

Oh yeah. When music I hate is involved, I Hulk out. Except without the green. Or the muscles, really. Pretty much I just get pissed off.

Leaf wrote:Modest Mouse = terrible impression of REM. Terrible band. I do not understand the hoopla about them.

Yeah, I think I put them in my first post of the Don't Get It thread. Never found them interesting.

Leaf wrote:And Roxanne is the greatest Police song of all time!!!!!!!

I love it to death, but I don't know. I have soft spots for so many of their songs. I'd probably give the edge to Message in a Bottle, at least. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic is super great also (fun fact: I grew up almost entirely on that one song), and I find Synchronicity I to be severely underrated.

Leaf wrote:You are totally right about Creed though. They are also terrible.

Okay we are friends.

jack · Post by **jack** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:35 pm

the 200 greatest songs to who? me? you? some knob committee of "critics and experts"?

why do we even argue over such nonsense?

(i know....it's because we like to argue. nevermind.)

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:45 pm

The 200 greatest songs to the people at Rolling Stone.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:45 pm

No we don't.

EDIT:
Damn it ERik!!! ...ok... joke ruined.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:33 pm

I'm a sucker for these lists. I don't know why.

I love lists.

I love to count!

In a perfect world, all people would be arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System. I would be 591.099432

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:09 pm

I love lists too....just not when Rolling Stone (or Spin) do them.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:39 pm

john m wrote:I find Synchronicity I to be severely underrated.

I think any song that has "interconnecting principle" in the lyrics is cool.
Although that might be Synchronicity II, I can't remember now.
Actually I was just telling Starf that my song's lyrics this week were inspired by that in an obtuse way.
-bill

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:07 pm

Radiohead?

And... Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight deserves to be in the top twenty at least, simply for being the single most definitive and ground-breaking hip-hop song ever, no questions asked.

Gazelles · Post by **Gazelles** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 5:50 pm

john m wrote:
Leaf wrote:...having seen your photo, that would be an amusing encounter.
Oh yeah. When music I hate is involved, I Hulk out. Except without the green. Or the muscles, really. Pretty much I just get pissed off.

Me too. I get really sullen and irritable. I had to spend a week with a bunch of great people once, but this one guy carried around a boom box with him everywhere and blasted horrible music. I put in Doolittle once and about a couple minutes into Debaser someone told me it was crappy and to turn it off. His favorite band was Slipknot. It was depressing.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:13 am

j$ wrote:
HeuristicsInc wrote:Hm.
Pink Floyd is awesome.-bill
Pink Floyd suck. Music for Phsyics Post-Graduates who can't get laid. I point everyone to Johnny Rotten's 'I Hate Pink Floyd' t-shirt.

...And Johnny Rotten's t-shirts are Gospel.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:16 pm

What makes a great song, anyway? Yeah, it's a silly list. I would be more inclined to respect a list of the 200 greatest songs in alphabetical order, with a very clearly stated definition of just what is meant by "great". I heard something once where Dick Clark said that whenever he's asked what the most important rock song is, he immediately answers "The Twist" by Chubby Checker, and his reasoning is because it started a dance fad that inched its way into the establishment and consequently validated rock and roll music as a sanctioned artifact of mainstream culture. Now that's a smart answer.

At the end of 1999, NPR did a long series of bits about the 100 most important songs of the century, with explanations of why each was chosen, and they were terrific. Not the same ol same ol list, either. Lots of standards, R&B, rock, everything.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 8:16 pm

All Songs Considered

NPR does this every year, but its still fun and certainly much better than those mags.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:27 pm

How about Guitar Player's ..or was it Guitar World? No matter, rather than run in the house, I'll just mention it's "100 worst guitar solos of all time". NOW THAT WAS A LIST.

CC DeVille.... poor bastard.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:17 am

whats up with all the pink floyd hatahs?

Ya'll, Pink Floyd is awesome.

Not just because they were popular, but because they were good.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:39 am

I'll second that. I love Pink Floyd. They had a feel to their music that is unmistakable... sits right in the pocket.....and Gilmour is a fantastic feel player. Break his solos down, and they are simple... but the feel and timing is SOOOOOOO gooood.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:24 am

Many people find their music slow and boring. I am one of those people.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:49 am

They can be astoundingly boring, but if what you're after is an atmosphere instead of something you will actively be listening to, then they can be much more soulful than some ambient techno synth-a-thon.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:01 pm

Hoblit wrote:whats up with all the pink floyd hatahs?

Ya'll, Pink Floyd is awesome.

Not just because they were popular, but because they were good.

My brother used to have a vinyl 'picture disk' of Dark Side of the Moon. I nicked it off him and swapped it with a bloke for an old scratched copy of Led Zepelin IV.

I came out of that deal miles ahead.