my big project was bumped back a week, so I might be able to start singles a little earlier than I thought. It'll move much, much slower than the album list, though.

As well it should. Let me know if you'd like help with the teaser/intros.

Yeah I heard pretty much everything between the ages of 16 and 18. But by the time I was 16, I had listened to so much of the Stones, the Who and CCR and I'll take those bands over the Beatles any day.

Hey Elc, have you seen this:



What a treasure trove. Heartbreaking footage of Townes, Guy Clarke working on his guitars, & a drunken juvenile delinquent by the name of Steve Earle hanging at Guy Clarke's place on Xmas night. Not to mention a crazy David Allen Coe playing a prison!

I've got the dvd. Played it once, and was kinda disappointed. I need to watch it again.

Whoa! Never even heard of that. Thanks. [running to Netflix.....]

For anyone interested and just for the fun of it, here are the Top 10s culled from this list, by year:

1965

01 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
02 Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
03 The Beatles – Rubber Soul
04 Otis Redding - Otis Blue
05 The Beatles - Help!
06 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
07 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
08 Here Are the Sonics!!!
09 The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
10 The Who Sings My Generation

1966

01 The Beatles - Revolver
02 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
03 Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
04 The Kinks - Face to Face
05 Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!
06 The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
07 Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly[/i]
08 The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer
09 The Monks - Black Monk Time
10 The Psychedelic Sounds of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators

1967

01 The Velvet Underground and Nico
02 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
03 Love - Forever Changes
04 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
05 The Who Sell Out
06 Something Else By The Kinks
07 Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
08 The Doors
09 The Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
10 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love

1968

01 The Beatles
02 The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet
03 The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
04 Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
05 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
06 The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
07 The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
08 The Band - Music from Big Pink
09 The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
10 Os Mutantes

Shocking miss: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

1969

01 The Beatles - Abbey Road
02 The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
03 The Velvet Underground
04 Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
05 Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!
06 Led Zeppelin
07 The Band
08 Led Zeppelin II
09 The Who - Tommy
10 Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis

1970

01 Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
02 The Stooges - Fun House
03 Van Morrison - Moondance
04 The Velvet Underground - Loaded
05 George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
06 John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
07 The Who - Live at Leeds
08 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
09 Led Zeppelin III
10 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

1971

01 The Who – Who’s Next
02 David Bowie - Hunky Dory
03 The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
04 Led Zeppelin IV
05 Joni Mitchell - Blue
06 T. Rex - Electric Warrior
07 Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
08 Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
09 Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
10 Pink Floyd - Meddle

1972

01 The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
02 David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
03 Big Star - #1 Record
04 Nick Drake - Pink Moon
05 Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
06 Neil Young - Harvest
07 Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
08 Neu!
09 Can - Ege Bamyasi
10 Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?

1973

01 Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
02 Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
03 The Who - Quadrophenia
04 Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
05 Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
06 Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
07 Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent and The E-Street Shuffle
08 The New York Dolls
09 Bob Marley and the Wailers - Catch a Fire
10 Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy

1974

01 Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
02 Big Star - Radio City
03 Neil Young - On the Beach
04 Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
05 King Crimson - Red
06 Sparks - Kimono My House
07 Roxy Music - Country Life
08 Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
09 Kraftwerk - Autobahn
10 Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

wow, '72 is our coolest year. Surprising.

'68 and '66 are up there too. '74 is a real mixed bag.

Interesting about '66 -- to get to 10, you have to go pretty deep into the Top 300. However, the Top 3 are ironclad at the top of just about any albums list one'll run across.

yeah, '66 is def. a three-hit wonder when it comes to albums. I can pretty well guarantee that that's not gonna be the case on our singles list, though.

The singles list is gonna be great, I can feel it. And probably much more unpredictable than the albums!

'74 is an odd year, there's no obvious contender for #1 that you'd think a large %age of people would agree on unlike the other years where there are three or four. Yet the year does have a wealth of albums that aren't quite top tear classics. Personally I had two from '74 in my top 10.

such disrespect to #4, Face to Face.

none that it doesn't deserve

cries::

Good call on doing this by mid decade. I was skeptical at first, but it really seems to fit together here -- and it would have been weird to split up the punk and new wave stuff in the next one.

Yeah...75 to 84 will be very interesting with the end of classic rock and the emerging punk/new wave scene....I already know my top 2 picks for that time period...no brainers for me...but that's still a couple of weeks off.....

I'm really looking forward to the singles and am hoping for a mix of the classics with pure pop.

Does anything have a legitimate prayer against London Calling?

albumwise? Its closest competitors on the all-time list were Let it Be (#5) and Murmur (#9), both of which have a slight chance. I wouldn't bet on anything taking it down, though.

I'm on a mission to make ¡Sandinista! the dark horse.

Wasn't Purple Rain '84?

I can't see an album in the top 5 that isn't that or one of the following

you'll have my support certainly, though not over LC



only #74 on our all-time list. I think Ben nearly quit over it.

You read my freakin' mind..........oh well...poll's over...........

I'd be very, very surprised if this even made the top ten

all worthy contenders for sure Mitchell....

'75-'84 sucks for me because most punk & new wave bores or depresses me. i don't "get" London Calling, although i like a couple songs.

i also never "got" Joy Division. i left that for the cool kids while i cozied up to less-threatening, more melodic, radio-approved classic rock.

the Cure perked me up, and then R.E.M. saved me.

I wasn't here for the last all-time vote. And maybe the new Prince album and the Van Hunt will cause a slight resurgence.

How did My Aim Is True do in the all-time poll? (probably got its ass kicked from all the Elvis vote-splitting, especially with Get Happy.)

I figured it might be as a reaction to the assumed victory of London Calling, it is unlikely though. Closer and Unknown Pleasures may suffer from from the harshest vote splitting ever seen.

Well sure ... if you prefer quality over quantity.

This Year's Model (#36)
My Aim is True (#60)

Another artist who will no doubt get his wares spread, Armed Forces will be highest on my list.

mitchell, if this were UK board, do you think the Buzzcocks would rule over The Clash?

You're forgetting the birth of Hip-Hop, plus Euro-Dance styles, Hair Metal, NWOBM, Death/Speed Metal, MTV Pop, etc.

No, more likely that their singles would be better appreicated and Singles Going Steady would lose votes to Music From Another Kitchen

Hot from Acc Music: Most acclaimed artists by our splits.

1955-1964
1. Elvis Presley
2. Beatles
3. Ray Charles
4. Miles Davis
5. Chuck Berry
6. Buddy Holly
7. Frank Sinatra
8. Little Richard
9. Bob Dylan
10. Charles Mingus

1965-1974
1. Beatles
2. Rolling Stones
3. Bob Dylan
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. Led Zeppelin
6. Who
7. Velvet Underground
8. Beach Boys
9. David Bowie
10. Marvin Gaye

1975-1984
1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Clash
3. Elvis Costello
4. Talking Heads
5. Prince
6. David Bowie
7. Sex Pistols
8. Michael Jackson
9. Joy Division
10. Ramones

1985-1994
1. Nirvana
2. R.E.M.
3. Public Enemy
4. U2
5. Beastie Boys
6. Pixies
7. Prince
8. Sonic Youth
9. Smiths
10. Guns 'n' Roses

1995-2004
1. Radiohead
2. OutKast
3. Eminem
4. Beck
5. White Stripes
6. Missy Elliott
7. Pulp
8. Wilco
9. Strokes
10. Blur

Acc. Music 1975-84 Albums.

1/ Sex Pistols-Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols
2/ The Clash - London Calling
3/ Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
4/ Patti Smith - Horses
5/ Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
6/ Television - Marquee Moon
7/ Michael Jackson - Thriller
8/ Ramones - Ramones
9/ Talking Heads - Remain in Light
10/ Prince and The Revolution - Purple Rain
11/ Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
12/ The Clash - The Clash
13/ Joy Division - Closer
14/ Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
15/ R.E.M. - Murmur
16/ Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
17/ Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
18/ Blondie - Parallel Lines
19/ David Bowie - Low
20/ Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
21/ Led Zeppelin - Phy'all send the thingcal Graffiti
22/ The Eagles - Hotel California
23/ Bruce Springsteen- Darkness on the Edge of Town
24/ The Original Soundtrack - Saturday Night Fever
25/ Michael Jackson - Off the Wall

Ok...ok..come on now...let's try to stay focused on 65 to 74...for now..singles still to come and we'll have plenty of time to stump the next decade.....









very true

"ass-kicked by vote-splitting" is a good descriptor of Elvis in the SOMB polls in general. 17 singles of his were voted for our all-time list, but none of them got more than four votes.

If I vote in this one, I'd have no choice but to include 5 of his albums.

what's this "if" business

My Aim Is True, Armed Forces, This Year's Model, Get Happy, Trust and Imperial Bedroom are likely all going to appear on my list.

Depends on where voting falls between finals/starting a summer job. Over the summer I'll have no access to Somb unless I can sublet a place with wireless. But I've already got a good idea what my list will look like.


(sorry Rob) - but I'm curious what people here think about Imperial Bedroom -- I know it's been hailed as his best, but I prefer those other five.

well yea, get started on that shit ASAP.

the suggestion/voting threads will start on May 1.

I'm sure I can pull together a strong 50 by then.

I vacillate on it. Sometimes I think it is his best, sometimes I think it's just among the best 5; but it's really great all the time. First Elvis record I got right when it came out... I wasn't disappointed. I even remember debating with my buddy over how Rolling Stone would review it. He was certain it'd be 5 stars. I correctly predicted 4 1/2. Kinda ridiculous that we cared, but hey those were different times then.

Just waded through all fifty pages of this. Nice list, people.

Next time, though, we need to cordon off a special thread for Montana's "Variations on a Theme of Glam Bashing." I hope at least he's getting shits and giggles out of that Gary Glitter visual gag

Caught up now, Thanks for this Bill and everyone who added insight (nearly everyone) Good to see that my #1 cracked the top 10. Can't really fault the Beatles for being at the top really....

Is the countdown still going?


Take a seat motherfucker before I school you.

And I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Over and over and over and over
Over and over, ...
I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real

Cause its all in my head
I think about it over and over again
And I can’t keep picturing you with him
And it hurts so bad, yeah
Cause it’s on in my head
I think about it over and over again
I replay it over and over again
And I can’t take it yeah I can’t shake it
Nooo

for those of you looking for resources for singles, etc. I found a pretty good one here:

http://www.alaskajim.com/charts/yearlysingles/1984.asp#us

I have it on the 1984 singles, but you can surf your way wherever you want. The link titled, Top 40 Hits of ____ for each year contains a list of all the top 40 hits for that year in alphabetical order. A nice resource for finding those hit songs you had forgotten about prior to voting in the next singles poll.

Another great list resource is here:

http://www.rocklists.com/

End of year lists for various modern rock/alternative radio stations. Begins in 1980, KROC being the leading station.