From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #239 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, December 18 2009 Volume 08 : Number 239 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Rolling Stone's song list ["Brian Block" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:39:59 -0800 From: "Brian Block" Subject: [loud-fans] Rolling Stone's song list >then again, me and "representative" haven't spoken since what, third grade? >Andy Understood, man - understood. The top 100s, I note from the individual ballots, were compiled from each voter's top 25 list. Does anyone else find the prospect of narrowing a decade to 25 best songs -- *ranked* best songs -- as weird or formidable as I do? I sketched out a list just to see what it would be like; there's no reason you'd care, but since I made it, I'll paste it below. Songs 5-7 and 22-25 are all songs that I assume got other votes in the R.S. poll or may even (I didn't check yet) have ranked in the cumulative poll, and 22-25 were chosen in part for that reason. Otherwise it's obscurity at an Andy Hamlin level. At any rate, if I were to completely forget this list and make a new one next month, the top 3 are the only ones I'm certain would be on the next list. 2.5 songs per year ... greatness just isn't anything like that sparse. There are some of you whose song lists, if you made them, would interest me; adding them up doesn't make sense to me at all. 1. "Tattoo Song" (Amy X Neuburg) 2. "Cure of a Kiss" (Count Zero) 3. "Disconnected" (Veruca Salt) 4. "As I Sit Down to Play the Organ" (Sparks) 5. "B.Y.O.B." (System of a Down) 6. "Toxicity" (System of a Down) 7. ?" (Yeasayer) 8. "Stiletto'd Young Stars" (Rebecca Moore) 9. "Merry Christmas, Sgt. Kraulis" (Martin Tielli) 10. "Coin-Operated Boy" (Dresden Dolls) 11. "Attraction is Ephemeral" (Mecca Normal) 12. "Plea from a Cat Named Virtute" (Weakerthans) 13. "No Room in Your Bag" (GrooveLily) 14. "Stress" (Jim's Big Ego) 15. "Freewritten" (Jonny 5 and Yak) 16. "the Vietnamese Telephone Ministry" (Fiery Furnaces) 17. "Drachma" (5uu's) 18. "Ghost of Corporate Future" (Regina Spektor) 19. "Employed" (Ford Pier) 20. "My Rollercoaster" (Kimya Dawson) 21. "Teen for God" (Dar Williams) 22. "Stillness is the Move" (Dirty Projectors) 23. "Time to Pretend" (MGMT) 24. "Hands Clean" (Alanis Morissette) 25. "Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe" (Okkervil River)

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