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Top 500 songs

noonereal said:
Listening to top 500 songs of all time as voted by the audience on Sirius XM .

Was was pleased by many of the very top selections like Layla, W Whiter Shade of Pale and White Rabbit, hey Jude all in top 10, yet mystified by others
Dream On at 20?
Piano Man around 15.
3 chord Smoke On The Water around 15 too.

Lots of Zeppelin on the list, rightfully so.

One song that surprised me to be on the list, a David Sancious and Tone song few have ever heard of. David Sancious was part of the original Springsteen Band for several albums. I still consider he and Clarance the best thing that ever happened to Bruce.
Do yourself a favor, listen.

I was lucky enough to see them perform in a tinny club in NYC.

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I am a fan of RollingStone The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was first compiled in 2004 and last updated in 2024 with about half the songs replaced with newer songs.
www.rollingstone.com

The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

500 Best Songs of All Time: the Beatles, Beyonce, Bowie, and more
www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com
 
Lutherf said:
The only song on the list by The Band is "Shape I'm In"? What about "The Weight" or "Up on Cripple Creek" or "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"?
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The Weight came in at 24
 
noonereal said:
Sure it was. My grandmother has 16 and 1/3 records. Viny goes back
at least to the 30s
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You're both right, depending on what one means by "vinyl". Early records were made on wax, initially on a roll and later flattened out to a platter. Vinyl came out around 1950 but the concept was the same as wax although the vinyl media itself was more durable.
 
Stealers Wheel said:
Vinyl was not a thing prior to 1950.
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Songs written earlier can still be recorded on to vinyl though.

Anyway, I was making a more general (if heavily sarcastic) point about lists of "best of all time". Hence the :cool: .
 
Lutherf said:
You're both right, depending on what one means by "vinyl". Early records were made on wax, initially on a roll and later flattened out to a platter. Vinyl came out around 1950 but the concept was the same as wax although the vinyl media itself was more durable.
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I had some 78 rpm records made on shellac. They replaced wax and were made until the 1950s and then replaced by vinyl.
 
Here are the facts. The very first playback recordings were recorded on tinfoil cylinders in 1877. These would not last more than a couple of playbacks if that. Bell laboratories developed a wax coated cylinder about 10 years later that were far more durable and sounded better. Berliner developed the first flat discs in 1888. Those early disc records were made of hard rubber (think of men's ACE pocket combs). Around 1895 the discs transitioned to a Shellac mixture. The Cylinder Record industry would die a slow inevitable death, but would transition from Industrial wax of various density to celluloid -- that carried cylinder records to their demise in 1929. Shellac would remain the disc industry standard until the first attempt at long playing 33 1/3 rpm vinyl composition discs in the early 1930's. These were a miserable failure ---- and the Depression and radio were of no help. 78 RPM shellac laminated records would become king until after World War II in 1948 and long play records were reintroduced in solid vinyl. The 78 rpm disc shellac records became more refined after the advent of electric magnetic cartridges, lighter tone arms and a permanent stylus as they moved into their demise in the late 1950's, and the vinyl 45 rpm and 33 1/3 rpm became the standard by 1950... I know this being a record collector for over 50 years...
 
craig said:
I am a fan of RollingStone The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was first compiled in 2004 and last updated in 2024 with about half the songs replaced with newer songs.
www.rollingstone.com

The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

500 Best Songs of All Time: the Beatles, Beyonce, Bowie, and more
www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com
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I’m not sure get ur freak on is the 8th greatest song of all time
 
I Want to Hold Your Hand is a better song than Bohemian Rhapsody?

And I ask this as a Beatlemaniac.
 
Loulit01 said:
I Want to Hold Your Hand is a better song than Bohemian Rhapsody?

And I ask this as a Beatlemaniac.
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Why Those Screaming Beatlemania Girls Matter

Those videos of Beatlemania girls screaming have have always made me squirm. All that howling, weeping, and writhing bug me for multiple reasons. As a woman, they make me cringe because rock criticism defined itself against them: screeching gals over there, analytical guys over here. As a...
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craig said:
www.heydullblog.com

Why Those Screaming Beatlemania Girls Matter

Those videos of Beatlemania girls screaming have have always made me squirm. All that howling, weeping, and writhing bug me for multiple reasons. As a woman, they make me cringe because rock criticism defined itself against them: screeching gals over there, analytical guys over here. As a...
www.heydullblog.com
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Okay, I get it.

The young ladies would lose control. Often, they'd also lose control of their bladders. Stadium staff hated cleaning up after Beatles concerts. Seriously.
 
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