Jaymie Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Pitchfork has recently started there 200 greatest songs of the 60s feature.They have planed to dispense a new 50 or so entries every day till Friday when they unleash their top 20.Care to wager who will make it to that plateau??Keeping in mind the snarky, hipster, sovereign, argumentative and oft obscured tendencies of Pitchfork, Let Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fortuneinmyhead Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 puff the magic dragon? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wheelco Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 that's it for the other one Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I'm gonna bet "A Quick One While He's Away" will be #1. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 What do you think?I really don't care. I am not being particulary cynical here, I am just tired of these best of lists. Frankly if you pick out any 200 hits or obscurities from the 60s I think you can make a case for them. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
street spirit Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 be my baby Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo Jones Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Heroin is already out and it's not even in the top 50. Can people at least see the whole list before the slamming commences? For a group of people who hate Pitchfork for being snarky, the posters here sometimes seem like they are auditioning for jobs at the website. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 Surprised that "Heroin" made such an early appearance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 i don't think anyone has slammed anything, i agree with louieb that it's pretty much pointless, but it is interesting to read, seeing how i only have about 11% of the songs so far.As pointless as it is, I read through it as well, because alot of great and classic songs were written during my formative years. Most contemporary songwriters should take a long hard look at these songs for models and inspiration. I think some songwriters need to go back to basics sometimes. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jaymie Posted August 17, 2006 Author Share Posted August 17, 2006 I thought "Herion" would have been higher too, as "Visions Of Johanna" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kalle Posted August 17, 2006 Share Posted August 17, 2006 I think "A Day In The Life" will be #1 or very close. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Elixir Sue Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 #1: God Only Knows. I respectfully disagree. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jaymie Posted August 18, 2006 Author Share Posted August 18, 2006 #1: God Only Knows. I respectfully disagree. Me too. Pitchforks lists are usally really intresting, if often debateable, but this one was just dubious. It's like they took every other major publications "Greatest Sixties Songs" list, shuffled the placements of some of the selections, and just kind of ommited the third most obvious choice (Example, "Like A Rolling Stone", "Visions Of Johanna", But no "the times they are a'changin") The theme from "Docter Who" was pretty damn high.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WaronWar Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Its hard to lists songs, but "God Only Knows" is a fresh choice. Instead of the obvious "Like A Rolling Stone", which is a great song, but already has been honored a million times. "God Only Knows" is a great song that has perfectly layered orchersteration that whispers into the listener's ear; plus, the lyrics are heart felt and can be used as a great way to romanticze a relationship. Finally, I thought Herion should have been higher, but really was painful was seeing the VU's "Sunday Morning" being place on the list instead of replacing "Sunday Morning" with the epic organ and guitar screeching, drum pounding, transexual lyrics of "Sister Ray". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
into the white Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Sister Ray is on the list, I forget if it was higher than Sunday Morning. I thought the top ten was pretty good. The Jackson 5 song's a good choice. On top of that, I liked that instead of doing the normal pitchfork trying to be obscure method of making lists, they did still minclude most of the obvious ones near the top of the list (Like a Rolling Stone and A Day in the Life). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Synthesizer Patel Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Were The Impressions on the list? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Eli Cash Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Its hard to lists songs, but "God Only Knows" is a fresh choice. Instead of the obvious "Like A Rolling Stone", which is a great song, but already has been honored a million times. "God Only Knows" is a great song that has perfectly layered orchersteration that whispers into the listener's ear; plus, the lyrics are heart felt and can be used as a great way to romanticze a relationship. Amen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
markosis Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Were The Impressions on the list? Yeah. "People Get Ready" was on the 100's somewhere. They had to include that song. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Willkoman Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 That was a good list. I'm thinking a lot of those songs could have been heard on A.M. radio on a daily basis which is pretty cool. Now you literally have to hunt down the truly good music when back then it came to you on a silver platter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Synthesizer Patel Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Yeah. "People Get Ready" was on the 100's somewhere. They had to include that song. Cool. I didn't see it in there, but they seemed to be mentioning a lot of that style of music and it made me think about them. People Get Ready is probably the most influential and well known, so that makes sense. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 That was a good list. I'm thinking a lot of those songs could have been heard on A.M. radio on a daily basis which is pretty cool. Now you literally have to hunt down the truly good music when back then it came to you on a silver platter. A small,small moment in time there...such a shame but I'm glad I got to dig a small part of it,thanks to older family & friends Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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