NationStates Jolt Archive

The 10 nominees have been chosen and are as follows:

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (Niini)
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen (Random Kingdom)
Yesterday - The Beatles (Aust)
Come Together - The Beatles (Swimmingpool)
Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks (Sarzonia)
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley (Nadkor)
Ordinary World - Duran Duran (Sanctaphrax)
The Flying Dutchman - Richard Wagner (Greater Valia)
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (Vittos Ordination)
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits (Tonissia)

Feel free to vote, even if you have nominated one. Poll will close in 4 days (I'm not available Friday, Saturday, Sunday or early Monday) and the winner will be announced here and on the official awards page.

Wish You Were Here shall win (doubt it though)
Actually this was harder than it supposed to be. lot of good ones... :eek:

Why no Zeppelin? Surely Black Dog, Whole lotta love or Stairway at least deserve a position.

Between those selections.... I can't decide between floyd and bob dylan...

Between those selections.... I can't decide between floyd and bob dylan...
I went for floyd.

Oh gawd...too hard!
*can't decide between 3*
Well WYWH had my other vote....arg....

Hopefully it's noted somewhere that Hallelujah is a Cohen song. Buckley's just a cover... in fact, he's a cover of a cover, insofar as John Cale's cover of Cohen's overproduced monstrosity is the mold from which later performers cast their own interpretations.

I voted for it anyhow, mind you. Brilliant song, and Buckley does a good job with it (it was that or Dylan).

Hopefully it's noted somewhere that Hallelujah is a Cohen song. Buckley's just a cover... in fact, he's a cover of a cover, insofar as John Cale's cover of Cohen's overproduced monstrosity is the mold from which later performers cast their own interpretations.

I voted for it anyhow, mind you. Brilliant song, and Buckley does a good job with it (it was that or Dylan).
Yea, I know it was a cover, but i consider the Buckley version to be the best version of what is a brilliant song anyway

bump for the masses

Yea, I know it was a cover, but i consider the Buckley version to be the best version of what is a brilliant song anyway

I respect your statement, but Cale's version is untouchable.

I voted for Like a Rolling Stone because it is the best song ever.

Bohemian Rhapsody :D

This has got to be the most poorly complied list of "classics" I think I've ever seen.

Pink Floyd is starting to wear thin. I've heard them probably close to 50 times on the radio in the last 10 days. Led Zeppelin is horrendously overrated and I'm glad they're not on the list, but Duran Duran?!

How does Duran Duran make it and the Who and the Stones don't? "A Quick One" is ten times the song any of these are; and "Start Me Up," while it's arguably the 'Stones worst song, is still a title most of these bands would kill a man to have written themselves.

Bohemian Rhapsody is a good song, but like Pink Floyd, it's played far, far too often by those Clear Channel radio stations for its own good. It's one of those songs that's very easy to burn yourself out on if you hear it too much. And I have.

I'd have to say "Like A Rolling Stone" although I'm kinda leaning towards Bohemian Rhapsody as well.

maybe I'm wrong, but I could have sworn that Yesterday is Mccartney, not the beatles...

maybe I'm wrong, but I could have sworn that Yesterday is Mccartney, not the beatles...

It was Lennon and Mccartney, I think, but it's still an awesome song. Play it at a talent show, the girls love it!

Although Wish you were here and Sultans of swing kick ass.. I voted Queen.

No offense, but the list of choices seems to be from someone in their teens. Where is, for example, but my no means limited to:

1. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
2. Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife
3. Led Zepplin - Whole Lotta' Love or Stairway to Heaven
4. Janis Joplin - Bobby McGhee
5. Elvis - Hound Dog, Heartbreak Motel, Blue Suede Shoes
6. Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence or Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
7. Pink Floyd - Money or Time
8. The Beatles - A Day in the Life
9. The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
10. Ten Years After - I'd Love to Change the World

That's enough for now, but it should illustrate the deficiancy in the poll choices.

The Who definatly should be on the list. If it was My list so would the Allman Brothers, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, CCR ...

I'm in the high-fidelity
First class travelling section
I think I need a lear jet...

I know there's only 10 you could have on the poll, but bah for not including Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Black Sabbath, Hendrix, The Kinks, etc... ;)

Even Elvis, despite not liking him much.

I vote Wish You Were Here, anyway.

Bastard! Make me choose between Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone and Beatles - Come Together will ya!!!

Bohemian Rhapsody
Oh gottcha!

To all the people complaining about the list...if you wanted a song on the list why didnt you nominate it? :rolleyes:

You also forgot to mention the true greats, AC/DC, Skynard, Sabbath, and about Floyd's Brick in the wall part 3

Pink Floyd is starting to wear thin. I've heard them probably close to 50 times on the radio in the last 10 days. Led Zeppelin is horrendously overrated and I'm glad they're not on the list, but Duran Duran?!
<Applauds> Good answer, good answer. (Sorry, I've watched "Family Feud" lately.)

[again]But... Stevie Nicks song I've never heard of makes it ahead of, well, any song from Rumours?

A pox o' the lot of ye!

<Applauds> Good answer, good answer. (Sorry, I've watched "Family Feud" lately.)

Thank you. Incidentally, I've met the man from which you've taken your namesake. He signed a Maoist newsletter I happened to be carrying . He's a pretty funny guy.

At any rate, if anyone is interested in the [i]real list, here it is:

1. You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
2. In My Life - The Beatles
3. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
4. Maybelline - Chuck Berry
5. Heartbreak Hotel -Elvis
6. A Quick One, While He's Away - The Who
7. Yesterday - The Beatles
8. American Pie - Don McLean
9. Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
10. Rainy Day Woman 12 and 35 - Bob Dylan

OK, so that last one is on there just because I'm a stoner and its one of my favorites to play, but it's still a good tune.

Now if I may break down the best pop instumentalists of all time:

1. Keith Moon (Drums)
2. TIE - Jimi Hendrix (Guitar) & Aretha Franklin (Vocals)
4. Stevie Ray Vaughan (Guitar)
5. John Entwistle (Bass)
6. Roy Orbison (Vocals)
7. James Jamerson (Bass)
8. Charlie Watts (Drums)
9. TIE - All of the Beatles (Vocals only)