Playlist Thunderdome, Week 22

by Supergenius

Neil Young’s "Cinnamon Girl" destroyed John Lennon and Paul Simon, garnering 19 of 30 votes.  wow.  Thanks to all who voted! 

Let’s bring things into more recent decades, shall we?

Vote!  Vote like the wind!

The winners thus far:

  • Elvis Costello - Allison
  • Jet - Look What You’ve Done
  • Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
  • Guns N Roses - Paradise City
  • Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
  • Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
  • The New Pornographers - Letter From An Occupant
  • The Smiths - There is a Light that Never Goes Out
  • The Police - King of Pain
  • Violent Femmes - Kiss Off
  • Cat Stevens - Wild World
  • Aretha Franklin - River’s Invitation
  • Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
  • Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
  • Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
  • The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
  • The Doors - L.A. Woman
  • The Carpenters - On Top of the World
  • Boston - More Than a Feeling
  • Prince - When Doves Cry
  • Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl

    • 10 Comments

    1. They’re all pretty enjoyable songs but I gotta go with “Free Nelson Mandela”

      Oh, wait…

      Comment by Geoff J — October 20, 2005 @ 6:13 pm

    2. I went with LCD Soundsystem.

      Comment by danithew — October 20, 2005 @ 9:09 pm

    3. Chemical Brothers. It’s gotta good beat and you can dance to it. Actually their drummer is waaaaay better. I’m a sucker for a good underlying drum line. Vocals, on all of them are pretty boring though.

      Comment by chronicler — October 20, 2005 @ 10:49 pm

    4. Chemical Brothers. The LCD Soundsystem song is good, but it’s a novelty song, and as such, has more potential to get old after a few too many listens.

      Comment by Allison — October 21, 2005 @ 1:14 pm

    5. If you’d gone with one of Daft Punk’s robot songs, they’d be crushing this.

      Comment by Susan M — October 21, 2005 @ 1:47 pm

    6. (And I have to say, the radio.blog player isn’t doing these songs any favors. They sound much better on my hard drive.)

      Comment by Susan M — October 21, 2005 @ 1:54 pm

    7. All I can say is meh. I went with the one about the other because it was the only one I could remember after hearing all three. Of course, electronica isn’t really my thing.

      Comment by John C. — October 21, 2005 @ 4:00 pm

    8. Yeah, I can’t quite vote on this one. I don’t hate any of those songs 00 but I just don’t like any of them enough to pull the trigger.

      Comment by RoastedTomatoes — October 22, 2005 @ 12:37 am

    9. Is LCD Soundsystem my vote? I don’t know. Maybe… It does have more cowbell!

      -trish

      Comment by Patricia Lahtinen — October 22, 2005 @ 2:36 am

    10. Alright, I went with Daft Punk. It was a wash with the three songs themselves I thought, but Daft Punk at least got someone to sing about them so that has to be worth something…

      Comment by Geoff J — October 24, 2005 @ 11:45 am