Definitive punk, post-punk, and new wave bands proved to be an interesting but ultimately non-controversial battle: the Ramones’ “Judy is a Punk” won 18 of 36 votes, crushing the Cars (hee hee!).
This week: I dunno, some kinda West Coast vibe thing?
Remember: T-dome ends in 4 weeks.
Poll’s at the top of the post. Vote now!
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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
The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
U2 - I Will Follow
The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
Coldplay - God Put a Smile on Your Face
The Shins - Caring is Creepy
Adam Ant - Goody Two-Shoes
REM - Man On The Moon
Barenaked Ladies/Sarah McLachlan - God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
The Beatles - She’s Leaving Home
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads
The Who - Baba O’Riley
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
Massive Attack - Teardrop
The Frames - Cry Me A River
Uncle Tupelo - New Madrid
Big Star - Thirteen
Everything But The Girl - Mirrorball
Simon & Garfunkel - 59th Street Bridge Song
Rob Base & DJ EZ-E - It Takes Two
Radiohead - High and Dry
The B-52s - Private Idaho
Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
The Ramones - Judy Is A Punk
This really is a tough battle. Sorry guys! “Buddy Holly” is probably one of the best pop songs ever done, RHCP has a flavor I dig, and Beach Boys… well, they’re the BEACH BOYS!
Comment by Supergenius — May 5, 2006 @ 11:35 am
This isn’t fair at all. The worst song off Weezer’s debut album, the best song off the Coneheads soundtrack (dim praise, that), and then…one of the all time great rock singles ever — the closest Brian Wilson got to his “teenage symphonies to God” and the opener to what is generally considered one of the top two or three rock albums in history.
Comment by Greg — May 5, 2006 @ 11:50 am
Greg, I know what you mean, tho I disagree about it being the worst song off Weezer’s debut.
Comment by Supergenius — May 5, 2006 @ 11:55 am
Top two or three rock albums in history? I think you’re exaggerating.
But yeah I’m voting for the Beach Boys.
Comment by Susan M — May 5, 2006 @ 12:02 pm
Did I ever mention how alive I think T-dome is? Alive and kicking.
This is a tough one. I don’t know that the Beach Boys are a shoe-in.
Comment by Tom — May 5, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
Susan: I just said “what it generally considered one of the top two or three” and I was actually doing the opposite of exaggerating. According to acclaimedmusic.net, Pet Sounds is the music critics’ consensus #1 album of all time, with Revolver, Nevermind, Velvet Underground and Nico, and Exile on Main Street behind it.
Comment by Greg — May 5, 2006 @ 12:23 pm
Geeze Louise. Any critic who puts Nevermind up there is automatically discounted IMO.
I figured you were talking generally considered by *critics*, but you just said generally.
Comment by Susan M — May 5, 2006 @ 12:34 pm
Hah, I knew that the site’s high ranking of Nirvana would kill its credibility with you. (I think that album gets more credit for its effect on pop culture than its quality.) But the site basically just runs a very complex algorithm that takes into account nearly every music review ever published, and nearly every article ever published rating albums and songs, and then spits out the rankings.
By the way, the site lists “Buddy Holly” as the 10th best song of 1994, and the 570th best all time. It is Weezer’s highest ranked song, contrary to my tastes.
Comment by Greg — May 5, 2006 @ 12:44 pm
I liked “Soul to Squeeze” better when it was called “Under the Bridge.”
Comment by BTD Greg — May 5, 2006 @ 1:05 pm
Is that a hook I see in your musical bait?
Sure sounds like one.
Comment by Jennifer — May 5, 2006 @ 2:16 pm
that comment was directed at Super G.
Comment by Jennifer — May 5, 2006 @ 2:18 pm
heh Jennifer, I don’t have any such evil motives.
Comment by Supergenius — May 5, 2006 @ 2:31 pm
I am reminded of an old LOTD:
http://www.flashplayer.com/games/weezerjamsession.html
Comment by Bryce I — May 5, 2006 @ 2:59 pm
Word up, Bryce! I’d forgotten about that one.
Comment by Supergenius — May 5, 2006 @ 3:01 pm
You gotta be KIDDING me- Pet Sounds as the all time best album??? Excuse me while I compose myself. I have never heard anything so absurd. Rant over.
Because I loathe the BB, and the RHCP are flippin innovative genius’, it’s clear where my vote goes this week…
Comment by tracy m — May 5, 2006 @ 3:05 pm
Beach Boys - Great,
Weezer - Good,
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Crap, Crap, Crappity, Crap in their underwear
This is, of course, just my opinion.
Comment by HP — May 5, 2006 @ 3:17 pm
“Because I loathe the BB, and the RHCP are flippin innovative genius’…”
Is this bizzaro-Kulturblog?
Comment by Greg — May 5, 2006 @ 3:35 pm
*rolls eyes*
Comment by Jennifer — May 5, 2006 @ 3:54 pm
again, at Super G. yeesh. I need to wake up or something.
Comment by Jennifer — May 5, 2006 @ 3:56 pm
I would’ve like to have seen a real surf music t-dome, but Steve just isn’t that adventurous.
Comment by Susan M — May 5, 2006 @ 4:46 pm
I just didn’t want Greg to cry any more over the Beach Boys.
Comment by Supergenius — May 5, 2006 @ 5:05 pm
Easy call — Beach Boys.
Look at is this way: Which of these songs do you think our grandchildren would be most impressed with? Which will history look back and remember with reverence? The Beach Boys will win that longview battle hands down in my opinion. 40 years later that work by Brian W. and the boys still sounds great.
Comment by Geoff J — May 5, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
I guess I should have listed RHCP under the hidden-guilty pleasures post according to you all!!
Plllllllltttttt! Big ol Raspberries. I still love them, and the BB just recorded the same song over and over….yeachhh!
Comment by tracy m — May 5, 2006 @ 5:15 pm
I like Weezer a lot more than the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but I also happen to think that “Soul to Squeeze” is the best song the Chili Peppers ever released. RHCP win by a whisker.
As for the BB, (and I know this is Kulturblog heresy) I just don’t get them.
Comment by NFlanders — May 5, 2006 @ 5:23 pm
I love how the voters are so contradictory on this one. Ahh the joys of t-dome.
Comment by Supergenius — May 5, 2006 @ 5:38 pm
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” is a very special song. I agree with those who say it wins hands down. Not that I don’t find Weezer or the Beach Boys interesting.
Comment by danithew — May 5, 2006 @ 10:47 pm
who was it who produced that Weezer album?
hmmm… let me think…
Comment by Jennifer — May 7, 2006 @ 5:11 pm
Jennifer, Ric Ocasek produced the blue album… why?
Spike Jonze directed the Buddy Holly video, if that’s any clue….
Comment by Supergenius — May 7, 2006 @ 5:30 pm