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Best Song of the Millennium
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:11 am
by Lord Mhoram
I found this on Google. Not a great list, but interesting nonetheless.
w1.322.telia.com/~u32207658/s1-100.html
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:17 am
by duchess of malfi
Very interesting. I think they forgot about 9 1/2 centuries.

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 7:53 pm
by Lord Mhoram
LOL Yeah I agree. They should get rid of the older songs, and make it Song of the Century...
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 7:58 pm
by Worm of Despite
All I've got to say is Mmmbop is #8 and Freebird is below it. I can't even begin to describe how many levels of wrong that is. And the fact a Beatles tune is not #1 is like placing a modern-day novelist over Bill Shakespeare.
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:10 pm
by Brinn
How about this...
A-Ha songs in the top 94: 4
Beatles songs in the top 94: 3
Smashing Pumpkin songs in the top 94: 1
This demonstrates the genius of A-Ha and the fact that they were clearly a superior band to the Beatles and just never received the critical acclaim that they so deserved!

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:20 pm
by Worm of Despite
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:55 pm
by Infelice
Brinn wrote:How about this...
A-Ha songs in the top 94: 4
Beatles songs in the top 94: 3
Smashing Pumpkin songs in the top 94: 1
This demonstrates the genius of A-Ha and the fact that they were clearly a superior band to the Beatles and just never received the critical acclaim that they so deserved!

Yeah....Aha. I think I can only name one song of their's and I loathed it like the plague. Queen gets a pretty good mention there too. Totally surprised that Beatles didn't get a greater representation......and then there's, dare I say, .........
ABBA
.
*Ducks and runs*
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 10:17 pm
by Lord Mhoram
LOL
PF wasn't represented enough, unless I didn't do a good enough look, and the SMashing Pumpkins song that was their overall highest was 33, which is good, but there are a lot better. One of the Beatles song should have been first. Also, I noticed that NSYNC was there!

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 10:23 pm
by Worm of Despite
Pink Floyd was robbed! I'm telling you, only timeless music should go up there. Not stuff that suffers from 80s syndrome! 500 years from now, the human race will still be listening to the Beatles like it was Beethoven. And stuff like Mmmbop will be used in hostage situations as psychological torture.
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 2:22 pm
by Lord Mhoram
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 4:02 pm
by Brinn
That's a mighty grim view of the future! Gives me the shivers just contemplating it.
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:32 pm
by Worm of Despite
Bah, I thought you liked The Beatles . . .
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 7:14 pm
by MsMary
duchess of malfi wrote:Very interesting. I think they forgot about 9 1/2 centuries.

You hit the nail on the head, Duchess. That was exactly my thought, reading this list.
And I do not even agree with some of their choices for top song of the century, though I do like "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues, which I notice is near the top.
I wonder who voted????
~MsMary~
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 8:58 pm
by Brinn
My apologies Foul...I misread your quote. Sounds like Utopia to me!
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:07 pm
by Worm of Despite
Oh, good! Game on!

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 4:49 am
by caamora
I agree with you, Lord Foul!
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 7:25 pm
by Nav
Lord Foul wrote:
And stuff like Mmmbop will be used in hostage situations as psychological torture.
I'm not sure if you knew this or not, but around last Christmas the Metropolitan Police used Backstreet Boys CDs to prevent a gunman from sleeping and drive him mad (though not necessarily in that order) during a seige in Hackney, North London. The future's dark, and it's already here.
I was hoping Spinal Tap's Hell Hole would make the final count.
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 9:00 pm
by Worm of Despite
I envision a setting where the government has total control, like in 1984, except the control factor is playing songs amazingly loud. It's a very organized system, too, because instead of New York, the city will be renamed to Mmmbop. So, if you're driving, and you look at the roadmap going to Mmmbop City, you'll know exactly what to expect. If you go to You're Having My Baby, then that town will be blaring out Paul Anka's "You're Having My Baby". I also envision a whole score of cities renamed to "Feelings".