AMF Classics Edition 78

[spiritualized]

It's time for instalment n°78 of the Classics Chart, where YOU get to nominate and vote for the best songs ever in a tournament to the death ! Only the cream of the crop will go through the grueling EIGHT weeks of charting.

122 votes last week (-13 votes)
On the top step of the podium : Love's Alone Again Or
New Entries : Love / Glenn Miller & Orchestra / Gang of Four / Death Grips
Kicked out this week : Metallica / Guns'n'Roses
Pixies Debaser reaches the Hall of Fame





Enjoy voting for your favorite 10 songs... a difficult feat !

The AMF WC Classics Hall of Fame playlist :



Top Chart (number of weeks as n°1)

The Smiths - How Soon is Now (2)
Nina Simone - Feeling Good (2)
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (4)
Annie - Heartbeat (1)
Stevie Wonder - Superstition (2)
Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up (Extended Version) (2)
France Gall - Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son (1)
Janelle Monae - Cold War (5)
The Cranberries - Dreams (1)
Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson (2)
Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (1)
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger (6)
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole (2)
U2 - With or Without You (2)
Black Sabbath - War Pigs (1)
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have) ? (4)
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (3)
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale (3)
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (5)
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (4)
Primal Scream - Loaded (2)
The Ronettes - Be My Baby (6)
Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes (1)
The Zombies - Time of the Season (4)
The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (1)
Modest Mouse - Float On (2)
The Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia (2)
The Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen (1)
Neil Young & The Crazy Horse - Like a Hurricane (2)
Pixies - Debaser (1)
Radiohead - Creep (1)
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (2)
Outkast - Hey Ya! (1)
The Rolling Stones - I Can't Get No Satisfaction (1)
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (1)
Love - Alone Again Or (1)

[Madzong]

OMC - How Bizarre

[Brad]

1. Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky
2. Grizzly Bear - Knife

Thanks!

[Wisnu Tirta Aji]

Linkin Park - Numb
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

[Honorio]

A GIRL CALLED EDDY “Golden” (2004)

[Akhenaten]

The Cure - Love Cats

[Rdwdbob]

Bob Marley and the Wailers - ‘Three Little Birds’

[Brad]

Green Day imitating Weezer?
Ooh Leonard Cohen in a dead heat with I Write The Songs... this is great.. wish more people would actually listen to the playlist.
Edit: Just ignore me - I'm old, tired and cranky! Happy mid-April!

[Holden]

Yay, my first addition to make the HOF! How about this for this week:
Nirvana - Aneurism

[spiritualized]

Green Day imitating Weezer?
Ooh Leonard Cohen in a dead heat with I Write The Songs... this is great.. wish more people would actually listen to the playlist.
Edit: Just ignore me - I'm old, tired and cranky! Happy mid-April!

I think the timing is slightly off, Brad - Green Day's Pulling Teeth dates from their debut, so about two years before Weezer's Blue Album. Who influenced who ?
As for Barry Manilow, this was pure auditory torture for me. BUT I didn't cut the song short, I needed to see how far I could take the pain.

[Madzong]

Green Day imitating Weezer?
Ooh Leonard Cohen in a dead heat with I Write The Songs... this is great.. wish more people would actually listen to the playlist.
Edit: Just ignore me - I'm old, tired and cranky! Happy mid-April!

I think the timing is slightly off, Brad - Green Day's Pulling Teeth dates from their debut, so about two years before Weezer's Blue Album. Who influenced who ?
As for Barry Manilow, this was pure auditory torture for me. BUT I didn't cut the song short, I needed to see how far I could take the pain.

Yeah - I didn't vote for Leonard or Barry - they are both not my thing. However my Mum always had a soft spot for Barry - he is one of a handful of artists/bands she actually listened to!

I did vote for Green Day - I've always enjoyed them throughout their career.

[spiritualized]

Green Day imitating Weezer?
Ooh Leonard Cohen in a dead heat with I Write The Songs... this is great.. wish more people would actually listen to the playlist.
Edit: Just ignore me - I'm old, tired and cranky! Happy mid-April!

I think the timing is slightly off, Brad - Green Day's Pulling Teeth dates from their debut, so about two years before Weezer's Blue Album. Who influenced who ?
As for Barry Manilow, this was pure auditory torture for me. BUT I didn't cut the song short, I needed to see how far I could take the pain.

Actually I was wrong, Dookie is NOT Green Day's debut...39/Smooth was, in 1990 !

[spiritualized]

The Byrds - The Day Walk (Never Before)
Plankeye - Someday

[Brad]

Green Day imitating Weezer?
Ooh Leonard Cohen in a dead heat with I Write The Songs... this is great.. wish more people would actually listen to the playlist.
Edit: Just ignore me - I'm old, tired and cranky! Happy mid-April!

I think the timing is slightly off, Brad - Green Day's Pulling Teeth dates from their debut, so about two years before Weezer's Blue Album. Who influenced who ?
As for Barry Manilow, this was pure auditory torture for me. BUT I didn't cut the song short, I needed to see how far I could take the pain.

Actually I was wrong, Dookie is NOT Green Day's debut...39/Smooth was, in 1990 !

lol - Didn't bother to actually check that... I just like poking fun at those two bands (and the over-emphasis on 90's "alternative" rock in general) - "how dare they choose GD over GoF!"

[spiritualized]

I think the timing is slightly off, Brad - Green Day's Pulling Teeth dates from their debut, so about two years before Weezer's Blue Album. Who influenced who ?
As for Barry Manilow, this was pure auditory torture for me. BUT I didn't cut the song short, I needed to see how far I could take the pain.

Actually I was wrong, Dookie is NOT Green Day's debut...39/Smooth was, in 1990 !

lol - Didn't bother to actually check that... I just like poking fun at those two bands (and the over-emphasis on 90's "alternative" rock in general) - "how dare they choose GD over GoF!"

That's it Brad ! I'm reporting you to the moderators for being anti GD (who I saw about 8 times)
The GoF song doesn't really appeal to me - I listened to "Damaged Goods" earlier today, much better.

[Brad]

Actually I was wrong, Dookie is NOT Green Day's debut...39/Smooth was, in 1990 !

lol - Didn't bother to actually check that... I just like poking fun at those two bands (and the over-emphasis on 90's "alternative" rock in general) - "how dare they choose GD over GoF!"

That's it Brad ! I'm reporting you to the moderators for being anti GD (who I saw about 8 times)
The GoF song doesn't really appeal to me - I listened to "Damaged Goods" earlier today, much better.

Fair enough, though "Damaged Goods" did just about as well here... as I said, I'm just getting older and crankier!

[Brad]

Tieing it all together, with this week's Moderately Acclaimed and the current state of U.S. politics, check out the intro here from Michael Stipe 1988:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZnhGtKHeHU

[DaveC]

Daughter - Doing The Right Thing