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Nassim wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 5:13 pm
prosecutorgodot wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 5:28 pm Elder, could we stop displaying the eliminated songs after we remove 500? It's getting hard to weed through the list.
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553 Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat 1971

Not quite bubbling under my top 11,000.
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738 Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks 2010

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686 Roxy Music - Virginia Plain 1972

I'll skip the plain and move onto the next tourist attraction. Maybe the country roads?

At this point I have no idea what to eliminate. Unfortunately there's a lot of these I haven't heard or I don't remember.
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acroamor wrote: Tue Oct 12, 2021 1:04 am 738 Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks 2010

Too intimidated originally to participate, but always happy to give this one a boot.
You achieved the elimination of number 500
A glory that many have tried, but only you succeeded
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I'm down to all songs that came really close to making my top 10,000. Curious when people are going to start coming after Beethoven.

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764 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley 1955
Which Bo Diddley is the song, which Bo Diddley is the artist?
Everywhere the artist is placed first, but can we be sure this is the case with Bo Diddley?
If the song is mentioned first and the artist second, is Bo Diddley the starting point of the unravelling of all reason?
Is Bo Diddley an existential crisis?
Is Bo Diddley in the song referring to himself?
Or is the song itself referring to itself?
Did Bo Diddley ever exist as a man or only as a song or both?
Is Bo Diddley an identity crisis?
When the singer asks in the lyrics "Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley have you heard?" does he ask if he has heard the song Bo Diddley?
Or if the song has heard the man Bo Diddley?
The next sentence is "My pretty baby think she was a bird", which Bo Diddley must have heard about if he asks the question but then why does he ask if he heard?
Is it a rhetorical question?
Is Bo Diddley an endless echo back and forth to itself? Neither man nor song? An echo send into the world for us to hear but not respond to, as we are not part of this conversation? What is the point of all this? Is it all endless narcissism, without a way for us to enter, or is Bo Diddley all of us and did I just never notice, as perhaps the only person. Am I Bo Diddley? Am I the singer? Am I the song? Am I the one who we ask if I heard that my pretty baby thinks she's a bird? Did I catch a nanny goat to make my lady a Sunday coat? A bear cat to make my baby a Sunday hat? Why does a bird need Sunday Clothes?

Hey! Bo Diddley!

Bo Diddley is dead now and can't answer my questions. The song still lives and thrives, but answers even less. And all I'm left with is knowing diddley-squad. Best to remove this piece of philosophy from the list.
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Rob wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:55 am 764 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley 1955
Which Bo Diddley is the song, which Bo Diddley is the artist?
Everywhere the artist is placed first, but can we be sure this is the case with Bo Diddley?
If the song is mentioned first and the artist second, is Bo Diddley the starting point of the unravelling of all reason?
Is Bo Diddley an existential crisis?
Is Bo Diddley in the song referring to himself?
Or is the song itself referring to itself?
Did Bo Diddley ever exist as a man or only as a song or both?
Is Bo Diddley an identity crisis?
When the singer asks in the lyrics "Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley have you heard?" does he ask if he has heard the song Bo Diddley?
Or if the song has heard the man Bo Diddley?
The next sentence is "My pretty baby think she was a bird", which Bo Diddley must have heard about if he asks the question but then why does he ask if he heard?
Is it a rhetorical question?
Is Bo Diddley an endless echo back and forth to itself? Neither man nor song? An echo send into the world for us to hear but not respond to, as we are not part of this conversation? What is the point of all this? Is it all endless narcissism, without a way for us to enter, or is Bo Diddley all of us and did I just never notice, as perhaps the only person. Am I Bo Diddley? Am I the singer? Am I the song? Am I the one who we ask if I heard that my pretty baby thinks she's a bird? Did I catch a nanny goat to make my lady a Sunday coat? A bear cat to make my baby a Sunday hat? Why does a bird need Sunday Clothes?

Hey! Bo Diddley!

Bo Diddley is dead now and can't answer my questions. The song still lives and thrives, but answers even less. And all I'm left with is knowing diddley-squad. Best to remove this piece of philosophy from the list.
This looks like a spell to summon old limbs.
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The putdowns are pretty funny, but that’s a pretty big example of Dylan’s singing affectations becoming pretty grating through the 70s
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Nassim wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:53 pm 859 Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind 1975
The putdowns are pretty funny, but that’s a pretty big example of Dylan’s singing affectations becoming pretty grating through the 70s
I thought his voice was actually decent in 1975. It took another couple of decades before he sounded like a dying goat.
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Henry wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 10:33 pm
Nassim wrote: Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:53 pm 859 Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind 1975
The putdowns are pretty funny, but that’s a pretty big example of Dylan’s singing affectations becoming pretty grating through the 70s
I thought his voice was actually decent in 1975. It took another couple of decades before he sounded like a dying goat.
It’s not his voice per se, I think you’re right that became horrible somewhere in the 90s, but really the affectations and how he strains and emphasizes some syllables. He already did that in the 60s but in the mid 70s he really starts overdoing it
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Krurze wrote: Thu Oct 14, 2021 11:32 am 623 Kashiwa Daisuke - Stella 2007

Sorry Nassim :whistle:
Why ? I enjoy the track but it’s not in my top 1000
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Nassim wrote: Thu Oct 14, 2021 1:49 pm
Krurze wrote: Thu Oct 14, 2021 11:32 am 623 Kashiwa Daisuke - Stella 2007

Sorry Nassim :whistle:
Why ? I enjoy the track but it’s not in my top 1000
Oh OK, I was quite certain this was the one track you were surprised is still on the list :D I guess I'll have to rethink that one...(not that I'm actively trying to annoy you :? )
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