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Playlist by Algernon with a little help.
While researching for other things, I came upon this list. On 20 June, 2012, New Music Express released its top 100 songs of the last 60 years, well since its first release in 1952. Below is the top 20 of which I’ve selected 16. The Beach Boys appeared on last week’s list, The Dizzee Rascal tune is rubbish and didn’t feel like including the Sex Pistols.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHYOXyy1ToI
1.Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM
2.Pulp – Common People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QBmTHwR3hg
3. David Bowie – Heroes
4. The Beach Boys – Good Vibratons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw5uUZkcio8
5. New Order – Blue Monday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcpbGeyPUD8
6. The Stone Roses – She Bangs The Drums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-cD4oLk_D0
7. The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqZ8428GSrI&noredirect=1
8. The Specials – Ghost Town
9. Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sou-Y7d710k
10. Oasis – Wonderwall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftZ3UCdTuWQ
11. The Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8tdXBkQhY
12. The Ronettes – Be My Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_XLOBDo_Y
13. Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
14. Sex Pistols – God Save The Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Q9D4dcYng
15. The Beatles – A Day In The Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9hOFOgqOds
16. The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk3mAX5xdxo
17. Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone
18. The Beach Boys – God Only Knows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSVbwwsLPqw
19. Madonna – Like A Prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbU7oVz0Uq0&feature=related
20. The Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Where is Midnight Oil. Insular mob.
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We need to speak to Julian about that Vivenne, no taste whatsoever!
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The best songs are those that have stuck in our minds, almost cemented in. Amongst those are the children limericks that our parents used to sing to us or the simple ditties that children were taught at kindergarten. I still can still hear the ones in Dutch, the equivalent to three blind mice etc. “Simple Simon met a pieman” is a beautiful little tune. I love it.
Good list Algy. Thanks.
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When I have to choose ten best songs, books, movies, plays or whatever, I get all nervous, if I ever manage to the ten together, I’ll straight away find twenty others that have to be included and so on….
Things I liked in my twenties are different from what I would choose now…Last night I picked up a book from the shelf that I could not finish twenty years ago, now I love it…
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I find these types of lists subjective too, Helvi. What interested me here though is that most of these are from the 80’s or earlier. Given that its a readers poll and most of its readers nowadays born in that decade or later makes it even more curious. The Joy division song seems to be universally one or tow on any “best of” lists regardless of were they’re taken, another Smells like teen spirit by Nirvana is nearly always there too but not in the top 20 here (its in the top 50).
My musical tastes have changed from thirty years ago and most popular music leaves me quite cold. Like you we get older and tastes change.
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