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Pitchfork 200 best songs of the 1980s: Purple Rain at #1 |
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Interesting list, can't say I agree with lots of the rankings. Who'd rank "Wanna Be Starting Something" higher than "Billie Jean" or rank Sweet Dreams so low (and no other Eurythmics tracks)? Springsteen and a few others (REM, U2) got robbed too.
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Yesterday i was driving with a friend when a repeat of the Casey Kasem weekly top 40 comes on with a rerun of a week in 1984. I was pleasantly suprised to hear so much great music on one show. | |
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WBSS above Billi Jean and not Beat It or Man in The Mirror and not Sign O' The Times? | |
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It's a bit of a weird list; tries to please everyone and in the end comes out quite conservative overall, but such is Pitchfork these days. | |
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Too many tracks from 'Thriller' and 'Purple Rain' for my liking.
I personally think 'Ashes to Ashes' should have been #1 and no songs from George Michael? That's just rude. | |
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I'm just going to give the #1 and #2 songs a pass and go straight for #3. This was just somebody's personal opinion, right? It couldn't have been voted on or anything. I mean seriously, Straight Outta Compton - the #3 best song of the 1980's? [Edited 8/24/15 12:09pm] I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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Looks like PRINCE is reading the ORG once again... Check his Twitter. | |
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Yah, Faith at least is undeniable For all time I am with you, you are with me. | |
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Beside the references to the Guitar Player article and Pitchfork, I don't see anything conclusive he couldn't get out of a basic news aggregator. More likely someone working for him reading this site (Josh and the whole 3eG for instance).
It's to his credit he topped the list. Purple Rain is a defensible choice, it's definitely a contender for the spot even if you don't agree because of its broad appeal. When it came out, my father heard it from the basement where I was playing it on his huge speakers with the MacIntosh tube amp and the best diamond needle around, I could tell he enjoyed it quite a bit, so did my sister (majorly more than I did myself) and my little brother as well, believe me that as broad as it gets seeing we regularly had huge fights on what music to play for years. | |
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Of course Prince reads the Org. I think  .What? | |
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I agree with Eric Clapton: "Purple Rain" is one of the greatest songs ever. But it's just one song. You're probably going to need thousands. | |
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Aerogram said:
Interesting list, can't say I agree with lots of the rankings. Who'd rank "Wanna Be Starting Something" higher than "Billie Jean" or rank Sweet Dreams so low (and no other Eurythmics tracks)? Springsteen and a few others (REM, U2) got robbed too.
[Edited 8/24/15 3:09am] You know what? At this stage in my life I could do with never hearing a U2 song again... Or Queen, for that matter. I know it's off topic, just wanted to say it | |
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HatrinaHaterwitz said: I'm just going to give the #1 and #2 songs a pass and go straight for #3. This was just somebody's personal opinion, right? It couldn't have been voted on or anything. I mean seriously, Straight Outta Compton - the #3 best song of the 1980's? [Edited 8/24/15 12:09pm]  | |
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