So yeah, turnout has been pretty disappointing so far! Here is the initial thread, which seems to have expired. Ideally, I'd like several more votes before closing the poll, as I only have 8 album lists and 6 song lists. It makes me feel like a pre-60s poll would be even less successful, so I may wrap up these decade polls after this one to finish with the all-time poll.

Let's set the new deadline for March 15th. Anybody is welcome to participate! All you need is a list of at least 10 albums or 10 songs (or both!), ordered or unordered.

So get those lists in, people!

Here's my current album list. I've picked up a few more 60s albums to consider, and my list now looks slightly less pathetic.

1. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

2. Can - Monster Movie

3. Otis Redding - Otis Blue

4. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

5. The Doors - The Doors

6. The Doors - Strange Days

7. Nico - Chelsea Girl

8. Scott Walker - Scott 4

9. The Stooges - The Stooges

10. Love - Forever Changes

11. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?

12. The Kinks - The Kinks Are Village Green Preservation Society

13. Nico - The Marble Index

14. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

15. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love

16. The Doors - Waiting for the Sun

17. Sly and the Family Stone - Dance to the Music

18. David Bowie - Space Oddity

19. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

20. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

My current song list:

1. The Velvet Underground - "Heroin"

2. Can - "Yoo Doo Right"

3. The Doors - "The Crystal Ship"

4. The Doors - "Love Me Two Times"

5. The Velvet Underground - "Venus in Furs"

6. The Velvet Underground - "White Light/White Heat"

7. David Bowie - "Space Oddity"

8. The Velvet Underground - "I'm Waiting for the Man"

9. Otis Redding - "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay"

10. The Velvet Underground - "Sunday Morning"

11. Can - "Mary, Mary So Contrary"

12. The Doors - "People Are Strange"

13. The Doors - "The End"

14. The Velvet Underground - "Sister Ray"

15. Nico - "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"

16. The Doors - "Light My Fire"

17. The Velvet Underground - "Femme Fatale"

18. Nico - "Chelsea Girls"

19. David Bowie - "Cygnet Committee"

20. The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"

21. James Brown - "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"

22. Scott Walker - "Boy Child"

23. The Doors - "When the Music's Over"

24. Otis Redding - "A Change Is Gonna Come"

25. Nina Simone - "Sinnerman"

26. The Doors - "My Eyes Have Seen You"

27. Otis Redding - "Rock Me Baby"

28. Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Hey Joe"

29. The Doors - "End of the Night"

30. The Velvet Underground - "Run Run Run"

31. The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"

32. Scott Walker - "Angels of Ashes"

33. The Velvet Underground - "The Gift"

34. The Velvet Underground - "The Black Angel's Death Song"

35. The Doors - "You're Lost Little Girl"

36. The Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset"

37. Can - "The Thief"

38. The Doors - "Hello I Love You"

39. The Velvet Underground - "Lady Godiva's Operation"

40. Can - "Alone Again Or"

41. MC5 - "Kick Out the Jams"

42. Jimmy Ruffin - "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted"

43. Otis Redding - "I've Been Loving You Too Long"

44. ? and the Mysterians - "96 Tears"

45. Percy Sledge - "When a Man Loves a Woman"

46. Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"

47. The Doors - "Strange Days"

48. The Turtles - "Happy Together"

49. Del Shannon - "Runaway"

50. The Kinks - "All Day and All of the Night"

51. Sly and the Family Stone - "Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again)"

52. Ben E. King - "Stand By Me"

53. Nico - "These Days"

54. Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth"

55. Can - "Father Cannot Yell"

I've been listening to a lot of 60s music lately. I might add at least a short album list

BUT

my list WOULD have to include some Beatles

Of course I'd only include albums I actually have

PANDURITO said:

I've been listening to a lot of 60s music lately. I might add at least a short album list

BUT

my list WOULD have to include some Beatles

Of course I'd only include albums I actually have

Can't wait for a list from you!

I also tend to stick to the rule about only including albums you have, with few exceptions. That's why my 60s list is so pathetic.

Moonbeam, I can't believe you dig Pet Sounds !

yeah, this is disappointing I don't know if people are tired or what the hell, I refuse to believe that the org. doesn't give a damn about the 60s

c'mon boys & girls, just a list of 20 albums, that's not hard to do...

JoeTyler said:

Moonbeam, I can't believe you dig Pet Sounds !

yeah, this is disappointing I don't know if people are tired or what the hell, I refuse to believe that the org. doesn't give a damn about the 60s

c'mon boys & girls, just a list of 20 albums, that's not hard to do...

We need to round up the usual suspects!

Moonbeam said:

Ideally, I'd like several more votes before closing the poll, as I only have 8 album lists and 6 song lists. It makes me feel like a pre-60s poll would be even less successful, so I may wrap up these decade polls after this one to finish with the all-time poll.

Good idea, the 200 best albums of all time including stuff of the somewhat forgotten 1900-1959 years...

[Edited 3/1/11 16:52pm]

Sticky time

JoeTyler said:

Moonbeam said:

Ideally, I'd like several more votes before closing the poll, as I only have 8 album lists and 6 song lists. It makes me feel like a pre-60s poll would be even less successful, so I may wrap up these decade polls after this one to finish with the all-time poll.

Good idea, the 200 best albums of all time including stuff of the somewhat forgotten 1900-1959 years...

[Edited 3/1/11 16:52pm]

Sounds good to me! The only question I have is whether to expand the maximum number of items per list beyond 200 for the all-time poll...

I know I'd feel a lot more comfortable with 400 or even 500 as a limit as opposed to 200.

luv4u said:

Sticky time

Moonbeam said:

JoeTyler said:

Good idea, the 200 best albums of all time including stuff of the somewhat forgotten 1900-1959 years...

[Edited 3/1/11 16:52pm]

Sounds good to me! The only question I have is whether to expand the maximum number of items per list beyond 200 for the all-time poll...

I know I'd feel a lot more comfortable with 400 or even 500 as a limit as opposed to 200.

that would be a failure... people are tired

on top of that, a limit of 200 or even 150 albums would force us all to choose only the very best albums of all time...

[Edited 3/1/11 18:21pm]

JoeTyler said:

Moonbeam said:

Sounds good to me! The only question I have is whether to expand the maximum number of items per list beyond 200 for the all-time poll...

I know I'd feel a lot more comfortable with 400 or even 500 as a limit as opposed to 200.

that would be a failure... people are tired

on top of that, a limit of 200 or even 150 albums would force us all to choose only the very best albums of all time...

[Edited 3/1/11 18:21pm]

Well, if I allow 200 for the decade polls, I'm surely not going to put a stricter limit on an all-time poll. I still have a while to think about it.

LITTLE INTEREST IN THE 60S ????....whattsthematta with everyone here ??....the late 60s were the greatest period in modern music...more great albums were released then than any other period in history....get your lists in now....thats an order...

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here are the most critically acclaimed albums from this period to help ...

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www.acclaimedmusic.net

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1	1	The Beach Boys	Pet Sounds	1966		Listen
2	2	The Beatles	Revolver	1966
3	4	The Velvet Underground & Nico	The Velvet Underground & Nico	1967		Listen
4	5	The Beatles	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	1967
5	7	Bob Dylan	Blonde on Blonde	1966		Listen
6	11	Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited	1965		Listen
7	12	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Are You Experienced?	1967		Listen
8	14	The Beatles	The Beatles ("White Album")	1968
9	15	Van Morrison	Astral Weeks	1968		Listen
10	20	The Beatles	Abbey Road	1969
11	22	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Electric Ladyland	1968		Listen
12	24	The Doors	The Doors	1967		Listen
13	29	The Beatles	Rubber Soul	1965
14	30	The Rolling Stones	Beggars Banquet	1968		Listen
15	36	The Rolling Stones	Let It Bleed	1969		Listen
16	40	James Brown	'Live' at the Apollo	1963		Listen
17	47	The Band	The Band	1969		Listen
18	49	Love	Forever Changes	1967		Listen
19	54	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Trout Mask Replica	1969
20	61	Otis Redding	Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul	1965		Listen
21	63	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin II	1969		Listen
22	67	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	1965		Listen
23	73	Bob Dylan	Bringing It All Back Home	1965		Listen
24	80	The Band	Music from Big Pink	1968		Listen
25	81	Aretha Franklin	I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You	1967		Listen
26	99	Pink Floyd	The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	1967		Listen
27	103	Dusty Springfield	Dusty in Memphis	1969		Listen
28	108	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin	1969		Listen
29	113	The Who	Tommy	1969		Listen
30	125	The Rolling Stones	Aftermath	1966

[Edited 3/4/11 2:08am]

I will definitely post lists. Album list is almost done - singles list haven't started yet, but I have a general idea what will be in the Top 20. Will get them both posted before the 15th.

I'm sorry - but no list of 60s music is completely without at least one Bacharach/David song sung by Dionne Warwick...

I'm guilty of slacking and sleeping on the 60's list. I will work on wrapping it up within the next week for sure. I'm not sure about getting a 20 album list since most of my music comes from best of and greatest hits compilations. I think 10 is possible.

funkyslsistah said:

I'm guilty of slacking and sleeping on the 60's list.

Get those lists in!

Wow, the new deadline is here already. Expect an excel file of songs from me at around 11:59 pm orgtime on the 15th.

Is it due at 12:00 am on the 15th or 11:59 pm on the 15th PST?

Let it be 11:59 Hawaii-Aleutian Time

The deadline is Org time, which I believe is Pacific Standard Time in the US and Canada. That said, since the deadline has already been extended, I'm not going to fuss over an extra few hours or whatever.

Here is my album list. I'm sorry, but I just haven't had the time to think about putting a song list together.

And I have no idea why it's formatting so weird...i just copied and pasted from a word document.

Lazy bastards...running out of time

finally got around to finishing today!

there is tons of motown on my songs list!

Yes! More lists!

Revolver Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Abbey Road The Beatles Pandemonium Shadow Show Pet Sounds The Move Rubber Soul Odessa A Gift from a Flower to a Garden The Birthday Party In the Court of the Crimson King The Doors Let It Bleed Bee Gees' 1st Beggars Banquet The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society Aerial Ballet Tommy Idle Race The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Help! A Hard Day's Night Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) A Salty Dog Please Please Me Aftermath Something Else by The Kinks Where Did Our Love Go Postcard Wild Honey Days of Future Passed Face to Face Today! Harry Bookends Dusty in Memphis Beatles for Sale On the Threshold of a Dream The Kink Kontroversy Everybody Knows This is Nowhere Waiting for the Sun United Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme Headquarters Dance Party Smiley Smile James Taylor That's the Way God Planned It

Songs list:

1. Shocking Blue - Send Me A Postcard (1968)
2. The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965)
3. The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends (1967)
4. The Doors - Light My Fire (1967)
5. The Velvet Underground - What Goes On (1969)
6. Dusty Springfield - Stay Awhile (1964)
7. Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin - 69 Année Érotique (1969)
8. Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You (1963)
9. Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt - Different Drum (1967)
10. The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun (1969)

11. The Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (1967)
12. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (1969)
13. The Beatles - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (1965)
14. The Supremes - Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart (1966)
15. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love (1967)
16. The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin' (1965)
17. Lulu - To Sir With Love (1967)
18. Earl-Jean - I'm Into Something Good (1964)
19. The Beatles - Hello Goodbye (1967)
20. Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep - Mountain High (1965)

21. Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie And Clyde (1968)
22. Alice Dona - Amuse Toi Bien (1967)
23. The Supremes - Come See About Me (1964)
24. Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man (1969)
25. David Bowie - Space Oddity (1969)
26. Brenda Lee - Is It True (1964)
27. The Beatles - We Can Work It Out (1965)
28. Jackie DeShannon - Dream Boy (1964)
29. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (1964)
30. Lulu - I'll Come Running (1964)

31. Liz Brady - Partie De Dames (1966)
32. Aretha Franklin - Respect (1967)
33. Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay (1969)
34. Dusty Springfield - Just A Little Lovin' (1969)
35. The Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You (1965)
36. Sly And The Family Stone - Hot Fun In The Summertime (1969)
37. The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb (1966)
38. Dusty Springfield - Some Of Your Lovin' (1965)
39. The Knickerbockers - Lies (1965)
40. Lulu - The Boat That I Row (1967)

41. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Manic Depression (1967)
42. The Beatles - I Am The Walrus (1967)
43. The Nazz - Open My Eyes (1968)
44. Michele Arnaud featuring Serge Gainsbourg - Les Papillons Noirs (1966)
45. The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties (1967)
46. The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin (1967)
47. The Beatles - Penny Lane (1967)
48. The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me (1963)
49. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (1967)
50. The Ronettes - Walking In The Rain (1964)

51. The Velvet Underground - Beginning To See The Light (1969)
52. The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965)
53. Dusty Springfield - Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa (1964)
54. Nico - Little Sister (1967)
55. Anna Karina - Roller Girl (1967)
56. Julie London - Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) (1963)
57. Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin - Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus (1969)
58. Dionne Warwick - Walk On By (1964)
59. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice (1966)
60. Jackie DeShannon - When You Walk In The Room (1963)

61. Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown (1969)
62. Sly And The Family Stone - Everyday People (1969)
63. The Mamas & The Papas - Monday, Monday (1966)
64. The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side) (1967)
65. The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)
66. The Velvet Underground - Femme Fatale (1967)
67. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (1966)
68. Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning (1967)
69. Dusty Springfield - Wishin' and Hopin' (1964)
70. Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe (1965)

Edit: I knew I forgot some songs

[Edited 3/16/11 9:38am]