Ah, the Brits, they are just, ah, um, different, to be pointed. New Music Express put out a 500 Greatest Songs list in Febuary. I'd assume most of you will be angry as I was looking at the list:

http://www.nme.com/blogs/...f-all-time

No Prince song till past 100. At least he's on the list, they really shit on Amy Winehouse and Adele.

Smells Like Teen Spirit, number one, of course: A great song, but come on, let's not go apeshit nuts about a punk/pop hit song that Weird Al made into a funny video.

They must think the Arctic Monkeys and Oasis are the greastest band ever. And, where the fuck is XTC?

Shit list.

When "Crazy In Love" is above Prince's "When Doves Cry" you just can't

What's Going On not being number one is a crime.

2freaky4church1 said:

What's Going On not being number one is a crime.

I always thought Smells Like Teen Spirit is overrated..

It's not even the best track on Nevermind, I dig "Come As You Are" and "Stay Away" more.

This should be the biggest thread of the week, what gives? I think some of you are mad at me for my honest views about Prince. lol

A shame that we cannot have honest views about an artist we all admire.

2freaky4church1 said:

This should be the biggest thread of the week, what gives? I think some of you are mad at me for my honest views about Prince. lol

A shame that we cannot have honest views about an artist we all admire.

I don't think so

This forum is one of the few places people actually give honest opinions and they're respected for that

There's just some little gay cases when somebody eats you cuz you bashed his idol for something. That doesn't happen too much.

Speak about whoever you want whenever you want however you want, its Prince.org and we shall do what Prince does best; shading.

At the risk of sounding controversial, I never understood why everyone loves 'Hey Ya' so much. I certainly don't hate it, and I can appreciate the contrast between the cheery music and the pessimistic lyrics, but Outkast have produced better tracks. Some of which were released as singles.

ginusher said:

At the risk of sounding controversial, I never understood why everyone loves 'Hey Ya' so much. I certainly don't hate it, and I can appreciate the contrast between the cheery music and the pessimistic lyrics, but Outkast have produced better tracks. Some of which were released as singles.

OutKast's music, as a whole body of work, is appreciated and respected because of its infamous mix of genres from funk, to soul to hip hop, "Hey Ya!" was on heavy rotation back in the day and it was the shit everybody listened to.

Strange how I asked the same question months ago here in the org about why Gnarls Barkley's Crazy was so famous & its number one on Rolling Stones best songs of the decades, all the answers were about the "soul-meets-alternative" or "black guy with a deep & soul voice meets a weird white boy who's good with indie music" and they were right. I think the same can go for "Hey Ya!" somehow.. Or simply you can tell people liked the chorus and the music video.