Poly's favorite 100 songs of the past 25 years

[alva]

Maybe, but the song always put a smile on my face (the video too ), and rest of my list contains enough depresive material as it is

[Jaguar]

I'm still counting... don't worry.

All votes must be made before Saturday. (If you're in some oddball place where Saturday comes later than it comes at my home, don't worry, you can still vote as long as it's still Friday where you are.)

[alva]

So votes must be in before friday ?

[Jaguar]

You can still vote on Friday.

[monolith94]

"Maybe, but the song always put a smile on my face (the video too ), and rest of my list contains enough depresive material as it is"

I find It's a Mistake to be oddly uplifting!

[Stefu]

The Pixies - Debaser
The Pixies - Debaser
The Pixies - Debaser
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Firewater - Car Crash Collaborator
Firewater - Car Crash Collaborator
Tool - Aenema
Tool - Aenema
CMX - Ainomieli
CMX - Ainomieli
The Pixies - Velouria
The Pixies - Velouria
The Pixies - Gigantic
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
Dead Kennedys - Kill The Poor
Firewater - Psychopharmacology
CMX - Kultanaamio
Breeders - Cannonball
New Model Army - Vengeance

[Az]

I wouldn't get CMX THAT much credit.

[BustaMike]

1. STP - Interstate Love Song
2. Soundgarden - Fresh Tendrils
3. Soul Coughing - Screenwriter's Blues
4. At the Drive In - One Armed Scissor
5. Pearl Jam - Corduroy
6. Soundgarden - Fresh Tendrils
7. Soundgarden - Like Suicide
8. Fuel - Hemorrhage
9. Opeth - Demon of the Fall
10. Alice in Chains - Would
11. Wu Tang Clan - Shame on a Nigga
12. Opeth - Deliverance
13. Stabbing Westward - Waking Up Beside You
14. Foo Fighters - Everlong
15. Jedi Mind Tricks - The Winds of War
16. Pearl Jam - Last Exit
17. STP - Sin
18. Metallica - Master of Puppets
19. NIN - Reptile
20. Opeth - April Ethereal

There's a bunch of older one's I like too, but since I'm not sure of the date (before or after 25 years, I left them off). I'm also sure there are a few I forgot that deserve to be there, but this is off the top of my head what I like.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

ooh,,, I should have put at least one song from Beck in, but well just didn't think of him at that moment

[oedo]

I cleard my first vote and replaced it by this Rock-only one one now.

Breeders - Cannonball (5)
Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane (3)
Radiohead - Creep (2)
Pixies - Debaser (2)
Roxy Music - Do The Strand (2)
Slint - Good Morning Captain
Blur - Song 2
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Hole - Credit In The Straight World
Sonic Youth - Screaming Skull
Sugarcubes - Sick For Toys

[Lung]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov




You obviously don't know me very well...

Sorry, Boris I guess i shouldn't judge people by their avatars

[Lung]

Originally posted by monolith94
Hey lung - whoever wrote that list was a total TOOL.

There are some CRAPPY songs on it - such as Hurricane, for one example. There are DOZENS of better Dylan songs, and "Golden Years"??? There are dozens of better Bowie songs as well!

Well, you can't ask for the perfect list, because it doesn't exist. I wouldn't even attempt to do so, unless i was able to hear every song ever recorded. In any case, most people outside Australia have heard very little of our music, so how can a list be comprehensive if music from an entire country is ignored, particularly a country which has contributed as much to rock music as we have?

How many of these artists does anyone here know of?

Johnny O' Keefe
Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs
Masters Apprentices
The Easybeats
AC/DC (okay, an exception here!)
The Angels
Cold Chisel
Nick Cave
Midnight Oil
INXS
The Hoodoo Gurus
The Screaming Jets
Baby Animals
Horsehead
Juice
silverchair
The Living End
Powederfinger

There's heaps more, but i didn't include them unless they were/are around for a long time. It's also a pity that most people only know AC/DC with Brian Johnson as lead singer instead of the legendary Bon Scott who was the perfect front man.

[Lung]

Originally posted by monolith94
Although men at work's best work was "It's A Mistake".

Oops! So you do know your Aussie music Of course, they're an exception in that they took off overseas, and they were never that big here anyway. Small fry locally compared to most that i listed above.

[alva]

They even mention a Belgian city
More Aussie groups (from the post above yours)

Midnight Oil,
INXS

[Lung]

Originally posted by alva
They even mention a Belgian city
More Aussie groups (from the post above yours)

Midnight Oil,
INXS

Yeah, Brussells, IIRC. And umm.....that post was also mine