Songs that changed the world:"Like a Rolling Stone"

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:06 pm

The Weekenders wrote:Well, we were both thinking you meant another thread here at Chiffy, I guess.

I was

It was the "Oh, I was so much older then.." thread.

I'm getting confused myself now

Slan,
D.

Teri-K · Post by **Teri-K** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:10 pm

susnfx wrote:
*shudder*

Susan

Exactly, and for the boyfriend I associate with it

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:10 pm

The Weekenders wrote:A much better list, Waldco, just not Boomer-era....like I said, you have a swath of population moving through time, currently in control of much of corporate and artistic America so bear with us, we will retire sooner or later.....

Woe is me... it'll only get worse when we Gen-Xers are the ones... it'll probably be some song by Tiffany, or maybe that David Hasselhoff song the Germans listened to.

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:21 pm

susnfx wrote: "You Light Up My Life" (who did sing that?).

Wasn't that Pat Boone's daughter? Debbie, maybe? Another one I put in that category is "Sunshine on the Water" or something like that--John Denver. And then there's "Mandy" by Barry Manilow. hehe.

But seriously, I've often thought about doing some research to see just what effect songs have really had on "changing the world." Hard to imagine the 60s without "We Shall Overcome."

Carol

Will O'B · Post by **Will O'B** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:30 pm

susnfx wrote:You're right, Teri - but just barely. 1969.

Susan

And it ("Sugar, Sugar") was the #1 song in the USA for that year.

Oddly enough, I think "Sugar, Sugar" pushed The Stones' "Honkey Tonk Woman" into 2nd place.

You folks in the UK aren't spared by these frightful statistics, either. "Sugar, Sugar" was #1 on the charts there for several weeks also.

Stranger things . . .

Will O'Ban

Edited to clarify "it".

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:31 pm

Actually,

The Article in question wrote:100 songs, movies, TV shows and books that "changed the world" in the opinion of musicians, actors and industry experts.

(emphasis mine)
So, Dylan beat out pretty much all of pop culture.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:37 pm

I think each category had it's Top 100.

I just did a search for songs of the 70s and I think I need to find an Alka Seltzer it brought back such bad memories:

Walk on the Wild Side
I Will Survive - Donna Summer
American Pie - a song I absolutely loathe
Have You Ever Seen the Rain - CCR - my personal least favorite band
Riders on the Storm - The Doors and their rain/thunder background

(The 60s had some clunkers too: consider "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things" by the Cowsills)

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:45 pm

susnfx wrote:
I just did a search for songs of the 70s and I think I need to find an Alka Seltzer it brought back such bad memories:

American Pie - a song I absolutely loathe

Amen, sister. And let me guess, did you have a dweeb in high school or college that KNEW ALL THE WORDS and just had to sing it at parties and such? We did....Grooooooaaaaaannnn... I also knew a guy who did perfect Neil Young impersonation too....it took a lot of wacky tabacky to swallow that.

Don't forget Macarthur Park for lugubrious nonsense.

How about anything by the Partridge Family?

I can't believe the Brits made Sugar, Sugar a hit....wow....

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:50 pm

All this talk of dodgy songs reminded me of a thread posted up by Wombat a while ago.

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... sc&start=0

I dug it out

Slan,
D.

Teri-K · Post by **Teri-K** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:50 pm

susnfx wrote:I think each category had it's Top 100.

I just did a search for songs of the 70s and I think I need to find an Alka Seltzer it brought back such bad memories:

Walk on the Wild Side
I Will Survive - Donna Summer
American Pie - a song I absolutely loathe
Have You Ever Seen the Rain - CCR - my personal least favorite band
Riders on the Storm - The Doors and their rain/thunder background

(The 60s had some clunkers too: consider "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things" by the Cowsills)

Oh no, I have to confess I really like "Walk on the Wild Side".

Do a search for "one hit wonders" and the 70's. It's clear why they only had one hit:

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
D.O.A
Feelings
Dead Skunk

Then you get to the mid-70's and disco... not worth discussing

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:02 pm

Yeah, I didn't say anything but that Lou Reed song, seemed like an anthem for homosexual heroin addicts. And it was catchy!

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:03 pm

Walden wrote: Woe is me... it'll only get worse when we Gen-Xers are the ones... it'll probably be some song by Tiffany, or maybe that David Hasselhoff song the Germans listened to.

Hey, I resemble that remark!

And I can guarantee that Tiffany did absolutely NOTHING to change MY world in the '80s. Now I might concede if you were talking about the Dead Kennedys or even early U2

And Will O'B, where HAVE you been? It's been quite some time since you've posted! Good to see you back

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:22 pm

izzarina wrote:Hey, I resemble that remark! And I can guarantee that Tiffany did absolutely NOTHING to change MY world in the '80s. Now I might concede if you were talking about the Dead Kennedys or even early U2

Well... thinking of what we heard around here nonstop in the 1980's, it was the Oak Ridge Boys (formerly the Oak Ridge Gospel Quartet) singing Elvira. Elvira. My hearts on fire for Elvira. Giddyap a oomp ahmp a oop ahmp a mow mow...

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:35 pm

susnfx wrote:I think each category had it's Top 100.

I thought so too, until I read sentences like:

"'The Prisoner' was the top-ranking TV series at number 10, while Jack Kerouac's novel 'On the Road' was the highest-ranking book, in 19th place."

Which only makes sense if everything was on the same top 100 list.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:47 pm

Walden wrote:Well... thinking of what we heard around here nonstop in the 1980's, it was the Oak Ridge Boys (formerly the Oak Ridge Gospel Quartet) singing Elvira. Elvira. My hearts on fire for Elvira. Giddyap a oomp ahmp a oop ahmp a mow mow...

I preferred Jim Stafford's song "Cow Patti"...

From the badlands came the killer, he lived by his knife and the gun.
He'd cut you just for standing, and shoot you if you tried to run.
He was as big as a tree, and did what he pleased, and everything he did was bad.
They said if you was to kill him, it'd only make him mad.

From the goodlands came the cowgirl, Patti was her name.
She was hot on the trail of that killer on a moped she called Flame.
Cause the killer had killed her daddy just for spittin' in the road,
And you only had to kill her daddy once to get that girl p.o.'d.

Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!
Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!
She rode into town to find the man that killed her daddy!
Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!

The killer hit town at daybreak, ate the door off the local saloon.
He started to drinkin' and you could tell he was thinkin'
There'd be a showdown soon.
Patti hit town in a cloud of dust, old Flame was buzzin' like a saw.
And the whole town got quiet as a church when the killer stepped out for the draw.

Forty shots rang out. Forty people fell.
Patti and the killer missed each other but they shot the town to hell!
The killer took a step toward Patti, said, "It's time I gunned you down"!
But he slipped in something that was laying in the street
And was shot before he hit the ground.
Yes, the killer slipped and it cost him his life
And Patti said as she raced out of town:
"You got to watch your step, when you know the chips are down."

Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!
Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!
She rode into town to find the man that killed her daddy!
Yippee-i-ay - Cow Patti!