I really liked the topic "Top 10 Non-Acclaimed Albums: Our Individual Lists" started by Captain For Dark Mornings, so I thought it would be nice to start one of our favourite songs that were not included on Acclaimed Music...but I figured there would be a lot more songs that we would be able to think of than albums, so why not make it top 25?

So, like the other topic, this list is for our favourite songs, minus the acclaimed ones, even songs bubbling under! Also disqualified is any song released after 2006.

So post your top 25! (or as many as you would like, if you can't come up with 25, but I doubt it will be that hard)

Alrighty...When I made my first draft list, I came up with 106 titles. Then I whittled it down to 52...Then to 25.

Here's my list, in alphabetical order:

Beach Boys – Forever
Beatles – Lovely Rita
Beatles – Real Love
Bee Gees – This Is Where I Came In
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
George Harrison – Give Me Love
Led Zeppelin – Misty Mountain Hop
Led Zeppelin – Over the Hills and Far Away
John Lennon – Bring on the Lucie (Freda Peeple)
John Lennon – Mind Games
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Blinded by the Light
Moby – Dream About Me
Newsboys – Entertaining Angels
Newsboys – Where You Belong/Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly
Pink Floyd – Mother
Cat Stevens – Bitterblue
Cat Stevens – Father and Son
Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now
Radiohead – Just
The Rolling Stones – Shine a Light
Simon & Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy in New York
Sloan – The Other Man
U2 – Sweetest Thing
U2 – Until the End of the World

No specific order:

Bob Dylan - Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Love - A House Is Not a Motel
The Velvet Underground - There She Goes Again
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Johnny Appleseed

Just 4 off the top of my head, have go to eat dinner o.O

Here's mine:

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
2. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness
3. Handsome Family - Weightless Again
4. Moneybrother - Blow Him Back Into My Arms
5. Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have To Love
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
7. Handsome Family - Bottomless Hole
8. Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - Summer Wine
9. Bill Monroe - Body and Soul
10. Mansun - Cancer
11. The Coral - Shadows Fall
12. Hank Williams - Alone and Forsaken
13. Gigliola Cinquetti - Non ho l'eta
14. The Highwaymen - Highwayman
15. Voltaire - The Headless Waltz
16. Johnossi - Man Must Dance
17. Christian Death - Sex Dwarf
18. Moneybrother - They're Building Walls Around Us
19. Andrew Bird - A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head
20. Suede - So Young
21. Graham Coxon - Song for the Sick
22. Dukes of Stratosphear - 25 O'Clock
23. Voltaire - Ex Lover's Lover
24. France Gall - Poupee de cire, poupee de son
25. Rufus Wainwright - Rebel Prince

Being the iconoclastic music taste innovator that I am with only 17 of my favorite songs in the AM user’s song poll, this might be kind of redundant, but still interesting to me.

1. Frank Zappa – Yo’ Mama
2. Radiohead – Subterranean Homesick Alien
3. Frank Zappa – Inca Roads
4. Smashing Pumpkins – Hummer
5. The Cars – Bye Bye Love
6. The Who – Bargain
7. The Beta Band – It’s Not Too Beautiful
8. Deerhoof – Milk Man
9. Beck – Nicotine + Gravy
10. Flaming Lips – Moth’s Head in the Incubator
11. Sonic Youth – Unmade Bed
12. Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes
13. Fela Kuti – Zombie
14. IQU – Puka
15. Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer
16. Sonic Youth – Theresa’s Soundworld
17. Vitalic – My Friend Dario
18. Arcade Fire – Wake Up
19. Flaming Lips – Bad Days
20. Sufjan Stevens – Cashimir Pulaski Day
21. Beach Boys – Till I Die
22. Fiery Furnaces – Blueberry Boat
23. The Who – A Quick One, While He’s Away
24. Belle and Sebastian – Lazy Lane Painter Jane
25. Talking Heads – The Great Curve

Numbers 18 and 21 ended up being surprise favorites in the user’s poll.

I’m kind of surprised that songs like Bye Bye Love and Bargain aren’t even bubbling under. I thing the overall song list might be a little distorted, since I’m sure there are a ton more end-of-year song lists coming out than lists of all-time songs.

I also don’t think there are a lot of critics looking back and giving some credit to songs that are on great albums but are otherwise the third or fourth most essential tracks from the record. I bet when “best songs of all time” lists are made, critics and editors are also very reluctant to put half or more of an albums individual tracks on their lists, which is too bad.

Has any album come close to having half or more of its songs universally acclaimed?

Some intrepid poster could take on the tedious task of making a list of best song-filled albums. Scheulse’ best years list comes close to that.

I have an idea.

I suggest we mention a certain number of songs that we want to subtract from the original top 200 list. Say 10-20?

Then we may replace those songs with the ones that wins the race in this thread?

Any takers? I can compile the list of those songs that has "no-acclaim".

I guess I'll limit it to one per band:

1. Robbie Williams - Rock DJ
2. Wilco - Pot Kettle Black
3. My Morning Jacket - Gideon
4. Sunday Drivers - Tears and Years
5. DeVotchKa - How It Ends
6. Zombies - This Will Be Our Year
7. New Order - Age of Consent
8. The Hold Steady - How a Resurrection Really Feels
9. Andrew Bird - Fake Palendromes
10. The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
11. The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show
12. Nas - Life's a Bitch
13. Elvis Costello - Living in Paradise
14. Bruce Springsteen - I'm Goin' Down
15. Clay Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home on Ice
16. Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers pt. 1
17. My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said
18. Modest Mouse - One Chance
19. Ghostface Killah - Shakey Dog
20. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Timorous Me
21. Built to Spill - Carry the Zero
22. Jarabe de Palo - Grita
23. Harry Nilsson - Jump Into the Fire
24. Velvet Underground - Oh! Sweet Nuthin
25. The Kinks - Victoria

I think these need more acclaim: (in no order)

Steely Dan – Deacon Blues
High Llamas – Literature Is Fluff
Scott Walker – The Seventh Seal
Hüsker Dü - Chartered Trips
Lou Christie – Paint America Love
Charlatans – Just Lookin’
Cannibal Ox – Iron Galaxy
Elvis Costello – Beyond Belief
Django Reinhardt – Limehouse Blues
Focus - Sylvia
Triffids – Tender Is The Night
Scud Mountain Boys – In A Ditch
Bill Conti – Gonna Fly Now
Neu! - Hero
Massive Attack – Angel
Frank Zappa – Montana
Factory - Path Through The Forest
Sugar – Hover Dam
Moby – Porcelain
Roxy Music - A Song For Europé
Squeeze – Up The Junction
Elliott Smith – Angeles
My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss
Air – La Femme d'Argent
Doors – LA Woman
Sandy Denny - One More Chance
Grandaddy - He's Simple, Dumb, And the Pilot!
Shins - Young Pilgrams
Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Walkmen - The Rat
Boz Scaggs – Lowdown
Ed Harcourt – Until Tomorrow Then
Elmore James - Dust My Blues
Go-Betweens – In Her Diary
Edan – Making Planets
Fifth Dimension – Aquarious/Let The Sunshine In
Lemonheads – My Drug Buddy
Guess Who – American Woman
Skids – Into The Valley
Kate Bush - Under The Ivy
Psycedelic Furs - Sister Europé
Joan Baez - Diamonds And Rust
Temptations - Just My Imagination
Morrissey – Trouble Loves Me
Jesus & Mary Chain – Blues From A Gun
Rockpile – Heart
George Baker Selection – Little Green Bag
Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze
Stevie Wonder – Lately
Divine Comedy – In Pursuit Of Happiness
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Born On The Bayou
Simon & Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy In New York
TV On The Radio – Young Liars
Tim Hardin – If I Were A Carpenter
Todd Rundgren – Couldn’t I Just Tell You

If there is a limitation to 25 just take my first 25 :)

LOVE that list, Fred.

1 per artist


1. "Amsterdam" Jacques Brel (1964)
2. "Le Gorille" Georges Brassens (1952)
3."My Rough And Rowdy Ways" Doc & Merle Watson (1967)
4."Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Her Majesty" The Beatles (to me it is one song) (1969)
5. "Candy's Room" Bruce Springsteen (1978)
6. "Death Don't Have No Mercy" Blind Gary Davis (1960)
7. "There's A Man Going Around Taking Names" Leadbelly (1944)
8. "The Summerhouse" The Divine Comedy (1994)
9. "Statesboro Blues" Blind Willie McTell (1928)
10. "Looking Out my Backdoor" Creedence Clearwater Revival (1970)
11. "One" Johnny Cash (2000)
12. "Tom Traubert's blues" Tom Waits (1976)
13. "Georgia Bound" Blind Blake (1929)
14. "Key To The Highway" Jazz Gillum (1940)
15. "The Prodigal Son" Rev. Robert Wilkins (1963)
16. "Red House" The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
17. "Jambalaya" Hank Williams (1951)
18. "Rock'n Roll Suicide" David Bowie (1972)
19. "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" Gavin Bryars (1993)
20. "Stop Breaking Down Blues" Robert Johnson (1937)
21. "We're Not Gonna Take It (live in Woodstock)" The Who (1969)
22. "Walking By Myself" Jimmy Rogers (1956)
23. "Lilac Wine" Jeff Buckley (1994)
24. "Good Morning Little School Girl" John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson (1937)
25. "Luck Of Lucien" A Tribe Called Quest (1990)

2. "Le Gorille" Georges Brassens (1952)

I think that's the only Brassens song I've heard. It's funny, but is it really his best? Is it representative of the rest of his catalogue?

It is my favorite Brassens song not only because it's funny but also because it's a protest song against death penalty.

It is not really representative of all his catalogue, because Brassens wrote songs about a lot of subjects (death, love, anti-establishment were his favorites)There are plenty of other great Brassens songs.

Honorio once asked me for a recommendation, but I am such a big fan that I couldn't pick a compilation because none of them were good enough for me (most of the time they were not in chronological order).
But if you don't mind these details, a good 2cd compilation may be a good start.

If you want to go further, the "guitar making series" is great because it consists of the original LPs with good bonuses.

For those who don't know it, here's a (decent) translation of "Le Gorille" by British singer Jake Thackray

Through the bars of a large enclosure
The village ladies intently stared,
Where a gorilla with massive composure
Was impassively combing his hair.
They were shamelessly interested,
Eyeing devoutly a certain spot,
But my mother's especially requested
I refrain from telling you what.
Brother Gorilla!

The door of the circus lock-up,
Where the noble brute had been put,
By an administrational cock-up
Was unwisely left unshut
"I'm going to lose it at last," he cried,
Swinging lissomely out of his cage,
Referring, of course, to his chastity:
He was just at the difficult age
Brother Gorilla!

Those self-same ladies who previously
Had been licking their lips from afar
Did a bunk, which shows how devious
And whimsical women are.
In the path of the lovesick monkey
There were two who wouldn't budge:
A little old lady, all shrunken,
And a petty sessions judge.
Brother Gorilla!

The old girl said "It would be surprising
And unlikely in the extreme
If anyone found me appetising,
And beyond my wildest dreams!"
The judge intoned with tranquillity:
"To take me for a female ape
Would be the height of improbability".
Even judges make mistakes.
Brother Gorilla!

It would be curious and uncanny,
Say, if the choice were up to you
To ravish a judge or a granny
And you didn't know which to do.
If I were in such a position
And the choice had got to be mine,
I'd beg the old lady's permission
But go for grandma every time.
Brother Gorilla!

Though the gorilla is very proficient
In the role of a paramour
His mental equipment's deficient
And his eyesight's awfully poor.
With a Palaeolithic leer
He gave the old lady the miss
And, grabbing the judge by the ear,
Gave him an introductory kiss.
Brother Gorilla!

In time the gorilla's desires
Were more or less gratified.
The judge, being rather biased,
Couldn't see the funny side.
He was kicking and screaming and wailing
When his moment of truth had come,
Like those wretches he orders daily
To be taken away and hung.
Brother Gorilla!

Wow, I didn't know it was a protest song. I recently searched for George Brassens somewhere on the web and the only song I found was "Le Gorille". I only played it quietly through my poor laptop speakers and the only thing I heard was Le Goriiiiiille every 30 sec or so. I laughed a bit and thought it was just some non-serious stuff he had thrown into his career.

1. TOM WAITS “In the Neighborhood” (1983).
2. THE CLASH “Spanish Bombs” (1979).
3. BELLE & SEBASTIAN “Like Dylan in the Movies” (1996).
4. THE BYRDS “My Back Pages” (1967).
5. BJÖRK “It’s Oh So Quiet” (1995).
6. WILLIE COLÓN & RUBÉN BLADES “Pedro Navaja” (1978).
7. FRANK SINATRA & COUNT BASIE “Fly Me to the Moon” (1964).
8. JACQUES BREL “Les paumés du petit matin” (1962).
9. BLUR “End of a Century” (1994).
10. CAMARÓN “Volando voy” (1979).
11. THE STONE ROSES “This Is the One” (1989).
12. PREFAB SPROUT “Goodbye Lucille #1” (1985).
13. SUEDE “Beautiful Ones” (1996).
14. SISA “Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol” (1975).
15. HERBIE HANCOCK “Cantaloupe Island” (1964).
16. TINDERSTICKS featuring CARLA TORGESON “Travelling Light” (1995).
17. LOS PLANETAS “Segundo premio” (1998).
18. NEIL YOUNG “Tired Eyes” (1975).
19. PAUL SIMON “Diamonds on the Sole of Her Shoes” (1986).
20. GORAN BREGOVIC “Mesecina” (1995).
21. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT “The One You Love” (2005).
22. ROBERT WYATT “Insensatez” (2003).
23. DEPECHE MODE “It’s No Good” (1997).
24. AZTEC CAMERA “Walk Out to Winter (Extended)” (1983).
25. THE ROLLING STONES “Dead Flowers” (1971).

I'll order them:

1. Steely Dan – Deacon Blues
2. High Llamas – Literature Is Fluff
3. Scott Walker – The Seventh Seal
4. Hüsker Dü - Chartered Trips
5. Lou Christie – Paint America Love
6. Charlatans – Just Lookin’
7. Cannibal Ox – Iron Galaxy
8. Elvis Costello – Beyond Belief
9. Django Reinhardt – Limehouse Blues
10. Focus - Sylvia
11. Triffids – Tender Is The Night
12. Scud Mountain Boys – In A Ditch
13. Bill Conti – Gonna Fly Now
14. Neu! - Hero
15. Massive Attack – Angel
16. Frank Zappa – Montana
17. Factory - Path Through The Forest
18. Sugar – Hover Dam
19. Moby – Porcelain
20. Roxy Music - A Song For Europé
21. Squeeze – Up The Junction
22. Elliott Smith – Angeles
23. My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss
24. Air – La Femme d'Argent
25. Doors – LA Woman

1. JACQUES BREL: Vesoul (1968)
2. BELLE & SEBASTIAN: Seeing Other People (1996)
3. ROBERT PARKER: Barefootin' (1966)
4. EARL-JEAN: I'm Into Something Good (1964)
5. YO LA TENGO: Sugarcube (1997)
6. LIZ PHAIR: Polyester Bride (1998)
7. FRANKI VALLI: Grease (1978)
8. THE BEACH BOYS: Break Away (1969)
9. VAN MORRISON: Wonderful Remark (1983)
10. TOWNES VAN ZANDT: Fare Thee Well, Miss Carroussel (1970)
11. VAN MORRISON: Full Force Gale (1979)
12. DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS: Let's Make This Precious (1982)
13. THE KINKS: Do it Again (1984)
14. RAMONES: Beat on the Brat (1976)
15. LEONARD COHEN: Avalanche (1971)
16. LEONARD COHEN: Joan of Arc (1971)
17. VAN MORRISON: Tupelo Honey (1971)
18. THE BEACH BOYS: Do it Again (1968)
19. NEIL DIAMOND: Forever in Blue Jeans (1979)
20. VAN MORRISON: Bright Side of the Road (1979)
21. BELLE & SEBASTIAN: Another Sunny Day (2006)
22. THE BEACH BOYS: Getcha Back (1985)
23. THE HIGH LLAMAS: Put Yourself Down (1992)
24. THE BEACH BOYS: Disney Girls 1957 (1971)
25. MADNESS: Johnny the Horse (1999)

25) For No One- The Beatles
24) Accidents Will Happen- Elvis Costello
23) The Card Cheat- The Clash
22) LA 1927- Randy Newman
21) I'm Down- The Beatles


20) This Will Be Our Year- The Zombies
19) Here Today- Beach Boys
18) Nightswimming- R.E.M.
17) Give It Up or Turnit Loose- James Brown
16) Sir Duke- Stevie Wonder

15) Ain't No Way- Aretha Franklin
14) Julia- The Beatles
13) Dear Prudence- The Beatles
12) I Saw Her Again- Mamas and Papas
11) I Can't Get Next To You- The Temptations

10) Care of Cell 44- The Zombies
09) Lady Madonna- The Beatles
08) Shake (Live)- Otis Redding
07) I Can't Turn You Loose- Otis Redding
06) In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning- Frank Sinatra

05) You're All I Need To Get By- Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell
04) Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)- The Beach Boys
03) Belle- Al Green
02) If I Fell- The Beatles
01) Whispering Pines- The Band

1. Free Money- Pattie Smith
2. Trasher- Neil Young
3. Shine a light- The Rolling Stones
4. 30 Days- Chuck Berry
5. You never can tell- Chuck Berry
6. Pull my strings- The Dead Kennedys
7. Kill the Poor- Dead Kennedys
8. Sunny Afternoon- Belle and Sebastian
9. Serve the Servants- Nirvana
10.Bush Doctor- Peter Tosh
11.I need somebody- The Stooges
12.Last Kiss- Pearl Jam
13.Lemon Tree- Fools Garden
14.Life is a bitch- NAS
15.Grandmas Hands- Bill Withers
16.Sir Duke- Stevie Wonder
17.Out of the blue- Virginia Plain
18.Ya Mama- Parcyde
19.All my friends are dead- Turbonegro
20.Milord- Edith Piaf
21.David Bowie- Rock`n Roll Suicide
22.I wont back down- Tom Petty
23.Statisfy my Soul- Bob Marley
24.Sweet and Dandy- Toots and Maytals
25. Beats on the break- The Ramones