IPOD Decades Songs Draft - Rankings underway

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John Galt

John Galt

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Mr. S£im Citrus said:
...but it's not necessarily a good idea to mention a song that hasn't been picked yet, especially if there's someone else who might not have been thinking of that song, but now is, and ends up stealing it from someone who had been planning to take it all along.
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Exactly. In the few drafts I've played - a lot of the fun is hoping your sleeper pick stays under the radar for a later round and it would be entirely a bummer if somebody chimed in and mentioned a pick you might have a little ways down your draft board... prompting somebody else to take it.
 
Capt. Factorial

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Mr. S£im Citrus said:
Comments are encouraged, but it's not necessarily a good idea to mention a song that hasn't been picked yet, especially if there's someone else who might not have been thinking of that song, but now is, and ends up stealing it from someone who had been planning to take it all along.
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In this case, the song mentioned was released in 1968 and is not eligible for the draft, so I would imagine no harm, no foul. The point is well taken, though.
 
Emma

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O.K. I guess I'm up. I did a little digging and I think I'm gonna start my list off with a bang! (bang!, bang!..)

I'm drafting this little number more for it's historical significance. It is an important component of the east coast - west coast rap feud that snuffed out the bright stars of Biggie and Tupac. Ice Cube really, really didn't like this guy. In this song he basically tells every gangster rapper that they are quickly turning rap from a young hottie into a total butterface, metaphorically speaking. H.E.R. is thought to be an acronym for Hearing every rhyme:

I Used to love H.E.R. by Common Sense (now known as Common) the 90's

[yt=Clean Version]zpkL-hgTVPk[/yt]


http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:jjfpxx90ldhe

(See Slim? What'd I say?)
 
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VF21

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...sigh...

This is quickly becoming more and more complicated.

First, if the song isn't family friendly, DO NOT post a link to a YouTube version of it.

Second, I need you to post the decade it's part of.

Third, I've received a couple of questions from people who are having trouble getting to a certain page of allmusic.com that shows the chronology of some songs. If you cannot find a page at allmusic.com, you need to find something else that will verify to which decade the song belongs...this is only necessary to make sure people fulfill the decade requirements of the draft.

Hope that doesn't make it any more difficult.
 
Emma

Emma

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okay, all better. I actually believe the video was graphically alright, but the song (like all rap songs), is not something you would let your kids listen to.
 
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LPKingsFan

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#76
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Let it Be - The Beatles (1970)

was able to sneak a glance at email and I'm up!

For my first pick: "Let it Be" by The Beatles from the 1970 album of the same name.



There's 21 pages of allmusic results for "Let it Be" and I'm crunched for time. Does anyone question that the song/album came out in 1970?

Edit: here's the allmusic link.
 
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LPKingsFan

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ryanandty said:
O.K. I guess I'm up. I did a little digging and I think I'm gonna start my list off with a bang! (bang!, bang!..)

I'm drafting this little number more for it's historical significance. It is an important component of the east coast - west coast rap feud that snuffed out the bright stars of Biggie and Tupac. Ice Cube really, really didn't like this guy. In this song he basically tells every gangster rapper that they are quickly turning rap from a young hottie into a total butterface, metaphorically speaking. H.E.R. is thought to be an acronym for Hearing every rhyme:

I Used to love H.E.R. by Common Sense (now known as Common) the 90's


http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:jjfpxx90ldhe

(See Slim? What'd I say?)
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Nice pick. Daring for your #1 choice, but I like it. Hopefully when I start looking for some hip hop additions later on you won't have cleaned up everything already ;)
 
VF21

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As an amendment to the rules, I'll take Wikipedia listings for release date information as it seems allmusic.com can get very convoluted at times. :)
 
Emma

Emma

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Kingzrool: "Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang - 1979"

:eek:

Ohhhhh, you are SO gonna get a strange adjective...

How about Raptorial? Yeah, that was Raptorial to my (Murine) list.
 
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John Galt

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Enter Sandman - Metallica - 90's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_Sandman

[yt=Enter Sandman live - enjoy it here]otuCPqrGd0Q[/yt]


[yt=official video - have to watch on youtube]BKbADm8omn0[/yt]


The 90's looks to be a tough decade for me - harder still now that somebody has already take Creep (which I had my heart set on so kudos)... so I guess I gotta get while the getting is good for this decade. While not necessarily so for their real hardcore fans, for most of the world this is the quintessential song for this great band who were key in evolving the popular heavy metal genre. Heavier, crunchier, riffier than what had gone before. Proud to have it as my first choice.
 
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LoungeLizard

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Francisco d'Anconia said:
Enter Sandman - Metallica - 90's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_Sandman

[yt=Enter Sandman]otuCPqrGd0Q[/yt]


The 90's looks to be a tough decade for me - harder still now that somebody has already take Creep (which I had my heart set on so kudos)... so I guess I gotta get while the getting is good for this decade. While not necessarily so for their real hardcore fans, for most of the world this is the quintessential song for this great band who were key in evolving the popular heavy metal genre. Heavier, crunchier, riffier than what had gone before. Proud to have it as my first choice.
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Was on my shortlist for the 90's....nice pick
 
VF21

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I've already figured out that most of my picks are pretty safe from just about everyone, so I'm going to work on a bit of a theme here...

My first pick of the draft goes to Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton:

Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - 80s

[yt=Islands in the Stream]NiwcOaaRo1Y[/yt]
 
Capt. Factorial

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If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May-Queen
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I had to go with the BPA principle here. Even if it wouldn't normally be my first overall pick, even if it's now often regarded as overrated, I don't see how I can pass up Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven, released November 8th, 1971.

You all know the song, but here's a video anyway...
[yt=Stairway To Heaven]w9TGj2jrJk8[/yt]
 
Mr. S£im Citrus

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Doryphore of KingsFans.com
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I didn't notice it being explicitly stated in the rules but, since I like to handicap myself in these things, I'm going to try and avoid picking anything I took in last year's iPod draft. I shall start my playlist with a song that just missed the cut last year:



The Payback - James Brown: The Payback (1973)

However, since I couldn't find a link on youtube of satisfactory quality, and was not willing to subject anyone else to the inferior versions I did find, there will, sadly, be no youtube link to this song. But, the way I see it, anybody who's never heard The Payback before probably wasn't going to vote for me, anyway, so it is what it is...
 
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