AMF WC Classics Edition 91

[spiritualized]

It's time for instalment n°91 of the Classics Chart, where YOU get to nominate and vote for the best songs ever in a tournament to the death ! Only the cream of the crop will go through the grueling EIGHT weeks of charting.

Nominations will follow the rules below ( NOMINATIONS CLOSED !!!)

- only the first top 1000 AM song nominated each week is eligible.
- only the first six top AM 1001-10000 songs nominated each week is eligible.
- that would leave 3 places each week reserved for un-acclaimed songs (if more than 3, the fourth unranked song will take the spot of a second tier one)

Top Tier (1-1000)
Echo & The Bunnymen - Heroin (Live 1983) #??
The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000), #665

Second Tier (1001-10,000)
Deftones - Be Quiet (And Drive Far Away) AMF # 9997

Third Tier (bubbling and unranked)
The Chameleons | Second Skin (Unranked)
EELS - 'Mistakes Of My Youth'
Chris Rea - Josephine (Bubbling Under)
M83 - Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun (unranked)
Zeljko Joksimovic - Lane moje (unranked)
The 360 Degree Music Experience - Sahara
The Dismemberment Plan-What Do You Want Me To Say? (Unranked)

126 votes last week (+3 votes)
On the top step of the podium : The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby
New Entries : Neil Young / Joey Ramone / Dead Boys
Kicked out this week : The Isley Brothers / The Hollies / Schoolboy Q
Del Shannon reaches the Hall of Fame !





Enjoy voting for your favorite 10 songs... a difficult feat !

The AMF WC Classics Hall of Fame playlist :



Top Chart (number of weeks as n°1)

The Smiths - How Soon is Now (2)
Nina Simone - Feeling Good (2)
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (4)
Annie - Heartbeat (1)
Stevie Wonder - Superstition (2)
Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up (Extended Version) (2)
France Gall - Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son (1)
Janelle Monae - Cold War (5)
The Cranberries - Dreams (1)
Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson (2)
Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (1)
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger (6)
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole (2)
U2 - With or Without You (2)
Black Sabbath - War Pigs (1)
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have) ? (4)
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (3)
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale (3)
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (5)
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (4)
Primal Scream - Loaded (2)
The Ronettes - Be My Baby (6)
Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes (1)
The Zombies - Time of the Season (4)
The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (1)
Modest Mouse - Float On (2)
The Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia (2)
The Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen (1)
Neil Young & The Crazy Horse - Like a Hurricane (2)
Pixies - Debaser (1)
Radiohead - Creep (1)
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (2)
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus (1)
Outkast - Hey Ya! (2)
The Rolling Stones - I Can't Get No Satisfaction (2)
T. Rex - Bang a Gong [Get It On] (1)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt.1 (3)
Love - Alone Again Or (3)
Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) (1)
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (1)
The Association - Never My Love (1)
Oasis - Stand By Me (1)
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (2)

[Madzong]

Deftones - Be Quiet (And Drive Far Away) AMF # 9997

[Madzong]

Just curious (and maybe this should be in a seperate thread) but has anyone made any awesome song discoveries through the Classics Edition?

[spiritualized]

Excellent Question !
I wouldn't say "awesome" as I knew most of the songs that have been competing and staying around.

However, a few excellent songs popped up on my radar, although they didn't stay long...

Of Montreal The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
Solaris - Marsbéli krónikák: IV-VI
Darkwood Dub - Baobab

But until the new rules appeared, I felt the Classics edition was more of a way to remind you of great songs that went under my radar. Discoveries are now...

[spiritualized]

Now for my nomination, and a tough one to classify for Akhenaten !!!

Echo & The Bunnymen - Heroin (Live 1983) ==> which AM rank ?

[Bang Jan]

The Chameleons | Second Skin (Unranked)

[Rdwdbob]

EELS - 'Mistakes Of My Youth'

[Honorio]

The Avalanches - Since I Left You (2000), #665

[Wisnu Tirta Aji]

Chris Rea - Josephine (Bubbling Under)
Peter Frampton - Show Me the Way (#2301)

[acroamor]

M83 - Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun (unranked)

[StevieFan13]

Zeljko Joksimovic - Lane moje (unranked)

[DaveC]

The 360 Degree Music Experience - Sahara

[Wisnu Tirta Aji]

Del Shannon reaches the Hall of Fame !

In religion, I know that Del Shannon must been go to hell because he was passed away because of suicide (which was make God angry even hate to a people who suicide and deny other peoples to become that people who suicide a fan too). In performance, millenial listeners maybe forget Del Shannon (including his song, "Runaway") because when the time goes by, that listeners maybe forget less popular 1960s songs including Del Shannon little by little (see the full list of songs on every edition of Top 2000 by Dutch radio station, NPO Radio 2, on Dutch Wikipedia here to see where this song on the 2019 edition). Either way, I'm not a Del Shannon fan at all (because he was suicide), but I just congrats to Del Shannon because "Runaway" reaches the Hall of Fame.

The AMF WC Classics Hall of Fame playlist :

And once again, I will request! Can you deny these Hall of Fame songs (including Del Shannon) nominated by every AM users? I like some songs on Hall of Fame including "Creep" by Radiohead but I'm so sad if Hall of Fame songs nominated again. Thanks.

[acroamor]

Del Shannon reaches the Hall of Fame !

In religion, I know that Del Shannon must been go to hell because he was passed away because of suicide (which was make God angry even hate to a people who suicide and deny other peoples to become that people who suicide a fan too).

And once again, I will request! Can you deny these Hall of Fame songs (including Del Shannon) nominated by every AM users? I like some songs on Hall of Fame including "Creep" by Radiohead but I'm so sad if Hall of Fame songs nominated again. Thanks.

Whew lads.

[CupOfDreams]

Excellent Question !
I wouldn't say "awesome" as I knew most of the songs that have been competing and staying around.

However, a few excellent songs popped up on my radar, although they didn't stay long...

Of Montreal The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
Solaris - Marsbéli krónikák: IV-VI
Darkwood Dub - Baobab

But until the new rules appeared, I felt the Classics edition was more of a way to remind you of great songs that went under my radar. Discoveries are now...

I nominated the first two on your list. With the exception of "Ever Fallen In Love" by the Buzzcocks, all of my nominees have been eliminated quickly. Most have been outside or on the lower half of the Top 10,000 so not really surprised.

[Holden]

Del Shannon reaches the Hall of Fame !

In religion, I know that Del Shannon must been go to hell because he was passed away because of suicide (which was make God angry even hate to a people who suicide and deny other peoples to become that people who suicide a fan too).

And once again, I will request! Can you deny these Hall of Fame songs (including Del Shannon) nominated by every AM users? I like some songs on Hall of Fame including "Creep" by Radiohead but I'm so sad if Hall of Fame songs nominated again. Thanks.

Whew lads.

Yeah, Wisnu, I personally would prefer staying on topic with this thread being about discovering acclaimed and unacclaimed songs and not your controversial beliefs about suicide.

[Holden]

The Dismemberment Plan-What Do You Want Me To Say? (Unranked)

[CupOfDreams]

Can - She Brings the Rain (UR)

[spiritualized]

PS - L7's FUEL MY FIRE is as good as I remember... They were supposed to be guest starring the Foo Fighters concert in the Nimes Arena in July (for those who don't know, the Nimes Arena is a 1st century Roman monument which can host live concerts...still after 2000 years !!!)

But the Coronavirus decided otherwise. Foos will play next year, but I doubt the 60yo rockers will be partying with everyone in 2021...

PPS - the Prodigy's version was also quite awesome.

[Rdwdbob]

Dusty Springfield - 'So Much Love' (did not chart)

[Edre Depeche Head]

Depeche Mode - Surrender

[spiritualized]

FYI - Can / Dusty /Depeche Mode won't make the chart as all the nominations are in now...Resubmit next week ?

[Rdwdbob]

FYI - Can / Dusty /Depeche Mode won't make the chart as all the nominations are in now...Resubmit next week ?

If it's not too much trouble to resubmit I'm all for that...however...it might not be a good idea as you may get nominations weeks in advance.

[spiritualized]

Hi Rdwdbob !
Up to you, but I meant that you needed to resubmit