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Forward (USA) - The 150 Greatest Jewish Pop Songs of All Time (2022)

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https://forward.com/culture/music/48097 ... -lou-reed/

I dig!

1. “Highway 61 Revisited,” Bob Dylan
2. “You Want It Darker,” Leonard Cohen
3. “Tattoo,” Janis Ian
4. “Ride ‘em Jewboy,” Kinky Friedman
5. “Jewish,” Spirit
6. “Never Again,” Remedy
7. “Summer Girl,” Haim
8. “Samson,” Regina Spektor
9. “I Gotta Feeling,” Black Eyed Peas
10. “Eternal Flame,” Bangles
11. “Attic,” Jill Sobule
12. “Egg Cream,” Lou Reed
13. “Anne Frank Story,” Human Sexual Response
14. “Neighborhood Bully,” Bob Dylan
15. “Who By Fire,” Leonard Cohen
16. “I’m Glad I’m Jewish,” Michael Bloomfield
17. “Bonzo Goes to Bitburg,” Ramones
18. “Shadrach,” Beastie Boys
19. “Brooklyn Roads,” Neil Diamond
20. “Garden,” Dua Lipa
21. “Honor Them All,” Janis Ian
22. “Untitled,” Peter Himmelman
23. “Dixie Flyer,” Randy Newman
24. “Dachau Blues,” Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
25. “Jerusalem, New York, Berlin,” Vampire Weekend
26. “Story of Isaac,” Leonard Cohen
27. “Station to Station,” David Bowie
28. “All You Zombies,” by The Hooters
29. “Commando,” Ramones
30. “The Next Big Thing,” The Dictators
31. “Shattered,” Rolling Stones
32. “Turn! Turn! Turn!” The Byrds
33. “Hearts and Bones,” Paul Simon
34. “Good Evening Mr. Waldheim,” Lou Reed
35. “Kol Nidre,” Electric Prunes
36. “Train for Auschwitz,” Tom Paxton
37. “Hallelujah,” Leonard Cohen
38. "My Sanctuary," Marc Cohn
39. “They Tried to Kill Us, We Survived, Let’s Eat,” Good for the Jews
40. “Rednecks,” Randy Newman
41. “Rocking in the Kibbitz Room,” Chuck E. Weiss
42. “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore,” Kinky Friedman
43. “Red Sector A,” Rush
44. “Blitzkrieg Bop,” Ramones
45. “Tush,” ZZ Top
46. “Rock the Casbah,” The Clash
47. “Harmony Hall,” Vampire Weekend
48. “The Envoy,” Warren Zevon
49. “Where is the Village,” Jay Black
50. “Ariel,” Dean Friedman
51. “Lover, Lover, Lover,” Leonard Cohen
52. “I Wanna Be Black,” Lou Reed
53. “Donna, Donna,” Joan Baez
54. “New England,” Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers
55. “Silent Eyes,” Paul Simon
56. “Isaac,” Madonna
57. “Ya Hey,” Vampire Weekend
58. “Theme to ‘New York, New York’,” Liza Minnelli
59. “Everything Is Broken,” Bob Dylan
60. “Cynthia Mask,” Robyn Hitchcock
61. “Goon Squad,” Elvis Costello & The Attractions
62. “Anthem,” Leonard Cohen
63. “Dreidel,” Don McLean
64. “Rivers of Babylon,” The Melodians
65. “Yellow Star,” Serge Gainsbourg
66. “Hava Nagila,” Dick Dale
67. “All Along the Watchtower,” Bob Dylan
68. “Creeping Death,” Metallica
69. “The Chanukah Song,” Adam Sandler
70. “Holy Ground,” The Klezmatics
71. “Only in America,” Jay and the Americans
72. “Busload of Faith,” Lou Reed
73. “Trains of No Return,” Ofra Haza
74. “The Door,” Martin Page
75. “Dance Me to the End of Love,” Leonard Cohen
76. “Alive with the Glory of Love,” Say Anything
77. “How Can You Live in the Northeast,” Paul Simon
78. “When the Ship Comes In,” Bob Dylan
79. “Still Drake,” Drake
80. “Rael,” The Who
81. “Eight Candles,” Yo La Tengo
82. “Almost Like the Blues,” Leonard Cohen
83. “40 Days and Forty Nights,” Steppenwolf
84. “National Brotherhood Week,” Tom Lehrer
85. “The Sound of Silence,” Simon & Garfunkel
86. “Wake Me, Shake Me,” The Blues Project
87. “Long Before My Time,” The Baseball Project
88. “Lithuania,” Dan Bern
89. “Girl from Germany,” Sparks
90. “Strange Fruit,” Billie Holiday
91. “Daniel and the Sacred Harp,” The Band
92. “Belly of the Whale,” Burning Sensations
93. “My House,” Lou Reed
94. “Any World (That I’m Welcome To),” Steely Dan
95. “The World Is a Ghetto,” War
96. “Idiot Wind,” Bob Dylan
97. “L.A. Deli,” Sloppy Secondz
98. “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah,” Tracy Morgan
99. “The Drunken Jew,” Firewater
100. “Slavery Days,” Burning Spear
101. “Maxwell Street Shuffle,” Barry Goldberg
102. “Ghosts of Dachau,” The Style Council
103. “Commandments of Love,” Little Richard
104. “Ha Ha Hanukkah,” The Goblins
105. “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” The Teddy Bears
106. “Hava Nagila (Christmas Arrangement),” Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
107. “Myriam and Esther,” Phranc
108. “Spanish Bar Mitzvah,” Sic F*cks
109. “I’m Going to a Seder,” The Shlomones
110. “Contraction of Infinite Light,” Deveykus
111. “Maximum Restraint,” Peter Himmelman
112. “One Day,” Matisyahu
113. “Belsen Was a Gas,” Sex Pistols
114. “My Little Swastika,” Dan Bern
115. “Laughing With,” Regina Spektor
116. “Mayn Rue Plats,” June Tabor
117. “Falafel,” The Sabras
118. “Jerusalem,” Esther Ofarim
119. “Tzena, Tzena, Tzena,” The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra
120. “Ready-Made Diary,” Minimal Compact
121. “Springtime for Hitler,” Mel Brooks
122. “Sympathy,” Vampire Weekend
123. “Tehillim,” Steve Reich
124. “God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind),” Randy Newman
125. “Little Diane,” Dion
126. “Friday Night Fever,” Silver Jews
127. “Eve of Destruction,” Barry Maguire
128. “With God on Our Side,” Bob Dylan
129. “One of Us,” Joan Osborne
130. “Nothing,” The Fugs
131. “Already Home,” Marc Cohn
132. “The Black Angel’s Death Song,” Velvet Underground
133. “Give Me a Stone,” Largo
134. “Mic Tester,” Northern State
135. “Mambo Schevitz,” The Crows
136. “I Wanna Go Backwards,” Robyn Hitchcock
137. “Me and Mr. Jones,” Amy Winehouse
138. “Rebel Jew,” Silver Jews
139. “I Won’t Sleep on the Wet Spot No More,” Genya Ravan
140. “Get It Together,” Beastie Boys
141. “The Night,” Morphine
142. “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest,” Bob Dylan
143. “The Mystery of Love,” Sufjan Stevens
144. “Harry’s Circumcision – Reverie Gone Astray,” Lou Reed
145. “Debka,” The Churchills
146. “The Junker and the Jewess,” Gary Lucas
147. “The Boxer,” Simon & Garfunkel
148. “Flash Light,” Parliament
149. “My Father My King,” Mogwai
150. “Knishin’ in the Mission,” Hip Hop Hoodios

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Re: Forward (USA) - The 150 Greatest Jewish Pop Songs of All Time (2022)

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Is this going to be considered?
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The criteria was songs integrated with Jewish culture? And the source is about Jewish culture? Yeah, that should make it eligible.
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Henrik wrote: Sun Aug 20, 2023 7:39 am The criteria was songs integrated with Jewish culture? And the source is about Jewish culture? Yeah, that should make it eligible.
Yes and yes! Hooray, hopefully that also bodes well for that Tablet list I shared a while ago.
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