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anais vionet's avatar

You got #1 and #2 right, then, just NO. Could you pick a more mopey, lackluster and depressing song for #3? Just NO. 🙃

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Michael R. Burch's avatar

Most of the world disagrees with you. It's the most-played song in Britain over the last 75 years, has sold over 10 million copies, and there are over a thousand covers!

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Gus's avatar

You will quickly discover in discussion with Michael that you are wrong. When the going gets tough he'll pull a numerical argument to show you the world agrees with him; and you're wrong.

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César Guimarães's avatar

Great work! But I think “Stairway to Heaven” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” are overrated songs. I like them.

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copans's avatar

Thanks for the hard work. I had never heard of CSN's Cathedral listening now, but I have so many minor quibbles I will just mention skipped favorite songs by listed singers. I think outside of a few Janis Joplin tracks, my favorite vocal is on Hank's You Win Again.

And as a poet, don't you admire as a singable passage:

Now the first of December was covered with snow

So was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston

Now the Berkshires seemed dreamlike

On account of that frosting

With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go

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Joe Ivory Mattingly's avatar

Great list

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