The mmm songs Wild Card & Also-Ran poll. Let’s get some of these high vote-getters into our final music poll

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(From suggestions by @Moonrise and @peccavi)

Now that all the individual letters are all settled, let us take this opportunity to shoehorn in some wild card and also-ran entries. These are the top vote-getters from the individual final polls (these are the wild cards) and the top vote-getters from the also-ran polls (songs that got overlooked and therefore did not appear as an option).

RULES: Select up to 10 of your favorites. The top five will earn a spot in the ultimate best song poll.

  • (Don’t Fear) the Reaper – Blue Öyster Cult
  • (Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
  • American Pie – Don McLean
  • Blackbird – The Beatles
  • Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
  • Chain, The – Fleetwood Mac
  • Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright – Bob Dylan
  • Down on the Corner – Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • For what it’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield
  • Free Fallin’ – Tom Petty
  • Get Back – The Beatles
  • Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys
  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
  • Homeward Bound – Simon & Garfunkel
  • Honky Tonk Women – The Rolling Stones
  • I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Hank Williams
  • Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry
  • Jolene – Dolly Parton
  • Layla – Derek and the Dominoes
  • Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan
  • Lola – The Kinks
  • Money for Nothing – Dire Straits
  • Mrs. Robinson – Simon & Garfunkel
  • New Year’s Day – U2
  • Nights in White Satin – The Moody Blues
  • No Woman, No Cry – Bob Marley & the Wailers
  • Nothing Compares 2 U – Sinead O’Connor
  • Oh, Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
  • Over the Rainbow – Judy Garland
  • Penny Lane – The Beatles
  • Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
  • Radar Love – Golden Earring
  • Rock the Casbah – The Clash
  • Something – The Beatles
  • Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles
  • Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones
  • Take Five – The Dave Brubeck Quartet
  • Take On Me – A-ha
  • Taxman – The Beatles
  • Train in Vain (Stand By Me) – The Clash
  • Unchained Melody – The Righteous Brothers
  • Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars
  • White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
  • Yesterday – The Beatles
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Well, that was brutal.

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I thought the same thing.

mmm

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+ another.

j

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Oh, dear! That was hard and the last poll will be impossible!

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At first, it seemed a bit lackluster, but by the time I reached Something, I realized it was the toughest poll so far.

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Yep, way more than ten that I wanted to vote for.

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Add me to the list. A poll where I don’t vote for two of the greatest Clash songs (with much agony) must be full of great songs.

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Usually in these polls, I’ll have about 12-16 songs I’ll pick on my first cut through, then figure out how to cut them down.

Occasionally, I’ll have about 8-9 on the first cut, and then I’ll stream a random sample of the likeliest-looking songs to see if any that I haven’t heard match up to the first set of cuts - then I’ll have some new favorites.

But this poll? That strategy went out the window. Too many tough decisions. Paper cut, meet lemon juice.

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I didn’t have that problem, just 2 final cuts (Penny Lane and Sympathy For the Devil)…

11

Probably a good thing that you and I aren’t planning any long road trips together.

There is just a single song on that list that I believe does not warrant serious consideration for my vote.

mmm

12

I mean, Radar Love?!

Most of my stuff is simply obscure, but IMHO rather tuneful, if you were to give them a listen. Alas quite a bit isn’t available on the main streaming services.