Preeshiate that.
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What are your favorite N songs? POLL 1 of 3. Select up to 9 from this list.
- A New England – Kirsty MacColl
- A Night in Tunisia – Charlie Parker
- Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye – Steam
- Naked and Famous – The Presidents of the United States of America
- Naked Man – Randy Newman
- Nanook Rubs It – Frank Zappa
- Nantes – Barbara
- Nantucket Sleighride – Mountain
- Narco – Blasterjaxx and Timmy Trumpet
- Natural One – Folk Implosion
- Nature Boy – Nat King Cole
- Nature’s Way - Spirit
- Ne me quitte pas – Jacques Brel
- Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart – Chris Cornell
- Necessito – Some Girls
- Need You Tonight - INXS
- Needles and Pins – The Searchers
- Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye – Gladys Night & the Pips
- Nelson Mandela – The Specials
- Nemo – Nightwish
- Neutron Dance – The Pointer Sisters
- Never – Heart
- Never Been Any Reason – Head East
- Never Comes the Day – The Moody Blues
- Never Ending – BENEE
- Never Ever – All Saints
- Never Going Back Again – Fleetwood Mac
- Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley
- Never Gonna Not Dance Again – Pink
- Never Let Me Down Again – Depeche Mode
- Never My Love – The Association
- Never Say Goodbye – Bob Dylan
- Never Say Goodbye – Bon Jovi
- Never Say Never – Romeo Void
- Never Stop – Echo & the Bunnymen
- Never There – Cake
- Never Understood – Jesus and Mary Chain
- Never Will I Marry – Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley
- Never You Mind – Semisonic
- Nevermind – Leonard Cohen
- New Age Girl – Deadeye Dick
- New Amsterdam – Elvis Costello
- New Frontier – Donald Fagen
- New Horizons – The Moody Blues
- New Kind of Kick – The Cramps
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What are your favorite N songs? POLL 2 of 3. Select up to 9 from this list.
- New Morning – Bob Dylan
- New Orleans – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
- New Orleans is Sinking – The Tragically Hip
- New Rose – The Damned
- New Rules – Dua Lipa
- New San Antonio Rose – Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
- New Shapes – Charli XCX
- New Year’s Day – U2
- New York – U2
- New York Buildings – Fruit
- New York City Cops – The Strokes
- New York Minute - Don Henley
- New York State of Mind – Billy Joel
- New York Telephone Conversation – Lou Reed
- New York, New York – Frank Sinatra
- New York’s Alright if You Like Saxaphones – Fear
- Nice Guys Finish Last – Green Day
- Nice House – Joywave
- Nice Work if You Can Get It – Thelonius Monk
- Nicest Thing – Kate Nash
- Night and Day – Frank Sinatra
- Night and Day – Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra
- Night in My Veins – The Pretenders
- Night Moves – Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
- Night Shift – Siouxsie & the Banshees
- Nightflyer – Allison Russell
- Nightlife – Wanda Jackson
- Nights in White Satin – The Moody Blues
- Nightshift – Commodores
- Nightswimming – R.E.M.
- Nighttime Birds – The Gathering
- Nikita – Elton John
- Ninety Nine and a Half Won’t Do – Wilson Pickett
- Nirvana – The Cult
- No Body, No Crime – Taylor Swift
- No Diggity – Blackstreet
- No Excuses – Alice in Chains
- No Expectations – Johnny Cash
- No Lies – Noiseworks
- No Light, No Light – Florence + the Machine
- No Mercy – The Stranglers
- No Milk Today – Herman’s Hermits
- No Need to Argue – The Cranberries
- No No Song – Ringo Starr
- No One – Alicia Keys
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What are your favorite N songs? POLL 3 of 3. Select up to 9 from this list.
- No One is to Blame – Howard Jones
- No One Like You – Scorpions
- No One to Depend On - Santana
- No Particular Place to Go – Chuck Berry
- No Quarter – Led Zeppelin
- No Rain – Blind Melon
- No Roots – Alice Merton
- No Scrubs – TLC
- No Ship Coming In – Lost Dogs
- No Sleep Till Brooklyn – Beastie Boys
- No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature – The Guess Who
- No Time – Ringo & Co.
- No Time – The Guess Who
- No Time to Die – Billie Eilish
- No Time To Think – Bob Dylan
- No Trains to Heaven – Be Bop Deluxe
- No Woman, No Cry – Bob Marley & the Wailers
- Nobody Does It Better – Carly Simon
- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out – Bessie Smith
- Nobody Told Me – John Lennon
- Non, Jene regrette rien – Edith Piaf
- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) – The Beatles
- Not Alone Anymore – Traveling Wilburys
- Not Fade Away – Buddy Holly
- Not Running – The Beths
- Nothin’ – Townes Van Zandt
- Nothing Compares 2 U – Sinead O’Connor
- Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
- Nothing From Nothing – Billy Preston
- Nothing Has Been Proved – Dusty Springfield & the Pet Shop Boys
- Nothing Lasts – The Steve Miller Band
- Nothing Man – Pearl Jam
- Nothing to Say – Jethro Tull
- Nothing Without Love – Nate Reuss
- Novocaine for the Soul – The Eels
- Nowhere Man – The Beatles
- Nuages – Django Reinhardt
- Nuclear Burn – Brand X
- Numb – Meg Myers
- Numb – U2
- Nuthin’ but a G Thang – Dr. Dre
- Nutrocker – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- The Nearness of You – James Taylor
- The Needle and the Damage Done – Neil Young
- The Night Has a Thousand Eyes – Bobby Vinton
- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – The Band
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My list of what could have been:
Nashville Cats – The Lovin’ Spoonful
Nebraska – Bruce Springsteen
Never Can Say Goodbye – The Jackson 5
New Kid in Town – Eagles
New Kid in Town – J.D. Souther
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five – Paul McCartney & Wings
No Action – Elvis Costello
No Chicken on the Bone – Delbert McClinton
No Dancing – Elvis Costello
No Expectations – The Rolling Stones
No Matter What – Badfinger
No One Knows – Queens of the Stone Age
No Ordinary Blue – John Prine
No Reply – The Beatles
No. 9 Dream – John Lennon
Nobody But Me – The Human Beinz
Not Dark Yet – Bob Dylan
Nothing Compares 2 U - Prince
Nothing is Easy – Jethro Tull
The Night Before – The Beatles
Some that didn’t make my (or anybody else’s) list:
New Coat Of Paint - Tom Waits
Nowhere Fast - The Smiths
New York - The Sex Pistols
Neat Neat Neat - The Damned
And my list of extras:
Naughty Number Nine - Grady Tate/Schoolhouse Rock
Nazingwa - WITCH
Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor
Never Fight A Man With A Perm - IDLES
A New Sea Song (Sweethearts and Wives) - Jerry Bryant, Starboard Mass
New York Girls - Bellowhead
The Next Right Thing - Kristen Bell (from Frozen II)
Nice Legs, Shame About The Face - The Monks
Nierika - Dead Can Dance
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square - Manhattan Transfer
The Night You Can’t Remember - Magnetic Fields
Nkosi Sikelei’ iAfrika - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Nobody Loves You Like Me - Jonathan Coulton
No More Memory - Cyriak Harris
No Surprises - Radiohead
Not a Day Goes By - Bernadette Peters (from Merrily We Roll Along)
Not Crying - Flight of the Conchords
Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is - Sparks
Nothing Really Ends - dEUS
Nothing’s Free - Angel Olsen
Not Perfect - Tim Minchin
The Nowhere King - Cast of Centaurworld
Nowhere to Run - Martha and the Vandellas
Nugget Man - Paul and Storm
Nutbush City Limits - Ike & Tina Turner
Nymphes des bois - Josquin des Prez / various
Did this get missed/left off for some reason?
Can’t believe we missed that one.
While “Needles and Pins” momentarily holds the top spot in one of the polls, this is an opportunity to link to a fascinating essay from Andrew Hickey (a transcript from his A History of Rock in 500 Songs) who credits that (Mersey Beat) record as the origin of the jangling folk rock sound identified with Los Angeles bands like The Byrds, Love, and The Bangles.
This was a weird one. I didn’t recognize about 80% of the nominated songs.
For once, I don’t have a long list of omitted songs. The only one I considered that wasn’t nominated comes with questions. It is definitely a song and their is a single singer to meet that criteria. It is even a unique rendition in a sea of “covers”.
But…I’m not sure what the correct title is.
If I had submitted it, it would have been submitted as:
The National Anthem - Marvin Gaye (1983 NBA All Star Game)
What say you? Eligible?
“The Star-Spangled Banner”, surely?
Oh no, so sorry, blondebear! 
You will get 6 nominations next round if you’d like.
(great song, too)
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Thanks for the link, that’s indeed a fascinating read (or podcast). Though it’s very detailed, I think the author misses one step in the evolution of the jangle guitar sound from the Searchers to the Byrds and beyond, and of course that were the Beatles. As I remember it, George Harrison was inspired by “Needles And Pins” to buy a 12-string Rickenbacher he then prominently used on the songs for “A Hard Day’s Night” (film and album). And in LA theater, the Byrds in their embryonic stage watched the movie, and Roger McGuinn had the blueprint for the sound the Byrds got famous for. What I never knew before reading this article was the fact that it wasn’t a 12-string Rickenbacher in “Needles And Pins”, but two 6-strings played in unison.
And I learned that the Searchers were active into the 2010s, with the original guitarist (John McNally) and the nearly-original - since 1964 - bassist (Frank Allen).
That said, I cringe every time I hear them pronounce it Needles and Pin-za.
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Yeah, that’s one I would have voted for.
“#9 Dream” already appeared in the “numeral or a symbol” thread.
Mine that didn’t make the cut:
Nuts For You - The 77s
Number Three - They Might Be Giants
Nowhere Else - The 77s
Not Deaad Yet - The Bad Examples
Night Boat To Cairo - Madness
Now and Then - The Beatles
Oh well, things happen. No worries.
Besides that one, the also-rans from my list:
Never Going Back - Beat Farmers
New Song - The Who
Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead (the Rockplast version with the super-wasted guest star)
Nice Nice Very Nice - Ambrosia
[sidetrack] To be totally wasted seemed to be a requirement for Rockpalast, just watch the legendary performances by Mitch Ryder and Patti Smith. The backstage interviews gave it all away. Though there was a reason for this: those were long concerts with three or four bands on one bill, and it could happen that the main act entered the stage as late as 2 AM. Of course at this time everybody was wasted after waiting endless hours for their gig. (including the audience, of course) [/st]
My shortlist songs that nobody used:
No More Mr Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
Nathan Jones - Supremes
Neat Neat Neat - The Damned
Never Wear Mascara (When You Love A Married Man) - Hank Wangford
No Xmas For John Quays - The Fall
Nobody Hurts You - Graham Parker
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