What are your favorite songs that begin with the letter Y? See rules in OP: FINAL POLL ADDED

Songs I considered nominating, that nobody mentioned:

Youth of the Nation - P.O.D.
Youth Culture Killed My Dog - They Might Be Giants
Young Boy - Paul McCartney
You Take Me Up - The Thompson Twins
You’re Looking Fine - The Kinks
You May Be Right - Billy Joel
Yesterday’s Men - Madness
Yes Sir, No Sir - The Kinks
Yes It Is - The Beatles
Yer So Bad - Tom Petty

OK, now I can point out:

You Never Can Tell - Emmylou Harris

Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad – Tammy Wynette

You Turn Me On I’m A Radio - Joni Mitchell

Young Blood – The Coasters

And, for @flurb

Yer eeviiiilll. :upside_down_face:

Songs left on the bench from my list:

You’re Not the One (I Was Looking For) - Blue Oyster Cult
You’re Gonna Get It - Tom Petty
Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ Than Trash - Steve Miller
Yesterday’s Rain - Sweet
Young And Rich - Tubes
Youth Of Nation On Fire - Bill Nelson

By my reckoning, we’ve done B, C, E, G, I, K, L, M , P, Q, S, V, X, Y, Z and numbers/symbols. Is that right?

Also rans:

Ya Got Trouble - Robert Preston (from The Music Man)
Y’a d’la joie - Charles Trenet
Yes Sir, I Can Boogie - Bacara
You’ll Always Find Me At The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie
You’ll Never Walk Alone - Cast of Carousel (or Gerry & The Pacemakers)
You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry
You Never Wash Up After Yourself - Radiohead
You’re The First, The Last, My Everything - Barry White
You’re Welcome - Dwayne Johnson (from Moana)

The omission of the Chuck Berry and Barry White ones is…unfortunate.

I think the Gerry and the Pacemakers and the Emmylou Harris versions were in.

Your Move - Yes
You Got Lucky - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls

and I was going back and forth between the Supremes and Canned Heat versions of “You Keep Me Hanging On” before submitting.

There are a lot of covers of the song, but I never knew Canned Heat did it.

ETA: wait, I just googled it, and there’s no indication that such a cover exists. Did you maybe confuse Canned Heat with Vanilla Fudge?

I fully expect you to vote for that version. :wink: #BVB

Not quite. Wrong Borussia, my club is Mönchengladbach. :wink:

But generally, it’s definitely one of the greatest football songs of all time, if sung on the Süd or on the Kop. And I just love how Liverpool fans chanting it is integrated into “Fearless”, one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs.

I had a 50% chance! :flushed: But yeah, I love that song for the same reason, and I voted for it.

Great poll, M3!

But yeah, too bad Barry White’s “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything” didn’t make the cut. A great upbeat romantic ballad.

Chris Cornell also did a kickass “You Know My Name” for the James Bond reboot, Casino Royale. Probably my favorite 007 title track.

Y’know, the last time I did that, my kids were confused that I brought Sterno home for a gift for them from my business trip…

You’re right, of course - thanks for the correction!

It took me some time to get that, but it’s great. :joy: I hope your kids didn’t take some sips…

More Y songs:

Yesterday, When I Was Young - Roy Clark
You and Me Against the World - Helen Reddy
You Decorated My Life - Kenny Rogers
You Don’t Have to Be a Star - Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr.
You Needed Me - Anne Murray
You Should Be Dancing - The Bee Gees
You Should Hear How She Talks About You - Melissa Manchester
You’re the One That I Want - Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta
You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
Your Smiling Face - James Taylor

That one, at least, did get mentioned, and it’s doing pretty well in the polls.

Oops. I don’t know how I missed that.

It is at this point that the preferences of Dope music listeners has become pretty clear:

[genres I see all the time at the top of the polls]

Soft rock/pop
Classic rock, incl.
Yacht rock
Classic soul
Some new wave shows up here and there, but only the most commercial (Police, Elvis Costello), but even then U2 isn’t having anything show up in the finals-Mysterious Ways w 22%…

[genres that don’t get much love]

Progressive rock, interestingly enough. Yes’ Yours Is No Disgrace only got 2 other votes than mine, thought it was a pretty well-known cut. Epitaph by King Crimson only got 1 other vote too. Even Floyd isn’t doing so hot-Echoes only got 7. Moody Blues now have a shot with Nights in White Satin with the opening of the N poll, but we shall see.
Art rock, other than Bowie. I’ve nommed several Roxy Music cuts only to see them almost invariably ignored-again thought this crowd would be more knowledgeable about such…
Post-punk
Alternative (after new wave kind of morphed into it)-these last two a big surprise: my guess is that the only grunge cuts which have a chance of making it to the final round would be Smells Like Teen Spirit, Jeremy, and Even Flow (oh yeah we did do the E’s already, came in at 31%…).
No rap/hip-hop for the most part, which isn’t that big a surprise, but bears mentioning.
Metal or even hard rock, not even old school–You’ve Got Another Thing Coming got 21%, not seeing much Sabbath or Deep Purple high in the polls. Stairway to Heaven made the finals but finished dead last.

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