#ALL50RTS
74.
NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE (1/1 all)
'CORTEZ THE KILLER'
Canada/USA 1975
Zuma
58 points (1 x 12, 1 x 11)
12 @mattlaycock.bsky.social (list)
Canada 3/3, USA 33/45
1975 5/5
1970s 23/29
Top 5 of *all* 1975 songs in #Pop75, but 5th best non-single here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX9k...
my Spxtxfx showing a moving so-called canvas image of *Sabrina* Carpenter while I’m playing “Only Yesterday” by *Karen & Richard* Carpenter!
Sabrina now infiltrating my Spxtxfx canvas thingy while I’m indulging in my #pop75 favourites. it’s a ball of Carpenter confusion!
FELA KUTI, with white face paint, microphone in hand, no shirt and a chain around his neck.
#ALL50RTS
MISSING LEGENDS
FELA KUTI
'Water No Get Enemy' did better in #pop75 than here, but it was still his top song with 31 points. 'Zombie' scored 20.
I did say in the rules that I would be more generous to non-Anglosphere artists, but this didn't work. Steel yourselves for other misses...
In the #Pop75 final I also asked - which year should we do next? Now, next may mean “in a year” but even so the results are interesting! This thread shows the Top 5 choices in GIF FORM which are also all the years w/more than 20 picks
5= (21 points)
Absolutely a worthy winner of #POP75 … I really thought it would be Bowie and my vote would be just one of many to help nudge it into second place.
#POP75 And the Winner is...
🥇 HAROLD MELVIN AND THE BLUE NOTES - "Don't Leave Me This Way" 🙅
Grand Final: 223pts (27%)
Final Group: 291 points, 50 voters (3rd)
High: WINNER
Low: 8th (30 votes)
Probably time for me to admit Teddy Pendergrass played a role here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnIk...
The Gods may roll the dice...
#Pop75 🥈 ABBA - "SOS" 🆘
Grand Final: 200 pts (24%)
Final Group: 350 points, 53 voters (2nd)
High: 1st (40 votes)
Low: 2nd (20 votes)
Always either 1st or 2nd in the Final Group, then just couldn't close the gap
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvCh...
#Pop75 🥉 DAVID BOWIE - "Young Americans" 🗽
Grand Final: 172pts (21%)
Final Group: 361 points, 53 voters (1st)
High: 1st (60 votes)
Low: 10th (20 votes)
Swapped 1st and 2nd place consistently through the Final Group so its fall here was quite a shock to me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO6O...
#Pop75 4️⃣ NEIL YOUNG - "Cortez The Killer"
Grand Final: 133pts (16%)
Final Group: 265 points, 36 voters
High: 3rd (20 votes)
Low: 16th (60 votes)
Two 12-point scores in the last 3 ballots brought it back into contention and it used the opportunity well!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX9k...
#Pop75 5️⃣ JONI MITCHELL - "The Hissing Of Summer Lawns"
Grand Final: 97pts (12%)
Final Group: 266 points, 42 voters (4th)
High: 4th (116 votes)
Low: 18th (20 votes)
An album track by nature, it couldn't sustain its excellent performance in the grand final
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkMh...
#Pop75 - THE FINAL RESULTS!
Let's see how the Top 5 shook out and reel in the winner of
THE WORLD CUP OF 1975
Thanks to everyone who nominated, voted, and commented in this poll!
MY FİVE #pop75 GOLDEN BİİİİTS:
➗ Ali Chukwuma & His Peace Makers International • Ana Azor Eze Azor 🇳🇬
➗ Beto Guedes & Milton Nascimento • Fé Cega, Faca Amolada 🇧🇷
➗ Mary Afi Usuah • Ima Mma Uyem 🇳🇬
➗ Rail Band ft. Salif Keita • Mansa 🇲🇱
➗ Rikki Ililonga & Musi-O-Tunya • Walk And Fight 🇿🇲
#Pop75 Grand Final
ABBA - "SOS"
DAVID BOWIE - "Young Americans"
HAROLD MELVIN AND THE BLUE NOTES - "Don't Leave Me This Way"
JONI MITCHELL - "The Hissing Of Summer Lawns"
NEIL YOUNG - "Cortez The Killer"
Pick your three preferred winners (in order of preference!)
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes dressed to impress in a park
ABBA in white with a stripey surfboard behind them
David Bowie looking pale in white tie at the grammy awards
Joni Mitchell and Neil Young at a microphone (probably a composite photo?)
#Pop75 THE GRAND FINAL!
Perfect pop, plastic soul, yearning disco, boho jazz and epic rock fight it out in the final of
THE WORLD CUP OF 1975
Rank your choices here!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
WHICH MEANS the #Pop75 GRAND FINAL is between -
"Cortez The Killer"
"Don't Leave Me This Way"
"SOS"
"The Hissing Of Summer Lawns"
"Young Americans"
I'll be launching it in the next hour or two (with an exciting bonus question about future year polls)
#Pop75 6️⃣ STEVE HARLEY AND COCKNEY REBEL - "Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)" 😁
263 points, 41 voters
High: 3rd (100 votes)
Low: 34th (20 votes)
An agonising climb up the rankings only to have a Grand Final place snatched away with the 2nd last ballot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAoa...
#Pop75 7️⃣ PARLIAMENT - "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)" 🛸
250 points, 43 voters
High: 7th (Final)
Low: 13th (20 points)
The Mothership makes Pollhalla at least - this is the highest placed song to never make the Top 5, a very consistent scorer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=od-5...
#Pop75 8️⃣ DAVID BOWIE - "Golden Years" 👴
248 points, 34 voters
High: 8th (100 votes)
Low: 26th (20 votes)
Always the junior Bowie partner but nudged into Pollhalla at the end of voting
Comments to follow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApHM...
The big Pollhalla playlist now updated with #pop75 inductees!
open.spotify.com/playlist/1vq...
(Now sitting at a welcoming 34-and-a-half hours, 1/69th of which is the Pharoah Sanders track)
#Pop75 9️⃣ FLEETWOOD MAC - "Rhiannon" 🧙♀️
242 points, 44 voters
High: 9th (Final)
Low: 28th (30 votes)
Key stat here is the lowest points per voter in the Top 10 - I would have bet on this reaching the last 4 but just never got the volume of high scores needed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xGP...
#Pop75 🔟 LED ZEPPELIN - "Kashmir"
238 points, 36 voters
High: 5th (20 votes)
Low: 13th (100 votes)
A strong run for a hard rock song in the PPPolls
Comment: "Kashmir is peak Zeppelin, a magic carpet ride of mystical grooves that could go on forever"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzVJ...
#Pop75 THE COUNTDOWN Part IV
We're into the Top 10 of 1975! Five of these songs will be in the GRAND FINAL, three more will enter the hallowed gates of POLLHALLA, two get nothing 🤷
Follow along on THE SCORECARD: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#Pop75 11. POINTER SISTERS - "Going Down Slowly" 📉
🏆B-SIDES WINNER🏆(TWENTY PLACES above the 2nd placed B-Side)
230 points, 37 voters
High: 11th (Final)
Low: 33rd (40 votes)
"You can never write off the Pointer Sisters" - old polling saying
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Ew...
#Pop75 #12. 10CC - "I'm Not In Love" 🤔
229 points (7x12), 33 voters
High: 3rd (30 votes)
Low: 12th (Final)
The two most discoursed tracks end up level on points! This was in a Pollhalla slot for all but the final 10 or so ballots.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=STug...
#Pop75 #13. QUEEN - "Bohemian Rhapsody" 👑
229 points (2x12), 33 voters
High: 5th (90 votes)
Low: 37th (20 votes)
Bismillah!
Comments: "It’s not just 1975 good, it’s a track of the Twentieth Century"
"Its the best song of all time, not just this year"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9r...
#Pop75 #14. THE ISLEY BROTHERS - "Fight The Power Pts 1 & 2" 👊
219 points, 37 voters
High: 14th (Final)
Low: 31st (30 Votes)
With one pointy exception the funk tracks that did well here were also the top 1975 songs in BPHM 3 years ago
Comments to follow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QZv...
#Pop75 #15 KRAFTWERK - "Radioactivity" ☢️
217 points, 33 voters
High: 1st (30 votes)
Low: 15th (Final)
I feel bad for the Dusseldorf lads, early leaders and consistently in the top 10 until the last dozen ballots came in.
Comments to follow!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X--F...
#Pop75 #16 FELA KUTI - "Water No Get Enemy" ⛲
215 pts, 33 voters
High 3rd (10 v)
Low 19th (80 v)
Comm: ""Best Fela horn riff" should be up there with "best Armstrong trumpet solo" and "best Britney mondegreen where you totally misjudged how sexual the lyric was""
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kisT...
#Pop75 #17. HEART - "Crazy On You" 🤪
213 points, 35 voters
High: 17th (Final)
Low: 26th (70 votes)
A strong finish for the Wilson sisters after choogling along outside the top 20 for most of the poll
Comments to follow
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ7i...
#Pop75 THE COUNTDOWN Part III
It's the moment of truth for the 17 tracks remaining (possibly delayed as I have to go out for a lot of the day but we'll do the Top 10 at least).
The top 5 go into a GRAND FINAL vote tomorrow. Will this guy be in it twice? Once? Not at all? Let's find out...
