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KSloan writes:
Why not include a best video list per year as well?
What we do
is keep a running tab of the ever-changing "requests".
Songs can come in and out of style. A movie can make an old
song a "hit" again, even a commercial can.
Music videos, once out of the "current" rotation,
just become played in revival type shows on VH1 and whatnot.
The shelf life of a video simply doesn't compare with the
actual song.
We have no real way of tracking that type of popularity.
Good question though.
I hope I answered it correctly!
-Music Guy
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This is the coolest web site I've ever seen
regarding music! I was looking for a specific song (and found
it, thank you very much!!) and I've been on your site for
over an hour, just looking through each category. I've added
it to my "Favorites" and will be using it frequently.
The categories are put together great and there is so much
information!!! Thank you for putting together such a great
site for music lovers like myself!!! I've had a lot of fun
and it has brought back a lot of songs I had forgotten about!!
Great job!!!!
- Kathy
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You people really need to grow up. Do any of you actually
play an intrument? Seriously, saying Stairway to Heaven is
the worst song of all time doesn't make you smart. It shows
me that you think being "different" and non-conformist
is cool, which it isn't. And don't say, "Oh no, I can't
understand the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit!!!".
Who cares, it's a good song and it's not supposed to make
sense. Rock and roll is about just rocking out and having
a good time, not being an idiot like John Lennon and trying
to "change the world" by getting high on LSD and
writing songs about how we should be communist Athiests. I
know the site owner didn't post those, but put this in your
hate mail section or something for all your idiot VH1-watching
-metalriff88
metalriff88 -
ummm...
No, I happen not to play an instrument, but several people
on the PCM staff and associates are professional musicians
and singers, not that it would matter to you.
"Non Conformist"? I'm not sure how old you are,
but I've been a conservative questioning authority since 1975.
It started when my panicky HS Physics teacher was warning
us about global cooling (the "ICEHOUSE EFFECT"),
and that we wouldn't be able to see the stars by 1985.
Perhaps I should have conformed and believed the naive doctor.
Stairway to Heaven is not on our official 75 tune worst song
list.
Several (actually, hundreds over the years) people have expressed
that they don't like it via e-mail, and we allowed them to
share their opinions.
With "Teen Spirit", many people said it spoke for
that generation. For them, in spite of what you say, IT DID
MAKE SENSE. Again, we have a pretty open forum.
That whole "free country" expression thing gets
on both closed-minded liberal & conservative people's
nerves. I must be doing something right.
I happen to agree with you about Mr. Lennon. I've never done
LSD and I'm a God-fearing capitalist.
For someone I think I basically agree with, you wrote me a
pretty nasty letter.
Did you wake up on the wrong side of bed today?
The site owners let us publish just about anything we'd like.
Your humorous letter is right here.
-Music Guy
PS: I spend about 60 minutes a year watching VH1. Sometimes
it has the only interesting thing on the 175 channels I have
to choose from. Besides, how else would I have found out about
the third member of "Captain & Tenille"?
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Unless any of you VERY opinionated folks have ever attempted
to write (or sing) a song for the consumption of anyone but
your children, ease up a bit. A song can be inspired by ANY
subject, monumental or trivial, and if it's heard, someone,
somewhere will probably relate to it. And remember, if you're
talking about it up here, it had a lot of impact at one time,
and it also made lots of money! EL
... Its funny how we have maybe
a dozen pages of "worst" songs sent in by visitors, and hundreds
of "best of" song list pages, yet the "worst of" pages are
90% of our mail! Thanks for writing EL!
-Music Guy
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Anita15136@aol.com writes:
Hello, my name is Anita and I am in desperate search of a
song but the problem is that I can only remember a line of
the song which is "when love walks out that door".
I believe that it was either the mid to late 80's or early
90's but can't be sertain. Please help by sending me the name
and artis if available. thanks so much.
Hi Anita,
Hmmm.
Love walking out the door.
That narrows it it about 650,000 songs.
I'll bet you can give me a few more hints.
Was it Rock? Fast? Slow? Country?
A Girl singer? Guy? Whole Band?
Did you see the video?
Messy? Punky? Soulful?
Did you hear it once? Many times? On the Radio?
Only on the local college station?
Hear it in a nightclub?
Dingy bar jukebox?
:-)
Phrases we get are usually not quite right, and often the
opposite of what is suggested.
The first "impression" I get is "Love Walks
In" by Van Halen, but I'm not a very good psychic.
Please tell me anything you can recall and I can hopefully
be more help.
-Music Guy
Hate to sound CRANKY, but
Anita never got my e-mail response. She didn't accept e-mail,
even from our AOL account (she was also an AOL user) . If
you know her, tell her that we are using her as the "bad
example".
PLEASE - If you want us to look up, research and answer
your questions, please be able to recieve a reply!
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ena_paketo_ writes:
I need to find a song..don't know the name nor the title,
I do know a few of the key phrases...what I'd like to see
is a complete list of popular songs of the '90's
what the hell ..
why is this so difficult?
lol thanks Sue D. a_skyla
please reply
Dear Sue D,
We have ten pages of the most popular (requested) songs of
the 90s.
That's 400 songs listed there.
We aso have dozens more listed on our "90s
music" page.
Probably 500 songs from the 90s all told.
I'm sorry that you dont
know the name or title of the song you are looking for.
We help hundreds of people every year with that kind of stuff,
for free.
We still get complainers.
We even get people who complain, tell us that they know phrases
from the song (but don't share them with us), apparently looking
for answers.
THEN, they send e-mails with different "return"
e-mails within the text of the letters.
What the heck?
Why do they make it so difficult?
:-)
-Music Guy
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Hi,
Your site is by far one of the greatest and most valuable music
sites on the
Internet. I want to thank you for all the great info and I really
appreciate
what you guys are doing.
Keep up the good work!
Great regards,
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Sometimes you have to step off the cliff to see if you really
know how to fly. How does one become a butterfly? You must
want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being
a caterpillar.
-Garnet110
I often think that Superman flies
all the time, but he's not really flying free as we would
think of it. Work. Work. Work.
I'll bet he flies when he dreams though. Really Flies.
-Music Guy
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D.Rozier writes:
How about a list of songs with gay themes of the 1980s like
Homosapien by Pete Shelly, Johnny Are You Queer,
Karma Chameleon, Glad to be Gay, Tainted Love
These are just a few that I can think of.
... I never thought of Homosapian
& Tainted Love (A Motown original) as "gay"
songs. I'll have to dust them off & give another listen.
Hmmm.....
I'd have to think of a clever title, to keep my "all
ages" site for all ages!
Off the top of my head I can think of the following songs...
Kissed A Girl,
People Are People,
A Boy Named Sue (well, sorta),
I Am What I Am,
I Will Survive...
If I do open a GAY section, I guess I'll also have to include
a whole file on Queen, Liza Minelli, Diana Ross, Cher and
Judy Garland, not to mention all those show tunes.
Then again, if I lean a little on the humorous side, that
would probably offend some super straight religious zealot
or a flamingly gay person.
Then I'd end up on CNN and Jerry Springer, and get totally
spammed, and sued.
But, I'll think about it! - Music Guy
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