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Phantom 105.2's top 500 songs of all time.

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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    I love how this thread has turned out!

    8 year olds dude. 8 year olds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭benway


    Touché. Think there's a distinct possibility that I may have no frame of reference.

    List is kinda dull but worthy, though ... for an edgy, independent station, it's a pretty standard, corporatised Mojo/Q/Classic Rock type list. Or maybe old age has just sent me all:

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    Top 500 for fey white teenagers perhaps...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,467 ✭✭✭Oasis_Dublin


    Enjoyable few days of listening. Obviously I don't agree with the order but that's not the point.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Stompbox


    One notable omission would have to be 'Hard To Explain'.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭fortywinks86


    Anyone pleasently suprised what was included? Glad Wilco got in with something from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (even though in 495th!) though it wasn't the song I voted for from them.

    Was suprised the only weezer song was My Name is Jonas even though its an underrated song.

    Wouldn't have thought Debaser would be the top Pixies song either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Stompbox


    Just realised that myself, how odd that 'Buddy Holly' or 'Sweater Song' didn't get a mention. Well, considering the amount of Blur tunes that did feature I'm quite surprised that 'Beetlebum' didn't get a look-in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭NomadicMe


    S.M.B. wrote: »
    I haven't heard any of the recent Irish ones.

    How was this list drawn up? Public or internal vote?

    Apparently, the list was all based on listener's votes- it seems to have caused enough of a controversy though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭pauliewallie


    Regardless of what songs and bands are on the list or what order they came, it was great to hear some classics played on Phantom for a change instead of the usual, 'whats cool right now, I know lets play Lana Del Ray again for the 100th time today', playlists.

    Like a few others, I enjoyed the few days listening.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Sorta pathetic the way phantom has become U2 obsessed since McGuinness took ownership of the station. Expected, but still pathetic.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    You know, I could give out about some entries, but it would be an utterly futile endeavour. Like Empire's frequent (and laughable) 'best films of all time' polls, public votes are always to be taken with a pinch of salt.

    HOWEVER.

    All My Friends is not, on any level I can understand, the second greatest song of all time. It's a good, perhap even great tune. But not the second greatest of all time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36 DDDDDeannnnn


    Did any one vote?
    These where my 5
    I Wanna Be Adored-The Stone Roses,
    New York City Cops - The Strokes,
    Time For Heroes - The Libertines,
    She's Lost Control - Joy Division,
    Friday I'm In Love - The Cure.
    Don't think any of them are my favourite songs of all time,but they where the songs I thought had a chance of getting into the chart.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Stompbox


    All My Friends is not, on any level I can understand, the second greatest song of all time. It's a good, perhap even great tune. But not the second greatest of all time.

    I think the main gripe that people have here is that it's such a recent song. Scanning through the list itself, I'm hard pushed to find many songs that were released in the last ten years, let alone the last five. When it comes to compiling a list like this and proffering suggestions, people usually tend to venture a little further back in time and select songs that have had a little longer to seep into the public consciousness as they're that songs that have withstood the test of longevity and have attained the status of 'classic'.

    Ten, fifteen years down the line, I'd say LCD Soundsystem will be considered one of 'the bands' of our current generation and the song's placing won't seem so incongruous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Stompbox


    Did any one vote?
    These where my 5
    I Wanna Be Adored-The Stone Roses,
    New York City Cops - The Strokes,
    Time For Heroes - The Libertines,
    She's Lost Control - Joy Division,
    Friday I'm In Love - The Cure.
    Don't think any of them are my favourite songs of all time,but they where the songs I thought had a chance of getting into the chart.

    'I Wanna...' was there in the 400's methinks. I'm also surprised at the lack of 'Friday I'm In Love' considering the amount of Cure tunes that did make the cut.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭unknownlegend


    Just noticed enter sandman by metallica is there twice. Typo compiling the list?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭Jordo141


    Just noticed enter sandman by metallica is there twice. Typo compiling the list?

    I straight up copied the list over from Phantom's Facebook. Must be their mistake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭unknownlegend


    Cool, so it's phantoms top 499 songs till they get the finger out and fix it! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭catch--22


    The later one in the list is Nothing Else Matters...if I remember rightly.


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