Wednesday Poll #7 Best Song Ever...

[BitterTom]

... on the work's playlist.

A good week. The only tracks I dislike are Yellow Submarine and All Right Now. Other than that, high quality stuff here. My vote has to go to one of my favourites of all time and possibly the most beautiful song ever, Love and Affection.

[Dr. Medulla]

Easy choice this week. The only song there I like is "Jailhouse Rock."

[Silent Majority]

Easy choice this week. The only song there I like is "Jailhouse Rock."

I like Jailhouse Rock, but it isn't even top 50 Elvis for me. Big money production, forced sounding compared to the Sun sides.

Going contrarian and choosing Teenage Dirtbag for the nostalgia factor and because it's the one I'm most in the mood to listen to right now.

[BitterTom]

Going contrarian and choosing Teenage Dirtbag for the nostalgia factor and because it's the one I'm most in the mood to listen to right now.

It's one fine song, agreed full of nostalgia.

[Silent Majority]

Going contrarian and choosing Teenage Dirtbag for the nostalgia factor and because it's the one I'm most in the mood to listen to right now.

It's one fine song, agreed full of nostalgia.

And Elvis would have done a fine cover.

[Flex]

Gonna give Mighty Quinn a vote, tho I could have been persuaded with Jailhouse Rock or Yellow Submarine too. All Right Now and Start Me Up are good songs as well, imho.

[Low Down Low]

Quite a good list. Just the two turkeys i would say. Went for BR just simply cos i regard it as a genuine classic still only slightly blemished by over familiarity.

[Heston]

I went Mighty Quinn, my favourite Dylan cover.

[matedog]

Going contrarian and choosing Teenage Dirtbag for the nostalgia factor and because it's the one I'm most in the mood to listen to right now.

It's one fine song, agreed full of nostalgia.

Weird how much bigger that song was in the UK than the US. I remember it being a blip and then going to the UK summer 2001 and it being a big thing there.

Edit - holy shit, I wasn't wrong. It made it to #124 in the US and fucking #2 in the UK.

[matedog]

I went with Bohemian. It's overplayed beyond belief, but it really is a incredibly written and produced song. It's so much more bizarre than almost anything else that ever gets played on classic rock radio and probably what was played on the radio at the time of its initial release. I also don't know half of these songs. Listening to Mighty Quinn now. It's pretty good.

[Heston]

I went with Bohemian. It's overplayed beyond belief, but it really is a incredibly written and produced song. It's so much more bizarre than almost anything else that ever gets played on classic rock radio and probably what was played on the radio at the time of its initial release. I also don't know half of these songs. Listening to Mighty Quinn now. It's pretty good.

How can you not know half these songs?

[revbob]

Another crappy to meh list. Jailhouse Rock wins the day.

[matedog]

I went with Bohemian. It's overplayed beyond belief, but it really is a incredibly written and produced song. It's so much more bizarre than almost anything else that ever gets played on classic rock radio and probably what was played on the radio at the time of its initial release. I also don't know half of these songs. Listening to Mighty Quinn now. It's pretty good.

How can you not know half these songs?

Toto, Lennon, Manfred Mann, Joan Armatrading (is that a misspelling?), Free all don't ring a bell. I'll give them a listen. I had definitely not heard Mighty Quinn before. At least I don't remember it.

[matedog]

I went with Bohemian. It's overplayed beyond belief, but it really is a incredibly written and produced song. It's so much more bizarre than almost anything else that ever gets played on classic rock radio and probably what was played on the radio at the time of its initial release. I also don't know half of these songs. Listening to Mighty Quinn now. It's pretty good.

How can you not know half these songs?

Toto, Lennon, Manfred Mann, Joan Armatrading (is that a misspelling?), Free all don't ring a bell. I'll give them a listen. I had definitely not heard Mighty Quinn before. At least I don't remember it.

Also I heard Wheatus maybe eight times in 2000 and not since.

• Toto - okay, yeah, I've heard this one. Very classic rock affair. Nothing special, but not bad.

• Lennon - Nope. I've heard Imagine and the christmas song and that's probably it for solo Lennon. Apparently this is his second most popular song on Spotify. I had to have heard it before, but it's not remotely memorable so this is basically new to me. Didn't listen to the last half of the song. I hope I didn't miss anything worthwhile, but the first half certainly didn't suggest anything interesting was going to come.

• Joan Armatrading - NOT a misspelling. Also haven't heard. This made it to #10 in the UK and didn't chart in the US, so I don't think it gets much play here. This is actually pretty good. Great vocal arrangement.

• Free - Brain fart on this one. I've heard it 1000x. It's more stereotypical classic rock and I mean that in a generally bad way.

[Dr. Medulla]

Someone better vote for "Start Me Up" or else muppet is going to burst an aorta scolding us all for our disrespect.