[fieldmarshaldj]

I voted for the other song, but that’s not the best song, either.

I don’t have a definitive favorite song, so I can’t answer that. What I had in mind was to just do a list of every song that charted in some way and rank them like this:

0 stars - Execrable
1 star - Poor
2 stars - Good
3 stars - Very Good
4 stars - Excellent
5 stars - Iconic

I wouldn’t put them in head to head matchups, especially when you have 2 or 3 star songs and you’re trying to figure which is better. “Oh, Pretty Woman” I’d rank maybe 3 1/2 stars.

[Dr. Sivana]

A ranking system is just to complicated. Just sorting out typed text from 70 posts is enough work.

The real problem is that the best selling/most air-time songs are going to be lowest common denominator appeals enough to almost everybody.

So, you won’t much Chuck Berry, Yardbirds, Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Supremes, Cream, Tom Jones on these lists. Even though they all did some best of breed popular music, none reached a wide enough segment of the record buying public. You also won’t see any of those 12 minute songs played on FM radio in the 70’s greatest list because they couldn’t be released on 45.

[Albion Wilde]

do a list of every song that charted in some way and rank them like this:
0 stars - Execrable
1 star - Poor
2 stars - Good
3 stars - Very Good
4 stars - Excellent
5 stars - Iconic
I wouldn’t put them in head to head matchups, especially when you have 2 or 3 star songs and you’re trying to figure which is better.

This sounds like a good proposal! Except that since they were top-of-chart hits to begin with, you could eliminate 0 stars and 1 star and just rank from 2 to 5.

In this past competition, I really had trouble deciding some of the matchups that were both more outstanding than most of the rest of the decade's choices, but according to the rules, one had to go arbitrarily.