"The Ultimate New York Playlist"

" . . . we solicited recommendations from critics and musicians and then threw them in a blender to come up with a playlist of the most New York songs written since 1965 (caveats: no instrumentals, no movie theme songs) that get at the city's romance — the sex, the grit, the wit, the skyscraper-size ambition."

Twenty-five items on the list with audio files.

#1--as it should be--is Ol' Blue Eyes singing you know what. #2 is Lou Reed, ditto. "Summer in the City" should have been ranked much higher.

Comments

[whosonfirst]

Well of course it's all a matter of opinion, but I don't like #1 at all. It pleases me that a certain baseball team in the Bronx plays that song at every home game. That song and that team belong together.

As someone who listens to satellite radio every day, I'm getting sick of Old Blue Eyes too. If Bobby Darin had lived he would have put Old Blue Eyes in the corner.

There, that's enough opinions for this morning.

[Chris]

The content of these lists is always subjective. Where's 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five?