Posted by Jim Surace on September 09, 2008 at 09:44:07:
In Reply to: Re: A thought about yearly Top 100 surveys posted by Fred Clemens on September 08, 2008 at 19:39:49:
Hi Fred, thanks for your response.
<<<< Does WHAT really matter anymore, ...your opinion or the surveys?? >>>>>
Yes, I meant the surveys.
<<<< Yes this IS 2008. And what significance would it really have to re-guage OLD songs when they've already been overdone already with the number assignments? >>>>
It might be interesting to oldie music lovers who would like to see how certain oldies has held up after all these years by using the vote method like the one I previously posted.
<<<< Where would you draw the line? Would songs that NEVER made the OLDER Charts be eligible, or just the ones that had numerical values before? >>>>
If the songs that never made the older charts got the votes to chart..then why not.. in fact, I would welcome that...more refreshing tunes.
<<<< By limiting the Era's, you're even less defining the Music. Not only are you not basing the Music on it's own merit, but instead on dated Chart assignments. You're taking it a step further by having ony certain Years allowed. Again, where's the fairness in that with regard to the Music? >>>>
At the time of the thread, we were discussing 60's - 70's oldies, but that dosen't mean you could do surveys like this all the way up to the present. I just prefer the late 50's -70's oldies.
Like I said before, it's just a thought.
As time goes by, our feelings about certain songs may change or certain songs seem to get better with age than others.
I still think it would be interesting to see how certain oldies has HELD UP after all these years.