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The Greatest Single Ever Released?
My Rate-A-Record contribution.
The Rate-A-Record challenge, published by Plethora of Pop, has been kicking around for six months or so.
The peerless Terry Barr developed the concept, basing his original challenge on the American Bandstand segment ‘Rate-A-Record’. The idea in the show was quite straightforward — a group of teens listened to two songs and rated each one on a scale between 35 and 98. I’m yet to hear an explanation of how those lower and upper limits were determined.
Terry’s original piece is here:
We have since been fortunate to have read many well-written pieces featuring a variety of themes and a broad collection of songs presented in pairs. I thought I might jump in and give it a shot!
The greatest …
Over the past few decades, I have taken part in many hundreds of conversations about music. Conversations with a vast array of people about myriad aspects of music. There have been discussions about music theory, instruments, performance, recording…
