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Weekend Rock Question: What Was the Best Song of the Sixties?

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April 1, 2011 5:55 PM ET
James Brown, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Diana Ross of the Supremes and Janis Joplin (clockwise from top left).
James Brown, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Diana Ross of the Supremes and Janis Joplin (clockwise from top left).
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Last week, we asked Rolling Stone readers to name their favorite bassist of all time – and we compiled the votes into an official top 10 list.

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Now it's time for a new weekend rock question: What was the best song of the Sixties?

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Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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