Here’s my ten, for what its worth.Velvet Underground - Some Kind Of LoveNick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Ship SongThe Beatles - SomethingThe Wrens - HopelessThe Replacements - UnsatisfiedThe Weather Station - ThirtyWilco - Via ChicagoBowie - Station To StationRadiohead - Let DownPortishead - Roads
Out of Time - Chris Farlowehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWBSmfZTi4sPaper Sun - Traffichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEnAft8bpBAOpen the door to your heart - Darrell Bankshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWlPIAxDAA0Like a Hurricane - Neil Younghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv2x4LelccEIf you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAedY3NucEsAcross 110th Street - Bobby Womackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOg_8hCC4u4Tell it like it is - Aaron Nevillehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPtImg9oYycIt's over - Roy Orbisonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V1IbRVp7UsDesign for Life - Manic Street Preachershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEoVxy7VDQChange gonna come - Sam Cookehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4Diamonds and rust - Joan Baezhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrVD0bP_ybgComfortably numb - Pink Floydhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrOQC-zEogTwelve thirty (Young girls) - Mamas and Papashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLdDGsujVW4Across the universe - The Beatleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90M60PzmxEEWichita Lineman - Glen Campbellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8P_xTBpAcYTougher than the rest - Springsteenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_91hNV6vuBYHave you seen the rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revivalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1V8YRJnr4QWhite Rabbit - Jefferson Airplanehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0Getting mighty crowded - Betty Everetthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AmwoK6uw5QWaterloo Sunset - The Kinkshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_MqfF0WBsU
If I had to pick one it would be 'Change is gonna come' Written as a result of Sam Cooke's experiences with Jim Crow the lyrics are brilliant and Cooke's delivery is out of this world. And sadly Cooke's life and career were cut short in a strange killing
I think this is my favourite list on the thread, every one a cracker (apart from Springsteen, not a song I knew but clicked on the link and it was his standard AOR (Great Grand)Dad rock - ugh). Big thumbs up for Darrell Banks and Betty Everett especially though
4. From Your Favourite Sky-I Am KlootManchester's greatest bandhttps://www.youtube.com/v/vUMvjs0e6Ic
Yeah Howard. The unique Sam Cooke and what is rightly regarded as his finest song and one of the pinnacles of soul/gospel. Can only agree that it is his finest. No question. Got to say tho my own favourite of his has always been ‘Bring it on Home to Me’.As I mentioned before when explaining the White Rabbit thing, The Band became my own faves back then and they did a tribute album to many of the 50’s greats including Sam Cooke. Here’s the link to their take on ‘A Change is Gonna Come’. Rick Danko is on lead vocal. Garth Hudson’s beautiful tender sax bridge is worth the admission money alone. See what you think matehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byqq8iqKZv8
I'd have a goBut worried what the RAWK's music snobs would think There's going to stuff that will cause complete derision - do I want that Even my family state I'm stuck in the 80's so it won't end well
Good stuff Black Bull. And got to thank you for that as the name I am Kloot triggered something in my bonce from yonks ago. I remembered the name I am Kloot from some telly programme. It was their song featured and it was something to do with water. Google to the rescue and it was the superb 'A' Word and sure enough the song was 'Same Deep Water As Me'. What a great song. So ta la and here it is to sit nicely with yours.https://www.youtube.com/v/oQhmQQZUjdo
White Rabbit and Paper Sun bring back fond memories of the first Summer of Love when I was chasing my first attempts at romance. I borrowed money of my mum, an advance on my paper round, and took my first love for a 'Business Man's lunch' at a Chinese restaurant on Allerton Road. She dumped me in embarrassing circumstances a fortnight later.Whilst flirting with a touch of psychedelia (Arnold Layne) my first port of call was always soul. My mum bought me the 'With the Beatles' and my preference was the cover versions rather than the Lovable Mop Tops own works.Saturday night we'd jump a train to Runcorn to go to the Scala and Sunday a visit to the Cheshire Lines Social Club. Both venues featured live soul bands such as the Almost Blues and spinning of soul and Tamla discs.Amazing how many memories can be triggered simply by mentioning music, never mind listening to it.
Yeah, cracking little video with John Sims. Obviously well in with the local Manc acting fraternity. To me that Kloot singer sounds like a cross between John Lennon, Lee Mavers and John Power on some of those tracks. You sure he’s not wannabe Scouse Black Bull?
He's an OK Manchttps://www.facebook.com/iamjohnbramwell/videos/1775330346106764/?t=2
Is there such a thing?
Our haunts were the Victoriana, the Mardi, the Cavern, The Beachy and the Grafton. Big music contrasts there. The Grafton had a thing for Kenny Rogers and his precious feckin Ruby . The Vic was my fave as they played lots of Temptations, Otis and Sam and Dave. Great times. I close my eyes and ‘I know I’m Losing You’ is still playing
The Mardi seemed to attract a slightly older crowd than the Vic which was where we tended to go in our comos, Ben Shermans and suits bought from Jackson's on the weekly. Also the All Fours in Eberle Street but that was a bit of an outlier because there were a few Black lads there, which was unusual for that part of Town then.Started going to the Cavern in '69 when Billy Butler was DJing upstairs and the cellar was the domain of the 'heads'.Music, hey, and the memories it brings to the surface
Looks like the enthusiasm this thread did manage to generate amongst those who posted – and I was so glad to see that for a time it really did to be fair - has all but petered out. Clearly not as many folks that bothered as I thought there would be. Wrapped in My Memory – Shawn Smithhttps://youtube.com/v/s2B-ZffN1yoApart from being arguably the greatest thing ever seen on the telly, the Sopranos also introduced us mere mortals to some amazing music that we might never otherwise have heard. This beautiful plaintiff song with its exquisite piano and gorgeous vocal is the pick for me. Again, available only on import on the album Shield of Thorns.
Been reading through this thread over the past week or so and there's been some great stuff posted, especially by you Timbo. Hadn't heard of Shawn Smith before or this song but this song is absolutely terrific. Love discovering new music and this thread is perfect for it. Thanks mate!
I keep having to change my top 20 as my memory returns home form its regular holidays
I keep having to change my top 20 as my memory returns home form its regular holidays, can't always be bothered about the order though.You'll be lucky to construct a cohesive top 100 as everyone appears to differ, maybe we need a top 50 so you've more chances of repeats although that's a bugger to sort. This has probably turned into a desert islands discs thread nowBy the way, it's good to see you tube clips from people, if you cannot remember how to do itTake the you tube address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8P_xTBpAcYAnd turn into into this using the flash icon and deleting/adding as per below (unless people have a better way)flash=500,400]https://www.youtube.com/v/Q8P_xTBpAcY[/flash](I have taken the square bracket out from the beginning so it shows better rather than the clip
Of course, it’s one thing for us older folks to do it with our record and CD collections acquired in drips and drabs and borrows and lends over donkeys years of scrimping and saving and searching for the stuff we liked in music journos and record shops and mates collections and quite another thing altogether for young music daft folks who now have instant access to every song ever made.
If you enjoy that, look up Satchel, Pigeonhed and Brad, these were Shawn’s projects/bands. There are some great albums by them. Brad also had Stone Gossard from Pearl Jam.
Really love that H.Having your sort of open mind and receptivity to other’s suggestions is where it’s as far as I’m concerned. I wonder if any others have like yourself (and me too for that matter) have also picked up on songs/artists by reading through the lists of folks who like themselves are real music lovers.As much as I’ve always loved the novelty of the idea of lists of favourites or bests just for that “fun” reason of compiling them, in the case of music it is so subjective that in the case of this thread I was also seeking to unlock the favourites of as many music devoted minds as possible because the reality is that there is always something out there that you haven’t come across before or which you’ve forgotten about which can blow you away.It’s happened to me on numerous occasions down the years and although that desire to explore new stuff does diminish as you get older, there still exists the thrill of unearthing a genuine new gem or even one from the past buried in the mists of time.Shawn Smith is a great case in point and Duvva’s post above and his earlier one in the thread to me is a perfect example of what both you and I are alluding to and just for that alone should make the thread so worthwhile for those who genuinely love their music.
I genuinely think by going over past music and sharing it you realise how good music used to be and how strong songwriting was (even before my time). I'll bet there are still good songs being produced out there but there is so much dross about these days and I don't think that's just me getting old.That said, if you look at the 70s charts, dross abounded then as well, its' just that smattered amongst the Chirpy, Chirpy Cheep, Cheep's and Ernie records were genuine popular classics.If you take the top 10 from 50 years ago this weekMaggie May, You've got a Friend, Simple Game, Witch Queen of New OrleansBut alsoTweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum
It’s hard for us older folks not to be subjective but the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s did seem to provide an embarrassment of ‘great song’ riches compared to other more recent decades. Not to say there haven’t been loads of great songs since or that there wasn’t piles of shite back then but has the supply of truly great songs been at the same rate in recent times. It’d be interesting to get the views of some younger folks on this aspect especially with their ‘great song’ suggestions that may be unknown to us older folks.A few years back I really did make what I’d term a valiant effort to follow what was then I think the 2017 new music thread on this site, similar to the current 2021 thread. Following the recommendations in the thread I purchased around half a dozen of the most enthusiastically recommended albums. All of them were what I’d term decent but only one - a solo artist named Michael McDermott - enticed me to explore further his music and he did have some really strong albums and several what I’d class as great songs to match up to those of those earlier decades. Of the rest of the artists there wasn’t a single track on any of the albums that really stood out for me. Most were decent enough and made for pleasurable listening but trying to unearth a real gem to treasure proved fruitless apart from Michael McDermott.Of course, you only have to listen to some of the recommendations in this thread to realise that great songs are still being churned out as myself and others have previously alluded to in the thread but in very broad terms I do tend to agree with Black Bull that the number of great songs in recent years is much reduced from what it was in those amazingly innovative musical decades of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.So are arlarses like me, Black Bull and Howard mistaken about this current sparseness of truly great songs to match those of yesteryear? Are we simply ignorant to what is really out there?
We should have a thread for our best 10 of each decade (poor chances for the 2020s) and then have a play offYou can sort of see people looking for the likes of Adele to produce a great contemporary song, she'd probably have got lost in the 60s or 70sI'd also say the the 50's to early 60s, whilst there were great classic pop songs, was actually quite weak for 'Great songs'. I suppose that is pre Dylan and Beatles think though. There's probably some great songs in the 20s, 30s and 40's we've missed as well
This makes me think of Richard Thompson and his '1000 years of popular music'. At the turn of the millennium, Playboy magazine contacted a number of musicians and asked them for their list of the greatest songs of the millennium. What they actually wanted was the best songs of the last 60 years or so, but RT took them exactly at their word and served up a list that included the oldest-known English-language songs, a medieval Italian dance tune and various other folk songs alongside some more recent stuff. He never heard from them again and his list was not published. He decided to make an album and toured the show instead.
Ale-lujah - great selection!Makes me wonder how I missed Homburg off my list - or should I have gone for Conquistador?
That looks a terrific list mate. Look forward to going through that later. Just played that Falcons Wilson Picket track. Wow. What a find. Not heard that before. Nice one
Seconded, love that list, also contains the best haircut. Whilst this thread has deviated from the original purpose it makes it more interesting. Maybe we need some other threads to allow us to explore other things. After talking about music from the 1930s/1940s I have a listen and here are some (what I think) gems from that war dominated period
Not heard them songs before sinnermichael, any chance of youtube videos to accompany them?