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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #120 on: September 29, 2021, 05:36:28 pm »
Anyone who dismisses 'folk music' out of hand is missing out on some really good stuff - quite apart from Kate Rusby and the aforementioned Cara Dillon there are so many great singers who fall under the folk umbrella - Emily Portman, Maz O'Connor, Eliza Carthy, Kris Drever, Julie Fowlis, Alasdair Roberts, Jon Boden and Karine Polwart to name but a few along with bands like Bellowhead, Lau, Oysterband, Steeleye Span and the incomparable Show of Hands. Forget the 'finger in the ear Arran sweater' image - British Folk music is alive and thriving and producing wonderful new music alongside keeping alive traditional songs.


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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #121 on: September 29, 2021, 10:38:03 pm »
The Walkmen...The Rat
Mercury Rev...The Dark is Rising
Flaming Lips...Do You Realise

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #122 on: September 30, 2021, 11:57:38 am »

Presume you're a fan of The Imagined Village. Their 'Cold, Hailey Rainy Night' is just brilliant. There's a vid of them doing it on Jules Holland and it's amazing.

Yeah - a sort of folk supergroup. I really like their version of 'John Barleycorn' too. An interesting mix of old folkies like Martin Carthy and some newer sounds. They were on the Phil some years ago, but I missed the show.

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #123 on: September 30, 2021, 05:50:43 pm »
Nigh on impossible task but here's my top ten of tracks which have been played fairly regularly over the years, in no particular order,

Idiot Wind   - Bob Dylan
That joke isn't funny anymore - The smiths
Are you ready to be heartbroken - Lloyd Cole & the commotions
Waterfall - The Stone Roses
Needle in a haystack - The Velvelettes
Raspberry Beret - Prince
Geno - Dexys Midnight Runners
Both Sides Now - Frank Sinatra's version
Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
Something like you - Michael Head

Sandie Shaw’s  cover version of Are you ready to be heartbroken is bloody marvellous too.

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #124 on: October 1, 2021, 10:59:13 am »
Fuck me this took ages. Went for a top 100 because I couldn't stop once i started and 100 seemed a nice number. No order -the top 3 would be in the top 5. Tried limiting it to 1 per artist but Fela and Richard Dawson got 2. Left out shitloads. 

Autopsy - Fairport Convention
Bonny - Prefab Sprout
Observatory Crest - Captain Beefheart
I Feel Voxish - The Fall
Turiya and Ramakrishna - Alice Coltrane
Waiting For an Alibi - Thin Lizzy
Love At First Sight - XTC
Can You Hear Me - David Bowie
The Watch Song - Shellac
We Picked Apples In The Graveyard - Richard Dawson
Nothing Important - Richard Dawson
Schizophrenia - Sonic Youth
Something on your mind - Karen Dalton
Sunn O))) - Alice
I wish I was in England - Christy Moore
2 Tribes - Frankie
Marquee Moon - Television
Panis Et Circenses- Os Mutantes
Things Done Changed - Notorious BIG
Proud Mary - Tina Turner
Se Telefonando - Mina
Twinkle - Whipping Boy
Lady - Fela Kuti
At The Stake - The Melvins
I Would Die 4 U - Prince
Kon Queso - MF DOOM
This Town Ain’t Big Enough - Sparks
Crush With Eyeliner - REM
#1 Hit Song - The Minutemen
Shout - Tears For Fears
Zurich is stained - Pavement
Vessel in Vein - Bill Callahan/Smog
One Beat - Sleater Kinney
Don’t You Wait - Solange
Uncontrollable Urge - Devo
Chimicum Rain - Linda Perhacs
Raised Eyebrows - The Feelies
Street Waves - Pere Ubu
4th Chamber - GZA
Mary and The Soldier - Paul Brady/Andy Irvine
Yamasuki - Yama Yama
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Reunited - Wu Tang
Hallogallo - Neu
Colorseries Orange B - Donnacha Costello
Djobime - El Rego Et Ses Commandos
Sleeping Gas - Teardrops
Death Can Fuck Off - The Jimmy Cake
Primary - The Cure
Hasabé - Ayalèw Mèsfin
Ivory - Kio Amachree
Johnny and Mary - Robert Palmer
Losers Weepers - Etta James
Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies
Lowdown - Wire
Give back my man - B52s
No Regrets - Tom Rush
Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
French Disko - Stereolab
Break - Fugazi
Degi Degi - Don Cherry
Return Of The Rat - Wipers
Home To You - Cat Le Bon
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Last Horse on the Sand - Dirty Three
New Grass - Talk Talk
Bombay - The Sea and Cake
In The Green Wild - Julia Holter
The Equator - Tortoise
This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads
Sometimes my balls feel like tits - Sweep The Leg Johnny
Bring The Sun/Toussaint L’Ouverture - Swans
Dopesmoker - Sleep
Love is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar
Elephant Man - Bo Diddley
Dancing In The Dark - The Boss
Old Black - Earth
Profundo Rosso - Goblin
The Eve Of War - Jeff Wayne
Somewhere in my Heart - Aztec Camera
Cattle and Cane - The GoBetweens
Hounds Of Love - Cate Bush
Mirror In The Bathroom - The Beat
Dumb Waiters - Psychedelic Furs
Cowgirl in the Sand - Neil Young
The Misfit - Oneida
O Superman - Laurie Anderson
Donia - Rokia Traore
Renata - James Holden
My Queen is Yaa Asantewaa - Sons Of Kemet
Northern Lights - SFA
Light Flight - Pentangle
Bubbles - The Free Design
Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles
Immigrant Song - Led Zepp
Yefikir Engurguru - Hailu Merga
Dysnomia - Dawn Of Midi
Beasts Of No Nation - Fela Kuti
Koitto - Circle
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #125 on: October 1, 2021, 11:37:42 am »
Great list!
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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #126 on: October 1, 2021, 01:59:12 pm »
Fuck me this took ages.


Ha ha.

Got this image of you flat out on the settee gasping for breath and mumbling the words to The band Played Waltxing matilda

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Nice one Chip. I'll be scrutinizing your efforts over the weekend with You Tube at the ready!!!  :)


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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #127 on: October 1, 2021, 02:09:20 pm »

Got this image of you flat out on the settee gasping for breath and mumbling the words to The band Played Waltxing matilda


 ;D Ever so slightly, absolutely hanging today after starting the weekend early last night, so that's not entirely inaccurate. Tempted to do another 100, it's a very enjoyable trip through the memory banks.


Also, what an absolute beauty of a song (Eric Bogle did the original). Shane was hard to touch at his peak. 

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #128 on: October 1, 2021, 08:47:42 pm »

Break - Fugazi


Shit... do I even know this? Surely I do... will check.


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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #129 on: October 3, 2021, 11:47:41 am »
My 20, no real order after the top 3. The problem with these things is it will probably shift significantly by the time I've pressed the Post button.

1. Mark Lanegan - No Easy Action
2. Dead Can Dance - American Dreaming
3. The Clash - Complete Control
4. Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts
5. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City
6. Pearl Jam - Alive
7. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
8. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter
9. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
10. Don Henley - Boys of Summer
11. Sick of it All - Step Down
12. Outkast - BOB
13. The Sweet - Fox on the Run
14. Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
15. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
16. Orbital - Chime
17. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
18. Aretha Franklin - I Say a Little Prayer
19. Jesus and Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up
20. Dodgy - Lovebirds

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #130 on: October 3, 2021, 08:42:29 pm »
Ok will have a crack at a top 20 but ias someone previously said this could easily change tomorrow.

bob seger - hollywood nights
the stones - sympathy for the devil
the who - 5.15
elvis - kentucky rain
bob dylan - blowin in the wind
guns n roses - civil war
nick cave - the mercy seat
jeff buckley - hallelujah
bon jovi - keep the faith
aerosmith - janie's got a gun
bruce springsteen - born in the usa
u2 - streets have no name
don mclean - american pie
metallica - nothing else matters
beatles - yesterday
ac/dc - thunderstruck
the byrds - turn turn turn
billy joel - goodnight saigon
the band - the weight
janis joplin - me and bobby mcgee

tried to keep it to one song per artist, so so difficult could easily write another top 20 list and include the jam, prince, led zepplin, def leopard, bill withers, black sabbath only thought of these after i wrote the list and remembered them.

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #131 on: October 3, 2021, 09:20:09 pm »
My 20, no real order after the top 3. The problem with these things is it will probably shift significantly by the time I've pressed the Post button.

1. Mark Lanegan - No Easy Action
2. Dead Can Dance - American Dreaming
3. The Clash - Complete Control
4. Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts
5. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City
6. Pearl Jam - Alive
7. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
8. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter
9. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
10. Don Henley - Boys of Summer
11. Sick of it All - Step Down
12. Outkast - BOB
13. The Sweet - Fox on the Run
14. Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard
15. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
16. Orbital - Chime
17. Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
18. Aretha Franklin - I Say a Little Prayer
19. Jesus and Mary Chain - You Trip Me Up
20. Dodgy - Lovebirds

Dodgy? The fuck?

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #132 on: October 3, 2021, 09:24:27 pm »
Dodgy? The fuck?

Haha, got to be Staying Out For The Summer right?

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #133 on: October 3, 2021, 09:38:58 pm »
Haha, got to be Staying Out For The Summer right?

even searching 'dodgy l' on youtube brings up 'dodgy leftback Liverpool' before dodgy lovebirds... but going in all the same..

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #134 on: October 3, 2021, 09:40:15 pm »
No... no no no no no

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #135 on: October 3, 2021, 09:40:30 pm »
Dodgy? The fuck? ;
The first Dodgy album is brilliant. Recorded at Amazon studios I recall. Ignore all the dross of later albums, that tune is a genuine pop classic.  ;)

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #136 on: October 3, 2021, 09:42:44 pm »
No... no no no no no
There’s no limit.
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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #137 on: October 3, 2021, 09:50:20 pm »
The first Dodgy album is brilliant. Recorded at Amazon studios I recall. Ignore all the dross of later albums, that tune is a genuine pop classic.  ;)

Amazon studios. Surrounded by cardboard. I saw Dodgy on their first ever tour and walked out into lovely evening sunshine after a few songs. I think it was Dodgy anyway. Ive never walked out of a gig before or since but i remember the irony.


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« Reply #138 on: October 4, 2021, 10:42:59 am »
Amazon studios. Surrounded by cardboard. I saw Dodgy on their first ever tour and walked out into lovely evening sunshine after a few songs. I think it was Dodgy anyway. Ive never walked out of a gig before or since but i remember the irony.
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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #139 on: October 4, 2021, 04:01:45 pm »
Dodgy? The fuck?


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« Reply #140 on: October 5, 2021, 10:14:05 pm »

If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for you

This always. Dodgy tho?

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #141 on: October 7, 2021, 01:42:51 pm »
Mathematicians discover music really can be infectious – like a virus - "Electronic music has a basic R number of 3,430, making it the most infectious music genre"
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Let's see how electro fairs at RAWK after final tally.

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« Reply #142 on: October 7, 2021, 02:08:00 pm »

Let's see how electro fairs at RAWK after final tally.

Not very well I fear.

So R value - electronic music 3, 430, rock 129, pop 35

so why do the vast majority listen to far more rock and pop than electronic music?
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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #143 on: October 7, 2021, 02:40:01 pm »
Not very well I fear.

So R value - electronic music 3, 430, rock 129, pop 35

so why do the vast majority listen to far more rock and pop than electronic music?

Could say the same about metal, jazz, reggae, african music - anything on the fringes really. The answer is in the article there - pop and rock get more exposure, via radio, advertising whatever. The mainstream is very, very narrow in it's taste and everywhere.

I think this is changing over time though. (Or maybe I'm changing over time and I'm projecting)
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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #144 on: October 13, 2021, 03:12:23 pm »
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.

Sadly it’s ground to bit of a halt before there’s been enough folks partaking in order to draw any sort of conclusion as to an overall RAWK fave song pantheon of any real credibility. Relatively speaking there’s just too tiny an overlap in taste. Or should I say more aptly there’s too wide ranging a staggering individual and divergent taste and preference to justify any in depth analysis. To date I think there’s Gimme Shelter, Dreaming of You, Do You Realize with three picks and Debaser with four.

Nevertheless a huge thank you from myself to all those who have contributed. I say that for three reasons. First, thanks anyway for the trouble. Second, because I’ve sat here pretty much immobilised these past few months with my broken heel bone and thumbs, the vast range of nominations have enabled me to home into some terrific wide ranging musical selections via the incredible You Tube facility most of which I’d never previously heard. Indeed, I’ve discovered some fantastic stuff, some from artists hitherto unknown to me and some from artists whom prior to exploring all the nominations on here, I’d never considered to be worth exploring. How wrong can an alleged huge music lover be?!

So yeah folks a big thank you from me. It’s made me realise that I’m far from the only person on earth with the most fucking amazing musical taste!!! LOL. I do have one small whinge, however. I just wish more of you had provided the linked You Tube video or even internet link [thank you Hazell!!] to make accessing your choices a bit easier. Maybe some of you can still do so since as I’ve found to my own benefit so many of your choices certainly deserve it and it makes the thread that much more accessible and enjoyable. I’ve certainly done it with my own listings below. A few explanations of choice a la Sam, Hazel, Zep and Red Mist would be nice too! I just love reading the reasoning behind the selections.

So then, I guess seeing as how I instigated this bloody thing it’s only right I should get round to posting something that at least tries to do some justice to what I was originally enthusing about. Thing is whilst many on here have whinged about doing this shit, I’ve always loved making these sort of ‘fave’ lists. Whether it be music, films, books, tell, footy or sport generally.

Sure, in any pure objective sense it’s merely self indulgent navel gazing and utterly meaningless for obvious reasons, but the way I see it in simple terms is that if you can’t enthuse about the cultural and sporting things that excite and inspire you then what the fuck!

Anyroad, no more weasel attempts for the time being at least to try and justify starting this particular thread. Thing is I was weaned from an early age by music daft aunties, uncles and cousins on an incessant diet of two/three minute long late ‘50’s/early ‘60’s 45rpm pop and early rock ‘n’ roll magic. Not surprisingly then, music has always been central to me and when it comes to my own faves, it is the 45rpm pop gem which has always figured most prominently in any list of mine down the years.

Moreover, many of those pop gems have stood the test of time too. As it is, albums in the non pure pop sense did not seriously enter my horizon until my late teens when 1968 at last found me in a job and with a modicum of hard earned money in my pocket. And so, via the soon duly purchased Music From Big Pink, Salty Dog, Threshold of a Dream, Astral Weeks and a belated purchase of Blonde on Blonde, I was finally introduced to a rich musical world beyond pop, Atlantic, Motown and The Beatles.

And so it was for so many of my own age and hitherto limited means. A gradual awakening to the new and revolutionary musical world of the formulated album, one which had already been brewing with many other older and more affluent souls for the previous two or three years and up to then largely untapped by the likes of myself.

So onto my own list. I seem to find myself in a minority of one here in that of all the untold number of songs and album tracks I’ve come across in all those years, relative to the huge amount of stuff I’ve liked and loved there really aren’t that many songs that make it onto what I’d class as my all time favourite list. Maybe 40 or 50 tops.

Now I’m not sure exactly why that is but I just seem to have some sort of innate inner desire for a strict grading system which seems to compel me to make and from time to time update such a rating process. So clearly with myself this is a natural and instinctive process and one which seems to be far from the case with so many on here who’ve emphasised the completely opposite mindset, namely that such an enterprise is impossible. Maybe it hinges on the respective definition of the term ‘all time favourite’. Or more likely most just aren’t stricken or enlivened or arsed as the case may be by any urge to create an ‘elite’ listing of the music they love and to which they always return.

That said, what my own process certainly doesn’t restrict is my own list selections evolving over the years. Clearly for anybody who purports like myself – and all on here for that matter – to love music and have an eclectic approach to such love, there has always got to be a process of evolution. After all, so much new music continually bombards us from every which way. Although I must be honest here and admit in my own case – and certainly prior to my recent reawakening with all your amazing selections these past few months - such a bombardment has actually reduced to a tiny trickle in recent years so fuck knows what gems I’ve missed in that time. Or, I guess, before for that matter.

By the same token occasionally I look back on a song – or album as the case may be – which I once believed would always remain a particular favourite to find re-listening to it sadly sees it largely fading into the background of my taste and I no longer derive that same tumultuous  ‘soaring of spirits’ from it. A few basic examples of this can be found in my earlier mentioned very first album purchases. With exception of its title track, Procul Harum’s ‘Salty Dog’ album and, with the exception of the track ‘Never Comes The Day, the Moody Blues’s ‘Threshold of a Dream’ album’, both huge favourites of mine in my early days form great examples where such weaning off has taken place.

So I guess it follows from that weaning off that one of the unwritten yet pivotal yardsticks for a song or album being in such lists as these – and certainly my own - is that no matter how many times you hear the particular piece of music, in order for it to remain at that ‘elite’ level it should never fail to stir the joyous and/or emotional connection you felt when you first ‘dug’ it and you just knew it had made it into your faves list.

As regards the innate process itself, I’d say the Rolling Stones pantheon is a quite simple way to illustrate the sort of grading that goes on in my own wayward bonce in respect of my listings.

I’m sure most of us could list 20 or 30 or more Stones classics any of which would merit a place in anybody’s faves list. Indeed, it’s happened in the selections within this thread bar Gimme shelter. And to be fair I would agree without hesitation. And yet as it stands my all time 50 list has just two Stones classics – Tumbling Dice and Gimme Shelter – because for all that I love so much of their other stuff both singles and albums, I’ve found over time that it’s those two alone that take me into that ‘special’ zone which compels me to elevate them above all the rest. And I speak as someone for whom the opening riffs of the likes of ‘Brown Sugar’ would have me tear arsing towards the dance floor like some demented loon not to mention cavorting around the kitchen if it happens to come on the radio. Not currently of course as me crutches get in the way.

Weird huh? Anyroad, that’s how it all works with me. And, finally, humble apologies to any poor fucker who happens to still be reading all this for boring you senseless.

Anyroad, onto the songs in the list and the reasons they’re on it:-

Incident on 57th Street [album version] – Bruce Springsteen

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Whilst there’s no doubt at least a few dozen clunkers which inhabit Bruce Springsteen’s 400 officially released song pantheon, it’s fair to say most of his output falls comfortably within the ‘decent’ to ‘great’ category topped off with a fair sprinkling of songs which are truly outstanding by any considered yardstick. Of this select group, ‘Incident on 57th Street’ and ‘The Promise’ are for me Springsteen’s high water mark. If ever pop/rock can justify claiming such status I’d label both songs, both created remarkably when he was a young man in his twenties, as his personal masterpieces.

‘Incident’ is a virtual art house movie in song. Set amidst the Hell’s Kitchen underworld, its delicately blended cloak of soft piano, organ, percussion and guitar around Springsteen’s part pleading, part defiant, part whispered vocals, we are told the story of small time street hood Spanish Johnny and street hooker Puerto Rican Jane who fall in love but in true Romeo/Juliet fashion face the inevitable dead end street their blighted lifestyles dictate. In terms of Bruce Springsteen’s musical legacy ‘Incident’ is right at the top and was and remains an artistic triumph.

Springsteen’s solo piano version of ‘The Promise’ meanwhile is a fable in life’s reality that leaves you sad and reflective. Whilst it could be said to be altogether more typical Springsteen fare, it transcends that ‘norm’ virtue of a melody that is so sad and beautiful with an equally beautifully mournful piano accompaniment which together perfectly complement the theme of his lyrics exposing his own and our own human failings and weaknesses as he relays the litany of broken promises that litter all our lives, whether intended or not, whether major or trivial.

By the end of his fable, Springsteen attempts some sort of perspective. “The promise was broken. You go on living. But it steals something from down in your soul”. Like when the truth is spoken but it don’t make no difference, something in your heart runs cold.” He’s not making harsh judgement but rather telling it like it is; namely that it’s just what happens. Whilst we are not enriched by our failures to honour our resolutions by the same token we should not feel besmirched by doing so. We are merely living up or down to our own humanity. In the ultimate analysis most of us fall inevitably short of our goals as our lives become littered with those broken promises.

Every Little Thing – The Beatles

Baby You’re A Rich man – The Beatles


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Tucked away on the album Beatles For Sale and largely ignored by all and sundry including it seemed the Fab Four themselves, the couple of joyous pop magic minutes of ‘Every Little Thing’ have always been such a favourite of mine. A simple love song, strangely as it turns out written by Paul despite John being the dominant vocal, it has always seemed to me as the most archetypal Beatle song of all from that era prior to all the endless studio experimentation that began with smatterings of Rubber Soul and full steam ahead on Revolver. Clearly it’s not rated anywhere close to the finest Beatle song but I just love it and never tire of its fresh Beatle tone as it always takes me back to that time just after their initial manic Please Please me/She Loves You breakthrough had settled down and they seemed for a few years to develop what I regard as their definitive and unique ‘Beatle’ sound which seamed throughout the Hard Days Night, Beatles For Sale and Help albums and some of Rubber Soul too.

Meanwhile, ‘Baby You’re a Rich man’ will similarly always take me back to the start of that ‘Summer of Love’ period and specifically to the Great Tree holiday camp in Looe with my boyhood mates in 1967. ‘Rich man’ was the flip side of ‘All You need is Love’. It was played on virtual loop on the campsite club’s jukey. Mainly by us but by others too. Don’t think the A side was played at all. That few weeks the futuristic jogging magic of ‘Rich man’ was embedded into my brain and has remained there ever since. The ultimate flip side genius.

Mockingbird – Charlie and Inez Fox

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Not heard anything remotely like it before nor since. Completely insane nonsense contrasting vocals set to the most basic backbeat serve up yet another two minutes of pure pop magic. Absolutely loved it back in the ‘60’s and love it even more now.

I Can’t let Go – Evie Sands

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Some might say ‘He Ain’t Heavy’ or ‘The Air That I Breathe’ or even ‘Long Cool Woman’ rank as the Hollies finest but for me it was always their amazing ‘I Can’t Let Go’ with Allan Clarke’s fantastic vocal and Tony Hicks stellar guitar. And then out of nowhere after40 years or so surfaces the Evie Sands original version to rewrite the script with her 2 minutes of sheer blue eyed soul pop perfection. Incidentally, she also did the original versions of ‘Angel in the Morning’ and the Troggs ‘Anyway You Want It’. 

Viva Las Vegas – Shawn Colvin

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The end of the Big Lebowski signalled a scramble from yours truly to find out what and who the fuck was that incredible song and singer which played out as the credits rolled. Transpired it really was Elvis’s ‘Viva Las Vegas’ turned inside out and upside down and sung by a certain Shawn Colvin. Turned out it was available only on import on an album entitled ‘Til The Night is Gone’, a tribute to the legendary songwriter Doc Pomus by various artists. In the shipping order duly went.

So the original Elvis interpretation had been fast, quirky and upbeat for the film of the same name, sprinkled with Hollywood-style pep and glitz. More than thirty other artists went on to record the song after Elvis, each including Springsteen and ZZ Top amongst others, adhering fairly faithfully to the Elvis interpretation. Mercifully, and thank the lord for the love of music, Shawn Colvin somehow, some way came up with a wholly different version; a spellbindingly refreshing and compelling exception.

In Colvin's take the protagonist becomes as reckless and mysterious as the original was cheery and predictable. Beguiling us to accompany her into those darker ruinous corners of addiction and obsessiveness that seam through Las Vegas, Colvin manages somehow to re-invent the song, bringing out hitherto concealed beauty and starkness of melody and lyric. Her vocal innovation redefines the parameters of what Pomus and Mort Shuman had written, giving us something completely distinctive; five dark smouldering minutes to savour.

Into my Arms – Nick Cave

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Is this simply about a deeply loving relationship or is it about loss and the ensuing desperation for a re-uniting. Who can be sure but Mr Cave himself? No matter in a way as the entire ambience of the song evokes a sense of sadness and melancholy that only few songs can; simple melodic beauty and words of longing. Also a quick nod to a few good folks on RAWK who long ago insisted I give this great artist a listen.

Kathleen – Gene Clark

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On the same theme of melancholy and beauty in a song brings me conveniently to the late, great and still criminally underrated Gene Clark and my all time favourite song of his amongst a veritable litany of truly great songs. This particular one is from the posthumously released Gypsy Angel album of demos of songs written not long before his death. Due to dental issues his vocals sound slightly different from their usual crystal purity but perfectly fit the song’s theme of longing and loneliness. The song’s melody is amongst the most beautiful I’ve ever heard set amidst the most haunting mouth organ and exquisite acoustic guitar. The song’s opening lines still get me every time – ‘Hair of flame and eyes of green. But the loneliest you have seen’.

Levitate Me – The Pixies

Life and How to Live It – REM

I Don’t Know Why I Love You – Stevie Wonder

Gimme Some Lovin’ – Spencer Davis


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Grouped together since for one reason or another they all share a common theme summed up in one word – ‘Frenetic’. Not quite sure why but the crazed desperation and mayhem within each vocal just makes them essential to me. Also a special nod to the quite unreal vocals of the 17 year old Stevie Winwood on the final song of that quartet.

Walk Away Renee – Four Tops

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Despite all the outrageous competition from the rest of their song pantheon, ‘Renee’ soon became my favourite Four Tops song and Levi vocal. Surprisingly and very rarely for Motown the song is not a Motown original but was penned – amazingly - by a 16 year old lad named Michael Brown who was a member of a group called Left Banke. It tells the tale of young Michael’s unbeknown stalking and unrequited love of the girlfriend of one of his fellow group members. Left Banke’s version is lovely too but it ain’t the Tops. However, what a gift young Mikey bequeathed us all.

Everyday People – Sly and Family Stone

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By no stretch am I a fan of most of what is termed modern day R&B and Hip Hop but even with my limited appreciation I have gathered that the genres would likely have been up shit creek without a paddle without the incredible spade work, invention and legacy of Sly Stone and his family. This is the track I still seek out the most and not simply because of its pleadings for the sort of equality we’ll likely never see.

Come See About Me – The Supremes

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Amazingly, even in the very midst of their ‘60’s chart success ‘Come See About Me’ failed to chart in the UK due to limited airplay which meant many of us only came upon it when it was included on the Motown Gold compilations. Thank god then for compilations. My favourite few minutes of the incredible Diana and her Supremes.

All The Labor – The Gourds

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A guy on the Guestbook forum for The Band introduced me to The Gourds around 20 years ago. He raved about them and I duly purchased their debut album. Since then I’ve got all their stuff which is a mix of the great, the mediocre, the exceedingly mediocre and the weird avant garde particularly from the zany Jimmy Smith. This track is one of Jimmy’s and I think it’s their best. It’s about the working classes that built modern USA.

I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Creedence

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I daresay it constitutes a sacrilege to select any version of this fantastic song over Marvin’s classic. Maybe so, but for me it’s always been Creedence’s eleven minute long bass overdrive take. Hypnotic. Sorry Marvin purists.

Peggy Sue Got Married – John Doe

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Ties with Shawn Colvin’s Vegas for my favourite ever cover. Buddy’s original was nice enough. Obviously. But John Doe takes the song into dramatic new territory where the singer’s despair and regret at finding out that the love of his life has married someone else is tangible. A remarkable piece of pop reinterpretation.

What Can I Say – Boz Scaggs

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What can anyone say. It’s the amazing Boz. Has to be in there.

Island – Gerry Rafferty

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Down in London for that 1978 League Cup against that bastard Clough’s lot and all you could hear from every shop doorway was the saxophone strains of the great Gerry Rafferty’s ‘Baker Street’. But it was the alto sax on the track ‘Island’ from the same ‘City to City’ album which stood out for me back then and still does.

King Harvest has Surely Come – The Band

It Makes No Difference – The Band

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For me to select just two songs by the band that was for so many years the musical love of my life – and deep down likely always will be - is absurd. But there you go. ‘King Harvest’ is one of them. A masterclass in understated instrumental, lyrical and vocal perfection. To be watched in awe. The other is the spellbinding unbearably heartbreaking original version of ‘It Makes No Difference’ which found wider fame in the equally heartbreaking version in their ‘Last Waltz’ movie.

Tumbling Dice – The Stones

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You don’t actually need to make out the lyrics to know from its dirty opening riff and vocal plunge into the forbidden territory it evokes that this is a song that is taking you into a world of excess and depravity. Just wondrous.

Love Hurts – Gram and Emmylou

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It may well be the case that there are more beautiful harmonies than this. I just don’t think I’ve ever heard them. Very marginally I do just plump for the live version over the Grievous Angel album version but sadly it doesn’t seem to be available on You Tube so this is the equally beautiful studio version.

No Mules Fool – Family

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To this day fifty odd years on I’ve still no idea at all what Roger Chapman is on about but perhaps that and its captivating ascending fiddle is why I still love it so much.

Comedy – Shack

John Kline – Shack


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Could be Scouse bias on my part but I don’t think so. Just two fantastic songs from the streets of Kenny which I never get enough of. Special nod, too, to John Head’s counter harmonies which just add that extra something.

Wrapped in My Memory – Shawn Smith

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Apart 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.

Shinin’ Brightly – Bob Seger and Silver Bullet Band

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Don’t think I’ve ever heard any artist wrap a vocal so effortlessly around the instrumental core of a song quite like Bob Seger so often does. The result is very often terrific. This contrasts starkly with so many of Seger’s fast rockers – not all I’d stress – which are clearly targeted at his Mid West core audience and which for me are pretty instantly forgettable. However, when Seger does slow it all down and hang those vocals the result as in this case can be delicious.

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – Bob Dylan

Like A Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan

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What an album ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ was. If there ever was such a thing as an overall peak for Dylan lyrically, poetically, musically and vocally then this one is it for me. And these two tracks are my particular picks. ‘Tom Thumb’ is just an amazing pop song. No ‘Blues’ to be seen bar the singer’s aches and pains and desire to get back to New York. Dylan at his most Dylan-like vocally with great lines but clearly taking the piss with that unique piss-taking tone of his. That rolling piano/guitar opening just grabs you by the balls and doesn’t let go. ‘Rolling Stone’ meanwhile is just ‘Rolling Stone’ and will be with us all and those to follow for all time. Also included is a great live version with The Band from 1971.

Your Cheatin’ Heart – Ray Charles

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Picking Ray Charles’s version over Hank’s great original may seem unfair but really it’s like a different song altogether in Ray’s hands. The atmosphere his unique gospel blues vocal delivers brings out the melancholy of Hank’s lyrics in a way which Hank clearly must have felt but couldn’t quite convey in his lighter touch country take. Hear that aching Charles vocal and weep. 

Ain’t That Enough – Teenage Fanclub

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The amazing Fannies, chiming guitars and great tunes. Tremendous. I think this song is arguably them at their chiming tuneful best. My fave anyroad.

When You Walk in the Room - Jackie De Shannon

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What a talent. Her desperation for love in this song gives me chills, albeit any such sense of despair is completely belied in this great video by her beautiful beaming gob as she makes a false start. Still, the song itself never fails me. For decades I always thought it was The Searchers very own song but no. She wrote it, sang it and clearly meant every word. Just wish I’d have been the guy she was writing about. Wonder if she ever was in the Seaforth/Waterloo area?

Up on the Roof – Carole King

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100% with Sam on this one. Included his pick of the original demo with Rudy Lewis of the Drifters and her own solo live version at the Montreux jazz festival too. Also her own live version of her own ‘Oh No Not My Baby’. All three of them so pure, so simple, so great.

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« Reply #145 on: October 13, 2021, 03:24:54 pm »
Love that song by the late Shawn Smith. Was lucky enough that my group of friends stumbled across him early-mid 90s when he was due to play possibly the now defunct Phoenix Festival one year. Don’t think he played it in the end but thankfully we’d discovered him.

I don’t know if you noticed on my list I had a song by one of his projects Satchel, which is my favourite by him. If you haven’t checked out Satchel - EDC or Pigeonhed - The Full Sentence I’d recommend them both as my personal favourites amongst all his various projects and solo stuff.

Saw him live once in a small venue in Putney, just him and piano. Absolutely amazing
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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #146 on: October 13, 2021, 03:31:39 pm »
A lot to get through there Timbo! I’ll take a look later when less but but great to see a shout for Teenage Fanclub and you’re right I think, Ain’t That Enough is a perfect example of their stuff. I think back then I listened to the Grand Priz album a lot more and is my favourite of there’s but Ain’t That Enough is as good as anything on there.

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #147 on: October 13, 2021, 04:46:27 pm »
Love that song by the late Shawn Smith. Was lucky enough that my group of friends stumbled across him early-mid 90s when he was due to play possibly the now defunct Phoenix Festival one year. Don’t think he played it in the end but thankfully we’d discovered him.

I don’t know if you noticed on my list I had a song by one of his projects Satchel, which is my favourite by him. If you haven’t checked out Satchel - EDC or Pigeonhed - The Full Sentence I’d recommend them both as my personal favourites amongst all his various projects and solo stuff.

Saw him live once in a small venue in Putney, just him and piano. Absolutely amazing

Lucky you. I'd loved to have seen him.  He sang like an angel. Beautiful tone. I obviously missed Satchel but will now check it out. there's a few other great songs on that Shield of Thorns album but 'Wrapped' is the standout I think.

Very sad such a premature passing.

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« Reply #148 on: October 13, 2021, 04:51:18 pm »
A lot to get through there Timbo! I’ll take a look later when less but but great to see a shout for Teenage Fanclub and you’re right I think, Ain’t That Enough is a perfect example of their stuff. I think back then I listened to the Grand Priz album a lot more and is my favourite of there’s but Ain’t That Enough is as good as anything on there.

Yeah Grand Prix. What an album. I think it just pips Songs from Northern Britain as you say. For me you can't put a feeler guage of quality between Dont look back and Neil Jung and Aint that enough so I was between all three to be honest Dick.

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« Reply #149 on: October 13, 2021, 04:57:53 pm »
Bit harsh!

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« Reply #151 on: October 13, 2021, 05:06:58 pm »
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.

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« Reply #152 on: October 13, 2021, 05:10:48 pm »
Lucky you. I'd loved to have seen him.  He sang like an angel. Beautiful tone. I obviously missed Satchel but will now check it out. there's a few other great songs on that Shield of Thorns album but 'Wrapped' is the standout I think.

Very sad such a premature passing.
Ah it was very sudden and sad, when it happened a few of our old crowd got together for night and listened through some of the old albums with a few drinks etc was a great night reminiscing.
Particular favs of mine are Trouble Come Down, O, Suffering, Criminal Justice by Satchel and Battle Flag and Fires Comin Down by Pigeonhed.

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #153 on: October 13, 2021, 05:17:47 pm »
Was listening to "Fables of .." on Saturday morning Timbo. That's a solid REM choice. Everyday People is a beauty too.

Nice write up too. Think the problem with these threads is that mostly I'd prefer to just go for a pint and listen to these tunes with a half cut commentary from the pop picker. Get into it properly.   

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #155 on: October 13, 2021, 05:39:34 pm »
Was listening to "Fables of .." on Saturday morning Timbo. That's a solid REM choice. Everyday People is a beauty too.

Nice write up too. Think the problem with these threads is that mostly I'd prefer to just go for a pint and listen to these tunes with a half cut commentary from the pop picker. Get into it properly.   
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Which is your favourite REM album Chip?

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Which is your favourite REM album Chip?

REM only did one good album -Murmur

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #157 on: October 13, 2021, 05:59:25 pm »
REM only did one good album -Murmur

Life's Rich Pageant is an amazing album.
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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #158 on: October 13, 2021, 05:59:29 pm »
REM only did one good album -Murmur



Murmur's my favourite as it happens but methinks you're joshing.

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Re: RAWK’s own top 100 fave songs of all time
« Reply #159 on: October 13, 2021, 06:00:42 pm »
Anyone who dismisses 'folk music' out of hand is missing out on some really good stuff - quite apart from Kate Rusby and the aforementioned Cara Dillon there are so many great singers who fall under the folk umbrella - Emily Portman, Maz O'Connor, Eliza Carthy, Kris Drever, Julie Fowlis, Alasdair Roberts, Jon Boden and Karine Polwart to name but a few along with bands like Bellowhead, Lau, Oysterband, Steeleye Span and the incomparable Show of Hands. Forget the 'finger in the ear Arran sweater' image - British Folk music is alive and thriving and producing wonderful new music alongside keeping alive traditional songs.

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