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Sat Aug-19-06 04:14 PM
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the 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960's |
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according to these snobby bastards: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com (it's a pretty damn good list though) http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/37886/The_200_Greatest_Songs_of_the_1960ssome choice selections: 196. Irma Thomas: "Time Is on My Side"Though Thomas is widely acknowledged as the Soul Queen of Nola, I've always thought she never got a fair shake (e.g. neither "Ruler of My Heart" nor "Don't Mess With My Man" made this list). The Rolling Stones eventually made this song a smash, but all they did was jack Thomas' steez in full, changing nary a note, save one small thing: They could never belt like her. -- Sean Fennessey140. Donovan: "Season of the Witch"Better known as a dippy, soft-spoken mystic, Donovan's claws came out for "Season of the Witch". This psych-pop seether indicts the singer's own folkie utopia ("Beatniks are out to make it rich," he growls) with toothy licks and an organ sheen that may or may not have been courtesy of Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. --Brian Howe90. The Angels: "My Boyfriend's Back"Not so much about a boyfriend than about one boy coming home to beat the living hell out of another boy, this 1963 single, originally meant for the Shirelles, is one of the most flat-out mean girl-group tracks ever. College coeds will forever sing it when their high school beaus come to visit, but unless said beau is punching a few suitors in the face on arrival, he's missing the spirit of the whole thing. --Zach Baron39. Rolling Stones: "Sympathy For The Devil"It was a ballsy move for Mick Jagger to sing about Satan in the first person, and it was even ballsier to make him so damn likable, a charming rake with a sense of decorum and a way with words. "Sympathy" may be Jagger's finest lyrical moment; in a few quick strokes, he weaves the Crucifiction, the Hundred Years' War, the October Revolution, World War II, and the assassinations of the Kennedys into an interlocking tapestry of human cruelty, and then he takes credit for all of it. Even ballsier may be the Stones' use of the sort of rippling African grooves that palefaced rockstars usually deploy when they're trying to sound warm and life affirming. It's an exhilarating piece of work, especially as the song builds and Keith Richards starts using his guitar the same way the Bomb Squad used sirens, a trebly fuzzbomb exploding into the sinuous mess. --Tom Breihan8. Johnny Cash: "Folsom Prison Blues (Live at Folsom Prison""Hello. I'm Johnny Cash." That opening line, so deadpan and needless-- everybody, especially in Folsom, knows who Johnny Cash is-- may be the genesis of the Man in Black myth, even more so than the song "Man in Black". Making such a humble introduction, Cash sounds larger than life-- definitely larger than prison-- and he delivers an electric, excited performance on his signature Sun hit.
Egged on by W. S. Holland's driving snare and Luther Perkins' breakout guitar solos, Cash gives a shout-out to the Razorbacks ("Soo-ey!") and after the second verse laughs a playful heidi-ho. But as the song progresses, his freewheeling energy becomes hurried and dogged, and he sounds like a truly desperate man, as haunted by the idea of confinement as any of the inmates-- a measure of how deep his identification with his audience went. The fear in his voice still resonates decades later, long after the man has died and the Man in Black has become a canonical American figure. --Stephen M. Deusner
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Sat Aug-19-06 04:27 PM
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1. Didn't the Vanilla Fudge record Season of the Witch? |
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I remember seeing them in Seattle -- Led Zepplin was the warm up band.
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Sat Aug-19-06 04:31 PM
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warmed up for vanilla fudge?
what year was this?
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Sat Aug-19-06 04:34 PM
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3. Ancient times... I think '66-67. |
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Sat Aug-19-06 04:41 PM
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4. Maybe The Yardbirds; no Led Zeppelin until 1968 |
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Might need to roll another one to figure this out.
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Sat Aug-19-06 04:48 PM
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5. It may have been '68 or even '69. |
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I was in Jr. High school.
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Sat Aug-19-06 04:53 PM
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6. One of those (two) Jimmy Page bands anyway... |
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I'd never heard that but I do know this to be true: Jimi Hendrix was the warm-up band for THE MONKEES in 1967...
What shitty promoter thought THAT debacle up????
And maybe we should start a thread for the stupidest pairing of bands, cuz here's another one I actually saw in 1980: The Pretenders were warm-up for the Boomtown Rats. (No kidding!) I mean, good on Geldof and all for his humanitarian work and adopting Michael Hutchence's child, but those guys got blown off the stage by Chrissie and Co every night.
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Sat Aug-19-06 04:56 PM
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my sister and I looked at each other and said "Those guys are gonna be big."
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Sat Aug-19-06 05:25 PM
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12. In 76, I lived in London |
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...and we were all Zep freaks. Remember, Robert Plant had been in a car accident the year previous while vacationing in Greece and had broken a lot of bones. So while he was recovering and they cut the LP "Presence" (not one of my favourites) they also prepared for their 77 US tour. Before they left for America, they decided to do a secret gig at the Marquee Club in Soho--the place where the Who got started in the 60s that holds about 200 people. Anyway, the "secret" got out real fast, and about 2000 of us showed up the night before to get tix, so Zep got scared and cancelled. Didn't forgive them for a long time, but then they released "The Song Remains the Same" (Loved it then, couldn't watch it now without howling in laughter) and we waited one more night in Leicester Square to get tix. Luckily, we were successful, met the band, went to the after party. The high point of my 21 years of life.
Then, in 77 I moved back to California to live at home and earn enough money to follow them on the US tour. We saw 'em 2 nights at Madison Sq, 2 nights at the LA Forum (Now Staples Center) and of course in the Bay Area.
As the years went by, I had to settle down by default, and I forgot about how passionate I'd been for their music. Then just recently, I've seen young kids wearing Zep 77 US tour Tees, and it just transported me back. When I tell these children of my stories, some love it, but most give me the eye-roll and basically let me know that Grandma should stick to baking cookies. :)
It's okay, though--I hope all young-ees will have such good stories to remember in 30 years time.
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Sat Aug-19-06 05:36 PM
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Thanks for sharing the tale of a Zeppelin Roadie. I'm surprised your grandkids aren't impressed. Oh well. I remember telling my nephew about the national mood when Kennedy died -- he asked, "Were you alive back then?" To them it is ancient history.
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Sat Aug-19-06 05:15 PM
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Edited on Sat Aug-19-06 05:16 PM by Blue_In_AK
I saw Led Zeppelin warm up for Vanilla Fudge and Spirit in Denver in December 1968. This was probably the same tour.
I just checked their concert schedule - Dec. 26, 1968 in Denver; December 27, 1968 in Seattle.
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Sat Aug-19-06 05:25 PM
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11. Glad I'm not the only ancient one here! |
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I hardly remember it except for the impression that Zeppelin made on me and my sister.
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Sat Aug-19-06 04:55 PM
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7. The Beach Boys at number 1? |
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Who would have thought that?
My top 5 of the 60's would be Sympathy for the Devil, Dazed and Confused, I am the Walrus, White Rabbit and Fortunate Son.
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Sat Aug-19-06 05:17 PM
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Sat Aug-19-06 07:19 PM
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14. Pretentious horseshit |
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even by pitchfork's standards. The Jackson 5: "I Want You Back" at #2!?!?
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Sun Aug-20-06 01:42 PM
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15. i don't know about pretentious |
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maybe if they had a song by can or some andy warhol house band in the top 10 i could agree - they laid out the case pretty well; that song is monumental
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Sun Aug-20-06 03:56 PM
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16. Hmm, not one animals tune that I saw |
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What gives? No Guess who either
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Sun Aug-20-06 04:03 PM
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17. i think there's one in there somewhere... |
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and it's pitchfork so can you really expect that the guess who would be there? not that i really disagree with em on that front...B-)
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Sun Aug-20-06 04:11 PM
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18. Come on! GUess who has some great, raw, tunes |
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The best animals tune is "inside looking out"... I hope that's the one they chose.
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Sun Aug-20-06 04:24 PM
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21. Nah, Pitchfork are "cool" kids |
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They would never stoop to including something fun and non-pretentious like the Guess Who. (Besides, they probably don't know "Shakin' All Over"-era Guess Who even exists.)
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Sun Aug-20-06 04:38 PM
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22. Even then, tunes like "Lauging" or "No sugar tonight" |
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Are simply good tunes... and I consider myself a music snob.
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Sun Aug-20-06 04:20 PM
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19. Well, I like a lot a lot of the songs, but |
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Edited on Sun Aug-20-06 04:25 PM by last_texas_dem
I'd probably like pretty much any list of songs from the sixties. It looks like pretty much what I'd expect from Pitchfork in terms of what they'd like from old music: R & B, some British invasion stuff, some garage bands, and a couple of "cool" country artists. Basically, what bugs me about it is that fact, in that it looks like what a bunch of fans of modern indie-rock with a passing to fair amount of knowledge about "old" music would put together. A lot of it looks like the stuff the "cool kids" profess to liking in order to be the cool kids, but they don't actually really listen to. It's definitely an interesting list but it feels a little too "revisionist" or something, like most of Pitchfork's takes on older music seem to. That's just my take, though; I'm certainly not prepared to say I've got a better list to offer.
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Sun Aug-20-06 04:22 PM
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20. "Downtown" -- Petula Clark ... That's The First One That Comes To My Mind. |
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Sun Aug-20-06 05:33 PM
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23. They missed Janis Ian - Society's Child |
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Janis Ian, Society's Child
Come to my door, baby, Face is clean and shining black as night. My mother went to answer you know That you looked so fine.
Now I could understand your tears and your shame, She called you "boy" instead of your name. When she wouldn't let you inside, When she turned and said "But honey, he's not our kind."
She says I can't see you any more, baby, Can't see you anymore.
Walk me down to school, baby, Everybody's acting deaf and blind. Until they turn and say, "Why don't you stick to your own kind."
My teachers all laugh, their smirking stares, Cutting deep down in our affairs. Preachers of equality, Think they believe it, Then why won't they just let us be?
They say I can't see you anymore baby, Can't see you anymore.
One of these days I'm gonna stop my listening, Gonna raise my head up high. One of these days I'm gonna raise up my glistening wings and fly.
But that day will have to wait for a while. Baby I'm only society's child. When we're older things may change, But for now this is the way they must remain.
I say I can't see you anymore baby, Can't see you anymore. No, I don't want to see you anymore, baby.
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