My Top 25,000 Songs (2 Viewers)

[Keith R]

I'm not the type to rank songs (unlike movies), but I've heard that by the time one hits 40, they will have heard the song they rank as the best ever.  Does anyone's rankings refute this?

 

[rockaction]

This one has to make the list. I love the way it breaks down into drone about 1:25 in and maintains it until it rips back into frat rock about fifteen seconds later. It's a pocket Velvet Underground. 

Band: The Primitives

Song: The Ostrich 

https://youtu.be/5r998weOUiM

 

[rockaction]

I'm not the type to rank songs (unlike movies), but I've heard that by the time one hits 40, they will have heard the song they rank as the best ever.  Does anyone's rankings refute this?

Not me. I think the best song I've ever heard is "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" by Marvin Gaye. It just struck me one day while I was driving and I haven't had a more pleasant feeling within music since. Definitely in my twenties or so. 

 

[shuke]

I'm not the type to rank songs (unlike movies), but I've heard that by the time one hits 40, they will have heard the song they rank as the best ever.  Does anyone's rankings refute this?

Had to look at my top 1000.  Had to get to about 25 until I had something I heard after 40.

 

[Mister CIA]

I did not have Southern Culture on the Skids covering Dear Mr. Fantasy on my bingo card, but hear it is.

 

[Mister CIA]

Yoko Ono, through the eyes of John Lennon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKr2gRcR7pQ

 

[wikkidpissah]

Chris Spedding - Wild, Wild, Women.

I found this guy mixed into the Hard Core Logo soundtrack.  I don't remember him, from anywhere, but I gather his reputation was mostly as a session guitarist in the UK. He's also released many albums, none of which I have combed through, yet.

Judging from this song alone, he sounds like he's cut from the same cloth has Mason Ruffner.

great picker and original mind. IIRC, he was part of the one of the best concert experiences i ever had. two of the most underrated albums ever are Jack Bruce's 1st 2 post-Cream solo efforts, Songs for a Tailor & Harmony Row. Spedding was in his band for the latter's album tour and they treated the audience with an encore reprising the 8-9 album cuts they had just played,, but with totally different - at times unrecognizable - arrangements. a true mindblower. you could tell that Spedding was Mad Jack's main unindicted co-conspirator on the effort.

 

[Mister CIA]

Raise your hand if you like Crumb.

 

[Mister CIA]

Spin-off from the Allman Bros thread,

Les Dudek has a home here.

 

[Mister CIA]

Digging this cover:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3Vz0qH3Kg&t=3705s

 

[Mister CIA]

Pretty sure I've linked to performances by Papa Mali and JJ Grey, distinctly. Here they are playing together.  The percussion is super-elite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgbrviX4WRg

 

[Mister CIA]

A+ nugget (plus or minus) 

In the Shadows Again

 

[Mister CIA]

Better nugget:  Some Times

 

[Mister CIA]

I'll watch this video 250 more times, minimum:  Brand New Dance

 

[Mister CIA]

More Garrett T Capps.  Was about to declare him a Bro Country / Wayne Coyne cross, but then it hit me that he is obviously the spawn of James McMurtry.

https://youtu.be/zMm49F8KuZI

Still top-10 speak-to-me:  https://youtu.be/idjXyGxnnlc

 

[Mister CIA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oxJmvSpap0&list=RD0oxJmvSpap0&index=1

 

[Mister CIA]

Mood:  Empty Pages

 

[Mister CIA]

Mood: Weightless

 

[Mister CIA]

a tour de force of vocals and guitar.

Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy - Black Cat Bone

Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy performing Black Cat Bone at the Ottawa Bluesfest. July 11, 2009

youtu.be

 

[Mister CIA]

mood: https://youtu.be/zPGYiC1P1LA

 

[Mister CIA]

Rick-rolled done right: https://youtu.be/hvZJI8rerWA

 

[Mister CIA]

My favorite band, The Headstones, just released a new album - Flight Risk.

When It Goes Badly
Tangled

 

[Mister CIA]

Wow, this song.

Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth