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The 100 Greatest Songs of 1969 #1 Something (1 Viewer)

9. The Band “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” (from The Band) 

https://youtu.be/w69ZVHpjYAk

After “The Weight” this is The Band’s signature song and its one that wouldn’t be written today, because it tells the story of the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction from a white southern point of view. Everything about it: lyrics, music, theme, performance is tremendous. And for my money Levon never sings any better than this. 

 
timschochet said:
Not true but I don’t want to get into a debate about it. Let’s just say there is good PC and bad PC and I’m for the former. 
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You can't separate the two, they're inextricably linked. You went out of your way and brought up the point yourself but don't want to debate? That seems odd, but it's your list.

 
It also seems central to the song that the guy talks about Robert E. Lee as one of the good ones when people are tearing down his statues in various locales around the U.S.

 
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rockaction said:
You can't separate the two, they're inextricably linked. You went out of your way and brought up the point yourself but don't want to debate? That seems odd, but it's your list.
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I support PC when it means not using the N word or the F word for gays or other insensitive or bigoted stuff. I don’t support it when it goes to extremes. It’s not that complicated and I disagree with you that it’s “inextricably linked”. I believe, in all things, common sense and reasonableness should prevail. That’s all. I think that it’s worth noting that this song wouldn’t be written today, and so I did, but I don’t believe this thread is a good place to have a more detailed discussion of the issue. 

 
krista4 said:
I'm not as big a fan of "Get Back" as many are, or clearly tim is, but Taxman?  I don't even know how you call that a "hit"?

ETA:  To be clear, I love Taxman more than Get Back.
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Not sure if Taxman was a hit per se, but it got played on classic rock radio back in the day, so I guess I just assumed it was. 

timschochet said:
11. David Bowie “Space Oddity” (released as a single) 

https://youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo

The song that introduced us to David Bowie. However, not a ton of people were actually aware of it in 1969; it only began to get radio play a few years later. Bowie actually re-released “Space Oddity” on 3 occasions in the 70s, each time following one of his other hits. Eventually it found its way into the charts and our collective consciousness. 
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Bowie has more great songs than we can count, but Space Oddity still might be the best of them all. Freaking awesome tune. 

 
Tin Cup said:
Some all-time classics toward the end of this list.  Stronger year for music than I remembered.
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It is but its top heavy with a few classic rock albums.  The year is top heavy with all-time classic albums from the Beatles, Stones, Led Zep, and Who.  69 is a much different year of music if you remove those top albums.

Decades we've listened to and rock historians have dissected those albums and written books about those groups.

The trick is going second after those top songs have been taken out and doing a list of the next-100 noting that this list still has 8 more tunes that will be cherry picked from the top.  

That is going to be 'attempted' after the last songs are taken.

 
8. The Beatles “Abbey Road Medley” (from Abbey Road)

https://youtu.be/dcv1EFoaX-8

As everybody knows, the “Abbey Road Medley” on side two of the album consists of 8 short songs running a total of 16 minutes. I really have no opinion as to whether to treat this as one song or 8; I did so here because it conveniently gave me more picks to work with in a very tough year. 
Of the songs: my favorite is “Golden Slumbers”, with “You Never Give Me Your Money” a very close second. I like the Joe Cocker version of “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” better than the original (sorry @krista4 I know that’s heresy). I normally like Ringo’s drumming but on “The End” I find that solo really annoying. 

 
timschochet said:
I’ve read that too but then what’s the “out of college” part doing in there? 
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The story of the melody is interesting but long and Krista is the resident expert.  Polethyne Pam has two bizzare stories attached to it and as you can imagine Beatle fans argue over which version is correct butback to Paul who was on a pod by Alex Baldwin only a few months ago and mentioned the part about Allen Klein with 'You Never Give Me Your Money'.

EDIT:  I 'believe' this is the link where I heard the bit about 'You Never Give Me Your Money'. 

From October 11, 2020 LINK  👉Alec Baldwin interviews Paul McCartney on John Lennon's 80th birthday

 
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timschochet said:
8. The Beatles “Abbey Road Medley” (from Abbey Road)

https://youtu.be/dcv1EFoaX-8

As everybody knows, the “Abbey Road Medley” on side two of the album consists of 8 short songs running a total of 16 minutes. I really have no opinion as to whether to treat this as one song or 8; I did so here because it conveniently gave me more picks to work with in a very tough year. 
Of the songs: my favorite is “Golden Slumbers”, with “You Never Give Me Your Money” a very close second. I like the Joe Cocker version of “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” better than the original (sorry @krista4 I know that’s heresy). I normally like Ringo’s drumming but on “The End” I find that solo really annoying. 
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timschochet said:
8. The Beatles “Abbey Road Medley” (from Abbey Road)

https://youtu.be/dcv1EFoaX-8

As everybody knows, the “Abbey Road Medley” on side two of the album consists of 8 short songs running a total of 16 minutes. I really have no opinion as to whether to treat this as one song or 8; I did so here because it conveniently gave me more picks to work with in a very tough year. 
Of the songs: my favorite is “Golden Slumbers”, with “You Never Give Me Your Money” a very close second. I like the Joe Cocker version of “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” better than the original (sorry @krista4 I know that’s heresy). I normally like Ringo’s drumming but on “The End” I find that solo really annoying. 
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Have posted this a few times in the past - always like to give these guys major props. They replicate the medley unlike anyone you'll ever hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkxI0e0tOM0

 
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7. The Beatles “Come Together” (from Abbey Road) 

https://youtu.be/45cYwDMibGo

Inspired by Timothy Leary’s aborted run for Governor of California against Ronald Reagan- he dropped out of the race after getting arrested for pot. Lennon’s lyrics are gibberish but sound great anyhow. Also Lennon did his own backup vocals on this tune, which pissed Paul off. 

 
timschochet said:
Lennon’s lyrics are gibberish
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He lifted a line directly from this song and when Paul first heard it he called John out on it.

Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch Me (1956)

New Jersey Turnpike in the wee wee hours I was rollin' slowly 'cause of drizzlin' showers

Here come a flat-top, he was movin' up with me

Then come wavin' by me in a little' old souped-up jitney I put my foot on my tank and I began to roll Moanin' siren, 'twas the state patrol So I let out my wings and then I blew my horn Bye bye New Jersey, I've become airborne
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Lennon put the song in its entirety on his Rock and Roll album.

You Can't Catch Me (Remastered 2010)

Lennon and Berry performed on stage together on the Mike Douglas Show of all places in 1972 so I don't think it was an issue between them.

Chuck Berry & John Lennon (1972) HQ

EDIT to add a Smathers side story about Chuck Berry.  Back in the mid eighties I had a room mate.  Significant to the story, she had huge tatas. 

Berry was playing on the radio and she blurted out that Chuck Berry was a pervert.  We all looked at her and then she proceeded to tell us a story about how he followed her into a bathroom stall and shoved his hands up her sweater to grab a heaping helping for himself and how she had to fight him off.  

It wasn't surprising for me to read this when he died.  

Singer, musician, sex offender: let’s remember the whole Chuck Berry

 
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timschochet said:
8. The Beatles “Abbey Road Medley” (from Abbey Road)

https://youtu.be/dcv1EFoaX-8

As everybody knows, the “Abbey Road Medley” on side two of the album consists of 8 short songs running a total of 16 minutes. I really have no opinion as to whether to treat this as one song or 8; I did so here because it conveniently gave me more picks to work with in a very tough year. 
Of the songs: my favorite is “Golden Slumbers”, with “You Never Give Me Your Money” a very close second. I like the Joe Cocker version of “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” better than the original (sorry @krista4 I know that’s heresy). I normally like Ringo’s drumming but on “The End” I find that solo really annoying. 
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I love listening to this.  Having been an active percussionist through to the end of college (and still, to a modest degree; always more band and orchestral than jazz or rock), I have visions of having this medley performed by a concert band.  The band would be split to two sides of the stage; in the middle would be percussion, guitars, and a small choir.  Two trumpeters would be in corners of the balcony ...

 
6. Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer” (Released as a single) 

https://youtu.be/l3LFML_pxlY

“The Boxer” was released in March of 1969, nearly a year before the classic Bridge Over Troubled Water album that included it. 
“The Boxer” is going to be pretty high up on anybody’s list of greatest Paul Simon songs, including mine. It might be his best lyrical effort. 

 
timschochet said:
6. Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer” (Released as a single) 

https://youtu.be/l3LFML_pxlY

“The Boxer” was released in March of 1969, nearly a year before the classic Bridge Over Troubled Water album that included it. 
“The Boxer” is going to be pretty high up on anybody’s list of greatest Paul Simon songs, including mine. It might be his best lyrical effort. 
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people don't get these guys anymore for the most part ...so classic.  

this brings back so many memories ...not long before I was old enough to buy my own albums, this was one of the ones I would put on the console entryway stereo that would play throughout the house.  

the entryway opened up into our living room that had super thick, but tight plush carpet (not shag) ...and my mom would use a lawn rake and back out of the room as she "groomed the carpet"

it was off limits ...as well as the "fancy" furniture in there (no vinyl clear covers though)

I got a great golf game called "Arnold Palmer Golf" that was perfect for that room ...the carpet couldn't be better for it.  The styrofoam "golf" balls sat up perfect.  You could change clubs and then when you got on the green you could putt with little white marble golf balls since they rolled better.  

Top 5 most played game for me as a kid of all time.  

Point for this thread:  I put on a bunch of albums and listened to them over and over while playing this game - and Bridge Over Troubled Waters was probably the lead one (had "The Boxer" on it)

 
Binky The Doormat said:
people don't get these guys anymore for the most part ...so classic.  

this brings back so many memories ...not long before I was old enough to buy my own albums, this was one of the ones I would put on the console entryway stereo that would play throughout the house.  

the entryway opened up into our living room that had super thick, but tight plush carpet (not shag) ...and my mom would use a lawn rake and back out of the room as she "groomed the carpet"

it was off limits ...as well as the "fancy" furniture in there (no vinyl clear covers though)

I got a great golf game called "Arnold Palmer Golf" that was perfect for that room ...the carpet couldn't be better for it.  The styrofoam "golf" balls sat up perfect.  You could change clubs and then when you got on the green you could putt with little white marble golf balls since they rolled better.  

Top 5 most played game for me as a kid of all time.  

Point for this thread:  I put on a bunch of albums and listened to them over and over while playing this game - and Bridge Over Troubled Waters was probably the lead one (had "The Boxer" on it)
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

We had that Arnold Palmer game also. It was awesome.  Our Console stereo was similar, but w/o the legs.

 
5. Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” (from Clouds)

https://youtu.be/Pbn6a0AFfnM

Joni Mitchell’s signature song is quite possibly the greatest folk/singer-songwriter tune ever written. Her version of it here from her second album, unlike the more pop version by Judy Collins which appeared a year earlier (and which is also excellent) is understated and somehow has a darker edge to it. This may have to do with Mitchell’s open guitar tuning and her singing style of slightly holding notes. This version features only a single voice and acoustic guitar, making it a masterpiece of simplicity. 

 
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timschochet said:
6. Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer” (Released as a single) 

https://youtu.be/l3LFML_pxlY

“The Boxer” was released in March of 1969, nearly a year before the classic Bridge Over Troubled Water album that included it. 
“The Boxer” is going to be pretty high up on anybody’s list of greatest Paul Simon songs, including mine. It might be his best lyrical effort. 
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Good catch.  Figured for sure you would have missed that one since it was released as a single a year early.

 
timschochet said:
5. Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” (from Clouds)

https://youtu.be/Pbn6a0AFfnM

Joni Mitchell’s signature song is quite possibly the greatest folk/singer-songwriter tune ever written. Her version of it here from her second album, unlike the more pop version by Judy Collins which appeared a year earlier (and which is also excellent) is understated and somehow has a darker edge to it. This may have to do with Mitchell’s open guitar tuning and her singing style of slightly holding notes. This version features only a single voice and acoustic guitar, making it a masterpiece of simplicity. 
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there's the pig#### entry, hate to say. i have had no greater record-listening experience than hearing Joni's mature revisit to this (i've listened to it at least 200 times and been reduced to a puddle each time, inc putting this link together) but it dont even begin to belong here this high in its original constitution

 
4. Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (from Led Zeppelin II)

https://youtu.be/HQmmM_qwG4k

Not much I can write about this that hasn’t been written before. It’s been voted greatest guitar lick ever, greatest hard rock song ever, etc, etc. It deserves all the love and praise it has received over the decades. 

 
wikkidpissah said:
there's the pig#### entry, hate to say. i have had no greater record-listening experience than hearing Joni's mature revisit to this (i've listened to it at least 200 times and been reduced to a puddle each time, inc putting this link together) but it dont even begin to belong here this high in its original constitution
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Well I have to disagree. I do love the 2000 version with her raspy voice, but the original is pure genius and if anything I could have ranked it even higher. 

 
timschochet said:
5. Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” (from Clouds)

https://youtu.be/Pbn6a0AFfnM

Joni Mitchell’s signature song is quite possibly the greatest folk/singer-songwriter tune ever written. Her version of it here from her second album, unlike the more pop version by Judy Collins which appeared a year earlier (and which is also excellent) is understated and somehow has a darker edge to it. This may have to do with Mitchell’s open guitar tuning and her singing style of slightly holding notes. This version features only a single voice and acoustic guitar, making it a masterpiece of simplicity. 
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reaction.

 
timschochet said:
4. Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (from Led Zeppelin II)

https://youtu.be/HQmmM_qwG4k

Not much I can write about this that hasn’t been written before. It’s been voted greatest guitar lick ever, greatest hard rock song ever, etc, etc. It deserves all the love and praise it has received over the decades. 
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This was my guess for your #1.

 
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