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I wasn't sure there was a pattern to this list, buttimschochet said:
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The 100 Greatest Songs of 1970 #1. Bridge Over Troubled Water (1 Viewer)
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rockaction
Footballguy
The Black Keys never rock/grit/funked Ohio up as bad as the breakdown with the cowbell.
Holy smoke.
MOAR, fellas.
Holy smoke.
MOAR, fellas.
timschochet
Footballguy
51. The Grateful Dead “Casey Jones” (from Workingman’s Dead)
https://youtu.be/_x2m6i4KFqg
Trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind
Not one of their songs that ever got a ton of radio play because…well you know why not. But it’s an absolute classic.
https://youtu.be/_x2m6i4KFqg
Trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind
Not one of their songs that ever got a ton of radio play because…well you know why not. But it’s an absolute classic.
rockaction
Footballguy
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
The stations I listened to as a teenager in Philly in the '80s played the hell out of it. Guess you grew up in a repressed area.
timschochet
Footballguy
50. Van Morrison “Crazy Love” (from Moondance)
https://youtu.be/OIaKy1vM9hs
I can feel her heartbeat for a thousand miles
Yeah the heavens open every time she smiles
One of the most beautiful love songs ever written. Sublime.
https://youtu.be/OIaKy1vM9hs
I can feel her heartbeat for a thousand miles
Yeah the heavens open every time she smiles
One of the most beautiful love songs ever written. Sublime.
johnnycakes
Footballguy
Bah. Mungo Jerry made a generation smile. How many people smile over Crazy Love?
OK.... gimme a break.... I've had a few.
rockaction
Footballguy
Mungo Jerry makes me think
If her Daddy's rich
Take her out for a meal
If her Daddy's poor
Then just do what you feel
Ba da da ba da da ba da da
Have a drink have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
How rich? What kind of meal? How poor? What if I feel like something besides whipped cream Twister™? How many drinks? Where do you drive to? Should I bring my metal detector? What else would I find?
#### like that. Deep ####, you know?
johnnycakes
Footballguy
You're over-thinking it, chief. It's a song about the simple pleasures of summer. As for what kind of meal.... Why the 99, of course. The best deal in town.
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Uruk-Hai
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It was probably THE most played Dead song through the 70s & 80s on AOR/CR channels, and for the exact reason you seem to think it wasn't.
rockaction
Footballguy
I was going to correct tim, but that seemed like shooting fish in a barrel here.
It was probably THE most played Dead song through the 70s & 80s on AOR/CR channels, and for the exact reason you seem to think it wasn't.
timschochet
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49. Stephen Stills “Love the One You’re With” (from Stephen Stills)
https://youtu.be/HH3ruuml-R4
There’s a girl right next to you
And she’s just waiting for something to do
How can you argue with this logic? (And why would you want to?) Stephen Stills offers the best argument ever for cheating on your significant other: hey man the eagle’s flying with the dove, right? Might as well…
https://youtu.be/HH3ruuml-R4
There’s a girl right next to you
And she’s just waiting for something to do
How can you argue with this logic? (And why would you want to?) Stephen Stills offers the best argument ever for cheating on your significant other: hey man the eagle’s flying with the dove, right? Might as well…
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timschochet
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48. Neil Diamond “Cracklin’ Rosie” (from Tap Root Manuscript)
https://youtu.be/MGemtjVtfZM
Some vintage Diamond here, and a cheap bottle of sparkling wine that made him sing like a guitar humming. Neil never got any better than this.
https://youtu.be/MGemtjVtfZM
Some vintage Diamond here, and a cheap bottle of sparkling wine that made him sing like a guitar humming. Neil never got any better than this.
johnnycakes
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
*entering Altoona*
timschochet
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47. James Taylor “Sweet Baby James” (from Sweet Baby James)
https://youtu.be/QXUvEmXefKk
Taylor wrote this nice little cowboy lullaby for his namesake nephew, born upon his return from England. It’s been a singer songwriter classic ever since.
https://youtu.be/QXUvEmXefKk
Taylor wrote this nice little cowboy lullaby for his namesake nephew, born upon his return from England. It’s been a singer songwriter classic ever since.
foxco
Footballguy
My wedding song! It was either that or Highway to Hell by AC/DC and for some reason fiancé went with Van Morrison. Go figure
rockaction
Footballguy
Sweet Jesus.
timschochet
Footballguy
46. Three Dog Night “Joy to the World” (from Naturally)
https://youtu.be/kyI1OImD7ow
If I were the king of the world, tell you what’d I do, I’d throw away the cars and the bars and the war, make sweet love to you!
In a list chalk full of classic sing along songs, this might be the singiest of them all.
https://youtu.be/kyI1OImD7ow
If I were the king of the world, tell you what’d I do, I’d throw away the cars and the bars and the war, make sweet love to you!
In a list chalk full of classic sing along songs, this might be the singiest of them all.
Leroy Hoard
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
*the killer furtively unspools the guts of an 8-track cartridge, twisting the mylar into an impromptu garotte*
krista4
Footballguy
When/if you get to one I particularly love (The Long and Winding Road is not one), I'm going to post my write-up of it from my threads. This was my #2 favorite post-Beatles John song. Here you go.
"Setting aside my unreasonable notion that a composition could be responsible for actual human actions, this gets my vaunted #2 spot on the John list because it’s freaking awesome. OK, maybe I can break it down better than that. First of all, it’s AN ALAN WHITE SHOWCASE! Hmmm, doesn’t have the same ring. But that drumming is madness and not something I’d have expected from White based on my other knowledge of him (I don’t do Yes, so I’m talking about other Beatles collaborations). Truly phenomenal. I wouldn’t want to rank a song so highly, though, if it were dependent upon the contributions of a non-Beatle, and this isn’t. John’s vocal is Twist-And-Shouty goodness, absolutely shredding it. And although I don’t believe in karma, I think the lyrics are the most interesting of his overtly political tomes, with their tongue-in-cheek “get yourself together” criticisms combined with the optimism of “we all shine on” or the exhortation that we aren’t here to live in pain and fear. It’s a decidedly positive and communal view of where we can go, unlike the more individual directives of, for instance, “Give Peace A Chance.” In that sense, it’s more reassuring that if we all work together as one, we could accomplish something, though this idea was presented here in a less polished fashion than “Imagine.” The more optimistic lyrics are complemented by the upbeat vocal and accompaniment – unlike many John songs of this vintage, he sounds like he’s having fun.
The backstory of this song is crazy, with John having gone from concept to composition to recording to release in…get this…10 days. It reached #3 on the US charts and was the first “solo” Beatle recording to sell a million copies. It wasn’t exactly solo, of course, since George played guitar and electric piano and provided backing vocals. George and…everyone else on the planet. In typical Spector-y fashion, a billion and one musicians were brought in to work on the track, from mainstays Voormann, White, and Preston, to a chorus of uncredited backing vocals that included awful-person Allen Klein. To that Spector added his usual echo and reverb effects and wanted to add strings, too, but John deemed the song complete without them, thank goodness. I believe strings would have detracted from the raw, primal nature of the song that makes it one of my top 10.
John and Yoko did a lot of promotion for this song. They cut off their long hair and presented it to a Black power activist as some sort of signal of a “new beginning” for 1970. And they did a series of TV performances of the song, including this little number that features Yoko soundlessly knitting with a Kotex pad taped to her face as a blindfold."
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krista4
Footballguy
My #3 post-Beatles song from George, and also my #3 post-Beatles song from any of the lads. Since this was my overall #3, I was a little tired by the time I got to this write-up. I could have done better.
"George sings soul! In 1969, George was working on Billy Preston's record That's The Way God Planned It, and while driving to one of the sessions, he came up with this song, which he originally intended to offer to Preston for recording, as he did with "My Sweet Lord." Instead he ended up keeping this classic for himself, which must have been the way God planned it. Not sure what I could say about this song even if I had more time, as it's nearly perfect from the beginning fuzzy guitars through the build to the cacophony at the end. I even love the use of horns in this one. The word "nearly" comes from the place you might expect - the huge Wall of Sound makes George too lost in the song for me. Still it's one of my favorite songs from anyone, ever."
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Ghost Rider
Footballguy
What Is Life is great stuff. All Things Must Pass has so many good songs. I think it could have been whittled down a little, as it feels a bit padded, but I get he had been repressed in the Beatles and wanted to get all of those songs out there.
Instant Karma is okay, but I am someone who feels like the magic in Lennon's music was mostly gone once the Beatles broke up. Makes me wonder if he needed George Martin a lot more than McCartney to produce his songs and get the best out of them. For me, when looking at who had the best music of the two in between the period between the Beatles breakup and Lennon's death, McCartney lapped Lennon several times, IMO.
Instant Karma is okay, but I am someone who feels like the magic in Lennon's music was mostly gone once the Beatles broke up. Makes me wonder if he needed George Martin a lot more than McCartney to produce his songs and get the best out of them. For me, when looking at who had the best music of the two in between the period between the Beatles breakup and Lennon's death, McCartney lapped Lennon several times, IMO.
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wikkidpissah
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every fiber of my being resists acquiescing to this point but musically, it's open for consideration. culturally, it's still not close and not only cuz i was rolling my eyes at what McCartney was doing in Oct 1980 when i was actually writing Letters to the Editor on what was lost with Lennon's assassination. to be honest, though, i was more a fan of what Double Fantasy meant than how it sounded.
then, it really didn't matter. John was 'bigger than Jesus', singlehandedly moving the leading edge AND reporting from the front lines while he did it. DF was him quitting the world for his kid, working on himself for his wife and letting us watch & listen while he looked in the mirror at his changing face. that boldness and honesty opened the door for a lot of dads to actively love their kids and forge real partnerships with their mates when they might not have otherwise. so the sound of the music of that was more than the clicks & decibels, y'now? - even if the songs were on the prosaic side sonically. i guarantee you that the hope in Beautiful Boy or nakedness of Woman struck me more powerfully than any cleverclever la de da that ever came from his old partner, even tho i'm now a gigantic fan.
i'm sad that's lost on you, tho i completely understand how it would be. sometimes, it's about more than the notes (at which McCartney always surpassed Lennon) but i have to believe John would have brought life to us with similar urgency for decades more if he'd had the chance. then, you would know.
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Ghost Rider
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Nothing is lost on me. I am full aware of the importance and cultural significance of John Lennon, but that doesn't make me enjoy his solo work. Maybe you do, but I don't listen to music and think, "hmmmm, how important is this?" I think, "do I like or do I not?"
I do think that as much as you want to romanticize Double Fantasy, which does have a few songs I like, it was flopping badly until Lennon was tragically murdered less than a month after its release, and then of course everyone bought it and all of a sudden many who were trashing it loved it. His death made that album much more than what it was initially. Granted, that wasn't the first, and it won't be the last, album to come out of the gate slow and find its audience later rather than sooner, but we'll never know how that would have turned out had he lived.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
thank you for not getting me. saves a lot of work
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Good to hear. Your music posts are usually off the wall ramblings anyway.
timschochet
Footballguy
45. Frida Payne “Band of Gold” (released as a single)
https://youtu.be/daxiMb0rITA
“Band of Gold” was the revenge of Holland-Dozier-Holland. Having left Motown because they believed Berry Gordy wouldn’t pay them enough, HDH started their own record label, Invictus, wrote this song and sent little known Frida Payne to the top of the charts in 1970. The revenge was short-lived as Gordy successfully crushed the new opposition: a ruthless tale that I’ve only read snippets about and would love to read a book about someday. Still, we are left with this great soul classic from one of the greatest songwriting teams in pop music history.
https://youtu.be/daxiMb0rITA
“Band of Gold” was the revenge of Holland-Dozier-Holland. Having left Motown because they believed Berry Gordy wouldn’t pay them enough, HDH started their own record label, Invictus, wrote this song and sent little known Frida Payne to the top of the charts in 1970. The revenge was short-lived as Gordy successfully crushed the new opposition: a ruthless tale that I’ve only read snippets about and would love to read a book about someday. Still, we are left with this great soul classic from one of the greatest songwriting teams in pop music history.
Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
It's not a bad song, but it doesn't seem worthy of #45.
I'm not even sure it should make the Top 100 in such a stellar year.
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I just typed a long thing about Lennon and said, "ah, #### it." Perhaps that's how much he changed things; that I don't even bother to care or fight any Boomerisms smoldering about him. It's just going to get me the only screaming deacon element of Boomerism -- that when you insult their pop culture.
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rockaction
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U NO SEE WOODSTOCK AS GREATEST CULTURAL EVENT SINCE LITTLE RED BOOK?!
timschochet
Footballguy
44. The Grateful Dead “Truckin’” (from American Beauty)
https://youtu.be/pafY6sZt0FE
Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics to this counterculture masterpiece, mostly about a drug bust in New Orleans. But Hunter doesn’t play or sing on the original recording. Of course the band recorded this live a LOT during their long strange trip…
https://youtu.be/pafY6sZt0FE
Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics to this counterculture masterpiece, mostly about a drug bust in New Orleans. But Hunter doesn’t play or sing on the original recording. Of course the band recorded this live a LOT during their long strange trip…
krista4
Footballguy
Just wanted to point out that, while you're correct overall that the album garnered more sales and positive reviews after John's death, to say it was "flopping badly" isn't true. The first single from the album had reached #6 on the charts, and the album climbed to #11, before the murder.
rockaction
Footballguy
I've been to Buffalo and always think of this song when I remember my time there. I took the bar examination there, went up there the week before partied up with the Winter Olympics and hockey at the Anchor Bar until two nights before the exam (I was an alcoholic and strange party cat) and then stayed an extra two days because I got snowed in, really. But I had a freaking blast. I was disappointed to go home to Connecticut. You really can breathe a little bit in Buffalo.
I met a stripper there. Her credo, admittedly. "To get paid as much for as little as possible." Interesting generational sum-up right there.
rockaction
Footballguy
What am I missing with this joke? It must be something because Leroy got it. I just...I'm shuked.
[scooter]
Footballguy
Hey, don't sell Leroy short. If you need him to get just one reference, he'll get three.
rockaction
Footballguy
Lol. How true.[scooter] said:
Like I said a long time ago, Leroy is multivariate calculus when it comes to picking up what people are laying down. I'm saying that it was there, and I missed it. It's all on me.
[scooter]
Footballguy
We kissed after taking vows
But that night on our honeymoon
We stayed in separate rooms
I wait in the darkness of my lonely room
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom
Hoping soon
That you'll walk back through that door
And love me like you tried before
Seems like those lyrics are referring to a man who is either impotent or gay.
But that night on our honeymoon
We stayed in separate rooms
I wait in the darkness of my lonely room
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom
Hoping soon
That you'll walk back through that door
And love me like you tried before
Seems like those lyrics are referring to a man who is either impotent or gay.
rockaction
Footballguy
Got it. Unless something got in the way emotionally, or he physically was unable to consummate, you may have hit on it.
Those are weird lyrics, for sure. I never really examined them. I was more concerned with the "Now that you're gone...all that's left is a band of gold, all that's are the dreams I hold, and a band of gold" or something like that.
Doing it from memory.
rockaction
Footballguy
Why the sad face, Leroy? It was a compliment.
Leroy Hoard
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timschochet
Footballguy
43. Leon Russell “A Song for You” (from Leon Russell)
https://youtu.be/ZvazuyF6eXw
Leon Russell was really a strange dude, yet very accomplished. In 1970 he was best known for producing Joe Cocker’s “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” tour, yet Leon also had time to release a solo album which included one of the greatest love songs in the history of pop music: “A Song for You”.
I had a very difficult time placing this tune: one the one hand it’s absolutely brilliant, gorgeously timeless, and though there have been countless covers (my favorite is probably Herbie Hancock and Christine Aguilera from a few years ago) almost none are better than the original. It’s truly one of the best songs of this or any other year. On the other hand, it was obscure upon release and got virtually no radio play or recognition. So where to place it? I came up with #43 and I’m willing to take criticism in either direction.
https://youtu.be/ZvazuyF6eXw
Leon Russell was really a strange dude, yet very accomplished. In 1970 he was best known for producing Joe Cocker’s “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” tour, yet Leon also had time to release a solo album which included one of the greatest love songs in the history of pop music: “A Song for You”.
I had a very difficult time placing this tune: one the one hand it’s absolutely brilliant, gorgeously timeless, and though there have been countless covers (my favorite is probably Herbie Hancock and Christine Aguilera from a few years ago) almost none are better than the original. It’s truly one of the best songs of this or any other year. On the other hand, it was obscure upon release and got virtually no radio play or recognition. So where to place it? I came up with #43 and I’m willing to take criticism in either direction.
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