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The 100 Greatest Songs of 1972. #1. All The Young Dudes (1 Viewer)

timschochet said:
Ronson is a key figure on several songs coming up, not just from Ziggy Stardust- (did I mention the main talent from Velvet Underground?) 

And yes his work on Suffragette was phenomenal. 
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look forward to more Mick ... guy shred for 3 of my all-timers: Bowie, Ian, Morrissey (among others, but those 3 are quantum to me).

 
33. Little Feat “Willin’” (from Sailin’ Shoes) 

https://youtu.be/zcrEWRLk3CE

I made a mistake ranking this song on the 1971 list, because I was citing an earlier version from the debut album. This version, a little slower, from the second album, is the one that most people are familiar with. 
Little Feat was, IMO, a pretty mediocre band with not much to recommend them. But this tune was the best thing Lowell George ever did. It sounds like the Band. 

 
Dr. Octopus said:
No problem 
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Definitely a lot Of fudging the billboard rankings, which was based on airplay back then.  
 

i was at the dentist and didn’t really get to reply to the Grateful Dead.  You’re correct in that the critics hated them back then.  The one who really stood by then was Rolling Stone.  Critics warmed up to them on Touch of Gray, then really romanticized about them after Jerry’s passing.  I remember Garcia on the cover of People after he died.

 
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32. Bill Withers “Lean On Me” (from Still Bill) 

https://youtu.be/Jrlhn1H1EWw

Bill Withers’ best songs are deceptively simple. This sounds like most gospel music you’d be likely to hear from this period, but it’s also distinctively Withers’ own. Although Withers is rightfully regarded as one of the great singer-songwriters of the era, “Lean On Me” is a soul classic. 

As a matter of fact, 1972 was a year filled with soul classics. Many of them are coming up.   

 
timschochet said:
33. Little Feat “Willin’” (from Sailin’ Shoes) 

https://youtu.be/zcrEWRLk3CE

I made a mistake ranking this song on the 1971 list, because I was citing an earlier version from the debut album. This version, a little slower, from the second album, is the one that most people are familiar with. 
Little Feat was, IMO, a pretty mediocre band with not much to recommend them. But this tune was the best thing Lowell George ever did. It sounds like the Band. 
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Wow. When I saw this ranking I was about to give props, and then I read this.  No offense, Tim, but this might be the worst take you have ever had about anything on this board. Little Feat is amazing. "Willin'" isn't even their best song. "Roll 'um Easy" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. 

 
turnjose7 said:
Wow. When I saw this ranking I was about to give props, and then I read this.  No offense, Tim, but this might be the worst take you have ever had about anything on this board. Little Feat is amazing. "Willin'" isn't even their best song. "Roll 'um Easy" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. 
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I probably should listen to more. I listened to the first two albums and a greatest hits thing. So maybe my sample size isn’t large enough. 

 
timschochet said:
I probably should listen to more. I listened to the first two albums and a greatest hits thing. So maybe my sample size isn’t large enough. 
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Listen to them live. While they have many great studio recordings like "Roll 'um Easy," they are like the Allmans or the Dead. They were meant to be heard live. Waiting on Columbus remains one of my favorite albums. Every song on it is great, but the version of "Dixie Chicken" is amazing. 

 
timschochet said:
Someone once wrote that only about a hundred people ever listened to the Velvet Underground, but they all started bands. 
 

The main talent behind the Velvet Underground went on to an up and down but sometimes brilliant solo career; we will be getting to some of the best highlights of that career coming up. 
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Eno?

Paris 1919 doesn’t come out til 73. 

 
timschochet said:
31. The Edgar Winter Group “Free Ride” (from They Only Come Out At Night) 

https://youtu.be/JAFyvePcR_o

Now here is some great rock and roll. That opening guitar riff- so sweet. The mountain is high, the valley is low. 
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One of those many classic rock songs that now always makes me think of a particular movie scene.

To that end, have been thinking for some time  about starting a thread about this topic (if it hasn’t been done already).

 
timschochet said:
31. The Edgar Winter Group “Free Ride” (from They Only Come Out At Night) 

https://youtu.be/JAFyvePcR_o

Now here is some great rock and roll. That opening guitar riff- so sweet. The mountain is high, the valley is low. 
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Johnny >>>>>> Edgar, and it's really not close. 

"Still Alive and Well" blows the doors off all the blues contemporaries of Johnny, the White Albino.  i'm not much for that style, but Johnny transcends. 

/rant, jumps off soapbox. 

oh, back to Edgar and Hartman and Montrose ... yeah, this was a big album, lotta fun. 

 BTW, the guy who wrote and sang "Free Ride" (the aforementioned Dan Hartman), gave us THIS yacht rock staple a dozen years later. 

 
otb_lifer said:
Johnny >>>>>> Edgar, and it's really not close. 

"Still Alive and Well" blows the doors off all the blues contemporaries of Johnny, the White Albino.  i'm not much for that style, but Johnny transcends. 

/rant, jumps off soapbox. 

oh, back to Edgar and Hartman and Montrose ... yeah, this was a big album, lotta fun. 

 BTW, the guy who wrote and sang "Free Ride" (the aforementioned Dan Hartman), gave us THIS yacht rock staple a dozen years later. 
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Actually I agree with you about Jonny. Best blues guitar I’ve ever heard. Bar none. 

 
30. Lou Reed “Satellite of Love” (from Transformer) 

https://youtu.be/FH2EgYq_NCY

Lou Reed’s second album, Transformer, was a glam rock tour de force. It was co-produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson; Ronson plays guitar here while Bowie provides back up vocals. But make no mistake this is Lou Reed’s song, part of that amazing collection of music he wrote for the Loaded sessions of the Velvet Underground. This is one of several excellent tunes that did not make the cut of that album for whatever reason; there is yet another of these coming up. 

 
timschochet said:
30. Lou Reed “Satellite of Love” (from Transformer) 

https://youtu.be/FH2EgYq_NCY

Lou Reed’s second album, Transformer, was a glam rock tour de force. It was co-produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson; Ronson plays guitar here while Bowie provides back up vocals. But make no mistake this is Lou Reed’s song, part of that amazing collection of music he wrote for the Loaded sessions of the Velvet Underground. This is one of several excellent tunes that did not make the cut of that album for whatever reason; there is yet another of these coming up. 
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i couldn't love this more if i tried with all my being ...

"Bome-bome-bome"

this and "I Love You" & "NY Telly Convo" saw me thru my first failed romance.  

LOU HELPED, MAN!]

COTdam did they hit on this platter 💘

 
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otb_lifer said:
i think the problem was putting 'damn' behind it ... it autocorrected in the post to gosh darn which is more JB speed than otb. 

but wtf do i know?

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No, that's exactly what happens when you type it in. It autocorrects to gosh darn. 

 
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29. Curtis Mayfield “Superfly” (from Super Fly) 

https://youtu.be/-cmo6MRYf5g

If this was a list of coolest songs of 1972 (or ever) this tune would be even higher. Curtis Mayfield of the Impressions was one of several black artists known for a more “doo wap” soul style in the 1960s who converted to funk in the 1970s. We will get to some others coming up. “Superfly” was composed to accompany the absolutely awesome blaxploitation film of the same title. 

 
timschochet said:
32. Bill Withers “Lean On Me” (from Still Bill) 

https://youtu.be/Jrlhn1H1EWw

Bill Withers’ best songs are deceptively simple. This sounds like most gospel music you’d be likely to hear from this period, but it’s also distinctively Withers’ own. Although Withers is rightfully regarded as one of the great singer-songwriters of the era, “Lean On Me” is a soul classic. 

As a matter of fact, 1972 was a year filled with soul classics. Many of them are coming up.   
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This album is so good that if I ranked each song against the others, this one would be in the middle of the pack.

 
timschochet said:
28. Elvis Presley “Burning Love” (released as a single) 

https://youtu.be/zf2VYAtqRe0

This was the last big hit for Elvis, kind of his last hurrah as he strutted through Hawaii in his white jumpsuit that he could barely fit into, nearly comatose from all the pills and booze…yet still a hunk of burning love. 
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I had no idea this was as late as 72. I would have guessed mid or late 60s. Has a Tom Jones vibe.

 
timschochet said:
28. Elvis Presley “Burning Love” (released as a single) 

https://youtu.be/zf2VYAtqRe0

This was the last big hit for Elvis, kind of his last hurrah as he strutted through Hawaii in his white jumpsuit that he could barely fit into, nearly comatose from all the pills and booze…yet still a hunk of burning love. 
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speaking of the genius of Bowie, and songs he bequeathed to others (Mott), one of the great missed opportunities in history was the King turning down "Golden Years" ... that colab would've been the colabbiest of all colabs that ever colabbed. 

 
otb_lifer said:
speaking of the genius of Bowie, and songs he bequeathed to others (Mott), one of the great missed opportunities in history was the King turning down "Golden Years" ... that colab would've been the colabbiest of all colabs that ever colabbed. 
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I think that Elvis initially perked up when he thought he heard "Golden Yams", but turned the song down when he found out otherwise.

 
otb_lifer said:
speaking of the genius of Bowie, and songs he bequeathed to others (Mott), one of the great missed opportunities in history was the King turning down "Golden Years" ... that colab would've been the colabbiest of all colabs that ever colabbed. 
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Well I should mention in this same vein that the Randy Newman song “Lonely At the Top”, also released in 1972 (though not, unfortunately, on this list) was written for and offered to Frank Sinatra, who rejected it as well. 

 
timschochet said:
Well I should mention in this same vein that the Randy Newman song “Lonely At the Top”, also released in 1972 (though not, unfortunately, on this list) was written for and offered to Frank Sinatra, who rejected it as well. 
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as somebody who knows more about Hermoine Gingold than i do about RN's catalog outside of "Short People" ... i'm intrigued. 

 
27. Jim Croce “Time In a Bottle” (from You Don’t Mess Around With Jim) 

https://youtu.be/dO1rMeYnOmM

A brilliantly crafted love song written in 1970 while his wife was pregnant. It was made even more poignant following his death by airplane in 1973. Gorgeous and timeless, the only reason it’s not ranked even higher is that the top 30 or so of this list is jam packed with all time classics. 

 
timschochet said:
27. Jim Croce “Time In a Bottle” (from You Don’t Mess Around With Jim) 

https://youtu.be/dO1rMeYnOmM

A brilliantly crafted love song written in 1970 while his wife was pregnant. It was made even more poignant following his death by airplane in 1973. Gorgeous and timeless, the only reason it’s not ranked even higher is that the top 30 or so of this list is jam packed with all time classics. 
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I remember it being made popular by that Movie Of The Week (She Lives!) that Season Hubley starred in.

 
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otb_lifer said:
speaking of the genius of Bowie, and songs he bequeathed to others (Mott), one of the great missed opportunities in history was the King turning down "Golden Years" ... that colab would've been the colabbiest of all colabs that ever colabbed. 
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Wow! I had never heard that one before.

 
timschochet said:
69. The Doobie Brothers “Jesus Is Just Alright” (from Toulouse Street) 

https://youtu.be/JEvy8mROAj0

This was originally a gospel song by the Art Reynolds Singers, then The Byrds did a rock version for their album Ballad of Easy Rider in 1969. The Doobies’ cover is very similar to the Byrds, but they scored a hit and it became their tune forevermore. 
Toulouse Street was the breakthrough album for Tom Johnston and his crew. Although it was not well-regarded at the time, it contained a number of enormous hits for the band. 
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Pretty late to this . . . I was mildly disappointed the link wasn't for the Freaks and Geeks version.

 
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