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OT: List Your top 5 Groups or Artists of All Time, Then Post One Song From Each

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1- Queen- Don't stop me now
2- Jefferson Airplane- White Rabbit
3- ABBA- Winner takes it all
4- Who- Summertime Blues
5- Steppenwolf- Born to be Wild

Really hard to do as my age ascends many generations
 
Hmmm, well I'm gonna take this as top (best), based on talent, staying power, hits, social impact. (My top 5 favorites would probably be different.)

1. Beatles (obviously) - so many probably Hey Jude (my favorite would probably be Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da)
2. Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
3. Eagles - Hotel California
Hmmm, now it's tougher
4. U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
5. The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century (my favorite would probably be Courage)

Went with bands. If you go with individual artists you gotta think about Dylan, Elvis, Madonna, MJ too.
 
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Littlemin said:
FWIW, my contributions are in no particular order and ask me tomorrow and it would very likely be 5 different offerings from 5 different artists/bands; the beauty of music.
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I know this tangents off Scud49‘s thread intent but what the heck; this cover of AC/DC by the German Oompah band The Heimatdamisch is a perfect example to me of the diverse beauty of music.
 
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out
Alan Parsons Project - Lucifer
Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
Lindsey Buckingham (solo) - Love Runs Deeper
 
Bigboote said:
Oh, geez. Top five can mean two different things to me: 5 best or 5 favorite. 5 best will be easier for me and better for the board, because I don't think you can be one of the "best" without both having at least some popularity and staying power, so that list would skew older and more popular than 5 favorites. The Moody Blues would be on both.

Moody Blues
Renaissance
Yes
Beatles
Miles Davis

Here's one from the Moodies that doesn't get as much press as some of theirs:

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nice call for Miles
 
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Scud49 said:
Beatles have to be the #1 group for me. Trying to pick one tune is hard, real hard. But I'll go with one off the "Revolver" album which is just amazing. This one is "I'm Only Sleeping':

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Revolver is one of the greatest albums ever made. Rolling Stone Magazine has it as #11 but I think that's off the mark. It was revolutionary. It was the first studio album for the Beatles and they used sounds, recording devices, and instruments they could never duplicate live on stage. My favorite from that album is "Eleanor Rigby". It's a moving, deep, and haunting song and the strings are just piercing. My favorite lines from that song- "Lives in a dream, Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Who is it for?"
 
TerpWomenFan said:
Literally impossible to list five. But I will do it anyway because of the thread title. But so many omissions.

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(Teena Marie "If I were a bell")
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Well, since I listed Miles as one of my top five (best) and I haven't posted anything by him yet, here's one of his classics. This recording was one of those times when Miles kind of revolutionized music.

 
BBallF said:
Revolver is one of the greatest albums ever made. Rolling Stone Magazine has it as #11 but I think that's off the mark. It was revolutionary. It was the first studio album for the Beatles and they used sounds, recording devices, and instruments they could never duplicate live on stage. My favorite from that album is "Eleanor Rigby". It's a moving, deep, and haunting song and the strings are just piercing. My favorite lines from that song- "Lives in a dream, Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Who is it for?"
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Yea, Rolling Stone for years had it ranked #1- and I certainly agreed with that. They re-did that ranking a few years ago- needless to say I didn't agree with it. As I recall, they had 4 Beatles albums in their top 15 or so, not sure where they all are at now. I'd have to say Revolver is my fav Beatles album, followed closely by Rubber Soul and A Hard Days Night. Just a mind boggling catalog of work, and it was all accomplished within about a 5 year period to boot.

Agree on the lyrics for Eleanor Rigby- like so many of their songs, the lyrics are highly insightful, astute, very meaningful, and clever. And yet, they could go and knock it out of the park with essentially a great children's song like "Yellow Submarine"...! Just beyond belief. Thats why they are my #1 favorite group of all time.
 
Bigboote said:
Oh, geez. Top five can mean two different things to me: 5 best or 5 favorite. 5 best will be easier for me and better for the board, because I don't think you can be one of the "best" without both having at least some popularity and staying power, so that list would skew older and more popular than 5 favorites. The Moody Blues would be on both.
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Sorry BigBoote - I should have thought it through a bit more and given it some tighter parameters - next time...!
 
I love Revolver, but for me Rubber Soul and Hard Day's Night both eclipse it. Since I posted the Beatles in my list and haven't posted anything from them yet, here's one from the second side of Hard Day's Night. I think that side is one of the great achievements in music. They were told about a week before the tapes were due that they needed a side 2 for the soundtrack album. The music was written, recorded, and mixed in a week. It's not quite Kind of Blue, but hey, nothing is.

 
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Scud49 said:
Sorry BigBoote - I should have thought it through a bit more and given it some tighter parameters - next time...!
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Hey, it's the Boneyard! We're used to making our own rules. :D

Great topic, BTW. We often see how broad the tastes of the posters are, but seeing several different favorites from each gives a lot of perspective.

Oh, and my list by today is BS. How could I make that list without Tom Waits? That was a complete brain fart. No But then I'd have to take off Yes or Renaissance. No Eno or Louis Armstrong. I'm glad Bald Huskie posted Steppenwolf so they're not forgotten.
 
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Bigboote said:
Hey, it's the Boneyard! We're used to making our own rules. :D

Great topic, BTW. We often see how broad the tastes of the posters are, but seeing several different favorites from each gives a lot of perspective.

Oh, and my list by today is BS. How could I make that list without Tom Waits? That was a complete brain fart. No But then I'd have to take off Yes or Renaissance. No Eno or Louis Armstrong. I'm glad Bald Husky posted Steppenwolf so they're not forgotten.
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Agree, a really good topic; my five, other than the Rascals, who I love, my picks were things I was listening to lately. And also a BIG agree on Tom Waits.
 
Scud49 said:
Sorry BigBoote - I should have thought it through a bit more and given it some tighter parameters - next time...!
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I respectfully disagree, great choice and yielded grea, diverse tunes and artists. The music threads are really why I joined this forum, found out about it through a buddy I played in bands with in my youth.
 
Yup, started second-guessing my list right away. For no real reason I thought I should spread out the list among different genres/styles.
Been a John Hiatt fan for a very long time.
Don't think I've seen anyone with Rush listed and that's a bit surprising.
I was kinda late to the party with Rush but have huge respect for the talent of that trio.
RIP Neil Peart

As the calendar pages keep flipping over, I find the lyrics to this one become more and more relevant;
-Time Stand Still-
I much prefer to post live or concert vids, but YT won't let me embed the one I want, so I'll put it below the lyric video.




Rush ~ Time Stand Still ~ Time Machine - Live in Cleveland [HD 1080p] [CC] 2011
 
Just a snapshot choice, could be a different five in five minutes...

Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Chicago - Dialogue Part 1 and 2
Mannfred Mann's Earth Band - Spirit in the Night
Goo Goo Dolls - Here is Gone
The Cars - Strap Me In

 
BBallF said:
Revolver is one of the greatest albums ever made. Rolling Stone Magazine has it as #11 but I think that's off the mark. It was revolutionary. It was the first studio album for the Beatles and they used sounds, recording devices, and instruments they could never duplicate live on stage. My favorite from that album is "Eleanor Rigby". It's a moving, deep, and haunting song and the strings are just piercing. My favorite lines from that song- "Lives in a dream, Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Who is it for?"
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Personally I think both Revolver & Rubber Soul are better than Sergeant Pepper. But that's just me.
 
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It was hard to rate my favorite bands/artists. So I picked the ones that I would have the most number of songs on my favorite playlist. And then to pick the favorite song from each artist was almost as hard as that changes from day to day and what my mood is.
Here is what I came up with:
5. Jimmy Buffet - Fins
4. Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
3. Eagles - Desperado
2. Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restuarant
1. Beatles - In My Life
 
tkaes said:
Beatles - The Long and Winding Road
CSNY - Southern Cross
Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
Looking Glass - Brandy
Traveling Willburys - End of the Line (a George Harrison tune)
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As I read through the posts it occurred to me that are so many choices and 5 are so hard to choose. I then realized that I could have included so many more on my list. Although the Beatles will always be number 1 with me (was a Sr. at Norwalk H.S. when they first hit the U.S.) I remembered that my number 1 should have been the greatest (in my mind) rock era song ever written, David Paich's Africa. So my revised favorites list, including a number of groups/songs that I forgot is as follows:

1. Toto - Africa
2. Beatles - The Long and Winding Road ( and a dozen or so others)
3. CSNY - Southern Cross
4. Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
5. Looking Glass - Brandy
6. Traveling Willbury's - End of The Line ( and Not Alone Anymore, Roy Orbison lead)
7. Grateful Dead - I Will Survive
8. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
9. Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is
10. The Cars - Drive
11. The Beach Boys - In My Room, Surfer Girl, Hawaii ( and almost everything from Pet Sounds)
12. The Duprees - See The Pyramids Along The Nile
13. Nat King Cole - When I Fall in Love
14. The Glenn Miller Orchestra - A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square ( Ray Eberle vocal) *

* I wasn't even born when Nightingale was first recorded by a number of orchestras and artists in 1940 but I first became aware of the song when it was used as a theme song in the 1986 Tom Hanks movie, Everytime We Say Goodbye. The song almost immediately became one of my all time favorites.

Africa
 
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Just need one. The recording doesn’t come close to duplicating what it sounds like in the Opera House. Vienna Philharmonic and Siegfried’s Funeral Music.
 
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