Pick Your Favorite Song by a Group/Artist

[Bigboote]

Yusef Lateef in 7/4 time from around 1957:

 

[Scud49]

I'd assumed he was referring to the album cover (The Snake Charmer by Rousseau).

Ah, I do believe you are correct BB!

Funny, in the vinyl album days real "covers" were important, now to me I only think of that term meaning other artists covering the originals.

 

[Cedar]

Ten Years After’s performance of “I’m Going Home” was one of the highlights of Woodstock, but the band’s biggest hit was “I’d Love to Change the World,” released in 1971. It’s a great song with a fantastic guitar solo by Alvin Lee. The song has some bad lyrics, however, so I won’t post the link.

 

[Cedar]

A hit song from the Canadian rockers…

 

[Cedar]

 

[Cedar]

 

[bantamlaker]

“It’s late September and I really should be back at school”

It actually was late September (1971) and my girlfriend and I really should have been back at school but being young and foolish we decided to take our first road trip together and it seemed like this song was on the radio constantly. I guess the trip went pretty well - 47th anniversary coming up soon.

 

[Ozimoto]

"Lions Share" from 10,000 Maniacs. My favorite of many good songs and one that didn't get a lot of airplay.

 

[Ozimoto]

Another on from a more (relatively) modern group. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears.

 

[Scud49]

I'm primarily a 60's and 70's guy when it comes to music, but I remember hearing this one a fair amount in the early 80's IIRC:

 

[Ozimoto]

Lunar Sea from Camera Obscura.

 

[Scud49]

And then this fellow, Paul Weller, left the Style Council and became a solo artist.

From one of his early albums, this is my favorite from him:

 

[Kaizen]

Another on from a more (relatively) modern group. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World, a 1985 # 1 hit from Tears for Fears. Its lyrics detail the desire humans have for control and power and centre on themes of corruption. Good call ....

 

[Ozimoto]

Clannad's "Lish Young Buy a Broom." Again, not one of their often played songs.

 

[Bigboote]

It’s tough to pick one by Zappa. It was either the Grand Wazoo, Little House I used to Live in, Billy the Mountain. . . or this one:

 

[Ozimoto]

And my very favorite song from Enya (after she left Clannad). "The Celts."

 

[Ozimoto]

Melissa Etheridge "I'm the Only One."

 

[Bigboote]

Clannad's "Lish Young Buy a Broom." Again, not one of their often played songs.

I love this song. It was part of my repertoire a few decades back. I learned it from Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, who put out two or three albums before they formed Steeleye Span.

 

[Scud49]

Robbie Robertson of "The Band" fame, from one of his solo albums - "Ghost Dance" - a beautiful moving tribute to Native Americans:

 

[Bama fan]

“It’s late September and I really should be back at school”

It actually was late September (1971) and my girlfriend and I really should have been back at school but being young and foolish we decided to take our first road trip together and it seemed like this song was on the radio constantly. I guess the trip went pretty well - 47th anniversary coming up soon.

Yeah, but did you ever finish school?

 

[Ozimoto]

Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road."



Yeah, I like a lot of different music...

 

[Scud49]

Ah, Frank, I kinda forgot about him. I've always adored "Camarillo Brillo"

"Is that a real poncho... I mean Is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho"?

 

[Scud49]

Steve Earle does it for me with this tune:

 

[Ozimoto]

My favorite Bangles song "September Gurls."

 

[Kaizen]