Pick Your Favorite Song by a Group/Artist

[Scud49]

OK, how could I forget Smokey Robinson and THIS song?

 

[bantamlaker]

Don’t recall seeing anything by Jim Croce who died in a plane crash In 1973 at age 30.

 

[bantamlaker]

Johnny Rivers had several hits including Summer Rain, Mountain of Love and Secret Agent Man. This was a number one hit in 1966.

 

[Bigboote]

I've listened to this album about five times since Friday. It was one of the first albums I owned; I got it for my eighth birthday from my middle sister.

I didn't realize when I was about 8 that John Barleycorn is the personification of drink, so the song kind of horrified me. I learned thal I was about 13 and got Below the Salt by Steeleye Span, which had the lines:

They worked their will on John Barleycorn but he lived to tell the tale
For they pour him out of an old brown jug and they call him home-brewed ale

There are hundreds of versions of the song out there, but this one is my favorite. I'm pretty sure Steve wrote new music, but the words are pretty true to some traditional versions.

 

[Scud49]

These guys kinda disappeared rather quickly, but they had a big hit back in '72:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

So I like these little upbeat message songs and so do 319 million others:

 

[Scud49]

David Gray - Babylon, such a good song:

 

[Scud49]

Al Stewart, Year of the Cat:
"On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time, you go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime"

 

[Scud49]

Stanley Clarke, one of his instrumentals really does it for me - "Quiet Afternoon:"

 

[Scud49]

Beach Boys - obviously a number of fine songs in their catalog, but I've always been a little extra partial to this song, "Girl Don't Tell Me" - Carl Wilson on the lead vocals:

 

[Bigboote]

Beach Boys - obviously a number of fine songs in their catalog, but I've always been a little extra partial to this song, "Girl Don't Tell Me" - Carl Wilson on the lead vocals:

Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys had a couple of things that set them apart from pedestrian pop-song makers. The first is that Brian had a knack for putting unexpected intervals and (especially) chords into their songs. This one has a couple. The second is that they had the singers to pull it off, which is no small feat.

One song of theirs that I couldn't stand as a kid but absolutely love now is Wouldn't it be Nice. Just a nice, simple pop song until about four lines into it, when those chords only Brian could come up with kick in, then it almost becomes art music meets doo-wop:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

David Gray - Babylon, such a good song:

Sorta Dylanesque no?

 

[Ozimoto]

A few southern rock classics that you don't hear much of anymore.

Marshall Tucker Band.

 

[Ozimoto]

And the Outlaws.



Songs like these got me through the dregs of the disco era.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

In honor of her visit, here is Sedona Prince's reputed/reported most played tune:

 

[CL82]

Al Stewart, Year of the Cat:
"On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time, you go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime"

I've heard that line probably 1000 times and never thought about it. It's great.

 

[Scud49]

I've heard that line probably 1000 times and never thought about it. It's great.

Yea, love lyrics like that. A song with similar lyrics and a similar mood is Michael Frank's "Just Like Key Largo"

"It's just like Key Largo, Melvin, Douglas, and Garbo
Bogey and Lauren BaCall, you try to be cool but dance like two fools at the ball"

"Me with my jive and you with your Chanel #5, don't we just make the cat meow, me and my pleats like Fred Astaire, you and your curls like Claudette Colbert, ain't we bout as cool as Iceland baby and how"

 

[Bigboote]

Renaissance is the only group I can think of that went through a 100% lineup change between albums. They kind of arose from the ashes of the Yardbirds. This is the first cut from the first album:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I can't believe it but the search engine says no one has stcuk this up here yet. A beautiful mournful fav of mine. R.E.M's Everybody Hurts:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Ditto:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Last in a trilogy of songs you guys forgot!!

 

[Cedar]

Sniff ‘n’ the Tears – Driver’s Seat
A one-hit wonder. This was the band’s hit in 1979.

 

[Cedar]

The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony

 

[Cedar]

Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger

 

[Scud49]

Sonny and Cher - heard "Baby Don't Go" this morning on Sirius sat radio. It tis' my favorite by them:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Sonny and Cher - heard "Baby Don't Go" this morning on Sirius sat radio. It tis' my favorite by them:

I have no favorite Sonny & Cher's only Cher's part: "And when I'm sad you're a clown" I Got You babe. That's mine.

Her best for me: "If I Could Turn Back Time" at it's ironic best on a certain battleship:

Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time (Official Music Video)

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Then there is this modern young lady who does it so well:



Though I gotta say I'd rather have an artist's voice, true, without the studio boost everyone these days seems to get.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Wanna see what I mean about her big hit - tell me if this, unaided, isn't better?



It's not perfect, like the studio, but it is human and somehow grander.

 

[Scud49]

The Crusaders, what a group, tough, very tough to just pick one:

 

[Bigboote]

From the Crusaders, I go with Free as the Wind. Larry’s guitar solo just makes me melt.