Pick Your Favorite Song by a Group/Artist

[Scud49]

Cream- it's gotta be "Badge" - co written by Eric Clapton and George Harrison:

 

[Bigboote]

I couldn't find the full version from Electric Ladyland, but here's a live version of Voodoo Chile:

 

[Bigboote]

And here's a version from All Them Witches, a wicked cool "stoner doom metal" band from Texas:

 

[Scud49]

A rather cool instrumental from back in the day - Kool and the Gang:

 

[Cedar]

The Youngbloods – Get Together

 

[Cedar]

Tommy James & The Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion

 

[Cedar]

Atlanta Rhythm Section – So Into You

 

[Cedar]

Seals & Crofts – Summer Breeze

 

[Cedar]

Starbuck – Moonlight Feels Right

 

[Cedar]

Sir Cliff Richard – Devil Woman

 

[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: