This morning, when I switched on my alarm clock radio, I heard the most fantastic song - and it must have been at least 4 years since I heard it the last time. So, that’s what prompted me to start this thread.
[bold]Baba O’Reilly[/bold] by the Who. I heard it on the Radio about a week ago and it inspired me to but the CD. what a great song. And I found by David Bowie 69-74 compellation after it was hidden under my bet for 5 months.
*didnt know what time it was the lights were low-ow-ow…
J
“We should have as high a regard for the church so as to keep it out of as many things as possible”
Fluther Good -the Shadow of a Gunman.
Sean O’Casey
Wow, I was just listening to In Search of the Lost Chord yesterday. The Moodies are one of the greatest bands of all time.
For something I haven’t heard, at least on the radio, in quite a while is, Robin Trower’s Bridge of Sighs. I think I’ll have to pull that CD out and give it a spin tonight.
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Many of them (I probably haven’t heard some of these since before some of you were born).
“Hush, Hush” – Siegel Schwall Band
“Kings and Queens” – Renaissance (not the one you’re thinking of)
“Electric Sailor” – Kak
“21st Century Schizoid Man” – King Crimson
“Ducks on the Wall” – Kinks
“I am the Walrus” – Lol Coxhill
“Darling If” – Spirit
“Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope” – Martin Mull
“The Soft Parade” – Doors
“Out-Bloody-Rageous” – Soft Machine
“In a Broken Dream” – Python Lee Jackson (with Rod Stewart’s best singing ever).
“Wall Street Shuffle” – 10cc
“Maple Leaf Rag” – Scott Joplin
“Tent” – Bonzo Dog Band
“Room to Move” – John Mayall
“White Bird” – It’s a Beautiful Day
“Edward the Mad Shirt Grinder” – Quicksilver Messenger Services (and Nikki Hopkins).
“Sally Go Round the Roses” – Pentangle
“Song Cycle” – Van Dyke Parks
“The Blimp” – Captain Beefheart
“Woe-is-a-me-bop” – Captain Beefheart
“Merry-Go-Round” – Wild Man Fischer
“Guys Are Not Proud” – The Anemic Boyfriend
“Christmas Rapping” – The Waitresses
That should be enough for a start.
“East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx
Being an Old Fart like RChuck, my list is similarly rooted in the '60s…here are six lovely tunes I’ve heard over the past two weeks in my local butcher shop in Brooklyn, whilst waiting for the pork chops and chicken wings (my butchers favor Oldies stations):
DIRTY WATER by the Standells
MR. APOLLO by the Bonzo Dog Band
ALONG COMES MARY by the Association
POISON IVY by the Coasters
DID YOU EVER HAVE TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND? by the Lovin’ Spoonful
MILLION DOLLAR BASH, a Dylan “Basement Tapes” tune covered by Fairport Convention
My CD of Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery and Imagination had been put away for a long time but I pulled it out when I got a CD player in my truck last month. “Concept rock album” may seem jurassic these days but it’s stil and all time favorite especially Tell Tale Heart, The cask of Amontilado and The System (of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether). lately my morning commute finds me with the stereo cranked up rocking to that or rocking out to morning edition new on NPR.
“Just what you need to make you feel better…”
…tunes his radio to KFSL, the fossil, all dinosaur rock, all the time.
“Tonight”, original cast, West Side Story. That song just transports me to another dimension. “Love Shack” by the B-52s - how can you stay unhappy cruising down the highway with that song blasting out the window. “Der Commissar”, German group from the 80’s. “Red Red Wine”, UB40.
I liked Falco, he also did “Rock Me Amadeus” is that obscure or what? But Der Commissar was by, I think, After the Fall - After the Fire - something like that.
A song I think is called The Dutchman by Mason Williams, Deep River Blues by Doc. & Merle Watson, Go down ol’ Hanna by Lightning Hopkins, The whole Songs for Aging Children album by Dave Van Ronk.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
– **Hodding Carter **