What are you 5 favorite classic rock songs?

Hi,
"You're no good" Linda Rondstadt
"Any old time" Maria Mulduar
"Pappa was a rolling stone" Smokey Robinson
"Subterrranean Homesick Blues" Bob Dylan
"Sweet Jane" The Velvet Underground

 

Hi,
a few more great tunes;
"The Wind" Laura Nyro
"Band of Gypsies" Rita Coolidge
"Me and Bobbie McGie" Kris Kristopherson
"Do Wah Diddy" Manfred Mann
"Sweet Jane" the Velvet Underground
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"Up In Her Room" The Seeds
"Try To Understand" The Seeds
"Rollin´ Machine" The Seeds
"Tripmaker" The Seeds
"Somebody To Love" Jefferson Airplane

at the moment (changes with weather, mood and circumstance)

 

Ah, brother...Hot Summer Day...IABD is PERMANENTLY on my car CD and the LP is permanently on my turntable...first time I did mescaline... Arizona 1969...Saw them a couple years later. They're doing gigs on the West Coast USA now. The whole album is an acidhead's delight, but you can't tell these young people anything, ya know.

"Who Do YOu Love" - haven't heard that version; the Quicksilver version is memorable. Saw them in 71 or so in NY...they did that...or so I remember.

Saw an MC5 special on a cable channel here a couple months back...filmed in London... had some guests, like Lenny of Motorhead, and so on. Good, but not great. Hmm, Wayne Kramer came up in a conversation Sat. Night. at dinner at a friend's house. She was in Detroit at that time...the White Panthers, John Sinclair, all that.

OK, off the top of my head:

"Sugar Magnolia" the GD.
"It's a Beautiful Day" the whole LP.
"Combination of the Two" Big Brother and the Holding Company...acid dance music.
"Plastic Fantastic Lover" Jefferson Airplane
Soundtrack to "Woodstock" the whole 3 LP set. OK, not a song, hey, it's cool.

Lots of others, depending. Those are what I'm listening to TODAY.

Namaste.

 

Hi,
"Grantchester Meadows" Pink Floyd; as a matter of fact that whole 1969 tripped out "Ummagumma" album. http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/PINK-FLOYD/Grantchester-Meadows.html
That whole tripped out 1st "Procul Harem" disc. "Salty Dog" I think it was?
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Hi;
Some more obscure goldies;
"Sharon" David Bromberg
"The Lady and the Unicorn" John Renbourne (proof that those medieval era
musicians could BOOGIE!)
"My Baby Done Left Me" The Fugs (hilarious!)
"Easy Street" Jerry Jeff Walker
"The Men of the West" The Clancy Brothers (these guys had a lot to do with the Celtic Music rebirth and remain Irish Republican Army favorites)
Tundrahopper4

 

Hmmm....

Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkle
The needle and the damage done - Neil Young
Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
San Fransiscan Nights - Eric Burdon and The Animals

 

Hello again;
"The Messiah Will Come Again" Roy Buchanan
http://www.yee.ch/~jwinter/rbuch_disco/Roy_Buchanan/Back1/roy_buchanan_back1.html
I saw Roy back in '79 and it was something better than fantastic. It is a fact that he was once asked to join the Rolling Stones. He told them no.
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1.Summertime-Big Brother And The Holding Co.-w/Janis Joplin 2.Today-Jefferson Airplane
3.Who Do You Love-Quicksilver Messenger Service 4.Dark Star-Grateful Dead 5.White Bird-It's A Beautiful Day------note---I have a large collection of classic rock; cuz I honestly believe that the music of the 60s was the alltime best decade of music-maybe because of so many different music styles and sounds-Sargent Pepper by the Beatles pretty much kicked off the sound of the 60s with it's fantastic new songs-That; and Dark Side Of The Moon were the two best albums of the decade in my opinion-For any of the younger folks; to hear and read the bios of these groups; go to Allmusic.com-they have every song ever recorded--to download free ;I use Limewire; but alot of these old great tunes take a little while to find-Buffalo Springfield were also pioneers of rock-great group-and the Birds-Procol Harum-Moby Grape-Vanilla Fudge-Electric Flag w/ Mike Bloomfield-John Mayall-Cream-Yardbirds-Traffic-and on an on-

 

That´s a nice pick, Helen! It got me to listen to Simon and Garfunkels "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme" again. I had forgotten just how good this was.

 

-Oyea!-good tunes by real good groups-heres some of my favorites by the same guys-Al Stewart-Year Of The Cat--Velvet Underground/w Lou Reed-Heroin-Stones-the album and song-2120 S. Michagan Ave.-Donovan-Season Of The Witch- and The Doors w/ Crystal Ship--sure seems like everybodys first albums are the best-

 

--Darkness Darkness is by Jessie Colin Young and The Youngbloods-also Get Together- w/ was actually written by Dino Valenti-lead singer for Quicksilver Messenger Service-

 

Specer Davis Group w/ Steve Winwood/I'm A Man-Santana-Jingo/Traffic/Dear Mr. Fantasy-Love/7 and 7 Is-Canned Heat-On The Road Again/Tom Rush/Driving Wheel/Joni Mitchell/ Woodstock-and Take It Easy by Jackson Browne-

 

---Tundra-are you sure Smokey Robinson did Pappa was a rolling stone?--The Temptations did it first as far as I know-I thought they wrote it-then Sly And The Family Stone-another great SF group-had a hit with it--also another good bay area band-The Doobie Bros.-South City Midnight Lady-great mello song-and The Chambers Bros. from Oakland with Time Has Come Today-(and my soal's been psycadelasized)--

 

I heard of those. I Could never say my 5 favorites that easily but here are some I like at the moment:

- White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
- Reason To Believe (Rod Stewart)
- The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfukel)
- New Years Day (U2)
- Something By ELO (I Cant Choose! ) How About Wild West Hero Or Shangri-La Or Roll Over Beethoven?

 

Rob,
I stand corrected-THE TEMPTATIONS did "Pappa was a rolling stone." Great tune. Some other R&B favorites of mine were Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Aretha Franklin of course, and I did like Curtis Mayfield even if he was kind of preachy. Thanks for the heads up on "Darkness Darkness" and I will be ordering it today (ain't Amazon great?). Any recommendations on who's rendition might be the best? I haven't heard that tune since I was driving home from Jr COllege during the day and it put the zap on me. And speaking of zaps-I just haven't found that same degree of inspiration in modern American Music these days as was there back during the 60s 70s. So... well I have been into foriegn music for a couple of decades now. "If it ain't Irish or Spanish I don't want to hear it," I tell people though that is not totally true-I also like some African, a lot of East European, West european traditional, Klezmir and Gypsy music. That same fire is out there but I have had to really hunt for it as it seems to have been rooted out of modern commercial music. Thank God for Amazon and thank God for KFAI here in my hometown! http://www.kfai.org/kfai2/audarch.htm
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Tundra-You sound like another music freak like me-Darkness Darkness is done by a few other people like Mott The Hoople-Golden Earring Eric Burdon-and others-The best version I think is the original by Jessie Collin Young-also on that album is Ridgetop-real good tune- sounds like you dig music as much as I always have-I play the sax'blues harp and silver flute;but now only as a hobby-not to keep food on the table-much better when you can play stress free-But; I am now a retired trucker-I went into trucking after the 60s died down and I grew up-wow-do we ever finish?lol--I have lots of free time to surf and download tunes-I spend alot of time on Wondir.com in the music question category; answering peoples questions on groups and songs-lyrics-etc-basically anything about any records ever made-It's a fun hobby and I learn alot by doing it-My source for info about any bands or musicians is found on Allmusic.com-This is a fantastic resourse for any music-they sell cd's but much more' they have a good section on bios of a groups albums and members-then and now-check it out-but'as far as buying anything; I go to Limewire.com and do free downloads-which is great as I don't have alot of money(never really have-lol) so it fits into my budget perfect!-free is a very good price-Smokey Robinson wrote and played one of my all time favorite spiritual type songs-People Get Ready-It's been done by alot of people but my choice is by The Chambers Bros. or by Rod Stewert and Jeff Beck-Sounds like your expanding your musical horizans with world type sounds-Great-I don't think we have here in Portland; any stations that play that big of variety of sounds-why?-it would be good to hear groups from all over the world--One of my all time favorite non Americans is Bob Marley-a genius w/ doobie!haha--no problem mon---Also-lets not forget the madman/genius; Brian Wilson and Good Vibrations-excellant!--"I don't know where but she takes me there"-simple and good-nothin fancy about his stuff-just feel good music-see ya Robspace2---ps-did I forget to mention the late great Otis Redding?-"Sittin here restin my bones; and this loneliness won't leave me alone"-see ya-Robspace2

 

Another good place to buy cds is Towerrecords.com-free shipping w/ 20$purchase-good deal-and they have everything ever recorded-or will order it free---

 

Rob,
"People get Ready" ? How did I ever forget that great tune?
No-I like music a lot but have no abilities in that regard and maybe I should count myself lucky. My friend "Jack" has had massive musical talent ever since I first met him banging on his guitar at a party in 1969. Well he made a pretty good living on the club circuit through the seventies but then had to get serious about bills, medical insurance and all, and ended up in a cubicle ticky tacking on computers. (Jack should count himself lucky-my joyriding days didn't last near that long!) He still plays but I KNOW he should have made it and he does too. It seems so unfair that so many mediocrites have made it and Jack sits in a cublicle...
I first got into World Music as a result of a backpacking trip to Europe in '73. I really don't know if something is going to put the zap on me intill I am there but I sure got zapped a few times in Italy and Greece. And I didn't have to understand the words to get the central passion! So I came back to the US and tended to pick stuff out of the foreign music bins on recommendations usually and sometimes just on instinct and came up with some pretty interesting stuff to play at parties ALONG with my offbeat underground albums. A reaction I got a lot was "it's way different but I like it!" Good is good no matter where it comes from.
Here's a link to the World Music site; http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/
Tundrahopper4
PS. We are catching Lila Downs in a couple of weeks-just a small venue much like that one we caught Roy Buchanan at so long ago. Good is good....

 

Rob,
Just got off Amazon and found a rendition of "Darkness Darkness" on a "greatest hits" CD. Should be along in a coupla days. Then I have been an R Crumb fan since aged 17 and recently found to my delight that I like his music a lot. R does not like ANY modern music and has these antiquarian tastes but these updated old tunes are really quite good. Folksy though-of the folksies of the 60s 70s John Prine, Judy Collins, and Leo Kotke come to mind ("Pamela Brown" by Leo Kotke...great stuff!) Richard Thompson is doing some epic ballads in this day and age.
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