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Posted on 8/8/23 at 9:20 pm to Hoyt
Deacon Blues
Posted on 8/8/23 at 11:00 pm to Hoyt
Posted on 8/8/23 at 11:01 pm to Hoyt
As an older Gen X when these type questions are posed, the answers are often bands/songs from lesser known artists, many I haven't heard of; however, I am glad to see most of the answers so far are legendary songs by legendary artists. Great job MB!
I googled this and the songs that came up top 10 repeatedly on almost every list are:
Respect - Aretha
What's Going On - Marvin
Stairway
Smells like Teen Spirit
Imagine
Like a Rolling Stone
Johnny B Goode
Satisfaction
It's all subjective, and I like all the songs above, but if I had one song to listen to forever on a deserted island, I'd go with "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.
I googled this and the songs that came up top 10 repeatedly on almost every list are:
Respect - Aretha
What's Going On - Marvin
Stairway
Smells like Teen Spirit
Imagine
Like a Rolling Stone
Johnny B Goode
Satisfaction
It's all subjective, and I like all the songs above, but if I had one song to listen to forever on a deserted island, I'd go with "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.
This post was edited on 8/8/23 at 11:03 pm
Posted on 8/9/23 at 6:43 am to Richard Grayson
quote:
The Weight - The Band
Right Place Wrong Time - Dr John
I can never pick a favorite song but those are excellent choices.
quote:
In Constant Sorrow - Soggy Bottom Boys
I'm partial to the Stanley Brothers version but both are excellent.
I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow - The Stanley Brothers
Posted on 8/9/23 at 7:10 am to sledgehammer
quote:
Free Bird
the guitars from about the 5 min mark on alone make this a solid contestant.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 7:35 am to MorbidTheClown
Stones Beast of Burden
Posted on 8/9/23 at 9:02 am to Kafka
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Stardust This song means absolutely nothing to me It must have meant a lot to a lot of people at one time, since in Hoagy's obits it was invariably cited as his greatest achievement.
This is one of the first songs I remember. My parents played it a lot - along with big band and jazz. I love that stuff as much as I do rock. It makes for unusual playlists.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 9:07 am to Bayouboogaloocrew
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Wish You Were Here has to be up there
Good one.
"Sympathy for the Devil" and "Gimme Shelter"- don't make me choose.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 9:08 am to Kafka
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Stardust
thought he was referring to Ziggy Stardust.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 9:34 am to MorbidTheClown
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thought he was referring to Ziggy Stardust. ?
I dig that one too.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 9:56 am to Kafka
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Stardust
This song means absolutely nothing to me
It must have meant a lot to a lot of people at one time
It was huge, I don't know how many hotels and other establishments had "Stardust" for their name in the 1960's, but there were a LOT. Weird trivia that I picked up from a recent read. The lyrics to Stardust were written by Mitchell Parish, who was the uncle of Steve Parish the leader of the roadies for the Dead. And it turned out that Jerry Garcia was a huge fan of the song and asked to meet the uncle. They were introduced and became friends. Mitchell Parish attended shows and became a fan of the Dead, 40+ years after writing the lyrics to Stardust.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 10:39 am to DeltaTigerDelta
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Stones- Loving Cup
what a one two punch from Exile, CUp and Happy
Posted on 8/9/23 at 12:46 pm to Vacherie
Best brooks and Dunn song.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 12:51 pm to mdomingue
Home free did a cover and it went viral on YouTube.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 12:57 pm to Hoyt
Foreplay/Long Time - Boston
Posted on 8/9/23 at 1:08 pm to Legba007
Just a masterpiece of an album.
Could be the GOAT
Could be the GOAT
This post was edited on 8/9/23 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 8/9/23 at 3:44 pm to Hoyt
By the terms of the question, it’s a personal opinion free of all restrictions regarding genre, versions, artist, epochs and so forth.
So, personally speaking and self limiting my choice to the Sixties. It is without doubt Mason Williams’ Classical Gas.
So, personally speaking and self limiting my choice to the Sixties. It is without doubt Mason Williams’ Classical Gas.
Posted on 8/9/23 at 7:48 pm to VaeVictus
quote:Excellent choice.
American trilogy - Elvis Presley
Without mentioning names to protect the guilty-when Mrs M was pursuing her PhD, achieving high honors and voted by her peers to honcho various associations and various cross University conferences, I, as her faithful consort, shared various and sundry social occasions with her and her peers and minions.
On one such occasion, a colleague of the divine Mrs M from the Emerald Isle, took umbrage that I was not as an enthusiastic fan of The King as he demanded I be.
This demand came to a head in a pub off Chimes where an official conference steering committee “meeting”, as one might justifiably call it, was taking place having finally “lit” sparrow like after migrating from all the previous pubs where such august and intellectually rigorous business had been discussed and decided.(I should qualify and disclaim here that Mrs M does not and has not ever drank adult beverages)
“What the fook, you don’t like Elvis! You’re a fooking-a FOOKING American!”
“I didn’t say I didn’t like…”
“A FOOKING AMERICAN!! The FOOKING King!”
“Well, since you put it that way, but I hold Van Morrison in just as high regard as I do Elvis.”
“FOOKING A you do! Into The Mystic…you play it on the Wurlitzer (?
) all the FOOKING time-it’s that and that alone which made me aware you might be a man of good will and sufficiently sophisticated musically to perceive my thoughts on the incontrovertible greatness of Elvis. I’ll say no more on this matter having come to some slight meeting of the minds on, on, on the matter.”
“Okay, good deal, I…”
“FOOKING American Trilogy !!! Need we say more?!?! American FookingTrilogy! I’ll say no more. Period! You agree! And I will gladly hoist myself and am putting it on the Wurlitzer!
Give me coins and dollars and go get the table more pitchers. I’ll prepare us for the grand event with other lesser songs leading up to The King’s opus…!
And I did and he did. I came back with pitchers to a table full of individuals who had sat mostly silent throughout our “conversation”. He returned, filled his plastic cup, lit a cigarette, placidly enjoyed the two songs preempting Elvis’s opus magnum. Proud Mary , Ike and Tina Turner’s version, and CCR’s Born On The Bayou .
Finally 2001:A Space Odyssey, visions like sugarplums of a sweating obese jumpsuited King,
Tupelo’s own… “Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton.
Ole times there are not forgotten…”
“That’s the fooking KING!!! Listen to that! Fooking American to his heart and balls-grand, glorious-listen to that!”
Standing up, simultaneously stumbling-my friend has unleashed his vintage Zippo on a handful of napkins he’s waving in a Statue Of Liberty pose-that are lit, burning like the sun, and raining down incendiary debris everywhere. It is threatening Dresden on all below
Over come the bouncer to me. “Get him under control or I’m gonna throw all of y’all out. You got him wound up, you calm him down or I will!”
Good times. Forever etched in my mind and heart.
The King- American Trilogy
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