I don't think there is one definitive James Brown song. I'll Go Crazy, Cold Sweat, I Can't Stand Myself, It's A Mans World - They are all definitive of different periods and times in the life or James Brown. A top 200 list ought to have room for all. James Brown and the Famous Flames I'll Go Crazy James Brown and the Flames Cold Sweat James Brown and the Dapps I Can't Stand Myself James Brown and some strings It's A Mans World
Does that count as 4 different artists? (I don't really know how these were listed or who is backing him, but yall can correct me anyway.)
That's an interesting way at looking at it. I'll have to think about my stance on it.
I don't think there is one definitive James Brown song. I'll Go Crazy, Cold Sweat, I Can't Stand Myself, It's A Mans World - They are all definitive of different periods and times in the life or James Brown. A top 200 list ought to have room for all. James Brown and the Famous Flames I'll Go Crazy James Brown and the Flames Cold Sweat James Brown and the Dapps I Can't Stand Myself James Brown and some strings It's A Mans World
Does that count as 4 different artists? (I don't really know how these were listed or who is backing him, but yall can correct me anyway.)
That's an interesting way at looking at it. I'll have to think about my stance on it.
- spidey
For the Beatles I think we should have: Pre Rubber Soul Rubber Soul and Revolver period Sgt Peps and Magical Myst period White LP (including Lady Madonna and the 45 version of Revolution) Post White LP
if there has to only be one James Carr song on this list this is the one I'd vote for
Dark End Of The Street - Great song, great version ... but...
You've Got My Mind Messed Up could, can, only be sung by James Carr, it is his story. My vote goes with You've Got My Mind Messed Up.
Archie Campbell, Percy Sledge, Joe Tex, Lee Hazelwood, Flying Bur Bros and Dolly Parton all recorded DEOTS in the 60s (according to allmusic). Maybe one of their versions. Except I vote for:
I don't think there is one definitive James Brown song. I'll Go Crazy, Cold Sweat, I Can't Stand Myself, It's A Mans World - They are all definitive of different periods and times in the life or James Brown. A top 200 list ought to have room for all. James Brown and the Famous Flames I'll Go Crazy James Brown and the Flames Cold Sweat James Brown and the Dapps I Can't Stand Myself James Brown and some strings It's A Mans World
Does that count as 4 different artists? (I don't really know how these were listed or who is backing him, but yall can correct me anyway.)
That's an interesting way at looking at it. I'll have to think about my stance on it.
- spidey
Okay, if It's an artist performing with different groups I'll allow them to appear multiple times.
I really don't want to get into different Era's of an artist. However, go ahead and add your favorite songs, and I'll add them into the Tally.
Can I get an Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is[/b]?
That should be close to the top of anyone's[/b] list.
By rights, I should be as tired of this as I am of "...Grapevine" (Marvin Gaye's version), but instead it just sounds better and better as I get older. If you've ever wanted to tell some trifling girlfriend (or boyfriend!) to shit or get off the pot, those lyrics are saying everything you're thinking.
Besides, when's the last time you've heard someone say that "my time is expensive?"
really? coulda sworn it was '60...oh well, that make the song that much more amazing...that dude had some futuristic shit going on with that huge neandrathal rhythm....
i think y'all need some jukebox instrumentals ... like jimmy mcgriff's "the worm" the booker t and the mg's "hip hug her" or the dapps "bringing up the guitar" ...
I don't see the point of this really, but I'm bored, so..
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Nick Drake - River Man
The Impressions - Mighty Mighty
Tim Buckley - Buzzin' Fly
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
The Left Bank - My Friend Today
Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tracks of My Tears
Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
The Velvet Underground - Heroin
The Jackson 5: I Want You Back
Dusty Springfield: Son of a Preacher Man
Irma Thomas: Time Is on My Side"
Most of these are pretty obvious, but they're classics for a reason. As is most of the pitchfork list. I would like to know what you have to go up against the 76% that you didn't agree with, from their top 200?
also I don't get why you can't have more than one track per artist? Maybe set a limit, but why only one?
I'd suggest allowing multiple entries per artist. There's no real rationale not to, from what I can see. If we even manage to get this list to 200 (kind of slow going right now), we can always debate the merits of cutting someone's third or fourth entries off it. I'm not about to nominate 10 songs by a single artist but it'd be nice to include, you know, three Beatles tunes or a handful of James Brown songs or Coltrane tracks or...you get the pic.
A few off the top:
Association: Never My Love Brenton Wood: Gimme a Little Sign Al Green: Back Up Train John Coltrane: Alabama Cream: Sunshine of Your Love
I don't exactly understand the terms and conditions but here are my nominees:
Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon
Frank Zappa, Peaches en Regalia
Marlena Shaw, California Soul
Tony Basil, I'm 28
Patsy Cline, Crazy
not really in My top 200 but I'm sure they make the grade for others:
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and Peppermints
Righteous Brothers, You've Lost that loving feeling
and then here are some Artists that could be included, need suggestions for specific songs though:
The Who Roy Orbison Love Ike and Tina Cream Johnny Cash Ohio Players Bob Marley and/Or Peter Tosh??
I don't want to be an ashole, but 1 vote against: Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon Or any other Neil Diamond song I've ever heard.
I like Crimson and Clover, I think there might be 200 better songs. Tommy James is real cool to me. He morphed styles over and over and his songs were always the best top 40 versions of whatever he was doing.
Since we've started I've been thinking about Johnny Cash, but I have not decided what his one best 60s song is. Maybe the spoken intro to Live At some prison where he tells them not to say words like ****
I don't exactly understand the terms and conditions but here are my nominees:
Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon
Frank Zappa, Peaches en Regalia
Marlena Shaw, California Soul
Tony Basil, I'm 28
Patsy Cline, Crazy
not really in My top 200 but I'm sure they make the grade for others:
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and Peppermints
Righteous Brothers, You've Lost that loving feeling
and then here are some Artists that could be included, need suggestions for specific songs though:
The Who Roy Orbison Love Ike and Tina Cream Johnny Cash Ohio Players Bob Marley and/Or Peter Tosh??
I don't want to be an ashole, but 1 vote against: Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon Or any other Neil Diamond song I've ever heard.
I like Crimson and Clover, I think there might be 200 better songs. Tommy James is real cool to me. He morphed styles over and over and his songs were always the best top versions of whatever he was doing.
I'll nominate No Woman No Cry for Bob Marley
Since we've started I've been thinking about Johnny Cash, but I have not decided what his one best 60s song is. Maybe the spoken intro to Live At some prison where he tells them not to say words like ****
One more: Barbara George I Know
Its cool you dont like Neil Diamond, But No Woman No Cry is by far my most hated Bob Marley song ever next to Stir it Up. I think anything off of legend should be automatically void from this list.
Rainbow Country, Chances Are, Simmer Down, Bend Down Low, Soul Shakedown, Mellow Mood...The list goes on and on. I am definitely more partial to his earlier work and his discography is so large picking one would be impossible but No Woman No Cry doesnt even come close to making the grade.
I don't exactly understand the terms and conditions but here are my nominees:
Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon
Frank Zappa, Peaches en Regalia
Marlena Shaw, California Soul
Tony Basil, I'm 28
Patsy Cline, Crazy
not really in My top 200 but I'm sure they make the grade for others:
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and Peppermints
Righteous Brothers, You've Lost that loving feeling
and then here are some Artists that could be included, need suggestions for specific songs though:
The Who Roy Orbison Love Ike and Tina Cream Johnny Cash Ohio Players Bob Marley and/Or Peter Tosh??
I don't want to be an ashole, but 1 vote against: Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon Or any other Neil Diamond song I've ever heard.
I like Crimson and Clover, I think there might be 200 better songs. Tommy James is real cool to me. He morphed styles over and over and his songs were always the best top versions of whatever he was doing.
I'll nominate No Woman No Cry for Bob Marley
Since we've started I've been thinking about Johnny Cash, but I have not decided what his one best 60s song is. Maybe the spoken intro to Live At some prison where he tells them not to say words like ****
One more: Barbara George I Know
Its cool you dont like Neil Diamond, But No Woman No Cry is by far my most hated Bob Marley song ever next to Stir it Up. I think anything off of legend should be automatically void from this list.
Rainbow Country, Chances Are, Simmer Down, Bend Down Low, Soul Shakedown, Mellow Mood...The list goes on and on. I am definitely more partial to his earlier work and his discography is so large picking one would be impossible but No Woman No Cry doesnt even come close to making the grade.
Any Marley songs fine with me, I don't have a least favorite.
velvet underground - waiting for the man barbara lewis - hello stranger the shirelles - baby its you stevie wonder - hey love lee dorsey - get out my life woman brenton wood - gimme little sign
i canat do one per artist with so many people, so im not even gonna name one
Desires - Let it please be you Rosie & the Originals - Angel Baby Hank Ballard & the Midnighters - Town I Live in Billy Stewart - Sitting in the Park Paul Ortiz & Orquesta Son - Tender Love
Etta James - At Last Jorge Ben - Mas Que Nada James Brown - Give it up or turnit a loose Electric Prunes - Holy are you El Gran Combo - La Muerte Beatles - I want you (she's so heavy) Focus 3 - 10,000 years behind my mind
No Woman No Cry is by far my most hated Bob Marley song ever next to Stir it Up. I think anything off of legend should be automatically void from this list.
Anything off of Legend is from the '70s and '80s, so it would be void from this list anyway.
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That's an interesting way at looking at it. I'll have to think about my stance on it.
- spidey
For the Beatles I think we should have:
Pre Rubber Soul
Rubber Soul and Revolver period
Sgt Peps and Magical Myst period
White LP (including Lady Madonna and the 45 version of Revolution)
Post White LP
I vote for Wrap It Up. I'm not opposed to 2 Sam & Dave songs.
Ever notice the bass player plays the Batman Theme during the bridge.
if there has to only be one James Carr song on this list this is the one I'd vote for
also heres a few more I think being on the list
Eddie Bo "from this Day On"
Barbara Mason "Yes I'm ready"
Tommy James "Crimson & Clover"
Meters "Cissy Strut"
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell "You're All I Need To Get By"
Stevie Wonder "Place in the Sun"
Nancy Sinatra "Bang Bang"
Ben E. King "Stand By Me"
Dark End Of The Street - Great song, great version ... but...
You've Got My Mind Messed Up could, can, only be sung by James Carr, it is his story. My vote goes with You've Got My Mind Messed Up.
Archie Campbell, Percy Sledge, Joe Tex, Lee Hazelwood, Flying Bur Bros and Dolly Parton all recorded DEOTS in the 60s (according to allmusic). Maybe one of their versions. Except I vote for:
Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman
Okay, if It's an artist performing with different groups I'll allow them to appear multiple times.
I really don't want to get into different Era's of an artist. However, go ahead and add your favorite songs, and I'll add them into the Tally.
- spidey
ALSO, -1 vote from me for Crimson & Clover
can't stand that song.
- spidey
By rights, I should be as tired of this as I am of "...Grapevine" (Marvin Gaye's version), but instead it just sounds better and better as I get older. If you've ever wanted to tell some trifling girlfriend (or boyfriend!) to shit or get off the pot, those lyrics are saying everything you're thinking.
Besides, when's the last time you've heard someone say that "my time is expensive?"
1957
- spidey
really? coulda sworn it was '60...oh well, that make the song that much more amazing...that dude had some futuristic shit going on with that huge neandrathal rhythm....
like jimmy mcgriff's "the worm"
the booker t and the mg's "hip hug her"
or
the dapps "bringing up the guitar" ...
The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Nick Drake - River Man
The Impressions - Mighty Mighty
Tim Buckley - Buzzin' Fly
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
The Left Bank - My Friend Today
Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tracks of My Tears
Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
The Velvet Underground - Heroin
The Jackson 5: I Want You Back
Dusty Springfield: Son of a Preacher Man
Irma Thomas: Time Is on My Side"
Most of these are pretty obvious, but they're classics for a reason. As is most of the pitchfork list.
I would like to know what you have to go up against the 76% that you didn't agree with, from their top 200?
also I don't get why you can't have more than one track per artist? Maybe set a limit, but why only one?
Well, I could probably fill up this whole list myself, but that'd be no fun eh?
Well, It sounded like a good idea at the time. If it bothers so many people. Fine, changed.
- spidey
Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon
Frank Zappa, Peaches en Regalia
Marlena Shaw, California Soul
Tony Basil, I'm 28
Patsy Cline, Crazy
not really in My top 200 but I'm sure they make the grade for others:
Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and Peppermints
Righteous Brothers, You've Lost that loving feeling
and then here are some Artists that could be included, need suggestions for specific songs though:
The Who
Roy Orbison
Love
Ike and Tina
Cream
Johnny Cash
Ohio Players
Bob Marley and/Or Peter Tosh??
A few off the top:
Association: Never My Love
Brenton Wood: Gimme a Little Sign
Al Green: Back Up Train
John Coltrane: Alabama
Cream: Sunshine of Your Love
I don't want to be an ashole, but 1 vote against:
Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon
Or any other Neil Diamond song I've ever heard.
I like Crimson and Clover, I think there might be 200 better songs. Tommy James is real cool to me. He morphed styles over and over and his songs were always the best top 40 versions of whatever he was doing.
Since we've started I've been thinking about Johnny Cash, but I have not decided what his one best 60s song is. Maybe the spoken intro to Live At some prison where he tells them not to say words like ****
One more:
Barbara George I Know
- spidey
Its cool you dont like Neil Diamond, But No Woman No Cry is by far my most hated Bob Marley song ever next to Stir it Up. I think anything off of legend should be automatically void from this list.
Rainbow Country, Chances Are, Simmer Down, Bend Down Low, Soul Shakedown, Mellow Mood...The list goes on and on. I am definitely more partial to his earlier work and his discography is so large picking one would be impossible but No Woman No Cry doesnt even come close to making the grade.
Any Marley songs fine with me, I don't have a least favorite.
I still love neil in small doses.
I don't think No Woman No cry is even from the 60's though now that I think about it.
It's also from 1975, so completely irrelevant to the thread.
If I had to choose one Wailers song from the 60's, it would
have to be "It Hurts to Be Alone" - that song makes me weep.
Take It Easy - Hopeton Lewis
Broadway Jungle - The Flames
Guns of the Navarone - Skatalites
barbara lewis - hello stranger
the shirelles - baby its you
stevie wonder - hey love
lee dorsey - get out my life woman
brenton wood - gimme little sign
i canat do one per artist with so many people, so im not even gonna name one
Desires - Let it please be you
Rosie & the Originals - Angel Baby
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters - Town I Live in
Billy Stewart - Sitting in the Park
Paul Ortiz & Orquesta Son - Tender Love
Etta James - At Last
Jorge Ben - Mas Que Nada
James Brown - Give it up or turnit a loose
Electric Prunes - Holy are you
El Gran Combo - La Muerte
Beatles - I want you (she's so heavy)
Focus 3 - 10,000 years behind my mind
- spidey
Sure you don't mean Thee Midniters? (Totally different group from Hank Ballard's Midnighters, unless he did this song too?)
Anything off of Legend is from the '70s and '80s, so it would be void from this list anyway.