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Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:35 pm

Yes, MM, I added Tommy to the list, along with a couple of others I knew I'd missed.

I missed "With A Little Help From My Friends" - I thought it was released the previous year. It's a fabulous record, Jimmy Page's ridiculously ill-placed guitar solo in By Bye Blackbird notwithstanding (not that there's anything wrong with the solo - it's just on the wrong record). What else from 1969 have I left out?

For my sins (I left Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere out of the list because I am a bad person with character flaws - I know I should like Neil Young but no matter how I try, I just can't bring myself to do it), here's "Cowgirls In The Sand" from that album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fAXl97-RFg

I'm listening to it, now - it sounds like a 1966 garage band tuning up - but I'm giving it a go.

Post by **stui magpie** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:47 pm

few good tunes in 1969

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard ... es_of_1969

Elvis "in the Ghetto" is one.

Mountains Magpie · Post by **Mountains Magpie** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:59 pm

P4S, as you are with Neil Young, I am the same with Crimson's debut. I know I'm supposed to like it but I just can't listen to it. Give me Red any day. Indeed, give me Bruford doing anything any day

I have been playing Judy Blue Eyes for well over 20 years. Bags of fun to play on the guitar but I'm certainly no Stephen Stills. That said, who is? The guy's a god AFAIC.

Badfinger debuted in '69 - well worth digging around their catalogue. Wickedly under-rated group IMHO.

Whole Lotta Love must be heard in headphones - everyone should do this at least once in their life. What Is And What Should Never Be is also a fave of mine.

Of course also in '69 there's a little ditty called Space Oddity.........

MM

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 6:24 pm

Thanks for the list, Stui. That's helped me identify a couple more albums that should have been in my top 250,000. Blood, Sweat and Tears (Spinning Wheel, And When I Die, You've Made Me So Very Happy and God Bless the Child all feature) is one. Black and White by Tony Joe White (Polk Salad Annie) is another. My Cherie Amour by Little Stevie is another.

Interestingly, quite a few of the truly great songs in that list are either strictly singles (Elvis' From Memphis, eg, had a couple of good songs but broke no new ground and contained little of interest other than for established Elvis fans) or were actually from 1967 or '68 and just took time to take off.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 6:48 pm

Mountains Magpie wrote:P4S, as you are with Neil Young, I am the same with Crimson's debut. I know I'm supposed to like it but I just can't listen to it. Give me Red any day. Indeed, give me Bruford doing anything any day

I have been playing Judy Blue Eyes for well over 20 years. Bags of fun to play on the guitar but I'm certainly no Stephen Stills. That said, who is? The guy's a god AFAIC.

Badfinger debuted in '69 - well worth digging around their catalogue. Wickedly under-rated group IMHO.

Whole Lotta Love must be heard in headphones - everyone should do this at least once in their life. What Is And What Should Never Be is also a fave of mine.

Of course also in '69 there's a little ditty called Space Oddity.........

MM

Space Oddity is just the album originally called David Bowie renamed, isn't it?

Have you got a vid of you playing SJBE? It's a great song and I'd love to see it.

Neil Young is almost unique for me - only he and Nich Cave annoy me so much that I actually want to break their CDs. That said, unlike Cave, NY did do some things I genuinely love (Woodstock and Ohio, for example) - but his solo stuff confuses me because I really, really wish I could appreciate it; lots of people who have impeccable taste (like you) admire it and, because I'm broadly interested in almost all kinds of music, the effect it has on me is puzzling.

Crimson's first album causes anxiety in a lot of people, I know - but I can't begin to imagine the years since without it. Unfortunately, we can't even put up links for people who haven't heard it to form a view, because Fripp has done such a good job of keeping the original Crimson albums off YouTube.

Otherwise, I'd put up Starless, Great Deceiver, Easy Money, Book of Saturdays, Lament, Exiles and Fracture - I expect we agree on almost all of those. I'm proud to say that my son (who came to King Crimson without prompting from me - and, like you, loves Red) has just recorded a cover of Easy Money on his latest EP and is going to perform 21st Cenyury Schizoid Man, Yes' Yours Is No Disgrace and Soft Machine's Hazard Profile, amongst other things, for his graduation recital. I wish there had been guitarists around who could play those things when I was a young man.

Do you not even like I Talk To The Wind?

Post by **think positive** » Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:49 pm

Oh

My

Bucking

God!

I'm impressed. No really. Mega impressed! Gob smacked! My eyeballs popped out, I had to push them back in manually! Unfrickenbelievable! Well done!

After a quick scan, I have none of them! I have some albums by done artists but not those ones! Unreal! Do you have a special room to store them all?? The mind boggles. That's just 1 year!

Mountains Magpie · Post by **Mountains Magpie** » Mon Sep 11, 2017 11:10 am

P4S,

Yes the 1969 eponymous Bowie album opens with Space Oddity.

I Talk To The Wind is nice but just doesn't rock my world I'm afraid.

As we know, Fripp provided the guitar on Heroes. I'm certain Blur's Graham Coxon must've channelled Fripp for his solo on This Is A Low. I was quite surprised how many good songs Blur actually had, once you get past the whole britpop thing.

BTW, one album I missed was "In Concerto For Group & Orchestra". Full show here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufm4NHTXVSg

Gillan's finest hour was the following year IMHO. When we start on 1970 I'll discuss further and no, it's not Speed King

There's very little video of yours truly. I went through my archives and didn't even have an audio recording of Judy Blue Eyes. I recorded a version at 10.15 this morning, live without a net (or whiskey hehehe) and just using the iphone. The vocal is low and there's a wee guitar fluff up at 4.47 but a sweet thing happened. Right at the end you can hear the grandmother clock in my office chime for 10.15

Recording is here: https://ufile.io/xjqf0

TP,

Don't encourage us, the lists for 1970, 1971 and 1972 are much longer and miles more impressive

MM

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:04 am

Thanks for sharing the upload of SJBE, MM. Great effort.

That deserves a Van Der Graaf Generator masterpiece. The "ranking" of the full album in the top 250,000 of the year has to wait until we start talking about 1971 - but here's A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers. You will know it - but there'll be plenty of Nicksters who have never heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycgdj74oNwc

"The sea will drag me deep ...."

watt price tully · Post by **watt price tully** » Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:29 pm

Sunday Morning & Afternoon PBS radio 106.7 FM:

Blue Juice presented by Mohair Slim, 11am -1pm

The Juke Joint presented by Matt, 1pm - 3pm

Just finished: Johh Lee Hooker
Now starting: Ball & Chain by "Big Mama" Thornton (popularised by a brilliant version by Janice Joplin)

Mountains Magpie · Post by **Mountains Magpie** » Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:21 am

watt price tully wrote:Sunday Morning & Afternoon PBS radio 106.7 FM:

Blue Juice presented by Mohair Slim, 11am -1pm

The Juke Joint presented by Matt, 1pm - 3pm

Just finished: Johh Lee Hooker
Now starting: Ball & Chain by "Big Mama" Thornton (popularised by a brilliant version by Janis Joplin)

Watched Janis's performance at Monterey yesterday. Moma Cass's face says it all. Which is a good thing as there are no superlatives in any language.

Post by **think positive** » Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:05 pm

On the way home from a day on the green with Elton John! Bloody fabulous! Spent the afternoon with my oldest friend in macclesfield drinking baileys and eating caramello, then to the winery for pizza $35 bottle of yuk wine give me $7 Banrock any day and cheese and bikkies by hubby, and the master! Oh my god yes sooo good, driving home and they are paying an Elton marathon!

Hope everyone's day was this good, and god let me sleep til noon tomorrow! With the GF it's all too much! Cheers

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sun Oct 15, 2017 11:58 am

Since it's Spring, it must be time for some magical Donovan:

The masterpiece "Three Kingfishers" (from 1965's Sunshine Superman) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ThKDqLwmeo

And here's a real gem - a live 1966 TV performance of "Three Kingfishers", with Pete Seeger watching on in awe, performed just as a duo with Don and Shawn Phillips playing his sitar cross-legged on Pete's table (as you do) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX9gaPZdwLA

His beautiful setting of Yeats' "The Song of Wandering Aengus" (from HMS Donovan) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQUT6mS0eY8

Isle of Islay (from A Gift From a Flower to a Garden, although the image used in this link is the cover of his "Live from the Anaheim Convention Centre") -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJmQFhDk_x8

"Sunshine Superman" (this is a bonus track on Sunshine Superman) - the longer stereo version containing Jimmy Page's complete solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTuPbJLqFKI

"Hurdy Gurdy Man" (from Hurdy Gurdy Man) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpcye9GhCRc

"Pebble and the Man/Happiness Runs" (from Barabajagal) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cGWTAe3M6U

"Barabajagal" (from Barabajagal) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1SB247iNrc - Don with Jeff Beck, the one and only Nicky Hopkins and Madeleine Bell. Love is Hot, Truth is Molten!!!

And - did G7 and C7 ever sound this good? - "Season of the Witch (also from Sunshine Superman) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAzTnsSgs2s

"Riki Tiki Tavi" (from Open Road) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY7Rxae4pjU

"Jersey Thursday" (from Fairytale) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kddJLYnDzoA

"Celia of the Seals" (from HMS Donovan) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UajRWV7hjus

"Sunny South Kensington" (from Mellow Yellow) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcIt9mhXuPA

"Lullaby of Spring" (from A Gift From a Flower to a Garden) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWMg20rP7OE

"Sunny Goodge Street" (from Fairytale) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luxtMLNPZtk

"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (from A Gift From a Flower to a Garden) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bmruh9tKxM

watt price tully · Post by **watt price tully** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 4:15 pm

The Magpie Salute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdCAGlj ... j_jR0&t=50

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sun Nov 26, 2017 11:35 am

East Germany's greatest blues voice of all time, the magnificent "Howling" Joachim Kauledat:

- with his cover of "Walking Blues" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrsWx0hhLtw

- a wonderful version of "Forty Days and Forty Nights" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK8SbBF ... 3&index=47

- a breathtaking version of "Hoochie Coochie Man" (kudos for understanding that you can't play harmonica on a cover of a number that Little Walter made his own, no matter how good you are) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6m5xTR ... 3&index=12

If you are lucky enough to own that magical album, you can let it run straight on into track 5, side 1 - but I'm not going to do that (this time).

- "Screaming Night Hog", as we saw it on Australian TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6aL19rympg

- one of his old Sparrow songs, "Power Play", revamped for 1969's Monster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgHc-VOPlOE

- a beautiful live solo performance of "My Sportin' Life" with John and his dobro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHSu3nCeyo

- And, lastly, one of my personal favourites - "Two of a Kind" from Forgotten Songs and Unsung Heroes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDLT-LJLn4

A master craftsman at work.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sun Nov 26, 2017 11:58 am

Slayer's amusing, slight rewrite of Joachim's 1968 classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5zxUT-bVeg

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