5 from 1966
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5 from 1966
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7 and 7 Is - Love
Reach Out (I'll Be There) - The Four Tops
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
River Deep Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner
Happenings Ten Years Time Ago - The Yardbirds
7 and 7 Is - Love
Reach Out (I'll Be There) - The Four Tops
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
River Deep Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner
Happenings Ten Years Time Ago - The Yardbirds
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Tough - but I'll be true to my school and vote BB
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Beach Boys ....just, from the 4 Tops, my fave Motown track.
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slightbreeze wrote:the 4 Tops, my fave Motown track.
Such a joyous track. Overplayed but never overstays its welcome.
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All wonderful of course, but 7 and 7 is will always be so dear to me. Even though it shares so much with other garage records of the era, there's a kind of fevered lunacy to it which is utterly unique. And I never tire of hearing it.
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I also went for the Love track, and for similar reasons. But the first three there are all thrilling.
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The Modernist wrote:All wonderful of course, but 7 and 7 is will always be so dear to me. Even though it shares so much with other garage records of the era, there's a kind of fevered lunacy to it which is utterly unique. And I never tire of hearing it.
Amazing, isn't it! Savage's 1966 book inspired this thread, such a great read.
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All 5 are among the best songs ever, but it's the Yardbirds for me and I didn't even have to think twice.
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WG Kaspar wrote:the Yardbirds for me and I didn't even have to think twice.
The freshest and most unique sounding of the 5.
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Pansy Puff wrote:I'm the first person to vote for Tina? You're all crazy.
Glad that someone voted for it. Didn't she wear a wig?
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Pansy Puff wrote:I'm the first person to vote for Tina? You're all crazy.
I'm the second, if that counts for anything.
All of them are immense, of course.
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Perpendicular wrote:The Modernist wrote:All wonderful of course, but 7 and 7 is will always be so dear to me. Even though it shares so much with other garage records of the era, there's a kind of fevered lunacy to it which is utterly unique. And I never tire of hearing it.
Amazing, isn't it! Savage's 1966 book inspired this thread, such a great read.
It is. It also introduced me to "Walkin' My Cat named Dog".
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The Modernist wrote:
It is. It also introduced me to "Walkin' My Cat named Dog".
Coincidentally, Zilth Pilchards mentioned that one this afternoon. He's taken in a stray cat and just calls it "cat". I think it's time for a little youtubin'.
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I think The Yardbirds track is huge - an absolutely blistering attack. I kind of think it ushered in psychedelia....
But, for sheer invention...it has to be "Good Vibrations". I can't begin to imagine how that sounded to teenage ears back in 66.
The others are all only mildly brilliant.....
But, for sheer invention...it has to be "Good Vibrations". I can't begin to imagine how that sounded to teenage ears back in 66.
The others are all only mildly brilliant.....
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well, that's a surprise result. looks like old baldy bollocks actually got some BCB backing for a change.
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Beach Boys. Would’ve been the Yardbirds before Beck left. Love were — while often great — were too inconsistent for me (or are we supposed to be voting on the record you linked, which is one of my faves?). And I’d go for Tempts, Stevie, maybe even Marvin before the Tops. Except I Can’t Help Myself, which is certainly among my top 5 Motown records ever.
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Muskrat wrote:Would’ve been the Yardbirds before Beck left.
Beck is on "Happenings..." (with Page). Pretty sure that's even him doing the talking in the middle.
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Charlie O. wrote:Muskrat wrote:Would’ve been the Yardbirds before Beck left.
Beck is on "Happenings..." (with Page). Pretty sure that's even him doing the talking in the middle.
OK. "before Page joined..."
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WG Kaspar wrote:All 5 are among the best songs ever, but it's the Yardbirds for me and I didn't even have to think twice.
My second choice. Great song.
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