Can a concentration of flower power hits breathe new life into those songs

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Can a concentration of flower power hits breathe new life into those songs

Postby GoogaMooga » 17 Nov 2018, 08:37

I bought "Flower Power Generation", a 20 track comp from Masters of Music, 2006. 19 of the 20 tracks I've got already, most of them many times over. So why buy this one, just for Andy Kim? It's an experiment: they are well-worn, played to death, but I am testing whether they will sound "fresher" when played back to back. If nothing else, they provide a good backdrop to whatever banal activity I may be engaged in. How about you? Do you like such a concentration of the familiar? Or do you find such a comp totally redundant?

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1. Aint No Sunshine Bill Withers
2. American Pie Don Mclean
3. Theme From Shaft Isaac Hayes
4. In The Summertime Mungo Jerry
5. Light My Fire Jose Feliciano
6. Rose Garden Lynn Anderson
7. Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay Otis Redding
8. Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head B.J. Thomas
9. A Whiter Shade Of Pale Procol Harum
10. It Never Rains In Southern California Albert Hammond
11. A Horse With No Name America
12. Soul Man Sam & Dave
13. California Dreaming The Mamas & The Papas
14. Going Up The Country Canned Heat
15. Keep On Running Spencer Davis Group
16. Black Magic Woman Santana
17. Moondance Van Morrison
18. Top Of The World Carpenters
19. Move On Up Curtis Mayfield
20. Be My Baby Andy Kim
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Re: Can a concentration of flower power hits breathe new life into those songs

Postby robertff » 17 Nov 2018, 12:49

Not many actual 'Flower Power' hits here are there?


Not a very good FP comp. at all.



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Re: Can a concentration of flower power hits breathe new life into those songs

Postby Lord Rother » 17 Nov 2018, 13:06

Flower Power?

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Re: Can a concentration of flower power hits breathe new life into those songs

Postby GoogaMooga » 17 Nov 2018, 13:21

OoogieBoogie wrote:Oooohh fresh 'n' fun! Boogie!


Nice avatar there. ;) You really are obsessed with me. Do you dream about me, too?
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Re: Can a concentration of flower power hits breathe new life into those songs

Postby GoogaMooga » 17 Nov 2018, 13:24

robertff wrote:Not many actual 'Flower Power' hits here are there?


Not a very good FP comp. at all.



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Easier to write than "Late Sixties/Early Seventies Across The Board Pick of the Crop", isn't it?
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Re: Can a concentration of flower power hits breathe new life into those songs

Postby Rayge » 17 Nov 2018, 14:01

GoogaMooga wrote:Easier to write than "Late Sixties/Early Seventies Across The Board Pick of the Crop", isn't it?


And a lot more marketable than 'A random collection of shit that's out of copyright or that we happen to have a license for that will soon expire and we can't fit it anywhere else' as well
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Re: Can a concentration of flower power hits breathe new life into those songs

Postby GoogaMooga » 17 Nov 2018, 14:29

Rayge wrote:
GoogaMooga wrote:Easier to write than "Late Sixties/Early Seventies Across The Board Pick of the Crop", isn't it?


And a lot more marketable than 'A random collection of shit that's out of copyright or that we happen to have a license for that will soon expire and we can't fit it anywhere else' as well


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