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A list just for the hell of it
Have to be singles and not album tracks
No particular order
Shaft Isaac Hayes (pure sex. Awesome)
Wouldnt it be nice Beach boys (harmonies that a breathtaking. Overused word genius applies)
Back to black Amy (still sends a shiver)
Eleanor Rigby Beatles (“the day that pop music grew up”)
Someone like you Adele (just piano and voice. As moving as a track can be)
another star Stevie (the full version is the best but its stuns every time)
Tumbling Dice Stones (at their languid best)
natural woman Aretha (that voice..)
penny lane/strawberry fields Beatles (they created more in a month than most do in a whole career)
I want you marvin gaye. (the sweetest voice. The pure passion)
Looking back at this list i notice that many of these stunning pieces defy convention.
A random, alphabetical 10 from the supersonic seventies!
Abba – The Name Of The Game
The Carpenters – Superstar
Lynsey De Paul – Sugar Me
Detroit Spinners – Ghetto Child
Dr Hook & The Medicine Show – Sylvia’s Mother
Noosha Fox – Georgina Bailey
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds – Daisy Mae
Albert Hammond – The Free Electric Band
The Rubettes – Sugar Baby Love
Smokie – I’ll Meet You At Midnight
Another walk down memory lane
Perfect Day – Lou Reid
Once In A Lifetime – Talking Heads
Love Shack – The B 52s
This Charming Man – The Smiths
The Passenger – Iggy Pop
Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll – Ian Dury
The Man With The Child In His Eyes – Kate Bush
The Dark Of The Matinee – Franz Ferdinand
Venus In Furs – The Velvet Underground
Fight For Your Right (To Party) – The Beastie Boys
That was a nice idea to suggest this Clive. I found it hard to pick
just 10 out of my favourites, I’ve got another 50 sitting on the subs bench. Cheers
Timeform Top 10 rated:
Tight Fit – Fantasy Island
Dean Friedman – Lydia
Wee Pappa Girl Rappers – We Rule
Paul Young – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Russ Abbott – Atmosphere
The Colonel (RIP) – Trapped
View From The Hill – No Conversation
Lick The Tins – Can’t Help Falling in Love
Phil Fearon – Everybody’s Laughing
Kid Creole & Coconuts – Annie I’m Not Your Daddy (12″ version)In no particular order, ten that I will assume are singles cos I can’t be bothered to check due to cricket related drunkenness.
Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run
Queen- Hammer to Fall
David Bowie- Heroes
Beastie Boys- Sabotage
The Beatles- Come Together
Joy Division- Atmosphere
Jay-Z- 99 Problems
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication
Muse- Plug In Baby
Don McClean- American PieHere are mine – if you asked me tomorrow the list would probably be different!
All Along The Watchtower – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Shotgun – Jr. Walker & The All Stars
Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
Black Magic Woman – Santana
All Right Now – Free
It’s All Over Now – The Rolling Stones
You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC
Green Onions – Booker T and The M.G.’s
Dancing In The Moonlight – Thin Lizzy
Keys To Your Heart – The 101ers
Here are the records that I love to listen to and send a shiver down my spine….
My Top 10 is a bit more girlie than the above
1. Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
2. To The Moon & Back – Savage Garden
3. Baby Jane – Rod Stewart (Karaoke favourite
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4. Go Now – Moody Blues
5. Don’t Give Up – Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel
6. Forever Autumn – Justin Hayward (with narration from War Of The Worlds by Richard Burton)
7. Fields Of Gold – Sting
8. Evanescense – My Immortal (the most beautiful female vocal ever)
9. It’s A Kind Of Magic – Freddy Mercury (anything & everything by them)
10. Summer of 69 – Bryan AdamsThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...You’ll never walk Alone
Fields of Anfield Road
Allez, Allez, Allez
Poor Scouser Tommy
Firmino chant
Liverpool, Liverpool, Liverpool
Oh Mane, Mane
Mo Salah Running down the wing
We’ve won it Six times
Van Dijk SongBlackbeard to conquer the World
Golden miller lives in a tank top platform shoe world I think :). Good stuff
Ex boss of mine played drums on sugar baby love. As it happens
A top 10 not the top 10, and in no particular order
Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
T Rex – Get It On
The Beatles – Ballad Of John And Yoko
Thin Lizzy – Whiskey In The Jar
Aretha Franklin – I Say A Little Prayer
Squeeze – Up The Junction
Cleo Laine – You’ll Answer To Me
Derek And The Dominoes – Layla
Rod Stewart – You Wear It WellLike a familiar scent, they evoke memories of time and place
Crikey; this is going to keep me awake [not even sure if some favourite songs were singles either]. And they may not be songs that I particularly like but songs that, as Drone says, evoke a time and place. Will have to keep editing this.
For Your Love Yardbirds
See Emily Play Pink Floyd [Syd era…]
Maggie May Rod Stewart
Wuthering Heights Kate Bush
Layla Derek and the Dominoes
Woodstock Mathews Southern ComfortAnimals That Swim – Faded Glamour
Cocteau Twins – Iceblink Luck
The Delgados – The Light Before We Land
Granddaddy – So You’ll Aim Towards The Sky
Hobotalk – Beauty In Madness
Keane – The Frog Prince
Manic Street Preachers – PCP
Rick Redbeard – Clocks
Ride – Black Nite Crash
Rufus Wainwright – I Don’t Know What It Is
Ooo I love these things…until you start making the list and have to whittle hundreds down to 10
A first go here in no particular order but expect a few edits.Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane – The Beatles(Actually could be almost any Beatle single).
Somebody To Love – Queen
Mister Blue Sky – ELO
Brothers In Arms – Dire Straits
Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
Wall Street Shuffle – 10cc
Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
Moonlight Shadow – Mike Oldfield ft. Maggie Reilly
Doctor Doctor – UFOI was about 7 when my Dad bought his first Record player (he had like a reel to reel tape machine before this). ELO Greatest Hits was on quite a bit. I actually got into ELO before The Beatles. But you could tell who was the big influence on Jeff Lynne. I think it was Lennon who once said when asked if The Beatles had continued in the 70s how would they have sounded? Something like ELO was the gist of the answer.
One I did forget yesterday was Toto’s Hold The Line – Cracking song and IMO even better than their massive hit Africa.
My favourite singles by ELO is their take on the old chestnut ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ and the Jeff Lynne composed ‘Xanadu’ featuring Olivia Neutron-Bomb
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