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Post by riggers on Feb 21, 2024 22:01:20 GMT
Good work Ange, thanks for doing this. What a great list! I'll be adding a lot more of these to my existing playlist of 70.
Except for the Neil Young tracks, cos the miserable old sod isn't on Spotify anymore.
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Post by fange on Feb 22, 2024 0:09:55 GMT
Except for the Neil Young tracks, cos the miserable old sod isn't on Spotify anymore. True that. I mean, fair play to him on how he wants his music spread and sending a message about the lack of proper payments to artists, but.... what about our playlists, Neil? Hmmm?
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Post by fange on Feb 22, 2024 0:19:33 GMT
Some notes that stood out to me:
*Despite Bowie being all over a lot of lists, his absence from the very pointy end just goes to show how broadly popular his 70s catalogue is.
*Can were the big winners in the Krautrock League, getting lots of votes.
*Janis Ian, eh? I must look a bit deeper, I only remember 'Fly Too High' which i enjoyed as a kid but totally forgot about.
* I know Creedence made several of their best LPs in the 60s, but i was hoping more would choose them, including me! Only Osgood did in the end, i think.
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Post by loveless on Feb 28, 2024 1:48:23 GMT
Strawberry Letter 23 – Brothers Johnson (2 votes: fearlessfreap; loveless) Strawberry Letter 23 – Shuggie Otis (davey) Summer Breeze – Seals and Crofts (loveless) Summer Breeze – The Isley Brothers (davey) I think these are the only two examples of this happening in this poll, but...a phenomenon of the era, an event that absolutely could have occurred many more times in this particular roundup, and perhaps the final vestiges of a time when the song vs. the record (though, yes, obviously, these four tracks are assuredly records) was a matter that existed in a less sort of definitively canonical state. You wouldn't have two or more versions of "Roll With It" or "Call Me Maybe" or "Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd" sort of duking it out in the ether, but...go back to "My Funny Valentine" or "My Favorite Things" (or, yes, "Yesterday", "Something", "Blowin' in the Wind", "Light My Fire", "Love is Blue", "I Walk on Gilded Splinters", or, yes, "Spinning Wheel") and...literally, the greatest vocalists on the planet couldn't really own a song in the way that, say, Ed Sheeran does.
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Post by fange on Feb 28, 2024 3:52:05 GMT
Yeah, good call. The art of the good cover version, man.
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Post by fange on Feb 28, 2024 3:54:04 GMT
Amoreena – Elton John (2 votes: fange, davey
Love that we both chose this, davey. What a tune.
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