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Post by rayge on Jan 9, 2023 11:58:17 GMT
In the continued enforced absence of G, I'm opening up a second front to continue to drive the nominations for the Preludin canon.
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Post by rayge on Jan 9, 2023 11:58:43 GMT
The first nomination for this year comes from Adam at the SS, and as far as I'm concerned, it's a cracker. i've decided not to over-think 66. it's probably my favourite year in popular music. i need to have love on my list and i need some garage punk. this fits the bill perfectly.
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Post by osgood on Jan 9, 2023 12:20:34 GMT
1966 is a no-brainer for me. Along with my choice of 1962, it is a strong contender for the best track ever.
The Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
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Post by loveless on Jan 9, 2023 12:27:57 GMT
1966
For my tastes, a HUGE year. I wince at the choices I couldn't nominate.
You know...as a matter of fucking fact - we don't need to get in to dicking around with this sort of thing now until the CANON is well and truly over with, but...a few of these years (including some in which I've had to fiddle around with my nominations a few times in order to really stick the landing) have had me wondering if someday in the future we MIGHT really dig into certain years and DO personal lists of ten or a dozen.
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Post by fearlessfreap on Jan 9, 2023 12:52:30 GMT
1966 Slim Harpo - Baby Scratch My Back
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 9, 2023 13:11:13 GMT
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Post by davey on Jan 9, 2023 16:15:38 GMT
Hard not to feel a responsibility to pick one of the twin tower Beach Boys tracks this year. Or something off The Beatles’ best album (they are relatively underrepresented thus far IMO), or my favorite Stones track. It’s an embarrassment of riches.
But this one can’t be ignored. So what the hell…
River Deep, Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner
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Post by DayoRemix on Jan 9, 2023 16:30:00 GMT
1966
"Wild Thing" The Troggs
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Post by A.R. Parsons on Jan 9, 2023 20:01:54 GMT
'66
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 9, 2023 22:41:49 GMT
Given that Coltrane's Ascension is probably pushing the definition of song, I'll go more popular.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jan 10, 2023 0:29:49 GMT
As it's been stated several times already that it's OK to go for the obvious here, so I will.
Obvious though it may be, I still like to imagine hearing this for the first time and being able to reflect on "so let's see what the most popular band in the world is up to..." I mean, even you naysayers must have at least some sense of WHAAAT??? about that.
1966
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 10, 2023 7:28:01 GMT
I don't want to derail the thread, or necessarily get into another Beatles discussion, but I really don't see that it would be that jaw-dropping. You have Coltrane doing Ascension, the likes of Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer, Delia Derbyshire, you know, in the end it's not that startling a sound. I like the song, but I can't be amazed by it, it feels like it only has a smidgen of that inventiveness. Adding "the world's most popular band" as a criteria just seems like a cheat to give the beatles another automatic load of acclaim that no-one else can get.
None of which is meant to be snarky, btw, just a quick explanation of why I'm genuinely not excited by the track in a way that you expect I should be.
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Post by tory on Jan 10, 2023 7:46:57 GMT
Agree wholeheartedly. I think if you'd never heard anything but pop music, then "TNK" would be jaw-dropping. However, the Beatles had been dipping their toes in the avant-garde for a couple of years (well McCartney had), they were fabulously wealthy already and had access to recording studio TIME that was beyond most other musicians of the era. It's really not that great - the idea is great - but beyond the first few bars, it becomes something of a dirge. It's like a previous generation's "Fool's Gold" - a swerve in a different direction for a short time that has somehow become indicative of greatness, when in actual reality, beyond Strawberry Fields Forever (which is obviously far more sophisticated), A Day in the Life and Revolution #9, their avant-garde psychedelic pretensions did not run that far.
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Post by tory on Jan 10, 2023 7:49:51 GMT
So many to choose from, but deep down I went with Roky and co, because, well, 1966 is ACID TIME.
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Post by davey on Jan 10, 2023 8:06:19 GMT
Agree wholeheartedly. I think if you'd never heard anything but pop music, then "TNK" would be jaw-dropping. However, the Beatles had been dipping their toes in the avant-garde for a couple of years (well McCartney had), they were fabulously wealthy already and had access to recording studio TIME that was beyond most other musicians of the era. It's really not that great - the idea is great - but beyond the first few bars, it becomes something of a dirge. It's like a previous generation's "Fool's Gold" - a swerve in a different direction for a short time that has somehow become indicative of greatness, when in actual reality, beyond Strawberry Fields Forever (which is obviously far more sophisticated), A Day in the Life and Revolution #9, their avant-garde psychedelic pretensions did not run that far. I think the notion that hatz was imagining a pop fan was embedded in his scenario. Also - how much “avant- garde” McCartney had “stuck his toe into previous to this…”. What exactly are you thinking about?
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