dunno how you leave Buck Owens off this list
also, yes
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
what did the p4k equivalents enjoy back in 60s? not this?
― dyl, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
A Date With the Everly Bros. is a solid record
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
oh man 60s everly brothers records are so solid. seriously. i've never actually heard a bad record by them. for 60s: It's Everly Time, A Date With The Everly Brothers, The Everly Brothers Sing, Roots.
some of the 60s records are themed . i don't listen to those as much. but they're cool. like the country hits one. and rock 'n' soul. where they do popular songs of the 50s and 60s.
i would say go with Its Everly Time and A Date With...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
they can be so much fun and then they break your heart. so beautiful. and the production is always amazing.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
i have a beautiful mono copy of Gone Gone Gone here at the store and I just put it on. I like that record a lot. "Lonely Island" is so beautiful. it's so worth getting clean original mono copies of their early records.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
i've been playing Phil's Mystic Line record a LOT lately. it fits my mood. but that's 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuP9rTkL3-0
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
The real poptimism power move would have been to make the Rhino Girl Groups box number one.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
159. Ray Barretto - Acid (1968)
yea baby
― flopson, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
"The real poptimism power move would have been to make the Rhino Girl Groups box number one."
"Peanut Duck" alone is better than any Randy Newman album.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
Newman does have a song on that box as a writer tbf
― Number None, Thursday, 24 August 2017 06:49 (six years ago) link
Many, many xposts - my go to Everly's 60s is Two Yanks in England.
Co-sign the Mingus piano record: it's fantastic.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 24 August 2017 09:22 (six years ago) link
This 60s list is good. But Mississippi John Hurt "Today" is a huge omission. He is a giant of music that has yet to be discovered by a larger audience.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
I think people don't realize how great the first two Joan Baez albums are. I didn't until I bought these beautiful copies of them in a thrift store a couple of years ago.
― timellison, Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
her voice is nails-on-a-chalkboard
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
Joan Baez generally is underrated, though she can also be insufferable
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
more like Joan Bias right there
― Evan, Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi),
like most people imo
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
Dylan from Chronicles - "The Vanguard record was no phony baloney. It was almost frightening - an impeccable repertoire of songs."
― timellison, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
You said something similar about Grace Slick, I think.
https://debuk.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/the-taming-of-the-shrill/
― timellison, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
yes she is also terrible
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
thx for the irrelevant link tho
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
ie we are discussing aesthetics, not politicians and yes I have aesthetic preferences regarding what voices I find pleasant to listen to, regardless of gender. As I'm sure every listener does.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:18 (six years ago) link
grace slick is awesome. a fierce fiery freedom fighter of a singer. there was nowhere she wouldn't go in her quest for freedom! nowhere!!
― scott seward, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
goddamn shakey Grace Slick is an incredible singer. i just saw A Serious Man for the first time last night & loved the recurring Jefferson Airplane motif
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
Grace Slick as a singer is not even anywhere near in the same league as Joan Baez. Grace just has a big voice. But unless I'm wrong we're arguing this point w/a dude who'd call Lou Reed a good singer so let's not worry too much
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
With so many shithole people in the world of entertainment, I really respect the way Joan Baez has conducted her life, we should all aspire to do as much. I think she has a lovely voice, she didn't blend super well with my man Bob but that's no crime. Not my particular jam but there's always been something about the vitriol pointed at her that is Yoko-esque imo.
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
Grace Slick as a singer is not even anywhere near in the same league as Joan Baez.
Few are!
― timellison, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:45 (six years ago) link
plenty of baez i like, ums otm too
― marcos, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:46 (six years ago) link
also she does a good dylan impression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCyQ7GW8QFk
― marcos, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
i really appreciate Baez and have come to like her, she has a nice blending of American and some darker strains of UK folk, at least that's what i hear in her.
― nomar, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
Thanks for the Everly Brothers picks, scott! I'm listening to Sing.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
I love that Dylan impression so much. I think Judy Collins is a better singer than Baez but Baez is a greater musician, she really knew her shit. I suspect she taught Bob Dylan much of what he knows about traditional folk.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
she is an amazing singer imo
― marcos, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
"diamonds and rust" makes me tear up a lil tbh
― marcos, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
yeah those early 60s vanguard records are very good overall. maybe a little less impressive once you've heard her sources, but still good (tho i get the complaints about her vocals).
― tylerw, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
the Judas Priest cover of Baez's "Diamonds and Rust" is one of the great weird yet brilliant covers in rock history, they both seem to have a good attitude about it:
In a recent interview with QMI Agency, folk icon Joan Baez was asked what she thought of JUDAS PRIEST's classic cover of her song "Diamonds And Rust", which can be found on the band's 1977 album "Sin After Sin". "I love that!" she replied. "I was so stunned when I first heard it. I thought it was wonderful. It's very rare for people to cover my songs. I think there are a couple of reasons. One is they're personal — they don't have a universal quality to them. And I think maybe it's because I've already sung them, and who wants to compete with that? But it's always flattering when somebody does."
Speaking to KNAC.COM in June 2010, JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford explained how the band came to record its version of the Joan Baez track. "Well, the simple story is that our label could see that there was a buzz happening here in America and we were looking for an opportunity to get some kind of radio play," he said. "Radio in 1978, when we released that, was a different hybrid, it was before all of the beat things started to happen and I think the label sensed that we've got something in us and that there was a chance, and I think they thought, well if we go this route and the radio stations hear that PRIEST is covering a Joan Baez song, then at least it gets you through the door. The big challenge even now is to get you through the door to get you played on the radio. I think the label believed that we could write radio songs, but they probably thought that this would be a little bit of a way to make a possibly, slightly faster connection. I don't know. We were actually making the backend of the 'Sin After Sin' sessions when it was suggested to us that we cover this track. And I remember we were all together and whoever it was came in, whether it was from the label or the management and said, 'Listen to this song. The label would like you to consider covering it.' And when we put it on, all we heard was Joan Baez singing this song with the guitar, and your knee-jerk reaction is, 'Are you fucking crazy? We are a heavy metal band.' But again, typical of PRIEST, we're like, 'What's the logic behind this?' And then after a couple of listens, 'This is a great song.' And a good song will take any kind of interpretation. So, it was just a case of, 'Well, we're PRIEST, and if the label wants us to rock it up then this is what we're going to try and do.' So that's how it came together and it turned out really well. It opened the door for us in radio in a lot of ways, and I think that for the first time, a metal band was able to get the kind of accessibility."
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link
'Well, we're PRIEST, and if the label wants us to rock it up then this is what we're going to try and do.'
i love this sentence so much
― nomar, Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
Wordplay with perfect timing and I get snubbed? To have polite substantive discussions about music?
― Evan, Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
I almost excelsior'd you fwiw but I feel like we don't exel around these siors so much any more
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
lol Lou is not a good singer by any stretch, esp post-77 or so
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
prior to that I think he makes great use of his limited range
can't stand Judy Collins either tbh lol. with all three (Baez, Collins, Slick) it's really the tenor of their voices I find off-putting, that thick tone, I don't like it.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
Halford's great, the Everys are great. my favorite female singer is probably Mavis Staples.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
do people rate the first Willie Nelson album (And Then I Wrote...) in terms of sixties country? i frickin love that album
― flopson, Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:42 (six years ago) link
I've never heard it actually! My favorite 60s country list would include the Louvin Brothers (pick any of 'em), Buck Owens' Sings Harlan Howard/I've Got a Tiger by the Tail/Sings Tommy Collins/Under Your Spell Again, Waylon Jennings' Leaving Town/Folk-Country/Only the Greatest, Dolly Parton's Hello I'm Dolly, Porter Wagoner's Cold Hard Facts of Life, Merle Haggard's Mama Tried/I'm A Lonesome Fugitive, maybe some Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, Loretta Lynn, the obvious Johnny Cash etc
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
i certainly do! it's underrated as hell, which is insane because it has "funny how time slips away" AND "crazy" on it, plus several other stone cold classics
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
xpost
it's an amazing record.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
My favorite 60s country list would include the Louvin Brothers (pick any of 'em), Buck Owens' Sings Harlan Howard/I've Got a Tiger by the Tail/Sings Tommy Collins/Under Your Spell Again, Waylon Jennings' Leaving Town/Folk-Country/Only the Greatest, Dolly Parton's Hello I'm Dolly, Porter Wagoner's Cold Hard Facts of Life, Merle Haggard's Mama Tried/I'm A Lonesome Fugitive, maybe some Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, Loretta Lynn, the obvious Johnny Cash etc
― Οὖτις, Thursday, August 24, 2017 2:50 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good picks here
there are some good george jones records from the 60s too
― marcos, Thursday, 24 August 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link