"Ride Captain Ride" just gets the nod over about five other songs.
― Bee OK, Monday, 26 May 2008 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
spirit in the sky
― gr8080, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Large percentage of throwaway stuff here. "Band Of Gold" it is though.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link
easier to go with worst song (Three Dog Night) than best, but I went with "Spirit in the Sky" for best.
― Euler, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
ABC's gonna win this in a walk I think, but no matter what you might think of James Taylor, "Fire and Rain" is a fucking devastating song.
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"Little Green Bag"
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i have no runaway care, but "ooh child" is purddy
― outdoor_miner, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Green Eyed Lady! Man I miss hearing this song on classic rock radio like 12 times a day while listening to classic rock radio and playing NBA Live '00 all day long instead of studying.
― Clay, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" Heard it for the first time in years recently. Pop masterpiece.
― the higgs, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 01:38 (fifteen years ago) link
spirit in the sky for the awesome keys and guitar
― electricsound, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Heard 'Rose Garden' again the other day and it's a good song/record -- I remember there wasn't much C&W crossover onto the Top 40 in this time period, except for novelty stuff like 'When You're Hot, You're Hot'.
― Jeff Wright, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
man this is way tight. maybe two sucky songs, tops.
― will, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Delfonics in the HOUSE
― Z S, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Gonna be hard to pick. Actually don't remember having heard three of these- The Ides of March, George Baker and Murray Head. Is that a version of The Carpenters/Delaney and Bonnie "Superstar"?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, it's from JC Superstar, duh.
OK, I always thought "Vehicle" was the only Blood, Sweat and Tears song that I liked. Please forgive my Bimble moment.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"o-o-h child" always makes me happy whenever i hear it, so that's what got my vote.
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I went with the 73 men who sailed up from the San Francisco Bay.
― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
American Woman but only if it's the full length version.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link
1-3 and 11-15
― Tom D., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Usually it would be Freda Payne - but today, I'm in a Delfonics mood.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I went American Woman. Was going to say maybe the only one who did, but now I see...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Wild World. I always loved that song.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I'm gonna vote Chairmen of the Board because nobody else so far has said they will.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
The Russian Eurovision winner obviously loved "Wild World" too.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
1-3 and 11-15 This is about right.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Heard "Vehicle" for the first time ever a coupla weeks ago - only song I was unfamiliar with until then. Of the rest, there's a lotta pro-Jesus sentiment, isn't there? Also a lot of horticulture, mystically-powered women and back-to-nature sentiments.
Dunno who I'm gonna vote for, I haven't decided yet.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
16. James Taylor (1970): "Fire and Rain" ^^^^ dead fucking last
― milo z, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
The Jackson 5 The Ides of March The Guess Who
― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Heard "Vehicle" for the first time ever a coupla weeks ago - only song I was unfamiliar with until then.
damn good pop song! the singer (and i think songwriter), jim peterik, went on many years later to form survivor, for whom he sang "eye of the tiger."
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I have to go with the Delfonics here.
― Brad C., Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i think it is because it has this slow 45 second built up that comes before the radio version kicks in.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 03:28 (fifteen years ago) link
"band of gold">"abc">"didn't i blow yr mind this time didn't i">"rose garden">>"give me just a little more time">"ooh child">>"green-eyed lady", "spirit in the sky", "venus">"fire and rain" (j0hn otm, but the isley's version is definitive for me). "american woman" dead last. vile vile song.
― balls, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
my worst song on this CD is Murray Head's "Superstar" although i kind of like the main vocals. really, really bad songs are yet to come.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link
"Give Me Just a Little More Time" followed by "Ride Captain Ride"
― dell, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link
BAND OF GOLD
― Snowballing, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Dunno what Geir means by "throwaway" stuff; tons of great records here. Come on! "ABC," "Venus," "Love Grows," "Rose Garden" . . . Was gonna vote for Blues Image, then Chairmen, finally settled on the Five Stairsteps.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 05:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Dunno what Geir means by "throwaway" stuff; tons of great records here. Come on! "ABC," "Venus," "Love Grows," "Rose Garden"
"ABC", sure. But generally a lot of one-hit-wonder stuff while the more established artists are not represented here to the same extent.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i agree with most people here, this CD is pretty damn good with few throwaways.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 07:38 (fifteen years ago) link
On the rest of the set, does Debbie Boone appear?
Hoo, good old UK! Never made that a hit! Hray for us!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 08:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Shocking Blue (cult act, several albums) and Lynn Anderson (country star, lots of singles on the C&W chart) aren't one-hit wonders. Neither are Freda Payne or Chairmen/General Johnson or Three Dog Night or Cat Stevens or the Raiders. Besides, this is pretty representative of what was in the charts. What do you want, the Beatles?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
(that's a rhetorical question)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't try to reason with him
― Tom D., Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I want this CD. I expect I want the whole box set.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:52 (fifteen years ago) link
For instance, Elton John, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Simon & Garfunkel all had a good year in 1970, including strong hit performances.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Led Zeppelin had a hit single in 1970? I assume when you say "established artists" you mean their reputation has become established over the years, because Elton John was not an established artist in 1970.
― Tom D., Wednesday, 28 May 2008 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Unlike, say, Enoch Powell or Jonathan King, both of whom I am sure are much more to Geir's liking.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I assume when you say "established artists" you mean their reputation has become established over the years
Yes. Usually a sign of quality, over acts who only last for a year or two.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Geir, I imagine most of those acts are unlicensable -- the reunited Sabs-with-Dio aren't even allowed to call themselves Black Sabbath on their album, by Sharon Osbourne's fiat -- or prohibitively expensive. And Deep Purple only had two hit singles in America, where the box was compiled, neither of them in 1970. Plus, not exactly hard to get hold of "Your Song," y'know?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Sure, I guess the main problem here is that I feel the very start of the 70s was one of the worst periods ever for pop (as opposed to more serious album oriented music), and that things will improved towards mid-decade.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
And I hate "Green Eyed Lady," but I don't need it to be written out of history.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
all these songs are great. I cast a sympathy vote with Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds.
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:36 (fifteen years ago) link
You know what I would like to see on here, though, is "Come and Get It." Prolly similar reasons as above for its not being included.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Wasn't much of a hit, I believe?
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
(At least not in the US)
another for band of gold, without really having to think hard about it. i think, mind you, that would be true of a whole load of polls that contained band of gold.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Shoot, this is obscenely low on the list of what should be one of my top priorities right now, but man, I'm gonna have to go try and download "Ride Captain Ride".
What songs do you guys totally hate on this compilation? For me it's American Woman, Green-Eyed Lady, and Band of Gold (the latter tune more b/c of radio overexposure more than anything else)
― dell, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Badfinger: Top 10 in the U.S.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
ABC. But even the songs I don't like on this list are a lot of fun.
― The guy who just votes in polls, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i cant deny abc
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I considered "ABC". Would have voted for "I'll Be There" had it been there. Or "I Want You Back" even. "ABC" is probably my least favourite of those earliest Jackson Five hits.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 29 May 2008 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
What songs do you guys totally hate on this compilation?
"American Woman" "Fire and Rain" "Put Your Hand in the Hand" "Signs" "Don't Pull Your Love" "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" "Joy to the World"
I can appreciate all these in an abstract popist way, but the titles alone are enough to make me cringe. It's all about overexposure at an impressionable age.
― Brad C., Thursday, 29 May 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Freda P. = my alltime karaoke request.
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
You guys, this box set squashes the Have a Nice Decade box like grape. It's like the same set with all the annoying crap taken out.
― kenan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
(and the packaging is awesome.)
― kenan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
shit i want that
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah you do. Short list of favorite boxes ever.
― kenan, Thursday, 29 May 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Huge amount of overlap between that and the Didn't It Blow Your Mind! series, otherwise I'd be buying that right now.
― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 30 May 2008 05:22 (fifteen years ago) link
These are songs that I hate with a passion:
Edison Lighthouse (1970): "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" Lynn Anderson (1970): "Rose Garden" George Baker Selection (1970): "Little Green Bag" Ocean (1971): "Put Your Hand in the Hand"
And absolutely not "Fire And Rain", which was close to getting my vote. A beautiful little song.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 30 May 2008 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Tony Burrows and Joe South spit on you.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 30 May 2008 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
A waste of saliva
― Tom D., Friday, 30 May 2008 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
(I never understood what your current screenname means. Is it short for Tom Dadaismus? Is it "Key of D" in Portuguese?)
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 30 May 2008 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Surname. Boring, innit?
― Tom D., Friday, 30 May 2008 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Saturday, 31 May 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
24. Three Dog Night (1970): "Joy to the World" 0
Nice work ILM! Didn't know you had it in you.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
have a nice blood
― and what, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
these are great results, really can't ask for anything more (good job as always ILM). next CD will be up in a few days.
― Bee OK, Monday, 2 June 2008 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link