Or rather every post-87 single that people liked and wasn't a ballad.
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 27 December 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
More than any other act on this thread, Patti Smith is one I'd walk five miles to see her sing live, and I'm only a casual fan, she's such a great performer with such a broad legacy I can't even think about reducing her to a single song she recorded many years ago
Unlike say Jonathan Richman who I love seeing live and have high-fived several of his latter-day records but everybody knows it's Roadrunner forever
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 27 December 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Thought it was "Ice Cream Man."
― Albee Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 December 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
YES. Good one!
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Thursday, 27 December 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
I own nothing by him, and radio has kind of forgotten him, but I would dig pretty much any Donovan cut that came on the radio.
― Rocking Disco Santa (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 27 December 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
;_; I love so many Donovan songs but this is so true. Peggy Lipton's cover of "Wear your love like heaven" even begins with a "Sunshine Superman" quote
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 27 December 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
Unlike say Jonathan Richman who I love seeing live and have high-fived several of his latter-day records but everybody knows it's Roadrunner forever― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included)
― capital in ruins, thousands dead (flamboyant goon tie included)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 27 December 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
Desmond Dekker - The Israelites
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 27 December 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
I love Sleater-Kinney to the ends of the earth, but I don't think they ever touched the perfection of Start Together.
Janis Joplin I also dig, but that famous live version of Ball And Chain is gorgeous, passionate, and probably better than Big Mama Thornton's (the only time I'll ever say that about a white rock band's cover of a black blues song).
And ignoring what a cultural behemoth Johnny B. Goode is, Promised Land is far and away the best song Chuck Berry ever wrote.
― Everything You Like Sucks, Friday, 28 December 2012 06:38 (eleven years ago) link
Low - (other than a handful of their Christmas songs come the season) - Lazerbeam.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 28 December 2012 09:09 (eleven years ago) link
Desmond Dekker has a surprisingly rich catalogue of songs. I'm always impressed when I listen to his stuff. Songs like 'It Mek', 'Problems', 'Dracula', 'Fu Manchu' are all just as deserving as the classic 'Israelites'.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 28 December 2012 09:11 (eleven years ago) link
'Roadrunner' is no way my favourite Jonathan Richman song, but that will all depend on your threshold for his schtick. That song is a straight ahead blues/punk number that pulls no punches, but somehow I find something like 'Ice Cream Man', 'Abdul & Cleopatra' or 'The Morning Of Our Lives' far more indicative of his style (and ultimately more entertaining) than 'Roadrunner'.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 28 December 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
Roadrunner is a bit like Teenage Kicks in that it's a song that sounds so full, such a perfect capturing of an aesthetic, that you don't feel the artist could do any better. You really can get everything you want from that artist from that one song. I've actually had the same thing with Hallogallo, rightly or wrongly.
― Matt DC, Friday, 28 December 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
This is Will Oldham for me, I think. "I See a Darkness" is a great song, but I could take or leave the rest. I've got three or four of his albums (none of which feature the song I actually like) and I've never really been able to connect with his stuff.
― spastic heritage, Friday, 28 December 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
Os Mutantes - Panis et Circenses
― Frederik B, Friday, 28 December 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link