not voting for the song but i think this is pretty otm. those guitars at the beginning are something else
There aren't any guitars at the start of "Do It Again"?
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Saturday, April 27, 2019 5:51 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah i was going off memory, it's been a while, for some reason i thought as a kid that those sound were super metallic chunky guitars, i guess it's just drums and a synth ? whatever it is, it sounds cool
― budo jeru, Saturday, 27 April 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
perfect songs:
Crimson and Clover - Tommy James & The ShondellsLove Is All Around - The TroggsHurdy Gurdy Man - DonovanDo It Again - The Beach BoysStoned Soul Picnic - The 5th DimensionCloud Nine - The TemptationsStormy - The Classics IV
very very good songs:
Do You Know the Way to San Jose - Dionne WarwickYummy, Yummy, Yummy - Ohio ExpressThis Magic Moment - Jay & The AmericansMidnight Confessions - The Grass RootsGoing Up the Country - Canned HeatYoung Girl - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
i think it has to be "crimson and clover" -- just an incredibly beautiful piece of pop music
a close runner-up is "stoned soul picnic" -- i love this song. as a kid it just evoked this rich, magical world of sounds and images. what does it mean to surry down ? what do you do at a stoned soul picnic ? "red yellow honey sassafras and moonshine" ?? yes please !! and just the effortless groove with the wandering electric keyboard figure and the piano chirps. i never get sick of hearing it.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 27 April 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
is it the original recordings, recordings by the original artists, or the cub foods house band renditions?
― andrew m., Monday, April 15, 2019 1:56 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sorry i forgot to answer that this is the original recordings and that "crimson and clover" is the singles edit.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 27 April 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
I was a little kid in 1968 and I thought "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" was terrible then and I still do
"Cloud Nine" gets my vote but "Crimson and Clover" would also be a worthy winner
― Brad C., Saturday, 27 April 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
It's just drums, but run through a very short delay which gives them a kind of metallic sound - easy to do with digital delay, not so easy to accomplish in 1968 though!
― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 April 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Just now came back and noticed that my magnificent maiden post, in praise of "Crimson and Clover," is not here. Something like "Voted for 'Crimson and Clover'; it is thee psych-pop fold-in-flowering" of the whole list's appeal, incl. cool sensuous commercial mastery etc., can even/especially see the lost lady from the 50s finally getting out of her Falcon and wandering around this image of innocence---but also dig Joan Jett's version, bringing the hidden garage raunch out, "Yeahhhhhhh," though not disturbing the ritual vibe. Canned Heat's Al Wilson could have found more shades too.
― dow, Saturday, 27 April 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
from the 50s and San José (or is she from there? Maybe it's something new for her---prob beats Woodstock.)
― dow, Saturday, 27 April 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 28 April 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
now available as a playlist on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/287jzwucFKrDcTN8QDzWk4?si=2fa0dfa871d14f99
― budo jeru, Sunday, 1 May 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
No love for "Stormy"? Top shelf EZ listening IMHO. Pretty strong competition admittedly.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 1 May 2022 23:59 (one year ago) link
Missing "Green Tambourine" by the Lemon Pipers.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 2 May 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyhMwNU-3ao
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Monday, 2 May 2022 00:52 (one year ago) link