I hope you like the Beatles.
― droppin' Hamiltons like MJB's niece (The Reverend), Friday, 12 June 2009 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
damn, lots of great songs. got love for plenty of these but it's "rag doll"
― k3vin k., Friday, 12 June 2009 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
voted for "Can't Buy Me Love"
― droppin' Hamiltons like MJB's niece (The Reverend), Friday, 12 June 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Tough choice between Beach Boys and Orbison.
― unicorn poop evaluator (WmC), Friday, 12 June 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
another ridiculously overstuffed list. of the beatles tunes i'd probably go "i feel fine." "i get around" is my 2nd-favorite beach boys song. all the supremes songs are great. and the shangri-las! and roy! etc.
voting "chapel of love" because someone should.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't even hate "I Get Around".
― droppin' Hamiltons like MJB's niece (The Reverend), Friday, 12 June 2009 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
when i saw ronnie spector a while back she sang "chapel of love" and said she actually recorded her version first. but then phil somehow decided to bring in the dixie cups and release their cut instead. she was still pretty steamed about it.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"Yeah the BAD GUYS know us and they leave us alone!"
― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Friday, 12 June 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
"Oh, Pretty Woman." God, this record is ageless, isn't it?
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 June 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"A Hard Day's Night": hook after hook after hook...
"There! I've Said It Again" sounds funny, I should give it a spin.
― Euler, Friday, 12 June 2009 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
sb "World Without Love"?
― Hoot Smalley, Friday, 12 June 2009 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
roy
― billstevejim, Friday, 12 June 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
it's at least the worst lennon/mccartney song on the list.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
(well, "lennon/mccartney." mccartney.)
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
lots of happyfun pop on this list. seconding "chapel of love"
― that's not my post, Friday, 12 June 2009 03:40 (fourteen years ago) link
"Hard Day's Night" by a nose over "Where Did Our Love Go"
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 12 June 2009 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I Get Around
is Dixie Cups the only Spector on here? Weird
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 June 2009 05:08 (fourteen years ago) link
"I Feel Fine," barely beating "Come See About Me"
― ti's girl on the outside (musically), Friday, 12 June 2009 06:04 (fourteen years ago) link
misc. fact -- apparently the dixie cups came from the same housing project as the neville brothers and master p.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
These are all 64? Shit. "Love Me Do" vs "Come See About Me" vs "I Feel Fine" vs "Rag Doll" vs "I Get Around". Okay I got it down to 5 at least.
― Pasta of Muppets (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 June 2009 06:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Another fab year, hard to see past The Beatles on this one. Got to go with 'A Hard Days Night', which to me is the peak of their early work.
― DJ Angoreinhardt (Billy Dods), Friday, 12 June 2009 07:18 (fourteen years ago) link
xp: some of the Beatles tracks were originally released in 62/63 in the UK, but took some time to migrate over
― droppin' Hamiltons like MJB's niece (The Reverend), Friday, 12 June 2009 07:47 (fourteen years ago) link
top 5:
where did our love gohouse of the rising suni want to hold your handa hard day's nightbaby love
― insincere ilsas of the SS (hmmmm), Friday, 12 June 2009 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
The Supremes, "Where Did Our Love Go"
^^^pretty much my (possibly) favourite song of all time.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 12 June 2009 07:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"Come See About Me," no contest, but this is an extraordinary year.
― Matos W.K., Friday, 12 June 2009 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
will lol if Bobby Vinton and/or "Ringo" get votes
― Matos W.K., Friday, 12 June 2009 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I'm going "Come See About Me" too, partly because much as I love the other tracks that one sounds more like the future (in 1964) to me. Partly cos it swoons.
― Pasta of Muppets (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 June 2009 08:37 (fourteen years ago) link
She Loves You. By a comfortable margin.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 12 June 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
animals, but i think the beatles suffered due to split vote.
― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Friday, 12 June 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think Spector had anything to do with the Dixie Cups' version of "Chapel of Love." It was on another label (Red Bird), not produced by him & with its clarity & minimalism sounds notably anti-Spectorian.
― Josefa, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"i feel fine" for dope riff and "what'd I say" drums
― ^defense is impregnable (will), Friday, 12 June 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i can't find a good account of exactly how the dixie cups ended up with "chapel of love." all i remember is ronnie blamed phil for it, for one reason or another.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
(maybe it was just that he delayed releasing the ronnettes' version or something.)
(and much as i love ronnie, i do prefer the dixie cups' recording)
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
The Beach Boys' single is better than all the Beatles cuts here. Better harmonies, better musicianship (Beatles still in their "flippin' lousy" stage), and better lyrics that describe a much wider experience than "I love you she loves you you love me yeah yeah yeah whhhhooooo"
― snoball, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Ronnie's claim is accurate. There was a Ronettes version & a Crystals version, neither of which were released. Afterwards, Jeff Barry & Ellie Greenwich, who co-wrote the song with Spector, were still hearing "big hit" so they brought the song to the Dixie Cups.
― Josefa, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Incidentally, how many record labels have had their first release go to #1? That's what happened with Red Bird.
― Josefa, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
The only "flippin' lousy" Beatles song here is "Love Me Do". The rest are all A+ would jam again.
― droppin' Hamiltons like MJB's niece (The Reverend), Friday, 12 June 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
"*sigh* Nobody loves us!"
http://themusicsover.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/shangrilas.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
wait so there's NO Spector on this list? bizarre
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 June 2009 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
"Where Did Our Love Go"
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 12 June 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
The harp alone on "Love Me Do" lifts it way beyond lousy and above a bunch of the follow-ups for me. Love the Beach Boys but, on a point of order, those Beatles "I love you she loves you" lyrics are without exception about fucking. And nothing wrong with that.
― Pasta of Muppets (Noodle Vague), Friday, 12 June 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Better harmonies, better musicianship (Beatles still in their "flippin' lousy" stage), and better lyrics that describe a much wider experience than "I love you she loves you you love me yeah yeah yeah whhhhooooo"
Sometimes enthusiasm trumps polish. Lots of times, actually.
― Hoot Smalley, Friday, 12 June 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, his girl groups all peaked in '63, and Righteous Bros. were a year off still.
― Hoot Smalley, Friday, 12 June 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I Get Around is totally better than the Beatles songs on here - more inventive arrangement, better harmonies and playing (as noted), a bunch of weird, unpredictable melodic turnarounds, great lyrics (and okay as those early Beatles lyrics are I'd be hard-pressed to call any of them "great" - they're very generic). Basically I never listen to that early Beatles stuff, but I still get a kick out of I Get Around, so it wins.
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 June 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
― Josefa, Friday, 12 June 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
in the authenticity/originality sweepstakes one could argue that the Beach Boys lyrics are better because in a lot of ways they are more personal and are a reflection on the details of the singer's actual life (something the Beatles wouldn't get to for another year at least
(and yes yes I know this is a totally rockist argument so what)
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 June 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i think "i feel fine" has my favorite lyrics on the list -- the "she said so" still sounds cheeky.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Beach Boys didn't get better than The Beatles until Brian Wilson became the undisputed leader of the band. "I Get Around" is too much of a "rock" song to hold up with the fantastic early Beatles stuff.
Voted "I Want To Hold Your Hand", which is fantastic and perfect in every way, and was 1000 times better than anything American that had ever been made at the time!
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
American music was useless between 1963 and 1964, and might as well not have been made at all.http://www.backtoblackvinyl.com/images/album-artwork/big/james-brown-live-at-the-apollo-part-1-front.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
tho i guess it was RECORDED in 62 ... omg GEIR IS RIGHT.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
excepthttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/The_Freewheelin%27_Bob_Dylan.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
in 3....2....1....
― droppin' Hamiltons like MJB's niece (The Reverend), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
andhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Night_Beat_cover.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
oh let's just say that american music is always better, come on.
not that this needs saying but Geir totally wrong as usual.
Off the top of my head, American albums released 1963:
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob DylanGetz/Gilberto - Stan Getz and João GilbertoIn Dreams - Roy OrbisonLive at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 - Sam Cooke (recorded but not released until 1985) <<<THIS ALBUM IS FUCKING AMAZINGSam Cooke - Night Beat <<<BUT THIS ALBUM IS EVEN MORE TOTALLY FUCKING AMAZING
lolz x-posts
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
suck on it worldhttp://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/americanflag01.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
still might have to vote Hard Day's Night though, haha
― tylerw, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:p16AcBevnVes1M:http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003BD7.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's def. hard day's night ... The Beatles were just Americans in disguise though.
― tylerw, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Walk On By is a good song from this year, but it didn't make number one. I voted Rag Doll.
― james k polk, Friday, 12 June 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
The lyrics of "She Loves You" are great.
― Matos W.K., Saturday, 13 June 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
This poll has been in the back of my mind today even while off the board, really really bothering me. Part of me didn't feel I'd heard enough of these songs to comment and was so in awe of others who had such fine things to say here. Beatles were too much a part of my childhood to ignore here, please put them in a Yahtzee can and shake the dice and pick any one of these Beatles tracks as my vote I don't care which one it is, here.
But someone said something really interesting about a Supremes track here that made me pause. I'm going to play "Come See About Me" and give it some thought. Also too drunk to pick a Beatles track. Please someone pick a Beatles track and vote for me?
I admire you all so much for participating. 1964 was a long ass time ago.
Also Shakey, I've been wanting to say this for awhile now but "Kitchen Paper Towel" is goddamn kickass screen name and I never would have thought of it myself and I salute you.
Thanking U.
― Fever Pitch, Bitch (Bimble), Saturday, 13 June 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
OOOOOOH DIANA ROSS BABY she can take me home any TIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PycKSdKG_74
― Fever Pitch, Bitch (Bimble), Saturday, 13 June 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Better believe it, bootchezhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kge_Krzuegs
― Fever Pitch, Bitch (Bimble), Saturday, 13 June 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean really! Elvis can go eat one!
― Fever Pitch, Bitch (Bimble), Saturday, 13 June 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
tylerw so otm in this thread
― The Reverend, Sunday, 14 June 2009 12:33 (fourteen years ago) link
especially about the Beatles being secret Americans
got love for plenty of these but it's "rag doll"
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i wish i'd never had read anything about the songs history and the lyrics :(
― meisenfek, Sunday, 14 June 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 14 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Red Bird Records
That was the label Leiber & Stoller started. They released both "Chapel of Love" and "Leader of the Pack" in '64.
― that's not my post, Monday, 15 June 2009 04:50 (fourteen years ago) link
― meisenfek, Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:29 AM (Yesterday)
why do you say?
― my god, it's full of straws! (k3vin k.), Monday, 15 June 2009 04:51 (fourteen years ago) link
goddam how great is ringo on "i feel fine"? some kinda faux-latin thing, just swings like hell.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Monday, 15 June 2009 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
why do you say?― my god, it's full of straws! (k3vin k.), Montag, 15. Juni 2009 05:51 (17 hours ago) Bookmark
banalizes child labour.on the other hand: agatha christie wrote a book called '10 little niggers'.
― meisenfek, Monday, 15 June 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 15 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
:( @ no one else picking "Money Can't Buy Me Love"
― ringtony ringtoni ringtone (The Reverend), Monday, 15 June 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
well, the three songs that didn't get any votes are the ones I've never heard ...
― tylerw, Monday, 15 June 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
You've never heard "Doo Wah Diddy"?
― ringtony ringtoni ringtone (The Reverend), Monday, 15 June 2009 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"And there she was just a-walkin' down the street/ Singin' doo-wah-diddy diddy-dum diddy-doo"
― ringtony ringtoni ringtone (The Reverend), Monday, 15 June 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
lolz yeah doesn't everybody know this song?!?
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 15 June 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
oops, yes i've heard that song. i was even in a band that played it. for some reason i thought the mandred mann was a cover? is that the original?
― tylerw, Monday, 15 June 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a cover, but the original isn't nearly as well known.
― ringtone bisexual is a feeling (The Reverend), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
so manfred mann's is the one they play on oldies stations? lol, i don't think i've ever known that.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
" (Beatles still in their "flippin' lousy" stage), "
bite your tongue! the more i revisit early beatles the more i realize what stellar musicians they were right from the get go. not to mention what a really fantastic infections bouncy energy they had in their early days. shame i'm too late to add a 10th vote for "she loves you"
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
do wah diddy diddy is a pretty incredible and great song, but so are another 10 or so of these songs
― "Bytchass of Juxberry" rules (hmmmm), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I removed the Beatles because they suck up too much air. Good year.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 01:09 (five years ago) link
I hated "She Loves You" as a kid, still hate it
― Dan S, Thursday, 18 April 2019 01:16 (five years ago) link
YEAH YEAH YEAH
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 01:16 (five years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Thursday, 18 April 2019 01:18 (five years ago) link
Now these are hits..
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:36 (two years ago) link
"chapel of love" too low, "hello dolly!" too high. i'm straight btw
― eisimpleir (crüt), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 03:15 (two years ago) link
I know a guy who played on “Chapel of Love.” /streetteam
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link
Also never tire of the story of how it saved, and then led to the destruction of, Leiber and Stoller’s record labels.
Which also messed up some projects of the guy I know, but he bounced back, just like them.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 03:24 (two years ago) link
Because of George Goldner's gambling + the Mafia?
― Josefa, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 04:03 (two years ago) link
Yeah. I see you’ve read about that.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
You and I- and dow, to some extent- have been posting in parallel about that without ever actually colliding.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 04:11 (two years ago) link
So I see! Reading my old posts can be very informative to me, since I'll often forget what I read just 2-3 years back.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 04:29 (two years ago) link
You and me both, brother! Like I was saying in another context, these days I am older than Mr. Atoz.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 04:36 (two years ago) link