Which 45s Feature Songs by Different Bands?

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The discussion centers around the quest for the best song ever recorded, with participants sharing a wide array of personal favorites across various genres. Key highlights include Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run," Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On," and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," which is noted for its enduring popularity since its release in 1975. Other notable mentions include Bob Dylan's "American Pie," Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower," and classic rock staples like "Stairway to Heaven" and "Hotel California." Participants express that the best song often depends on mood and context, with driving music being a common theme. The conversation also touches on the emotional connections songs evoke, with mentions of classical pieces like Mozart's "Requiem" and contemporary hits from bands like Green Day and U2. Overall, the thread reflects a rich tapestry of musical appreciation, showcasing how diverse tastes contribute to the subjective nature of identifying the "best" song.
  • #51
Ten Years After - I'm going home, I'd Love to Change the World.
Black Sabbath - The Wizard, and most anything else from their catalog.
Judas Priest - ditto, especially Free Wheel Burning!
Bill Withers - Lean on Me, Use Me Up.
James Taylor - catalog
Chicago - I'm a Man, almost anything before they "jumped the shark"
 
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  • #52
I wouldn't say any of these are 'the best song ever' but I do like to listen to them once in a while

Bruce Springsteen - Murder Incorporated
George Thorogood - Get a haircut
Meat Loaf - Life is a lemon, everything louder than everything else
John Lennon - God, Watching the wheels, Imagine
Trooper - Raise a little hell
Twisted Sister - Heroes are hard to find
Led Zeppelin - Dream on, Pour some sugar on me
Jerry Lee lewis - Great Balls of fire
Dire Straits - Industrial Disease
Chuck Berry - Johnny B Good
 
  • #53
Fade to Black- Metallica

Needs no explanation.
 
  • #54
For non-artistic reasons, 'We Are the World' should probably be in there somewhere.
 
  • #55
Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping
 
  • #56
Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues
One Tin Soldier - Coven
Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Elton John
 
  • #57
Chronos said:
One Tin Soldier - Coven

Cool. :cool: Its rare to find a OTS fan.

Do you happen to remember what was on the flip side?
 
  • #58
Ivan Seeking said:
Cool. :cool: Its rare to find a OTS fan.

Do you happen to remember what was on the flip side?
Okay, what's this 'Coven' ****? One Tin Soldier was written and originally performed for the Billy Jack soundtrack by Dixie Lee Stone and the Original Caste. Dixie Lee was one of the kid performers on a kid show in Calgary called Safety Roundup when I was even more of a kid. The band didn't last too long, but this was their serious biggie.
 
  • #59
The Arrogant worms - Stalker Girl
 
  • #60
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
 
  • #61
nobody mentioned any trance music...
 
  • #62
Werewolves of London, Jeannie Needs a Shooter, & Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner by Warren Zevon.
Never Surrender by Cory Hart.
Wall Street Shuffle by 10cc.
Bad to the Bone by Thorogood (sp?)
The Authority Song & Paper in Fire by Mellencamp
American Idiot by Greenday
Touch of Gray by CSN (is Y in that one?)
Get Over It by Eagles
Jet Airliner by Steve Miller
Karma Chameleon by Boy George (Culture Club)
 
  • #63
Leo Kottke - "Vaseline Machine Gun" This is played on a 12 string with a slide. He's fricking awesome.
 
  • #64
Evo said:
Leo Kottke - "Vaseline Machine Gun" This is played on a 12 string with a slide. He's fricking awesome.
Oh, the visions that title engenders! Quick, get your pretty avatar back up so I won't be associating them with a bug!
 
  • #65
Danger said:
Okay, what's this 'Coven' ****? One Tin Soldier was written and originally performed for the Billy Jack soundtrack by Dixie Lee Stone and the Original Caste. Dixie Lee was one of the kid performers on a kid show in Calgary called Safety Roundup when I was even more of a kid. The band didn't last too long, but this was their serious biggie.

Wow, I didn't know that. I still have the 45 by Coven, which was the popular release. I always thought that this was from the original soundtrack. Funny...I've even seen the movie since its original release, and I would think the difference would be obvious. :confused:
 
  • #66
Hey, there's one for the youngers: Do kids now even know that we used to buy just two songs at a time?
 
  • #67
you talking about the vinyl :biggrin:
 
  • #68
Ivan Seeking said:
Wow, I didn't know that. I still have the 45 by Coven, which was the popular release. I always thought that this was from the original soundtrack. Funny...I've even seen the movie since its original release, and I would think the difference would be obvious. :confused:
Okay, we were both right and wrong. I'm still having trouble getting used to being able to just Google something, but I did it in this case to see what the hey was going on. Coven did indeed perform the version used in the movie, and released it as a single, but it was a remake of the Original Caste's hit. I must have heard the 2 far enough apart to not notice the difference. I still have a hell of a time telling Smashmouth's version of I'm a Believer from the Monkees.
Speaking of which, the aforementioned & Last Train To Clarksville, and Pleasant Valley Sunday by the Monkees
You Are My Number One and Walking on the Sun by Smashmouth
Blister In the Sun by Violent Femmes (loved Grosse Point Blank)
Angel by Shaggy
Weird for an atheist to say, but 2 of my favourites are Like a Prayer by Madonna and Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi. :redface:
 
  • #69
Funny, has anyone mentioned a single song by Framton? The Framton Comes Alive album was absolutely huge for a time.
 
  • #70
We Gotta Get Out of this Place by Eric Burdon (w/ or w/o Animals?)
Thick as a Brick by Tull
Despite the way people like to characterize her, Shania Twain is rock, not cowboy ****, and I really like 'Up'.
(I also like everything by the Go-Go's. :redface:)
This one should be here just because it has the longest title for a song (or did in the 1974 Guiness book): "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokahama With My Honalulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-O Beat-O Flat on My Seat-O Hirohito Blues" by Hoagy Carmichael. I'd like to know how they fit that on the label. :biggrin:
 
  • #71
hypnagogue said:
On the first run through the CD, Ramblin' Man was playing as we finally got off the highway and slowly crept through the small town of Chamberlain, South Dakota towards the campsite. When it finished, I had to play it again, because it was just too good of a match for the whole scene.

Do delta women think the world of you?

By the way, South Dakota was the first state I've ever been in that has a 75mph speed limit. And it also has the Badlands. God bless South Dakota.

California has a max speed of 75, but you'll only find that out in the middle of the desert.
 
  • #72
Entropy said:
Fade to Black- Metallica

Needs no explanation.
I was losing hope until i made it to this post.
 
  • #73
Before joining PF, I was a music addict. One of my hobbies was to make CD sets to take with me in my car, but most of all when going to Lake Powell for several days. In deciding to make a Classic Rock set, I began to catalogue and collect CDs/Singles I did not already have. I've been doing this slowly over a few years. I have everything I've collected so far in a spreadsheet--maybe I could find a way to post it, because I would love any additions I may have missed. (So far no one has mentioned a classic rock song I don't know of/have).
 
  • #74
maybe sandstorm by darude
or come into my dream by foggy

meh i duno too many songs lmao
 
  • #75
Danger said:
Despite the way people like to characterize her, Shania Twain is rock, not cowboy ****, and I really like 'Up'.
That might mean something if it wasn't known you were a patriotic Canadian. You just like her cause she's famous and Canadian.
 
  • #76
Danger said:
You Are My Number One and Walking on the Sun by Smashmouth
:smile: What? Not allstar too?
 
  • #77
Ivan Seeking said:
Hey, there's one for the youngers: Do kids now even know that we used to buy just two songs at a time?
We still do, they're called singles. You don't get out much do you grandpa?
 
  • #78
Smurf said:
That might mean something if it wasn't known you were a patriotic Canadian. You just like her cause she's famous and Canadian.
Negative. I like it 'cause it sounds great. I'm friends with George Fox, but he knows that I don't like country and it doesn't hurt his feelings any. Some of his are folk rock rather than country, and I like them okay too. (Incidentally, when he first started going solo sometimes outside of the band called 'Cochrane', he was fired from the bar that I worked at because he wouldn't play country. He was a hard-core rocker. A couple of years later, I paid him $200 to play all night at my 3rd baseman's cabin for our ball team party.)
 
  • #79
Thorogood definately has some good songs.
'Move it on over', 'Summertime blues', 'get a haircut' (my favourite), and 'you talk to much' just to name a few
 
  • #80
Nice to know I am not the only old-timer to remember "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Sylvia's Mother."

Anybody remember "Toast and Marmalade for Tea" by Tin Tin around that same time?
 
  • #81
The Tennessee Birdwalk by Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan :biggrin:
 
  • #82
Smurf said:
We still do, they're called singles. You don't get out much do you grandpa?

What format, sonny? Still selling 45s in Canada, eh? :biggrin:
 
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  • #83
You May Be Right, For the Longest Time & This Is My Life by Billy Joel
The Mighty Quinn by Manfred Mann
Camarillo Brillo, I'm the Slime & Zombie Woof by the Mothers
Dream Weaver by Gary Wright
Baker Street & Right Down the Line by Gerry Rafferty
Almost all Simon & Garfunkel, but especially The Sounds of Silence, Homeward Bound & the Boxer
Kodachrome, Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard & Call Me Al by Paul Simon
 
  • #84
Now wait, we have to include almost everything by Simon and Garfunkel.
 
  • #85
Ivan Seeking said:
Now wait, we have to include almost everything by Simon and Garfunkel.
Is there an echo in here? :rolleyes: :cool:
 
  • #86
So I have heard that Steppenwolf invented metal. Comments?
 
  • #87
You can't 'invent' music.
 
  • #88
sure you can

in·vent Audio pronunciation of "invent" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-vnt)
tr.v. in·vent·ed, in·vent·ing, in·vents

1. To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.
2. To make up; fabricate: invent a likely excuse.


'by use of ingenuity or imagination' should also be added by 'use of drugs and plants'
 
  • #89
cronxeh said:
'by use of ingenuity or imagination' should also be added by 'use of drugs and plants'
:smile: :smile: :smile: true, true.

So.. wait, does that mean that the person invented the music? or the plant? :devil:
 
  • #90
Hard to say. Some people (Terence Mckenna) think that first people got their language, creative thinking, etc, from synethesia which resulted from eating psychodelic plants and mushrooms
 
  • #91
Talking to SOS2008 reminded me that I should list her theme song here: "Good Girls Don't" by the Knack. :-p
 
  • #92
What is your theme song Danger?

That reminds me: A Boy Named Sue.

:smile: :smile: :smile:

:biggrin:
 
  • #93
Oh wait, Smurf's theme song is a Boy Named Sue.
 
  • #94
Ivan Seeking said:
Oh wait, Smurf's theme song is a Boy Named Sue.
And I guess Artman's would be "Little Willie". :biggrin:
I'll claim 'Zombie Woof' as mine; at least it goes witht the avatar.
 
  • #95
Hey!1 Little Willy. I had forgotten about that.

Okay let me see...I'm going to pick...Space Oddity, by Bowie.
 
  • #96
okay now this is too weird. Check out what just popped up in a search

Bowie Sued Over Space Oddity; Published: 19-Apr-2005
http://www.star-ecentral.com/music/sleeve/notes.asp?file=archives/sleeve/2005/4/19/19BowieSuedO&date=4/19/2005
 
  • #97
Ivan Seeking said:
okay now this is too weird. Check out what just popped up in a search
:eek: My hero is tainted! :redface:
Speaking of whom—Putting Out Fire (With Gasoline)
Who's Going to Drive You Home & You Must Think by the Cars
White Wedding by Billy Idol
Bang a Gong by T-Rex
Rock 'N' Roll Pt.I by Gary Glitter
 
  • #98
Most of the CCR catalogue
Rock and Roll Girls & Center Field by John Fogerty
Come and Get Your Love by Redbone
Right Place, Wrong Time by Dr. John
O Siem by Susan Aglukark
We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions by Queen
 
  • #99
Danger said:
Talking to SOS2008 reminded me that I should list her theme song here: "Good Girls Don't" by the Knack. :-p
Very funny "Nasty Boy". :-p Did everyone forget the title of the thread? We want to know the BEST songs, not most obscure. Geez! :smile:
 
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  • #100
SOS2008 said:
Very funny Nasty Boy. :-p Did everyone forget the title of the thread?
Since when has the title had anything to do with what we post? :rolleyes:
 

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