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POLL: My (incomplete) personal canon 1967-1971

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A while back I started playlists of songs I randomly thought of that would form my personal canon of greatness, divided by groups of years. I haven't added to or updated them in months, so here's the first group I thought of for '67-'71.

BETTY HARRIS – There’s a Break in the Road
BLACK SABBATH – Jack the Stripper/Faeries Wear Boots
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART – Moonlight on Vermont
CLAUDINE LONGET – Nothing to Lose
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL – Ramble Tamble
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD – Son of a Preacher Man
EDDIE FLOYD – Big Bird
FRANCOISE HARDY – Voila
HERBIE HANCOCK – Fat Mama
ISAAC HAYES – Walk on By
JK & CO. – Fly
KOOL & THE GANG – Let the Music Take Your Mind
LOVE – 7 and 7 Is
MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA – You Know, You Know
NINEY THE OBSERVER – Blood and Fire
ROBERTA FLACK – Angelitos Negros
SYL JOHNSON – Is It Because I’m Black?
T. REX – The Motivator
THE ACTION – Brain
THE BYRDS – Everybody’s Been Burned
THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS – Hot Burrito #1
THE GROUNDHOGS – Cherry Red
THE KINKS – Shangri-La
THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL – Darling, Be Home Soon
THE RED KRAYOLA – Hurricane Fighter Plane
THE ROLLING STONES – Monkey Man
THE SMALL FACES – All or Nothing
THE STOOGES – TV Eye
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – What Goes On
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS – Night and Day


― Chris L, Thursday, 31 July 2025 17:43 (two days ago)

voted love

― nxd, Thursday, 31 July 2025 17:44 (two days ago)

what goes on

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 31 July 2025 20:13 (two days ago)

Normally probably Dusty or the Velvets, but "TV Eye" steamrollers over all!

― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 31 July 2025 22:54 (two days ago)

Creedence 4eva

― sleeve, Friday, 1 August 2025 01:12 (yesterday)

Dusty, for bias ov luving her and the one whose song for me was this (mine for her was "Kentucky Woman").

― dow, Friday, 1 August 2025 01:18 (yesterday)

But even w that, tough list to chose from.

― dow, Friday, 1 August 2025 01:19 (yesterday)

Son of a Preacher Man: a song that should have reached the point of oversaturation long ago yet still manages to knock me out.

― cryptosicko, Friday, 1 August 2025 11:06 (yesterday)

Red Krayola, Stooges, Sabbath

― sarahell, Friday, 1 August 2025 13:18 (yesterday)

Preacher Man vs Walk On By vs What Goes On

All perfect songs, but WGO is some pinnacle of humankind, especially considering all the live version. The song fucks.

― Cow_Art, Friday, 1 August 2025 13:57 (yesterday)

Preacher Man vs Walk On By vs What Goes On

All perfect songs, but WGO is some pinnacle of humankind, especially considering all the live version. The song fucks.

― Cow_Art, Friday, 1 August 2025 13:58 (yesterday)

Wrong week for me to not vote Sabbath

― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Friday, 1 August 2025 14:29 (yesterday)

1. "Ramble Tamble"
2. "What Goes On"
3. "Darling, Be Home Soon"

― clemenza, Friday, 1 August 2025 14:31 (yesterday)

this is really tough, my eye gravitated to "what goes on" and "ramble tamble" and "tv eye" and "walk on by" but it looks like they'll have some support. i'd be bummed if "hot burrito" got no votes so i'm gonna go for that one

― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 August 2025 14:37 (yesterday)

"Darling Be Home Soon" is in many ways a lovely pop song, but I can never get by the use of the word "dawdled."

― cryptosicko, Friday, 1 August 2025 14:37 (yesterday)

even tho i prefer #2 to #1

xp

― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 August 2025 14:37 (yesterday)

"A quarter of my life is almost past" ("Darling, Be Home Soon")--what an odd way to frame being 22 years old.

― clemenza, Friday, 1 August 2025 14:45 (yesterday)

The Love track is incredible so

― Ray Cat Strut (dog latin), Friday, 1 August 2025 18:19 (yesterday)

"walk on by" but if "keep on chooglin'" had been the CCR track it would've been that

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 1 August 2025 19:01 (yesterday)


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