1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die - 1974

In this case, Genesis gets my vote without a shadow of a doubt. "Carpet Crawlers" is absolutely gorgeous and one of the highlights of the "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" album.

(And I feel the rest of the list isn't all that strong either - missing some 10cc here)

Either George Jones or Genesis

But how is it possible that "September Gurls" is not here?

Louisana 1927 over any other song ever

aguas de marco

not even a question for me here, aguas de marco elis & tom

But how is it possible that "September Gurls" is not here?

At this stage, the book seems more like "Let's mention a bunch of tunes that more people should pay attention to" than an actual "canon" list. But, sure, "September Gurls" surely should have been in there. They picked "Thirteen" instead, it seems.

C'mon guys!

Sparks!

Quite a few I don't know here. Nearly voted for Aguas De Marco, but plumped for Tom Waits as it's the earliest song by him I truly love. The orchestral version is absolutely beautiful and I don't know why it never got a proper release.

voting "No Woman No Cry" oh wait it's not included. also some other major omissions "She's Gone," "Autobahn" "Killer Queen," "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" and "Waterloo."

"No Woman No Cry" might have been included in the 1975 bunch instead, as the live version is arguably more famous than the original studio recording.

"Might Have"? You teasin?

Well... it isn't....

Aguas de Marco, easily.

Appendix: Songs You Must Hear Before You Die 1974 (Non-featured)

Astor Piazzola - Libertango
Betty Davis - Your Mama Wants Ya Back
Big Star - September Gurls
Brian Eno - Needles in the Camel's Eye
Dadawah - Zion Land
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - The Bottle
James Brown - The Payback
Jeanette - Porque te vas
Jorge Ben - Meninha Mulher da Pele Preta
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Labelle - Lady Marmalade
Lucio Battisti - Due Mondi
Paco de Lucía - Entre dos aguas
Pilot - Magic
Robert Wyatt - Sea Song
Roxy Music - The Thrill of it All
The Meters - It Ain't No Use
Santana - Black Magic Woman / Oye Como Va
Queen - Killer Queen / Stone Cold Crazy
ZZ Top - La Grange

Bizarre choice of songs in this poll

One of these lists is clearly better than the other.

"Needles in the Camel's Eye" is 1973 (xp)

And "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va" are 1968. Must be some live versions.

Mmm seems you're right. Both Here Come the Warm Jets & Taking Tiger Mountain are catalogued on RYM as 1974 so I got confused. Still an important omission from the 1973 list, then.

Also true.... Santana versions are live ones so they're null. I was looking at the Lotus album which is in fact a live album. Sorry about those.

Getting worse and worse--notice that radio's almost been abandoned (I count three hits), which tells you a lot. Anyway, as great as "Sweet Home Alabama" is, I'll vote for "Withered and Died."

My own '74 list would add: Aretha's "Until You Come Back to Me," Big Star's "September Gurls," Bowie's "Rebel Rebel," Dionne & the Spinners' "Then Came You," Eno's "The True Wheel," Electric Light Orchestra's "Can't Get It Out of My Head," Jackson Browne's "Late for the Sky," John Cale's "Fear Is a Man's Best Friend," Jorma Kaukonen's "Genesis," Neil's "Ambulance Blues," and Steely Dan's "Rikki, Don't Lose That Number" and "Pretzel Logic." I expect Stevie Wonder will win, and that'd be a good choice.

"Autobahn" is a serious omission, tho I suppose it wasn't a hit till '75

Everything here is dated according to release date, so "Autobahn" would have been in the 1974 list. There will be Kraftwerk later - it seems like they have tried to limit releases per act to a minimum, which explains most of the omissions (but not how they sometimes choose obscure album cuts instead of the most famous ones)

Well, Stevie Wonder is doing quite well then...

He's been in each of the previous ones, but not sure if there's anything at all from "Songs In The Key Of Life"

"Aguas de Marco" never fails to elevate my mood.

I love "sweet home alabama," but it's like already in the top 10 songs you can't avoid hearing before you die.

Sparks
Dolly
Skynyrd

"Withered and Died", good song, but not the one I would have picked from "Bright Lights"

(spoiler alert) "Sir Duke"

Sparks!

Joni

Deep Purple-Burn for the win.

Wrote a little thing on "Carpet Crawlers" last year:

http://thisiheard.blogspot.com/2010/06/genesis-carpet-crawlers-1974.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRqI5R6L7ow

tho the bobby bland, richard thompson, randy newman, and stevie songs are great too

Randy.

George Jones

this is a pretty bad list

Dolly vs. George Jones vs. Sparks

Sparks by a long way.

Brutal tug of war between "Aguas de Marco" and Sparks, these two stomp all over the rest of the list.

'Free Man in Paris'

águas de março.

Others missing (funk division): "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)," "Loose Booty" (Sly), "Sexy Ida," "Fire" (Ohio Players), "Everybody Party All Night" (Chairmen of the Board), "Hey Pocky A-Way," and "Red Hot Mama" or "Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On."

The performance by George Jones on "The Grand Tour" is well, quite devastating.

Huh? Steep fall of from last few lists. I'll give a somewhat enthusiastic vote to Free Man in Paris.

No fair showing the picture of ABBA when "Waterloo" didn't make it...

Aguas de Marco by a huge margin

One of the two people I've never heard of is going to win this. (Who is Stevie Wright? I mean, I know it's not K-Bob Billy's Super Sounds of the '70s Steven Wright...)

He was in the Easybeats.

No fair showing the picture of ABBA when "Waterloo" didn't make it...

Choosing neutral pics here. Otherwise I could of course have posted the pic of Peter Gabriel as a slipperman. :)

Others missing (funk division): "Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)," "Loose Booty" (Sly), "Sexy Ida," "Fire" (Ohio Players), "Everybody Party All Night" (Chairmen of the Board), "Hey Pocky A-Way," and "Red Hot Mama" or "Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On."

Then again, this is "1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die", not "1001 Funk Tracks You Must Groove To Before You Die".

not even sure "Free Man in Paris" is the "best" song on here but gd it's my favourite

"Ain't No Love..." is perfect. So, that.

Can't vote for Stevie 3 years in a row.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

What is the point without:

Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye – My Mistake
Elton John – Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
John Cale – Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend
Lou Reed – Kill Your Sons
Mott The Hoople – Roll Away The Stone
Ohio Players – Skin Tight
New York Dolls – Who Are The Mystery Girls?
Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night
Parliament – Up For The Down Stroke
Paul McCartney & Wings – Jet
Al Wilson – Show And Tell
Robert Wyatt – Sea Song
Roxy Music – Out Of The Blue
Rufus Tell Me Something Good
Slapp Happy – Casablanca Moon
Stylistics – You Make Me Feel Brand New
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You’ve Got

Then again, this is "1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die", not "1001 Funk Tracks You Must Groove To Before You Die".

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 2 July 2011 10:17 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Want, specifically, thread:

"1001 Funk Tracks You, yes You, Geir, talkin to you, Must Groove To Before You Die".

Of course, when the song "Land of a 1000 dances" exists, what is dance 1001?

Sparks

legitimately bummed about the lack of Eno or Neil or Big Star here; Sparks is great but is getting a lot of love so I'm going to throw a vote to Richard & Linda Thompson

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Least predictable results so far. Voted for George Jones btw.

Voted Patti Smith and v v pleasantly surprised to see I wasn't the only one!

Then again, this is "1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die", not "1001 Funk Tracks You Must Groove To Before You Die".

While true, I find grooving to these songs a much richer life experience than hearing the Sparks, Genesis, or Newman tunes. ("Sexy Ida" and "Fire" do make the extended list in the book's appendix.) And it's a shame that during such a massively rich year for the funk sub-genre only earns one spot on the big list (Wonder).

I rank these top tens, you see.

Very agreeable but Gordon Lightfoot is good to great come on.