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“Sweet Emotion”--taken. “Spill the Wine,” “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” “Dirty Work,” they’re gone too. I want to help P.T. Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, David O. Russell, or the next person who tries to capture that elusive something about the ‘70s in a song. I don’t want to interfere with the upcoming classic-rock poll, so I’ll limit myself to 10 personal favourites that unroll like films in my mind, and, to the best of my knowledge, haven’t been given the full-Scorsese yet. Which of these is most deserving of that next grand tracking shot into a posse of drugged-up, wigged-out, badly dressed, but ultimately pure-of-heart casualties as they reflect on their sad, wasted lives?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
“Downed,” Cheap Trick 4
“Ramble Tamble,” CCR 2
“Sea Child,” Hot Tuna 1
“Let It Rain,” Eric Clapton 1
“Green Grass and High Tides,” the Outlaws 1
“That’s All You Need,” the Faces 0
“Bad Time,” Grand Funk Railroad 0
“Meadows,” Joe Walsh 0
“Comin’ Home,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 0
“Message from the Country,” the Move 0


clemenza, Sunday, 29 December 2013 02:06 (eleven years ago)

I guess the Hot Tuna track is the most obscure thing on there, so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65uA4JjZA0U

Meant to be a silly, non-inclusive poll. Sorry there's no disco--keeping it short and focused. I'm starting to wonder if I remember "Message in the Country" turning up somewhere...

clemenza, Sunday, 29 December 2013 02:10 (eleven years ago)

SEA CHILD

xp

brimstead, Sunday, 29 December 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago)

I feel like there's a Joe Walsh zeitgeist going on recently. Not just on ilm, but in other areas of real life. "Meadows" has as good a shot as anything else, I suppose.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 December 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago)

Gotta vote for Skynyrd bcz Skynyrd & it's a great great song

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 December 2013 04:04 (eleven years ago)

I could see "Downed" being used in a bunch of different ways.

earlnash, Sunday, 29 December 2013 04:26 (eleven years ago)

Meadows IS awesome. Joe Walsh's first 3 albums are all front to back solid, imo.

brimstead, Sunday, 29 December 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago)

The tune like this that comes to mind for something where it might get used movie and it will become more known is Mott the Hoople's "Laugh At Me".

Joe Walsh is just cool. Those James Gang records he did are great too, especially Thirds.

earlnash, Sunday, 29 December 2013 04:28 (eleven years ago)

When ELO's "10538 Overture" started up in American Hustle, at first I thought it was "Downed."

clemenza, Sunday, 29 December 2013 04:41 (eleven years ago)

I find directors tend to be more imaginative with '70s music than with the '60s--they dig around a little deeper. When "Little Green Bag" turned up in Reservoir Dogs, I hadn't thought about that song in years. "Fat Man" and "Magnet and Steel" in Boogie Nights came out of nowhere, ditto "10538 Overture" in American Hustle or the punk stuff in Carlos. You get that occasionally with '60s songs--"Making Time" in Rushmore--but mostly it's Motown, the Byrds, "California Dreamin'," Hendrix, "For What It's Worth," etc. Maybe my own radar's just more attuned to the '70s. But I wish some director would throw in the Fugs, or the Godz, or Henry Flynt sometime for the '60s. I would think you could license a Fugs song for a cup of coffee and a smile.

clemenza, Monday, 30 December 2013 13:40 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 4 January 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Ramble Tamble

gman59, Saturday, 4 January 2014 00:06 (eleven years ago)

I'll go with "Downed"--very cinematic. Slow-motion, druggy, tilted frame, timed perfectly for a close-up of the hero when the drums kick in at thirty-two seconds. (You could substitute "Downed" for "Sweet Emotion" at the beginning of Dazed and Confused.) Later on, when he meets the Woman Who Will Bring Him Down, "Bad Time." Any one of these could be used brilliantly.

clemenza, Saturday, 4 January 2014 00:24 (eleven years ago)

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

System, Sunday, 5 January 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)


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