Acclaimed Music Top 35 Songs from 1970 poll

LAST YEAR

keep going into the sixties weirdo

anyhow voting 'layla' over 'instant karma', 'fire and rain', 'band of gold', 'song to the siren'

Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine

'instant karma'

worst would be 'yr song' over the lightfoot w/ i guess 'working class hero' as a very distant third

Damn, i know just about every song here. Pressure drop, layla, or sex machine.

or mccartney

pressure drop, iron man, or -- feel lame-o for even thinking this -- bridge over troub . . . bah.

CURTIS MAYFIELD

"Sex Machine" just barely over "Pressure Drop." And if the Who's "Summertime Blues" was on the list, I'd still vote James.

Curtis Mayfield all the way.

No After The Gold Rush representation, no credibility..

39 Southern Man, 45 After the Gold Rush, 51 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young "Helpless," 54 Only Love Can Break Your Heart.

will either do the sixty, this time counting forward, or will jump to the nineties the next go around as the eighties are done. will have several months to decide but like the idea of going backwards. if and when we do the nineties those lists will be modified to align more with ILM's taste.

several xposts and "weirdo" really?

Really tough one for me (and yes, at least one Gold Rush song should be on there).

Contenders: "Fire and Rain," "Instant Karma," "Band of Gold," "Lola," "Ohio," "Maybe I'm Amazed," "We've Only Just Begun," "If You Could Read My Mind," both Velvets and CCR songs.

move on up

box of rain, the only inspired choice

maybe I'm amazed slightly over instant karma, war pigs and rock & roll

also Bee OK, please keep doing these! No reason to stop now!

don't stop till we're deep in the 1890s, imo

I think these are the only ILM threads I click on these days

Sweet Jane over Move On Up.

Short List:

James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
Edwin Starr - War
The Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll
Black Sabbath - Iron Man
The Temptations - Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)
Black Sabbath - War Pigs

It's a very short list: Far too much whimpy stuff that Geir probably loves (is he still around here?) but I've got no time for. And some "classic" songs that always rubbed me the wrong way ("Lola," "All Right Now," all of the Beatles-and-solo-members stuff).

Why are there three Black Sabbath songs here? Oh right, "Paranoid" is one of the best albums ever made. Forgot.

Gonna go with the title track.

thanks for the feedback Darin. i will continue this as it has been fun but going with the pattern i have established. Albums polls in the summer and tracks polls in the winter. have started the 80s and 70s albums in the first week of June, might move that date up to early May. like i have said next go around will be either the 60s or 90s, still have yet to decide.

Bridesmaid and championship rounds will be coming after this year.

PRESSURE DROP, people

I too have no time for whimpy stuff *opens beer bottle with teeth*

That Carpenters song is one of their best. And if you grew up with AM Top 40 radio, you too have fond memories. Having said that, voted "Layla" over James Taylor.

Pressure drop, box of rain, immigrant song, song to the siren, war pigs, move on up

^one of those

Shocked at lack of Ramble Tamble

I too have no time for whimpy stuff *opens beer bottle with teeth*

You mean "Fire and Rain," or just the Carpenters? I'll give you the Carpenters--I love "We've Only Just Begun" and a few other early hits, but I understand that it helps to have been a certain age at the time. But "Fire and Rain" is harrowing.

Pressure Drop

it's one of three Black Sabbath songs, one of the CCR songs, one of the Van Morrison songs, one of the Beatles or solo songs or "Band of Gold," "Song to the Siren," or "Ball of Confusion."

don't think i have ever heard "Pressure Drop."

Really tough choice. Went with 'Box of Rain' because of recent interests.

don't think i have ever heard "Pressure Drop."

― Bee OK, Saturday, January 11, 2014

omg you must correct this. here. toots' voice is amazing.

Pressure Drop and it's not even close.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

voting "Rock and Roll" as i have had that feeling listening to a song before.

i know it's OTT and schmaltzy and whatever but I do have a soft spot for Bridge Over Troubled Water.

obviously it's Gord (but "Move on Up" would be second)

War Pigs

One of these: Paranoid, Lola, Into the Mystic

Also "Fire and Rain" which is like the one great thing James Brown has done.

Oops, James Taylor, obv. Typing too fast.

Trying to imagine James Brown covering "Fire and Rain" is rather disorienting.

aw i think the whole "sweet baby james" album is grate.

and by grate i mean great

I voted for "Fire and Rain"...it's James Brown where I'm on the outside looking in.

clem you've heard the isley's 'fire and rain' right? i imagine james brown's would up the drama from there, something like 'it's a man's man's man's world'

I had to check, but I knew right away where to look--I've got it on that double compilation where they cover "Ohio" and "Lay Lady Lay" and the like. Don't remember how it goes, but you're right, it's not that far-fetched an idea. It might even sound like the ballads I like on There It Is.

it's gotta be rock and roll.

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

I had to check, but I knew right away where to look--I've got it on that double compilation where they cover "Ohio" and "Lay Lady Lay" and the like. Don't remember how it goes, but you're right, it's not that far-fetched an idea. It might even sound like the ballads I like on There It Is.

― clemenza, Monday, January 13, 2014 6:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Those are all on Givin' It Back:

Givin' It Back is the ninth album released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint on April 8, 1971.[2] After years of having white rock acts covering their most famed material, particularly, "Shout" and "Twist and Shout", the Isleys decided to do the same to music made famous by white artists such as Stephen Stills, Eric Burdon and Neil Young. Among the songs they covered were "Spill the Wine", "Love the One You're With", the social commentary medley of "Ohio" and "Machine Gun" (from Jimi Hendrix), "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor and Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay". The Isleys' perseverance paid off when their covers of "Love the One You're With", "Lay Lady Lay" and "Spill the Wine" became charted hits.[3] Bill Withers plays guitar on the Isleys' version of his "Cold Bologna".[2]

"Fire and Rain" is tremendous, streets ahead of Taylor's version.

Listening to it now...I like their "Ohio," but I gotta demur there. It takes them a minute-and-a-half to find the song; the rest is okay, but I think it's 100% James Taylor's.