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Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Monday, 15th March 2010
One of the hours on Easter Monday will be themed to the year 1969 - tunes from the year I was 2. As many as we can manage.
Suggestions here please...
The Narrow Way Pts. 1-3 (Pink Floyd)
1969 - The Stooges
i suggest:
the tra la la song (one banana two banana)- the banana splits
or
walking in the rain - the ronettes
Creedence Clearwater Revival at their zenith - Proud Mary then, please.
"In and out of Focus" was originally recorded in 1969, which may explain the "once in a life mescaline".
If that's too iffy, how about "House of the King"? All your listeners can think of top TV programme "Don't Ask Me!" and do the Magnus Pyke dance - "wave your arms in the air like you were trying to explain the principle of conservation of angular momentum"...
OOOOOH! Nice one! What a year. I was DESIGNED and BUILT to be 19 years old in 1969, but unfortunately due to cock-ups in logistics on God's part, didn't even arrive on the planet until 1970. It's all been a bit of a disappointment ever since. But what God made wrong, Gid can put right......
1 hour's radio - that's going to be only about 10 or 12 tracks to cover one of the greatest years in rock'n'roll history.
Of course, you could give yourself an hour off and play the 1969 Island sampler "Nice Enough to Eat", both sides.
Give us a steer Gid - are we looking the GREATEST tracks of that year, Planet Rock stylee? or forgotten gems? or wilfully obscurantist?
If the latter, why not something off FJ Macmahon's album of Vietnam survivor PTSD laments, "Spirit of the Golden Juice"? [Cherry Red re-issue CD: Revola REV 295]
Equally obscure - Sam Gopal (featuring an unknown Lemmy on vocals)- "Grass" from the album Escalator.
Soft Machine - "Instant Pussy" - Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Session Top Gear 10.11.6 - Robert Wyatt's voice and observational humour and musical playfulness at their peak. I cannot understand why this isn't the national anthem. [no need for rooting in the basement for the tape - it's on the CD "Soft Machine Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio 1967-1971" HUX records HUX 037]
Forest "Graveyard"
Pentangle - Lyke Wake Dirge
Johnny Cash - anything off "At St Quentin"
Leonard Cohen - Story of Isaac
MC5 - kick out the jams
Jethro Tull - you're spoilt for choice from the album "Stand Up" but "Back to the family" is a corker.
Velvet Underground's self titled 1969 album contains "Candy Says", "What Goes On", Some Kinda Love", "Pale Blue Eyes" and "Jesus" back to back on side A. I don't think you could find such a perfect side of an album anywhere else. Side B lets itself down a bit, mind.
And if there's going to be any Floyd, my vote's for "Soundtrack from the Film More". Gotta be "Cirrus Minor". or Green is the Colour, as a close second. But really, Cirrus Minor is the nuts, isn't it?
There's more.......
...being ***FOLKJOKEOPUS*** of course. Two standout tracks amongst the massively stoned stuff: 'She's the One'. And 'McGoohans Blues'
Somewhere there's a 1969 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ session of Roy singing "She's the One".
My "Directory of Popular Music" disgorges the following: "Sabre dance" (Dave Edmunds), "The Liquidator" (Harry J All Stars), "Give peace a chance", "Delta Lady" (Joe Cocker), "Dancing in the street", "Space Oddity" and quite a few other goodies.
I'd vote for Sabre dance.
If you're feeling skittish, you could always play "Dick a dum dum" by Des O'Connor.
Something off Nashville Skyline, Wilson Picket's cover of Born To Be Wild, Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White, more when i think of them...
The Stones- Gimme Shelter (or was that '70?) Simon & Garf- The Boxer, The Band - Night they Drove Old Dixie Down, Dylan - Lay Lady Lay, Jackson 5 - I Want You Back, Blind Faith - Cant Find My Way Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ......
I was only two, but my collection's full of this stuff.
1968-72. A high water mark.
Good call on the Blind Faith number.
1968-72. A high water mark.
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Yep. Oh for a time machine.
The missus is getting annoyed at me clambering in front of the telly to check CD dates.
How's about anything from "Dusty in Memphis"? Let's face it, you are rather spoilt for choice with that album.
Rather a lot to choose from in 1969. Difficult to cut it down to just an hour's worth really.
Fairport Convention managed to release three fine albums in 1969. Astonishing really, especially considering the road accident that year which killed their original drummer. How about Autopsy from Unhalfbricking, or Crazy Man Michael from Liege And Lief?
Maybe Wooden Ships in either of the Jefferson Airplane or CS&N versions, or Guinnevere by the latter?
Badge by Cream?
Anthing from Five Leaves Left by Nick Drake, and of course something from Kip Of The Serenes by Dr. Strangely Strange?
A bit biased towards the wistier end of things, some of those suggestions, I know. It was a good year for wist though.
How about some Stooges?
'1969' would be too obvious (obviously), but 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' is an absolute corker.
Or, if you're *not* in the mood for one-chord noise, How about something off 'Five Leaves Left'?
Or, if, like me, you like a Werewolf, how about 'Bad Moon Rising' by CCR?
You'll be being pressured to play something off 'Abbey Road', but how about playing something off 'Yellow Submarine' instead? If the moth-eaten old tapestry I use for a memory is to be relied upon, last time I saw the film, 'Hey Bulldog' wasn't bad....
Given the sad news, how about Lesley Duncan's 1969 single - A Road to Nowehere. Or its even-better B side, "Love Song"?
, in reply to message 16.
Posted by cookingwith7 (U13998372) on Thursday, 18th March 2010
Another vote for something off The Velvet Underground (Pale Blue Eyes?)
Also the Flying Burrito Bros 'Gilded Palace of Sin' - (Hot Burrito #1?)
Gram Parson's finest hour!
'You Can't Always Get What You Want' by the Stones just about sums up the end of the sixties for me.
And another vote for something Fairporty.
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