Lars68 Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 (edited) When I think about truly great songs that have been forgotten by the passing of time that should be up there among the classics, still being played today, this song is at the top of my list. What a masterpiece of a song, one that mixes Springsteen quality lyrics with British rock and roll. To me this is Sweet Home Alabama classic standard and beyond... What is your top lost gem? Lars Edited February 22, 2020 by Lars68 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Very evocative ! Great song, thanks. (Reminds my of "Same Old Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg. ) Good Topic ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buke Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 one that I think of often and have put in my repertoire is Get Together by the Youngbloods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoSoxBiker Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Nice, Lars. I'm going to find it on Tidal. I suspect the song had some of it's ebb and flow squeezed out of it. I've got two entries. The first is a song that was popular and not lost, but I do feel it never got the accolades it should have. Very tough subject to boot. One of those songs that I wish I had written, but wish never had to be written to begin with. It's tragic to the nth degree. The second is one of those Blues acts who got "discovered" way too late in life, but we still have a decent sized catalogue to work with. My favorite version of Rolling and Tumbling Blues with his grandson on drums and his one-time neighbor and, as he says, "white son" on guitar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Anything Pearls Before Swine did, re: Use of Ashes, Rocket Man, Marjorie. And then there is always, Drunk Again by P.B. & The Butterfield Blues Band! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 22 hours ago, Buke said: one that I think of often and have put in my repertoire is Get Together by the Youngbloods If there is a Jessie Colin Young song (he, of course, did not pen Get Together) that is a true gem my vote goes for "Darkness Darkness" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 I once crawled down a rabbit hole of noted "b-sides" and was amazed that Sam Cooke's A Change Is gonna Come is a B-side to Shake.... Anyways that made me think of Bring It On Home To Me... which I hope is a song that never gets lost no matter the generation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 While street buskin' plus/minus 40 years ago a guy came over and asked if he could play my guitar. I handed it to him and got this one back. No doubt whatsoever - he delivered a pearl. Went straight home and bought the record. Obviously even better. Haven't heard it in a looong time. This was the lucky opportunity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 5 hours ago, Salfromchatham said: I once crawled down a rabbit hole of noted "b-sides" and was amazed that Sam Cooke's A Change Is gonna Come is a B-side to Shake.... Anyways that made me think of Bring It On Home To Me... which I hope is a song that never gets lost no matter the generation. Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls. Can’t go wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, zombywoof said: If there is a Jessie Colin Young song (he, of course, did not pen Get Together) that is a true gem my vote goes for "Darkness Darkness" But the Youngbloods version of Get Together is still pretty definitive. Darkness Darkness may be the best song JCY has written. Virtually everything off Soul of a City Boy , although I think most were covers, had an impact on me. Four in the Morning may have been my first playing attempt at an entire genre, after starting out in the PP&M school in high school and moving on to traditional ballads in my first two years of college. You gotta keep moving ahead to get anywhere. "Life is change, how it differs from the rocks..." Edited February 23, 2020 by j45nick additional thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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zombywoof Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) On 2/22/2020 at 11:01 AM, Hall said: Anything Pearls Before Swine did, re: Use of Ashes, Rocket Man, Marjorie. And then there is always, Drunk Again by P.B. & The Butterfield Blues Band! Good choices! The first time I heard Pearls Before Swine was on the Bob Fass show on WBAI radio in I think 1967. I went out the next day and bought their first LP. I went on to buy every following LP as well as Tom Rapp's (RIP) solo LPs. In the mid-1960s I could not get enough of the Blues Project and Butterfield Blues Band. I could never understand what all the hoopla about Clapton, Page and Beck was when we had Danny Kalb and Mike Bloomfield. When it comes to Butterfield my favorite LP remains a boot which has the full 1965 Butterfield Newport set as well as the Dylan electric set which they backed him on. Edited February 24, 2020 by zombywoof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) Some great choices here - R.L who if you were real lucky you could see playing on his porch on your way to Junior's Place and Graham Parker who in a prefect world would have sold more LPs than Springsteen But for my money, if there is a song that belongs on the Mount Rushmore of tunes this be it. I have been a big fan since Fairport Convention. Edited February 24, 2020 by zombywoof 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 5 hours ago, zombywoof said: Some great choices here - R.L who if you were real lucky you could see playing on his porch on your way to Junior's Place and Graham Parker who in a prefect world would have sold more LPs than Springsteen But for my money, if there is a song that belongs on the Mount Rushmore of tunes this be it. I have been a big fan since Fairport Convention. Yes, you're right on 1952 V B L! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 I got to thinking a little more on this topic and realized I have a soft spot in my heart for Steve Miller's SEASONS and Family's My Friend The Sun. I still do both these songs to this very day so they must have reached me deeply way back when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 5 minutes ago, Hall said: have a soft spot in my heart for Steve Miller's SEASONS , , , Ouh, , , got the record but haven't heard in a long time. Very groovii tune with tons of atmosphere. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoSoxBiker Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 I last 6 seconds on You Tube with that one. Had to go to Tidal to listen (or anything but the 'tube) Sheeesh!!! Did you see who produced that? Glyn Johns? Dang! That's some serious pedigree. The music world is more tightly related than most barn cats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 2 hours ago, PatriotsBiker said: The music world is more tightly related than most barn cats. Probably connected via McCartney - well a guess. Back then the beat circles were very narrow. The tripe/trip didn't count many indians. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Time to get serious here. The answer to the question who was the greatest bar band of all time. Who else but NRBQ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 On 2/23/2020 at 2:10 PM, E-minor7 said: While street buskin' plus/minus 40 years ago a guy came over and asked if he could play my guitar. I handed it to him and got this one back. No doubt whatsoever - he delivered a pearl. Went straight home and bought the record. Obviously even better. Haven't heard it in a looong time. This was the lucky opportunity. Don't bother with the local girls. Don't bother with them, they don't bother me. Love that album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 These guys got cheesy but their first few album were great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: Don't bother with the local girls. Don't bother with them, they don't bother me. Love that album. Okay - admit not being able to remember it in detail, which would change if I gave it a spin. Not sure it'll happen. But that song'n'performance stay sublime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Pepper Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, E-minor7 said: Okay - admit not being able to remember it in detail, which would change if I gave it a spin. Not sure it'll happen. But that song'n'performance stay sublime. He was one of those angry kind of new wavers like Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson when they started out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 33 minutes ago, Sgt. Pepper said: He was one of those angry kind of new wavers like Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson when they started out. Exactly - fresh raving men. In uncontrolled doses too frustrated for me. Good however - and probably necessary at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoSoxBiker Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 A cover of CCR's "Long as I Can See the Light" by Ted Hawkins. An interesting enough character in music history. From what I understand, he was a long time street performer in Venice Beach who played an open tuning guitar with a leather glove on his fret hand. And this one. Stan Webb and his Chicken Shack doing "Last Night I Lost the Best Friend I Ever Had". If you like over-driven Les Paul Tone, but can't sit through10-15 minutes of Blues, fast forward a bit and find his solos. Magnificent tone in it's rawness and imperfections, IMHO. This is one of those Blues classic rhythm and progressions that one can go from this song to "Somebody Load Me A Dime" to an alternate tuning of "Since I've Been Loving You" and play for an hour before you think 15 minutes has passed.....even considering how bad I am at this. Anyhow..... (btw - another music world tied at the hip moment - there two covers of "I'd Rather Go Blind" by this band. One version features the future Fleetwood Mac star, Christine McVie. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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