Actually being a genuine old fart, I have a longer timeframe to choose
from so my list will definitely not be on your 'A' list, besides I am a
long time folkie, so you probably haven't even heard of these songs
but I got to start with Claptons "Layla" in my opinion one of the
best rock songs ever, a tour de force for Duane Almond and Eric.
Thats not the one I think you never heard of, I know you all heard that
but there was a song written, 1950?, called Kisses sweeter than wine,
and the best version recorded by the Weavers, maybe 1955ish at
Carnegie Hall. A great song. Then there was a really great song
called "The potters wheel" best recorded by Freida Epstein and
the Acoustic Attitude around 1995. Freida was a grandmaster singer
and grandmaster fiddler who died a tragic death at the hands of a
crazed driver a couple of years after this recording.
There is a great song written and recorded by
a guy named Bruce Cockburne called "The mines of Mozambique"
a bloodchilling ode against war.
Speaking of which, what about one of Dylan's best:
"Masters of War" around 1962 or so.
Another world class song written by my best friend in Israel,
Ray Scudero, now dying of a brain tumor, another chilling
renouncement of war, called "the Bosnian Lullaby"
He wrote and recorded that around 1994 just after the bosnian
war.
Getting off the war theme, there are a lot of really funny songs like
John McCutcheons song, "1983 Corvette" a song he took from a joke.
I think I better stop now, I will have 100 songs listed if I go on!
Originally posted by demonseedA fellow Nomeansno fan?! You shall be my new best friend whether you like it or not! They were just about the greatest thing to me when I was a young'un.
Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
Talking Heads - Psycho killer
The Jam - A town called malice
Nomeansno - Everyday I start to ooze
Dead Kennedy's - Holiday in Cambodia
"You Better You Bet" - The Who
"Suicide is Painless" - Manic Street Preachers
"Coma White" - Marilyn Manson
"Echoes" - Pink Floyd
"Born Under Punches" - Talking Heads
Just missing out:
"Kalinka" - Russian Red Army
"Casey Casem" - Negativland
"The Unknown Soldier" - The Doors
"Superman on Ice" - 13 & God
And many many others.
Originally posted by darvlaySame for me.
A fellow Nomeansno fan?! You shall be my new best friend whether you like it or not! They were just about the greatest thing to me when I was a young'un.
Must have been feeling nostalgic since I haven't listened to the bands I chose in ages.
Originally posted by ZahlanziFinally Queen appear!
5. Zombie - The Cranberries
4. Sleeping sun -- Nightwish
3. Sweet child in time - Deep purple
2. Stairway to heaven- Led Zeppelin
1. Bohemian Rapsody- Queen
What's wrong people! why did it take so long?!?
And my list:
Queen - Don't stop me now
Darkness - Growing on me
Elton John - Funeral for a friend (Love lies bleeding)
Franz Ferdinand - Take me out
Queen - We are the Champions
Originally posted by STRATOSPH3R3I see we both did 'masters of war'.
Eddie Vedder's cover of "Masters of War" (Bob Dylan)
Bob Marley's "Redemption Song"
Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"
Cold Chisel's "Wild Colonial Boy"
Green Day's "Minority"
You like the Vedder version better? why is that? Instrumentation?
Vedders voice better than Dylan? Just curious.
Also, Cold Chisel, Wild Colonial Boy,
I know that song, my band used to play it all the time,
who is Cold Chisel? Aussie group?
Originally posted by sonhouseI like Eddie Vedder's vocals, not necessarily his voice, but rather the expression - his version is more vitriolic, more passionate.
I see we both did 'masters of war'.
You like the Vedder version better? why is that? Instrumentation?
Vedders voice better than Dylan? Just curious.
Also, Cold Chisel, Wild Colonial Boy,
I know that song, my band used to play it all the time,
who is Cold Chisel? Aussie group?
As for Cold Chisel, yes they are an Australian band circa 1973-1983 (then reformed in late 90s). Their song of Wild Colonial Boy is not the traditional version that you may have played ( that I think Dr Hook may have done in the 70s) it is completely different. the theme is vauguely the same, the disatisfaction of English rule/influence on Austalia society. I have pasted the lyric below:
I am a wild colonial boy
My name you'll never see
My land is ruled by Anglophiles
And forces foreign to me
I do not curse your referees
In boardrooms far away
Yeah who am I to question these
Who plan their final day
I've never known the jealousies
The overcrowded pain
I live and breathe the silences
The dust where no man reigns
I'm in love,
I got blazing light
Ten thousand miles of ocean
I'm alone
And there's more like me
Ignoring the end of their show
And when they shaft my brother dear
And pay him off with lies
I fill my hand with the Union card
And aim between their eyes
And if I smile,
When they crawl around
Too condescending to blame me
I am young,
Baby they're so old
Gothic, religious and tame
I am just a wild colonial boy
My name you'll never see
I breathe the silence that destroys
All their desperate harmony