True. But then I would have included Ebony and Ivory, though mostly for sentimental reasons. *** Ducks and leaves forum quickly***
Indeed. A true gem of 60's soul. I remember a while back a lot of people contended that Carr was actually the greatest of the 60's soulmen, surpassing Otis Redding and Solomon Burke. I don't know if I agree but he did have great voice.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have several lists of 8-12 songs in various genres, scattered hither and anon. Most are unlikely to see me reach 20 songs or, thus, the light of day.
E&I light years ahead of Wonderful Christmastime. He banged that POS out on a synthesizer in the basement of his estate in about 12 minutes. Shoulda at least smoked more weed that morning to liven shit up.
Yes, but Ebony and Ivory gave us Joe Piscopo as Sinatra in a faux duet with Eddie Murphy's Stevie Wonder.
I don't think he had a large enough body of work to claim that. For me Otis tops all. But You Got My Mind Messed Up is a contender for best soul album of the 60's.
I've started a couple like that myself. I could fill them out if I wasn't being so stubborn about my one artist per list rule....
I've got about five suc lists myself. Same here. I've bent on soe lists, but I'm trying not to use an artist more than once in a list, and, really, not more than two or three times overall. I'm deliberately avoiding most of the hits the biggest groups put out, too- my lists are already too full of hits as it is.
I used to have an old mixtape rule of never more than 2 songs per artist per tape - I feel this applies here.
It also might be fun to post some of those "Best Afrobeat-Ska Polka Songs of the Eighties" lists that come up short and let other threadizens fill them in.
To be fair - I already broke it with my Reggae/Dub list. Yep - ironically I have a split mixtape of Smashing Pumpkins & Dinosaur Jr on my shelf. I still have all the equipment to make new ones too. Yeah - ideally - but like most rules - they are meant to be broken.
Lost in limbo-- songs from good, even great 80's albums that are "obscure, I doubt you would have heard of them." Big Shoulders-- "Shoulder Suite" The Claude Bolling Trio from Jazz a la Francais-- "Blue Kiss From Brazil" The Bonedaddies from Worldbeatniks-- "Rekpete" Cock Robin-- "The Promise You Made" Jerry Douglas from Changing Channels-- "Time Gone By" The Flying Pickets from Lost Boys-- "Psycho Killer" Mick Fleetwood from The Visitor-- "I Walk A Thin Line" Mark Germino from London Moon and Barnyard Remedies-- "The Immigrant Shuffle" The David Grisman Quintet from Accousticity-- "Blue Sky Bop" Nona Hendryx from Skin Diver-- "Women Who Fly" Betsy Kaske from Last Night In Town-- "Cross Country Waltz" Nicolette Larson from Rose Of My Heart-- "That's More About Love Than I Wanted To Know" The Lilac Time from Paradise Circus-- "The Girl Who Waves At Trains" The Kevin McDermott Orchestra from Mother Natures Kitchen-- "Slow Boat To Something Better" Sandy Owen from Boogie Woogie Rhythm And Blues-- "Beanface Boogie" Eddy Ray Porter from When the Morning Falls-- "Daddy's Cadillac" David Rudder and Charlie's Roots from Haiti-- "Haiti I'm Sorry" Ira Stein and Russell Walder from Transit-- "Transit" Lucie Blue Tremblay-- "St. John Port Jolie" Walkabouts from See Beautiful Rattlesnake Gardens-- "Linda Evans"
Ringo did pretty well afterward (It Don't Come Easy was a pretty decent tune, too, along with Photograph, which was great). It's really only Lennon who fell off the map without Paul.
Not at first, Plastic Ono Band is IMO the best and most creative post-Beatles album by any of them (with possible exception of All Things Must Pass), and Imagine is pretty damn good too. He got a little lost there after that, but looked to be finding his muse again on Double Fantasy.
They're equally cheesy, IMO. Plenty of cheesy Christmas tunes out there, so E&I sticks out even more. Paul hit rock bottom early with Love Me Do/Please Please Me/I wanna Hold Your Hand stuff and went up in quality from there, but this was the beginning of the low point for Stevie, who dug a deeper hole with I Just Called To Say I Love You and Overjoyed and Don't Drive Drunk. How one goes from an anthem like Living For The City to dreck like I Just Called is beyond me, but Stevie somehow managed it. He'd never have written it at all if he'd been stoned.
This list was inspired by a VH1 list that proclaimed Midnight Oil a one-hit wonder, with Beds Are Burning the single hit. Simply ludicrous. But herewith is a list of one-hit wonders (using other’s lists of what that solitary hit is) because I love many songs by many of these bands. Songs that are better than the one hit that gave this group fame: Midnight Oil (Beds are Burning): One Country Midnight Oil (Beds are Burning): Kosciosko Boomtown Rats (I Don’t Like Mondays): I Never Loved Eva Braun Boomtown Rats (I Don’t Like Mondays): Rattrap XTC (Dear God): Generals and Majors Buggles (Video Killed the Radio Star): Adventures in Modern Recording Devo (Whip It): We’re Through Being Cool Big Country (In a Big Country): Chance Flock of Seagulls (I Ran (So Far Away): Telecommunication Thomas Dolby (She Blinded Me with Science): One of Our Submarines is Missing Dexy’s Midnight Runners: (Come on Eileen): Plan B/I’ll Show You Soft Cell (Tainted Love): Say Hello, Wave Goodbye Berlin (Take My Breath Away): Masquerade Chumbawumba (Tubthumping): The Good Ship Lifestyle Madness (Our House): Wings of a Dove Nena (99 Luftballoons): Nur Getraumt The Proclaimers (I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles): Letter from America The Housemartins (Happy Hour): Build **Honorable Mention** The Jungle Book (Bare Necessities): I Wanna Be Like You There are some one-hit wonders who’s best songs are in fact, those solo hits. I’m looking at you Modern English (I Melt with You), A-Ha (Take on Me), Swing out Sister (Breakout), Til Tuesday (Voices Carry) and Katrina and the Waves (Walking on Sunshine). I have all five albums, and there’s not much else filling the vinyl. Edit: Oh, I guess I lied. I really love the Boomtown Rats and I wore the grooves off of The Fine Art of Surfacing, but there's nothing better than I Don't Like Mondays. It's one of my top five favorite songs ever.
Fair enough. Plastic Ono Band in particular is kind of a harrowing listening experience, and I don't put it on unless I'm in the right mood. I actually like Yoko's Plastic Ono Band album too.
I'm partial to 'Forgotten Years' - when I was in Oz for 3.5 months last year I spent a lot of time looking for that single (to no avail, but I found a couple copies of the album it appears on). Apparently, after their lead singer Peter Garret became a politician, their musical legacy has been affected by his relative (un)popularity as a politician, so shop owners were surprised a Canuck wanted any of their records - and there were lots of everything up to Diesel & Dust. Kosciosko - is the tallest mountain in Australia (which isn't saying much), and it's also a brand of beer (rather tasty), however my initial attempts at its pronunciation led to some confused looks when I tried to order it. Finally a barkeep said "mate, just say 'kozzy-oz-co' and people will know what you mean". Either way - one-hit wonder is totally wrong.
A lot of those look to be bands that were much bigger in other countries than in the US, and so their "one hit wonder" status is more of a local one.
Funny thing is "Blue Sky Mine" went to #1 in the US, and is one of 7 top 40 hits they had in the US. "Beds are Burning" only made it to #6. Makes me question their definition of "One Hit Wonder"
Disagree-- not about the "Voices Carry" album, but "Coming Up Close" and "David Denies" off the next album are just as good IMO.