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| Led Zeppelin – The Ocean Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Bass pedal squeaks are not a true fault in my book. What a great song, by the greatest rock band of all time (your mileage may vary, of course!) |
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| Led Zeppelin – Down by the Seaside Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Yes, that is probably the worst Jimmy note on any Zep song, and I suspect you're right they ran out of takes. Of course it was left off the album they were working on at the time, and held over for Physical Graffiti, so maybe Jimmy just said Eff It, if it has a blemish so be it! |
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| Led Zeppelin – Nobody's Fault but Mine Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Stolen it was...then taken to another place. Not to excuse borrowing without credit by any means (and Zep has had to pay settlements and judgements to more than one party and/or their estates for such cavalier practices), it's still an amazing recording by a group that had a lot of amazing records. |
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| Styx – Suite Madame Blue Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's about that gal in NY harbor, the one with the torch, figuratively. The damned shame is we've swung back to where those questions can and are asked again. |
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| Steely Dan – Black Friday Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Great tune. A blues shuffle with a "jazzy-pop" turnaround, and Walter Becker plays one of the best guitar solos in the Steely Dan catalog (according to him in an interview, on Denny Dias's Fender Tele). The darned shame is these guys hate the sound of this whole album (Katy Lied) as they had HUGE problems with the then-brand new DBX noise reduction system they were using....me? I think they sound pretty good even 30+ years later. |
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| U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song very much reminds me of CSN&Y's "Ohio". Any time the powers-that-be decide to use armed combat trained soldiers for crowd control, incidents like these two tragedies are far too likely to happen. The vast majority of the onus goes not on the protesters or the soldiers, but on the silly, idiotic sort of politicos who think a hammer is the best tool to fix a broken window. |
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| Jim Croce – Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Yes, this is one of those songs that just hits home at a personal level; Written about a decade before puberty hit me and I had even inkling of the feeling he's talking about, and probably danged near two decades before the I felt the same BITE he's getting at. But I guess "love lost" songs work in any era, human nature being what it is. |
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| Santana – Oye Como Va Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I just don't see where a word synonymous with prostitution could or would fit into this song, especially at the end of the main verse line. Yet another example of the "if it aint' drugs, it must be babes" school of song meaning interpretation. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Down by the Seaside Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Great song, but Jimmy's slide line, in one place, has the sourest note on any Zepp studio release. I'm guessing that was the most perfect take he could get. |
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| AC/DC – Touch Too Much Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This whole album is just so good, the Boys and Mutt met up when their stars were aligned I reckon! |
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| The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Great production, great instrumentation, and great vocal harmonies; and still catchy fourty years later. When I think "great pop songs" this is always on my short list of favorites. |
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| Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Produced by Burt Berns
from AMG:Bert Berns was one of the great rock and soul songwriters of the 1960s, as well as being a producer of note. He worked in the studio with the Drifters, Ben E. King, the Isley Brothers, and Solomon Burke. He wrote or co-wrote a raft of classics, including "Twist and Shout," the Drifters' "I Don't Want to Go On Without You," Burke's "Cry to Me" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," Garnet Mimms' "Cry Baby" and "It Was Easier to Hurt Her," and "Hang on Sloopy." By the mid-'60s, he was proving adaptable to changing trends in white rock too, successfully collaborating with Lulu, Them, and Neil Diamond. With executives of Atlantic Records, he founded the Bang! label, which had hits with the McCoys, the Strangeloves, Diamond, and Van Morrison before Berns' death at the end of 1967. |
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| Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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As to Morrison's genius, I won't argue; most of it's just not to my tastes. But the genius certainly shines (to me) the most through his popular work. True, it's just a simple pop/rock love song; but the lyrics; the phrasing; the beautiful lead/rythym guitar (and instumentation in general...who produced this?). One of the all time greatest pop-crossover-classic rock tunes IMO. |
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| The Beatles – Get Back Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Wow, I've watched the let it be motion picture, and I think Mr. Lennon could tie his shoes just fine. Just more villification of Yoko by may here. Look, these guys were growing apart; if anything, John's behavior with her was a symptom, not a root cause of their struggles. I'm sure Paul doesn't see it that way, maybe not even today, but he was too close to be objective. |
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| The Beatles – The Ballad of John and Yoko Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Oh jeez Yoko this and that; IMHO she had little to do with the internal struggles of the band; that's not to say she didn't influence John, but these guys were growing apart anyway. Villify her if you must, but she's only a small part of the dynamics that produced some of the Beatles best music. |
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| The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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This might well be George's greatest writing effort. There's also no doubt in my mind that that's EC on the solo (tone, phrasing etc., George could spread out stylistically but that woman tone is definitive EC to me [not that I had any real doubts anyway lol]) |
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| The Beatles – She Said She Said Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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oh yes; the Peter Fonda bit fits everything I've heard about this songs origins, of course mixed in with what was going in John's mind at that time. |
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| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Ohio Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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A song about one of the most tragic domestic events of the Vietnam era.
I recall reading somewhere (the liner notes of Decade, perhaps?) that Neil later felt somewhat guilty for cashing in with a hit song about the bloody business. |
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| AC/DC – Girls Got Rhythm Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think this song relates to Tolkein and LOTR...oh wait, never mind, it's just a good old AC/DC risque rock & roller! |
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| Led Zeppelin – That's the Way Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think most of you hit the nail right on the head about this song's themes, but I think the music is quite amazing in it's own right. The acoustic guitar, mandolin, and steel guitar give this song an amazing feel. It's always been one of those songs that "takes me someplace else". |
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