CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:"***" from me also, love this track,

just noticed on wikkipedia that they reformed in 2011 for a brief tour in South America...

UK music magazine "uncut" also apparently rates the album in the top100 debut sets of alltime

CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:only ever thought this track to be okay and im a big Who fan so "**",

and to add comment to SteveO's post above....if this one is in the top500, there must be another 20 Who tracks above it from here on in....we wont get fooled again!

Music Head Wrote:#379 - Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Wind Cries Mary - 1967

running recap for me - 3's=67, 2's=45, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Are You Experieced?
Written by Jimi Hendrix
Produced by Chas Chandler
Chart action: #65 US, #6 UK

the players:
Jimi Hendrix – vocals, guitar
Noel Redding – bass guitar
Mitch Mitchell – drums

Written after an argument with his girlfriend. But his girlfriend was named Kathy. Shouldn't it
have been called The Wind Cries Kathy? Riff inspired by Curtis Mayfield. Laid the track down in
20 minutes. Those were the days. Released in the states as the b-side to Purple Haze.

[video=youtube;-dpax55d7Lc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dpax55d7Lc[/video]

Lyrics

After all the jacks are in their boxes,
and the clowns have all gone to bed,
you can hear happiness staggering on down the street,
footprints dress in red.

And the wind whispers Mary.

A broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.
Somewhere a Queen is weeping,
somewhere a King has no wife.

And the wind it cries Mary.

The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed,
The tiny island sags downstream
'Cos the life that they lived is dead.

And the wind screams Mary.

Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past,
And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom
It whispers, "No, this will be the last."

And The Wind Cries Mary.

Music Head Wrote:#378 - Bo Diddley - I'm A Man - 1955

running recap for me - 3's=67, 2's=46, 1's=10
this one - **
from the album: various compilations
Written by Bo Diddley
Produced by Leonard Chess
Chart action: did not chart

the players:
Bo Diddley – vocals, guitar
Billy Boy Arnold - harmonica
Otis Spann - piano
Jerome Green - maracas
Willie Dixon - bass
Clifton James - drums

Not my favorite version but it's ok. Think I prefer the Yardbirds version. This was the b-side
to Bo's hit, Bo Diddley. Other than that I don't know anything else the man did. The single was
a #1 on the r&b chart but didn't hit the overall I guess. Said to be inspire by Muddy Waters
Hoochie Coochie Man, written by Willie Dixon who sat in on the session for this. Muddy recorded
an answer song with Mannish Boy, making reference to Bo's age at the time.

[video=youtube;SaC5ZKRjLUM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaC5ZKRjLUM[/video]

Lyrics

Now when I was a little boy,
At the age of five,
I had somethin' in my pocket,
Keep a lot of folks alive.

Now I'm a man,
Made twenty-one,
You know baby,
We can have a lot of fun.

I'm a man,
I spell M-A-N...man.

All you pretty women,
Stand in line,
I can make love to you baby,
In an hour's time.

I'm a man,
I spell M-A-N...man.

I goin' back down,
To Kansas to
Bring back the second cousin,
Little John the conqueroo.

I'm a man,
I spell M-A-N...man.

The line I shoot,
Will never miss,
The way I make love to 'em,
They can't resist.

I'm a man,
I spell M-A-N...man.

SteveO Wrote:Good version but I like the versions by Muddy Waters, The Yardbirds, Chicago and the Spencer Davis Group just as well!