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Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 27-04-2013
Bilie Jean for me also
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 02-05-2013
#343 - Rolling Stones - Wild Horses - 1971
running recap for me - 3's=89, 2's=57, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Sticky Fingers
Written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
Produced by Jimmy Miller
Chart action: #28 US
the players:
Mick Jagger – lead vocal
Keith Richards - guitar, backing vocal
Mick Taylor - guitar
Bill Wyman - bass
Charlie Watts - drums
Jim Dickinson - piano
Love it, but I even like Susan Boyle's version, so what do I know? Can't believe it only got to
#28 here. Stupid americans! Looks like it was a US only single. Keith wrote this, about leaving
the family for an american tour. Ian Stewart was present for this recording but refused to
participate. Reason: the tune involved playing minor piano chords, which he had a loathing for.
I kid you not. Anyway Jim Dickinson was recruited.
[video=youtube;UFLJFl7ws_0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLJFl7ws_0[/video]
Lyrics
Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away
I watched you suffer a dull aching pain
Now you decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away
I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don't have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day
Looking Back At Some Classics - TraceNspace - 03-05-2013
Music Head Wrote:#345 - U2 - Beautiful Day - 2000
running recap for me - 3's=87, 2's=57, 1's=10
this one - **
from the album: All That You Can't Leave
Written by U2
Produced by Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno
Chart action: #21 US, #1 UK, #1 Australia, #1 Canada
the players:
Bono â vocals, guitar
The Edge â guitar, piano, vocals
Adam Clayton â bass guitar
Larry Mullen, Jr. â drums, percussion
Nothing great about this one for me. A prayer for transcendence with lyrics inspired by Bonoâs
work with Jubilee 2000, a group advocating debt relief for poor nations. I don't think it
worked but nice try Bono. He says that the upbeat track is about losing everything but still
finding joy in what one has. Not sure how that relates to poor nations, but whatever. Looks
like the rest of the world liked the song much better than the US. The song won three grammy
awards.
[video=youtube;co6WMzDOh1o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6WMzDOh1o[/video]
Lyrics
The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground
But there's no room, no space to rent in this town
You're out of luck and the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck and you're not movin' anywhere
You thought youâd found a friend to take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace
It's a beautiful day,
The sky falls and you feel like
It's a beautiful day,
Donât let it get away
Youâre on the road but youâve got no destination
Youâre in the mud, in the maze of her imagination
You love this town even if that doesnât ring true
Youâve been all over and itâs been all over you
It's a beautiful day,
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day,
Touch me, take me to that other place
Teach me love, I know Iâm not a hopeless case
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
A beautiful day
Touch me, take me to that other place
Reach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case
What you donât have you donât need it now
What you donât know you can feel it somehow
What you donât have you donât need it now
Donât need it now
It was a beautiful day
I Just love this song. I downloaded it the other day out of sheer annoyance that I didn't already have it. I don't think I've heard the rest of the album.
Looking Back At Some Classics - TraceNspace - 03-05-2013
Wild Horses is a beautiful song. It's definitely in my top 5 favorite Stones songs.
Looking Back At Some Classics - TraceNspace - 03-05-2013
Also love Michael Jackson and so do my kids so we play him a lot. We all agree Billi Jean is our fav. I also have a real liking for Dirty Diana.
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 04-05-2013
Great song...a Stones' classic !
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 07-05-2013
#342 - Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane - 1970
running recap for me - 3's=89, 2's=58, 1's=10
this one - **
from the album: Loaded
Written by Lou Reed
Produced by Velvet Underground, Shel Kagan, Geoffrey Haslam
Chart action: non single
the players:
Lou Reed – lead vocal
Doug Yule - keyboards
Sterling Morrison - guitar
Adrian Barber - drums
Lou Reed has to be up near the top of the worst singers list along with Dylan, Cohen and Cash.
I must love terrible singers. Not one of my favorite VU songs here but it passes mainly on the
lyrics and delivery. There have been several versions of the song but this is the original.
Probably only known by hardcore fans, which you could say for the band also. From the groups
fourth and final album with Lou at the helm.
[video=youtube;Z4K1J2hndcQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4K1J2hndcQ[/video]
Lyrics
Standin' on a corner
Suitcase in my hand
Jack's in his corset, Jane is in her vest
and me I'm in a rock 'n' roll band. Huh.
Riding a Stutz Bear Cat, Jim
ya know, those were different times
all the poets studied rules of verse
and those ladies they rolled their eyes
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Now Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she's a clerk
and both of them save their monies
when they get home from work
sittin' down by the fire
Ooo, the radio does play
the classical music there, Jim
The March of the Wooden Soldiers
All you protest kids
you can hear Jack say
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Some people they like to go out dancin'
and other people they have to work. Just watch me now
and there's even some evil mothers
Well they're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt
you know that women never really faint
and that villians always blink their eyes
that children are the only ones who blush
and that life is just to die
But anyone who ever had a heart
they wouldn't turn around and break it
and anyone who ever played a part
They wouldn't turn around and hate it
Sweet Jane, Sweet Sweet Jane
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 07-05-2013
"*" from me...
not really a fan of Lou Reed in any form even though i own probably six or seven albums...only one i like is "new york" from the late 1980s and i love that one
Looking Back At Some Classics - TraceNspace - 07-05-2013
I really like Sweet Jane. It's been in our heads around here lately as my husband has been playing it on his guitar a lot. That leaves the singing to me!
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 07-05-2013
So does that mean you'll be adding your name to sit alongside Dylan,Cohen,Cash and Reed???