the best songs ever

[Ragnarök_62]

A tribute to the wise voters in the UK

lyrics Wrote:One morning I woke up and I new you were really gone.
A new day, a new way,
And new eyes to see the dawn.
Go your way
I'll go mine and carry on.
The sky is clearing and the night has cried enough
The sun he comes the world so often up.
Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice but to carry on.
The fortunes of fables are able to sing a song,
Now witness the quickness with which we get along
To sing the blues, you've got to live the dues
And carry on.
Carry on love is coming,
Love is coming to us all.
Where are you going now my love?
Wher will you be tomorrow?

Will you bring me happiness?
Will you bring me sorrow?
Are the questons of a thousand dreams
What you do and what you see
Lover, can you talk to me?
Girl, when I was on my own
Chasing you down
Was it made you run
Tryin' your best just to get around
The question of a thousand dreams
What you do and what you see
Lover, can you talk to me?

Ah, yes, GB , she's shinin'g might bright on this glorious day.




Man, it's been ages since playing some song to an event gave me goosebumps all over.

12:01 CDT FRI, Jun 24 2016  AD , a new day, indeed!

[Eric the Green]

Carry on indeed; we'll have to make do after the Brit's extremely unwise decision.

[gabrielle]

[Eric the Green]

Song is Over, according to the video's poster, was to be the finale and end credits for Lifehouse. It turned out also to be the prelude. It's line at the end, "excepting one note, pure and easy...." is also the first line of Pure And Easy, as Who Came First followed Who's Next. It could also be quoting the opening song, meaning that the one eternal note persists despite the end of the Lifehouse story.

Recall the documentary on romanticism by Kenneth Clark called The Fallacies of Hope says that the artists of the romantic age (roughly 1790-1848) were "obsessed by this image of movement and escape" of the ocean or "the infinite sea." Song is Over shows that Pete Townshend and his buddies are romantic spirits like Byron, Turner, Wordsworth or Beethoven. The neo-romantic age of our 2T Awakening was expressed most fully in the music of The Who. As Clark said, we left the closed finite world and went to confront the infinite. Pete is a romantic spirit for our time.

[Eric the Green]

Awesome classic by Marvin Gaye





I liked everything he did, but for best songs ever, these also deserve mention

The follow up: Mercy Mercy Me (the ecology) (1971)
https://youtu.be/F5Kr1YB2cs4

Trouble Man (1973)
https://youtu.be/Usl-h5f-8W0

[Eric the Green]

Rags likes to post this one, but I also think it's one of the best songs ever. In the same vein as What's Going On, and from the same year, 1971. It was a very good year.

[Eric the Green]

This one has become more and more a favorite of mine through the years. Fleetwood Mac in 1971 included the late great Bob Welch, as well as Danny Kirwan. Here Bob shows how much the organ as well as the guitar was behind the music of the psychedelic Awakening. Especially in the instrumental climax, it's like Bach too. Also, the free and easy CA (and tropical) surf sound as well as sixties R&B are part of the mix. It's sexy, it's prophetic, it's grand, and its blissfully mystical. That's a great mix for me! I would have adjusted the lyrics though to say "you invent the future that you want to play" (original is want to face). And, "we are not the only ones" playing. "So, have faith!" Like Bach would say. It's one of my favorite games, and one of my favorite songs to play.

[Eric the Green]

Less grandiose than the title track above; the free and easy sound seascape is the core of this one from the album Future Games, by Danny Kirwan and Fleetwood Mac.





full album https://youtu.be/y9mLORp7_T4 (Woman of 1000 Years is track one)

[Eric the Green]

Some people say the Grateful Dead is the best band ever. My favorite by them is Playing in the Band from 1971. Here is Bob Weir's solo version:





What a long, strange trip it's been!
https://youtu.be/QuyaK0hGxWk

The Dead were known for their live act, and their vast community of followers, which when they went to a concert re-created the hippie love-in. They also played for the first acid tests in 1966 from which psychedelic concerts and later raves originated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0V-hgkknlk

[gabrielle]

(06-27-2016, 10:01 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: ...1971. It was a very good year.

Of course it was!  It was the year I was born! 

[gabrielle]

(06-27-2016, 09:57 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Awesome classic by Marvin Gaye





I liked everything he did, but for best songs ever, these also deserve mention

The follow up: Mercy Mercy Me (the ecology) (1971)
https://youtu.be/F5Kr1YB2cs4

Trouble Man (1973)
https://youtu.be/Usl-h5f-8W0

Thumbs up to Marvin Gaye, also for this song:

[Ragnarök_62]

We're on 1971 now?  OK




And, it's 10:00 , do you know where your children are ?

[Ragnarök_62]

1971's in there.   More awesome stuff from KSTP skips.

[Eric the Green]

One more from 1971. The Supremes without Diana, in a song which uses psychedelic phaser techniques to enhance their smooth, heart-opening soul sound. Nathan Jones, you've been gone too long.

[Eric the Green]

But this live performance deserves its own post, which I couldn't get before from the crowded bandwidth or somethin'. Oh well, The Dead had to make a second start too!





comments on the video by Daniela Barcellos Amon 2 months ago:
Maaaaann, that's totally far out!!! They really know how to touch my soul with their music, their beautiful, wonderful energy! Best band ever! Deadhead forever <3

Travis Linton 4 months ago:
Playing in the Band is such an underrated rock song. Love those riffs and melodies!

[Eric the Green]

1970 has a lot of great music too. I was blown away by this superstar jam session:




George Harrison jam session / Out Of The Blue @ All Things Must Pass 1970

Jim Gordon
Carl Radle
Bobby Whitlock
Eric Clapton
Gary Wright
George Harrison
Jim Price
Bobby Keys
Al Aronowitz

[Eric the Green]

The Beatles officially broke up in 1970 and did solo albums. George did All Things Must Pass, which featured the Apple Jam Session and My Sweet Lord. Paul did this one:

[Eric the Green]

Circa 1970 was a peak year for British rock, it seems. Also from the newly-exited land, this under-rated classic of psychedelia, Play in Time by Jethro Tull





Blues were my favorite color, till I looked around and found another song I felt like singing.

From the same album, Benefit, "With You There to Help Me"





and this one:
Teacher

[Eric the Green]

The best song from the well-known British band of the same era, The Moody Blues.





Whichever side of Brexit you're on, this song might resonate now. "Forever without a hope of coming home!"

This song is one of those that demonstrates how the qualities of great classical music are the same as those of great classic rock.

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