Soul Struts top 200 songs of the 60's

I can't believe we still haven't hit 100 yet? People not feeling the format?

- spidey
 
Dale Hawkins "Suzy Q"
1957
really? coulda sworn it was '60...oh well, that make the song that much more amazing...that dude had some futuristic shit going on with that huge neandrathal rhythm....
 
i think y'all need some jukebox instrumentals ...
like jimmy mcgriff's "the worm"
the booker t and the mg's "hip hug her"
or
the dapps "bringing up the guitar" ...
 
I don't see the point of this really, but I'm bored, so..




The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

Nick Drake - River Man

The Impressions - Mighty Mighty

Tim Buckley - Buzzin' Fly

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

The Left Bank - My Friend Today

Isaac Hayes - Walk On By

Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come

Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run

Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tracks of My Tears

Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour

Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone

The Velvet Underground - Heroin

The Jackson 5: I Want You Back

Dusty Springfield: Son of a Preacher Man

Irma Thomas: Time Is on My Side"


Most of these are pretty obvious, but they're classics for a reason. As is most of the pitchfork list.
I would like to know what you have to go up against the 76% that you didn't agree with, from their top 200?


also I don't get why you can't have more than one track per artist? Maybe set a limit, but why only one?
 
I would like to know what you have to go up against the 76% that you didn't agree with, from their top 200?
Well, I could probably fill up this whole list myself, but that'd be no fun eh?

also I don't get why you can't have more than one track per artist? Maybe set a limit, but why only one?
Well, It sounded like a good idea at the time. If it bothers so many people. Fine, changed.

- spidey
 
I don't exactly understand the terms and conditions but here are my nominees:



Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon

Frank Zappa, Peaches en Regalia

Marlena Shaw, California Soul

Tony Basil, I'm 28

Patsy Cline, Crazy


not really in My top 200 but I'm sure they make the grade for others:

Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and Peppermints

Righteous Brothers, You've Lost that loving feeling




and then here are some Artists that could be included, need suggestions for specific songs though:

The Who
Roy Orbison
Love
Ike and Tina
Cream
Johnny Cash
Ohio Players
Bob Marley and/Or Peter Tosh??
 
I'd suggest allowing multiple entries per artist. There's no real rationale not to, from what I can see. If we even manage to get this list to 200 (kind of slow going right now), we can always debate the merits of cutting someone's third or fourth entries off it. I'm not about to nominate 10 songs by a single artist but it'd be nice to include, you know, three Beatles tunes or a handful of James Brown songs or Coltrane tracks or...you get the pic.

A few off the top:

Association: Never My Love
Brenton Wood: Gimme a Little Sign
Al Green: Back Up Train
John Coltrane: Alabama
Cream: Sunshine of Your Love
 
I don't exactly understand the terms and conditions but here are my nominees:



Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon

Frank Zappa, Peaches en Regalia

Marlena Shaw, California Soul

Tony Basil, I'm 28

Patsy Cline, Crazy


not really in My top 200 but I'm sure they make the grade for others:

Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and Peppermints

Righteous Brothers, You've Lost that loving feeling




and then here are some Artists that could be included, need suggestions for specific songs though:

The Who
Roy Orbison
Love
Ike and Tina
Cream
Johnny Cash
Ohio Players
Bob Marley and/Or Peter Tosh??
I don't want to be an ashole, but 1 vote against:
Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon
Or any other Neil Diamond song I've ever heard.

I like Crimson and Clover, I think there might be 200 better songs. Tommy James is real cool to me. He morphed styles over and over and his songs were always the best top 40 versions of whatever he was doing.

Since we've started I've been thinking about Johnny Cash, but I have not decided what his one best 60s song is. Maybe the spoken intro to Live At some prison where he tells them not to say words like ****

One more:
Barbara George I Know
 
Sounds fine. You can always vote against a song you don't agree belongs up there. I'm just keeping the tally.

- spidey
 
I don't exactly understand the terms and conditions but here are my nominees:



Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon

Frank Zappa, Peaches en Regalia

Marlena Shaw, California Soul

Tony Basil, I'm 28

Patsy Cline, Crazy


not really in My top 200 but I'm sure they make the grade for others:

Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and Peppermints

Righteous Brothers, You've Lost that loving feeling




and then here are some Artists that could be included, need suggestions for specific songs though:

The Who
Roy Orbison
Love
Ike and Tina
Cream
Johnny Cash
Ohio Players
Bob Marley and/Or Peter Tosh??
I don't want to be an ashole, but 1 vote against:
Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon
Or any other Neil Diamond song I've ever heard.

I like Crimson and Clover, I think there might be 200 better songs. Tommy James is real cool to me. He morphed styles over and over and his songs were always the best top versions of whatever he was doing.

I'll nominate No Woman No Cry for Bob Marley

Since we've started I've been thinking about Johnny Cash, but I have not decided what his one best 60s song is. Maybe the spoken intro to Live At some prison where he tells them not to say words like ****

One more:
Barbara George I Know

Its cool you dont like Neil Diamond, But No Woman No Cry is by far my most hated Bob Marley song ever next to Stir it Up. I think anything off of legend should be automatically void from this list.

Rainbow Country, Chances Are, Simmer Down, Bend Down Low, Soul Shakedown, Mellow Mood...The list goes on and on. I am definitely more partial to his earlier work and his discography is so large picking one would be impossible but No Woman No Cry doesnt even come close to making the grade.
 
I don't exactly understand the terms and conditions but here are my nominees:



Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon

Frank Zappa, Peaches en Regalia

Marlena Shaw, California Soul

Tony Basil, I'm 28

Patsy Cline, Crazy


not really in My top 200 but I'm sure they make the grade for others:

Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense and Peppermints

Righteous Brothers, You've Lost that loving feeling




and then here are some Artists that could be included, need suggestions for specific songs though:

The Who
Roy Orbison
Love
Ike and Tina
Cream
Johnny Cash
Ohio Players
Bob Marley and/Or Peter Tosh??
I don't want to be an ashole, but 1 vote against:
Neil Diamond, Girl You'll be a woman Soon
Or any other Neil Diamond song I've ever heard.

I like Crimson and Clover, I think there might be 200 better songs. Tommy James is real cool to me. He morphed styles over and over and his songs were always the best top versions of whatever he was doing.

I'll nominate No Woman No Cry for Bob Marley

Since we've started I've been thinking about Johnny Cash, but I have not decided what his one best 60s song is. Maybe the spoken intro to Live At some prison where he tells them not to say words like ****

One more:
Barbara George I Know

Its cool you dont like Neil Diamond, But No Woman No Cry is by far my most hated Bob Marley song ever next to Stir it Up. I think anything off of legend should be automatically void from this list.

Rainbow Country, Chances Are, Simmer Down, Bend Down Low, Soul Shakedown, Mellow Mood...The list goes on and on. I am definitely more partial to his earlier work and his discography is so large picking one would be impossible but No Woman No Cry doesnt even come close to making the grade.
Any Marley songs fine with me, I don't have a least favorite.
 
Thats cool.

I still love neil in small doses.


I don't think No Woman No cry is even from the 60's though now that I think about it.
 
No Woman No Cry is by far my most hated Bob Marley song ever next to Stir it Up.
It's also from 1975, so completely irrelevant to the thread.

If I had to choose one Wailers song from the 60's, it would
have to be "It Hurts to Be Alone" - that song makes me weep.
 
60's reggae's really not my thing but here's a few I can recall.


Take It Easy - Hopeton Lewis

Broadway Jungle - The Flames

Guns of the Navarone - Skatalites
 
velvet underground - waiting for the man
barbara lewis - hello stranger
the shirelles - baby its you
stevie wonder - hey love
lee dorsey - get out my life woman
brenton wood - gimme little sign


i canat do one per artist with so many people, so im not even gonna name one
 
some oldies

Desires - Let it please be you
Rosie & the Originals - Angel Baby
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters - Town I Live in
Billy Stewart - Sitting in the Park
Paul Ortiz & Orquesta Son - Tender Love
 
Here's a few more from me:

Etta James - At Last
Jorge Ben - Mas Que Nada
James Brown - Give it up or turnit a loose
Electric Prunes - Holy are you
El Gran Combo - La Muerte
Beatles - I want you (she's so heavy)
Focus 3 - 10,000 years behind my mind

- spidey