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YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Mon May 13, 2013 10:07 am

CCR all the way

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon May 13, 2013 11:34 am

Strange how tastes differ.

If it had been Bad Moon Rising or Proud Mary I might have gone for them.......but it has to be Aretha for me.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Mon May 13, 2013 1:17 pm

5 to 1 Looking Out My Back Door advances.

Next:

The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun vs For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield - YouTube

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Mon May 13, 2013 1:55 pm

Deffo the Animals

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Mon May 13, 2013 2:03 pm

House of the rising sun, But nice try. trying to knock another one of mine off. Good match up.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Mon May 13, 2013 2:12 pm

YZGI;1426934 wrote: House of the rising sun, But nice try. trying to knock another one of mine off. Good match up.A couple of heavyweights for sure. I'm having a very hard time with this one. HOTRS was covered by a band called Frijid Pink. I had their album and I enjoyed how they did the song. OTOH, I liked the version of FWIW on the CSNY 4 Way Street Album slightly better than the studio version. Very difficult.

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Mon May 13, 2013 2:19 pm

For What It's Worth !

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Mon May 13, 2013 2:52 pm

For What it's Worth.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Mon May 13, 2013 2:57 pm

Definitely For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield. That song defined the entire anti-war movement. A classic of my generation. Didn't die before I got old.

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon May 13, 2013 3:03 pm

Gotta go with "For What its Worth"

It was our anthem.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Mon May 13, 2013 3:04 pm

Thanks for voting, Anne.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Mon May 13, 2013 4:01 pm

hotrs

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon May 13, 2013 4:14 pm

It is obvious that some songs have more revelance or should that be redolence based on which side of the pond you were.

It has to be The Animals for me

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue May 14, 2013 2:23 am

We have a 4/4 tie. Tyr has agreed to vote in the event of a tie if he happens to be on the forum when we need him. I'm going to ask him to vote. I will also wait a bit afterwards in case anyone else wants to try an get a member or members to offset his vote.

TÃ½r · Post by **TÃ½r** » Tue May 14, 2013 3:02 am

Ahso!;1426965 wrote: We have a 4/4 tie. Tyr has agreed to vote in the event of a tie if he happens to be on the forum when we need him. I'm going to ask him to vote. I will also wait a bit afterwards in case anyone else wants to try an get a member or members to offset his vote.

The suggestion that music has a social setting, and that historical resonance is a large part of the emotional response music evokes, seems very likely. The impact The Animals HORTS had in the UK was major, as obviously was Buffalo Springfield's FWIW in its own setting. Had anyone asked me before I was called in I'd have called HOTRS without a second thought, but I've been asked to think and I'd have been quite wrong. Both tracks tingle the back of the neck - that's my first test of whether a piece of music works - but the Buffalo Springfield track works on so many levels that it has to be the one with the weight here.

Buffalo Springfield wins, unless the thread gets subsequent votes.

Would anyone like a light-weight moment of silliness? Here's you go... Maggie May or Lily The Pink. I have no idea what the answer should be but I can imagine a few Americans considering them obscure. They're not obscure at all, they're essential listening on a Saturday Night after a few drinks.

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Tue May 14, 2013 3:29 am

Lily the Pink !

That one is new to me and it has more energy, be it alcohol fueled or not!

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue May 14, 2013 6:17 am

Definitely Lily!!!

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue May 14, 2013 7:43 am

Okay, For What It's Worth advances and The House Of The Rising Sun is eliminated.

Next:

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home vs John Lennon - Watching The Wheels

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Tue May 14, 2013 8:24 am

For some of these songs, the memory of them is intertwined with some specific moment when the song "spoke" to me and it became personal. Thus, hearing the song triggers those memories and feelings.

Blind Faith.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue May 14, 2013 8:27 am

Watching the wheels, tough choice.

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Tue May 14, 2013 9:04 am

Watching the Wheels !

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue May 14, 2013 9:21 am

Wandrin;1426985 wrote: For some of these songs, the memory of them is intertwined with some specific moment when the song "spoke" to me and it became personal. Thus, hearing the song triggers those memories and feelings.

Blind Faith.Therapeutic.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue May 14, 2013 10:20 am

Watching the Wheels.......and Maggie May

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Tue May 14, 2013 10:44 am

Not such a close one for me this time. An easy choice. Blind Faith. Winwoods voice is wonderful.

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Tue May 14, 2013 10:45 am

....Oh and Maggie May

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue May 14, 2013 11:05 am

Maggie May

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Tue May 14, 2013 1:37 pm

Maggie May

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue May 14, 2013 1:57 pm

I liked Blind Faith but I'm going to say Watching The Wheels. I'm abstaining on the other.

TÃ½r · Post by **TÃ½r** » Tue May 14, 2013 2:26 pm

Ahso!;1427038 wrote: I'm abstaining on the other.It's odd though. The Scaffold has intelligent upstanding laudable artists and the other's Rod Stewart. Life seems a little unfair at moments like this.

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue May 14, 2013 2:28 pm

Watching the Wheels

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue May 14, 2013 2:29 pm

Don't get me started on Rod Stewart. Had anyone put one of his songs on here my first reaction might have been to ask someone to lock the thread. I did enjoy the other video though.

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue May 14, 2013 3:25 pm

I never like Stewart. I think part of it was because he looks so much like my first Chef when I was an apprentice cook.

I had some friends who named their first daughter 'Maggie May" because that was the song,..., nevermind.

Next choice, please.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue May 14, 2013 3:40 pm

5 to 2 in favor of Watching The Wheels

Next:

Bad Finger - Day After Day vs Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Tue May 14, 2013 3:41 pm

This one is easy for me. Day After Day

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue May 14, 2013 6:06 pm

I'm pickin up Good Vibrations,... about BadFinger.

Tough choice, actually, but I will go with Day After Day.

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Tue May 14, 2013 7:29 pm

Another tough one. It's funny, in interviews with various innovative rock musicians, many point to the Beach Boys as one of their early influences because Brian Wilson broke ground by going beyond the same old chords used in early rock and using different progressions, showing that what was possible.

I have fond memories of both songs but I'm going with Day After Day. If you had asked at a different time, my choice might have been different.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Wed May 15, 2013 1:08 am

The Beachboys have become too cliched, can't knock them, I like them, but this time it has to be Bad Finger

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Wed May 15, 2013 3:12 am

Day After Day !

I love the Beach Boys though and "Good Vibrations" is a great song. I would have voted in its favor against many others but just not this time.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Wed May 15, 2013 8:50 am

Day after Day

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Wed May 15, 2013 9:21 am

Good Vibrations

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Wed May 15, 2013 9:22 am

PS--never really liked Rod Stewart but he gave such a fabulous interview yesterday on Howard Stern that I changed my mind.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Wed May 15, 2013 11:11 am

6 to 1 for Day After Day

Next:

Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin vs Fortunate Son - CCR

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Wed May 15, 2013 11:48 am

Led Zep on this one.

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Wed May 15, 2013 11:49 am

CCR-Fortunate son, Love that song

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Wed May 15, 2013 11:50 am

I could never vote against Led Zeppelin. Robert Plant still makes me gasp. Celebration Day.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Wed May 15, 2013 12:07 pm

As I went searching for Celebration Day I discovered this fabulous video of a recent Led Zeppelin Concert by the same name (Celebration Day) I've been watching and listening to it since. It's absolutely the best they've ever sounded live.

Then, however, I paused the video to take a listen to Fortunate Son and got caught by it - again.

This is another very difficult choice, but I'm going to go against my own pick and say Fortunate Son. Zeppelin takes it on technical merit but Fortunate Son is just a special song, IMV.

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Wed May 15, 2013 12:11 pm

Fortunate Son !

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed May 15, 2013 12:47 pm

Fortunate Son.

TÃ½r · Post by **TÃ½r** » Wed May 15, 2013 12:47 pm

AnneBoleyn;1427144 wrote: Robert Plant still makes me gasp.(Off topic comment warning, it's just a response to AB)

He still reaches the spark. I was about thirty feet to the right of this and from around 3 minutes in I remember the performance went click and worked wonderfully, the pair of them had the crowd mesmerised. I like the control he maintains when the temptation to fly off must be there all the way through this song.

Post by **LarsMac** » Wed May 15, 2013 12:54 pm

I do like a lot of LZ work, but this particular number has me rather annoyed before the vocals ever kick in.