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Put your choices in here. My fave (at least today it is) is the Rolling Stones' Little T&A. Clean, crisp...universal subject matter. I still like it after 20-some yrs. I mean, probably I could come up with 50 others, from Mitch Ryder's Devil With A Blue Dress to my personal theme song Won't Back Down. But something about Keith Richards' turrets-like squawking and those guitar licks make that song still stick in my head... cantfocus.gif

 

What's yours?

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OK E-Rock, I got one that is only about 15 years old. It is a cover though

 

"Yu Gung" done by Pussy Galore

 

That one rocks, pummels for like six straight minutes but never gets boring or wearisome. rockband.gif

 

(contains sampling of Public Enemy back when the music industry was getting all up in arms about bands like Public Enemy using samples)

 

 

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Bad math, E-Rock. And I think the irony in your statement is that for the past 30 years nobody has come up with a whole new, original style (rap is debatably one).

 

Not saying there hasn't been good music made in the past dozen years---there has. But it's not a whole new style and it's not superlative compared to the prior two-dozen years, and it's also riddled with bad covers. IMO. grin.gif

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I'm sympathetic to your argument there, RobBob: much of what is currently hot is highly derivative. However, there's been some kick ass derivitave music, that's for sure!

 

I have a historical correction, though: Rap is 30 years old. The Last Poets and Gil Scott Heron were doing it in the early '70's although it came into its own as a new genre with GrandMasterFlash about 1980 or so.

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I'll tell you whut...

 

I haven't heard the majority of these songs people have mentioned, but I'll bet every single one of them kicks ass, hands down, on "Little T and A" boxing_smiley.gifyellaf.gif

 

I mean, if you were gonna pick a Stones song, there's only about 50 of 'em that rock 10 times harder than that anemic keep Keef happy contractual album inclusion. Hell, "Undercover", Stones do new-wave/disco, kicks ass on Little T & A. Sheesh.

 

Oh wait, I was wrong, Little T & A does kick serious ass on "Devil with the blue Dress". Gag me.

 

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This coming from a monkey who touts a band called Pussy Galore as hard rockers. rolleyes.gif

 

Actually Chuckie, I agree with you that the Stones have 50 good ones, and 10+ great ones. Hard to beat the entire Sticky Fingers album, etc. I just happen to like Little T&A. Sorry you don't...beyotch! the_finger.gifboxing_smiley.gifhahaha.gif

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Mitch Ryder Jimi Hendrix? What's the connection there? confused.gif

 

Perhaps that maybe Jimi Hendrix is the only person who could make "Devil with the Blue dress" interesting? boxing_smiley.gif

 

Too bad he's dead. yellowsleep.gif

 

 

(oh, and it's Dr. Chuck to you boxing_smiley.gif)

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I set out to find a good photo of that ugly bastard Mithc Ryder...and instead found this interesting Top 10 songs of 1966 list:

 

1. I'm A Believer - Monkees

2. Summer In The City - Lovin' Spoonful

3. Wild Thing - Troggs

4. Hanky Panky - Tommy James And The Shondells

5. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge

6. Soul And Inspiration - The Righteous Brothers

7. Monday, Monday - Mamas And Papas

8. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys

9. Devil With A Blue Dress On - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels

10. Good Lovin' - Young Rascals

 

Funny thing is that I and probably most of you can sing all of those songs, except maybe for the Righteous Bros tune. I wonder how 1996 will look 30 years from now?

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is a drumb what a dumb drummer plays on?

 

iggy pop "repo man" kicks ass on any of the tunes so far listed

 

i found this mangling of the lyrics online. spot the errors yellaf.gif

 

I was riding on a concrete slab,

Down a river of useless flab

It was such a beautiful day

I heard a witchdoctor say,

"I'll turn you into a toadstool"

I'm looking for the joke with a microscope

My muscle's twitching on your words

If you're on the streets you lose your nerves

Divinity throws you a curve

Sticks you and then you go beserk

Abhoaring no inspiration.

I'm looking for the joke with a microscope

Page out of a comic book

A chicken hanging on a hook

A river and a babbling brook

A sermon and a teenage hook

Shaking my hand at your fake face

A suicide a certain look

A microphone a loose guitar

People feeling near and far

Stupidity a mental scar

Put cruel into cruelty

As life goes by you in a blurr

An achoholic has gone far

Everything just goes to far

I was pissing on the desert sands,

When the desert whispered to me,

"Damn! Isn't this a shame?

Things will never be the same..."

I run this gas and oasis

Now I'm looking for the joke with a microscope

I was a teenage dinosaur, stoned and obsolete

I didn't get fucked and I didn't get kissed

I got so fucking dense

Using my head for an ashtray

Now I'll tell you who I am

I'm the Repo-Man

And I'm looking for the joke

Looking for the joke

I'm looking for the joke with a microscope

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