O/T The Music Thread

Same here.  Perfect for the garage band.  We also played "Tired" and "Respected" and also "Set Me Free".  Got to break out the augmented chords on that one. Good times.  I also liked "Sunny Afternoon" and "Who'll Be The Next In Line" from their early days.

Definitely.  1971. "Sitting downtown in a railway station."  I even remember the flipside, "Oh Mommy, I ain't no Commie."

From that same year the Canadian group The Stampeders did "Sweet City Woman."  Also that year King Floyd had "Groove Me."  Sookie sookie now.

Any of you guys ever listen to the Kink's Muswell Hillbillies release from the early 70's?  There's no popular hit singles but it's a great album loaded with well written songs. 

Yes!!  A forgotten good one about the neighborhood in London where the Davies brothers grew up.  "20th Century Man" got a little bit of airplay, but that was about it.  Nice to know you're another member of The Kinks brotherhood, Chi.

I've been scrounging around in the gray matter trying to come up with some more one-hit types. I offer for your consideration:

"Der Kommissar" by After The Fire
"Groove Is In The Heart" by Deee-Lite
"Break My Stride" by Matthew Wilder
"Sausalito Summer Night" by Diesel. One of many Dutch OHWs in the US. Also...
"Hocus Pocus" by Focus. A rare example of yodel rock. Also from the Netherlands was...
"Little Green Bag" by The George Baker Selection. Meanwhile, over in Germany....
"Autobahn" by Kraftwerk
"Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo, getting us back to the USA.
"Morning Girl" by Neon Philharmonic
"Make Believe" by Wind. This is actually Tony Orlando pre-Dawn, covered well by Joan Jett.
"Life Is A Highway" by Tom Cochrane, formerly of Red Rider, a Canadian band that hit with "Lunatic Fringe."
"Feelings" by Morris Alpert. No comment needed.
"Keep On Smiling" by Wet Willie from Mobile. I liked this song.
"Play That Funky Music White Boy" by Wild Cherry. Cover of a Hot Chocolate ("You Sexy Thing") song.
"Brother Louie" by Stories. "She was black as the night, Louie was whiter than white."
"Toast and Marmalade" by Tin Tin, a UK Bee Gees-sound alike.
"Jim Dandy" by Black Oak Arkansas, cover of a 50s Lavern Baker hit. Hair down to their rear ends.
"The Court Of The Crimson King" by King Crimson. These guys had a cult following, but this was the only song I remember getting air time.

And a few from the 60s which is where I am most at home. Too early for most of you, but with your indulgence let me run a few out there.

"Keep On Dancin'" by The Gentrys. This band included Jimmy Hart, future "Mouth of the South" in the World Wrestling Federation. But he is not singing lead.
"Pledge Of Love" by the Joe Jeffrey Group.
"Walking My Cat Named Dog" by Norma Tanega.
"Reach Out In The Darkness" by Friend and Lover. Extreme hippy-dippyness. Quite embarrassing.
"Good News Week" by Hedgehoppers Anonymous. A band produced by Jonathan King, who had his own hit status with "Everyone's Gone To The Moon" and later as the force behind Blue Swede, which did the Oooga Chugga version of "Hooked On A Feeling." Later did prison time for underage sex issues.
"Tobacco Road" by The Nashville Teens. A good one from the early days of the British Invasion.
"Come On Down To My Boat" by Every Mother's Son.
"A Little Bit Of Soul" by The Music Explosion.

I could happily play this game all day and all of the night, but we're leaving tomorrow for Greece where we will be spending most of the winter, plus a few weeks in Turkey on the side, so I'll drift in and out between packing and checking over the billion things we have to think of before heading off.

1968. It was the B-side of the song “Elenore”.

I hate greasy turkey… but have fun there, Pipps!…

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