Greatest songs by not the greatest bands

[gherkin]

Tunes from people not on my list for favorite bands or albums.

Nancy Sinatra, These Boots are Made for Walking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDmidrIDB4o

This is a masterpiece. Some of the lyrics are great. You keep saming when you oughta be changing. The horns in verse 2 are weird and dissonant, and then in verse 3 they come together, and then in the outro they blow up. But the bass...it makes the thing.

10,000 Maniacs, These are days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-HLxpWGCzc

I saw them on this tour, in Stowe, VT. Natalie kept singing tunes from The Sound of Music. She is not in fact a great singer live--pitch is a little hit or miss. But I loved this album, and this song.

Old Crow Medicine Show, Wagon Wheel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKMsrGoQ-c8

Need I say more?

Beach Boys, Sloop John B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLoS8bGr0uo

The acapella section is what puts it over the top.

Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain's a gonna Fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5al0HmR4to

John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat, Boogie Chillen #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzmogN7aj-I

Legendary harp solo by Alan Wilson from 5:53 to 7:53. He was dead before the album came out.

Patty Loveless, You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n57WBtvtC4

Dailey and Vincent, By the Mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw-uklIlQE0

Probably my favorite current touring band. We've been able to see them 4 times now.

Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, Love Hurts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJAmQq8fTjM

The Petersens, All Glory be to Christ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EexEDzJ6zIY

[anawim]

Not sure if some of these songs would necessarily qualify as "greatest", nor the artists as "not the greatest". I guess it depends on your perspective:

Tighter & Tighter by Alive & Kickin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjG9wK-Cn-o
Tarzan Boy by Baltimora https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY
Montego Bay by Bobby Bloom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-VXC0h1Y6M
Do You Want to Dance by Bobby Freeman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T6XIBIjKck
Waiting For a Star to Fall by Boy Meets Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhxF9Qg5mOU
Tequila by The Champs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3sJVbHlcdQ
Makin' It by David Naughton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F47AfASOnA8
Only Time by Enya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI
Keep On Dancing by The Gentrys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeEs6e0FdwU
I Got Rhythm by The Happenings https://www.google.com/search?q=i+got+r ... nyvlQ,st:0
When I'm Gone (Cup Song) by Anna Kendrick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSbXsFE3l8
All I Need is a Miracle by Mike and the Mechanics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlm-SlJOhwg
Little Bit O Soul by The Music Explosion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdsqFd-8sy8
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbNlMtqrYS0
Just Like Romeo & Juliet by The Reflections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycCZX-olchU

ETA: 96 Tears by ? & The Mysterians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uC5m-IRns

I decided to also add a song specifically written for a video called Where in the World is Matt?:
It is called Trip the Light by Gary Schyman and Alicia Lemke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGRl1_I-no

And one more: Jerusalema by Master KG, sung by Nomcebo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZVL_8D048

[peregrinator]

Tunes from people not on my list for favorite bands or albums.

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Dailey and Vincent, By the Mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw-uklIlQE0

Probably my favorite current touring band. We've been able to see them 4 times now.

I'm confused.

[gherkin]

Tunes from people not on my list for favorite bands or albums.

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Dailey and Vincent, By the Mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw-uklIlQE0

Probably my favorite current touring band. We've been able to see them 4 times now.

I'm confused.

Ha! Me, too! But what I meant is that they aren't in my list of top tennish favorite bands I posted here awhile back.

ETA: I would not pay good money to go see, for example, GNR. Or, really any rock band. Not my scene. But we do go to shows still, mainly by acoustic performers. In recent years, we've been able to see Ricky Skaggs and Gillian Welch, along with several Dailey and Vincent shows. They're great live. But I don't actually own any of their records.

EATA: Gillian Welch actually wrote By the Mark. Since, AFAIK, she is not a Christian, that makes that song an instance of cultural appropriation, so of course she should be canceled.

[gherkin]

Speaking of which, Gillian Welch, Look at Miss Ohio. A great Augustinian song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NPEj63d0jY

[anawim]

Dare I post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[gherkin]

Dare I post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Argh! I clicked it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Doom]

Not an interesting topic at all....a better one would be "best songs not by the original artists" i.e. "Best Covers" and I don't mean "better than the original" although that would certainly count, but just "good covers"

If you don't start that thread soon I will

Two choices immediately spring to mind:

Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower"

Metallica's acoustic version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone"

[peregrinator]

ETA: I would not pay good money to go see, for example, GNR. Or, really any rock band. Not my scene. But we do go to shows still, mainly by acoustic performers.

Yeah I can't stand the noise of rock any more. And I'm starting to lose my hearing a bit so I'd like to preserve what I have left for as long as possible. We did go to see Frampton on his farewell tour in 2019 (before he decided to do another farewell tour) but I wore earplugs for a good bit of the show. The last concert we went to was Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn.

[gherkin]

Not an interesting topic at all....a better one would be "best songs not by the original artists" i.e. "Best Covers" and I don't mean "better than the original" although that would certainly count, but just "good covers"

If you don't start that thread soon I will

Two choices immediately spring to mind:

Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower"

Metallica's acoustic version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone"

Do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I'll think it over while I wait for your thread. Never heard said Metallica song.

[gherkin]

ETA: I would not pay good money to go see, for example, GNR. Or, really any rock band. Not my scene. But we do go to shows still, mainly by acoustic performers.

Yeah I can't stand the noise of rock any more. And I'm starting to lose my hearing a bit so I'd like to preserve what I have left for as long as possible. We did go to see Frampton on his farewell tour in 2019 (before he decided to do another farewell tour) but I wore earplugs for a good bit of the show. The last concert we went to was Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn.

I'd love to see Bela Fleck. I don't know Washburn.

Hearing is a thing. I haven't needed earplugs at the concerts I've gone to recently, but if I did go to an electrified show I'd bring them. Actually, I went to a Malpass Brothers show in the fall. They do old school country. I should have brought earplugs to that one, but I didn't think of it.

[Riverboat]

Nancy Sinatra, These Boots are Made for Walking

This is a masterpiece. Some of the lyrics are great. You keep saming when you oughta be changing. The horns in verse 2 are weird and dissonant, and then in verse 3 they come together, and then in the outro they blow up. But the bass...it makes the thing.

Perfect choice. It's such a great, well-crafted song that not even a no-talent Nancy Sinatra could ruin it. I love the lines, too: "You keep lying when you ought to be truthing."

[peregrinator]

ETA: I would not pay good money to go see, for example, GNR. Or, really any rock band. Not my scene. But we do go to shows still, mainly by acoustic performers.

Yeah I can't stand the noise of rock any more. And I'm starting to lose my hearing a bit so I'd like to preserve what I have left for as long as possible. We did go to see Frampton on his farewell tour in 2019 (before he decided to do another farewell tour) but I wore earplugs for a good bit of the show. The last concert we went to was Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn.

I'd love to see Bela Fleck. I don't know Washburn.

Washburn is otherwise known as Mrs. Béla Fleck - she also plays the banjo but only frailing, not Scruggs-style. So it wasn't with the Flecktones - we did have tickets for a Flecktones show but it got postponed due to lockdowns and eventually cancelled.

Anyway the show was at a small venue, very intimate (for a concert). Exactly the sort of thing my wife and I are into these days.

[gherkin]

Can't believe I didn't think of ABBA. I don't know which of their songs is my favorite. Maybe this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvChjHcABPA

[Tired]

These are Days! Great tune!