Let’s do a round of Déjà Vu! It’s got to be one of the most important albums to me; taught me how to do harmonies, taught me how to rock out, taught me not to care when things weren’t as perfect as I wanted them to be.
Country Girl is a song that consists of three parts: Whisky Boot Hill, Down Down Down and Country Girl (I Think You’re Pretty).
Down Down Down appears on a demo tape by Buffalo Springfield, a band where Neil Young and Stephen Stills where members of before Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young started.
Song with sleeve.
Down Down Down as a demo by Buffalo Springfield.
Back to some more down to earth, good wholesome music: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s song Teach Your Children. I grew up listening to this A LOT, because my dad would play this several times per week on the cassette player. I might give it a try covering this song; I basically learned doing harmonies by listening to CS&N’s work.
Live in 1977.
Whoa, that gig went pretty well! Had some good reception of our own songs which is always nice.
The main band that evening played Black Sabbath’s Paranoid which had me banging my head, which I hadn’t done for AGES!
Official clip.
Co-10k blogger William came up with an excellent suggestion today; Steve Miller’s Rock'n me. More so today as I will be playing a gig tonight at the Rocks in downtown Enschede!
Song with sleeve.
I was fan of U2 up until The Joshua Tree; after that I somewhat lost track of them. They became a bit too experimental for me… In 2004 they surprised me with Vertigo which was a return to the rockband I knew.
Official clip.
Madonna is normally not my kind of thing, but the first few songs on Ray of Light are pretty good. I like the production and songwriting work done by Wiliam Orbit on this, he has some pretty tasteful sounds.
Song with sleeve.
Time to play something more danceable on the Tuuur 10k installment. I find it increasingly hard to write insightful or funny pieces of proza with the posts here, so today you just have to deal with the links to Concrete Jungle by Bob Marley and The Wailers.
1975, with fellow Wailers Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh.
later on, with the I Threes.
Somebody to Love is one of those archetypical rock songs by Queen everybody from my age knows; it’s etched in my brain, and I can play it on radio InsideMyHead complete with all vocals and lead guitar parts, though I haven’t listened to it for years.
“Promotional video”.
While I’m at it, let’s do Gerdundula, the b-side to In My Chair as well (Gerd und Ulla, for the German speaking readers… geddit?). This has got one of the more weird lead guitar parts in any Status Quo song; slightly out of tune… not sure if I can catergorize it under Rock as well, but hey, it’s Quo!
Song with sleeve.
Status Quo started out as a psychedelic hippie band, but in 1970 they switched to the rock ‘n’ roll steam roller band we all know and love. In My Chair is one of the first songs after that switch. I like that low down slow boogie sound they have here.
Playbacking on TV in 1970.
Live in 2009… nah, in their 70s they’re not as good as in the 70s.