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Timeless Tunes
Posted by mojoworking on 20 January 2012 - 5:53am.
There are some tunes which sound effortless, like they've always existed and have just been plucked from the air for our enjoyment.
Many of the Beatles' songs fall into that category which is, I suppose, what makes them so good.
Here's another stupendous melody which sounds like it was carved out of stone a million years ago and has been handed down to us by the gods.
It's Sylvia by Focus.
Any others?
And that's a seldom-seen Gibson Les Paul Personal model Jan Akkerman is playing there. It was one of a number of short-lived orphan models that Gibson knocked out in the 70s.
There's some interesting idiot dancing and proto headbanging going on in the front row of the mosh pit btw.
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May I offer...
Bob Dylan - "To Make You Feel My Love"
Nick Drake - "River Man"
Silver Seas - "She Is Gone"
Leonard Cohen - "Dance Me To The End of Love"
Ron Sexsmith - "Thinking Out Loud"
Roy Harper - "Another Day"
That'll do for now.
Sylvia
is brilliant.
Another, more recent, song that sounds timeless to me: "Let That Show" by the Pernice Bros.
Never heard that before
but, yeah, it's lovely.
Thanks m.o.s
The Weight
Hard to believe it's not a traditional gospel song, as sung in the versions by Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples which have recently been posted here.
A song which was written by a white man reflecting his immersion in black music, it has almost become part of black culture. It reminded me of a recent BBC4 programme about the Gershwin song Summertime, which has undergone a similar crossover.
The Allman Brothers
with Blue Sky, recorded 1971.
From about one minute in, a series of wonderfully melodic guitar solos begins.
Duane Allman kicks it off, followed by Dickey Betts (who wrote the song). Then they harmonise together.
It's simply wonderful.
"The Tracks Of My Tears"...
...sounds as though it were stumbled upon, wrapped in tissue and lace, in a clearing in a secret forest behind a Detroit shopfront only Smokey knew.
Or something like that.
Absolutely
the best song ever recorded.
Beautifully put, madfox
and, from the same stumbling and wrapping accident, I would venture this timeless classic:
Mr Benjamin? You may commence the greatest 3 stroke intro ever.....
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Ooh, Baby, Baby
Many Rivers to Cross
By Jimmy Cliff. I find it difficult to imagine that there was a time when that song wasn't in existence. And I'm rather happy that I wasn't in yet in existence to live in that world. Sublime.
Searching for Summertime
Anyone see this on Beeb4?
It tracked the story of Gershwin's 'Summertime' from Porgy and Bess through its various interpretations, set partly against a backdrop of the development of Civil Rights in the USA.
Apparently it's the most covered song ever with some 25000 versions.
Timeless
and so beautiful:
Eric Clapton - Danny Boy
So much noise about a tear in the video
and (merited) praise for the vocal but what a perfect, timeless song:
(Sinéad O Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U)
Stand By Me
It's simplicity itself. Such an obvious sequence of notes and actually quite trite sentiments in the bare lyrics. But it's brilliant. Timeless.
Hey that Focus is great.
I've a couple of their records buried away somewhere but wasn't familiar with it...Great youtube stuff. How about this one.. Booker T and the MG's...Time is Tight. Looks like Creedence in the crowd..
Time to get all MOR on your ass
This really is timeless:
Would also offer Whiter shade of Pale, Telstar, Simon and Garfunkels America and Allman Brothers Jessica.
Oh yes!
I'll give you all those Steve, even Acker, which is an amazing tune.
I was tossing up between the Allman's Jessica and Blue Sky. I can never choose between those two.
While we're in an instrumental mood, here's The Shadows with Atlantis. I could have picked several great tunes by them, but this is a killer melody. Great string arrangement, too.
The Shads had loads
Here is another one. Was gonna give you the Edgar Broughton Band version but its too early in the morning and might frighten the neighbours:
Start spreading the news...
I remember being very surprised when I found out the New York, New York was written specifically for the 1977 Martin Scorsese film and not some classic from a bygone era as I had supposed.
My word, that's astonishing
I thought you were joking there until I googled it. I always thought Sinatra recorded it in the 50s.
With a melody to die for
Sleepwalk by Santo & Johnny must be the last word on guitar instrumentals.
Oooooh
Lovely haunting tune. I forgot about that one, haven't heard it in ages.
The La's
There She Goes.
This has always sounded timeless to me & an example of a perfect pop song.
And has a flavour
of mid-sixties Ivy League, eg Funny How Love Can Be.
I thought the original was a
I thought the original was a masterpiece and then I heard Diana Krall's version, beautiful:
I keep hearing this one lately
No denying it's a great version of a wonderful timeless song...
The words perhaps not...
... but the melody? Dear god, timeless
I do not pretend that Wichita Lineman is anything other than an obvious choice...
And that version of Over The Rainbow? Played when me and the GLW signed the registrar book at our wedding...