Your top 5 songs

Highlander · Post by **Highlander** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:01 am

Highwayman- Nelson, Cash, Kristopherson, Jennings

Life by the drop- SRV

Littlewing- Hendrix

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer- Hooker

Highlander · Post by **Highlander** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:05 am

opps forgot the 5th:

Me and Bobby Mcgee acoustic version- Joplin

CC's Desperados · Post by **CC's Desperados** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:50 am

Originally posted by Highlander:

opps forgot the 5th:

Me and Bobby Mcgee acoustic version- Joplin Sorry I like this version better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwmUMvhy-lY

751542 · Post by **751542** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 11:52 am

Originally posted by CC's Desperados:

quote:Originally posted by Highlander:

opps forgot the 5th:

Me and Bobby Mcgee acoustic version- Joplin Sorry I like this version better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwmUMvhy-lY [/QUOTE]they both are good, but give me the bowersox version

Less than Dave · Post by **Less than Dave** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:15 pm

haha this is definitely going to show a generational gap between me and everyone else here, but...

1. Gainesville Rock City - Less than Jake

2. Black or White - Michael Jackson

3. Last Train Home - Lost Prophets

4. Wonderful - Everclear

5. Paper Cut - Linkin Park

6. Look What Happened - Less than Jake

7. Not Even the Trees - Hootie and the Blowfish (pretty much any song off Cracked Rear View)

8. The Juggernauts - Zebrahead

9. Guilty Pleasure - Cobra Starship

10. Piano Man - Billy Joel

(I could not bring myself to choose just 5 of these)

Schwks · Post by **Schwks** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:30 am

I have tried to narrow it down but cant:

Neil Young: Cowgirl In the Sand (narrowly beating After Gold Rush)

Stones: Mooonlight Mile

Tom Petty; Break down

Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire

Killers: Mr Brightside

Dylan: Mr Tamborine Man

Springsteen: Spirits in the NIght

Lit: Own Worst Enemy

Pearl Jam: Better Man

Dead: Scarlet Begonias

Townshend: Let My Love Open the Door

Steel Pulse: Earth Crisis

U2: Streets Have No Name

English Beat: Mirror in the Bathroom

REM: End of the WOrld

Roxy Music: Oh Yeah(On the Radio)

Dire Straights: Romeo and Juliet

Closter Knickerbockers · Post by **Closter Knickerbockers** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:52 pm

VIPER -- Indeed ... Streets of London, by the immortal Brit folk-rocker Ralph McTell ... I know it well. Fine performer. Magnificent songwriter. He's a very good friend of the guys from Fairport Convention. Pretty sure I saw him perform it live years ago (like mid/late 80's at one of Fairport's annual "Reunion Festvals".

viper · Post by **viper** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 4:49 am

Closter Knickerbockers - In the mid-70s, Dick Cerri had a Sunday evening folk music show called Music Americana on WASH in Washington. The first time I heard "Streets of London" was on that show. The song was annually the #1 folk song as voted by listeners for about as long as the show existed. This year my wife and I will be attending two shows at the Barns at Wolftrap. They are Tom Chapin [Harry Chapin's brother] and Tom Paxton. I love story tellers and folk music. Damn, I'm old.

[ December 22, 2010, 10:50 AM: Message edited by: viper ]

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 1:38 pm

I didn't recognize 'Streets of London' by name at first mention. After an online search my memory was refreshed. Yes, it is a great song and you youngins' should google it when you have time.

Not being sure when I first heard it, I operated on a hunch and googled 'Isle of Wight-1970'. Not only did Ralph Mctell perform there but so did:

Hendrix

Moody Blues

Leonard Cohen

Ten Years After

Jethro Tull

Richie Havens

Joan Baez

Donavan

The Who

The Doors

Miles Davis

Emerson Lake and Palmer

John Sebastian

Joni Mitchell

Sly and the Family Stone

Procol Harem

Chicago

And David Bromberg, to name a few. I wish I could tell you about what a great concert it was, but honestly the only thing I still remember is signing up to pick up the trash after the concert ended to earn enough money for the ferry and train back to Heathrow so I didn't miss my $60 Freddy Laker flight back to the USA. I wouldn't give up 'what's left' of my memories for anything, on the other hand I wouldn't mind turning '50' again either.

P.S Shame that Fairport Convention wasn't there.( I was quite fond of their Liege and Leaf album.) Not that I would have remembered their performance anyway

Closter Knickerbockers · Post by **Closter Knickerbockers** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:32 pm

LOL ... I guess we're just a bunch of old fogeys ... I mean, FOLKIES

That's an amazing lineup on Wight ... i've seen several of those people/groups live. Had a talk with J.B.S. before a show in a little club in CT about 25 years ago, around the time of Welcome Back.