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Best Pop Songs of All Time


DudeAsInCool

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Only great stuff is allowed in this thread, so be discriminating. Name the best popular songs you can remember and the decade they came from: I will start with a few oldies:

60s

Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

Wild Thing - The Troggs

Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan

Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

Dancin' In the Streets - Martha & the Vandellas (Co-W by Marvin Gaye!)

Summer in the City - The Lovin' Spoonful

Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds

Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harum

I Feel Good - James Brown

Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

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Bob Dylan

"The Times They Are A-Changin'"

Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you

Is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'

It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is

Rapidly agin'

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is

Rapidly fadin'

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.

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I like that list dude, the kinks, my favorite was "lola", haven't heard that song in ages.

Just started a thread on The Kinks yeterday:

:read this:

http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?s...t=0entry19914

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Here are the lyrics, but i havent heard the song..

You and I in a little toy shop

Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got

Set them free at the break of dawn

Til one by one, they were gone

Back at base, bugs in the software

Flash the message, "Somethings out there"

Floating in the summer sky

99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons floating in the summer sky

Panic bells, it's a red alert

There's something here from somewhere else

The war machine springs to life

And opens up one eager eye

Focusing it in the sky

99 red balloons go by

99 Decision Street, where 99 ministers meet

To worry, worry, super-scurry

Call the troops out in a hurry

This is what we've waiting for

This is it boys, this is war

The president is on the line

99 red balloons go by

99 Knights of the air

Ride super-high-tech jet fighters

Everyone's a Silverhero

Everyone's a captain Kirk

With orders to identify

To clarify and classify

Scramble in the summer sky

99 red ballons go by

99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had

In everyone a red ballon

Now it's all over and I'm standin' pretty

In this dust that was a city

If I could find a souvenir

Just to prove the world was here...

And here is a red balloon

I think of you and let it go

99 red balloons go by

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60s

The Beatles - I Want You

Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Man

The Outsiders - Monkey On Your Back

Brainbox - Down Man

Brainbox - Summertime

Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne

Pink Floyd - See Emely Play

Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

Kinks - Lola

Herd - From The Underworld

70s

Barclay James Harvest - Child Of The Universe

CSN&Y - Almost Cut My Hair

Neil Young - Heart Of Gold

John Miles - Music

The Doors - Love Her Madly

John Lennon - Imagine

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild

America - Horse With No Name

Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace

Deep Purple - Child In Time

Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

Johnny Rivers - John Lee Hooker

Status Quo - Roll Over Lay Down

CCR - Suzie Q

:wacko: makes me very confusing ! :rotfl:

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how about..er....99 red balloons

You sure that shouldn't have been in the 1-hit-wonder thread? :envy:

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The Animals

The House Of The Rising Sun Columbia Jun'64  (#1)

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood /Columbia Jan'65  (#3)

Bring It On Home To Me / Columbia Apr'65  (#7)

We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place /Columbia Jul'65   (#2)

It's My Life / Columbia Oct'65  (#7)

Don't Bring Me Down / Decca May'66  (#6)

See See Rider/MGM '66 (Cover of Mitch Ryder Tune)

War

Spill The Wine /1970 (#3)

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60's

Cream - White Room

Kinks - You Really Got Me

CCR - Fortunate Son

Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'

Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic

Beatles - Paperback Writer

Gladys Knight - Midnight Train To Georgia

Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints

Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman

The Young Rascals - Good Lovin'

Otis Redding - Sittin On the Dock Of The Bay

70's

David Bowie - Sufragette City

Van Halen - You Really Got Me

Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music White Boy

Led Zeppelin - Dyer'maker

The Doors - Love Her Madly

Edgar Winter - Frankenstein

The Knack - My Sharona

Kiss - Calling Dr. Love

Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Foghat - I Just Want To Make Love To You

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night

War - Cisco Kid

T Rex - Bang A Gong

Donna Summer - I Feel Love

Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely?

Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star

I'll get around to the 80's and 90's on another occasion...

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More 60s Stuff

Louie, Louie - The Kingsman

Youve Lost That Lovin' Feeling -

Be My Baby

Up on the Roof

On the Boardwalk

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DudeAsInCool did you mean under the boardwalk?

From late 60's to 1970

Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride

Beatles - Let It Be

And for a little introspective but not as popular stuff

Joe South - Walk a Mile In My Shoes

Joe South - Don't It Make You Want To Go Home

Joe South - Games People Play (Grammy for song of the year 1969 I believe)

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I surfed around as well. I did not find anything either. I did not go to concerts so I missed out on that. You probably came from a neighborhood where people had money.........electricity, telephones, running water, tv. I grew up so far back in the woods that we had to swing in on vines just to get home.

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Back on topic...

Paul Revere and the Raiders had one hit good enough to make this thread - the song was called "Kicks"

(FYI--Pau Revere and the Raiders were the host band for Dick Clark's What's Happening ABC after school show in the 60s. They were from the beach community...here's their website: http://www.paulrevereraiders.com/)

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