12: Your 1965-1969 one track per album faves

65 - Lee Morgan - Most Like Lee
The Beatles - Drive My Car
66 - The Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
67 - The Doors - Light My Fire
Hendrix - Manic Depression
68 - Thelonious Monk - Ugly Beauty
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Glenn Campbell - Wichita Lineman
69 - Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia
The Allman Brothers - Whipping Post
Neil Young - Down By The River

Thanks Richard and Will.

^^ Hearing "Peaches en Regalia" on the radio played, I think, a seminal role in me wanting to explore more adventurous music. And it is such a joyous track.

^ I really appreciate the commentary to go with your choices. I thought of that Nancy Sinatra song too, but then forgot as I am prone to do. Love it.

My favourite song Nancy Sinatra sung actually is "You Only Live Twice" (1967) from the James Bond film. John Barry wrote the score and a friend of my father wrote the lyrics. The Bond song I most return to is "We Have All the Time in the World" (1969) from On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which is sung by Louis Armstrong and composed by Barry with Hal David lyrics. It's been my ultimate procrastination song, and especially when I had papers due, and I was down to the wire to get it done, I would play that song and smile. While both of those Bond ones Barry composed and I had tended to avoid doubles by artists (to hopefully avoid preparing a really long list), I'm adding those Bong (erm, typo, I meant Bond, plenty of bong songs of the period) songs to my playlist.

Edited by Logan - November 24 2023 at 08:03

Logan wrote: Thanks Richard and Will. ^^ Hearing "Peaches en Regalia" on the radio played, I think, a seminal role in me wanting to explore more adventurous music. And it is such a joyous track. ^ I really appreciate the commentary to go with your choices. I thought of that Nancy Sinatra song too, but then forgot as I am prone to do. Love it. My favourite song Nancy Sinatra sung actually is "You Only Live Twice" (1967) from the James Bond film. John Barry wrote the score and a friend of my father wrote the lyrics. The Bond song I most return to is "We Have All the Time in the World" (1969) from On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which is sung by Louis Armstrong and composed by Barry with Hal David lyrics. It's been my ultimate procrastination song, and especially when I had papers due, and I was down to the wire to get it done, I would play that song and smile. While both of those Bond ones Barry composed and I had tended to avoid doubles by artists (to  hopefully avoid preparing a really long list), I'm adding those Bong (erm, typo, I meant Bond, plenty of bong songs of the period) songs to my playlist.

^ Interesting, to me, that you bring up "White Rabbit" as I was going to comment on that too. That actually is one of the first that came to mind, was going to include it, and I love it, but I opted to and regretted choosing a "deeper" track from the same album. Partially because i was not be so true to myself in terms of what I like best. This decision ultimately was because I did a list some time back with "White Rabbit" and a poster was telling me that it was a poor choice. I said something like it's a good choice for me because I really like it, and it's a stone-cold classic. Anyway, I decided to present something less known, and for the playlist which I listen to, as it's one I still like but have not heard nearly so much.

Drew and I have a few snaps, one of which, "The Valentyne Suite”, is on all of our lists (and "White Rabbit" should have been on all of ours). Drew and I also share "Peaches en Regalia" (along with Will), Pentangle's "Hunting Song" and I am most pleased to see Ultimate Spinach's "MindFlowers" on both of our lists.

One off Richard's list that I wish I had included is "Paint It Black" (also not a Stones fan really, but I love that track.)

richardh wrote: Logan wrote: Thanks Richard and Will. ^^ Hearing "Peaches en Regalia" on the radio played, I think, a seminal role in me wanting to explore more adventurous music. And it is such a joyous track. ^ I really appreciate the commentary to go with your choices. I thought of that Nancy Sinatra song too, but then forgot as I am prone to do. Love it. My favourite song Nancy Sinatra sung actually is "You Only Live Twice" (1967) from the James Bond film. John Barry wrote the score and a friend of my father wrote the lyrics. The Bond song I most return to is "We Have All the Time in the World" (1969) from On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which is sung by Louis Armstrong and composed by Barry with Hal David lyrics. It's been my ultimate procrastination song, and especially when I had papers due, and I was down to the wire to get it done, I would play that song and smile. While both of those Bond ones Barry composed and I had tended to avoid doubles by artists (to  hopefully avoid preparing a really long list), I'm adding those Bong (erm, typo, I meant Bond, plenty of bong songs of the period) songs to my playlist. Interesting! I'm quite partial to a bit of Carly Simon (she has some nice bits!) so would go for Nobody Does It Better. However for my sins I do really like Adele's Skyfall as well.   I always felt that Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World could have been a Bond theme somehow , although it wasn't. Oh and there is of course Macca's Live and Let Die. Great production and brings back nice memories of a very young me and my Mum going to the cinema to see Roger Moore's first outing as Bond.

I love "Nobody Does It Better" and I should have thought to include that in my 70s list. It's also one of my wife's favourite songs, and I really like "Skyfall" and of course "Live and Let Die". I have thought that about "The Man Who Sold the World" (one of my very, very favourite Bowie tunes) and the title sounds like a Bond film.

One I love written as a Bond tune that I think very sadly was not chosen is Radiohead's Spectre.




What a great period of music and unlike various other timeframes, I am confident that I would really enjoy everything that has been listed in this topic.