Somebody to Love
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Topic: Somebody to Love
Posted By: Epignosis
Subject: Somebody to Love
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:21
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Prog-related vs Proto-prog... Both bands released a song by this title, but which do you like better? Apologies to admin, but the ability to create polls in the appropriate section is still unavailable. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:31
| I like both songs ,but the Airplane has the edge over Queen. I just love Grace Slick's vocals on that one. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:33
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you have to be kidding me... like comparing a 67' GTO to a 76' f**king Pinto... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:36
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Voted Jefferson, they are great, and this particulat Queen song not my favorite.
NB:
Infact the Kanter/Slick albums, Sunfighter & Baron von Tollbooth even better than the Jefferson's.
------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:38
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I prefer the Queen song. ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:39
not surprising... . J.A. wasn't a album orientated group... they were only the canvas that was painted upon live.. on stage. listen to the version of Somebody to Love on Bless on It's Pointed Little Head.... hah... nothing like turning a song on it's ear... completely redid the song... only kept the lyrics  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
tamijo wrote:Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:44
You mean it depends on which one's backseat you got laid in?  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:44
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These are two of my least favorite songs by two bands that I love. Actually, the Queen version would be much better if it were about 1:30 shorter. But the end drags out much too long. The JA song is my least favorite off of Pillow. I much prefer the other Slick vocal offering, as well as every other tune on Pillow. For the first 3 1/2 minutes, I'm going to have to go with the Queen version. Do like the gospel choir...just wish it ended sooner. ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:47
close... which one do you use to GET laid... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:47
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Voted for JA. For what it's worth, Dwight Twilley also recorded yet another "Somebody To Love" on his Scuba Diver album. Very good song in its own right. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 18:51
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Love both tracks, but Queen's track is more elaborate and Freddy is just brilliant, probably my favorite Queen's song.
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Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 19:09
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Gotta go with the Airplane on this and Micky you are right on about the live thing. They were a tremendous live group. I really like the little jam they got into at the end on the studio. Didn't hear much of that on top 40 radio in 1967.
The Queen song leaves me a bit cold. Never did like it. Is it a show tune or a ballad? It couldn't make up its mind. ------------- 
"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 19:23
 I think Jack said it best.... . '6 musicians.. in search of an arrangement' ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 19:31
| No contest at all. Queen all the way. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 20:30
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Gotta go with the J-Plane.
(Did you know the original title was "Mind Full Of Bread"?)
------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 21:05
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The Queen one!! ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 22:42
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I've already noted my choice. For those on the fence, consider this.
I love me some Queen now and again. They've made some great songs, anthemic songs actually.
But Jack Casady had more pure hard-ass musical chops than anyone in Queen. His only peer, bass-playing-rocker-wise, of the era was our good man Mr. Entwhistle. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: April 01 2010 at 22:55
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Not even close. Queen blows Jefferson Airplane away every time. Every time.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 02:33
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Jefferson Airplane wins this close finish. ------------- 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 03:06
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two great tunes in a songwriting tradition we don't see as much of now.. Queen for this, but I love the 'Plane |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 04:06
This! I love Slicks vocals, on many J. Airplane tunes. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 04:46
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I recomend evvery one of you to check out the George Michale sung'ed version, George Michale makes a vocalistic standpoint after that preformance every other attempts to cover it will fale. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c7x2JD_j-0 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c7x2JD_j-0 |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 04:58
George Michaels performance there is excellent! I wanted to go to that gig (Freddies tribute concert) but couldn't get tickets..  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 05:05
| The Airplane! |
Posted By: Keltic
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 05:07
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Not even a contest. Jefferson Airplane's is far superior to Queen's droopy offering. Besides, neither group fall under the banner PROGRESSIVE ROCK. |
Posted By: ko
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 12:17
| JA |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 12:27
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Much prefer the Jefferson Airplane song and say what you like about the smug little hippy witch, but Grace Slick has lungs like sugar coated pistons. I like a lot of Queen songs but not this critter. White folks make gospel sound stiffer than even hardcore polka music. ------------- 
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 12:29
False, Phil Lesh was right up there with Jack Casady, and couldn't be more closely related in music either. That list could heavily continue too. I am however a big Jack Casady fan. I leave you with this dominant Jack Casady bass solo, an in fact the entire jam is amazing. My favorite Airplane clip easily http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrTS7b028A8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrTS7b028A8
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 13:02
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I'll take Queen's song over the Airplane's. Both good, but Queen gets the edge. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 13:09
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Very easy Jefferson Airplane by a quatum leap. -------------  |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 15:33
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Jefferson Airplane. I sing Somebody To Love, a lot actually. ------------- "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself" - Sartre |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 15:50
They did get a bit wild sometimes. Sometimes it wasn't cohesive and they probably would be the first to admit it but when it all worked it was magic. I think Spencer Dryden was so underrated because he had to hold that thing together. I think it was the Volunteer's re-master release a few years ago and they put 5 live tracks from a show on that tour as bonus tracks. Jorma, Jack and Spencer are just so tight. Absolutely some of the best stuff they did from a show in NYC. Even better than the BLIPLH tracks IMHO. Plastic Fantastic Lover, Somebody to Love, Wooden Ships, Good Shepard and Volunteers. -------------
"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 16:00
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I'm going to surprise many here sonce JA's presence is my doing and they're ne of my fave bands....
BUT
I'm actually tired of their STL song (I much prefer White Rabbit) and I find that the song is a bit conve,ntional
Queen's version is simply awesome, especially in the choirs and vocals ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 16:56
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Well, Queen's been my favourite band for almost 10 years, and it just so happens that STL is on my favourite Queen album. However.... for some reason, despite the superb gospe-like harmonies, the lovely guitar solo, Freddie singing his lungs out (this is also his favourite Queen song), it doesn't do too much for me.  It breaks my heart to say this, but I'll go with Airplane on this one.------------- Property of Queen Productions... 
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Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 17:01
| I always fly Jefferson Airways. |
Posted By: ProgBob
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 17:20
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There was a brief period about 30 years ago when I was getting to know about rock music when I thought I liked Queen. After that I went right off them and haven't been able to stand them to this day. On the other hand, the Airplane have been one of my favourites for almost as long, so this was an easy choice for me. ------------- Bob |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 18:58
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 19:15
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Can't stand the Airplane one. Love the Queen one. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 20:55
generally I'd agree with you... next to James Jamerson (and all the greats acknowledge they were 2nd fiddle to him)... Jack is generally considered to be the greatest bassist of the era that America could put against all those greats of that era out of England. It isn't purely skill... you could draw up a list of a 1000 more skilled bassists if one really wanted (if possible of course) What Casady was the melodic center of the group... much as the masters from England were. it's like i often say... who gives a sh*t what one technically can play... it's music.. not science.. it is about what one DOES (or does not) play that matters. (the McCartney axiom to bass playing greatness) In that... yes... I agree with you Jim... there was no 'rock' peer to Casady in that era. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 20:56
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Another vote for Jefferson Airplane ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 21:16
The finest bass player I had the good fortune to play with, way back when -- and this was a guy who (unlike the rest of us idiots in the band) knew a thing or two about Mingus -- considered Casady his touchstone. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 03 2010 at 00:23
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Hi, I would say that Jefferson Airplane's song qualifies as progressive and then some. And some of those bass lines are just about the rock school of progressive! So many prog bands tend to show how much classical music influenced them, but the Germans used the psychedelic era in America more than anyone else. Very few of them fail to mention a lot of the San Francisco scene and Frank Zappa from further down the road. So much so that one time Grace Slick did a satire of the German thing in one album, and it is funny! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: April 03 2010 at 00:44
| when the truth is found, to be lies! |
Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: April 03 2010 at 10:11
| I prefer Jefferson Airplane over Queen any day, so their version is easily my favorite |
Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: April 06 2010 at 16:55
| Both great but AIrplane wins. |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: April 06 2010 at 17:02
Would that "German thing" happen to be Krautrock?
Anyways, I went with the Jefferson Airplane song.
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: April 06 2010 at 18:19
This. ------------- |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 09 2010 at 09:33
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Grace Slick is perfect on JA version ------------- 
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: May 09 2010 at 10:18
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AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! QUEEN FANBOYISM IS BURSTING THROUGH!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: omri
Date Posted: May 09 2010 at 11:01
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As I expected many here voted to the band and not the song (well, I almost made that mistake too). I prefer JA on Queen by far. I think Grace's voice is one of the greatest ever. I love some of their songs (Wooden ships, Hey Fredrik, Greasy heart, White rabit, Rejoice, Have you seen the saucers, just to name a few). On the other hand, "A day at the races" is IMO Queen's best album and STL is the best song there (after "You take my breath away") so I had to vote for Queen on this one. ------------- omri |
Posted By: Zebedee
Date Posted: May 09 2010 at 13:57
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Jefferson Airplane, I've never really liked Queen.
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Posted By: TheLastBaron
Date Posted: May 10 2010 at 00:17
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Queen's by a long shot, such great vocals, backing vocals and some killer guitar work!!
------------- " Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds." - FDR |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: May 10 2010 at 06:58
| Jefferson Airplane's song. Rockin', great lyrics, hugely popular when it was released. I find the Queen song rather cheesy, and I like Queen. |
Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: May 10 2010 at 07:55
| with the best vocal....queen :) |
Posted By: rod65
Date Posted: May 18 2010 at 11:53
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I've never been a big fan of the Queen song. as for the JA song--or anything else with Grace Slick singing--I've been a fan since first hearing. I think the pacing on it is better and the emotional kick a lot harder.
By the way, the original recording, done in 1966 by the Great Society--also fronted by Slick until she joined JA the following year--is also quite good. Not as hard or as polished, but quintessentially San Francisco in its rawness.
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Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: May 18 2010 at 18:24
| I gotta go with the San Francisco sound. BTW, does anyone else hear that sound resurrected many years later in The Eurythmics "Would I Lie To You?" Too bad modern bands don't take a stab at it more often. |
Posted By: paganinio
Date Posted: May 19 2010 at 04:37
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Somebody to Love by Nelly Furtado is the best song by that name. ------------- 
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Posted By: silcir
Date Posted: May 21 2010 at 05:58
| Jefferson Airplane no doubt. |
Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: May 21 2010 at 12:02
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I love JA.
I hate Queen.
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