I had a little help from my friends on this one when they pointed it out to me last night. The video above is of Joe Cocker’s well known performance at Woodstock in 1969. What is different about the video above from the original live recording is someone has added lyrics matching what it sounds like Joe is singing. e.g. A couple lines are…
Oh baby, hoggify
All I need is my butt and I
Too funny!
You can listen to the original recorded album version, where Joe has a little bit more diction, here:
I’d like to also point out that although Joe Cocker’s rendition is famous, the song was originally written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released on The Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Joe’s cover is good, but so is the original. It is difficult to say which one I like more.
I have read different interpretations of this song. Some say it is about Eric Clapton’s cocaine habit back in the 60s. Others say it relates to the Vietnam War. I think it is just about lost and lonely people, wandering the shadows. Great song whatever Cream intended.
Oh also during the line “Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows” I keep hearing it as “Platform dickhead”. Perhaps it is just me?
This song was stuck in my head this morning. The beat rocks. Like much of Beck’s music, this is a great song to blast on the radio in the car, windows down & punk up!
When I was young I though the song was “In a Garden of Evil”, though I know “In the Garden of Eden” was another popular misinterpretation. I am definitely one of those people who will make up lyrics if I cannot understand what they are singing, which then makes me look like an idiot when I happen to quote them to anyone else. I’m sure many of you have had the same experience.
At over 17 minutes, this song is a monument, or perhaps more accurately a foundation, for hard rock and heavy metal. I am frequently amazed as the creativity and artistry of the early rock artists of the 60’s and how they literally created styles and genres of music single handedly that where unlike anything before. I think Iron Butterfly is a perfect example. So cool.
I was asked yesterday if I liked Jethro Tull. My reaction was an immediate unquestionable “yes”. But then I was thinking, and I could not name a single song. How much could I like them then? So this morning I was listening to them and I like many of their songs, and I know a few well enough to sing along a bit. I guess I just never stopped to look at the song titles!
After visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame I was reminded of my early CD listening days, before I even bought any albums of my own. One of the first albums my family bought was Fleetwood Mac’s “Tango In The Night”. G and I were going through some of their songs and I remember listening to this one over and over back in the late 80s.
I need to remember, if Meg and Jack White can be “a band”, then there is hope for those of us who have few friends that have any interest. I guess I should go practice because these two sound so good for just being the two of them and I can barely keep a steady two-beat tempo for more than a couple minutes. These two are truly inspirational though.
Ah ha! You saw “The Doors” and probably thought the next words would be “Light My Fire”, but no! “Touch Me”, a less well known classic, is my favorite from the band. It is really too bad about Jim Morrison and the heroin. I like to believe they had A LOT more music in them and perhaps we never saw the full potential of the band play out. (When I’m in a band, I promise not to let the drugs take over.)
The video is a live performance on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”. I couldn’t find the album version online, but this performance holds true to the original. Enjoy!
I grew up with one of my brothers listening to AC/DC and this song “Back in Black” seems to appear all over the place. It is a song that seems to be frequently and randomly playing in the soundtrack of my life. My life must be using Winamp to shuffle. Oh I kid Winamp!
Today’s bonus song of the day, was actually my song of the day on March 21st. Sometimes I just get in a mood and I want to play some Led Zeppelin. I’m sure you feel the same way. I love the persistent slow march like beat. And then the orchestral quality to the keyboards at times, like a viola is actually drawing a bow back and forth across the strings. And then a touch of Indian or Middle Eastern sound. The combo is so cool.
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