Hidden Treasures - Most Treasured

[Scott]

Typically this forum would try to look at deep cuts, music that contains some sort of hidden treasure.  I think we've uncovered some really cool music in the process, but what we haven't done, yet,  is expose the true treasures of our musical hearts. These are the songs that we guard with our lives, the best of best!

 

My list, at least the top 3, has always been a pretty big constant for me for quite a long time. These songs never get old, they could never-ever become overplayed, and if someone doesn’t like them , well then they are totally wrong! No two-ways about it.  So this week I’m challenging you to bring your Top 3 EVER and let the discussion begin.  Were not doing this because we are compiling another list, but because these are your most treasured songs, your best of the best...

 

Here's mine,

 

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	Fleetwood Mac - ST 1975 3 - Monday Morning My first ever album purchase consisted of Bob Seger's "Night Moves" and this self titled album. Monday Morning was one of the very first tunes I listened to "cranked up". I was sitting between two large speakers (which is most optimal) when my friend’s brother-in-law put the needle down and my life changed at that moment. After Bob Welch announced that he was leaving the band, Fleetwood began searching for a possible replacement. While scouting Van Nuys, California, the house engineer for California's Sound City Studios, Keith Olsen, played him a track titled "Frozen Love", which he had mixed there for an American band, Buckingham Nicks. Fleetwood liked it, and was introduced to the guitarist from the band, Lindsey Buckingham, who coincidentally was at Sound City that day recording some demos. Fleetwood soon asked him to join. Buckingham agreed, on the condition that his musical partner and girlfriend, Stephanie "Stevie" Nicks, also become part of the band. Monday Morning was written for a second Buckingham-Nicks album, but when they joined Fleetwood Mac they brought this with them along with "Landslide" and "Rhiannon." The song is about a guy who is really into a girl, but just can't get her to commit.
	Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy 1973 2 - Over The Hills And Far Away Best Acoustic riff and acoustic geetar in a song ever! This song grabs you right away and then just builds and builds. It also has the best pick-up line ever; "Hey Lady! You got the love I need". Tried it a few times, success rates may vary... Jimmy Page and Robert Plant originally constructed the song in 1970 at Bron-Yr-Aur, a small cottage in Wales where they stayed after completing a grueling North American concert tour. Page plays a six-string acoustic guitar introduction with a melody reminiscent of "White Summer" (A Yardbirds tune). Page repeats the theme with a 12-string acoustic guitar in unison. Through the pre-verse interludes and instrumental bridge, "Over the Hills and Far Away" stands out as an example of Jones and Bonham's tight interplay. Following the final verse, the rhythm section fades out, gradually replaced by the echo returns from Page's electric guitar and a few chords played by Jones on harpsichord. Set lists from Led Zeppelin concerts frequently contained "Over the Hills and Far Away", the song being one that the band introduced on stage well ahead of its studio release. The live recording on How the West Was Won, a combined edit of the concerts on 25 and 27 June 1972, was the second public performance of the song. In his spoken introduction to the song before the 27 June 1972 performance in Long Beach, California, Robert Plant says "we did this song once before, the night before last at the Forum, and it was too much, really great." The band continued to play it on the rest of the 1972 concert tour of North America and retained it consistently through 1979, before omitting it from their final tour of Europe in 1980.
	The Who - Who's Next 1971 1 - Baba O'Riley "It's only Teenage Wasteland" ... Name a better lyric? A better battle cry? A better written song? Can't do it! This song is simply the best classic rock tune ever written or recorded. Townshend originally wrote "Baba O'Riley" for his Lifehouse project, a rock opera that was to be the follow-up to The Who's 1969 opera, Tommy. He later claimed in an interview that, in part, "Baba O'Riley" was about what he witnessed during the Who's performance at Woodstock. He stated in an interview that "'Baba O' Riley' is about the absolute desolation of teenagers at Woodstock, where everyone was smacked out on acid and 20 people had brain damage. The contradiction was that it became a celebration: "Teenage Wasteland', yes! We're all wasted!'" Townshend wanted to input the life information of Meher Baba into a synthesiser, which would then generate music based on that information. That music would have been the backing track for "Baba O'Riley", but in the end, the frenetic sequence was played by Townshend on a Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ using its marimba repeat feature. This approach used for the synthesiser track was inspired by the work of minimalist composer Terry Riley. The names of Riley and Meher Baba were incorporated into the song title as a tribute by Townshend. Although they never actually did it in concert, The Who considered pulling a person from the audience and programming their vital statistics into a synthesiser that would, in effect, translate that person into a musical theme around which a song could be built, an idea later resurrected as The Lifehouse Method.

[Dannolonghair]

sorry Scott. I should made this lengthy reply under a new topic instead of hijacking your original post.

[Scott]

Nope, fits perfectly right here!  Made for a good read!

[Jon]

Fine.

Focus--Hocus Pocus

Seriously, how can you ever grow tired of a song featuring blistering geetar and yodeling?

Outlaws--Green Grass And High Tides

This and their version of "Ghost Riders" never tire me out. Slow build up and then....geetaring!

April Wine--Say Hello

I don't know why I never get tired of this song. Oh yeah, it's because of the wicked cool geetaring in the middle when it gets heavy!

[Dannolonghair]

April Wine is another one of those bands that has just a ton of great riffs making it tough to pick just one.

Roller, Sign of the Gypsy Queen, Oowatanite, Ladies Man, You could have been a Lady...all great "geetar" in there, but probably my favorite is Weeping Widow where the guitar work answers back to Goodwyn's vocals right off the start and just has some great chunky moments too. Just playing this song now and thinking I could play it through a dozen times and not get sick of it.

[Scott]

Hard to argue with two of your 3, and really the riffage in the Focus tune is pretty darn good!  but the yodeling?  Nice list but not quite the same level as say...  Danno's, or mine!

 

As for AW?  Their tri-fecta of First Glance / Harder ... Faster / Nature of the Beast is as rock solid as any other back who can say they've release 3 great ones in a row.

[KISSFAN]

KISS
ALIVE! 1975
SHE
IN 1975 KISS ALIVE! WAS THE FIRST ALBUM I EVER HEARD, EVERYTHING FROM THE MAKEUP, COSTUMES, MUSIC BLEW ME AWAY!!!
SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SONG THAT STANDS OUT, LYRICALLY A GREAT SONG, GREAT RIFF!!!
I WILL ARGUE SHE AGAINST ANY SONG EVERYTIME!!!

LED ZEPPELIN
PHYSICAL GRAFFITI 1975
KASHMIR
WHILE NO ONE CAN ARGUE THE HARD ROCKIN' GREATNESS OF LED ZEPPELIN, LED ZEPPELIN II AND LED ZEPPELIN IV!!!
MY FAVORITE SONG HAS ALWAYS BEEN KASHMIR!!!
WRITTEN ABOUT THEIR TRIPS TO MOROCCO...
KASHMIR IS LYRICALLY A MASTERPIECE, MUSICALLY BRILLIANT!!!

EAGLES
ONE OF THESE NIGHTS 1975
TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT
TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE EAGLES SONGS!!!
IT HAS A LOT OF MEANING TO ME FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS!!!
GROWING UP IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN A FIREMAN FAMILY, MY DAD WAS CAPTAIN FOR HUNTINGTON BEACH!!!
IN THE 1970'S WE TOOK AT LEAST 6 ANNUAL TRIPS TO ECHO LODGE ON THE COLORADO RIVER BETWEEN MAY & OCTOBER, FIREMEN LOVE TO TAKE THEIR FAMILES TO THE RIVER ON THEIR 8 DAY!!!
AND EAGLES 1971 - 1975 WAS ONE OF MY FAMILY'S TOP RIVER CASSETTES, TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT WAS ALWAYS ONE OF MY FAVORITES, LYRICALLY IT REMINDS ME OF OUR DRIVE TO THE RIVER, "SO PUT ME ON A HIGHWAY, AND SHOW ME A SIGN"!!!
TO ME THE HIGHWAY WAS THE LONG DRIVE, A SIGN WAS FINALLY SEEING FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE RIVER!!!
IRONICALLY YEARS LATER I WAS LISTENING TO KLOS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S BIG CLASSIC ROCK STATION, THE DJ WAS PLAYING TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT, AND AFTER THE SONG WAS OVER, HE SAID THIS SONG ALWAYS REMINDS HIM OF TRIPS TO ECHO LODGE ON THE COLORADO RIVER IN THE 70'S!!!
WHAT'S THE CHANCE IF THE SAME SONG WITH THE EXACT SAME MEMORY???
I TRIED CALLING IN TO TALK TO THE DJ, HOWEVER CALLING KLOS DURING AFTERNOON DRIVE IS NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE, UNLESS YOU'RE LOOKING TO HEAR 4 HOURS OF BUSY SIGNALS!!!
OUR TRIPS TO THE COLORADO RIVER ARE SOME OF MY BEST MEMORIES GROWING UP, AND EAGLES DEFINE THE 70'S AS MUCH AS BELL BOTTOMS, THE PET ROCK AND SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS!!!

[Scott]

Love the nod to the Eagles, especially One Of These Nights.  Not only a top shelf album, album cover and band, but a track for track pure joy to listen to!