Posted on 05/13/2011 9:14:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Last week we asked our readers to vote for their favorite ballad or slow jam of all time. Votes were all over the place – from tracks by Pearl Jam to Elvis Presley to Lionel Richie. In the end it was very close, and there was a tie so we had to expand our standard top 10 to a top 12. If this survey has reinforced anything, it's that our readers really, really love Led Zeppelin.
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“Angel”, Hendrix
Harry Chapin - Taxi and the sequel
He was a bleeding heart liberal but worked in the Reagan Admin. Killed in '81 when his VW Beetle got crushed by a big semi on NJ turnpike, I think. Seems like his liberal causes kept him away from home too much and wife and kids hardly saw him. Just my memory, not sure and too lazy to look it up on allmusic.com.
Got to get some sleep... g'night.
I can't believe it took 11 posts to recognize the flaw in the list.
No Styx? No Heart? Foreigner? No “Sarah, Smile”? No “Love will keep us alive”?
This list says more about RS readers than it does music.
“Still Got the Blues”....and the instrumental “The Loner”....
....both by the late, great master himself: Gary Moore.
God rest his soul. He’s already missed by so many.
Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood
One of my all time favorites!
I prefer Redding’s “Try a little tenderness” to “Dock”. What about “My Girl”, “Misty”, “Just ask the lonely” or “Gypsy Woman”?
Crystal Ball redeems Styx, but remember, they sold a shitload of “Babe” and “You’re my lady”. “Heaven on our side” by Foreigner is great, as well as “I want to know what love is”.
And they’ve all done so much since the split. Discipline someone like that, don’t fire him.
Guess I’m Dumb by Glen Campbell, written and produced by Brian Wilson. Magnificent!
Paradise by the dashboard light, #1.
Heart of Mine by Boz Scaggs is one of my favorite songs!
Try “Poor wand’ring one” from Penzance for the purest, best Ronstadt. One of the best overlooked movies of all time.
My cousin had that played at his funeral. If you knew the guy, it was most fitting and proper.
Now you went & gave me a list to look up this weekend!
wow wow wow. Just listened to this, and it has the sound of a classic. Never knew he did anything like this.Just beautiful, beautiful melody line, beautiful hook, beautiful changes. this would have been a good song for the amazing James Durbin to do, if he weren’t already eliminated from American Idol.
that car looks a lot like the one John Lennon used in NYC in the 1970s. It came up at auction about 2 months ago at Braswell’s in Norwalk, Ct. YOURS is in MUCH better shape, Lennon’s had dings, scrapes, rust, etc. NOT maintained.
STILL , some guy paid a few thou for it, with the hope of restoring it and adding it to a caravan of “rocker’s cars” he was intending for a national tour of some kind.
that car looks a lot like the one John Lennon used in NYC in the 1970s. It came up at auction about 2 months ago at Braswell’s in Norwalk, Ct. YOURS is in MUCH better shape, Lennon’s had dings, scrapes, rust, etc. NOT maintained.
STILL , some guy paid a few thou for it, with the hope of restoring it and adding it to a caravan of “rocker’s cars” he was intending for a national tour of some kind.
As good a description of Zep's music as any. And yep, they're overplayed because they're amazing.
And speaking of ballads, they had a few epic ones too -- "Going to California"......"Ten Years Gone"....."The Rain Song"......
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