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Offline Godzilla

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« on: October 17, 2003, 09:02:08 PM »
Each of these songs I consider to be a masterpeice and completely original. The band that wrote and performed these songs has many, many more great songs beyond this list. One of the amazing things about this band is that they not only wrote great songs, but they performed them so well that you can hardly point to a cover version that is better than the original version.

A truley GREAT band that some people still insist was "just a pop or candy" band. They also recorded these, plus MANY more number one hits in about a 7 year recording carreer.



I Saw Her Standing There
Help
Revolution
Yesterday
A Day In The Life
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Here Comes The Sun
Something
Across The Universe
While My Guitar Gentley Weeps
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Come Together
Day Tripper
A Little Help From My Friends
Norwegian Wood
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
In My Life
She Said She Said
Tomorrow Never Knows
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« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2003, 11:03:27 PM »
And inspired some great Americans like charles Manson:D
Just kidding the Beatles will go down in music history as one of the greats.:aok
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« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2003, 12:09:42 AM »
A little more practice, and they was almost as good as Hank Williams.

Setting The Woods on Fire
 
Comb your hair and paint and powder
You act proud and I’ll act prouder
You sing loud and I’ll sing louder
Tonight we’re setting the woods on fire

You my gal and I’m your feller
Dress up in your frock of yeller
I’ll look swell but you’ll look sweller
Setting the woods on fire

We’ll take in all the honkey tonks
Tonihgt we’re having fun
We’ll show the folks a brand new dance
That never has been done

I don’t care who thinks we’re silly
You be daffy and I’ll be dilly
We’ll order up to bowls of chili
Setting the woods on fire

I’ll gas up my hot rod stocker
We’ll get hotter than a poker
You’ll be broke but I’ll be broker
Tonight we’re setting the woods on fire

We’ll sit close to one another
Up the one street and down the other
We’ll have a time o brother
Setting the woods on fire

We’ll put aside a little time
To fix a flat or two
My tires and tubes are doing fine
But the air is showing through

You clap hands and I’ll start bowing
We’ll do all the laws allowin’
Tomorrow I’ll be right back plowing
Setting the woods on fire.
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« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2003, 01:23:05 AM »
hmmm another beatler r the best thread.....


however should i respond?



i could start out that Led Zeppelin could give a rats arse about them "mop tops" let alone more bands than you can count from the 50-60's ...and muddy waters was more of an influence than them. or that Black soul and blues is where it all came from in the first place....


either way never get between a lennon/mcartney lover and his thoughts on music... they are always right...  -or-  you will get slammed by more liberal-type people than you can count.


oh well
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« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2003, 05:22:01 AM »
Wow.  I thought it was Elvis or the Beatles?  Now it Led Zeppelin vs. the Beatles?  Hmmmmm...I take Zeppelin because they know how to catch sharks for their fans!

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« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2003, 05:40:09 AM »
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Originally posted by JB73
hmmm another beatler r the best thread.....


however should i respond?



i could start out that Led Zeppelin could give a rats arse about them "mop tops" let alone more bands than you can count from the 50-60's ...and muddy waters was more of an influence than them. or that Black soul and blues is where it all came from in the first place....


either way never get between a lennon/mcartney lover and his thoughts on music... they are always right...  -or-  you will get slammed by more liberal-type people than you can count.


oh well


I didnt say they are the best band....just saying those songs I listed I consider to be masterpeices both in writing and performance.

 I love Zep too.

But.... how many bands CAN YOU count from the 50-60's that wrote any good songs that you can list and that even come close to being as good as the songs I listed, all being from the 60's? Out of those bands, how many wrote more than a few good songs during that time period? The Beatles pretty much were the most prolific songwriters of not only that period, but ever.

Muddy Waters has more influence than the Beatles? I really doubt that. I doubt any band has had as much influence as the Beatles, with Zep being a close second.
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« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2003, 06:16:42 AM »
One Love! One Heart!
Let's get together and feel all right.
Hear the children cryin' (One Love!);
Hear the children cryin' (One Heart!),
Sayin': give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Sayin': let's get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!

Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love!);
There is one question I'd really love to ask (One Heart!):
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner,
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?

One Love! What about the one heart? One Heart!
What about - ? Let's get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One Love!);
So shall it be in the end (One Heart!),
All right!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right.
One more thing!

Let's get together to fight this Holy Armagiddyon (One Love!),
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One Song!).
Have pity on those whose chances grows t'inner;
There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

Sayin': One Love! What about the One Heart? (One Heart!)
What about the - ? Let's get together and feel all right.
I'm pleadin' to mankind! (One Love!);
Oh, Lord! (One Heart) Wo-ooh!

Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right.
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right;
Let's get together and feel all right.



That belongs to the list also.
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« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2003, 06:18:58 AM »
Just a few other minor songs, all writen and performed between 1963 and 1969


I feel Fine
Eight Days A Week
Twist and Shout
Hard Days Night
Please Please Me
Cant Buy Me Love
Ticket To Ride
You've Go To Hide Your Love Away
We Can Work It Out
Drive My Car
Michelle
Get Back
She Loves You
Im Looking Through You
Taxman
Hello,Goodbye
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
All You Need Is Love
Back In The USSR
Long And Winding Road
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« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2003, 06:31:53 AM »
Any people in bands out there? How many of you would mind having a set list of great songs comparable to this when playing out?  :)

I left out a bunch of great songs, but you get the Idea.

I'm sure most of you would rather lay claim to and play Muddy Waters songs than these POS songs. I bet most could pick a set list from "more bands than you could count" from the 50's-60's that would top this list.

I Saw Her Standing There
Help
Revolution
Yesterday
A Day In The Life
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Here Comes The Sun
Something
Across The Universe
While My Guitar Gentley Weeps
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Come Together
Day Tripper
A Little Help From My Friends
Norwegian Wood
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
In My Life
She Said She Said
I feel Fine
Eight Days A Week
Twist and Shout
Hard Days Night
Please Please Me
Cant Buy Me Love
Ticket To Ride
You've Go To Hide Your Love Away
We Can Work It Out
Drive My Car
Michelle
Get Back
She Loves You
Im Looking Through You
Taxman
Hello,Goodbye
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
All You Need Is Love
Back In The USSR
Long And Winding Road
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« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2003, 06:47:14 AM »
I was dreaming of the past
And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control
I began to lose control

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was feeling insecure
You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside
I was shivering inside

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was trying to catch your eyes
Thought that you was trying to hide
I was swallowing my pain
I was swallowing my pain

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy, watch out
I'm just a jealous guy, look out babe
I'm just a jealous guy






When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree
There will be an answer, let it be
For though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me
Shine until tomorrow, let it be
I wake up to the sound of music, Mother Mary comforts me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
There will be an answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
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« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2003, 06:47:32 AM »
Well then this song belongs to list :)


After all the jacks are in their boxes
and the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
footsteps dressed in red
And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterdays life
Somewhere a queen is weeping
Somewhere a king has no wife
And the wind, it cries Mary
The traffic lights, they turn, uh, blue tomorrow
and shine their emptiness down on my bed
The tiny island sags down stream
'cause the life that lived is,
is dead
And the wind screams Mary
Uh-will the wind ever remember
the names it has blow in the past?
And with this crutch, its old age, and its wisdom
it whispers no, this will be the last
And the wind cries Mary

Love that song
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« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2003, 07:08:30 AM »
The Beatles "A" List:

I Saw Her Standing There
Help
Revolution
Yesterday
A Day In The Life
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Here Comes The Sun
Something
Across The Universe
While My Guitar Gentley Weeps
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Come Together
Day Tripper
A Little Help From My Friends
Norwegian Wood
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
In My Life
She Said She Said
I feel Fine
Eight Days A Week
Twist and Shout
Hard Days Night
Please Please Me
Cant Buy Me Love
Ticket To Ride
You've Go To Hide Your Love Away
We Can Work It Out
Drive My Car
Michelle
Get Back
She Loves You
Im Looking Through You
Taxman
Hello,Goodbye
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
All You Need Is Love
Back In The USSR
Long And Winding Road
In My Life

The Beatles "B" List

Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise
Rain
Julia
Lady Madonna
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
All You Need Is Love
Fool On the Hill
Nowhere Man
Dont Let Me Down
Magical Mystery Tour
From Me To You
I want to Hold Your Hand
All My Loving
Girl
Paperback Writer
Good Day Sunshine
Oh Darling
Im So Tired
Sexy Sadie
The Word
Money
Mother Natures Son

The Beatles "C" List

Maxwell Silver's Hammer
Rocky Racoon
Ob-La Di, Ob-La Da
Birthday
Yellow Submarine
When Im 64
Ballad of John and Yoko
Shes Leaving Home
Martha My Dear
I Will
Listen
Run For Your Life
Your Gonna Lose That Girl
I'll Follow The Sun
Bungalow Bill
Piggies
Glass Onion
Cry Baby Cry
Mother Natures Son
Revolution 9





Can Anyone say the Beatles sucked?
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« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2003, 07:11:20 AM »
Try this list from Hank.

·  ’neath a Cold Gray Tomb of Stone     
·  A Home in Heaven     
·  A House of Gold     
·  A House Without Love     
·  A Mansion on The Hill     
·  A Picture from Life’s Other Side  
·  A Stranger in The Night  
·  Cold Cold Heart     
·  Crazy Heart     
·  Dear John     
·  Everything’s Okay     
·  Faded Love & Winter Roses  
·  Half as Much  
·  Hey, Good Lookin’!  
·  Honky Tonk Blues
·  Honky Tonkin’
·  Howlin’ at The Moon
·  I Can’t Get You Off My Mind
·  I Can’t Help It  
·  I Don’t Care     
·  I Saw The Light
·  I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive  
·  I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry  
·  I’m So Tired of It All  
·  Jambalaya  
·  Jesus Remembered Me  
·  Kaw - Liga  
·  Lonesome Whistle
·  Long Gone Lonesome Blues
·  Lost Highway  
·  Lovesick Blues
·  Mind Your Own Business
·  Move It on Over
·  My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It  
·  My Heart Would Know
·  My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
·  No One Will Ever Know  
·  Ramblin’ Man  
·  Setting The Woods on Fire
·  Someday You’ll Call My Name
·  Take These Chains from My Heart  
·  The Angel of Death  
·  The Funeral  
·  There’s a Tear in My Beer  
·  Why Don’t You Love Me  
·  You Better Keep It on Your Mind
·  You Win Again  
·  You’re Gonna Change

My bucket's got a hole in it,  
My bucket's got a hole in it,  
My bucket's got a hole in it,  
And I can't buy no beer...

snif.. snif..

absolutely beautiful...

leaves all the rest a-way back in the dust...
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« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2003, 07:28:41 AM »
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Originally posted by Godzilla
The Beatles "A" List:

I Saw Her Standing There
Help
Revolution
Yesterday
A Day In The Life
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Here Comes The Sun
Something
Across The Universe
While My Guitar Gentley Weeps
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Come Together
Day Tripper
A Little Help From My Friends
Norwegian Wood
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
In My Life
She Said She Said
I feel Fine
Eight Days A Week
Twist and Shout
Hard Days Night
Please Please Me
Cant Buy Me Love
Ticket To Ride
You've Go To Hide Your Love Away
We Can Work It Out
Drive My Car
Michelle
Get Back
She Loves You
Im Looking Through You
Taxman
Hello,Goodbye
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
All You Need Is Love
Back In The USSR
Long And Winding Road
In My Life

The Beatles "B" List

Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise
Rain
Julia
Lady Madonna
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
All You Need Is Love
Fool On the Hill
Nowhere Man
Dont Let Me Down
Magical Mystery Tour
From Me To You
I want to Hold Your Hand
All My Loving
Girl
Paperback Writer
Good Day Sunshine
Oh Darling
Im So Tired
Sexy Sadie
The Word
Money
Mother Natures Son

The Beatles "C" List

Maxwell Silver's Hammer
Rocky Racoon
Ob-La Di, Ob-La Da
Birthday
Yellow Submarine
When Im 64
Ballad of John and Yoko
Shes Leaving Home
Martha My Dear
I Will
Listen
Run For Your Life
Your Gonna Lose That Girl
I'll Follow The Sun
Bungalow Bill
Piggies
Glass Onion
Cry Baby Cry
Mother Natures Son
Revolution 9


Can Anyone say the Beatles sucked?


The Beatles "C" list is better than most bands have ever produced.
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« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2003, 07:50:34 AM »
Hey, Holden, You forgot, "your cheatin heart"!
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