Coconut Grove!
― Marco Damiani, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah "didn't want to have to do it" is sort of unbeatable. but most of these are really good.
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 12 June 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
have you guys ever heard ralfi's version of "make it with you"? unbelievable. i have the 45. how he makes a david gates song into the coolest soul song ever written is pretty impressive. not that david gates didn't have soul, he did...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dj34lQTcfQ
― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i sold a copy of this at my store the other day. i couldn't believe it. (it's not very good)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n7Fl9SjlnG4/Raugcoj1JuI/AAAAAAAAAIM/IEFmPaG4ySM/s320/lovin.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
voted for 'darling be home soon' cos it so gorge, tho it lacks the gigantic belch of the version on SLADE ALIVE
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 12 June 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Jugband Music!
My dad's favorite song
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 June 2009 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
how is that first John Sebastian solo record?
― assrape courtesy of Will High (velko), Friday, 12 June 2009 20:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, I swear I was going to start this poll the other day! I'm going with "You Didn't Have to Be so Nice" bcz SO many hooks, the organ is great, and such sweet singing. So good a song for the person who feels somewhat uncomfortable with affectionate gestures but also loves them (ahem: me).
― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Friday, 12 June 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
John Sebastian is one good-looking dude (or was back in the day).
― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Friday, 12 June 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Wz listening to this exact best of the other day & thee Viceroy asked, "Who are all these bands you're listening to?" rad!
― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Friday, 12 June 2009 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"You Didn't Have to Be So Nice," even though Geir voted for it too.
― unicorn poop evaluator (WmC), Friday, 12 June 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't get over Jug Band Music. I know others are objectively better, but I'm a sucker for a quasi-novelty number from a mainly serious artist (see: Jim Croce's "Car Wash Blues"). Plus you can't beat the beach boy / child's toy / hoi polloi rhyme.
― staggerlee, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
"Summer in the City" and "Daydream" get so much airplay, I can't remember back to when I wasn't sick of them. I voted for "Do You Believe in Magic" (which, just to be contradictory. probably gets almost as much airplay), with "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" and "Six O'Clock" close. Ages and ages and ages ago, Zal Yanovsky's father used to patronize my dad's milk store.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"Did You Ever Have to Make up Your Mind?" needs more love, A+ goofiness
― velko, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Had to go with Younger Girl.
― Alba, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Ridiculous to have to pick one, but I heard Michael Shelley play "Darling Be Home Soon" on his show the other day so I'm going with that. Lyrically it's got some kind of perfect mix of heartfelt emotion expressed through mixed registers and tortured syntax. Also, don't forget the great Joe Cocker version.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
So many overlooked gems in their catalogue. I'd have gone for Old Folks or Forever, but neither are in the list.
So...
― harveyw, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I love the way Younger Girl starts out like it's an acoustic version of Do You Believe In Magic, then turns into its pensive cousin.
― Alba, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a good description.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Great band that I've never seen a lot written about here, aside from (I think) Seward raving about the cover of Everything Playing. The bulk of their entire 1965-67 output is aces with me, happy/goofy ones and melancholy/serious ones alike. I'll go with "She Is Still A Mystery" ("The more I see, the more I see there is to see")
― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
And babe, don't you know it's a pity the day can't be like the night in the summer, in the city.
― Moka, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
mind not made up
― velko, Thursday, 18 June 2009 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
you didn't want to have to do it
― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 18 June 2009 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I would have polled you anyway.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 June 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Summer in the City is right up there with Good Vibrations as best summer song ever.
― sandcat dune buggy attack squad!! (leavethecapital), Thursday, 18 June 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
"Younger Girl" is such a beautiful song. I always hate the "you (female) are too young to have...just now" theme, ideologically, but I just can't not dig this dreamy little idyll.
― frozen cookie (Abbott), Friday, 21 May 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"You're a Big Boy Now" (Boone, Butler, Sebastian) – 2:38 0
watched this movie recently -- is this the track w/ the refrain of "girl, can i look at your insides?" kinda catchy, mostly terrifying
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
no, that's "Girl, Beautiful Girl (Barbara's Theme)".
― Virginia, Plain and Tall (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
WTF?
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/612/MI0001612990.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― Virginia, Plain and Tall (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
where did her nipples go
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link
(xp) the explanation for the cover is the album was supposed to be called "'Til I Run With You" - tho that doesn't explain why the back cover has Joe Butler squatting down chewing on a branch
I was just listening to the Spoonful yesterday and wondering if there had ever been any sort of poll on them
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
that album was the first (and only?) one w/o sebastian, i think
all the albums w/ sebastian are pretty great; they were underrated back then, and are still underrated today
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 7 February 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 07:32 (nine years ago) link
Too true. Just heard Zal Yanovsky's one and only solo album, "Alive and Well in Argentina", sadly not very good tho using recordings of Hitler on the title track was amusing in a Mel Brooks sorta way.
― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 10:15 (nine years ago) link
he was a pretty phenomenal guitarist
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, always loved his playing... btw "Revelation Revolution 69" is a Lovin' Spoonful album in name only, it's really a Joe Butler solo album.
― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
Zal was such an excellent pop star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL7XdoS5Je4
― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
Don't think I heard much of Sebastian's solo work besides this A+ TV theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZzEzDkeHzI
― that's not my post, Sunday, 5 April 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
xpost to scott way upthread. been obsessing over the rotary connection cover of "didn't want to have to do it"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwDHitCW8Ic
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
Recommend the California Dreaming episode of Rock Family Trees, plenty of Lovin’ Spoonful in it and John Philips too sadly. There’s not a decent version on YouTube but there’s one here https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qbnf
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
Nice! I will have to check it out
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link