The best part of the best part from :16 - :18 on the clip, try playing that on guitar hero, that’s tight!
I’m Confused 1:49 - 2:14
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From Face Control, released through Sub Pop Records in 2009.
“found a coat, and grabbed my hat…”
Side 2, track 6. I’ve been saving this one. It would have been nice to see if Jeff from Legends could have written it up, but considering it’s the 1 year anniversary of this blog (to this day), I figured I should do it. A big thank you goes out to all my readers. I’m gonna start doing 1 min. podcasts soon, so look out for those.
I won’t pretend to be a Beatles superfan, and some may say the part where Lennon goes “i looovee toooo turnnnn yoouuu oonnnnn…” is the best, but for me I like the old timey piano and the shaker action in this part.
- Mike H.
A Day in the Life 2:15 - 2:45
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From Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released through Parlophone records in 1967.
Post 0001 - Jan. 21, 2009
0001 Burial - Shell of Light @ 3:30
“whatever puts me all the way up”
A quickie on a beautiful Sunday. Always liked this one from local boy Matt Good. The best part is right at the end.
Load Me Up 3:01 - 3:38
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From Beautiful Midnight, released through Universal Records in 1999.
Definitely my favourite Beach Boys song of all time, and the only one on my Itunes. This part at the end is magical, and I’d go so far to say we’re in Mozart and Beethoven territory here. Your first cue is the drums, and then the bass, and then you’re off twirling around in a circle staring up at the sky adding in our own “..withooouutt you’s.” Try it!
God Only Knows 2:00 - 2:37
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From Pet Sounds, released through Capitol Records in 1966.
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0024 Bullion - Wouldn’t it be Nice @ 1:37
“my heart needs a love dance”
This one’s easy considering the band were in my office last night. They won me over. Cute and cool, I hadn’t heard their stuff until they played this one live in our boardroom. The track hits overdrive here, lots of attitude, and mega head nod factor! New and recommended, I’ll link to the acoustic live track on ExploreMusic once it goes up.
Laura Palmer’s Prom 3:15 - 4:19
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From XXXX, released through Paper Bag records in 2009.
This one is dedicated to my Dad, who blasted this album out of his study on Saturday mornings. Love ya Po!
From the same album as “Money for Nuthin”, the album titled track was written solely for Knopfler to demonstrate his superb guitar work. The whispered vocals, soft strings all set up riff after riff after riff. And at 2:49, the axe is wielded - a slow burner solo with bluesy emotional power.
Brothers in Arms 2:49 - 3:15
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From Brothers in Arms, released through Warner Brothers in 1985.
“I want to go surfing”
Here we are, the other side of 50, nice. Thanks again to Jeff W. for a great 0050th post. Take a look at his post here to see what people are saying on ExploreMusic. I am gonna try and go through some of that killer classic rock stuff soon, but lucky for me Jeff is going to do a few more Best Parts as well.
I know people like the classic, famous stuff the best, because they recognize the song and all that, but I don’t listen to a lot of popular music…so I end up posting stuff on here that is probably pretty obscure: Dr. Who Dat, Moodymann etc. And this is another one of those cases, but I’m hoping you also like this blog because you dig some of the artists we write about as well.
These guys are pretty new, found ‘em on a FADER podcast, and this song is great. Warehousey Hawaii Five - O bassline, whistling, quick drums, nice fills, but the best part - dude’s vocals, not the lyrics necessarily but his delivery. Drawing out that first word just sounds cool. If you put all the first words together in the 2nd verse, he’s saying, “Wake up, honey, remember, darling. ” I mean come on right?!?
Let’s Go Surfing 0:49 - 1:27
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Listen to the full track on RCRD LBL
A special 50th celebratory post from The Legends of Classic Rocks’ Jeff Woods!
Thanks Jeff, I love this.
Every legendary A-list rock band has staged some kind of revolution in song. None, however, would offer up a battle cry greater than the one that came in 1971. Peter Townshend has said of this eight and half minute rock epic, the closing track from the Who’s most loved album ‘Who’s Next’, “It is not precisely a song that decries revolution - it suggests that we will indeed fight in the streets - but that revolution, like all action can have results we cannot predict. Don’t expect to see what you expect to see. Expect nothing and you might gain everything. The song was meant to let politicians and revolutionaries alike know that what lay in the centre of my life was not for sale, and could not be co-opted into any obvious cause. From when I wrote it in 1971, through to 1985, there was a transition in me from refusal to be co-opted by activists, to a refusal to be judged by people I found jaded and compliant in Thatcher’s Britain.” Credit where credit is due - Roger Daltrey is the one responsible for the climax - belting out rock’s ultimate scream, with aftershocks courtesy the maddest madman ever to sit behind the kit, the one and only Keith Moon.
Won’t get Fooled Again7:29 - 7:59
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From Who’s Next, released through Decca/ MCA Records in 1971.
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0032 Rolling Stones - Waiting on a Friend @ 1:53
