Hey Joe (#198 in The List)

Released in December 1966, Hendrix's version became a hit in the United Kingdom, entering the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart in January 1967 and peaking at #6.[38] The single was released in the United States on May 1, 1967 with the B-side "51st Anniversary" but failed to chart.[39] "Hey Joe", as recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, remains the best known version of the song[6] and is listed as #198 on Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[40] In 2009 it was named the 22nd greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.[41] "Hey Joe" was the last song Jimi Hendrix performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and as such, it was also the final song of the whole festival. The song was performed after the crowd, comprising the 80,000 who hadn't yet left the festival, cheered for an encore.[42]

For More Info Here's Wiki for What it's Worth:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Joe

Sympathy for the Devil (#32 on the List)

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith
And I was round when jesus christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game
I stuck around st. petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a generals rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
Who killed the kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me

(The Rolling Stones') album before beggars banquet. while containing no direct Satanic references, had been titled Their Satanic Majesties Request, and "Sympathy" (for the Devil) brought these concerns to the fore, provoking media rumours and fears among some religious groups that The Rolling Stones were devil-worshippers and a corrupting influence on youth.[3] The lyrics' focus, however, is on atrocities in the history of mankind, including the trial and death of Jesus Christ where "Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate". Also, including European wars of religion ("I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the Gods they made"), the violence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the 1918 massacre of the Romanov family ("I stuck around St. Petersburg when I saw it was a time for a change, killed the Tsar and his ministers — Anastasia screamed in vain") and World War II ("I rode a tank, held a general's rank when the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank").[6]

(Keith) Richards said in a 1971 interview with Rolling Stone, "Before, we were just innocent kids out for a good time, they're saying, 'They're evil, they're evil.' Oh, I'm evil, really? So that makes you start thinking about evil... What is evil? Half of it, I don't know how much people think of Mick as the devil or as just a good rock performer or what? There are black magicians who think we are acting as unknown agents of Lucifer and others who think we are Lucifer. Everybody's Lucifer."[9]

wiki for what its worth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy_for_the_Devil

The Next Four

80. "You Really Got Me" – The Kinks

82. "Blueberry Hill" – Fats Domino

84. "Every Breath You Take" – The Police
85. "Crazy" – Patsy Cline

Each week I purchase 4 more songs from the list that I don't already have.  These are the next four.

Get Up! (Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine) #334 on The List


Are you Ready for some 1970's Retro?

ARE YOU READY FOR THE SUPER BROTHER?

Get up
get on up
get up
Get on up
stay on the scene
get on up
like a Sex Machine.
Get on up
get up

Shake your arm
then use your form.
Stay on the scene
like a Sex Machine.
You gotta have the feeling
sure as you're born.
Get it together
right on
right on

By 1970, most members of James Brown's classic 1960s band had quit his act for other opportunities, and The Famous Flames singing group had disbanded, with original member Bobby Byrd the only one remaining with Brown. Brown and Byrd employed a new band that included future funk greats, such as bassist Bootsy Collins, Collins' guitarist brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins and trombonist and musical director Fred Wesley. This new backing band was dubbed "The J.B.'s", and the band made its debut on Brown's 1970 single "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine". Although The J.B.'s went through several lineup changes, with the first change occurring in 1971, the band remained Brown's most familiar backing band.

  (wiki for what it's worth).



 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown#1970s_and_the_J.B..27s

The Weight

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead;
I just need some place where I can lay my head.
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, and "No!", was all he said.
Take a load off Annie,
take a load for free;
Take a load off Annie,
And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.The Weight (#41 on the list)
The Band


According to songwriter Robbie Robertson, (of the band "the band") "The Weight" was inspired by the films of Luis Buñuel, about which Robertson once said:

(Buñuel) did so many films on the impossibility of sainthood. People trying to be good in Viridiana and Nazarin, people trying to do their thing. In ‘The Weight’ it’s the same thing. People like Buñuel would make films that had these religious connotations to them but it wasn’t necessarily a religious meaning. In Buñuel there were these people trying to be good and it’s impossible to be "good".[7]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight

The Next Four

61. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" – Jerry Lee Lewis"
62. "Bo Diddley" – Bo Diddley
63. "For What It's Worth" – Buffalo Springfield
64. "She Loves You" – The Beatles

Each week I purchase 4 more songs from the list that I don't already have.  These are the next four.

"The List"

There was music playing. It had been there all the time but I recognized it suddenly like someone had just spoken it into existence. Let there be "Lou Reed".... and it was so. Music is the auditory form of art. It speaks to me like something tapping on the other side of the wall. I've found there's 4 ways to appreciate music (or any kind of art).  The first is Hipster-style.. To scorn all popular things... drinking your Pabst Blue Ribbon.. wearing your shaggy hair and your tight vintage pants... I once saw a t-shirt that read..  I listen to bands that haven't even formed yet..... (sarcasm).   The second is to scan Facebook friends (only the "cool" one's) for Music... Book... Film.... "likes".  And then hijack them as your own.   The third is zombie-like... following a group blindly (political... cultural... or religious...) like sheep.  art banning.... book burning... record/CD busting... Mp3 purging... etc. The fourth is to learn to be ok with yourself...  give everybody the finger... and then do what you want (Cartman).   That said...... "I do what I want".  And what I've been into lately are photo's from various friends and artists.  (buying the ones I love....  Check out tab "Photos" above.....SUPPORT LOCAL ART!!!).. I've been into Tattoos: (need more cash for round #2).   The BLUES!!  (always). And the Rolling Stone Magazine top 500 songs of all time.  (What can I say?  I'm a Rock N Roll kid..).     Lots of great music on "the list". (Not that I buy the whole list as it is..  BTW.. but then again who does?). There are some classic songs on that list that'll still be doing something to people long after we're gone. *  (Check out tab "top 500" above for the 2010 updated list.  Check out tab "photos" for photographic art).