Turns out there are quite a few Route 66 Bands out there, most of them doing covers and tribute acts. But are there any "non-Route 66" 66 songs? Quite a few, as it turns out...
Martin reminds us of 66 by The Afghan Whigs... good tune.
C offers the great PJ Harvey - 66 Promises...
Charity Chic grudgingly kicks in 1966 & All That by Half Man Half Biscuit... one of the better football songs in my collection... although it's about much more than the silly game when you listen to it.
Jim Dubai offers another football-related tune, with a 66-related artist... Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66.
Rigid Digit throws in an extra 6 for Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast. Second Iron Maiden tune this month, but this one is PROPER metal, complete with a silly spoken intro. Class.
On the subject of 666, can I add: Route 666 by The Hamsters, another Route 666 by The Comsat Angels, 666 Conducer by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Your Sweet 666 by HIM, and 666 Post from the latest Mark Kozelek album?
Oh, and Incident at 66.6 FM by Public Enemy... and Nineteen666 by The Jesus & Mary Chain, which combines football with satanism... apt, in my opinion.
I also found the following lurking in the dusty corners of my collection...
OMD - 66 And Fading
Primal Scream - Autobahn 66
The Troggs - 66-5-4-3-2-1 (another phone number song!)
The Boys From Nowhere - 1966
This week's winning tune was obvious from the outset though.
Originally recorded in 1946 by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, the song was transformed into a rock n roll standard by Chuck Berry a decade later. Since then it's been recorded by everybody from Them to Depeche Mode to Jason and The Scorchers... most famously, I guess by Mick & Keef who arguably made it their own.
Over to Lynchie, who, until he gives the public what they demand and starts writing a blog of his own, is always welcome to contribute a paragraph or two to mine...
The best version of "Route 66" is to be found on the "Got Live If You Want It!" EP released in Summer 1965. Honest!
Back in 1999, I saw The Stones live for the last time. There were 2 stages - the main stage and a smaller one (which they crossed to via a small bridge - it was the Bridges to Babylon tour!) slap bang in the middle of the crowd . They blew the place away with the the small stage opener - "Route 66". It was righteous - like hearing them do their R&B stuff for the first time!
Onto 65 next week, and with no blatantly obvious contenders (unlike this week), it could be anybody's game. Your suggestions are welcome as always...
Can't think of a tune off hand but can I offer up Buck 65 as a nominated artist?
ReplyDeleteA lyrical 65 only from me, in Zager and Evans In The Year 2525, which includes these lyrics:
ReplyDeleteIn the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your sons, pick your daughters too
From the bottom of a long glass tube.
Oh, and Metal Man by The Breeders has the line "I don't know how old I was
ReplyDeleteBut it was a '65 pickup"
All the other examples I could find were too MOR - I don't want to get a reputation ;)
'Liars Beware' by Richard Hell & the Voidoids contains a couple of lines that go something like '...you were sixty-five when you wiggled out, your mind all twisted and your mom all shout, all shout, all shout...'
ReplyDelete"Back in nineteen sixty-five
ReplyDeleteI was singing this song
When Lonnie came alive..." (The Boston Rag - Steely Dan)
And there's that Talking Heads song:
"Three hun-dred SIXTY FIVE de-grees
Burning down the house!"
(attempt #3 to get the text right)
ReplyDeleteJohn Grant - GMF
"So go ahead and love me while it's still a crime
And don't forget you could be laughing
65% more of the time
You could be laughing
63% more of the time
You could be laughing
25% more of the time"
I love the fact he goes into exponential regression at the end.
Plus it gives me two more lyrical entries for future submissions
A lyrical year 65 from me from 1984 by David Bowie: "...I'm looking for the treason that I knew in '65..."
ReplyDelete'65 Love Affair by Paul Davis was the first song that popped into my head. It was a big hit when I was about 12. Man. I will really try to come up with something else as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteWould have been Route 66 for me too, obviously, but nothing for 65 - Great story from Lynchie.
ReplyDeleteHi Rol
ReplyDelete65 Bars - Louis Jordan
Its great, and quite different to the jump blues he was normally known for. Towards the latter end of his career he quite of genre hopped trying to latch onto the latest trends.