I feel almost the victim of peer pressure this week. The song everyone thinks should be the obvious winner isn't one of my favourites from the gentleman in question, but really... can anything else challenge it?
The Swede suggested Sixty-One, the b-side of Sixty Minute Man by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy... wonder if that'll make a return visit next week?
Martin came up with three suggestions...
How about A Dustland Fairytale by The Killers, with the lyric:
A dustland fairytale beginning
Or just another white trash country kiss?
In '61, long brown hair and foolish eyes...
A dustland fairytale beginning
Or just another white trash country kiss?
In '61, long brown hair and foolish eyes...
And The Fray have a somewhat forgettable song called 1961.
And new to me, a slice of mid-80s power-pop called 61 Seconds by The Outfield.
All worthy of some merit, but none of them a Giant Killer.
C was closer to toppling the Nobel Prize winner with her suggestion...
Even if just to hear Feargal sing, "I wanna wanna be a male model", you can't go wrong with
The Undertones - Male Model:
When I was young I never wanted toys
Things like that were for little boys
My mamma got me clothes for her favourite son
Freeman's item A page 61
When I was young I never wanted toys
Things like that were for little boys
My mamma got me clothes for her favourite son
Freeman's item A page 61
Meanwhile, Rigid Digit offered the following...
Not bad. But could The Levellers ever stand in the same ring as the Patron Saint of Zimmerframes?
In the end then, it seemed inevitable... until the South Western Correspondent made a rare venture north to suggest an alternative take on the same song. Far be it from me to steal an idea from Charity Chic, but as he's not using it at the moment... you can decide which version of Highway 61 Revisited you prefer this week.
For me, Polly Jean might just be edging it...
Next week... number 60! Any ideas will be gratefully received... peer pressure might well be ignored.
Manic Street Preachers - Nostalgic Pushead
ReplyDeleteOne two three four five six seven eight I am the raping sunglass gaze Of sweating man and escort agencies 60's Alienation the anthem of care
I've got 'Sixty Years On' by a very young Elton John. Also 'Sixty Minute Man' by Billy Ward & The Dominoes, or the previously mentioned Bonnie Prince Billy cover...or preferably the first version I ever heard of the song by The Trammps - discotastic! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADYdCz2RoHE)
ReplyDeleteLyrically, how about 'Glam Racket' by The Fall? '...you post out sixty-page computer printouts on the end of forests, all the above will come back to you and confirm you as a damn pest...'
"Way Back in the 1960s" - The Incredible String Band
ReplyDeleteJimmy Reed - Where Can You Be
"Ev'ry 60 seconds, of ev'ry minute
Ev'ry 60 minutes, of the hour
Ev'ry twenty-four hours of the day
I just sit a-round an'pray."
Gotta be Billy Ward & His Dominoes.
ReplyDeleteAudio Deluxe - 60 Seconds or ahem Tight Fit Back to the 60's :-)
ReplyDeleteAnything by Dead 60's or 60ft Dolls
I seem to have 60 Minute Man by the Tramps (but probably will be Billy), 60 Miles An Hour by New Order and Sixty Mile Smile by 3 Colours Red.
ReplyDeleteSixty Minute Man - same song as above, but by Ivor Biggun this time.
ReplyDeleteU2 - Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
"How far I've gone, how high I've climbed
On my backs a SIXTY pound stone
On my shoulder a half mile of line"
As a Canadian, may I suggest Gowan, 60 Second Nightmare? Or to dig into lyrics, my Scottish heritage prompts me to suggest Fairground Attraction, Mystery Train.
ReplyDeleteJust realised there's also C30 C60 C90 Go by Bow Wow Wow
ReplyDeleteWahey, I get to pitch a song by The Vapors - 60 Second Interval (live, studio).
ReplyDeleteSeconded - forgot about that one
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