Day #16 of the 30 Day Music Meme
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shadowkatDay #16 of the 30 Day Music Meme - A Song That Is a Classic Favorite.
I figure anything by this band would be a classic, right? At any rate this is my favorite song by this specific British Rock Band. I first heard the song in the film Full Metal Jacket - but alas it was NOT on the soundtrack, also heard it as the theme song of the television series Tour of Duty. But to get it I had to hunt for the right album.
Here's the band singing it live in 1966, around the time it was first released.
Here's the band singing it in 2006.
""Paint It Black" (originally released as "Paint It, Black") is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Jointly credited to the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was first released as a single on 7 May 1966, and later included as the opening track to the US version of their 1966 album Aftermath.[6]
"Paint It Black" reached number one in both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. The song became the Rolling Stones' third number-one hit single in the US and sixth in the UK.[7][8] Since its initial release, the song has remained influential as the first number-one hit featuring a sitar, particularly in the UK, where it has charted on two other occasions, and has been the subject of multiple cover versions, compilation albums and film appearances.[9]
It is one of their most popular songs, and it is on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018, and it is the 79th best ranked song on critics' all-time lists according to Acclaimed Music."
I find the song haunting.
I figure anything by this band would be a classic, right? At any rate this is my favorite song by this specific British Rock Band. I first heard the song in the film Full Metal Jacket - but alas it was NOT on the soundtrack, also heard it as the theme song of the television series Tour of Duty. But to get it I had to hunt for the right album.
Here's the band singing it live in 1966, around the time it was first released.
Here's the band singing it in 2006.
""Paint It Black" (originally released as "Paint It, Black") is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. Jointly credited to the songwriting partnership of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was first released as a single on 7 May 1966, and later included as the opening track to the US version of their 1966 album Aftermath.[6]
"Paint It Black" reached number one in both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. The song became the Rolling Stones' third number-one hit single in the US and sixth in the UK.[7][8] Since its initial release, the song has remained influential as the first number-one hit featuring a sitar, particularly in the UK, where it has charted on two other occasions, and has been the subject of multiple cover versions, compilation albums and film appearances.[9]
It is one of their most popular songs, and it is on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018, and it is the 79th best ranked song on critics' all-time lists according to Acclaimed Music."
I find the song haunting.
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Date: 2020-08-20 12:25 am (UTC)I've said in the past that The Roches were a special part of my life. Their third album, "Keep on Doing" (produced by King Crimson's Robert Fripp) was the first record I reviewed for my college newspaper. I went to their Carnegie Hall concert that year, where the sisters were handing out commemorative buttons at the door.
Through the Roches, my tastes broadened out to American folk music, then to blues and British folk music. I wouldn't have gone to England and the Cropredy folk festival if they hadn't shown me the way.
I saw them in concert many times, including an appearance at the Fast Folk festival, where they performed Jack Hardy's "Before You Sing" in elaborate costumes that looked like they were pulled from Celtic myth.
(I also somehow wound up in their brother David's basement studio in Brooklyn, contributing background vocals to a song protesting the Colts moving to Indianapolis.)
I have an autographed copy of their first album. It may be buried with me.
So for Terre, Suzzy and dear Maggie (sadly gone), their version of Handl's Hallelujah Chorus. Three part harmony. A capella. No net. A classic in every sense of the word.
https://youtu.be/LTcw6E4FsO8
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Date: 2020-08-20 02:18 am (UTC)