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CaptainChaotica

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Hell yeah!  I've always liked that song.  :)

And, nobody did my guessing game (I didn't expect anyone to really : P) but here's that list of spoilered songs from the last page...this time with the information I carefully deleted after each one, put back IN:

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Mr. Pitiful--Otis Redding (January 1965)
Too Many Fish in the Sea--the Marvelettes (January 1965)
Shake--Sam Cooke (January 16, 1965)
All Day and All of the Night--the Kinks (January 16, 1965)
I Go to Pieces--Peter and Gordon (January 23, 1965)
Love Potion Number Nine--the Searchers (January 23, 1965 #3)
Downtown--Petula Clark (January 23, 1965 #1)
Laugh, Laugh--the Beau Brummels (January 30, 1965)
Tell Her No--the Zombies (January 30, 1965)

The Boy from New York City--the Ad Libs (February 6, 1965)
You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'--the Righteous Brothers (February 6, 1965 #1)
Ferry Cross the Mersey--Gerry and the Pacemakers (February 13, 1965)
This Diamond Ring--Gary Lewis and the Playboys (February 20, 1965 #1)
Goldfinger--Shirley Bassey (February 27, 1965)

That's How Strong My Love Is--Otis Redding (March 1965)
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood--the Animals (March 6, 1965)
Red Roses for a Blue Lady--Vic Dana (March 6, 1965)
My Girl--the Temptations (March 6, 1965 #1)
Subterranean Homesick Blues--Bob Dylan (March 13, 1965)
Nowhere to Run--Martha & the Vandellas (March 13, 1965)
Eight Days a Week--the Beatles (March 13, 1965 #1)
Tired of Waiting For You--the Kinks (March 27, 1965)
King of the Road--Roger Miller (March 27, 1965 #5)
The Birds and the Bees--Jewel Aikens (March 27, 1965 #3)
Can't You Hear My Heartbeat--Herman's Hermits (March 27, 1965 #2)
Stop! In the Name of Love--the Supremes (March 27, 1965 #1)

I'm Telling You Now--Freddie and the Dreamers (April 10, 1965 #1)
Land of 1,000 Dances--Cannibal and the Headhunters (April 17, 1965)
Silhouettes--Herman's Hermits (April 17, 1965)
Baby, the Rain Must Fall--Glenn Yarborough (April 17, 1965)
Game of Love--Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders (April 24, #1)

It's Not Unusual--Tom Jones (May 1, 1965)
I'll Never Find Another You--the Seekers (May 1, 1965 #5)
I Know a Place--Petula Clark (May 1, 1965 #3)
Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter--Herman's Hermits (May 1, 1965 #1)
Just a Little--the Beau Brummels (May 8, 1965)
Count Me In--Gary Lewis & the Playboys (May 22, 1965 #3)
Ticket to Ride--the Beatles (May 22, 1965 #1)
Help Me, Rhonda--the Beach Boys (May 29, 1965 #1)

There But For Fortune--Joan Baez (June 1965)
For Your Love--the Yardbirds (June 5, 1965)
Wooly Bully--Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs (June 12, 1965 #2)
Back in My Arms Again--the Supremes (June 12, 1965 #1)
Cara Mia--Jay and the Americans (June 19, 1965)
What the World Needs Now--Jackie DeShannon (June 19, 1965)
Seventh Son--Johnny Rivers (June 19, 1965)
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)--the Four Tops (June 19, 1965 #1)
Here Comes the Night--Them featuring Van Morrison (June 26, 1965)
Mr. Tambourine Man--the Byrds (June 26, 1965 #1)

Do the Boomerang--Jr. Walker & the All-Stars (July 3, 1965)
I Like It Like That--The Dave Clark Five (July 10, 1965)
I Want Candy--the Strangeloves (July 10, 1965)
Wonderful World--Herman's Hermits (July 10, 1965 #4)
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction--the Rolling Stones (July 10, 1965 #1)
Baby, I'm Yours--Barbara Lewis (July 17, 1965)
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me--Mel Carter (July 24, 1965)
Down in the Boondocks--Billie Joe Royal (July 31, 1965)

The Tracks of My Tears--Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (August 7, 1965)
I'm Henry the VIII, I Am--Herman's Hermits (August 7, 1965 #1)
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away--the Beatles (August 14, 1965)
In the Midnight Hour--Wilson Pickett (August 14, 1965)
Save Your Heart for Me--Gary Lewis & the Playboys (August 14, 1965 #3)
I Got You Babe--Sonny and Cher (August 14, 1965 #1)
It Ain't Me Babe--the Turtles (August 21, 1965)
Heart Full of Soul--the Yardbirds (August 21, 1965)

We Gotta Get Out of This Place--the Animals (September 4, 1965)
It's the Same Old Song--the Four Tops (September 4, 1965 #5)
Unchained Melody--the Righteous Brothers (September 4, 1965 #4)
California Girls--the Beach Boys (September 4, 1965 #3)
Like a Rolling Stone--Bob Dylan (September 4, 1965 #2)
Help!--the Beatles (September 4, 1965 #1)
You've Got Your Troubles--the Fortunes (September 11, 1965)
Do You Believe in Magic?--the Lovin' Spoonful (September 18, 1965)
Catch Us If You Can--the Dave Clark Five (September 25, 1965 #4)
You Were On My Mind--We Five (September 25, 1965 #3)
Eve of Destruction--Barry McGuire (September 25, 1965 #1)

In My Life--the Beatles (October 2, 1965)
Hang on Sloopy--the McCoys (October 2, 1965 #1)
You're the One--the Vogues (October 9, 1965)
Treat Her Right--Roy Head (October 9, 1965 #3)
Yesterday--the Beatles (October 9, 1965 #1)

My Generation--the Who (November 6, 1965)
Keep on Dancing--the Gentrys (November 6, 1965 #5)
Everybody Loves a Clown--Gary Lewis & the Playboys (November 6, 1965 #4)
A Lover's Concerto--the Toys November 6, 1965 #2)
Get Off My Cloud--the Rolling Stones (November 6, 1965 #1)
Rescue Me--Fontella Bass (November 20, 1965 #4)
I Hear a Symphony--the Supremes (November 20, 1965 #1)

Let's Hang On--the Four Seasons (December 4, 1965 #5)
Turn! Turn! Turn!--the Byrds (December 4, 1965 #1)
I Got You (I Feel Good)--James Brown (December 25, 1965 #3)
Over and Over--the Dave Clark Five (December 25, 1965 #1)

Yes that's right--"they're all from the '60s" would've been on the right track but not quite it.  They're ALL.  FROM.  THE SAME.  YEAR.  1965 was apparently the most NUTS year for popular music ever--I mean, there's a few here I could lose without being too upset about it but even so that is _insane_.  I'm betting there at least a few songs here that _anybody_ from here would've at least heard of--if only as a cover version or from a Fallout game.  Or a commercial.  Or when Spongebob randomly started singing a parody of it or something, I dunno (I'm not a Spongebob watcher, but that's something I can easily imagine happening from what I've seen of the show).  I guarantee you've at least heard of the Beatles ones...

I'm now up to the beginning of 1967 in making this playlist, and I'd _like_ to say that #420 on the playlist was something...appropriate.  ;)   I mean, we ARE talking the '60s.  But no.  The Bob Dylan song with "Everybody must get stoned!" ("Rainy Day Women #s 12 and 35") JUST missed that number, at #418.  XD 

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The songs are in chronological order by when they exactly hit their highest position (on the U.S. Billboard charts, because I'm an American and that's the one I have the most access to) IF I know when that was; by the month and year they hit the Top 40 for the first time if I don't know the exact peak date (I have a "Top 40" book that's way old, but it's from the '90s so it's still PLENTY good for the '60s), and failing both of _those_, by when they were released. 

This often leads to a song that'll say it's from the PREVIOUS year because of its copyright date being put in the _next_ year, because I'm going for "when the average ordinary person would probably have heard it on the radio the most", rather than "when the song first technically existed".
If more than one song that I know and have (this is based off of a collection I already made on my own computer) had their peak position in the exact same week, I do them in "countdown order" with the #1 for that week _last_.

  So...yeah this is definitely a "bookmark for later" playlist (and I've still got 3 more years' worth to go!) but then again so was the '50s one.  The idea is to put things in at least more or less order so you can hear the music--and along with it, the culture and trends of the era--change as you go along.  :)

...Notorious

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You like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83 I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consumate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '87, Huey release this: Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should! Because It's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.

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haha american psycho

 

 

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Heartbeat, Heartbreak - Shihoko Hirata & Shōji Meguro

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"Tell me why you did it, every dream falling apart
Tell me why you did it, after the promise
Still aching, still aching, oh baby I need your love
Looking so different, glaring street light...

Heartbeat, heartbeat, it keeps on pounding
Heartbreak, heartbreak, you tell me goodbye..."

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Lyrics:
 
A blind man tries to lead the blind. I'm not sure what they hope to find. The edge is coming closer. Promises and alibis. A different game is played behind the scene. And soon it's over. You better run, get away, We're gonna take you down, singing Viva la Victoria, so run, get away, you're gonna lose your crown, we're singing Viva la Victoria, Viva la Victoria. The puppeteers don't show their face. They pull the strings and leave no trace. Hey Ace! Now who's the joker?
You better run, get away, We're gonna take you down, singing Viva la Victoria, so run, get away, you're gonna lose your crown, we're singing Viva la Victoria.Viva la Victoria.
 
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CaptainChaotica

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Working on one of my way-too-long chronological playlists; THIS

was literally the last song I left off on.  Everybody grab your small portable light source of choice and sway back and forth on the nearest hillside!  You kinda HAVE to, with this song.  (I'm in the mountains.  I'm technically already on a hillside.)

Fun fact:  I have in fact actually done exactly that.  It was a Beatles _tribute_ band, but they were really good and it was this awesome outdoor concert on a literal grassy hillside, in a park, with a nice atmosphere and _everybody_, including babies who could barely even stand up yet, rockin' out to the music.  They did this song near/at the end when it was getting dark, so everybody COULD pull out their cell phones and light them up with the correct effect.  It was frickin' awesome.  Little kids were trying to climb onto the stage and dance with the band, who were trying not to laugh, people were throwing a frisbee around...

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(actually, considering that the original version of "wave a light on a hillside" involved people who might have been partaking of one or more of the...wonderful substances that were very popular in the late '60s, in the dark, waving LIVE FLAMES at each other (candles!)...it's probably just as well we switched to flashlights and then cell phones.  XD)

Afterwards we met the band and talked to them a bit, and "Ringo" said he liked my shoes.  XD

...Notorious

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