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Boardsies Best Song of the 60s

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  • #662
    Rikand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,672 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    California Dreamin' embodies the zeitgeist of the 1960's, to perfection.

    AND it's a great song, and also very sing-able.

    [Marvin Gaye may be all very well and fine but its not something you'd sing in the shower, now is it?]

    If we were looking for shower singing songs theres only one clear winner from the 60s



  • #663
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,503 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Completely missed all of this but would have had California Dreamin’ as a contender from the beginning. To paraphrase another poster it’s a song that really sums up the 60s vibe and to agree with another poster it gets an airing in my shower every couple of weeks or so.


  • #664
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Marvin Gaye

    It’s just on a far superior level to California Dreamin’


  • #665
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,465 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    RESULT:


    California Dreamin - The Mamas and the Papas 3 - 10 I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye



    A fairly one sided competition there. Thanks to all who have been voting the last week


  • #666
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,465 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Something just as interesting. A lot of songs got two nominations, but very few got 3 or 4 in comparison to the 70s competition....... Interesting to see that the competition ran out much like the nominations






    I Heard it Through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye 4
    California Dreamin The Mamas and the Papas 4
    Bad Moon Rising Creedence Clearwater Revival 3
    Son of a Preacher Man Dusty Springfield 3
    House of the Rising Sun The Animals 3
    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones 3










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  • #667
    [Deleted User]
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    Thanks rainbowtrout.

    The 60s by far is the best decade for music. I’m so glad you hosted it.


  • #668
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,441 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Thanks for running RBT, missed most of it but enjoyed following. A great winning song.


  • #669
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thanks Rainbowtrout! A very worthy winner, been humming it all day! :)


  • #670
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Cheers for running rainbowtrout!

    Great result, would've been happy either way between this final 2, but glad it was one of my nominations that ultimately won it.

    Looking forward to the Best Song Ever tournament now.


  • #671
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,465 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Ya I would agree with the result. I find I'd listen to California Dreamin once but I'd never stick it on a playlist, I find it a bit flat.

    I Heard it through the Grapevine is a great song though.


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  • #672
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ah jaysus, totally missed the final. Happy the right song won anyway, first time a song I nominated has won one of these! (I don't care if three others nominated it, I'm not letting that dilute my victory :P )

    Some really great songs here that I wouldn't have thought about nominating, and also others that nobody nominated at all. My ten were:

    The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (Round 1)
    Nico - These Days (Round 1)
    Leonard Cohen - Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye (Round 1)
    Skeeter Davis - The End of the World (Round 1)
    The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog (Round 2)
    Roy Orbison - In Dreams (Round 2)
    The Beatles - Helter Skelter (Round 2)
    Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Round 3)
    Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (Semi-Final)
    Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Final/WINNER!)

    Deliberated for a while which Velvet Underground song to submit, very surprised nobody else submitted any.


  • #673
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 57,980 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Best I think my noms have done too bar the 90s where Teen Spirit won.

    Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising (Semis)
    The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Quarters)
    The Animals - House of The Rising Sun (Round 3, I think)
    The Temptations - My Girl (Round 3)
    The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin (Runner Up)
    Chub Checker - Let's Twist Again (Round 1)
    Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire (Round 1)
    Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl (Round 2)
    Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (live version was number 1 in US in 1968) - (Round 1)
    Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (Round 1)

    You savages obliterated 5 of my picks by Round 3 so to get 3 through to the quarters I'm quite happy with. Dropped the winner of my list for Ring of Fire too :o

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



  • #674
    Tauriel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,804 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    So happy to add the Best Song of the 60's to my belt :D

    The rest of my nominations were the following:

    Marvin Gaye - I heard it through the Grapevine
    Jimi Hendrix- All Along the Watchtower
    Elvis- Suspicious Minds
    Dusty Springfield- Son of a Preacher Man
    Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
    Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe
    Ray Charles- Hit the Road Jack
    The Shadows- Apache
    Led Zeppelin- Whole Lotta Love
    The Kinks - You Really Got Me

    Thanks for running the comp rainbowtrout!!!


  • #675
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,410 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Another brilliantly run competition, so big thanks to rainbowtrout. Here's my list of nominations, not too surprised that some went out early, but I am surprised that at least one of Sympathy for the Devil or Good Vibrations didn't make the semis.

    Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
    All You Need is Love - Beatles
    Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
    Down on the Corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
    Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
    Louie Louie - The Kingsmen
    Everyday People - Sly and the Family Stone
    Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
    Harlem Shuffle - Bob & Earl


  • #676
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,946 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    And these were mine:

    Turn, turn, turn Pete Seeger 1962
    The sound of silence, Simon & Garfunkel 1964
    I can't get no Satisfaction Stones 1965
    Hey Mr Tambourine Man Dylan '65
    California Dreamin' Mamas and the Papas 1966
    Waterloo Sunset The Kinks 1967
    Are you going to San Francisco? Scott mackenzie 1967
    Whiter shade of Pale, Procul Harum, 67
    So long Marianne Leonard Cohen 1967
    Hey Jude The Beatles 1968


  • #677
    Irish Aris
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 7,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Aris


    A worthy winner me thinks. Such a great song!

    Thank you rainbowtrout for another excellent game!!

    Upcoming gigs and events: Nova Twins, Tanita Tikaram, David Byrne, The Cure,



  • #678
    [Deleted User]
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    I’m having a Chromecast off in the pub.

    What should I play next. I’ve gotta follow wish you were here pink floyd


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