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My Eclectic Top 10 Favourite Songs
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While the title track may seem, by now, a rather obvious and nostalgic relic, we'd do well to remember that an entire post-baby boom generation has likely never heard it. At 18 minutes, the song remains one of the most hysterical things ever recorded, and many of its politcal barbs can still sting. But the record also contained two far more lyrical pieces: "Chillin' of the Evening" and the gorgeous, sweeping "Highway in the Wind." Some will turn to this countercultural classic for side one's epic, but it's the exceptional songs on side two that will offer finer rewards. --Roy Francis Kasten
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075992743921 UPC: 075992743921
Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075992743921 UPC: 075992743921
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50 Essential Albums of 1967 (50 music items)"No one captured hippie politics better than Woody's 20-year-old son on the title cut, an autobiographical tall tale that for 18 minutes reduced pacifist anti-authoritarianism to a diffident, confident, skillfully timed cops-and-longhairs routine. The B side cuts four forgettable song poems with two more jokes, one of them "The Motorcycle Song," not yet the comic turn it became. NB: Guthrie re-recorded the entire album 30 years later. The new "Alice" is four minutes longer – and four minutes fu"
irishblue added this to a list 7 years, 11 months ago
My Eclectic Top 10 Favourite Songs (10 music items)
irishblue rated this 10/10 7 years, 11 months ago