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Bang-Shang-A-Lang by The Archies
Man, that Jughead could really play!
Stories from the Internet era: I remember seeing references to Bang-Shang-A-Lang all the time when I read the Archie comics as a kid. So I listened to it on YouTube for the first time ever just now. Not so great.
I think there is a good documentary on YouTube about Don Kirshner where he offered the song to The Monkees and they balked. So Don said "Okay, I will make my own virtual group and I will have complete control and it will sound exactly like I want it to sound." It was one of the biggest singles of 1969 and in the documentary they mention that it outsold Honky Tonk Woman.
I was a Veronica guy and was always so smitten with her.
Not to be contrary, but I think you're talking about "Sugar, Sugar". BTW, Wilson Pickett does a great version of SS.
The Betty/Veronice debate is on par with Ginger/Mary Ann. I guess it's a matter of personal preference! LOL
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ferda
Great selection so far, not sure if I don't spoil it a bit. Still love this album though...
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Great selection so far, not sure if I don't spoil it a bit. Still love this album though...
It was great for me too! A friend bought the vinyl, told me to come over, wanted me to check out a song. He played me Sweet Child of Mine, I loved it from the first riff! I bought the album that very day!
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Looks like the Beatles will win again
As a child there were a couple of Beatles songs that really creeped me out or I found disturbing and/or scary.Quote
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...and the weird end of Strawberry Fields giving me the creeps.
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MileHighAs a child there were a couple of Beatles songs that really creeped me out or I found disturbing and/or scary.Quote
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...and the weird end of Strawberry Fields giving me the creeps.
Agreed on the Strawberry Fields ending. Dark and shadowy and mildly scary feeling.
I am the Walrus, with that cult chant thing going on at the end, plus just creepy in general with that dead dog imagery.
Helter Skelter, another disturbing lead-out with some creepy and scary old man shouting. High pressure/too intense song almost wants to make you curl up into a ball.
Why Don't We Do It in the Road, some crazy aggressive nut-case vocals suggesting even to the imagination of a 10-year-old something about raw sex on the bare asphalt. Eeeyeww!
Come Together, another mildly creepy song.
I Want You (She's So Heavy), another creeper.
I'm So Tired, talk about a stressful song!
Ha! I was only five or six when the Outer Limits came on and I was sometimes alone in the room. It was so stressful for me that I had to turn the TV off. And it was one of those big giant scary washing machines of a TV! It was waiting to kill you if you took off the back panel. lolQuote
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MileHighAs a child there were a couple of Beatles songs that really creeped me out or I found disturbing and/or scary.Quote
Hairball
...and the weird end of Strawberry Fields giving me the creeps.
Agreed on the Strawberry Fields ending. Dark and shadowy and mildly scary feeling.
I am the Walrus, with that cult chant thing going on at the end, plus just creepy in general with that dead dog imagery.
Helter Skelter, another disturbing lead-out with some creepy and scary old man shouting. High pressure/too intense song almost wants to make you curl up into a ball.
Why Don't We Do It in the Road, some crazy aggressive nut-case vocals suggesting even to the imagination of a 10-year-old something about raw sex on the bare asphalt. Eeeyeww!
Come Together, another mildly creepy song.
I Want You (She's So Heavy), another creeper.
I'm So Tired, talk about a stressful song!
When I six or seven, my older brother figured out how to manually spin Revolution #9 backwards on the turntable. Hearing "turn me on dead man..." repeatedly amidst shreiks and howl's and voices chatting away seriously freaked me out and I didn't want to go near the turntable - lol. I had a similar fear when my dad took us to see the Exorcist when I was just 11...when things started getting nasty I was literally glued to my chair and my heart was pumping. When they recorded Regan speaking gibberish on cassette, and then played the tape in reverse to hear real voices speaking proper words, I almost died right then and there!
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'Stone Age'.
At that point I owned only 'Buttons'. I came about the Stones through a weird door. The first albums were Buttons, Rockn Rolling Stones and then Got Live if you want it.
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The Sicilian
That makes two of us, but I also remember buying or my mother buying for me:
Tommy James and the Shondels - Draggin the Line (45)
Deep Purple - Hush (8 track)
Ricky Nelson - Garden Party (45)
Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun (45)
The Archies - Sugar Sugar
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"Something New" by the Beatles. I believe their 3rd album. It was 1976 and and was 10 years old. I started out as a hard core Beatles fan but once I discovered Aftermath and Ya's Ya's in my older cousins record collection it was all about the Stones.
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"Something New" by the Beatles. I believe their 3rd album. It was 1976 and and was 10 years old. I started out as a hard core Beatles fan but once I discovered Aftermath and Ya's Ya's in my older cousins record collection it was all about the Stones.
I realize belatedly that all my British Beatles albums were called something else in other countries. Which one was this?? (I already knew this about Stones albums, I don't know why I didn't also apply it to the Beatles.)