1960s in Songs Bracket

Perhaps this is a mistake. We shall see. Now that we have decided, collectively, that Radiohead's Ok Computer is the GOAT of all time, we shall see the GOAT song. Decade by decade, choosing the top 10, and then the top 4 from the current decade, to make another bracket that will piss everyone off. Let's go.

Will leave this up until Sunday, and then tabulate what songs have the most points. My thoughts are 15 points (little boost) for first place, 9 for second, 8 for third, etc.


What are your top 10 songs of the 1960s?

 

Oh dear.

 

im choosing to limit myself to one per artist, simply bc i want to feature more than one artist and want there to be some variety in the final list and not just 10 beatles songs. you don't have to do the same, but that is what i will be doing.

 

Fortunately, I recently did make a playlist of my favorite song of each year dating back to 1960, so that will at least make this doable.

 

1. The Beatles - A Day In The Life
2. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
3. The Beach Boys - I Get Around
4. Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused
5. The Doors - Light My Fire
6. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
7. The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
8. The Beatles - Because
9. Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
10. The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)

 

I don't know if I could even narrow it down to the top 10 songs each by Dylan, The Stones, The Beatles and The Who from the 60s haha

 

10. Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
9. Roy Orbison - Oh! Pretty Woman
8. Cream - White Room
7. Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long
6. The Allman Brothers - Whipping Post
5. The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Wing
3. The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
2. The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
1. Bob Dylan - VIsions of Johanna

 

that's why limiting myself to one per artist came in handy

 

Subbing to come back to this tonight

 

1. God Only Knows- The Beach Boys
2. Good Vibrations- The Beach Boys
3. Waiting Round to Die- Townes Van Zandt
4. The Weight- The Band
5. You're Gonna Miss Me- 13th Floor Elevators
6. You Can't Hurry Love- The Supremes
7. For What It's Worth- Buffalo Spingfield
8. I'm Not Like Everybody Else- The Kinks
9. Mama Tried- Merle Haggard
10. Dock of the Bay- Otis Redding

My original number 2 came out in 1970, so updated it.

 

1. Getz/Gilberto - The Girl from Ipanema
2. Cromagnon - Caledonia
3. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
4. Bill Evans Trio - Blue in Green
5. Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused
6. King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
7. Booker T. & the M.G.’s – Green Onions
8. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
9. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams

Pretty sure these are the only songs to come out in the 1960s thanks.

 

Oh god the stress. Haha

 

I find song lists a little bit more difficult to construct than album list, and I find that it ends up falling slightly into, "I love that album, what's my favourite song from it" mode, which means I end up forgetting decent albums with one or two killer tracks for the most part. My experience doing these lists in the album threads is that my iTunes organisation and Year tagging was atrocious, so if any of these are off, then my bad.

Sticking to the one song per artist and doing 20, just because it seemed quicker to include 20 than try and cut 10.

1. Nina Simone - Sinnerman (1965)
2. Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (1965)
3. Van Morrison - Sweet Thing (1968)
4. Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News (1964)
5. Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds (1969)
6. Etta James - Anything to Say You're Mine (1961)
7. Howlin' Wolf - The Red Rooster (1962)
8. The Ronettes - Do I Love You? (1964)
9. The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (1965)
10. The Beatles - In My Life (1965)

11. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (1966)
12. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears (1965)
13. The Supremes - It's The Same Old Song (1967)
14. Otis Redding - Tennessee Waltz (1967)
15. Richie Havens - High Flying Bird (1967)
16. Aretha Franklin - Think (1968)
17. Marvin Gaye - I Heard it Through the Grapevine (1968)
18. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (1968)
19. Dr John - I Walk on Guilded Splinters (1968)
20. Desmond Dekker - 007 Shanty Town (1967)

 

Wow I've edited my post and now you look like an idiot.

 

Shit. Fuck.

 

1. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
2. Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
3. The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine
4. Otis Redding - Sittin on the Dock of the Bay
5. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
6. The Supremes - You Can’t Hurry Love
7. Bob Dylan - Girl From North Country
8. The Ronettes - Be My Baby
9. Ben E King - Stand By Me
10. Elvis Presley - Can’t Help Falling in Love

God damn I had to leave so many classics off

 

I didn't know if it was cheating to include Side B of In a Silent Way so I left that off

 

1. Bob Dylan - “Boots of Spanish Leather”
2. Nina Simone - “Don’t You Pay Them No Mind”
3. Sammy Davis, Jr. - “What Kind of Fool Am I”
4. The Beatles - “I’ve Just Seen a Face”
5. The Jackson 5 - “I Want You Back”
6. The Left Banke - “Walk Away Renee”
7. Bob Dylan - “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”
8. The Beach Boys - “God Only Knows”
9. The Rolling Stones - “Gimme Shelter”
10. Glenn Campbell “Wichita Lineman”

11. The Beatles - “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”
12. Credence Clearwater Revival - “Bad Moon Rising”
13. The Moody Blues - “Never Comes the Day”
14. Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - “The Tracks of My Tears”
15. The Moody Blues - “Nights in White Satin”
16. Bob Dylan - “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)”

 

I think I would have properly guessed about 5 of these. Killer list

 

1. The Beatles - Something
2. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
3. Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
4. James Taylor - Something in the Way She Moves
5. Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
6. Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
7. The Rolling Stones - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
8. Nina Simone - Don’t You Pay Them No Mind
9. Ray Charles - It Makes No Difference Now
10. Led Zeppelin - Babe I’m Gonna Leave You

 

Beatles - A Day In The Life
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
The Who - Substitute
Velvet Underground- White Light White Heat
Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced
Skeeter Davis - End of the World
Zombies - She's Not There
Neil Young- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
The Band - I Shall Be Released

 

Fuck. Yeah. Nina. That shit’s on two ballots now. That’s a fighting chance!

 

I was trying to decide between that one and “Do I Move You,” but figured why not give “Don’t You Pay Them No Mind” a shot?

 

“In the Dark” is certainly in the hunt. But to make myself not want to die creating this list, I just went through the top 250 I made for that other thread and put the 10 highest ranking. Otherwise I’d agonize for days

 

i forgot im out of town next monday - sunday. i'll close this one out sunday with the top 10 overall but we'll have to wait a week before the 70s.