Singling out just 1 is very much "a complete impossibility", like the girl in Herman’s Hermits’ "A Must To Avoid" perhaps. In the spirit of some of the great ’deep tracks’ you have selected here I will nonetheless offer up the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ performance of "You Wreck Me", included on a "Live In Chicago" recording released just after Petty’s passing. It has a distinctly wistful feel to what is essentially a rocker. Outstanding contributions are made by Campbell and Tench. Now, if I was to attempt a Top 10, I could slot in...
2. Randy Newman’s "Last Night I Had A Dream" from his 1972 Sail Away LP
3. The late great Warren Zevon’s "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner" from Excitable Boy (1978)
4. "She Comes In Colors" from the 1967 Love LP, Da Capo
5. Steely Dan’s "Any Major Dude" from Pretzel Logic (1974)
6. "Hypnotized" by Fleetwood Mac from the 1973 LP Mystery To Me
7. "Skateaway" - Dire Straits (Making Movies, 1980)
8. "She Has Funny Cars" - Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow, 1967)
9. Muddy Waters’ "Good Morning School Girl" on the 1964 Folk Singer LP from Mobile Fidelity
10. The 1986 Chris Isaak recording of "You Owe Me Some Kind Of Love"
from the album, Chris Isaak
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And now, a shout out to the following picks coming out of this thread:
"Last Chance Texaco" (and how about "Love Junkyard?")
"Witchwood" (Strawbs cuts got good coverage on WNEW-FM, New York, early 70’s)
"Green River" ('Bayou' at its best)
"Cheyenne" (Clint Walker as the phlegmatic Cheyenne Brody). The TV Western trilogy included Sugarfoot (Will Hutchins) and Bronco Lane (Ty Hardin)
"Let No Man Steal Your Thyme" (Agree with you on Jacquie McShee. I have the song on a decently recorded compilation ("Early Classics") from the Shanachie label)
"Bop Till You Drop" (1979 release from Ry - his parents could have named him "Wry" - Cooder, featuring the sarcastic "Down In Hollywood" - "they’ll drag you right out of your car, and literally kick your ass")
"The Nightfly" (..."with jazz and conversation, from the foot of Mount Belzoni." Fagen, the ’Man from Bard’, the ’Prince of Pallor’, the once accidental tourist of Annandale On The Hudson, is the embodiment of that gaunt, chain smoking late night DJ)
"In The Gallery" (So many good ones to choose from off that LP and off Communique)
Sorry all. I can get carried away. :
