The Wonder Years

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  • Submit Date: 9/17/2006
  • Format: CD
  • Category: Theme

1969

Artist Song
Grand Funk Railroad  Time Machine  
The Stooges  1969 
Creedence Clearwater Revival  Bad Moon Rising 
The Grass Roots  Heaven Knows 
Thunderclap Newman  Something in the Air 
Laura Nyro  Time and Love 
The Kinks  Drivin' 
Smith  Baby It's You 
R.B Greaves  Take a Letter Maria 
Crosby, Stills, and Nash  Marrakesh Express 
The Rolling Stones  Gimmie Shelter 
Tyrone Davis  Can I Change My Mind 
Three Dog Night  Easy to Be Hard 
Serge Gainsbourg  69 annee erotique 
Booker T & The MG's  Time is Tight 
Os Mutantes  Fuga No II 
Friends of Distinction  Going in Circles 
The Flying Burrito Bros  My Uncle 
Harlow Wilcox  Groovy Grubworm 
Love  Your Friend & Mine - Neil's Song 
Townes Van Zandt  Kathleen 
Nilsson  Everybody's Talkin' 
Glen Campbell  Wichita Lineman 
Nick Drake  River Man 

Comment:

"Well its 1969 ok?" This episode features a special guest appearance from AotM's resident professor of yesteryear RetroJoe who kindly pitched in with some great picks.
Notable events this year include the test flight of Concorde, the marriage of John & Yoko, the murder of Sharon Tate, the Woodstock festival, and the birth of tornadoZ
Click the first track to travel back in time...
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DJ Karen Adams
Date: 9/17/2006
Oooooh! Me first!
This excellent collection has a nice flow both in audio and text.
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French Connection
Date: 9/17/2006
Kissed Patricia at the school gates every morning until she developed a runny nose. Could've listened to some of this whilst eating me cornflakes at breakfast but truth be told can't quite remember! Nowadays of course I'd say nice mix.
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hemizen
Date: 9/17/2006
I always have wanted to do 1969, and the rest of that decade as a matter of fact but now I don't have to. 5,10,11,15,17 & 23 all would fall in my personal hall of fame tunes.
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Mixxer
Date: 9/17/2006
What a great year that was! If I remember right, the hit of the summer was "Sugar, Sugar" but I could be off. Nice picks, guys. Lots of good stuff here, and #11 is an all-time great.
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Myklanjlo
Date: 9/17/2006
Well done. Love the Burrito Brothers pick!
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tornadoZ
Date: 9/17/2006
hey it's my year, thanks! can't wait to listen to this. I swear I remember hearing tracks 6 and 23 in the hospital those first few hours.
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Rob Conroy
Date: 9/17/2006
A pretty straight-up great year, really. You even picked one of the two or three Three Dog Night songs that I can stomach...
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RetroJoe
Date: 9/17/2006
Very Nice!Especially like the inclusion of tracks 2, 7, 11-12 & 18-21. Am happy that I could help with 8 of my picks finding their way into the mix.Would have been nice to see Santana's Jingo make the final cut, but that's the way it goes sometimes.
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 9/17/2006
9-13 is just incredible, (That Tyrone Davis tune is in my all-time top ten). 3,15 and 21-24 are also gems. I was glued to my transister radio and Cousin Brucie on WNEW that entire year!
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gobi
Date: 9/17/2006
soixante-neuf . . . je t'aime.
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locovinagre
Date: 9/18/2006
Nice one. I'll give it a listen as soon as I can. And lol at tornadoZ's comment.
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groove366
Date: 9/18/2006
A great year for music... some evidence of that here.
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p the swede
Date: 9/18/2006
great year once again, esp love the passage 21-24,
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Mr. Attention
Date: 9/18/2006
Excellent selection guys! Will be listening to this very shortly.

Also, I love the simple but effective artwork. Looks like a fine snapshot of 69.
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2old2matter
Date: 9/18/2006
Not to mention man's first landing on the moon! The result of an incredible effort just to invent Tang. Also my transition year from High School to Colij. All that's missing is a cut from Dylan's Nashville Skyline.
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Music Man
Date: 9/18/2006
Awsome year. Even though I Wasnt born then... Great job.
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Mr. Mirage
Date: 9/19/2006
I recall this particular year more clearly than you might imagine...Uncle Walter on CBS, staring into the camera, confused as to why all those children were naked in the mud and rain...The capture of the Manson family, and in particular the removal of the "HEALTER SKELTER" door...
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GambleOn
Date: 9/19/2006
Gonna party like it's...
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musicgnome
Date: 9/19/2006
Great picks.
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Pop Kulcher
Date: 9/19/2006
Much coolness here, and some unexpected inclusions (the Kinks' Arthur is always nice to see, as are Thunderclap Newman and Nilsson). Of course, everyone has their own favorites; I merely point out the omission of anything from Abbey Road, the greatest album ever; the Who's Tommy (far from my favorite Who album, but still pretty revolutionary); the Velvet Underground's self-titled 3rd album; and Neil Young's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
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The Wonder Years
Date: 9/19/2006
Fair point Pop Kulcher but the albums you mentioned were not so much overlooked as considered and dismissed. The point of these yearly appraisals is to put together different genres, styles and balance the famous with the slightly less acclaimed. It's not meant to be the best albums per se or indeed even the best songs from those albums.
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Orchid
Date: 9/19/2006
Love it!
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Nomates
Date: 9/20/2006
A box of delights. A great year, I believe Pop Kulcher's comment and your reply only serve to emphasise this point. "The Wonder Years" indeed.
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Siobhan
Date: 9/30/2006
Always love seeing new additions to this series on the boards! And I really like your approach to how you choose tracks from each year. I love that Thunderclap Newman->Kinks stretch. The Thunderclap Newman track still remains, I think, one of my favourite songs, so it really hacked me off when TalkTalk got hold of it and started using it in every single advert. Ah well, can't win 'em all!