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Listyguy:
1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along the Watchtower
2. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
3. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
4. The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
5. The Who - My Generation
6. Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man
7. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
8. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
9. Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
10. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
11. The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
12. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
13. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
14. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
15. David Bowie - Space Oddity
16. The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
17. The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears
18. Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
19. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
20. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
...
98. Quincy Jones - Soul Bossa Nova
99. Bernard Herrmann - Psycho: Prelude
100. The Marcels - Blue Moon
Overall correlation: 0.43 (#162)
Best friends: Chris, Rocky Raccoon, Henry
Worst foe: John
Miguel:
1. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
2. The Beatles - A Day in the Life
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
4. The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
5. The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears
6. Simon & Garfunkel - America
7. The Kinks - You Really Got Me
8. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
9. The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
10. The Beach Boys - I Get Around
11. Love - Alone Again Or
12. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
13. The Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby
14. Jane Birkin avec Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime... moi non plus
15. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
16. The Mama's and the Papa's - California Dreamin'
17. Sam Cooke - Wonderful World
18. The Beach Boys - In My Room
19. The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
20. Elvis Presley - Return to Sender
...
98. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
99. The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog
100. Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Masterplan
Overall correlation: 0.40 (#15)
Best friends: Honorio, Henry, Chris/Harold Wexler
Worst foe: Stephan
Mindrocker:
1. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
2. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
3. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
4. The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
5. The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
6. Dick Dale and the Del-Tones - Miserlou
7. The Velvet Underground & Nico - Venus in Furs
8. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
9. The Ronettes - Be My Baby
10. The Who - My Generation
11. The Beatles - A Day in the Life
12. The Zombies - Time of the Season
13. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
14. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
15. The Band - The Weight
16. The Mama's and the Papa's - California Dreamin'
17. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
18. The Beatles - She Loves You
19. Johnny Kidd and the Pirates - Shakin' All Over
20. The Beatles - Please Please Me
...
98. Roy Orbison - In Dreams
99. The Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby
100. Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind
Overall correlation: 0.48 (#18 )
Best friends: Rocky Raccoon, Chris, Brad
Worst foe: sonofsamiam
Nassim:
1. Nick Drake - River Man
2. David Bowie - Space Oddity
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along the Watchtower
4. The Beatles - Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
5. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
6. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
7. Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
8. Jacques Brel - Amsterdam
9. Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
10. The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
11. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
12. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
13. The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
14. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
15. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
16. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
17. The Who - My Generation
18. The Velvet Underground & Nico - Heroin
19. The Beatles - A Day in the Life
20. Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
...
98. The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
99. John Barry Orchestra - The James Bond Theme
100. Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Masterplan
Overall correlation: 0.38 (#12)
Best friends: Mindrocker, Jackson, Charlie Driggs
Worst foe: Otisredding
nicolas:
1. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
2. The Beatles - Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
3. Jacques Brel - Amsterdam
4. The Doors - Light My Fire
5. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
6. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
7. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
8. Roy Orbison - In Dreams
9. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
10. The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
11. Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
12. Rev. Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy
13. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
14. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along the Watchtower
15. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
16. The Beatles - For No One
17. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
18. David Bowie - Space Oddity
19. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe
20. Johnny Kidd and the Pirates - Shakin' All Over
...
98. Elvis Presley - Return to Sender
99. The Crystals - He's a Rebel
100. Bernard Herrmann - Psycho: Prelude
Overall correlation: 0.32 (#7)
Best friends: Romain, Chris, Listyguy/Stephan
Worst foe: Brad
Otisredding:
1. Roy Orbison - In Dreams
2. The Ronettes - Be My Baby
3. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
4. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
5. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
6. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
7. Jane Birkin avec Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime... moi non plus
8. Aretha Franklin - Respect
9. Stan Getz/João Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
10. Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
11. Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
12. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
13. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
14. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
15. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
16. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
17. Love - Alone Again Or
18. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
19. Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind
20. Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
...
98. Dick Dale and the Del-Tones – Miserlou
99. The Beatles - Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
100. The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
Overall correlation: 0.19 (#3)
Best friends: sonofsamiam, Listyguy, Chris
Worst foe: John
Rocky Raccoon:
1. The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
2. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
3. The Who - My Generation
4. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along the Watchtower
5. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
6. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
7. The Beatles - A Day in the Life
8. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
9. The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
10. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
11. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
12. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
13. The Band - The Weight
14. Aretha Franklin - Respect
15. The Ronettes - Be My Baby
16. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
17. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
18. The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears
19. The Doors - Light My Fire
20. The Beatles - In My Life
...
98. Jacques Brel – Amsterdam
99. Nick Drake - River Man
100. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
Overall correlation: 0.47 (#17)
Best friends: Chris, Henry, Listyguy
Worst foe: sonofsamiam
Romain:
1. The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
3. The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
4. David Bowie - Space Oddity
5. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
6. Ben E. King - Stand By Me
7. Aretha Franklin - Respect
8. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
9. Jane Birkin avec Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime... moi non plus
10. The Velvet Underground & Nico - Heroin
11. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
12. Sam Cooke - Wonderful World
13. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe
14. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
15. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
16. Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
17. The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
18. The Doors - Light My Fire
19. The Kinks - You Really Got Me
20. The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
...
98. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
99. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
100. Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Masterplan
Overall correlation: 0.20 (#4)
Best friends: Listyguy/nicolas, Henrik
Worst foe: John
sonofsamiam:
1. Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
2. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
3. Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Masterplan
4. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
5. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
6. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
7. The Ronettes - Be My Baby
8. The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
9. The Zombies - Hung Up on a Dream
10. Nick Drake - River Man
11. Dionne Warwick - Walk on By
12. Stan Getz/João Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
13. Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
14. The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears
15. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
16. Sam Cooke - Bring It on Home to Me
17. The Beatles - A Day in the Life
18. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
19. Roy Orbison - Crying
20. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
...
98. Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl
99. The Doors - Light My Fire
100. The Beatles - Love Me Do
Overall correlation: 0.19 (#2)
Best friends: Chris K/Honorio, Jackson
Worst foe: Rocky Raccoon
Stephan:
1. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
2. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
3. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
4. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
5. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
6. The Who - My Generation
7. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
8. The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
9. The Band - The Weight
10. The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
11. Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind
12. The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
13. Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
14. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
15. The Velvet Underground & Nico - Heroin
16. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
17. The Kinks - You Really Got Me
18. The Mama's and the Papa's - California Dreamin'
19. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
20. The Beach Boys - I Get Around
...
98. The Beatles - Love Me Do
99. Little Eva - The Loco-Motion
100. The Beatles - Please Please Me
Overall correlation: 0.25 (#5)
Best friends: Jackson, Rocky Raccoon, nicolas
Worst foe: John
Lower individual correlation: John/Romain (-0.33)
Higher individual correlation: Chris/Rocky Raccoon (0.63)
So does this mean that all the correlations were wrong and calculated from the Top 50 and not the Top 100?
Probably this happened because I used the 50s poll sheet that only got 50 albums.
Well, I’m going to recalculate it, post the new correlations and update the Excel file.
Probably because they couldn't hear it!
I had it at 95, which I admit is a little too low (but this is 6 months later...) But, I'm not really a big fan of Drake.
While I was looking for information about the recording of the 60s songs I became fascinated with the recording studios where all this wonderful music was recorded (and even created), maybe because I'm now building a small recording studio at my own home. The place of the recording made an everlasting mark on the sound of most of the recordings on the list, with distinctive sounds as London mod, rhythm & blues and beat (you know, the Mersey beat was almost entirely recorded in London), Los Angeles sunshine pop and psychedelic rock, New York folk-rock and art rock, Nashville country or Memphis-Detroit soul. So I've been compiling the cities (or states or countries), expecting initially a NYC victory only to find a tie between London and California. Those were the results:
1a. London, England, with 29 songs: the 60s swinging London had a major impact in our list and obviously the songs recorded by the Fab Four at EMI Studios (later named oficially Abbey Road Studios) were the main responsible for this (see above). But they were not the ones recording in Abbey Road, the songs by the Shadows and the Zombies in our list were also recorded there. And there were a lot of other studios: Olympic Sound (Hendrix, the Stones, Led Zeppelin, Procol Harum), De Lane Lea (the favourite of Chas Chandler that recorded there with the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the Animals) and many others like Pye Studios (The Kinks), Trident Studios (David Bowie), IBC Studios (The Who, The Kinks), Fontana Studios (Serge Gainsbourg), Sound Techniques (Nick Drake), Decca Studios (The Zombies) or CTS Studios (John Barry Seven).
1b. Hollywood and Los Angeles, California, with another 29 songs: the second half of the decade displaced the soptlight from the swinging London to the countercultural California. The studios more frequently represented in our list are the Western Recorders where Brian Wilson recorded most of works of the Beach Boys (see above). Other mythical studios that appear in our list are Gold Star Studios (home of the Phil Spector “wall of sound”, also used by the Beach Boys), RCA Studios (The Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke, Henry Mancini) or Sunset Sound Studios (Love, the Doors). The other studios are Elektra Studios (RollingStones), Fantasy Studios (CCR), The Sound Factory (Jackson 5), TTG Studios (The Velvet Underground), Columbia Studios (Simon & Garfunkel, Johnny Cash), Capitol Studios (Glen Campbell), Sound Enterprises (Sam Cooke) and Radio Recorders (Elvis Presley). Many of the artists were not from California (VU, Stones, S&G) but came there because of the technical advances.
3. New York City, with 25 songs: the lively cultural life of the Big Apple rendered an impressive number of great recordings. The New York studio more represented in our list is Columbia Studio A at 799 Seventh Avenue (see above) where Bob Dylan recorded all his records from the first one until he moved to Nashville in the middle of the sessions of "Blonde on Blonde". Other mythical studios we can find are Atlantic Studios (Aretha Franklin, John Coltrane, Ben E. King) or the Record Plant Studios (where Hendrix recorded most of his Electric Ladyland). Other ones are Mayfair Studios (Velvet Underground), A&R Studios (The Band, Getz/Gilberto, Quincy Jones), Hit Factory (The Stooges), Bell Sound Studios (Dionne Warwick, Del Shannon), RCA Studios (Pharoah Sanders, the Tokens, The Marcels) or Capitol Studios (Ray Charles).
4. Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, with 8 songs: black and white, blues and country, Memphis and Nashville, rock and roll. Two cities in the State of Tenneessee that played a crucial part on 1950s music but still continued in the 1960s. Some legendary studios from this state appear in our list: the Stax Studios in Memphis (see picture 1) where Otis Redding or Booker T. & the MGs created the Stax sound, the RCA Studio B (see picture 2) where Roy Orbison or the Everly Brothers (and Elvis Presley) traveled from rock & roll to pop and Bradley Film & Recording Studios were Patsy Cline became countrypolitan. Other studios in our list were Columbia Studios (where Bob Dylan came looking for a place where "they got no clocks", in Bob Johnston words) and Monument Records Studios (where Orbison recorded "In Dreams").
5. Detroit, Michigan, with 3 songs: talking about mythical studios it was time to came to Hitsville USA Studio in Detroit, Michigan, home of Motown records where a group of excellent producers, musicians (the Funk Brothers) and singers (in our list Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Four Tops, with the Suprenes unfairly absent) created the immortal Motown sound.
6. Chicago, Illinois, with 2 songs: although the golden era for the Chess Records Studios were the 1950s where they recorded crucial songs, they continued to record solid gems during the 60s like Etta James' "At Last". Gene Chandler also recorded in Chicago his "Duke of Earl" but I don't know where exactly.
7. Other cities, with 1 song each:
- Paris, France: Jacques Brel never recorded his great "Amsterdam" in a studio, the only version was recorded live at the Théâtre de l'Olympia.
- Portland, Oregon: The Kingsmen recorded his garage gem "Louie Louie" at a tiny recording studio (Northwestern Recording) in one-hour Saturday morning session in a single take that only costed $36.
- Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Blind Gary Davis recorded his album "Harlem Street Singer" at Van Gelder Studio, the studio where avant-garde jazz was created ("A Love Supreme", "Out of Lunch!").
- Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Blind Gary Davis recorded his album "Harlem Street Singer" at Van Gelder Studio (see above), the studio where avant-garde jazz was created ("A Love Supreme", "Out to Lunch!").
- Seattle, Washington: The Ventures recorded "Walk - Don't Run" at Joe Boles' Studios in Seattle.