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TOP 10 ARETHA FRANKLIN SONGS!!!! Aretha...Queen Mother of Soul..
Lady Soul has had so many songs it's probably going to be a task to figure which 10 'Re songs you cant live without!...after hours and hours of research...these are mine... 1-ANGEL 2-AINT NO WAY 3-AMAZING GRACE 4-BABY, I LOVE YOU 5-CHAIN OF FOOLS 6-DONT PLAY THAT SONG 7-DR FEELGOOD 8-SPIRIT IN THE DARK 9-DO RIGHT MAN, DO RIGHT WOMAN 10-ROCK STEADY This was so damn hard...I'm sure I'll be back with an 11-20 list as well! ALL HAIL THE QUEEN OF SOUL! Every minute of last night is on my face today.... | |
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Hororable Mentions...
-Drown In My Own Tears -Until You Come Back To Me -Young, Gifted & Black -Save Me -Precious Memories (standard gospel tune sung on 'Amazing Grace' gospel album) Long live Queen 'Re! Every minute of last night is on my face today.... | |
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1.Don´t play that song
2.Dr.Feelgood 3.Giving him something he can feel 4.Ain´t no way 5.One way ticket 6.You & me 7.Rock steady 8.Never let me go 9.Day dreaming 10.All the king´s horses /peace Manki | |
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Personal faves:
Ain't No Way House That Jack Built Giving Him Something He Can Feel Baby, I Love You Until You Come Back To Me ... oh too many more to name. But how about that cover of Elanor Rigby!!! In my opinion, no-one should mess with The Beatles, and yet, Aretha has given this song some serious soul!!! She has breathed her own brand of life into one of the most awesome covers I've ever heard... now that's truly a song upside down! What think you guys about it? | |
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No specific order:
"Somewhere" "Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)" "Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)" "Spanish Harlem" "Rock Steady" "Respect" "I Say A Little Prayer" "Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)" "Bridge Over Troubled Water" This post not for the wimp contingent. All whiny wusses avert your eyes. | |
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bohemia said: But how about that cover of Elanor Rigby!!! In my opinion, no-one should mess with The Beatles, and yet, Aretha has given this song some serious soul!!! She has breathed her own brand of life into one of the most awesome covers I've ever heard... now that's truly a song upside down!
What think you guys about it? That was pretty much Aretha's MO during her prime. When she covered a song, it was OVER. The song was hers from then on. She reinvented "Respect" so much from it's original arrangement that Otis Redding proclaimed, "That girl done stole my song!" This post not for the wimp contingent. All whiny wusses avert your eyes. | |
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The best Aretha songs you can hear on her greatest musical achievement, an album called "Hey now! (The other side of the sky)", a rather psychodelic project produced by Qunicy Jones.
Solid! "Peace and Benz -- The future, made in Germany"  | |
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"Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" (1974)
"I'm In Love"(1974) "Respect"(1967) "Chain Of Fools" (1967) "Call Me" (1970) "I Get High" (1976) "United Together" (1980) "Another Night" (1985) "Everchanging Times" (1991) "Love Me Right" (1982)  gotta get me an Aretha Franklin box set! | |
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Rock Steady...babe "Climb in my fur." | |
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A Brand New Me "Climb in my fur." | |
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DavidEye said: gotta get me an Aretha Franklin box set!You don't have it??? 
I love the powerful 1-2 punch of "Spanish Harlem" and "Rock Steady" on that box set. One of the greatest box sets you'll ever hear in your life. This post not for the wimp contingent. All whiny wusses avert your eyes. | |
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Young, Gifted, and Black "Climb in my fur." | |
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rdhull said: A Brand New Me
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Soulpower said: The best Aretha songs you can hear on her greatest musical achievement, an album called "Hey now! (The other side of the sky)", a rather psychodelic project produced by Qunicy Jones.
Thats my FAVE album from her. Nothing is louzy in there, I don't have the nerve to skip any song in there. That and "Let Me In Your Life". 
The Jazz stuff she did at the early 60's weren't half-bad at all, I guess she's the 1st one who took the Jazz/Soul to mainstream. In no special order: 1.Daydreaming 2.Never Let Me Go 3.Skylark 4.Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thang(Her version is ALOT betta) 5.Angel 6.Untill you come back to me(Thats what I'm gonna do) 7.God Bless The Child(Billie Woulda been proud if she heard this) 8.Dr.Feelgood 9.Ain't No Way 10.Do Right Woman-Do Right Man. Come 2 think of it, I think my FAVE songs from her are the covers. Her version of Beatles "Let It Be" and Sam Cooke's "A Change is gonna come" make me cry whenever I hear them. She always makes intersting arrangments, I think thats due to her learning the music from the early days in church. I wonder what Stevie's opinion about her version of "Till you come back(Thats what I'm gonna do)"? [This message was edited Sun Oct 5 12:10:31 PDT 2003 by Harlepolis] | |
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Daydreaming (hell, the whole Young Gifted and Black album). "Climb in my fur." | |
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Supernova said: DavidEye said: gotta get me an Aretha Franklin box set!You don't have it???
I love the powerful 1-2 punch of "Spanish Harlem" and "Rock Steady" on that box set. One of the greatest box sets you'll ever hear in your life. I never got around to getting her box set and I hate myself for it...lol...but it is definitely on my Christmas list | |
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Harlepolis said: rdhull said: A Brand New Me
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Soulpower said: The best Aretha songs you can hear on her greatest musical achievement, an album called "Hey now! (The other side of the sky)", a rather psychodelic project produced by Qunicy Jones.
Thats my FAVE album from her. Nothing is louzy in there, I don't have the nerve to skip any song in there. That and "Let Me In Your Life".
The Jazz stuff she did at the early 60's weren't half-bad at all, I guess she's the 1st one who took the Jazz/Soul to mainstream. In no special order: 1.Daydreaming 2.Never Let Me Go 3.Skylark 4.Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thang(Her version is ALOT betta) 5.Angel 6.Untill you come back to me(Thats what I'm gonna do) 7.God Bless The Child(Billie Woulda been proud if she heard this) 8.Dr.Feelgood 9.Ain't No Way 10.Do Right Woman-Do Right Man. Come 2 think of it, I think my FAVE songs from her are the covers. Her version of Beatles "Let It Be" and Sam Cooke's "A Change is gonna come" make me cry whenever I hear them. She always makes intersting arrangments, I think thats due to her learning the music from the early days in church. I wonder what Stevie's opinion about her version of "Till you come back(Thats what I'm gonna do)"? [This message was edited Sun Oct 5 12:10:31 PDT 2003 by Harlepolis] Oh wow,thanks for those scans! I remember the 'Let Me In Your Life' album,with Aretha wearing that black mink coat.My mother used to play that album to death back in the 70s.It contains two of my favorite Aretha songs..."Until You Come Back To Me..." and "I'm In Love",which was written by Bobby Womack.At the end of that song,she hits some incredible notes that will make you shiver. | |
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"Don't Let Me Lose This Dream"
"Baby, I Love You" "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" "Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do" "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)" "Chain Of Fools" "Rock Steady" "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" "Daydreaming (And I'm Thinking Of You)" "It Hurts Like Hell" Aretha Franklin Re, re, re, re, re, re, re, respect!   | |
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I notice that most of you didn't add any of her 80s songs to your list.I like much of her music from that decade.She began the decade with a couple of great albums produced by Luther Vandross,and her 1985 'Who's Zoomin Who' album is classic.A list of her memorable songs from the 80s...
"Jump To It" (1982) "Love Me Right" (1982) "Every Girl (Wants My Guy)" (1983) "United Together" (1980) "Love All The Hurt Away" with George Benson (1981) "Freeway Of Love"(1985) "Another Night" (1985)--Aretha does rock! "Until You Say You Love Me" (1985) "Who's Zoomin Who" (1985) "Jimmy Lee" (1986) "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me" with George Michael (1986) [This message was edited Mon Oct 6 7:00:43 PDT 2003 by DavidEye] | |
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DavidEye said: Harlepolis said: rdhull said: A Brand New Me
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Soulpower said: The best Aretha songs you can hear on her greatest musical achievement, an album called "Hey now! (The other side of the sky)", a rather psychodelic project produced by Qunicy Jones.
Thats my FAVE album from her. Nothing is louzy in there, I don't have the nerve to skip any song in there. That and "Let Me In Your Life".
The Jazz stuff she did at the early 60's weren't half-bad at all, I guess she's the 1st one who took the Jazz/Soul to mainstream. In no special order: 1.Daydreaming 2.Never Let Me Go 3.Skylark 4.Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thang(Her version is ALOT betta) 5.Angel 6.Untill you come back to me(Thats what I'm gonna do) 7.God Bless The Child(Billie Woulda been proud if she heard this) 8.Dr.Feelgood 9.Ain't No Way 10.Do Right Woman-Do Right Man. Come 2 think of it, I think my FAVE songs from her are the covers. Her version of Beatles "Let It Be" and Sam Cooke's "A Change is gonna come" make me cry whenever I hear them. She always makes intersting arrangments, I think thats due to her learning the music from the early days in church. I wonder what Stevie's opinion about her version of "Till you come back(Thats what I'm gonna do)"? [This message was edited Sun Oct 5 12:10:31 PDT 2003 by Harlepolis] Another cover lol! Did you heard the original version by Wilson Pickett? | |
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Supernova said: DavidEye said: gotta get me an Aretha Franklin box set!You don't have it???
I love the powerful 1-2 punch of "Spanish Harlem" and "Rock Steady" on that box set. One of the greatest box sets you'll ever hear in your life. I totally agree...I take that box set on road trips with me...I go through every possible emotion...so much that I had to pull over on the side of the road last time to collect my blubbering ass self! peace Every minute of last night is on my face today.... | |
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Harlepolis said: Soulpower said: The best Aretha songs you can hear on her greatest musical achievement, an album called "Hey now! (The other side of the sky)", a rather psychodelic project produced by Qunicy Jones.
Thats my FAVE album from her. Nothing is louzy in there, I don't have the nerve to skip any song in there. That and "Let Me In Your Life". Co-sign. That album was the shit!!! The title track is off the chain-especially the breakdown part... "Sweet lemon peppermint.. And orange colored dreams..." ReRe was killin' that alto and soprano part!!!  | |
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Ain't no way
Sence you been gone Chain of fools Respect Natual woman Heard it through the grapevine 'Til you come back to me Rock steady Spirit in the dark Spanish rose 10 edit [This message was edited Mon Oct 6 12:43:21 PDT 2003 by 00769BAD] I AM King BAD a.k.a. BAD,
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When she was in the zone, all of her stuff was amazing, but these stick out in my mind:
*Until You Come Back to Me *Spanish Harlem Chain of Fools Natural Woman Freeway of Love (cheesy, but has sentimental teenage value for me) Respect Eleanor Rigby *My two all-time Aretha favorites Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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VANITYSprisonBYTCH said: Supernova said: DavidEye said: gotta get me an Aretha Franklin box set!You don't have it???
I love the powerful 1-2 punch of "Spanish Harlem" and "Rock Steady" on that box set. One of the greatest box sets you'll ever hear in your life. I totally agree...I take that box set on road trips with me...I go through every possible emotion...so much that I had to pull over on the side of the road last time to collect my blubbering ass self! peace Ha!  Her interpretation of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" always makes me well up.  This post not for the wimp contingent. All whiny wusses avert your eyes. | |
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Lammastide said: When she was in the zone, all of her stuff was amazing,
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Never Let Me Go
Rock Steady 96 Tears Baby, I Love You Prove It Dr. Feelgood Natural Woman Until You Come Back To Me Chain of Fools Respect   I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it | |
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CalhounSq said: Never Let Me Go
Rock Steady 96 Tears Baby, I Love You Prove It Dr. Feelgood Natural Woman Until You Come Back To Me Chain of Fools Respect Gah Damn it, how did i forget to put that in Baby, I Love You. That's the first song a girl ever sung whole for me. I AM King BAD a.k.a. BAD,
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Supernova said: bohemia said: But how about that cover of Elanor Rigby!!! In my opinion, no-one should mess with The Beatles, and yet, Aretha has given this song some serious soul!!! She has breathed her own brand of life into one of the most awesome covers I've ever heard... now that's truly a song upside down!
What think you guys about it? That was pretty much Aretha's MO during her prime. When she covered a song, it was OVER. The song was hers from then on. She reinvented "Respect" so much from it's original arrangement that Otis Redding proclaimed, "That girl done stole my song!" I prefer Aretha's cover of "Until You Come Back To Me..." to the original version by Stevie Wonder.She took that song and made it HERS! | |
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