Gene Clark: Top 10 Songs (x2)
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- Gene Clark was an artist like ... NO OTHER.
After leaving the Byrds, he had one of the great (mostly unknown) solo careers of any artist. Starting with his 1967 proto-country, baroque self-titled all the way until his team up with Carla Olsen of the Textones on So Rebellious A Lover. In between he tried folk country (White Light), cosmic American (No Other), folk rock (Roadmaster), country rock (Two Sides to Every Story) and even dabbled in 80s country (Firebyrd).
What didn't change was his dedication to fine songwriting, which made choosing a mere 10 songs quite the challenge.
Wildly underappreciated during his lifetime, Clark's status as one of the great 70s singer-songwriters and originators of country rock has soared in recent years as his works are reevaluated by a new generation of wiser, more tasteful music aficionados.
Here, Jason and Joe winnow his discography down to just 10 tunes. The big question being, what percentage of No Other songs will Joe select? How will Gene newcomer Jason's list look compared to the (comparatively) experienced Gene fan Joe?
Watch the video and then leave your top 10 lists in the comments.
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HUGE Gene Clark fan..Spanish Guitar is my fav,,,saw him in a small bar shortly before he died. Although sick and stooped over,his show was great.RIP Gene...
Thank you Jason & JOE!
10 The Same One
9 The Virgin
8 Sister Moon
7 Echoes
6 Full Circle Song
5 Silver Raven
4 White Light
3 So You Say You Lost Your Baby
2 Strength of Strings
1 Lady of the North
Some Dillard & Clark goodies: Train Leaves Here This Mornin', Out On The Side, With Care From Someone, Something's Wrong, Rocky Top & Polly
10. Elevator Operator
9. Some Misunderstanding
8. Past Addresses
7. In a Misty Morning
6. Here Tonight
5. With Tomorrow
4. Roadmaster
3. Strength of Strings
2. No Other
1. If You Could Read My Mind
10. Because Of You (White Light)
9. Life's Greatest Fool (No Other)
8. Lady Of The North (No Other)
7. Hear The Wind (Two Sides To Every Story)
6. In A Misty Morning (Roadmaster)
5. Give My Love To Marie (Two Sides To Every Story)
4. Echoes (Gene Clark With The Gosdin Brothers)
3. For A Spanish Guitar (White Light)
2. From A Silver Phial (No Other)
1. I Really Don't Want To Know (Roadmaster)
In interviews, Chris Hillman and David Crosby always tried to portray Clark as some kind of uneducated bumpkin, but he must have read at least a little poetry along the way. The kind of lyrics he wrote don't just come out of nowhere.
I forget who, but they called him the Hillbilly Shakespeare. - Joe
1) Strength of Strings
2) For a Spanish Guitar
3) Silver Raven
4) No Other
5) From a Silver Phial
6) Some Misunderstanding
7) Lady of the North
8) The Virgin
9) Silver Moon
10)Gypsy Rider
Many others
Great week, thanks guys. Gene Clark deserves more attention.
cant argue with that John
Would struggle to rank them but here’s my list - Gene Clark songs that I love to play on guitar:
Fair and Tender Ladies
Dark of My Moon
Your Fire Burning
From a Silver Phial
Del Gato
With Tomorrow
Some Misunderstanding
Train Leaves Here this Morning
Washington Square
Rain Song
Silver Raven
I'm late to discovering the music of Gene Clark and I owe it all to Joe's passion for it. I am grateful beyond words. I am now completely obsessed and in complete awe. Life changing experience. I can't stop listening to No Other and Roadmaster and I am thrilled to dig into every single song and album. Epic, heartbreaking, inspiring, cosmic American music. Glorious. Thanks Joe, Jason, and the great, great Tastes Like Music channel. Tasto 4ever 🙏🎶💯💙
Many thanks to Joe for his really spotlighting Gene Clark. I really started getting into the Byrds after your channel had the Byrds week, and I've just starting listening to Gene Clark this week and I'm really enjoying his sound. As I have many albums to listen to yet, no ranking today, but my early favorite song is Give My Love to Marie. This is why this channel rules!
That's written by James Talley, but we'll let that pass, as Gene's interpretation of it is unbeatable, to my mind. If ever a guy could truly inhabit a song, it was Gene.
10.1975
09.Kansas City southern
08.because of you
07. With tomorrow
06.strength of strings
05.lady of the north
04for a Spanish guitar
03.no other
02. Tried so hard( love the yo La tango cover)
01. I’ll feel a whole lot better
12.Only Colombe
11. Silver Raven
10. Polly
9. The Virgin
8. Gypsy Rider
7. She's a kind of girl
6. Give my love to Mary
5. No Other
4. Keep on Pushing
3. With Tomorrow
2. For a Spanish Guitar
1. Out on the Side
Gene's cover of If You Could Read My Mind is quite good. The original by Gordon Lightfoot is one of my favorite songs from the early 70's & one of the first 45's I purchased as a kid so the song resonates with me & Gene did it justice.
Yeah. the original is a classic. My #9 song of 1970. Gordon Lightfoot from 1970-1976 was amazing. Gene's version was true to the original - just a little more up tempo.
True say, he did it full justice, but why were the backing singers soooo far up in the mix? 😒
This is done chronologically: Feel A Whole Lot Better, Set You Free This Time, If You're Gone, The World Turns All Around Her, The Day Walk, Eight Miles High(Byrds). Post Byrds: Echoes, So You Say....,Why Not Your Baby, For A Spanish Guitar, She's The Kind Of Girl, Full Circle Song, One In A Hundred, No Other, Lady Of The North, The True One, Strength Of Strings, Hear The Wind, Past Addresses, Silent Crusade, Backstage Pass, Gypsy Rider, Del Gato. 2 songs I forgot to mention fron the White Light Sessions, American Dreamer Ship Of The Lord . So many others I want to add, but this will do.
The No Other LP might be my new favorite discovery of the year. Really enjoying it.
Great list.
Agree with most every pick.
My favorite tune by Gene clark is some misunderstanding.
From of course my favorite gene clark album.
First heard no other when I was like 11-12 when my dad brought it home and we sat on the floor next to the stereo and he was absolutely raving about it.
I guess being so young I did not really understand why he thought it was fantastic.
A few years later I did.
Great show!!!
10) Because of You (White Light)
09) Through the Morning, Through the Night (Through the Morning, Through the Night)
08) Only Colombe (Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers bonus track)
07) The Same One (Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers)
06) Why Did You Leave Me Today? (So Rebellious a Lover)
05) Gypsy Rider (So Rebellious a Lover)
04) Some Misunderstanding (No Other)
03) Lady of the North (No Other)
02) No Other (No Other)
01) From a Silver Phial (No Other)
11-Tried So Hard (Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers)
10- Silent Crusade (Two Sides to Every Story)
9- Where My Love Lies Asleep (White Light)
8- In a Misty Morning (Roadmaster)
7- Roadmaster (Roadmaster)
6- Sister Moon (Two Sides to Every Story)
5- Give my love to Marie (Two Sides to Every Story)
4- From a Silver Phial (No other)
3- Hear the Wind (Two Sides to Every Story)
2- Rough and Rocky (Roadmaster)
1- Because Of You (White Light)
1. Strength of Strings
2. For a Spanish Guitar
3. No Other
4. One in a Hundred (either version)
5. In a Misty Morning
6. Give My Love to Marie
7. Some Misunderstanding
8. Tried So Hard
9. Sister Moon
10. Full Circle Song
This was incredibly difficult. There are so many gems I am leaving out but here's my list.
10. Where My Love Lies Asleep
9. Some Misunderstanding
8. Full Circle Song
7. 1975
6. Lonely Saturday
5. From a Silver Phial
4. Because of You
3. Strength of Strings
2. For a Spanish Guitar
1. No Other
Honorable mention: "Vanessa" because of course.
Looks a lot like Joe's list.
"Strength of Strings" blows me away every time I hear it. One of the rare rock 'n roll songs that can give me goosebumps.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Agree 100%
@@179rich I think we have 5 in common.
"Set You Free This Time" from Turn! Turn! Turn! has always been a strong favorite of mine. It's really kind of a shame the way Gene was treated in The Byrds (a band I will always love regardless). With his unparalleled songwriting and his great voice he should have been the lead vocalist, but petty band politics played a rather unfortunate role, that also affected Gene's life.
Thx for bringing No Other to our attention. Hadn't heard it, never would've had you not mentioned it. Great song.
1 Hear The Wind
2 Backstage Pass
3 One In A Hundred
4 Feelin Higher
5 Somehing About You Baby
6 Sleep Will Return
7 Full Circle Song
8 Silver Raven
9 With Tomorrow
10 Echoes
Some of Gene’s best stuff is on his non solo albums such as the Dillard and Clark albums-Train Leaves Here This Morning, Through the Morning Through the Night and especially Polly. Obviously everything on No Other is great but I especially love Some Misunderstanding. A tour de force.
There's also "Kansas City Southern" - makes me think of being a kid and listening late at night to the trains passing through town :)
Excellent lists! In my personal top 10, Some Misunderstanding would be close to the top. Such a powerful song.
Number one for me.
Thought that tune would have made their top ten
I'm a huge Gene Clark fan and I'm so glad there is so much activity on his behalf, or at least, that there was so much activity sometime in the recent past. I do wonder, from these top 10 lists, why some of his better known songs weren't included. I guess this was just based on solo stuff, but no "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better," "Tried So Hard" or "Why Not Your Baby?'
Those aren’t solo and we didn’t include Dillard and Clark. - Joe
GENE CLARK TOP 10 SONGS:
1. Strength Of Strings
2. Some Misunderstanding
3. No Other
4. I Found You
5. Elevator Operator
6. Full Circle Song
7. For A Spanish Guitar
8. In A Misty Morning
9. So You Say You Lost Your Baby
10. Life's Greatest Fool
HMs: Is Yours Is Mine, Vanessa, Silver Raven, Think I'm Gonna Feel Better, Because Of You, From A Silver Phial, Keep On Pushin', Lady Of The North, One In A Hundred, Where My Love Lies Asleep, Here Tonight, The True One, Ship Of The Lord, Echoes, Gypsy Rider, The Virgin, Needing Someone, She Don't Care About Time, Home Run King, Tried So Hard, White Light, Sister Moon, Winter In, The Raven, Silent Crusade, 1975, Fair & Tender Ladies, Something About You Baby
DILLARD & CLARK TOP 10 SONGS:
1. With Care From Someone
2. Train Leaves Here This Morning
3. Don't Come Rollin'
4. The Radio Song
5. Something's Wrong
6. Through The Morning, Through The Night
7. She Darked The Sun
8. Polly
9. Out On The Side
10. Kansas City Southern
In A Misty Morning is my favorite Gene Clark song from the at the time import only Road Master album. My copy has the ubiquitous orange Jem Records Import sticker on it. 👍
Best Gene song is the live performance of On The Run, over on Bob Seger 's channel.
Too many, much loved over many years, and how to put them in order?? Well here's a few to go on with.
She don't care about time, b side version
Here without you, may be a full Byrds track but Gene wrote it, and it's the one that first took my attention.
Set you free this time.
With tomorrow.
Spanish guitar.
The true one.
Strength of strings.
From a silver phial.
Why not your baby, Lisa Miller's version on that Australian tribute album from 2002 or thenabouts.
Rain song.
For no one.
In a misty morning, three quarters gorgeous, final quarter not quite as good.. (takes cover) but as I understand it, Gene didn't have the final say on how those tracks were published anyway, so..
Hear the wind.
Past addresses.
One in a hundred, White Light version. So joyful!
See what I mean about too many to choose from?
But I can't sign off without mentioning Lady of the North, which he obviously wrote for me, as I was born in Yorkshire. (😂😂😂) no seriously it is simply glorious.
Listening to all your choices, mostly for the first time. Current fave - From a Silver Phial 👍
10 Past Adresses
09 Lady Of The North
08 Echoes
07 Some Misunderstanding
06 She’s The Kind Of Girl
05 Couldn’t Believe Her
04 Gypsy Rider
03 1975
02 The American Dreamer
01 With Tomorrrow
It's a hard job to pick only 10 Gene's best, especially when there are so many brilliant songs dear to my heart and soul. Nevertheless, this is my Top Ten.
10) Hear the Wind
9) Here Without You
8) Echoes
7) She Don't Care About Time (Roadmaster version)
6) I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
5) My Marie
4) Some Misunderstanding
3) Gypsy Rider
2) For a Spanish Guitar
1) Your Fire Burning
Love Gene Clark. Saw him live in LA (April 1991 Cinegrill) just a few months before he died. He looked terrible. Both his body and face were gaunt and his eyes sunken. But his voice was as good as ever. So glad I got to see him. Here is my list.
10) Hear The Wind
Echos
Full Circle
The Virgin
From a Spanish Guitar
So You Say You’ve Lost Your Baby
One In a Hundred
With Tomorrow
Gypsy Rider
1) Your Fire Burning
I had listened to Dillard and Clark for first time last week and saw 2 of the fellas reviewed Gene (Kram- hit pause on Fake Plastic Trees and give Gene a listen😎)
What under appreciated gems are lurking here- listened to lots of Gene and taking into account a lot of the helpful comments here is an initial top several- it will change I’m sure and has already…
1 Stength of Strings
2 Dillard/Clark Train Leaves Here This Morning
3 Some Misunderstanding
4 No Other
5 Walkabouts- Polly
6 Clark/Olson Fair and Tender Ladies
7 Dillard /Clark She Darked the Sun
8 Past Addresses
9 Clark/Olson Gypsy Rider
Really need to start listening to The Shins. Oh, and my name is spelt Shaun READ! 😜
Nice, gentlemen. Like I said yesterday, I like So Rebellious a Lover more than you guys, so "Del Gato" and "Gypsy Rider" would make my Top 10. Also, there are definitely some Dillard & Clark tunes that would make mine, but you guys didn't include those two records for consideration. But my God, check out Gene's vocals on "Polly." That's why he's one of my favorite vocalists. Also, it sounds like Joe already knows, but No Other has been released in a Deluxe Edition box set that is especially nice on vinyl. I don't have the set, but I do have a really good vinyl copy of the album. Do you guys watch Norman Maslov's channel? He is one of my favorite channels. He's a fan too, and has done a couple of videos on Gene.
Polly is great. - Joe
here goes , in no order
keep on pushin
because of you
tears of rage
lifes greatest fool
lady of the north
here tonight
shes the kind of girl
rodeo rider
vanessa
if you could read my mind
on to don henley ugh🐯🐯🐯🐯
Love If You Could Read My Mind we have two in common
Do you guys like the original Gordon Lightfoot version ?
@@davidellis5141 hey David! I heard it and I may like Gene Clark’s version more
@@claytonkelley4921 i like the origional alot
I see big red warning signs ahead!
The road leads straight from Gordon Lightfoot to Neil Diamond and then...Don Henley. Beyond that, my imagination fails but I am sure there is more lurking in the darkness.
My fav solo song is "Life's greatest Fool" - I love the lyrics -"Formed out of pleasure, chiseled by pain"
10. Needing Someone
9. Shooting Star
8. Life's Greatest Fool
7. Roadmaster
6. Full Circle Song (Roadmaster version, much better than the Byrds reunion version)
5. 1975
4. One in a Hundred (Roadmaster version)
3. The Drifter (Yes, it is mainly Carla Olsen, who also wrote it, with Clark singing backup...)
2. Gypsy Rider
1. No Other
Gypsy Rider from "So Rebelious A Lover" She Darked The Sun from The Fantast Expedition of Dillard & Clark
Hi, I've got a Clark/Dillard on my list, does it count as a proper Gene Clark song? anyway, my top 10 is:
1) For a Spanish Guitar
2) Strenght of Strings
3) Full circle song
4) Echoes
5) With Tomorrow
6) Something's wrong
7) From a silver Phial
8) Past addresses
9) Lady of the North
10) I Remember the Railroad
It would be really cool if you did a Gram Parsons list including his byrds, International Sub band and burrito brothers output. But I know that kind of breaks your rules.
We’ll do something like that one day. - Joe
10. Tambourine Man (1984)
9. Tears of Rage (1971)
8. Some Misunderstanding (1974)
7. White Light (1971)
6. One in a Hundred (1971)
5. Tried so Hard (1967)
4. In a Misty Morning (1973)
3. The Virgin (1971)
2. No Other (1974)
1. Life's Greatest Fool (1974)
Couple of good obscurities worth hunting down: If you like 'Echoes' there’s a similar baroque-pop 'Back Street Mirror' actor David Hemmings first released it but they found Gene's vocal track for 'The Lost Studio Sessions'. 'Washington Square' from the 'Under The Silvery Moon' compilation has a kinda dated 80s synth sound but its great lyrics and 'Your Fire Burning' from the Gene & Carla Olson live 'Silhouetted In Light' is Gene's last great song.
I saw Gene along with Micharl Clarke in his controversial "Celebration of The Byrds" tour in Philadelphia in 1985. Also in the band was Skip Battin, Rick Roberts, Rick Danko and several others I don't recall. His voice was a little hoarse, but he performed very well. Poor Mike Clarke had a plaster cast on his leg, but he was able to play drums. I said "controversial" because, I believe McGuinn, Hillman and Crosby sued him to stop.
Joe or Jason, not sure if either of you has heard these records, but I'm thinking y'all would like them and I highly recommend:
- Stephen Still's Manassas (featuring as members with Stills, Chris Hillman, Al Perkins, Paul Harris, Dallas Taylor, Joe Lala, and many more "non-member" additional top notch musicians). They put out two albums (a double LP in 1972, and single LP in 1973)
- McGuinn, Clark and Hillman - s/t release in 1979 I think)
Great records.
Haven’t heard the MCH one yet. - Joe
1.Polly. Yes, I am counting a Dillard and Clark tune. Soaring melancholy. First heard it covered by The Walkabouts on their 1993 album Satisfied Mind.
2. With Tomorrow
3. Silver Raven
4. Life's Greatest Fool
5. For A Spanish Guitar
6. Strength Of Strings
7. From a Silver Phial
8. Tried So Hard. Another tune I first heard as a cover, from Yo La Tengo's 1990 album Fakebook.
9. Full Circle Song
10. Some Misunderstanding
I prefer the Walkabouts version of Polly (not so sugar coated as the original) but I give him credit for the writing.
The Robert Plant/Alison Krauss version is also worth mentioning - another proof that the song is great.
(PS - you list With Tomorrow twice)
You have one song twice
Thanks, I was doing this at work and wasn't paying strict attention. Fixed!
Corrected, thanks. I love his vocals on the original, though. That whole Walkabouts record it great; I'll have to dig through my mess of a cd collection and give it a listen.
Through the Morning, Through the Night and The Radio Song
Mine is 'the rain song'
(Honourable Mentions: Echoes, With Tomorrow, Life’s Greatest Fool, Rain Song)
10. Tears of Rage
9. Give My Love to Marie
8. Shooting Star
7. Lady of the North
6. She Don’t Care About Time
5. In A Misty Morning
4. Silver Raven [Probably my favourite vocal perfomance from him.]
3. For A Spanish Guitar [This is what I thought Bob Dylan's music would sound like. It kinda does, but Dylan's songs I know are way worse than this one.]
2. Some Misunderstanding [A Country Version of Pink Floyd.]
1. No Other [Mindblowing song. Probably the correct choice for SOTY 1974.]
Songs I share with Jason: (1) In A Misty Morning
Songs I share with Joe: (4) Lady of the North, In A Misty Morning, For A Spanish Guitar, No Other
It's too bad you're doing only studio releases because there are so many gems which unfortunately were only demos and not released during his lifetime. Check out Your Fire Burning for one.
winter in and thats alright by me are probably my two fave gene tracks
Hey Joe - pardon the Are You Experienced pun. Is it true or just a rumor that Sly contributed back up vocals to your #1 Gene song?
I don’t think that’s confirmed. Would be pretty cool though. - Joe
Will you rank and review The Smile’s debut album A Light For Attracting Attention which comes out the 13th of May?
Possibly.
@@TastesLikeMusic Would be very interesting if you did. The singles they have released have been liked a lot by the fans (reading from comments and seeing the streams on Spotify) and the three live concerts they had in January have showed that this album possibly will be among the top three Radiohead albums (imo).
My top Genes:
10. Some Misunderstanding
9. Hear the Wind
8. From A Silver Phial
7. Silver Raven
6. Lady of the North
5. Strength of Strings
4. Life's Greatest Fool
3. The True One
2. Polly
1. No Other
What about Gypsy Rider?
Great song but not in my top 10. - Joe
polly
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Very insightful, you two.
@@Vanessa.P I'm working on breaking their code. I think they're saying their hungry but I'm not 100% sure yet
@@GeneBolmarcichEsq 😂 you might be on to something...
I suspect a Kansas City Southern reference, but I could be wrong.. 🤔
So, no No Other, Some Misunderstanding... I think you don't know Gene Clark's work very well.
No Other my number one, guy. - Joe
In all seriousness, I just didn't connect with Gene. I guess I'm mostly with Kram if I'm being honest
This is a big black mark on your resume. - Joe
🙀
I have no opinion on gene I didn't listen to it
@@ryankramzer1256 Sorry. One of the guys said that you don't like country which is why you weren't there. I wasn't sure if that was accurate but they did say it so I assumed you didn't like him
A GREAT GENE CLARK SONG IS "MY NAME IS Del GOTO" ....