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Stranded in the 5th Dimension
| 1) "Go Where You Wanna Go" | 0 votes |
| 2) "Up, Up, and Away" | 1 votes |
| 3) "Stoned Soul Picnic" | 3 votes |
| 4) "Sweet Blindness" | 1 votes |
| 5) "California Soul" | 0 votes |
| 6) "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" | 3 votes |
| 7) "Wedding Bell Blues" | 2 votes |
| 8) "Blowing Away" | 0 votes |
| 9) "One Less Bell to Answer" | 1 votes |
| 10) "Love's Lines, Angles, and Rhymes" | 0 votes |
| 11) "Never My Love" | 0 votes |
| 12) "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All" | 4 votes |
| 13) "If I Could Reach You" | 0 votes |
| Edgy DC Sep 30 2010 08:16 PM |
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...but you have only one 5th Dimension song that you can add to your eternal playlist. (I'm simply not one to waste my research.) Hang in there through some lite psychedlic soul presented with some crapass lipsynching. They get better (at lipsynching, that is) when the 60s become the 70s.
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| cooby Sep 30 2010 08:21 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Nice. Tough!
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| Edgy DC Sep 30 2010 08:25 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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I'm afraid you and realitychuck will be my only voters.
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| cooby Sep 30 2010 08:33 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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MFS62 will know them :)
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 30 2010 09:18 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Among the first groups I can distinctly recall. Not only did my sister have a 5D record, my kindergarten teacher did too. And they both played it a lot.
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| batmagadanleadoff Sep 30 2010 09:23 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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They covered The Cream:
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| batmagadanleadoff Sep 30 2010 09:26 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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The Beatles, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzAieK0I ... =1&index=3
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| MFS62 Sep 30 2010 09:33 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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All too true. :) And I voted Up, Up and Away. Later
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| Edgy DC Sep 30 2010 09:37 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Jan Brady to Marcia: "Get Davey Jones for the dance? You might as well get the Beatles, the Carpenters, and the 5th Dimension!" Andrew Appel to Me: "Or just the Beatles would be good."
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| batmagadanleadoff Sep 30 2010 09:49 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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And Traffic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V0drJ2TybE
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| sharpie Sep 30 2010 10:04 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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I went "Stoned Soul Picnic."
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| Edgy DC Sep 30 2010 10:18 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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As did I. "Wedding Bell Blues" was #2 for me, which I didn't know was them and only now am realizing that it was actually literally addressed to a guy named "Bill."
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| cooby Sep 30 2010 10:29 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Wedding Bell Blues reminds me of seventh grade. Age of Aquarius even younger. One Less Bell to Answer, my ex brother in law, Chuck. Last Night I didn't Get to Sleep at All, Rusty Staub.
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| Ashie62 Sep 30 2010 11:03 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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I didn't get to sleep at all is my pick. Our teacher used to play it in school.
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| G-Fafif Oct 01 2010 12:17 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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All of these and at least 13 more from their two-disc anthology. I went with "Wedding Bell Blues" as it gained extra traction after Chris Farley and Tim Meadows teamed on it as Eager & Jones, two guys who "are not gay but sing as if they were!" My art director (who was gay and sang like he was) and I recreated the performance several times in the spring of 1993 while we waited for corrected page layouts to emerge from the printer.
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| MFS62 Oct 01 2010 07:12 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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"Bill" was fellow Dimension Billy Davis, Jt., who married Marilyn McCoo in 1969. Don't know if the song came out before or after they were wed. Later
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| Frayed Knot Oct 01 2010 07:44 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Oh I was acutely aware of that. Much teasing on elementary school playgrounds over that one. And, yes, Bill was fellow band-mate Billy Davis and the two are apparently still married now 40+ years later. At one point they performed as just a duo in post-5th-D life. I'm going 'Stoned Soul' also, with a runner-up nod to the lesser known 'Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes'
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| Willets Point Oct 01 2010 09:06 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Egads! I recuse myself.
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| Edgy DC Oct 01 2010 09:12 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Just check out the tracks others are choosing. Turn away from the visuals. You'll be surprised.
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| batmagadanleadoff Oct 01 2010 09:35 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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I can't pick a favorite even though I dig the 5D's. In fact, The Magic Garden was the first pop music album that entered my consciousness. My father had that album (album!) and when I was 5 or 6 years old, I would play it through endlessly, all the while hunched over the turntable, watching the record spin and monitoring the needle's inevitable path to the center of the record. Carpet Man and Ticket to Ride were my favorite tracks back then, but what did I know? TtR is widely considered to be the weakest song on Magic Garden: On the current remastered CD re-release, TtR was moved to the end so as not to interrupt the conceptual theme of the rest of the disc.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 01 2010 09:41 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Dude, that's just plain weird. The entire song's, like, "I love you, Bill," "Marry me, Bill," and "This song is quite obviously addressed at you, bandmate of mine named Bill." As to the voting... I'll have to do some more deliberation. (A side note: apart from maybe toddler exposure to an ungodly amount of LITE-FM in our apartment bathroom-- the radio was synched to the room lights-- I have no idea how so many of these songs got into my head, since they were hits well before I was a notion.) (A side side note: I had no idea Marilyn McCoo was so friggin' delectable before '80s fashion happened to her.)
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| Edgy DC Oct 01 2010 09:58 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Well, the math would have come quicker to me had I known it was them. To thier credit and their producers' credit, it sounds like a genuine soul classic from 1964 rather than the hippy-drippy arrangments that characterized a lot of their late sixties material. It looks like Nyro and Tony McCauley are squaring off.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 01 2010 09:59 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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"One Less Bell to Answer." I'm a sucker for well-executed Bacharach/David, the torchier the better. (Although "Picnic," "Last Night (I Didn't Get to Sleep at All)," and the two #1s make it a horserace.)
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| cooby Oct 01 2010 10:16 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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BTW, I voted for "Last night...." but "If I could reach you" was also always a favorite of mine.
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| Edgy DC Oct 01 2010 10:22 AM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Nah, realitychuck introduced them in another thread. He said Laura Nyro had written all their hits, and while she wrote many, I knew "Up, Up" was Jimmy Webb's, and she certainly didn't write "Hair." But once I started digging arfter facts, I couldn't get out of the rabbit hole, and a poll was born.
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| Edgy DC Oct 21 2010 12:30 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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OK, nobody's voting for any Graham crackers, but we had 12 votes in this monstrosity, and all it produced was a tie. So we need a voter to break that lockup or we will have a runoff. I'm serious.
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| batmagadanleadoff Oct 21 2010 12:33 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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If you want me to cast a vote, I will, but my vote won't be breaking any ties, I'll tell you that.
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| Edgy DC Oct 21 2010 12:42 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Go.
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| Chad Ochoseis Oct 21 2010 12:42 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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The 5th Dimension had this talent for taking really good songs - many of which were written by a woman who should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a performer - and making them crappy. Just my opinion. But, yes, I've come up with a favorite within the 5th Dimensional oeuvre, and the tie is now broken. Willets can rest, unless he wants to screw this whole thing up again by voting Stoned Soul Picnic.
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| Edgy DC Oct 21 2010 12:44 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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A bitter bitter vote. Well done.
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| batmagadanleadoff Oct 21 2010 12:50 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Since there's no write in option, I voted for the Hair medley. Sometimes, the most popular is also the most best. Sometimes, the masses get it right.
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| Willets Point Oct 21 2010 01:45 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Let the Sunshine In. I'm hippy dippy like that. But mostly because I like a techno remix from the 1990's.
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| Edgy DC Oct 21 2010 01:46 PM Re: Stranded in the 5th Dimension |
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Well played.
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