1142 – Joni Mitchell – The last time I saw Richard (1971)

Escrita por Joni Mitchell, foi gravada em 1971 e lançada em 1971 no disco Blue.

A canção fala do ex-marido de Joni, Chuck Mitchell e o casamento curto deles. Richard (Chuck) vivia com Joni em Detroit desde 1965 quando casaram, até 1967 quando se separaram e ela se mudou pra New York City.

Foi regravada, entre outros artistas, pela Legião Urbana, em 1992.

A letra:

The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in '68
And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday
Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe
You laugh, he said you think you're immune, go look at your eyes
They're full of moon
You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you
All those pretty lies, pretty lies
When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies
Only pretty lies, just pretty lies

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer, and he pushed
Three buttons and the thing began to whir
And a bar maid came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie
And she said drink up now it's gettin' on time to close
Richard, you haven't really changed, I said
It's just that now you're romanticizing some pain that's in your head
You got tombs in your eyes, but the songs
You punched are dreaming
Listen, they sing of love so sweet, love so sweet
When you gonna get yourself back on your feet?

Oh and love can be so sweet, love so sweet

Richard got married to a figure skater
And he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator
And he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on
And all the house lights left up bright
I'm gonna blow this damn candle out
I don't want nobody comin' over to my table
I got nothing to talk to anybody about
All good dreamers pass this way some day
Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafes
Dark cafes
Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings
And fly away
Only a phase, these dark cafe days

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1141 – The Who – The Song is over (1971)

Escrita por Pete Townshend, foi gravada em 11 de maio de 1971 e lançada em 14 de agosto de 1971 o disco Who's next? Conta a história de um show onde a polícia invade o Lifehouse Teathre e o público desaparece.

Tem vocais de Pete Townshend e Roger Daltrey e piano com Nicky Hopkins. Keith Moon na bateria, e John Entwistle no baixo.

A letra:

The song is over
It's all behind me
I should have known it
She tried to find me

Our love is over
They're all ahead now
I've got to learn it
I'm gonna to sing out

I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free
I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free

When I walked in through the door
Thought it was me I was looking for
She was the first song I ever sang
But it stopped as soon as it began

Our love is over
It's all behind me
They're all ahead now
Can't hope to find me

I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free
I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free

This song is over
I'm left with only tears
I must remember
Even if it takes a million years

The song is over
The song is over

Searchin' for a note, pure and easy
Playing so free, like a breath rippling by

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1140 – Led Zeppelin – The Battle of Evermore (1971)

Escrita por Robert Plant e Jimmy Page, foi gravada em 1971 e lançada em 8 de novembro de 1971 no disco Led Zeppelin IV.

A canção faz referencias à Lord of The Rings e Sandy Denny foi chamada pra fazer um dueto de vozes com Plant. Essa foi a única música da banda que teve um vocalista convidado.

A letra:

Queen of Light took her bow
And then she turned to go,
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom
And walked the night alone.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.
The dark Lord rides in force tonight
And time will tell us all.
Oh, throw down your plow and hoe,
Rest not to lock your homes.
Side by side we wait the might
Of the darkest of them all.
I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley blow,
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon,
Waiting for the eastern glow.
The apples of the valley hold,
The seas of happiness,
The ground is rich from tender care,
Repay, do not forget, no, no.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.
The apples turn to brown and black, the tyrant's face is red.
Oh the war is common cry, pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad
That mortals never know.
Oh, well, the night is long, the beads of time pass slow,
Tired eyes on the sunrise, waiting for the eastern glow.
The pain of war cannot exceed
The woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall,
The ring wraiths ride in black, ride on.
Sing as you raise your bow,
Shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night
That lights the face so cold.
Oh dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the mornin' light.
The magic runes are writ in gold
To bring the balance back, bring it back.
At last the sun is shining, the clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes.

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1139 – The Rolling Stones – Brown sugar (1971)

Escrita por Mick Jagger e Keith Richards, foi gravada em dezembro de 1969 e lançada em 23 de abril de 1971 no disco Sticky Fingers. Foi a canção que abriu o disco. É a canção número 495 da lista das 500 maiores canções de todos os tempos da revista Rolling Stone.

Fala de escravidão, estupro, sexo interracial, sexo oral, sadomasoquismo, perda da virgindade e heroína.

Quando lançada em compacto, chegou ao número 1 nos Estados Unidos e Canadá e número 2 no Reino Unido.

Foi regravada por Little Richard, entre outros artistas.

Foi também número 1 na Holanda e Suíça, número 2 na Irlanda, número 4 na Alemanha e Noruega, número 5 na Australia e Espanha e número 7 na Bélgica.

Mick Jagger cantou e tocou percussão. Keith Richards tocou guitarra e violão. Mick Taylor tocou guitarra. Bill Wyman tocou baixo. Charlie Watts tocou bateria. Ian Stewart tocou piano e Bobby Keys tocou sax tenor.

A letra:

Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in the market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right
Hear him whip the women just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should

Drums beatin' cold, English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin' when it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doin' all right
You should have heard him just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should

Brown Sugar, how come you dance so good
Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should

I bet your mama was a Cajun Queen,
And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
I'm no school boy but I know what I like
You should have heard them just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo
How come you, how come you dance so good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo
Just like a, just like a black girl should
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo

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1138 – Paul McCartney – Eat at home (1971)

Escrita por Paul e Linda McCartney, foi gravada 16 de outubro de 1970 e lançada em 17 de maio de 1971 no disco Ram. Mais um tema de Paul. Doméstico, amando sua esposa. Muitos dizem que se parece muito com Buddy Holly.

Muiotos gostaram dessa canção, inclusive John Lennon, que foi crítico ferrenho de muitas músicas do disco.

Quando lançada em compacto, chegou a número 7 na Holanda e número 6 na Noruega.

Paul cantou e tocou baixo, Linda fez backing vocals, David Spinozza e Hugh McCracken tocaram guitarras e Denny Seiwell tocou bateria.

A letra:

Come on, little lady
Lady, let's eat at home
Come on, little lady
Lady, let's eat at home
Eat at home, eat at home

Come on, little lady
Lady, let's eat in bed
Come on, little lady
Lady, let's eat in bed
Eat in bed, eat in bed

Bring the love that you feel for me
Into line with the love I see
And in the morning you bring to me
Love

Come on, little lady
Lady, now don't do that
Come on, little lady
Lady, now don't do that
Don't do that, don't do that

Love

Come on, little lady
Lady, let's eat at home
Come on, little lady
Lady, let's eat at home
Eat at home, eat at home

Bring the love that you feel for me
Into line with the love I see
And in the morning you bring to me
Love

Come on, little lady
Lady, now don't do that
Come on, little lady
Lady, now don't do that
Don't do that, don't do that
Don't do that, don't do that

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1137 – John Lennon – How? (1971)

Escrita por John Lennon, foi gravada em maio e julho de 1971 e lançada no disco Imagine, em 9 de setembro de 1971.

John tocou piano e cantou. Nicky Hopkins tocou piano. Klaus Voorman tocou baixo. John Barham tocou Vibrafone. Andy Davis tocou violão. Alan White tocou bateria.

Foi regravada pelos Stereophonics e Ozzy Osbourne, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
How can I go forward when I don't know which way to turn?
How can I go forward into something I'm not sure of?
Oh no, oh no
How can I have feeling when I don't know if it's a feeling?
How can I feel something if I just don't know how to feel?
How can I have feelings when my feelings have always been denied?
Oh no, oh no

You know life can be long
And you got to be so strong
And the world is so tough
Sometimes I feel I've had enough

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
How can I give love when I just don't know how to give?
How can I give love when love is something I ain't never had?
Oh no, oh no

You know life can be long
You've got to be so strong
And the world she is tough
Sometimes I feel I've had enough

How can we go forward when we don't know which way we're facing?
How can we go forward when we don't know which way to turn?
How can we go forward into something we're not sure of?
Oh no, oh no

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1136 – Bob Marley and The Wailers – Kaya (1971)

Escrita por Bob Marley, foi gravada entre 1970 e 1971 e lançada no disco Soul Revolution, de Bob Marley and The Wailers.

Bob Marley, Peter Tosh e Bunny Livingstone fizeram os vocais, Alva Lewis tocou guitarra, Glen Adams tocou teclado, Aston Barrett tocou baixo e Carlton Barrett tocou bateria.

A letra:

Wake up and turn me loose
Wake up and turn me loose
Wake up and turn me loose
For the rain is falling

Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
For the rain is falling

I'm so high, I even touch the sky
Above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighbourhood, so
Here I come again

Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
For the rain is falling

Feelin' irie I
Feelin' irie I
Feelin' irie I
'Cause I have some kaya now

I feel so high, I even touch the sky
Above the falling rain
I feel so good in my neighbourhood, so
Here I come again

Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now
Got to have kaya now, Lord
For the rain is falling

Huh

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1135 – The Who – Behind blue eyes (1971)

Escrita por Pete Townshend, foi gravada entre maio e junho de 1971 e lançada em 14 de agosto de 1971 no disco Who's Next?

Foi escrita após um show em Denver, quando Pete ficou doido por uma fã mas voltou sozinho pro quarto pois estava tentando ser elevado espiritualmente.

Quando lançada em compacto, chegou ao número 34 nos charts pop americanos.

Roger Daltrey cantou, Pete Townshend tocou violão, guitarra e fez backing vocals. John Entwistle tocou baixo e fez backing vocals e Keith Moon tocou bateria.

Foi regravada pelo Limp Bizkit, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
And no one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be faded to telling only lies

But my dreams they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

No one knows what its like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you
No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through

But my dreams they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

No one knows what its like
To be mistreated, to be defeated
Behind blue eyes
An no one know how to say
That they're sorry and don't worry
I'm not telling lies

But my dreams they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

No one knows what its like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes

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1134 – Led Zeppelin – Going to California (1971)

Escrita por Robert Plant e Jimmy Page, foi gravada em 1971 e lançada em 8 de novembro de 1971 no disco Led Zeppelin IV.

Robert cantou, Jimmy tocou tocou violão e John Paul Jones tocou bandolim. Começa falando dos terremotos da California.

A letra:

Spent my days with a woman unkind
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine
Made up my mind to make a new start
Going To California with an aching in my heart
Someone told me there's a girl out there
With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair
Took my chances on a big jet plane
Never let them tell you that they're all the same
The sea was red and the sky was grey
Wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
As the children of the sun began to awake
Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow
I think I might be sinking
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high
To find a queen without a king
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings
La la la la
Side a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems

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1133 – The Rolling Stones – Moonlight mile (1971)

Escrita por Mick Jagger e Keith Richards, foi gravada em outubro de 1970 e lançada em 23 de abril de 1971 no disco Sticky Fingers.

Mick Jagger cantou e tocou violão. Mick Taylor toou guitarra solo. Bill Wyman tocou baixo. Charlie Watts tocou bateria. Jim Price tocou piano.

A letra:

When the wind blows and the rain feels cold
With a head full of snow
With a head full of snow
In the window there's a face you know
Don't the nights pass slow
Don't the nights pass slow

The sound of strangers sending nothing to my mind
Just another mad mad day on the road
I am just living to be lying by your side
But I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road

Made a rag pile of my shiny clothes
Gonna warm my bones
Gonna warm my bones
I got silence on my radio
Let the air waves flow
Let the air waves flow

Oh I'm sleeping under strange strange skies
Just another mad mad day on the road
My dreams is fading down the railway line
I'm just about a moonlight mile down the road

I'm hiding sister and I'm dreaming
I'm riding down your moonlight mile
I'm hiding baby and I'm dreaming
I'm riding down your moonlight mile
I'm riding down you moonlight mile

Let it go now, come on up babe
Yeah, let it go now
Yeah, flow now baby
Yeah move on now yeah

Yeah, I'm coming home
'Cause, I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road
Down the road, down the road

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1132 – Paul McCartney – The back seat of my car (1971)

Escrita por Paul McCartney, foi gravada em 22 de outubro de 1970 e lançada em 17 de maio de 1971 no disco Ram e também foi lançada como compacto, que tinha Heart of the country como Lado B.

Foi apresentada aos Beatles durante os ensaios de Get Back, em janeiro de 1969, mas não foi pra frente. Essas canções sobre carros foram feitas durante as longas viagens que ele fazia com Linda, de carro, durante as brigas dos Beatles.

Paul diz que é uma canção adolescente.

Paul cantou e fez backing vocals, tocou piano, guitarra e baixo. Linda fez backing vocals. David Spinozza tocou guitarra solo. Hugh McCracken tocou guitarra solo também. Denny Seiwel tocou bateria.

A letra:

Speed along the highway, honey I want it my way
But listen to her daddy's song, don't stay out to long
Were just busy hidin', sitting the back seat of my car
(Looking for a ride and all about)
(Looking for a ride in and out of town)
(Strolling around and all about)
(Looking for a ride in and out of)

The laser lights are pretty
We may end up in Mexico city
But listen to her daddy's song
Making love is wrong
Ooh, we're just busy riding
Sitting in the back seat of my car

Oh oh, Oh oh
Oh oh, Oh oh
Oh oh, Oh oh
Oh oh, Oh oh
Oh oh, Oh oh

For we was only hiding
Sitting in the back seat of my car, yeah
And when we finished driving
We can say we were late in arriving
And listen to her daddy's song
We believe that we can't be wrong, yeah

Oh oh, we believe that we can't be wrong
Oh oh, we believe that we can't be wrong
We can make it to Mexico city
Sitting in the back seat of my car, oh oh

Oh oh, we believe that we can't be wrong
Oh oh, we believe that we can't be wrong
Oh oh, we believe that we can't be wrong

Oh oh, we believe that we can't be wrong
Oh oh, we believe that we can't be wrong
Oh oh, we believe that we can't be wrong

No, no, no
We believe we can't be wrong
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh oh, oh oh, yeah, oh, yeah

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1131 – John Lennon – Oh Yoko! (1971)

Escrita por John Lennon, foi gravada em maio e julho de 1971 e lançada em 9 de setembro de 1971 no disco Imagine.

Foi escrita para esposa de John, Yoko Ono e tem Nicky Hopkins no piano e Phil Spector no backing vocals. John toca gaita pela primeira num disco solo dele e a última vez tinha sido em Rocky Raccoon, com os Beatles. E foi a última vez que ele usou gaita numa gravação em sua vida.

John começou a escrever a canção quando ainda estava visitando a Índia, em 1968, mas não havia terminado até 1971.

John cantou, tocou guitarra e gaita. Nicky Hopkins tocou piano. Klaus Voorman tocou baixo. Alan White tocou bateria. Phil Spector fez backing vocals. Rod Linton e Andy Davis tocaram violão.

A letra:

In the middle of the night
In the middle of the night I call your name
Oh, Yoko
Oh, Yoko
My love will turn you on

In the middle of a bath
In the middle of a bath I call your name
Oh, Yoko
Oh, Yoko
My love will turn you on

My love
Will
Turn
You
On

In the middle of a shave
In the middle of a shave I call your name
Oh, Yoko
Oh, Yoko
My love will turn you on

In the middle of a dream
In the middle of a dream I call your name
Oh, Yoko
Oh, Yoko
My love will turn you on

My love
Will
Turn
You
On

In the middle of a cloud
In the middle of a cloud I call your name
Oh, Yoko
Oh, Yoko
My love will turn you on

Oh, Yoko
Oh, Yoko
Oh, Yoko
Oh, Yoko

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1130 – Bob Marley and The Wailers – Sun is shining (1971)

Escrita por Bob Marley, foi lançada em 1971 no disco Soul Revolution.

A letra:

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know ya, can you understang

When the morning gather the rainbow
Want you to know I'm a rainbow too
To the rescue here I am
Want you to know ya,
Can you, can you, can you understand

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet now
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know just if you can
Here I stand, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Can you understand me, now baby

Do you believe me?

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1129 – The Who – Love ain't for keeping (1971)

Escrita por Pete Townshend, foi gravada na primavera de 1971 e lançada em 14 de agosto de 1971 no disco Who's next? Fala sobre a alegria do amor físico, do poder na natureza e a necessidade de viver o momento.

Roger Daltrey cantou. Pete Townshend tocou violão e fez backing vocals. John Entwistel tocou baixo e Keith Moon tocou bateria.

A letra:

Layin' on my back
In the newly mown grass
Rain is coming down
But I know the clouds will pass
You bring me tea
Say "the babe's a-sleepin'"
Lay down beside me
Love ain't for keeping

Black ash from the foundry
Hangs like a hood
But the air is perfumed
By the burning firewood
The seeds are bursting
The spring is a-seeping
Lay down my darling
Love ain't for keeping
Lay down beside me
Love ain't for keeping

Lay down beside me
Love ain't for keeping
Lay down my darling
Love ain't for keeping

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1128 – Led Zeppelin – Stairway to heaven (1971)

Escrita por Jimmy Page e Robert Plant, foi gravada em 1971 em Londres e lançada em 8 de novembro de 1971 no disco Led Zeppelin IV. A canção tem 3 seções. Começa com um tempo devagar com instrumentos acusticos até entrar os instrumentos elétricos. A seção final é pauleira.

É a canção número 31 da lista das 500 maiores canções de todos os tempos da revista Rolling Stone. Foi criada em Bron-Y-Aur, no País de Gales. É um hino do rock and roll. E seu tremendo sucesso se deu nunca tendo sido um compacto. Os fãs tinham que comprar o disco todo pra ouvi-la.

A revista Guitar World disse que o solo de Page nessa música é o número 1 da história. É uma das 500 canções que deram forma ao rock and roll, na Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ganhou um Grammy em 2003.

A letra:

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Oh oh oh oh and she's buying a stairway to Heaven

There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiving

Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it makes me wonder

There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who standing looking

Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it really makes me wonder

And it's whispered that soon, If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
And it makes me wonder

Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow?
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven

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