Do you want to hear something funny? This album is literally called Green Onions. This has got to be the weirdest title so far. Booker T. & the M.G.’s were probably hungry or high when they titled it. And more weirdly is the fact that the title song is really famous. I thought I had never heard of it until I listened to it.
Green Onions has been used everywhere for everything. It is in many best of list, yet I never knew the title. The second song “Rinky Dink” is familiar too. It sounds like it belongs in a beach film of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon.
The surprise song for me is “Twist and Shout” because I thought it was The Beatles song. I do not like The Beatles and I never liked the song. It was not their song, but it was the only song they did not write that they charted with into the Top 10. Their original song “Can’t Buy Me Love” blocked it from hitting number 1.
In my opinion, the songs start to sound too similar. I am not a big fan because it of Booker T. Jones’ Hammond M3 organ playing and it is all instrumentals. It feels like church of the 50s or the Deep South today. I guess that is what soul sounded like in the 60s. 5/10 for its mediocrity.
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I think that album is a bit boring but you have to give them credit for majorly shaping music. The title track sounds like it influenced The Doors and Twist and Shout of course was picked up by the Beatles. I’m curious: did the Beatles write the lyrics for it?
Rather I should say: majorly shaping popular music in the 1960’s. Also, I think you can hear The Beach Boys sound in this album as well.
I do not know The Beach Boys songs yet. But I agree they helped shape music. Most of these people on this list are music pioneers in some form. I do appreciate most of them, but I do not always like their sound.
Actually, I should have stated it was not even their song. I was surprised that is was not a Beatles song. It was originally recorded by the Top Notes. The writers of the song wrote many other songs.
So the Top Notes wrote the lyrics?
No, they were the first to sing it. Phil Medley and Bert Berns wrote it. Phil Spector produced it with the Top Notes. The writers hated what Spector did to it, so they recorded it with The Isley Brothers, then The Beatles copied The Isley Brothers’ version. I remembered all that except for the writers names.