Here's the next one.

The song title is Poor Boy.



Nick Drake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYJyp4EIbI

R. L. Burnside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJTgWE_9w1g

Elvis Presley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90MFBZMBSPM

Shocking Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhY6RCncWA

Split Enz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-iLqOEd5Y

Chicken Shack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U58JZ05qlGk

John Fahey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vYbM5NcPHg

Matt Kearney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xa3Cy4-20s

R L Burnside
Split Enz
Chicken Shack
John Fahey
Matt Kearny
Elvis Presley
Shocking Blue
Nick Drake

You must really like Chicken Shack.

fixed.....

Whoa! They got demoted.

Thanks, Cap'n B, for letting me know this was up!

1) R.L. Burnside - Love me some Blues. This is gritty and raw in the best possible sense.
2) John Fahey - Killin' me (in the good sense) with these bluesy/bluegrass songs. There's something to be said for "less is more". This song shows that. Love the dog barking in the background, made it oddly "personal".
3) Shocking Blue - I dig this groove. Didn't know they had this in them. I, admittedly, always just wrote them off as being "that band that did Venus".
4) Split Enz - I was on board with this song until the chorus. For some reason I don't care for that part.
5) Elvis Presley - Not my favorite Elvis song, by any stretch of the imagination, but good clean fun.
6) Elvis Presley - I think they ranked so low for me because of Mr. Burnside being in the same list. lol
7) Mat Kearney - Not my thing, but still beats out #8.
8) Nick Drake - Just not my thing at all.

1) Shocking Blue
2) Split Enz
3) Chicken Shack
4) John Fahey
5) R.L. Burnside
6) Elvis Presley
7) Mat Kearney
8) Nick Drake

Shouldn't this be Chicken Shack ?

I really had no solid No. 1 here. There were a lot of tracks that would have been in the middle against most other songs in the SNDS track listings. In all 1-5 didn't blow me away and at any time another song could fit into #1 and vice versa for 5.

1. Shocking Blue - Nicely done and quite 60s psychedelic. Sounds like she’s saying Pool Boy. Still though, this is such a retro style song, that It easily gets a favorable nod here.
   
2. Elvis Presley - I thought this was another song and I expected to rate it lower. Gotta give credit here, because they tries to keep the song within the theme of the movie (a western), and at the same time, keep it somewhat rockabilly-ish. I’ve heard better, but this is a good decent song.
   
3. Nick Drake – I’m a big fan of his, and I love this arrangement with the Gospel-style chorus background and the jazz influenced music. BUT, it’s not a favorite of mine from him. I prefer when he keeps it more low-key.
   
4. John Fahey – He’s a great finger-picking player, and this song is a good example of his playing style. I like the slide guitar in the song too.
   
5. Chicken Shack – Too much homage to Hendrix and Voodoo Chile. Really, the best thing about the song is the solid drum work. Otherwise, the biggest problem with Chicken Shack is a total lack of direction. They didn’t know whether to be Hendrix or Cream or Ten Years After.
   
6. R.L. Burnside – I love old blues. And I really love when it’s done right. This is definitely done okay. It’s not spectacular and never got me in the right mood. The guitar work was nice, but not as heartfelt as a good blues song should be.
   
7. Split Enz – I saw these guys with my girlfriend of the time and her mum. Her mum loved them and called them the next Beatles. I thought they were okay and called them the next Not the Beatles. Too electronic for me.
   
8. Mat Kearney – Couldn’t get into it at all.

John Fahey - Simple, but heartfelt. There was real emotion in that playing.

Nick Drake - This song's very jazzy instrumentals go far with me

RL Burnside - Now that's some blues.

Shocking Blue - That was pretty smokin'

Chicken Shack - Also some pretty good bluesy stuff, but not quite at Burnside's level.

Split Enz - Fun entry, starting to see where the 80s were going to be headed

Elvis Presley - I likes me some Elvis, but this is far from him at his best.

Mat Kearney - Didn't do anything for me.

I thought I could do this at work, but my Flash Player is now strangely inadequate. I'll have to do it tonight. I am going to go back in time and say something not very politically correct about 3rd world distributed IT....... OK, I won't, but its so frustrating.

Edit: Thanks for putting the first 2 or 3 of these out there. I think Chicken Shack and this Split Enz song are awesome. I never thought I would rate Elvis last in any contest, even with a couple of dogs thrown in. But I did not enjoy his offering at all. I guess it was the Colonel's idea, who knows?

1- Chicken Shack- They tease you into a little blues, and then throw a big rock wave out. Really, really like this one.
2- Split Enz- Edgy, catchy, really enjoyable!
3- Shocking Blue- Simmering psychedelia! I like it.
4- R. L. Burnside- Nice, driving blues.
5- John Fahey- Good enough. The song needed some more musical support.
6- Matt Kearney-I guess he's doing his own thing. Not awful, not that great. OK.
7- Nick Drake- Not nearly my style.
8- Elvis Presley- Not Elvis' finest hour.

I don't think he should have edited; Chicken Shack would be fine on the list 2 or 3 times!! I may go add them again to mine.

1. Chicken Shack

2. R. L. Burnside

3. John Fahey

4. Shocking Blue

5. Nick Drake

6. Split Enz

7. Elvis Presley

8. Matt Kearney

1. R L Burnside
2. Nick Drake
3. Elvis Presley
4. Split Enz
5. Chicken Shack
6. John Fahey
7. Matt Kearny
8. Shocking Blue

Well, I guess that's everybody that participates these days. Just need VG9 to give me the numbers.

My apologies to Gargantua for assuming he was the slacker.

Once I get the numbers, I'll get a new one of these up Thursday or Friday.

Given my past history, you could be forgiven for that assumption!