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My favourite Hollies-songs are:

1. Long Cool Woman (I just love Allan singing Rock'n'Roll)

2. I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top (In my opinion it's their best ballad, I like it even more than He Ain't Heavy)

3. On A Carousel (That was my first favourite song and it's a perfect Pop-Rocker)

4. Gasoline Alley Bred (Great melody, great singing, great guitar playing)

5. Crocodile Woman (In my opinion the Hollies are at their best when they rock out and on this song they really do!)

My favourite Albums are:

1. Distant Light (You could guess that from my nickname... that album has a great sound, I think it's a big improvement in sound and songwriting over Confessions Of The Mind. Everybody is in top form on this record and the songs are great.)

2. Romany (It has the same kind of sound that Distant Light has and the songs on here are all great, too. And I really like Mikael Rickfors voice.)

3. Russian Roulette (That Album has a lot of rocking tracks on it and I love everyone of them. And I love Wiggle That Wotsit - I don't know why so much people dislike it - it's just good fun.)

4. Write On (It's a really fresh Album and it has a very different sound than Another Night which makes it more lively)

5. Evolution (Out of the sixties LP's with Graham Nash this is perhaps my favourite. There are some failed experiments on it like the horrible Lullaby To Tim but other experiments do really work like the loud distorted guitars on Have You Ever Loved Somebody or Then The Heartaches begin. The following Butterfly comes close but it lacks the rocking energy that this one has.)[/b]

My favourite singles and albums are as follows

SINGLES

Star

I'm Down

Jennifer Eccles

Long Cool Woman

Reunion Of The Heart

ALBUMS

What Goes Around

Russian Roulette

Another Night

Hollies 74

20 Golden Greats

Bye For Now

Cindy

Banjo Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 40 Location: Australia

My Favourite Hollies Singles

Magic Woman Touch
Reunion Of The Heart
The Woman I Love
Star
Long Cool Woman

My Favourite Hollies Albums

Hollies 74
What Goes Around
Moving Finger
A Crazy Steal
Write On

Cathy

Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Alabama, USA

1. Carrie Anne
2. Long Dark Road
3. On a Carousel
4. Dear Eloise
5. Bus Stop

HM -The Air That I Breathe

Long Dark Road is a song that doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves. Confused

They really nailed this one... particularly on the vocals.

My Top 10 fave singles:
1. Long Cool Woman (in A Black Dress)
2. The Baby
3. Magic Woman Touch
4. Gasoline Alley Bred
5. I'm Alive
6. Long Dark Road
7. We're Through
8. Yes I Will
9. Carrie-Anne
10. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

Top 5 "Should Have Been Singles"
1. If It Wasn't for the Reason
2. Mexico Gold
3. Tip of the Iceberg
4. Down River
5. When Your Light's Turned On

Albums
1. Romany
2. Distant Light
3. Hollies (1974)
4. Out On the Road
5. Hollies (1965)
6. Would You Believe
7. Evolution
8. Sing Hollies
9. Butterfly
10. For Certain Because

Number one favourite song is Too Young To Be Married. Lyrics, Tony's guitar playing and vocals are about as good as you get from the Hollies. The others, not necessarily in order of preference include Stop, Stop, Stop, I'm Down, Feet On The Ground, The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam Magee. It is very hard to limit it to just five. There are so many very good tunes that I love listening to.

Albums include For Certain Because, Confessions of the Mind, Write On, Hollies (1974) and Crazy Steal. The last one is my sentimental favourite as it is the last one that the lineup I grew up with wrote (well most of the songs)

Most albums also include what I call "The Stupid Song" It is one with banal or bad or just plain stupid lyrics, or the sound , the feel of the song is wrong, or I just don't like it for unspecified reasons. These include songs like Wiggle That Wotsit, Burn Out, Sweet Country Calling and Isn't It Nice. I also get annoyed by any arrangement that includes the piccolo.

Acoustic Guitar Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 172

My Favourite Hollies Singels and Albums are

Singel

1. Stay

2. Very last day (swedish singel)

3. I`m Alive

4.Just one look

5. Here I go again

6. Look through any window

7.Stewball (swedish singel)

8. Long cool woman

9. He ain`t heavy

10. The air that I breathe

11. Find me a family

12. The woman I love

Albums

1. For certian because

2. Evolution

3. Would you believe

4. Hollies 1965

5. Another Night

6. Hollies 1974

7. Russian roulette

8. Stay with the hollies

9. In the hollies style

10. Hollies sing hollies

11. 5317704

12. Write on

Have a nice day. Håkan.

Rythym Guitar Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Posts: 293

My 5 favourite Hollies songs:

1. Bus Stop - the song that made me a fan

2. He Ain't Heavy - most beautiful Hollies ballad and Allan's voice on it is absolutely perfect

3. The Baby - great song with a great Mikael Rickfors on vocals

4. Mad Professor Blythe - just love it

5. Confessions Of The Mind - Tony's masterpiece

My 5 favourite Hollies albums:

1. Out On The Road - love EVERY song on it; in my opinion the album with the greatest variety of music styles (rock, folk, country, reggae, pop); quite ironic that my favourite album still is waiting for an official EMI release on CD in top sound quality

2. Hollies 1974 - again great songs; my favourite album rockers are on it ("Down On The Run", "Sam McGee", "Rubber Lucy")

3. Butterfly - I love the good mood and nature spirit of that album; great tunes and I love the psychedelic feeling that flows through this album; their most creative work

4. 5317704 - very underrated album with some of their finest album love songs; "When I'm Yours" and "It's In Everyone Of us" are two of their finest songs

5. Hollies - their third album and the best one of theirs during the pre-psychedelic and beat era; great songs and they experimented with noises on it (the end of "Too Many People"); could it be that The Hollies used noises before The Beatles did ?; the sound of bursting glass really fits at the end of the song

My favourite Hollies singles are in no particular order :-

1. I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top - The song that made me a Hollies fan.

2. Curly Billy - My favourite Hollies rocker

3. I Can't Let Go - My favourite 60s Hollies single

4. On A Carousel - My second favourite 60s Hollies single

5. Gasoline Alley Bred - Classic.

My favourite Hollies albums are in the order they are in (I don't have Out On The Road currently) :-

1. For Certain Because - Has a sentimental value for me as it was the only album that cheered up my whole family when my nan passed away.

2. Evolution - Got to love the fuzz guitar on Then the Heartaches Begin and Have You Ever Loved Somebody and has one of my all time favourite tracks You Need Love.

3. Would You Believe - There are some really standout tracks on here including their versions of Take Your Time, I Am A Rock, Don't You Even Care and not forgetting I Can't Let Go.

4. Hollies 74 - My favourite 70s Hollies album including the best lyrics Allan ever wrote (Don't Let Me Down).

5. Butterfly - Love the majority of the tracks (not too fond of Makerand Wishyouawish ),Would You Believe, Step Inside and Dear Eloise are the standout tracks for me.

Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 15 Location: Australia

I thought I posted on this. Oh well:

Write On

Confessions of a Mind

Say It Ain't So Joe

Loving You Ain't So Easy

Rubber Lucy

Acoustic Guitar Joined: 06 Jun 2005 Posts: 107

gee, this really a lot tougher than I thought. Confused

I want to say, ALL the albums,
and ALL the singles. Mr. Green

let me try and whittle it down a tad.... and in no particular order.

singles:

Soldier Song
Blue In The Morning
The Baby
Stay
Amnesty
Hey Willy
Ain't That Just Like Me
Yes I Will
Sorry Suzanne
b. side faves
Indian Girl
Do The Best You Can

EP tracks:
Honey And Wine
I've Got A Way Of My Own

Albums:
A Crazy Steal
Confessions Of A Mind
Live Hits!
Romany
Write On
Butterfly
Hollies(65)
5317704
Dylan

Disclaimer: this is subject to variations
and includes all your faves too. Cool

p.s. piccolo is cool. Wink

Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 15 Location: Australia

I wonder what the LEAST favourite songs are. You know - you're playing the CD and you get to a ceratin song and you always skip it to move onto the vast majority that you love.

This may sound weird to some but these days I usually skip "Carrie Anne" and "Dear Eloouise". Oh well that's me.

Banjo Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 49 Location: Dunstable