1) All Along The Watchtower- Jimi Hendrix
A dark, supremely powerful rendering of Bob Dylan's 117th nightmare. The apocalypse, the colapsing sixties, the jungles of Vietnam, heroin, pot, lsd, LBJ, Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Watts and Harlem, RFK, they're all in there. The monsters of the sixties in the form of two riders approaching, and the howling in the wind is the dreams fading away.
2) Twist and Shout- The Beatles
It was a top twenty hit for the Isley Brothers in 1962 but before that it was recorded by a rising white R & B band from Philly called the Top Notes the year before. And they got Phil Spector to produce it, but it was before he was good and the record went nowhere. In 1963 the Beatles recorded it for their first album and John gave the best vocal performance he'd ever give, unseating Little Richard and everyone else who'd ever screamed good off their thrones.
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