Louie Louie

[iceman]

I think this is my favorite version of the best song ever:



but I like this one a lot:



Love the horns, really everything, about this one:



But maybe this is my favorite:



Shit maybe the Kingsmen really did do it best:



It may be the most-covered song ever, whatchagot?

[systemoverblow'd]

[iceman]

Advres comes strong!

[schindlerpiste]

OH YEAH!




Totally different, but you gotta love Crissie

[Buster Highmen]

[iceman]

^^^ you gotta admire the drums and tambourine for sticking with it as long as they did.

[iceman]

Can't forget the Wailers...



The way it went was Richard Berry wrote the song (a clip of his version is a couple posts up^^), then "Rockin'" Robin Roberts found a copy in a discount bin like 4 years later and rearranged it and recorded this version with The Wailers. Then supposedly Roberts went into the Marines and the Kingsmen somehow stole it and recoded the version everybody knows, and then from there everybody else took it.

[/pedantry]

[Hugh Conway]

yeah, it's from a movie

[iceman]

This version is interesting, a lot going on sonically. Brian Wilson at work.

[systemoverblow'd]

This version is interesting, a lot going on sonically. Brian Wilson at work.

Speaking of Brian Wilson... Pet Sounds is one of my favorite albums!

Coincidentally, my first ever convert was the beach boys at Otis air force base on the Cape.

[toast2266]

... the best song ever

Dio agrees


and the full motorhead version

[iceman]

^^^ hah, me and Dio, right on.

One of the best things is every version has that "Let's give it to them, RIGHT NOW!" line. Good shit maaannnn.

[iceman]

haha, yah mon de love machine goes Jamaican! And it's FUNKY.




Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!



Like one of the comments says, I think they just invented Punk right there in Helsinki.

The Troggs! I've been getting into the Troggs lately, I never really knew them except for a couple songs. Wild band with a very bad attitude. Definitely not a hippy thing at all. Opposite, kinda. Kinda malevolent sometimes.

[iceman]

Talk about funky (and kinda weird, but did I mention funky?) Stanley Clarke and George Duke gettin down, you can't go too far wrong.

[iceman]

Almost Christmas!

[ötzi]

Heard this one today. Forgot it was on the list but it kicks ass so here it is again:



What is making the sound at the end there I don't know but it's cool. RIP Mr. Hibbert, fuck covid.

[stealurface831]

[ötzi]

I see you working, but nah. Too many dead links in this thread, it's a drag.

[EWG]

Just chiming in to say, in my opinion, this is the first actual Rock and Roll song ever. Greatness.

[Garbowski]

Louie, Louie,
grab her way down low.
Louie, Louie,
grab her way down low.

A fine little bitch, she waits for me;
she gets her kicks on top of me.
Each night I take her out all alone;
she ain’t the kind I lay at home

Each night at ten, I lay her again;
I fuck my girl all kinds of ways.
And on that chair, I lay her there;
I felt my boner in her hair.

If she’s got a rag on, I’ll move above;
It won’t be long, she’ll slip it off.
I’ll take her in my arms again;
tell her I’d rather lay her again.