Best song in The Blues Brothers

[TheMightyFavog]

Poll question: Best song in The Blues Brothers

Gotta go with Sweet Home Chicago.

[Aristus]

1. "Think". Hands down. Best song in the movie. Aretha Franklin is spectacular.

The only problem is the perceived context of the song on its own, and the way it is used in the film.

I always imagined that the Aretha of the song is a strong, tough, savvy woman offering advice and tough-love compassion to the subject she is singing to.

This image is so different from the weary, seemingly embittered Aretha of the film, who is trying to keep her man from going off with the Blues Brothers.

[abq e streeter]

2. Minnie The Moocher because Cab Calloway was one THE coolest human beings to ever walk the earth

Rawhide a very close second because of two things: The setting in "Bob's Country Bunker", and Steve Cropper's solo; possibly the most perfect short guitar solo in the history of the known universe.

[TheMightyFavog]

7. "We got both kinds of Music, Country AND Western!

One of the all time great lines from that film.

[abq e streeter]

9. That whole scene there was absolutely hysterical.

If I remember correctly, Judy Jacklin, Belushi's wife, was one of the waitresses....just looked her up; apparently she was dancing with Bluto at the Delta's toga party in Animal House too.Can't believe I never knew that.

[MilesColtrane]

3. Don't know about the movie, but "B Movie Boxcar Blues" is the best song on the album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiklZnVoZ5Y&feature=related

[GoCubsGo]

4. "Sweet Home Chicago"

It features the whole band more than most of the other songs. If it weren't for that, I'd have voted for "Other". You forgot "She Caught the Katy", which was the first song in the film. It was the most bluesy song in in it.

[Auggie]

5. Shake A Tailfeather: Ray Charles

[keroro gunsou]

6. gotta go with

the old landmark. it was the first scene i ever saw when i first saw the film... plus the dancing was fantastic. it made me, who was 12 or so at the time, ask my parish priest why couldn't our services be more like that....

james brown rocked that scene also.

[Brickbat]

8. You better think about the consequences of your actions!

The woman said THINK!

[Dr Morbius]

10. Chicken wire?

No, man, those lights are off on purpose.

Hey, Jake! There's gotta be like eight bucks here in change!

SO many funny lines in that flick.

As to the best song, I can't decide. Sweet Home Chicago from that movie is HUGELY overplayed in Chicago, and that plays against it for me, but there is something to be said for almost every one of them. First, as others have mentioned, Aretha was and still is a goddess, so picking any choice above her is tough. But there is the one and only Ray Charles, bringing a ton of action out of an old keyboard, and Ray's a legend, too. And James Brown singing gospel was inspired, to say the least. Then Cab Calloway, the definition of cool for half a century?

The film is a comedy fused with a tribute to American music in most of its forms: Country (AND Western!), blues, rock, gospel, soul, and scat. It's a masterpiece of a sort; yes, the constant destruction of so many police cars isn't all that funny when you think about it, but the musical forms were captured with vibrant color and glory. Best song from the movie? It's like choosing between blues and rock and gospel and soul! Can't be done.

[Patsy Stone]

11. "She Caught the Katy"

Left me a mule to ride.