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\u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n The main ingredients to this 1972 single were a catchy piano-and-flute lick and a lead vocal by Cuba Gooding Sr. \u201cEverybody Plays the Fool\u201d shot up the pop charts and earned the Main Ingredient a Grammy nomination<\/a> for best R&B song, although it lost out to the Temptations\u2019 \u201cPapa Was a Rolling Stone<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYou may think I\u2019m silly to love a man twice my age,\u201d the Southern soul singer Candi Staton sings on her first hit, from 1969. Let\u2019s hear her out: An old man will just sit and talk, \u201cbut a young man is somewhere busy doing the camel walk<\/a>.\u201d (Dancing like James Brown sounds like a plus in a relationship, but to each her own.)<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s unfortunate to name your band after an Egyptian goddess<\/a> only to later have the word come to be associated with \u2026 other things. I\u2019m not going to let it stop me from highlighting this funky, horn-heavy track from the all-female rock group\u2019s self-titled 1974 album. That drum break<\/a> deserves to be sampled somewhere other than on an obscure De La Soul rarity<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n I intended to put Ricky Nelson<\/a> here, but then ran across this fun cover by Bow Wow Wow, the new-wave band formed by Malcolm McLaren<\/a> and best known for \u201cI Want Candy<\/a>.\u201d (That one almost made my Halloween Amplifier playlist<\/a>.)<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n As essentially a rock kid who was dance-music-curious, when I heard \u201cFools Gold\u201d and tracks by the Stone Roses\u2019 contemporaries<\/a> like the Happy Mondays<\/a> and Primal Scream<\/a>, I at least caught a glimpse of what the 24-hour party people were up to. This 1989 single stretches to almost 10 minutes, and I could groove on it for twice as long. No fooling.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n7. The Main Ingredient: \u201cEverybody Plays the Fool\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
8. Candi Staton: \u201cI\u2019d Rather Be an Old Man\u2019s Sweetheart (Than a Young Man\u2019s Fool)\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
9. Isis: \u201cApril Fool\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
10. Bow Wow Wow: \u201cFools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
11. The Stone Roses: \u201cFools Gold\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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