“Hold On” has to be the most generic, bland and over-used song title. Pretty much everyone who makes more than five albums has a song called this (slight exaggeration). If you search on Apple Music or Spotify there are hundreds of them. Many of the usual suspects for generic blandness turn up – Razorlight, Take That, Richard Ashcroft…
Artists that I really like have done a terribly bland song of this title… Steve Winwood, Los Lobos (hard to distinguish).
What is it about this title?
Any good ones?
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Darn tootin’ there has – One of Tom’s best:
John Lennon
My first thought. Beautiful song.
Ian Gomm (Doesn’t sound much like his old mate from the Brinsleys, Nick Lowe, does it?)
Wilson Phillips
Oh, and Spiritualized.
Seconded. At one point, Chyna Phillips was earmarked as a future wife. We were to be married.
Sam Cooke.
https://youtu.be/EnMvFB1C0yg
Kansas, Triumph, The Osmonds… relax…I’m not going to post the videos.
What about The Yes? Here’s a live video with the much-missed Chris Squire.
Sure, the Purps – Dave and Glenn in full soul boy mode and a tricksy melodic solo from Ritchie ….
Alabama Shakes, of course!
Best one so far…
Possibly stretching the terms of the OP…
Okay. You asked for it. Nay @Twang DEMANDED I post it.
https://youtu.be/T_C5s7wXmn0
He’s playing a doubleneck version of my first “good” electric guitar – an Ibanez Artist. The single neck weighs a ton do he must be a study guy.
And more recently
Waiting for Jim or Bingo to post ver Bizkit…
Playing Devils Advocate a bit… Most of these songs aren’t particularly great, surely? Even the Waits one has a bland chorus, and the Alabama Shakes is a great groove but not much of a song… and Lennon is just polishing his knob!
That’s fighting talk. Ian Gomm’s song is bloody brilliant.
Don’t call me Shirley.
Have a foreign language version.
OK you win. I met Ian once and he’s a very nice man, too.
Yes
Hot Chip. None of your “I really luurve you let’s stay together” nonsense you might expect from the title, just a standard dancefloor banger.
Badfinger
Featuring Tony Kaye – he must like this title because he is in The Yes clip above
I’m not the world’s biggest Lou Reed fan, but I do like “Hold On” from “New York”. It’s my favourite song on that album.
I am a big Lou fan and yes that is an excellent song.
Seven hours later, and still no mention of this monster tune from En Vogue:
I was waiting to see who would post it. Great record!
Good one.
I’ll admit I’ve got my tenses mixed up, but here’s a Northern Soul classic. What a tune – I’ve danced to it many times.
That’s a cracking number!
I used to have it on an old Kent compilation LP called “Footstompers” that I foolishly got rid of decades ago.
So good, she named it twice…Neko Case, “Hold On, Hold On”:
Nice one.
From 1966 on Stax, it’s Sam & Dave with Hold On (I’m Comin’)
well done JC
One of the great soul songs – nuthin bland about dat.
If we’re allowing extended versions of the title, it’s a completely different story. That’s one of the best records ever.
Excellent, would have been my choice too. A corker.
The band there is of course Booker T & the MGs with the great Steve Cropper on guitar. Also present are Isaac Hayes on organ and Don Nix on sax.
Don Nix later wrote what became a heavy rock standard Going Down covered by every band in the world since 1969. Along with Leon Russell, Nix also helped George Harrison organise The Concert For Bangla Desh.
Fontella Bass with the very funky Hold On This Time:
Love it!
Sharon Tandy backed by the gutsy Fleur De Leys on this Northern Soul/ Mod thing.
How ’bout this
Not one of his best albums -but still a good song
Another good one….
Cheating here but great song
Do instrumentals count?
Funky ones, that is?
(G. Davis & R. Tyler – Hold On, Help Is On The Way)
At the risk of eternal banishment from this site, I’m going to confess that I rather like the below.
Don’t worry – there are at least two more of us. You are amongst friends. (see above).
Ah sorry, missed that! Cracking harmonies, aren’t they?
Lovely. It’s the sort of song that you can’t help warbling along to at the top of your voice, so there is generally a beautiful fourth harmony going on whenever it comes on anywhere near me.
Peter Skellern (a surname that probably has to be double-checked even by the man himself) had this rather fine effort…
I keep coming back to this thread with a desire to post “The Only Way Is Up” as the “hold on” bit is better than the actual “only way is up” bit…….
The only way is OOOOOP!
Much better than Lisa Stansfield/Coldcut’s People Hold On:
People hold on
You’ve got to be strong
…good point Stan!