Not a draft, just interested in what you like, and from when. Pick 20 songs from any single genre (the genre is whatever you say it is, and can be tied to the song or the artist. Example: if I chose 70s country, I'd list Lyin' Eyes because I consider it a country song regardless of the Eagles' lack of a pedigree) and any single decade, and put 'em up. Feel free to list alternates if you're on the fence. Doesn't matter if someone else has listed it. If it's one of your faves, list it. Simple. I'll do mine later, because it isn't finished. EDIT: Feel free to list multiple genres and decades, but you gotta keep 'em sep-a-rated... as in 20 from 60s Rock, and then 20 from 80s R&B...
70s Pop/Rock Magic- Pilot Give Me Love, Give Me Peace on Earth- George Harrison Jackson 5- Maybe Tomorrow Stairway To Heaven- Zep Jackson 5- Got To Be There Jackson 5- I Want You Back Painted Ladies- Iain Thomas Day By Day- Godspell Money- Floyd Daniel- Elton John Imaginary Lover- ARS Listen To What The Man Says- McCartney & Wings Runaway- Jefferson Starship Photograph- Ringo Starr Every Kind of People- Robert Palmer Saturday In The Park- Chicago Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?- Chicago Fox On The Run- The Sweet I Can See Clearly Now- Johnny Nash Dream On- Aerosmith
The Birth of New Wave -- The 1970s (What's so Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding -- Elvis Costello Oliver's Army -- Elvis Costello Death or Glory -- The Clash It's Different for Girls -- Joe Jackson Is She Really Going Out with Him? -- Joe Jackson Video Killed the Radio Star -- The Buggles Just What I Needed -- The Cars Roxanne -- The Police I Got You -- Split Enz I Don't Like Mondays -- The Boomtown Rats (I Never Loved) Eva Braun -- The Boomtown Rats Generation X -- The Valley of the Dolls Changes -- David Bowie Cruel to be Kind -- Nick Lowe Electricity -- Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark Psycho Killer -- Talking Heads Rock Lobster -- The B 52s Pop Muzik -- M (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction -- Dev0 Friggin in the Riggin -- The Sex Pistols 80s New Wave is going to be a little harder... Of course, I could also just call Elvis a genre, that would make it a lot easier....
Alright, here's my 60's R&B/Soul, in roughly chronological order. Limited it to one per artist just to make it more interesting. James Brown: I'll Go Crazy Barrett Strong: Money (That's What I Want) Etta James: If I Can't Have You Ike & Tina Turner: It's Gonna Work Out Fine Wilson Pickett: I Found a Love Ben E. King: Stand By Me Aaron Neville: Wrong Number (I Am Sorry, Goodbye) Dee Dee Warwick: You're No Good Irma Thomas: Hittin' On Nothing Sam Cooke: Rome (Wasn't Built in a Day) Solomon Burke: You Can't Love 'Em All Don Covay: Everything Gonna Be Everything Barbara Lewis: Don't Forget About Me Stevie Wonder: Hey Love The Supremes: Reflections Otis Redding: Direct Me Little Milton: More and More Sam & Dave: I Thank You The Temptations: Cloud Nine Sly & the Family Stone: Sing a Simple Song
New Wave Rules the 80s Under Pressure -- Queen and David Bowie 68 Guns -- The Alarm Two Hearts Beat as One -- U2 One Country -- Midnight Oil Tonite -- The Go Gos Slow Song -- Joe Jackson Invisible Man -- Elvis Costello The Ghost in You -- The Psychedelic Furs The Whole of the Moon -- The Waterboys Salvation -- The Cranberries One of our Submarines is Missing -- Thomas Dolby Switch Into Glide/This Beat Goes On -- The Kings Don't Stand (S0 Close to Me) -- The Police I Melt with You -- Modern English Nice Legs (Shame About Your Face) -- The Monks Don't You Want Me? -- The Human League The Hurting -- Tears for Fears Vienna -- Ultravox Through Being Cool -- Devo Echo Beach -- Martha and the Muffins This was really hard. Picking "only" 20 songs for an entire decade... I've compiled this list about 3 times today and only the first 11 songs consistently made the list. And I've still neglected The Cure, REM, Depeche Mode, Flock of Seagulls, and Sinead O'Connor. Bah. Now I hate this list. Thanks for nothing, auria.
Thanks for the contribution! My list isn't necessarily a Desert Island 20, but it comes from songs I heard most on the radio that I really liked. It would be more than a decade before I started amassing any sort of real record collection. I could do another 20 from that genre easily (probably will) and those songs would be as meaningful to me as the list you see.
Oh yeah, mine's totally desert island. Was a little too unborn to hear any of them on the radio (and much of your list too, for that matter).
Top 20 1980's movie soundtrack power ballads that make you want to lift logs until you are ready to defeat your enemy, ordered by amount of power: Stan Bush - "You've Got the Touch" (Transformers: The Movie) Stan Bush - "Never Surrender" (Kickboxer) Kenny Loggins - "Danger Zone" (Top Gun) Tina Turner - "We Don't Need Another Hero" (Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome) Survivor - "Eye Of The Tiger" (Rocky II) Jon Bon Jovi - "Blaze Of Glory" (Young Guns II) Stan Bush - "Fight to Survive" (Bloodsport) Stan Bush - "Streets of Siam" (Kickboxer) Joe Esposito - "You're The Best Around" (Karate Kid) Stan Bush - "On My Own" (Bloodsport) Survivor - "Burning Heart" (Rocky IV) John Farnham - "Thunder In Your Heart" (RAD) John Parr - "Restless Heart" (Running Man) John Cafferty - "Heart's on Fire" (Rocky IV) King Kobra - "Iron Eagle (Never Say Die)" (Iron Eagle) Tim Feehan - "Where's The Fire" (The Wraith) Cheap Trick - "Mighty Wings" (Top Gun) Robert Tepper - "No Easy Way Out" (Rocky IV) Power Station - "We Fight for Love" (Commando) Robert Tepper - "Angel Of The City" (Cobra) And no, I don't care that "Blaze of Glory" is from 1990. I'm lifting so many logs I can't hear you. edit: fix quotes
Here you go, a list you probably did not expect: songs I like from the 1970s because my Mom listened to KWIZ (easy listening/adult contemporary) and so I did, too, and I grew to like them. In no particular order: Little River Band - Reminiscing Neil Diamond - Forever in Bluejeans John Denver - Rocky Mountain High Paul Simon - Loves Me Like A Rock Lou Rawls - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine BJ Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (I know it came out in 1969 but I learned it on KWIZ) Tony Orlando and Dawn - Tie a Yellow Ribbon (Round the Old Oak Tree) Captain and Tenille - Love Will Keep Us Together Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street The Carpenters - Top of the World John Paul Young - Love Is In the Air Marcin Hamlisch - The Entertainer Al Stewart - Time Passages Barry Manilow - I Write the Songs Stevie Wonder - Sunshine of My Life Kenny Rogers - The Gambler Three Dog Night - An Old Fashioned Love Song Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken Dave Loggins - Please Come to Boston Diana Ross - Do You Know Where You're Going To * KWIZ later became a Vietnamese language station. Checking up on Wikipedia, I see it later went to a lease-time station (Renegade Radio) and now to Ranchera music. * I started high school in 1979 with the least-cool playlist imaginable. Good news: I had lots of music to discover and I enjoyed doing so.
That could have been the same radio station that my grandparents listened to. I spent the summer of 77 with them and my memory of songs overlaps greatly, with perhaps a dash of Michael Murphy's Wildfire and more than a dash of Dionne Warwick. A lot of Dionne Warwick. I hate Reminiscing and Baker Street with a fiery passion. The latter came on in our supermarket and I left mid trip because I just couldn't take the song. I'd break like crystal if either of those two songs were playing in the interrogation room...
It's funny, but if I were making a New Wave list or a 70's singer-songwriter list it wouldn't share a single song with the above lists (except probably "Morning Has Broken").
70s Slow Jams Reasons- EWF That's The Way Of The World- EWF Love Won't Let Me Wait- Major Harris Touch And Go- Clarke/Duke Project Sara Smile- Hall & Oates Holding On To Yesterday- Ambrosia My Love- McCartney & Wings For The Love Of You- Isley Brothers Voyage To Atlantis- Isley Brothers Why Have I Lost You- Cameo Zoom- The Commodores Sweet Love- The Commodores Happy Feelings- Maze feat. Frankie Beverly I Can't Help It- Michael Jackson Creepin'- Stevie Wonder Make A Smile For Me- Bill Withers Take It To The Limit- The Eagles (Yes, I have swayed about the floor with a woman in my arms to this tune) How Much I Feel- Ambrosia If You Leave Me Now- Chicago Valentine Love- Michael Henderson (solo album)
BIG props for the bolded, with those instrumental solos! (sorry, @Val1 I like those tunes a lot) 1970s music wasn't about cool, for the most part. It's about your feelings, maybe more so than any other decade in recent memory. I would have subbed Year Of The Cat for Time Passages, tho. More 70s radio Pop Lotta Love- Nicolette Larson Reflections Of My Life- The Marmalade Sara- Fleetwood Mac Pretty Lady- Lighthouse Do It Again- Steely Dan The Circle Is Small- Gordon Lightfoot Rikki Don't Lose That Number- Steely Dan More Than A Feeling- Boston Sweet City Woman- The Stampeders Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing- Stevie Wonder It's Too Late- Carole King It's Too Late (To Turn Back Now)- Cornelius Bros. & Sister Rose Diamond Girl- Seals & Crofts A Horse With No Name- America I'm Not In Love- 10cc Pilot Of The Airwaves- Charlie Dore Living For The City- Stevie Wonder That's The Way... It Should Be- Carly Simon My Cherie Amour- Stevie Wonder I Never Cry- Alice Cooper
Please remove (in your imaginations) "More Than A Feeling" and replace it with "Romeo's Tune" by Steve Forbert
70's (mostly late) Pre-Punk (had to include Roadrunner)/Punk/New Wave/Ska Revival took way too long to cull this list Roadrunner - The Modern Lovers (1973/1976) Piss Factory - Patti Smith (1974) I'm So Bored with the U.S.A. - The Clash (1977) Sonic Reducer - The Dead Boys (1977) Venus - Television (1977) Hiroshima Mon Amour - Ultravox (1977) Ever Fallen in Love? - Buzzcocks (1978) (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea - Elvis Costello (1978) Jocko Homo - Devo (1978) Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam (1978) Homicide - 999 (1978) 30 Seconds Over Tokyo - Pere Ubu (1978) 12XU - Wire (1978) Oh Bondage, Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex (1978) 52 Girls - The B52s (1979) At Home He's a Tourist - Gang of Four (1979) Is She Really Going out with Him? - Joe Jackson (1979) Concrete Jungle - The Specials (1979) Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers (1979) Life During Wartime - Talking Heads (1979)
80's (early) Punk/New Wave/Ska Revival Contort Yourself - James Chance & the Contortions (1980??) Strychnine - The Cramps (1980) Mirror in the Bathroom - The English Beat (1980) Tell That Girl to Shut Up - Holly & the Italians (1980) What Does Sex Mean to Me? - Human Sexual Response (1980) When Things Go Wrong - Robin Lane & the Chartbusters (1980) Echo Beach - Martha & the Muffins (1980?) Precious - Pretenders (1980) The Return of Jackie and Judy - Ramones (1980) Christine - Siouxsie and the Banshees (1980) Johny Hit and Run Pauline - X (1980) That's When I Reach for My Revolver - Mission of Burma (1981) O Superman (For Massenet) - Laurie Anderson (1982) She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby (1982) Our House - Madness (1982) Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag - Pigbag (1982) I Know What Boys Like - The Waitresses (1982) Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo (1982) A New England - Billy Bragg (1983) Sunday Bloddy Sunday - U2 (1983)
Best 20 songs from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel during the 1997-2006 decade, ordered in likelihood the singer is a vampire. (Asterisk indicates a song from Angel.) James Marsters - "Rest In Peace" (from Once More, With Feeling) Rasputina - "Transylvanian Concubine" Cibo Matto - "Sugar Water" Bif Naked - "Lucky" VAST - "Touched" * Christian Kane - "LA Song" * Virgil - "Vermillion Borders" Angie Hart - "Blue" Michelle Branch - "Goodbye To You" The Sundays - "Wild Horses" Kim Richey - "A Place Called Home" * Patty Medina - "Still Life" Aberdeen - "Sink or Float" Alison Krauss - "That Kind of Love" Andy Hallett - "It's Not Easy Being Green" * Amber Benson - "Under Your Spell" (from Once More, With Feeling) Anthony Stewart Head - "Behind Blue Eyes" Anthony Stewart Head - "Standing" (from Once More, With Feeling) Anthony Stewart Head - "Free Bird" Aimee Mann - "Pavlov's Bell"
70s R&B, Vol 1 Theme from Shaft- Isaac Hayes Dazz- Brick Use Me- Bill Withers Get Down Tonight- KC and The Sunshine Band Still In Love With You- Al Green Mercy, Mercy Me- Marvin Gaye Living For The City- Stevie Wonder Flashlight- Parliament One Nation Under A Groove- Parliament L-O-V-E U- Brass Construction Get Off- Foxy Grooveline- Heatwave It's a Shame- The Spinners Roller Coaster- Ohio Players My Cherie Amour- Stevie Wonder Theme from Claudine- Curtis Mayfield Sing A Song- EWF Respect Yourself- Staples Singers Slide- Slave
Beat me to it But here goes anyway 70’ Soul and R&B: Spinners- Could It Be I’m Falling In Love Spinners- A Mighty Love Supremes- Stoned Love Curtis Mayfield- Get Down Blue Magic- Sideshow Stylistics- Betcha By Golly Wow Kool And The Gang- Jungle Boogie Sly Stone- Family Affair Main Ingredient- Everybody Plays The Fool James Brown- Get Up Offa That Thing Average White Band- A Love of Your Own Al Green- I’m So Tired Of Being Alone Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes- Bad Luck Temptations- Papa Was A Rollin Stone The Five Stairsteps- Ooh Ooh Child Marvin Gaye- Got To Give It Up Earth Wind and Fire- Serpentine Fire Rose Royce- Car Wash Manhattans- Let’s Just Kiss and Say Goodbye O’Jays- Back Stabbers
No, no! You're supposed to make as many as you want, even include other picks if you think it would make a good compilation. That's a great list, BTW. 70s R&B, Vol 2 Young, Gifted And Black- Aretha Franklin You Don't Know What It's Like (To Love Somebody)- Roberta Flack Show And Tell- Al Wilson Free- Deniece Williams Summer Madness- Kool & The Gang Too High- Stevie Wonder Flower- Emotions If You Want Me To Stay- Sly & The Family Stone Day Dreaming- Aretha Franklin The Boss- James Brown Dukey Stick- George Duke Rainy Night In Georgia- Brook Benton Pick Up The Pieces- AWB Smiling Faces- The Undisputed Truth By The Time I Get To Phoenix- Isaac Hayes Have You Seen Her- Chi-Lites Float On- The Floaters My Love Is Alive- Gary Wright Mary Jane- Rick James What You Gonna Do- Pablo Cruise