Great thing about the internet: you get to find out that others out there love Echo Beach. It's been almost 35 years since I met someone who loves that song.
Top 20 musics I got for free from Amazon in the last decade, in order of how many delegates they have for the Presidential nomination of the Republican Party: Hayley Reardon - "Permanent Marker Promise" Delta Rae - "Bottom Of The River" Kathryn Calder - "Turn a Light On" Amy Stroup - "Love You Strongly" The Heavy Circles - "Henri" Zee Avi - "Bitter Heart" Dutch - "Just Before The Rain" Old Feeling - "Dream" Barnaby Bright - "Gravity" Barnaby Bright - "Yellow Moon" Barnaby Bright - "Reverend's Son" Barnaby Bright - "Castle Rock" Great Peacock - "Making Ghosts" Ghani Mohammed - "Shirdi Wale Sai Baba Jaan Sake Na Koi" Karo - "The Great Depression" The Sadies - "The Trial" The Tomorrow Song Project - "Tomorrow Song ~Male Original Version~" 6 Year Olds - "Rock Seiji" Allie Moss - "Late Bloomer" Niyaz - "Ishq - Love and the Veil" Yeah, I really like Barnaby Bright. If it's still free, I link it.
80s Heavy Metal in no particular order. Rock you Like a Hurricane - Scorpions Hallowed be thy Name - Iron Maiden Ace of Spades - Motörhead Master of Puppets - Metallica Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne Hot for Teacher - Van Halen Here I go Again - Whitesnake Peace Sells - Megadeth Foolin' - Def Leppard Indians - Anthrax Back in Black - AC/DC Angel of Death - Slayer I don't Believe in Love - Queensryche Nobody's Fool - Cinderella If I Close my Eyes Forever - Lita Ford & Ozzy Osbourne Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses The Cult of Personality - Living Colour Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath Alone Again - Dokken
80’s hip hop Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five -The Message Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel - White Lines Fearless Four –Rockin It Run DMC –Sucker MC’s Whodini –Five Minutes of Funk Afrika Bambatta-Planet Rock Melle Mel – Beat Street Breakdown Fearless Four- Problems of The World Public Enemy –Night of the Living Baseheads EPMD- You Gots To Chill De La Soul-Say No Go Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick-The Show Slick Rick-La Di Da Di UTFO-Roxanne Roxanne Eric B and Rakim-Follow the Leader Big Daddy Kane-Ain’t No Half Steppin LL Cool J – Rock the Bells Malcolm McLaren’s Supreme Team-World’s Famous Boogie Down Productions-My Philosophy Davy DMX-One For the Treble
Thanks Ismitje, I can't tell you the last time I saw a list of twenty songs where I actually knew all of them - not necessarily like them, but knew them. But oh how I love me some Al Stewart. I think I, alone, kept his career going for a while.
50's Jazz- Yellow Dog Blues-- Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band Blue Sands-- The Chico Hamilton Quintet A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square-- Anita O'Day Bye Bye Blackbird--Miles Davis I'm An Old Cowhand From The Rio Grande-- Sonny Rollins Way Out West-- Sonny Rollins Blue Monk-- Thelonious Monk Loose Walk-- Sonny Stitt and Sal Salvatore Sweet Georgia Brown-- Anita O'Day The Ghost-- The Chico Hamilton Quintet So What-- Miles Davis Blue In Green-- Miles Davis Strange Meadowlark-- Dave Brubeck Kathy's Waltz-- Dave Bruback Epistrophy-- Thelonious Monk Trombone Rag-- Turk Murphy Body And Soul-- Stephane Grappelli It's A Raggy Waltz-- Dave Brubeck Blues for Daryl-- Teddy Wilson Let's Fall In Love-- Stan Getz and Jerry Mulligan
50's Rock'n'Roll-- 30 Days-- Chuck Berry Too Much Monkey Business-- Chuck Berry Keep A'Knockin'-- Little Richard Blue Days, Black Nights-- Buddy Holly Midnight Shift-- Buddy Holly Ubangi Stomp-- Jerry Lee Lewis Sugarbee-- Cleveland Crochet Work With Me Annie-- Hank Ballard and the Midnighters My Real Gone Rocket-- Jackie Brenston Big River-- Johnny Cash Right String Baby, Wrong YoYo-- Carl Perkins Money Honey-- Elvis Presley Let's Have A Party-- Wanda Jackson Skull and Crossbones-- Sparkle Moore Baby What You Want Me To Do-- Jimmy Reed Pine Grove Blues-- Nathan Abshire Who Do You Love-- Bo Diddley Roll'em Pete-- Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson Summertime Blues-- Eddie Cochran Something Else-- Eddie Cochran
Nice list, inspired me to try my own 50's R&R, got a couple in common and a couple others were close: Smiley Lewis: The Bells Are Ringing Big Joe Turner: Honey Hush Fats Domino: Please Don't Leave Me Jackie Brenston: In My Real Gone Rocket The Coasters: Framed Elvis Presley: You're a Heartbreaker Bo Diddley: Pretty Thing Johnny Horton: I'm Coming Home Richard Berry: Louie Louie Little Richard: Slippin' and Slidin' Lloyd Price: I'm Glad, Glad Gene Vincent: Woman Love Carl Perkins: You Can Do No Wrong Dale Hawkins: Susie Q Jerry Lee Lewis: It'll Be Me Ricky Nelson: Stood Up Chuck Berry: Around and Around Eddie Cochran: Somethin' Else Buddy Holly: Well...All Right Phil Phillips & the Twilights: Sea of Love
Great work by both of you... I think I might know seven songs off both these, but the 50s is not my field of familiarity. Gives me something to check out in the future.
60's (1961-1970) Rock Off-tracks (i.e non-hits) The Band-- "Sleeping" The Beatles-- "I Want To Tell You" Big Brother and the Holding Company-- "Turtle Blues" Blood Sweat and Tears-- "I Love You (More Than You'll Ever Know)' Byrds-- "2-4-2 Foxtrot (The Lear Jet Song)" Country Joe and the Fish-- "Who Am I?" Fairport Convention--"Eastern Rain" Fanny-- "Conversation With A Cop" Jimi Hendrix-- "My Friend" Jefferson Airplane-- "rejoyce" Love-- "You Set the Scene" Steve Miller Band-- "Song For Our Ancestors" Van Morrison-- "Virgo Clowns" Quicksilver-- "Cobra" Rolling Stones-- "My Obsession" Soft Machine-- "Why Am I So Short?" Traffic--"Somebody's Cryin' To Be Heard" Velvet Underground and Nico-- "Sunday Morning" The Youngbloods-- "Quicksand" Frank Zappa-- "Road Ladies"
80s Pop (Omitting anything from Thriller, Synchronicity, 1999 and Purple Rain) Save A Prayer- Duran Duran Someday- Glass Tiger Cry- Godley & Creme Eye In The Sky- Alan Parsons Project Steppin' Out- Joe Jackson Something About You- Level 42 So Far Away- Dire Straits She Blinded Me With Science- Thomas Dolby Let's Dance- Bowie The Captain Of My Heart- Double Do You Really Want To Hurt Me- Culture Club Gypsy- Fleetwood Mac Diggin' Your Scene- The Blow Monkeys Coming Home- Peter Schilling They Don't Know- Tracey Ullman Trouble- Lindsey Buckingham Space Age Love Song- Flock Of Seagulls The Way It Is- Bruce Hornsby & The Range Wanted Dead Or Alive- Bon Jovi Draw Of The Cards- Kim Carnes I look at this list, and I feel (just a twinge of) shame for liking some of them, because they got so popular. I don't feel the same shame about the 70s popular stuff at all.
I assume you dropped 1960 to get one or two in from 1970 Still a decade. I thought about it with something a while back, but I've forgotten what it was.
The calendar doesn't start with the year 0; a decade should be from 1 to 10. Actually music seems to me historically to have tended to naturally divide from 4 to 13 or maybe 3-12, but...
"Her Heart." Talk about a one hit wonder-- the entire rest of their ouvre is crap IMO-- it is almost as though it really should have been from somebody else, Donald Fagan or Brian Ferry or Eno or...
Good ones do start from 0. And that's what people actually do. This is the year 2016, not the 2016'th year. Everyone celebrated New Year 2000, not New Year 2001. And my Time-Life Singers and Songwriters 11 CD set includes 1970, but not 1980.
I would take the position that, in lists like these, the third digits are the ones generally grouped together. It's along the same reason nobody celebrated the millennium on 1/1/01 but pedants and engineers. I don't quite see it that way, but I see where you're going. Maybe a change in instrumentation? There were huge changes that way during the late 70s and early 80s pop, but not so much in guitar-driven rock. You're right! I have the vinyl and haven't listened to any of the rest of it. Bought (like so many other albums I have and haven't listened to in their entirety) for a cassette complilation long ago. Wait- are you saying that Fagen and Ferry's solo output was bad, or that Double's music would have been done better by them? I have no clue about the latter, but I disagree with the former. Once an artist gives me something like IGY and New Frontier, and Slave To Love and Windswept, I'm good. I don't ask anymore of them.
No no-- I was saying that "Captain would almost make more sense if it had come from somebody with a higher quality average output...
OK. There was a song that came out in '71 that, to this day, I am shocked made it to AM radio. It reached #36 on the Billboard Charts. BloodRock - DOA The story behind this song: The motivation for writing this song was explained in 2005 by guitarist Lee Pickens. “When I was 17, I wanted to be an airline pilot,” Pickens said. “I had just gotten out of this airplane with a friend of mine, at this little airport, and I watched him take off. He went about 200 feet in the air, rolled and crashed.” The band decided to write a song around the incident and include it on their second album.
There've been some songs that referenced real-life tragedy in the past. The Edmund Fitzgerald, that Bee Gees song about the mine disaster, and Helter Skelter (which may not have made AM radio, can't recall hearing it) come to mind.
Oh yea. And Rupert Holmes' 'Timothy' (although not of a true event) was pretty gruesome for its time; but this song is just so ............ deliciously dark. EDIT: Ironically, 'Timothy', recorded by The Buoys, was also released in '71.
Helter Skelter didn't reference a real-life tradgedy. It was used (along with other White Album songs) to promote one.