OT: Classic Music Playlist
I have a very extensive music collection and I tend to build playlists from the Library to discover lost tracks or simply to have some fun. I’ve done New Wave, British Invasion, Ladies Names, One Word Titles, Colors, Funk It Up and even Days of the Week. I’m now building a best of the best rock/pop playlist. My goal is to choose 1 song from most of the best bands/artists from the 60s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s with a couple of other great songs thrown in from lesser acts.
For example:
Hotel California is my favorite song from the Eagles. However, I’m having a terrible time choosing just one song from the Beatles, the Who and Led Zeppelin. I broke down and choose two songs from Genesis; one with Peter Gabriel (Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) and one from Phil Collins (Follow You, Follow Me), because they have such different sounds.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’d love to see suggestions for bands/artists songs. My goal would be to get to about 200-250 songs. Should I make some polls?
1) Eagles - Hotel California
2) Genesis (PG)- Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
3) Genesis (PC) - Follow You, Follow Me
4) Beatles (A) - A Day in the Life
5) Beatles (B) - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (I'm classifying this as George Harrison)6) Led Zeppelin (A) - Kashmir
7) Led Zeppelin (B) - Immigrant Song
8) The Who (A) - Baba O’Riley9) The Who (B) - My Generation
10) Clapton - Cocaine
11) Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
12) Queen - Somebody to Love
13) The Clash - London Calling
14) Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
15) The Kinks - Lola? You Really Got Me?
16) Jethro Tull - Aqualung
17) Fleetwood Mac - The Chain?
18) The Doors - the End? Light My Fire?
19) Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower? Purple Haze?
20) Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run? Thunder road?
21) The Police - Roxanne
22) Dire Straits - Sultan of Swing?
23) Billy Joel - Piano Man?
24) Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road? Funeral for a Friend?
25) Heart - Barracuda? Magic Man?
26) REM - Losing My Religion, Orange Crush, End of the World, Man on the Moon?
27) U2 - One? I Still Haven’t Found? Sunday Bloody Sunday?
28) Rush - Tom Sawyer
29) Yes - Roundabout, Seen All Good People? Close to the Edge?
30) AC/DC - Highway to Hell
31) Alice Cooper -School’s Out
32) Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart?
33) Peter Gabriel - Sledge Hammer? Solsbury Hill? Games Without Frontiers?
34) Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
35) Phil Collins - I Don't Care Anymore?
36) Michael Jackson - Billie Jean?
37) CCR - Fortunate Son?
38) ELP - Karn Evil 9, Still You Turn Me On?
39) Crosby Stills and Nash - Suite Judy Blue Eyes?
40) Allman Brothers - Midnight Rider?
41) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama?
42) Santana - Black Magic Women
43) Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son, Dust in the Wind?
44) Earth Wind and Fire - September?
45) Neil Young - Ohio?
46) DAVID BOWIE - Suffergette City
47) Styx - Renegade? Come Sail Away, Blue Collar Man, Fooling Yourself?
48) Supertramp - School
49) Nirvana - Come As You Are
50) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge?
51) Pearl Jam - Daughter? Jeremy?
52) Goo Goo Dolls - Name? Iris?
53) Queen/Bowie Duet - Under Pressure
54) Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin? China Grove?
55) jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit?
56) Boston - More than a Feeling?
57) ZZ Top
58) Bob Segar - Night Moves?
59) Joe Cocker - Feelin Alright? Letter?
60) Steve Winwood - While You See a Chance, Arc of a Diver, Higher Love, Back in the High Life?
61) Traffic - Feelin' Alright?
62) Pink Floyd - Money?
63) Van Halen - Runnin With the Devil, And the Cradle Will Rock?
64) Tom Petty - Runnin' Down a Dream, Mary Jane's Last Dance, Learning to Fly, I Won't Back Down, Refugee, Don't Do Me Like That, Don't Come Around Here No More?
65) The Cars - Just What I Needed?
66) Bob Marley - Exodus?
67) Blondie - Call Me
68) Journey - Don't Stop Believin'?
69) Foreigner - Juke Box Hero?
70) Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock?
71) Elvis Costello - Alison (although I love the song Veronica as well)
72) Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue?
73) Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
74) ELO - Livin' Thing
75) Talking Heads - Psycho Killer, Burning Down the House, Take Me to the River, Girlfriend is Better, Once in A Lifetime, And She Was?
76) Prince - 1999? Little Red Corvette?
77) The Pretenders - Brass in My Pocket, Mystery Achievement?
78) Aerosmith - Dream on
79) RunDMC/Aerosmith - Walk This Way
80) Madonna - Like A Prayer?
81) Metallica -
82) Black Sabbath -
83) Def Leppard - Photograph?
84) Bon Jovi (should he be banned?)
85) Kiss
86) Creed - With Arms Wide Open?
87) Dave Matthews - Ant Marching?
88) Steve Miller -
89) Rod Stewart - Maggie May? Every Picture Tells A Story?
90) Guns N Roses -
91) Simon and Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson, America, Homeward Bound, Bridge over Troubled Water, the Boxer?
92) Duran Duran - A View To A Kill?
93) Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water?
94) Paul McCartney - Live and Let Die?
95) Don McLean - American Pie
96) Tears For Fears -Everybody Wants to Rule the World
97) Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus, Enjoy the Silence?
98) America - A Horse With No Name?
99) The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
100) Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin?
101) Bad Company - Bad Company?
102) B-52's ( I am from Georgia after all) - Love Shack?
103) The Beach Boys - God Only Knows?
104) Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself?
105) Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
106) Coldplay - Clocks?
107) The Guess Who - American Woman?
108) The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreaming?
109) Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson? One Week?
110) Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone? Tambourine Man?
111) Green Day - Blvd of Broken Dreams? American Idiot?
112) Boston - More Than A Feeling?
113) Collective Soul - Heavy?
114) The Cranberries - Linger?
115) Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
116) Jackson Browne - Running On Empty, LoadOut/Stay?
117) MatchBox 20 - 3AM?
118) Ozzy - Crazy Train?
119) Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open the Door?
120) No Doubt - Don't Speak (Thanks SDS)
121) Patti Smith - Because the Night (thanks JSB), I Like the 10000 Maniacs version as well.
122) Hootie & The Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You (Thanks UBkev)
123) 10,000 Maniacs - Candy Everybody Wants
124) Peter Frampton -
125) Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People? Thank You?
126) Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen, Reeling in the Years, Babylon SIsters?
127) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Crossfire? Pride and Joy?
128) Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline, Interstate Love Song, Plush?
129) Gerry Rafferty - Baker's Street (Thanks SDS - one of my favorite songs as a kid)
130) Huey Lewis - Power of Love?
131) Hall & Oates
132) Men at Work -
133) The Hollies - Bus Stop
134) Spencer Davis - Gimmie Some Lovin, I'm a Man
135) Donovan - Sunshine Superman
136) Bill Withers - Aint no Sunshine
137) The Band
138) Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul, For Your Love, Shapes of Things
139) Buffalo Springfield
140) Cat Stevens
141) Jim Croce
142) Cheap Trick
143) Tina Turner
144) James Taylor
145) Joan Jett
146) John Mellencamp
147) Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
148) Dave Clark Five
149) Herman Hermits
150) Frankie Valli-
151) Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
152) Van Morrison
153) Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me,
154) Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
155) third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life, Jumper?
156) Faces/Small Faces
157) The Zombies - She's Not There, Time of the Season
158) Manfred Mann - Quinn the Eskimo, Do Wah Diddy, Blinded By the Light
159) Bee Gees - To Love Somebody, Staying Alive
160) The Animals - House of the Rising Sun, We Gotta Get Out of this Place, Don't Let me Be Misunderstood
161) Petula Clark - Downtown
162) Dusty Springfield - I Only Want to be With You, Wishin and Hopin
163) Aretha Franklin - Respect
164) The Righteous Brothers - You Lost that Loving Feeling
165) Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
166) Mott The Hoople - All the Young Dudes
If anyone is interested in seeing some of the other playlists let me know.