OT: Classic Music Playlist

[GASabresIUFAN]

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’Riley
9) 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.

Edited January 18, 2018 by Georgia Flakt

[LGR4GM]

Kashmir and Baba O'Reilly would make my list.

[WildCard]

Genesis - Invisible Touch

 

The Beatles - In My Life

 

Led Zeppelin - 10 Years Gone / What Is and What Should Never Be

 

I still think the greatest song ever recorded is Beast of Burden, and IMO this list can't be remotely complete without Queen and The Clash

 

Never really liked Kashmir 

Edited January 16, 2018 by Jokertecken

[GASabresIUFAN]

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody?

Clash - London Calling?

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody?

Clash - London Calling?

 

Correct.

[WildCard]

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody?

Clash - London Calling?

Correct.

Shame on you, NS

 

Queen - Somebody to Love

Clash - Train in Vain 

[Doohicksie]

Some suggestions

12) Queen - '39
13) The Clash - Rock the Casbah
14) Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
15) The Kinks - Lola
16) Jethro Tull - Aqualung
17) Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
18) The Doors - The End
20) Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
21) The Police - Synchronicity or Roxanne
22) Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
23) Billy Joel - James
28) Rush - YYZ
29) Yes - Seen All Good People
30) AC/DC - Thunderstruck
31) Alice Cooper -School’s Out
33) Peter Gabriel - Sledge Hammer
37) CCR - Born on the Bayou
38) ELP - Still, You Turn Me On
39) Crosby Stills and Nash - Helpless
40) Allman Brothers - Jessica
41) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Ooh That Smell
45) Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
46) DAVID BOWIE - Fame (or possibly Under Pressure, which needs to be on the list somewhere)
47) Styx - Sweet Mademoiselle
48) Supertramp - School, Bloody Well Right, Fool's Overture
50) Red Hot Chili Peppers - City of Angels

Another Genesis recommendation: Your Own Special Way

Edited January 16, 2018 by Anordning

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Shame on you, NS

 

Queen - Somebody to Love

Clash - Train in Vain 

 

The lists, for both, are endless.

 

My playlist would include everything by The Clash and Queen on an endless loop. 

[GASabresIUFAN]

Shame on you, NS

 

Queen - Somebody to Love

Clash - Train in Vain

 

Now y’all know why I started thus thread. It’s really hard to choose just one. I like Somebody to Love also. I saw the Clash w the Who at Rich Stadium years - London Calling is still my favorite.

Some suggestions

12) Queen - '39

13) The Clash - Rock the Casbah

14) Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil

15) The Kinks - Lola

16) Jethro Tull - Aqualung

17) Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well

18) The Doors - The End

20) Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

21) The Police - Synchronicity or Roxanne

22) Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

23) Billy Joel - James

28) Rush - YYZ

29) Yes - Seen All Good People

30) AC/DC - Thunderstruck

31) Alice Cooper -School’s Out

33) Peter Gabriel - Sledge Hammer

37) CCR - Born on the Bayou

38) ELP - Still, You Turn Me On

39) Crosby Stills and Nash - Helpless

40) Allman Brothers - Jessica

41) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Ooh That Smell

45) Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

46) DAVID BOWIE - Fame (or possibly Under Pressure, which needs to be on the list somewhere)

47) Styx - Sweet Mademoiselle

48) Supertramp - School, Bloody Well Right, Fool's Overture

50) Red Hot Chili Peppers - City of Angels

Another Genesis recommendation: Your Own Special Way

Great to see another true Supertramp fan. Crime of the Century and Even in the Quietest Moments are 2 of my all time favorite albums. School is definitely the choice. I’m also with you on Sympathy for the Devil, Aqualung and Roxanne.

 

Suffergette City is my favorite Bowie song, but I’m leaning toward Changes or China Girl for the playlist.

Edited January 16, 2018 by Georgia Flakt

[Doohicksie]

Great to see another true Supertramp fan. Crime of the Century and Even in the Quietest Moments are 2 of my all time favorite albums. School is definitely the choice. I’m also with you on Sympathy for the Devil, Aqualung and Roxanne.

 

I suspect you've seen this then?  Utterly amazing.

 

Or... you could go right off the reservation and pick something from Crisis?  What Crisis? for Supertramp.

Edited January 16, 2018 by Anordning

[LGR4GM]

Bowie and Freddie: Under Pressure. 

Boston: More than Feeling

CCR: Looking out my backdoor

Skynard: Simple man

Edited January 16, 2018 by SkuggaLiger

[GASabresIUFAN]

They still are amazing. Saw then the Breakfast in America tour and againon Brother Where You Bound tour. Dreamer’s not a bad choice either.

 

Obviously U and I have similar music taste.

 

Just saw Edgar Winter, Alice Cooper and Deep Purple together. Cooper is a great showman. He has an amazing lady guitarist in his band.

[MattPie]

I was all excited because I've been listening to a ton of classicAL (and Romantic era) music lately. There's so much good stuff out there on youtube it's incredible. Here's a good one.

[Doohicksie]

Deep Purple was an early favorite of mine.  Lazy from the Made in Japan album is one of my favorite songs.  (The studio version on Machine Head is good, but I like the live version better.)

[GASabresIUFAN]

I was all excited because I've been listening to a ton of classicAL (and Romantic era) music lately. There's so much good stuff out there on youtube it's incredible. Here's a good one.

I like classical as well. My favorite is Aram Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

It's Freddie!!

 

Dag nab it!!

 

:flirt:  ;)

[LGR4GM]

It's Freddie!!

 

Dag nab it!!

 

:flirt:  ;)

You are right, my bad.  :blush:

[GASabresIUFAN]

I suspect you've seen this then? Utterly amazing.

 

Or... you could go right off the reservation and pick something from Crisis? What Crisis? for Supertramp.

That’s a little to far off the reservation.

 

The video is a great example of why the Rock Hall in Cleveland simply doesn’t understand the great musicians and orchestrations in all the Progressive Rock bands and their music. When you can take a rock song and it sounds amazing with an orchestra, you have something special.

Edited January 16, 2018 by Georgia Flakt

[SDS]

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

6) Led Zeppelin (A) - Kashmir

7) Led Zeppelin (B) - Whole Lotta Love

 

 

If anyone is interested in seeing some of the other playlists let me know.

 

So, being an extreme Zep fan since middle school I recognize the band has many hits and deep cuts. The one song I can put on repeat and play 5x in a row is Battle of Evermore. It isn't their biggest hit be a country mile, but the song has everything you would want to remember the band for.

[SDS]

Blondie - Call Me

 

No question.

[Doohicksie]

That’s a little to far off the reservation.

 

The video is a great example of why the Rock Hall in Cleveland simply doesn’t understand the great musicians and orchestrations in all the Progressive Rock bands and their music. When you can take a rock song and it sounds amazing with an orchestra, you have something special.

 

I pull up old Genesis and Yes and ELP albums on Youtube once in a while and musically they are just so full and interesting.  I'm not musically trained, but there's so much to absorb and consider in the music alone, even without the lyrics.  Back in the olden days.....

So, being an extreme Zep fan since middle school I recognize the band has many hits and deep cuts. The one song I can put on repeat and play 5x in a row is Battle of Evermore. It isn't their biggest hit be a country mile, but the song has everything you would want to remember the band for.

 

In My Time of Dying is amazing too.

The thing that really pisses me off about SiriusXM is how they pick a playlist from an artist- typically 2-6 of their biggest songs- and play those songs and NO OTHERS.  You get tired of the artist's best stuff and never get to hear other songs that weren't as popular.

Edited January 16, 2018 by Anordning

[GASabresIUFAN]

Try Deep Tracks channel 27

[Doohicksie]

Yeah, that never satisfies either.  It's like they either play all the hits or they play the songs from popular artists that never got any airplay at all.  Seems like there's no in between.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

I may be banned for this, but the only Zep I really like is from their first (hard core blues) album.

 

:angel:

[Drunkard]

Just type Ash vs Evil Dead soundtrack into youtube or google and all kinds of awesome classic rock songs will be there.

 

Space Trucking

End of the Line

Journey to the center of your mind

Highway star

Vehicle

Knife edge

Is it my body

Go to Hell

 

Several dozen others, most of which span from decent to awesome.

 

https://www.tunefind.com/show/ash-vs-evil-dead/season-1/26959#songs

Edited January 17, 2018 by Alkoholist