OT: Classic Music Playlist

[GASabresIUFAN]

Lou Reed and James Taylor are both on the list.

[Doohicksie]

I'm just getting lazy now.  ;)

[Weave]

The Kinks tune needs to be The Destroyer.

[GASabresIUFAN]

The Kinks tune needs to be The Destroyer.

Like most great bands there are so many classic songs, it's nearly impossible to select just one.

 

Added

Kiss - Rock & Roll All Night

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth

Grateful Dead - Casey Jones

Grand Fun Railroad - We're An American Band - love this song

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet

Blood, Sweat and Tears - Spinning Wheel

Blink-182 - All the Small Things

Alice In Chains - Man In A Box

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

War - Low Rider

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

Simple Minds - Don't You (the 80's anthem?)

Edited January 19, 2018 by Georgia Flakt

[Tondas]

One add:

 

Three Dog Night - Eli's Comin'

[hsif]

Counting Crows - Hanginaround

Black Crowes - Remedy

[jsb]

Like most great bands there are so many classic songs, it's nearly impossible to select just one.

 

Added

Kiss - Rock & Roll All Night

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth

Grateful Dead - Casey Jones

Grand Fun Railroad - We're An American Band - love this song

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet

Blood, Sweat and Tears - Spinning Wheel

Blink-182 - All the Small Things

Alice In Chains - Man In A Box

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

War - Low Rider

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man

Simple Minds - Don't You (the 80's anthem?)

Disagree with GFR......... It's gotta be  "I'm your Captain-Closer to Home"

Also Grateful Dead......... Although that's a good choice "Truckin' " or "Hell in a Bucket" would be my choices

[SwampD]

What about some "local" favourites [sic]?

 

April Wine - I Like to Rock

Triumph - Lay It On The Line

Max Webster - Battle Scar.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

King Crimson needs to be ... Starless.  Amazing musicianship there.

NS would like to add all 25 minutes + of Tubular Bells.

[DarthEbriate]

I first read this list as a “forgotten tracks by the great artists” and I was all “wait, wait, wait, this list is all wrong. This list is hits.” The Beatles’ would then need an earlier- and later-phase song… like “I’ve Just Seen a Face” and “I’ve Got a Feeling”.

 

So I kind of split my notes as best of and forgotten. I offer up:

Tom Petty – American Girl

Talking Heads – Psycho Killer and Once in a Lifetime (from Stop Making Sense); or if you’re going forgotten The Great Curve or Born Under Punches (from The Name of This Band is Talking Heads) or The Big Country

Led Zeppelin – you’ve got it with Immigrant Song. But forgotten: Out on the Tiles

Prince – Purple Rain or Baby I’m a Star; forgotten: P Control

Dave Matthews Band – #41

Parliament – Flash Light; forgotten: Motor Booty Affair or Unfunky UFO

Funkadelic – One Nation Under a Groove; forgotten: Maggot Brain (live version on One Nation)

Kinks – you’ll need two; one from the early fuzz (You Really Got Me/All Day and All of the Night) and one from later

[GASabresIUFAN]

I first read this list as a “forgotten tracks by the great artists” and I was all “wait, wait, wait, this list is all wrong. This list is hits.” The Beatles’ would then need an earlier- and later-phase song… like “I’ve Just Seen a Face” and “I’ve Got a Feeling”.

 

So I kind of split my notes as best of and forgotten. I offer up:

Tom Petty – American Girl

Talking Heads – Psycho Killer and Once in a Lifetime (from Stop Making Sense); or if you’re going forgotten The Great Curve or Born Under Punches (from The Name of This Band is Talking Heads) or The Big Country

Led Zeppelin – you’ve got it with Immigrant Song. But forgotten: Out on the Tiles

Prince – Purple Rain or Baby I’m a Star; forgotten: P Control

Dave Matthews Band – #41

Parliament – Flash Light; forgotten: Motor Booty Affair or Unfunky UFO

Funkadelic – One Nation Under a Groove; forgotten: Maggot Brain (live version on One Nation)

Kinks – you’ll need two; one from the early fuzz (You Really Got Me/All Day and All of the Night) and one from later

The list is actually the best song by the best bands/artists from the 60-90s with a couple of other favorites thrown in.

The list is mostly rock/pop - metal, prog, hard, some soft, some folkish, with some R&B cross over like Aretha Franklin’s respect or September by Earth Wind and Fire. I’m building this list seperate from my Funk It Up playlist where bands like Parliament reside.

Edited January 19, 2018 by Georgia Flakt

[Taro T]

Here is the list so far on my computer - This is not written in stone.  This list also reflects my affection for 80's new wave, classic hard rock, prog rock and the British Invasion.  I'm not really a huge metal guy.  I've never liked Metallica.  

 

Artist Name

10,000 Maniacs - Candy Everybody Wants

A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)

ABBA - Dancing Queen

AC/DC - Back in Black                 

Aerosmith - Dream On

Al Green - Let's Stay Together

Alice Cooper - School's Out

America - A Horse With No Name

Aretha Franklin - Respect

Asia - Heat Of The Moment

Bad Company - Bad Company 

Barenaked Ladies -  One Week

Beck - Loser

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself

Billy Joel - Piano Man

Black Sabbath - Iron Man 

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home

Blondie - Call Me (Theme from "American Gigolo")

Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus

Bob Seger - Night Moves

Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer

Boston - More Than a Feeling

Britney Spears - Ooops! I Did It Again

Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

Bryan Adams - Summer of '69

Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue

Carly Simon - You're So Vain

Carole King - It's Too Late

Cat Stevens - Wild World

Cheap Trick - Surrender

Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4

Coldplay - Clocks

Collective Soul - Heavy

Cream - Sunshine of Your Love

Creed - With Arms Wide Open

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite Judy Blue Eyes

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes

Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching

David Bowie - Suffragette City

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

Def Leppard - Photograph

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence

Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus

Derek and The Dominos - Layla

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

Don McLean - American Pie

Donovan - Sunshine Superman

Duran Duran - A View To A Kill

Eagles - Hotel California

Earth Wind & Fire - September

Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing

Elton John - Rocket Man

Elvis Costello - Alison

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 First Impression Part 2

Eric Clapton - Cocaine

Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

Foghat - Slow Ride

Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

Foreigner - Juke Box Hero

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - 

Genesis (Phil Collins) - Follow You Follow Me

Genesis (Peter Gabriel) - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

Goo Goo Dolls - Slide

Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

Heart - Magic Man

Herman's Hermits - There's A Kind Of Hush All Over The World

Hootie & The Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You

Huey Lewis & The News - Power Of Love

Imagine Dragons - Radioactive

Jackson Browne - Running On Empty

James Taylor - Fire and Rain

Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock n' Roll

Joe Cocker - The Letter [Live]

Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?

John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane

Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now

Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son

Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine

Kenny Loggins - I'm Alright (Theme from Caddyshack)

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song

Lifehouse - Hanging by a Moment

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

Madness - Our House

Madonna - Like a Prayer

Maroon 5 - This Love

Matchbox Twenty - 3:00 AM

Meat Loaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now?

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Single Version)

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

Mike + The Mechanics - Silent Running

Modern English - I Melt With You

Morrissey - Suedehead

Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me

Neil Young - Ohio

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Nirvana - Come as You Are

No Doubt - Don't Speak

Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - So In Love

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

Pat Benatar - Love Is a Battlefield

Patti Smith - Because the Night

Paul McCartney - Live And Let Die

Paul Simon - Graceland

Pearl Jam - Daughter

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Phil Collins - I Don't Care Anymore

Pink Floyd - Money

Prince - 1999 (Edit)

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge

Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love

Rod Stewart - Maggie May

Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman

Run-D.M.C. - Walk This Way

Rush - Tom Sawyer

Santana - Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen

Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson

Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People

Soft Cell - Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go

Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin' ('67 Radio Version)

Steely Dan - Deacon Blues

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild

Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle

Steve Winwood - While You See a Chance

Stevie Nicks - Edge Of Seventeen

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Crossfire

Sting - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

Styx - Renegade

Supertramp - School

Talking Heads - Burning Down The House

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

The Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider

The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun

The B-52's - Love Shack

The Band - The Weight

The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

The Beatles - A Day In The Life

The Beatles (George Harrison) - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The Byrds - Eight Miles High

The Cars - Just What I Needed

The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia

The Church - Under The Milky Way

The Clash - London Calling

The Cranberries - Linger

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over

The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'

The Doors - Light My Fire

The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another

The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed

The Guess Who - American Woman

The Hollies - Bus Stop

The Kinks - You Really Got Me

The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer in the City

The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'

The Monkees - I'm A Believer

The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

The Motels - Only The Lonely

The Police - Roxanne

The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket

The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way

The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

The Troggs - Wild Thing

The Who - Baba O'Riley [Original Version]

The Zombies - She's Not There (Stereo Mix)

Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town

Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

Tom Petty (with Stevie Nicks) - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl

Traffic - Feelin' Alright

U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

Weezer - Buddy Holly

ZZ Top - La Grange

Apologies if you've already discounted any of these suggestions.

 

Should add:

 

Jeff Beck: Freeway Jam

Better Than Ezra: Good

Bic Runga: Sway

Blind Faith: Can't Find My Way Home

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians: What I Am

Bush: Everything Zen

The Jim Carroll Band: People Who Died

Candlebox: Far Behind

Bruce Cockburn: Call It Democracy

Damn Yankees: High Enough (Yes, the juxtaposition of Bruce Cockburn & Damn Yankees is for Doohickie and his fears of nominating a Terrible Ted song. ;))

Cracker: Teen Angst

Covington Paige: Shake My Tree

Crash Test Dummies: Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm

Dennis Leary: The A'hole Song

Chris DeBurgh: Don't Pay the Ferryman

Dishwalla: Counting Blue Cars

The Doobie Brothers: South City Midnight Lady (one of the very few suggestions for a band you've already chosen a song for)

Donald Fagen: New Frontier

Billy Falcon: Power Windows

The Firm: Radioactive (Any Buffalo bsed playlist has to include the Firm. They sold more records here than anywhere in the US (proportionally).

Foster the People: Pumped Up Kicks

Gowan: A Criminal Mind

Great White: Once Bit, Twice Shy

Honeymoon Suite: Wave Babies

Hum: Stars

Inxs: Don't Change

Chris Isaac: Wicked Game

Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit

Jefferson Starship: Miracles

The James Gang: Walk Away

Joe Walsh: Life's Been Good

Jon Anderson: Cage of Freedom

Mighty, Mighty Bosstones: The Impression That I Get

Moxy Fruvous: King of Spain

Our Lady Peace: Starseed

Sponge: Molly

Squeeze: Tempted

The Outlaws: Green Grass & High Tides

Toad the Wet Sprocket: All I Want

Toadies: Possum Kingdom

Toy Matinee: Last Plane Out

Traffic: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (sorry, that is so much better than your current choice, IMHO)

3rd Eye Blind: Semi-charmed Life

Vandenberg: Burning Heart

The Refreshments: Banditos

[GASabresIUFAN]

Billy Squire?

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Nope.

[GASabresIUFAN]

I don’t know. He was huge in the early 80s with 3 straight platinum albums. That’s more then some of the bands we have listed. The Stroke, In the Dark, Everybody Wants You where huge songs.

[Doohicksie]

Apologies if you've already discounted any of these suggestions.

 

Should add:

 

Jeff Beck: Freeway Jam

Better Than Ezra: Good

Bic Runga: Sway

Blind Faith: Can't Find My Way Home

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians: What I Am

Bush: Everything Zen

The Jim Carroll Band: People Who Died

Candlebox: Far Behind

Bruce Cockburn: Call It Democracy

Damn Yankees: High Enough (Yes, the juxtaposition of Bruce Cockburn & Damn Yankees is for Doohickie and his fears of nominating a Terrible Ted song. ;))

Cracker: Teen Angst

Covington Paige: Shake My Tree

Crash Test Dummies: Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm

Dennis Leary: The A'hole Song

Chris DeBurgh: Don't Pay the Ferryman

Dishwalla: Counting Blue Cars

The Doobie Brothers: South City Midnight Lady (one of the very few suggestions for a band you've already chosen a song for)

Donald Fagen: New Frontier

Billy Falcon: Power Windows

The Firm: Radioactive (Any Buffalo bsed playlist has to include the Firm. They sold more records here than anywhere in the US (proportionally).

Foster the People: Pumped Up Kicks

Gowan: A Criminal Mind

Great White: Once Bit, Twice Shy

Honeymoon Suite: Wave Babies

Hum: Stars

Inxs: Don't Change

Chris Isaac: Wicked Game

Jefferson Airplane: White Rabbit

Jefferson Starship: Miracles

The James Gang: Walk Away

Joe Walsh: Life's Been Good

Jon Anderson: Cage of Freedom

Mighty, Mighty Bosstones: The Impression That I Get

Moxy Fruvous: King of Spain

Our Lady Peace: Starseed

Sponge: Molly

Squeeze: Tempted

The Outlaws: Green Grass & High Tides

Toad the Wet Sprocket: All I Want

Toadies: Possum Kingdom

Toy Matinee: Last Plane Out

Traffic: The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (sorry, that is so much better than your current choice, IMHO)

3rd Eye Blind: Semi-charmed Life

Vandenberg: Burning Heart

The Refreshments: Banditos

 

My endorsements in blue bold.  That doesn't mean I don't like the others, it's just that I either don't feel strongly about them or not familiar with them.

[GASabresIUFAN]

I need to add the James Gang, Joe Walsh, Jeff Beck, Robert Plant, Frampton, John Fogerty, and Faces. Paul Simon’s wife is a one hit wonder, but it’s a great song. Squeeze is also interesting. 2 great songs, but are they “sponge worthy”?

Blind Faith is already on the list.

Edited January 22, 2018 by Georgia Flakt

[GASabresIUFAN]

Just heard a Vanilla Fudge version of the Supreme’s You Keep Me Hangin On. It’s great. It sounds like Bowied and Hendrix got together and reformulated the song to suit their guitar and singing styles.

[Doohicksie]

I need to add the James Gang, Joe Walsh, Jeff Beck, Robert Plant, Frampton, John Fogerty, and Faces. Paul Simon’s wife is a one hit wonder, but it’s a great song. Squeeze is also interesting. 2 great songs, but are they “sponge worthy”?

Blind Faith is already on the list.

 

Squeeze is one of the underappreciated bands of ever.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Squeeze is one of the underappreciated bands of ever.

 

Cool For Cats is pretty cool alright.

[GASabresIUFAN]

I have been listening to the list in car. Too much 70s music. I haven’t actually dug through the songs by release date, but that it how it feels when I was listening. I’m thinking a redo with 50 songs per decade.

 

This will allow bands with long careers and good music in multiple decades, to have multiple songs on the list and I’m going to eliminate the one and two hit wonders.

[Taro T]

I have been listening to the list in car. Too much 70s music. I haven’t actually dug through the songs by release date, but that it how it feels when I was listening. I’m thinking a redo with 50 songs per decade.

This will allow bands with long careers and good music in multiple decades, to have multiple songs on the list and I’m going to eliminate the one and two hit wonders.

So, some '90's -ish stuff (most of which wasn't previously mentioned; not going to go back through to verify; it's your list, you can do it if you'd like :p)

 

Everclear: Father of Mine

 

The Offspring: Come Out & Play or, (as you don't like hard stuff as much IIRC) Self Esteem

 

Incubus: Drive

 

Rage Against the Machine: Bulls on Parade

 

Rusted Root: Ecstacy

 

Cake: The Distance

 

Eagle Eyed Cherry: Save Tonight

 

Temple of the Dog: Hunger Strike

 

Stone Temple Pilots: Interstate Love Song

 

Tonic: You Wanted More; or If You Could Only See (probably not the actual title)

 

Edwin Starr: A Girl Like You

 

Fastball: The Way

 

Smash Mouth: All Star

 

7 Mary 3: Mighty Casey

 

Filter: Nice Shot

 

Linkin' Park: there's a few to choose from

 

& a few random older ones: (apologies for any duplicates)

 

Yello: Oh, Yeah

 

Mike & the Mechanics: Silent Running

 

Billy Thorpe: Children of the Sun

 

Robert Plant: Big Log

[GASabresIUFAN]

I'm definitely short on the 90's

 

Current list 231 songs

1950's - 2

1960's - 39

1970's - 88

1980's - 73

1990's - 22

2000's - 6

2010's - 1

[BagBoy]

Just heard a Vanilla Fudge version of the Supreme’s You Keep Me Hangin On. It’s great. It sounds like Bowied and Hendrix got together and reformulated the song to suit their guitar and singing styles.

 

Wow!  I couldn't agree more!  I woke up to that song one morning in Winnipeg close to 40 years ago.  It was like some kind of religious experience.  I have never forgotten that, even after all these years.

 

Apologies if already mentioned, but other songs that have left a permanent positive impact on me back when I was a young kid are Tommy James and The Shondells doing "Crimson and Clover", and "In the Jungle" by The Tokens.

[gilbert11]

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

 

Finally somebody that agrees with me on Kashmir. I have never understood why many people consider it their favorite Zeppelin song. There are dozens I would pick before it. I liked their early albums the best but over time have warmed up to several songs from Physical Graffiti and Presence.