Sorry everyone but this thread is probably way out of my depth but i had to comment. When you get to my age the songs by the Stones and Beatles are modern. Now some good old songs were
Maybe its because I'm a Londoner that i love London Town etc or Daisy Daisy give me your do It won't be a golden marriage Can't afford a carriage, You'll look sweet upon a seat of a bicycle made for two
Three greatest songs ever were Bohemian Rhapsody Whiter shade of pale Lady in red
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd Stairway to Heaven- Led zep My Brother Jake - Free A song for you - Donny Hatherway Sympathy for the devil- Stones Young Americans - Bowie Still Waters run deep - Four Tops
Showing my age now nearly 60, and yes I can just about remember the 60's Silver Machine. Hawkwind Whiter shade of pale. Precol harem (spelt totally wrong) Norwegian Wood. Beatles Paint it black. Rolling Stones Paint it black. Royal Philomonic Orchestra Waterloo Sunset. Kinks Layla. Derek and the Dominos. The whole of the Bridge over troubled waters album. Simon And Garfunkle. Silent night / 9 o'clock news. Simon and Garfunkle. Such a shame that most of you would had never heard of these classics, Plus loads of other my brain has forgotten.
New/newish: Silence Kit - Pavement Jay Z - 99 Problems Eminem - My Name Is Hold Steady - This Summer No Children - Mountain Goats (relatively obscure but I couldn't leave it off the list)
Old: Strawberry Fields/Day In The Life - Beatles Gimme Shelter - Stones I'm In Love - Wilson Picket Rolling Stone/Tambourine Man - Dylan California Dreamin' - Mammas/Pappas Red House (Winterland Version) - Hendrix Suspicious Minds - Elvis
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Animals - House of The Rising Sun James - Tomorrow Radiohead - Exit (music for a film) Faithless - Insomnia Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm Pulp - Something Changed Pogues - Dirty Old Town
So many more! Not sure whether some of these maybe classed as old or new considering most of them are at least 20 years old! I remember in the 80's when I was a kid my mum and dad talking to me about the early 60's and all the music from then and how that sounded such a long time ago and now I find myself doing the same with my kids about stuff from the 80's and 90's and they look at me with the same blank expression on their face!
The Beatles - I want to hold your hand/I am the walrus/ Hey Jude The Stones - Sympathy for the devil / Jumpin Jack Flash The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset/ I'm not like everybody else The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations The Animals - House of the rising sun Pink Floyd - See Emily Play David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers
Its amazing thing music, how it bring back memories, relationships, smells etc, in my list above I mentioned Silver Machine, apart from the fact it was our first dance at our wedding, it was a special request at our 30th wedding anniversary. But I wonder how many will share my first memory of this classic (you got to be bloody old if you do), it was my first trip aboard on a infamous Club 18/30 holiday I was just 18, we selected the hotel (to call it a hotel was an insult to a dose house) because it served the cheapest beer in Spain. Can you imagine I think it was 1970 or more likely 71, the blokes where out numbered by the girls by about 3 to 1.
The food was terrible, we slepted during the day (never in the same room) and got up around 9 in the evening going out around midnight to the local disco, the strength of the drink was phenomenal as alcohol was cheaper than mixers.
Anyway can anyone here remember the disco on top of the hill shaped like a flying saucer, and decked out internally as a flying saucer, where unsurprisingly they played Silver Machine at full blast ever night.
Sorry to bored you if you managed to reach this point, but two words "silver machine" brought these memories flooding back to me, with relationships, smells and sounds of which I haven't thought about for over 30 years.
What a question to pose! Next to Charlton, music, of all genres, is my main love in life. I've been pondering what to pick, do I go for 80s hair metal, 90s rap, post 90s r&b, classic rock, or have no genre segregation and throw Minor Threat in with Eek A Mouse? For now, here's 10 soul/funk songs I will never tire of:
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up Commodores - Brick House Rick James - Superfreak The Young Disciples - Apparently Nothing Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman The Five Stairsteps - Ooo Child Stevie Wonder - Living For The City Sly And The Family Stone - Everyday People Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
What a question to pose! Next to Charlton, music, of all genres, is my main love in life. I've been pondering what to pick, do I go for 80s hair metal, 90s rap, post 90s r&b, classic rock, or have no genre segregation and throw Minor Threat in with Eek A Mouse? For now, here's 10 soul/funk songs I will never tire of:
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up Commodores - Brick House Rick James - Superfreak The Young Disciples - Apparently Nothing Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman The Five Stairsteps - Ooo Child Stevie Wonder - Living For The City Sly And The Family Stone - Everyday People Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
What a question to pose! Next to Charlton, music, of all genres, is my main love in life. I've been pondering what to pick, do I go for 80s hair metal, 90s rap, post 90s r&b, classic rock, or have no genre segregation and throw Minor Threat in with Eek A Mouse? For now, here's 10 soul/funk songs I will never tire of:
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up Commodores - Brick House Rick James - Superfreak The Young Disciples - Apparently Nothing Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman The Five Stairsteps - Ooo Child Stevie Wonder - Living For The City Sly And The Family Stone - Everyday People Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
Try em, you might like em!
Yeh, I have to say that's a cracking collection of sounds, even though it's a million miles away from my list. There's just so much great music - it's good for the soul
What a sorry state of affairs music must be in if Tinie Tempah Pass Out is anywhere near the word classic. A bad song for mainstream, and an embarrassment when he dares to classify it as hip hop.
Voodoo Chile: Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze: Jimi Hendrix Kashmir: Led Zep No Quarter: Led Zep White Room : Cream Spoonful: Cream *Willie Dixon I Couldv'e had religion: Rory Gallagher *junior Wells Gambling Blues: Rory Gallagher *Lightning Hopkins A million miles away: Rory Gallagher
* Sinnerboy play the Chislehurst blues club this Thursday *16 feb as the leader of the group states......‘We aren’t a look-alike band’, concludes Barry Barnes; ‘We just want to keep the music and spirit of Rory Gallagher alive. He was an inspiration to a generation and the fact we get fans young and old coming to our gigs, is the best possible confirmation that we are doing something right.’ THIS IS NOT CABARET!
Anything by my new best friend, Mick Jagger, who I was fortunate enough to meet in a bar in the Caribbean the other night. Saw him walking his dog (no pun intended for you old Stones fans) along the beach today as well. He ducked into his property as soon as he clocked me. Can't think why.
For those of you who remember early 90s clubbing may I suggest as an all time classic; Sounds of Blackness - I Believe (Classic Gospel Mix) 9.51 minutes of uplifting, piano, vocal house music. First time I heard it was in a ropey club in Hull. Main room was hardcore hell but nice little sideroom playing piano house, soulful garage, acid jazz. When that tune dropped I thought I'd found the meaning of life!
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When you get to my age the songs by the Stones and Beatles are modern.
Now some good old songs were
Maybe its because I'm a Londoner
that i love London Town etc
or
Daisy Daisy give me your do
It won't be a golden marriage
Can't afford a carriage, You'll look sweet upon a seat of a bicycle made for two
Three greatest songs ever were
Bohemian Rhapsody
Whiter shade of pale
Lady in red
Stairway to Heaven- Led zep
My Brother Jake - Free
A song for you - Donny Hatherway
Sympathy for the devil- Stones
Young Americans - Bowie
Still Waters run deep - Four Tops
Silver Machine. Hawkwind
Whiter shade of pale. Precol harem (spelt totally wrong)
Norwegian Wood. Beatles
Paint it black. Rolling Stones
Paint it black. Royal Philomonic Orchestra
Waterloo Sunset. Kinks
Layla. Derek and the Dominos.
The whole of the Bridge over troubled waters album. Simon And Garfunkle.
Silent night / 9 o'clock news. Simon and Garfunkle.
Such a shame that most of you would had never heard of these classics, Plus loads of other my brain has forgotten.
Silence Kit - Pavement
Jay Z - 99 Problems
Eminem - My Name Is
Hold Steady - This Summer
No Children - Mountain Goats (relatively obscure but I couldn't leave it off the list)
Old:
Strawberry Fields/Day In The Life - Beatles
Gimme Shelter - Stones
I'm In Love - Wilson Picket
Rolling Stone/Tambourine Man - Dylan
California Dreamin' - Mammas/Pappas
Red House (Winterland Version) - Hendrix
Suspicious Minds - Elvis
Essex boys on 'The Geordie Scene'
love, love, love Dr. F....Wilko is an amazing guitarist, did you see the recent documentary on them Alex?
Whiter Shade of Pale-proper classic
Animals - House of The Rising Sun
James - Tomorrow
Radiohead - Exit (music for a film)
Faithless - Insomnia
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Pulp - Something Changed
Pogues - Dirty Old Town
So many more! Not sure whether some of these maybe classed as old or new considering most of them are at least 20 years old! I remember in the 80's when I was a kid my mum and dad talking to me about the early 60's and all the music from then and how that sounded such a long time ago and now I find myself doing the same with my kids about stuff from the 80's and 90's and they look at me with the same blank expression on their face!
The Stones - Sympathy for the devil / Jumpin Jack Flash
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset/ I'm not like everybody else
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
The Animals - House of the rising sun
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers
Sorry, don't know any new classics
But I wonder how many will share my first memory of this classic (you got to be bloody old if you do), it was my first trip aboard on a infamous Club 18/30 holiday I was just 18, we selected the hotel (to call it a hotel was an insult to a dose house) because it served the cheapest beer in Spain. Can you imagine I think it was 1970 or more likely 71, the blokes where out numbered by the girls by about 3 to 1.
The food was terrible, we slepted during the day (never in the same room) and got up around 9 in the evening going out around midnight to the local disco, the strength of the drink was phenomenal as alcohol was cheaper than mixers.
Anyway can anyone here remember the disco on top of the hill shaped like a flying saucer, and decked out internally as a flying saucer, where unsurprisingly they played Silver Machine at full blast ever night.
Sorry to bored you if you managed to reach this point, but two words "silver machine" brought these memories flooding back to me, with relationships, smells and sounds of which I haven't thought about for over 30 years.
For now, here's 10 soul/funk songs I will never tire of:
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
Commodores - Brick House
Rick James - Superfreak
The Young Disciples - Apparently Nothing
Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman
The Five Stairsteps - Ooo Child
Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
Sly And The Family Stone - Everyday People
Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
Try em, you might like em!
There's just so much great music - it's good for the soul
Alright Now - Free
The King Will Come - Wishbone Ash
Baba O'Reilly - the Who
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
YOU WHAT YOU WHAT
used to love this
Purple Haze: Jimi Hendrix
Kashmir: Led Zep
No Quarter: Led Zep
White Room : Cream
Spoonful: Cream *Willie Dixon
I Couldv'e had religion: Rory Gallagher *junior Wells
Gambling Blues: Rory Gallagher *Lightning Hopkins
A million miles away: Rory Gallagher
* Sinnerboy play the Chislehurst blues club this Thursday *16 feb
as the leader of the group states......‘We aren’t a look-alike band’, concludes Barry Barnes; ‘We just want to keep the music and spirit of Rory Gallagher alive. He was an inspiration to a generation and the fact we get fans young and old coming to our gigs, is the best possible confirmation that we are doing something right.’
THIS IS NOT CABARET!
Move your Body - Marshall Jefferson
Brand New Day - Louie Vega ft Josh Milan
I choose you - Paris
Sounds of Blackness - I Believe (Classic Gospel Mix)
9.51 minutes of uplifting, piano, vocal house music. First time I heard it was in a ropey club in Hull. Main room was hardcore hell but nice little sideroom playing piano house, soulful garage, acid jazz.
When that tune dropped I thought I'd found the meaning of life!
I nominate Silver Bullet '20 Seconds To Comply'.
Anyone?