16 Songs You Must Own

[eloisel]

In the AARP newsletter this week, there is an article that says everyone over fifty should own the following 16 songs:

#1 Once Upon a Time (Frank Sinatra, 1965)
#2 Harvest Moon (Neil Young, 1992)
#3 Lately (Stevie Wonder, 1980)
#4 A House Is Not a Home (Dionne Warwick, 1964
#5 Little Green (Joni Mitchell, 1971)
#6 Gangsta’s Paradise (Coolio, 1995)
#7 Landslide (Stevie Nicks, 1975)
#8 Hotel California (Eagles, 1977)
#9 You Shook Me all Night Long (AC/DC, 1980)
#10 C’est La Vie — You Never Can Tell (Vocals by Emmylou Harris, 1977)
#11 He Stopped Loving Her Today (George Jones, 1980)
#12 For What It’s Worth — Stop, Hey What’s That Sound (Buffalo Springfield, 1967
#13 Crazy (Patsy Cline, vocals; Willie Nelson, lyrics; 1962
#14 God Only Knows (Beach Boys, 1966)
#15 Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley, 1957)
#16 In My Life (The Beatles, 1965)

While I like most of those songs, I don't think they'd be on my must have list. I don't see any Moody Blues, Doobie Brothers, Babs, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - not just Young or Stills; CCR, Carole King, James Taylor, or the Guess Who, or the Who, or Ten Years After, or pretty much anything else that was playing on the radio stations I was listening to.

http://youtu.be/Zbasjy2_IY8

What do you think will be on your list when you hit 50?

 

[Loktar]

I'd have Queen, Beatles, Weird Al Yankovic, Elvis Presley, Eminem, 80's/90's music, They Might Be Giants, Barenaked Ladies, Moxy Fruvus, as well as various boy bands and pop music on my list.

 

[eloisel]

I don't think I could have just 16 songs.

Steve Miller Band - The Joker, Fly Like an Eagle
Queen - We Are The Champions!
Michael Jackson / Jackson 5 - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
ZZ Top - She's Got Legs & Sharp Dressed Man
Jim Reeves - He'll Have to Go
Johnny Cougar Mellencamp - Hurts So Good, Little Pink Houses, Jack & Diane
Judy Garland - Come Rain or Come Shine
Loggins and Messina - Danny's Song, House at Pooh Corner
Lionel Ritchie - Easy Like Sunday Morning

and, must have Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Comfortably Numb

I need about 1600 must have songs for my list.

 

[eloisel]

I'd have Queen, Beatles, Weird Al Yankovic, Elvis Presley, Eminem, 80's/90's music, They Might Be Giants, Barenaked Ladies, Moxy Fruvus, as well as various boy bands and pop music on my list.

I love They Might Be Giants. Minimum Wage is my favorite with Bird House in Your Soul right behind it.

 

[Loktar]

I love They Might Be Giants. Minimum Wage is my favorite with Bird House in Your Soul right behind it.

Particle Man, Whistling in the Dark, and Istanbul are my favorites.

 

[eloisel]

Particle Man, Whistling in the Dark, and Istanbul are my favorites.

Yep, those are good too. Catchy tunes and memorable lyrics.

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks


Minimum Wage ..... Yaw!

 

[NeonMercuryASH]

Court and Spark, joni Mitchell

 

[eloisel]

Court and Spark, joni Mitchell

I'd need Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
...
Don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you've got til its gone

http://youtu.be/xWwUJH70ubM

I'd probably need her Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky - too
http://youtu.be/WD7Jut_kXt0?hd=1

 

[jack]

Court and Spark, joni Mitchell

dont forget this

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[jack]

I'd need Big Yellow Taxi

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
...
Don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you've got til its gone

http://youtu.be/xWwUJH70ubM

I'd probably need her Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky - too
http://youtu.be/WD7Jut_kXt0?hd=1

Which version do you like better...Joni's or Counting Crows?

 

[jack]

#11 He Stopped Loving Her Today (George Jones, 1980)

I'm pretty sure Elvis Costello did a cover of this with him

#16 In My Life (The Beatles, 1965)

Rubber Soul was wonderful. This was one of the reasons why.

A John Lennon song, of course

 

[jack]

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[Enkephalen]

Allman Brothers - "Jessica" 1982 (I think). Absolutely the best!

 

[The Call Of Nature]

some songs and tunes from my favourites list (in no particular order) :

Temple of the King (Rainbow)
Still [you turn me on] (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
Love of my life (Queen)
Presentation (Rush, 2112-Album)
Dream On (Aerosmith)
Aquarius (5th Dimension)
Fresh Horses (Jim Byrnes)
Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
Ferry Cross the Mersey (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
The Saint Theme (from the movie)
Stormy Weather (Lena Horne)
Misunderstood (Eric Burdon & the Animals)
Put 'em in a Box (Doris Day)
Mistreated (Deep Purple)

and a gazillion more

 

[eloisel]

I know - how in the world could we not have some Jimi Hendrix - Cross Town Traffic, Hey Joe ... oh, no ... now I must go look at my music collection and make sure I have all of that in a form I can currently listen to.

 

[jack]

You trashed your vinyl player?

The horror. I still have my Phillips Studio Standard and kept most of my vinyl.

 

[eloisel]

I've got vinyl, 8 track, cassette, CD, VHS, DVD, MP3 players, and I'm about to invest in a Blu-ray playing internet streaming device for my living room TV. Getting tired of moving the roku from my bedroom to my living room and I don't have a blu-ray playing device.

I want to put all my media in one format - I guess in "the cloud" - and then stream the media to my computers, e-readers, stereos, tvs, whatever.

Have an old stereo in a back room under stuff. Can't find a needle for it. But, back in the day, that stereo was the life of many, many parties.