your grandfathers playlist

[GiaCat]

Yes, they have them.

My boss, a product of the turbulent 60's and 70's, (I'm a late 80's early 90's kid) sends me links to music from that era that was not on the charts, cool stuff. I need to explore it more.


Hocus Pocus

Frankenstein

Ballroom Bliz

 

[RoryN]

sends me links to music from that era that was not on the charts, cool stuff.

These all charted, and everyone and their grandfather knows them.

 

[dirtwrench]

Ballroom Blitz by Sweet- LOVE that song! I remember getting Desolation Boulavard on cassette tape when I was a kid and wearing it out. It was re-done by Krokus in the 80's and they did it justice.

Oh shit, I really am old. Please disregard...

 

[KRCummings]

Those weren't on the charts?
Are you looking at nautical charts or something?

 

[Wrong Element]

Yes, they have them.

My boss, a product of the turbulent 60's and 70's, (I'm a late 80's early 90's kid) sends me links to music from that era that was not on the charts, cool stuff. I need to explore it more.


Hocus Pocus

Frankenstein

Ballroom Bliz

Nope, those were all big hits. Though don't ask me how something as monumentally weird as "Hocus Pocus" ever got on the radio.

 

[firenzi]

Ballroom Blitz was in the Wayne's World movie, wasn't it?

Never heard of the other two.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Ballroom Blitz by Sweet- LOVE that song! I remember getting Desolation Boulavard on cassette tape when I was a kid and wearing it out. It was re-done by Krokus in the 80's and they did it justice.

Oh shit, I really am old. Please disregard...

Everything old is new again...

Ace Frehely of KISS covers "Fox On The Run"

 

[KRCummings]

Ballroom Blitz was in the Wayne's World movie, wasn't it?

Never heard of the other two.

I see the Lord is testing me again.

 

[KRCummings]

Ballroom Blitz was in the Wayne's World movie, wasn't it?

Never heard of the other two.

I see the Lord is testing me again.

 

[SkAoUt]

I see the Lord is testing me again.

you can say that again

 

[thør]

I remember my Grandpa singing Wooly Bully in August 1966.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Yes, they have them.

My boss, a product of the turbulent 60's and 70's, (I'm a late 80's early 90's kid) sends me links to music from that era that was not on the charts, cool stuff. I need to explore it more.


Hocus Pocus

Frankenstein

Ballroom Bliz

If you want to study the best music from the 60s and 70s, you're not going to get very far with Focus, Edgar Winter, and Sweet.

You need to study the history of Motown and Stax records and the older American blues influence on the British invasion (Beatles, Stones, Hollies and more).

 

[GiaCat]

If you want to study the best music from the 60s and 70s, you're not going to get very far with Focus, Edgar Winter, and Sweet.

You need to study the history of Motown and Stax records and the older American blues influence on the British invasion (Beatles, Stones, Hollies and more).

I like the later Beatles, I also checked out T. Rex. I also listened to some Yes and ELP.

 

[GiaCat]

I see the Lord is testing me again.

God is sending you an ominous double post warning

 

[GiaCat]

Nope, those were all big hits. Though don't ask me how something as monumentally weird as "Hocus Pocus" ever got on the radio.

Oh, okay. They don't sound like big hits.

 

[GiaCat]

These all charted, and everyone and their grandfather knows them.

I mostly know 80's and 90's hits. The pop hits today follow a very strict template.

 

[Wrong Element]

Oh, okay. They don't sound like big hits.

Maybe it's my imagination, but the '70s seemed to have more oddball hits than other decades. Right around the same time as the songs you posted earlier, some Australian nun had a Top Ten hit with a musical version of the Lord's Prayer.

Another big hit from the '70s was this, uh, song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfJZrUTEcJM

 

[firenzi]

I see the Lord is testing me again.

I like lots of older music. I just can't stand a lot of the early 70's stuff. Except for maybe The Carpenters and Roxy Music

 

[RoryN]

I just can't stand a lot of the early 70's stuff. Except for maybe The Carpenters

This is like one of those code phrases people come up with, simply because no one would ever think to say it.

 

[Super-Surprise]

I mostly know 80's and 90's hits. The pop hits today follow a very strict template.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTg8ctmvKpM&list=FLgrnzAjm5tWGHhJLaJ1i-dA&index=1&feature=plpp_video

 

[cfuhrer]

This is like one of those code phrases people come up with, simply because no one would ever think to say it.

Isn't that how they activate dormant soviet spies?

 

[firenzi]

This is like one of those code phrases people come up with, simply because no one would ever think to say it.

I guess I'm kind of a dork.

 

[RoryN]

Isn't that how they activate dormant soviet spies?

Yup.

"We can't underestimate the cultural impact of the Bay City Rollers."

And then necks mysteriously start getting broken.

I guess I'm kind of a dork.

Karen Carpenter's dog is buried a few towns over from me.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Those weren't on the charts?
Are you looking at nautical charts or something?

NO! They werent on the charts back then. From 1964-1969 the charts were filled with Beatles, Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, the Byrds, Sonny & Cher, Spanky & Our Gang, Glenn Campbell, and a Whitman's Sampler of one shot wonders who came and went. I cant name anyone who listened to Edgar Winter.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

My grandfathers, one was a Quaker, therefore no play list.



The other was married to my Grandmother, a drummer in a swing band.

I assume "Goodnight Irene" was on it.

That was her name...