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[redapples]

So, I'm 40 in November and am having a party to celebrate. I have a band (well a group of friends who will jam for free) booked and will be putting some CDs of music together to cover the 4 decades - I'm not counting the 60's as one month hardly counts- of music that I have enjoyed as the other entertainment. I'm looking for suggestions. To get you started I have some examples. This is music that I listened to but not necessarily from that decade, just when it was on my walkman or turntable.

70's
I Shot the Sheriff- Eric Clapton
Stir It Up -Bob Marley and the Wailers
Goodnight Irene- Ry Cooder
Black Man - Stevie Wonder
Many Rivers to Cross- Jimmy Cliff
Pearls a Singer- Elkie Brooks
Back in the U.S.S.R.- The Beatles
Picture This - Blondie
Brass in Pocket- The Pretenders
Walking on The Moon- The Police
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen


80's
Low Rider - War
Turn it on Again -Genesis
Me Myself and I- Joan Armatrading
Ghost Town - The Specials
Geno - Dexys Midnight Runners
Baggy Trousers- Madness
Never Understand -Jesus and Mary Chain
Blue Monday- New Order
Once in a Lifetime- Talking Heads
Keep on Running - Spencer Davis Group
Spanish Guns- The Clash
No More Heroes - The Stranglers
Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
Sensoria - Cabaret Voltaire
The Model - Kraftwerk
Oh yeah - Yello
Senses Working Overtime - XTC
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
What do I Get - The Buzzcocks
The Passenger - Iggy Pop
The Traveller - Spear of Destiny
Oblivious - Aztec Camera
Rip It Up - Orange Juice
Digging Your Scene - The Blow Monkeys
When Smokey Sings -ABC
(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang - Heaven 17
Kick over the statues - Red Skins
Mirror in the Bathroom - The Beat
Going Underground - The Jam
My Ever Changing Moods - The Style Council
Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange
Starsky and Hutch Theme- James Taylor Quartet
Dominos -Donald Byrd
Hercules -Aaron Neville
Across 105th St.- Bobby Womack
The Bottle- Gill Scott Heron
How Soon is Now - The Smiths
Unfinished Sympathy- Massive Attack
Walk on the wild side- Lou Reed
Blow Your Head- Fred Wesley and JBs
Rock Creek Park -The Blackbyrds
Rock the Bells- LL Cool J
I'm Your Pusher- Ice T
Fuck tha Police- NWA
Say No Go- De La Soul
Mr Follow Follow - Fela Kuti
Theme from S'Express - S'Express
Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out - Freak Power
Southern Freeez - Freeez
Gap Band - Burn Rubber.
Junior - Mother Used to Say
Trouble Funk -Pump it Up
Kool and the Gang - Summer Madness & Jungle Boogie
Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent - Gwen Guthrie
Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin
24 hour Party People - Happy Mondays
Voodoo Ray - A Guy Called Gerald
Pacific State - 808 State
The Cutter - Echo and The Bunnymen
When Doves Cry - Prince
Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Boogie Wonderland - Earth wind and Fire
Disco Inferon - The Trammps

90's
Can I kick it- A Tribe Called Quest
Brand New You're Retro -Tricky
Numb- Portishead
Brown Paper Bag- Roni Size
Song 2- Blur
higher Than the sun - Primal Scream
Block Rockin' Beats- The Chemical Brothers
Right Here Right Now- Fat Boy Slim
Dub Be Good to Me - Beats International
Groove Is in the Heart- Deee-Lite
Fragile (So Sensitive)-Bootsy Collins
Fools Gold - Stone Roses
Appartenly Nothing - Young Disciples
Never Stop - Brand New Heavies
3 a.m. Eternal - KLF
There's Nothing Like This - Omar
No Diggity - BlackStreet


00's
No Strings- Roots Manuva
Swastika Eyes- Primal Scream
Out of Time- Blur
America- Razorlight
Fake Id- The Go Team
Brandy Alexander- Feist
Here I come- The Roots
Spaceship- Kanye West
Testify- Common
Never Forget You- Noisettes
Ms. Jackson - OutKast
Trick Me - Kelis
Little Star - Kelis
Break Ya Neck Busta Rhymes
The Lucky One - Alison Krauss and Union Station
Forget About It - Alison Krauss
Suddenly I See - K.T. Tunstall

So recomendations please and dont forget to include the decade.

 

[elph]

Jethro Tull - Aqualung (1971)

Jethro Tull - Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die (1976)

Both tracks are fairly 'rock' and not of their folk sound. Aqualung being the one that anytime I mention Tull they instantly only seem to recognize Aqualung. Too Old.. because it just fits the theme. We're all aging rockers (well, you a bit more then me), but we still listen to some good music.

There are a many other Tull (they are my favorite band...) songs I could bring up, but as for a party situation, I think these 2 will do fine.

 

[PatrThom]

I'll try to limit myself to just a few artists from each decade

70's
Living for the City - Stevie Wonder
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Low Rider - War
Spill the Wine - War
Go Down Gamblin' - Blood, Sweat & Tears
And When I Die - Blood, Sweat & Tears (technically 1969, but won a Grammy in 1970)

80's
Leave It - Yes
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
Downeaster Alexa - Billy Joel
We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

I'd happily find more, but I'm out of time. Might post some 90's or 00's later.

--Patrick

 

[CynicismKills]

80's:

Inbetween Days - The Cure
Really, any song from Poison, Van Halen, Twisted Sister, just to get some hair metal on that list.

For the 90's you need more grunge, I say.

In Bloom - Nirvana
Wrong? - Alice In Chains
Evenflow - Pearl Jam

And then more 90's:

I Will Buy You A New Life - Everclear
Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
Snoop Dogg, Baby - Reel Big Fish
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Jimmy Olsen's Blues - Spin Doctors
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones

I'll listen to my last.fm a bit and get you some more.

 

[redapples]

FYI this is really a list of things I may have forgotten I was listening to. I'm not really a Rock dude, more a Soul brother. So the War tracks absolutely but they are 80's for me. Nirvarna maybe, Pearl Jam oh god no, no, no...

Thanks for the Cure tip though. How we forget. Think I might choose Head on the Door though, this also reminds me need some Echo and the Bunnymen, maybe The Cutter. As for Rock music never listened to hair rock, more Killing Joke than Europe.

 

[CynicismKills]

FYI this is really a list of things I may have forgotten I was listening to. I'm not really a Rock dude, more a Soul brother. So the War tracks absolutely but they are 80's for me. Nirvarna maybe, Pearl Jam oh god no, no, no...

Thanks for the Cure tip though. How we forget. Think I might choose Head on the Door though, this also reminds me need some Echo and the Bunnymen, maybe The Cutter. As for Rock music never listened to hair rock, more Killing Joke than Europe.

Perhaps some Electric Light Orchestra or Earth, Wind & Fire, then? Might be more 60's than 70's, I'm not sure.

 

[redapples]

Perhaps some Electric Light Orchestra or Earth, Wind & Fire, then? Might be more 60's than 70's, I'm not sure.

Boogie Wonderland baby. Again this is 1980's for me but good call.

 

[PatrThom]

Heh. I thought you were going by the date the tunes were released, not the date you first heard it.
If you're looking for Soul-ish stuff, you might take a second look at Blood, Sweat & Tears. Some of it definitely qualifies.

I don't know how wide your range is, but there are also tunes by ) Or just stuff that was really huge/impressive? (Princes of the Universe[/url[/media])

--Patrick

 

[redapples]

Gap Band - Burn Rubber.
Junior - Mother Used to Say
Trouble Funk -Pump it Up
Kool and the Gang - Summer Madness & Jungle Boogie
Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine

Big soul funk tunes for me.

Yeah I'm looking for music that defines the decade for me not necessarily released then. Let me be a bit more categoric then. In the Seventies my music was heavily influenced by what my parents listened to, hence The Beatles, Clapton and Marley. In the Eighties I started to branch out on my own musically and flitted around a lot of styles to find what I liked. That said my taste is pretty catholic. Through the early part of that decade I listened to a lot of Punk and Post Punk with some indie thrown in, The Clash, Stranglers, Bauhaus, The Cramps and such. Some of the people I knew who were older introduced me to Velvet Underground and The Doors. I then started going to Jazz clubs in about 1985 where there would be a band or two usually doing Art Blakey and Miles Davis covers; and the DJ would play a lot of Jazz, SoCa (e.g. Buster Poindexter), and other stuff like Ritchi Valens La Bamba. They also played some African music Fela Kuti, Dudu Pukwana (not the Bhundu Boys please!). In the late 80's there was a big 'Rare Groove', Soul and Funk scence so tune like, Mr Big Stuff - Jean Knight and Cross the Tracks -Maceo and the Macks from there. There were a lot of Disco Revival clubs too, Disco Inferno - The Trammps is a good example. There was also clubs that played a mix of Indie and the emerging House music (by House think not Acid House #shudder# but Chicago House) Darryl Pandy - Love Can't Turn Around. I moved to Manchester in 1991 and went to a lot of clubs so house music from the Mid Nineties, Garage clubs, Drum and Base Clubs as well as soul nights (can't remember a lot of this as I seriously over indulged). Sounds that I identifeid with can be exemplified by the Ninja Tunes record Label and the Bristol sound (Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead, Finaly Quaye, Roni Size). I have had an enduring love of Hip-Hop since The Message in 1982, through LL Cool J, Run DMC, Ice T, N.W.A, De La Soul, Arrested Development, Outkast, Common. I still listen to stuff like Blur, Primal Scream, The Flaming Lips.

Hope this helps, keep the recommendations coming.