Need classic rock suggestions for a playlist

[taterguy]

The wife has requested a mix of "Things she can sing along with."
I probably have some but since I'm a bit of a music snob I'm not sure what qualifies.
Post your suggestions here and if they're in my collection I'll add them to the list.

[opiate69]

1. One of the best sing-along songs ever..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRjUZh97gRc

[taterguy]

3. No Manfred Mann in my collection

And it would it kill you to just type the name of the song and the artist?

I'm a busy man, ain't got time to click on Youtube links :)

[opiate69]

5. No Manfed Mann?!?! That's just unnatural!

And whadayamean no time? It's the holiday weekend fer cripes sake... time to relax and enjoy!

;)

How about Badfinger then? Got any of their stuff?

[taterguy]

8. Day After Day was just added to the list

I'm listening to and reviewing the playlist. If I have to hit pause to watch a Youtube video it destroys the continuity which is an important element of the mix.

[opiate69]

9. Jimi Hendrix - "House Burnin' Down"

[OzarkDem]

22. Baby Blue, No Matter What

two other great Badfinger choices

I was thrilled to see Pete Ham's Day After Day getting play again in the NBA commercial. One of the best voices and one of the kindest performers in rock music.

On edit: Someone just uploaded Badfinger's live version of Day After Day on You Tube. From the show Set of Six, IIRC and Irish tv show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6N3hPY9gLs

[no name no slogan]

2. Foreigner and Journey

completely sing-alongable, and chicks seemed to have dug them back in the day.

[HuskerDU]

4. Not classic rock- rather first wave of RnR:

Bobby Freeman- Do You Wanna Dance
The Gentry's- I Keep On Dancin'
Isley Bros- Shout (pts 1 and 2)
the Trashmen- Surfin' Bird
Gene Vincent- Be Bop a Lula
Shangri Las- Give Him a Great Big Kiss
Chuck Berry- Back in the USA
Little Richard- Tutti Fruity
Elvis- pick 'em
Kingsmen- Louie Louie
Franky Lyman and the Teenagers- Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Beach Boys- Barbara Ann
Beatles- Twist and Shout
Richie Valens- La Bamba
Buddy Holly- Peggy Sue
Gene Pitney- Hello Mary Lou
Bill Haley and the Comets- Rock Around the Clock
Gary US Bonds- 7 Day Weekend
Carl Perkins- Blue Suede Shoes
Your Pick of artist- Do You Love Me
Dave Clark 5- Any Way You Want It
Music Explosion- Little Bit of Soul
Tommy James and the Shondells- Crimson and Clover
Ventures- Walk Don't Run
Eddie Cochran- Summertime Blues
Mickey and Sylvia- Love Is Strange
Ike and Tina Turner- Proud Mary
James Brown- I'll Go Crazy

Fun tunes even if they are way old.

[taterguy]

6. Louie Louies already on the list, Proud Mary was just added

I love Blue Suede Shoes but I'm not sure that fits the wife's criterion. I even got to see Carl Perkins perform it live. He was wearing boots not shoes but they were blue suede.

[HuskerDU]

7. Damn that woulda been sweet!

Yeah I made that list for an old school rock-n-roll party that somebody is having- kind of a 50s early 60s theme obviously.

[Maccagirl]

44. Every one a keeper!

You can burn a CD for me anytime.

[HuskerDU]

45. Hey thank you!

I just love the Golden Age of RnR ('56-'67) Just a magical time, even if I wasn't alive.

[DS1]

10. Free mothafuckin bird,

man

[Nickster]

11. Boston-Foreplay/Longtime

[GreenPartyVoter]

73. And "More than a Feeling"

[opiate69]

12. ELO - "Telephone Line"

[SKKY]

28. I would think "Turn to Stone" or "Don't Bring Me Down"...

...would be more sing along than "Telephone Line", although it is a very, very good ELO song in its own right.

[opiate69]

30. I can see that..

but, I always find myself singing along with those icredible background vocal parts.. and that damned "Oh, oh, telephone Li-i-ine, etc.. " gets stuck in my head for days... then again, your suggestions get stuck in my head too! Dammit, now I have to go back to youtube and play those two. :P

[SKKY]

54. Or, we could also add "Evil Woman"....

...ELO has some seriously great songs.

[CGowen]

13. I have to think of "Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody" in Waynes World

I don't know if it's classic rock, but it was the first thing that came up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTheG--2NE0

[taterguy]

14. Added to the list

Thanks

[OzarkDem]

15. Kinks - Lola

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMsnqQHOwFg&feature=related

any kinks are good

[taterguy]

16. Had to settle for You Really Got Me

Don't got no Lola

[OzarkDem]

25. Excellent choice

Everyone knows that one and it gets the party going. Love Dave Davies guitar and his little green amp.

[RadiationTherapy]

17. A few essentials

Santana - Black Magic woman

Pink FLoyd - Wish you were here

Allman Brothers - Midnight Rider

Eric Clapton - Cocaine

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. Supertramp - Fool's Overture; Even in the Quietist Moments. Yes - Ritual: Nous Sommes Du Soleil,

Roundabout, Starship Troopers, I've Seen All Good People;

King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man;

Jethro Tull - Crosseyed Mary, Locomotive Breath, Aqualung, Broadsword, Thick As a Brick, Minstrel in the Gallery

Pink Floyd - everything off Animals, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Hey You, Comfortably Numb



This is the stuff that I sing to, anyway.

[taterguy]

21. You're an evil man Mr Rabrrrrr

I checked my collection to see if I had a copy of Aqualung. It's on the Fahrenheit 911 soundtrack.

Thanks to you my wife's mix now includes the theme from "Greatest American Hero"

I suspect I'll be sleeping on the couch awhile.

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. Oh, my - Greatest American Hero? I'd have to carve out my ears with a chainsaw.

I can't take that song.

[Drum]

19. Allman Bros.: Tied To A Whippin' Post

Heart: "Barracuda," or "Crazy on You"
Aerosmith "Dream On"

:headbang:

[HuskerDU]

20. Start Me Up- Stones

Dance the Night Away- Van Halen
Walk This Way- Aerosmith
Mony Mony and Dancin' with myself- Billy Idol

those usually get people singing along

[greendog]

23. Springsteen- "Rosalita"

[taterguy]

24. The wife can't stand Springsteen

I kinda like him but she's not a fan
Thanks for the suggestion though

[SKKY]

26. "Runnin' with the Devil" or "And the Cradle Will Rock"...

...Gotta have one of these.

[taterguy]

27. Running with the Devil was added to the list due to an earlier suggestion for Van Halen

I'm not a big fan but I do have at least one of their CDs

[SKKY]

29. I'm not a huge fan either...

...but those are two ass-kicking songs- you have to admit.

[carly denise pt deux]

49. If she wants a sing-along song by Van Halen

it's gotta be
Dance the night away
Jump
Panama

[opiate69]

31. Joe Walsh - "Life's Been Good" also,

Peter Frampton - "Do You Feel Like We Do"

[SKKY]

55. Oh yea. Fuckin' A....

...Fuckin' B, C, D, and E. I forgot about that one. Good call.

[hellbound-liberal]

32. How about D'yer Mak-er by Led Zeppelin?

Should be easy to memorize the words:-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBZ9gSJxwQ0

[sueh]

33. Any Bob Seeger...Old Time Rock and Roll for one.

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. And Turn the Page

[sarge43]

62. "Night Moves" n/t

[pokerfan]

34. Three Dog Night

Hoyt Axton's 'Never Been to Spain' as performed by Three Dog Night

Very sing-alongable. Some really fun rhymes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9uxlWQp9qA

Sloop John B. by the Beach Boys is another favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_KY_d9MQv8

And I can sing pretty much every song from Jimmy Buffett's 'Songs you Know By Heart.' But for singalongability "Pencil Thin Mustache" is one of my favor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn7l0FJMQD0

[RainDog]

35. Shattered by the Rolling Stones?

Oop sha doo be shattered shattered.

Maybe earlier stones, tho I really grew to hate Honky Tonk Women because it was on the radio incessantly for what seemed like my entire life but probably wasn't.

Beatles stuff - Sly and the Family Stone - Dance to the Music - uh, Marvin Gaye, Low Spark of High Heel Boys, which I think I heard every Friday night at about midnight on FM when I was younger. Whiter Shade of Pale, the bob dylan songs I don't like, like Blowin' In the Wind or Hey Mr. Tamborine Man and I only hate them because of the covers and see the second sentence above.

James Brown Get up Offa That Thing is a song that everyone needs to hear from time to time. Talking Heads Life During Wartime, or Once in a Lifetime, My Sharona, Rock the Casbah - would she like any of those?

[opiate69]

36. BOC - "Godzilla", "Burnin' for You", "ETI"

[hellbound-liberal]

37. Don't fear the Reaper! Bring your own cowbell!

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"

I've always liked that one.

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. Alice's Restaurant.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

42. I was always rather fond of Juke Box Hero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5_qhnWByA4

[BOSSHOG]

43. Live for the Music - Bad Company

Pink Houses - Mellencamp

[carly denise pt deux]

46. classic rock....let's see

Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
Free Bird- Skynard
Slow Ride-Foghat
Fox on the Run-Sweet
Photograph-Def Leppard
Jumpin Jack Flash-Stones
anything by Cheap Trick
anything by Foreigner

Carly

[opiate69]

47. Sweet - "Ballroom Blitz"

[HuskerDU]

52. Ooh there's a fun one. Fox on the Run usually gets everybody

singing too.

[EstimatedProphet]

48. Truckin' - -Grateful Dead

[GreenPartyVoter]

50. .38 Special "Hang on Loosely"

[Turbineguy]

51. Boz Scaggs

Loan Me a Dime

[peacefreak]

53. This is for your wife? Where are the ladies?

Proud Mary--Tina Turner
Me & Bobby McGee--Janis Joplin
Good Bye Earl--Dixie Chicks
Closer to Fine--Indigo Girls
River--Joni Mitchell
Call Me--Debbie Harry

[alphafemale]

58. wrong place

for this post sorry

[BulletproofLandshark]

56. How about a taste of April Wine?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=q9Ky1kQHoI4

[alphafemale]

57. Twist and Shout, The Beatles The Wall, Pink Floyd, I Love Rock and Roll, Joan Jett

[alphafemale]

59. Stray Cat Strut, Walk This Way, Paradise City

[DFW]

60. Just about anything by the Byrds!

[DFW]

61. PS

This may not be a classic in a classic sense (I may NOT be making sense there LOL),
but if you have Leo Kottke's "Ice Water" in your collection, the song "Morning is the
Long Way Home," the original version with the vocal, was, for me, one of the best
songs to come out of the 1970s, along with Jackson Browne's "Take It Easy."

[sarge43]

63. "Blue Suede Shoes" Carl Perkins

[mitchum]

64. "Hocus Focus" (that should be entertaining)

[taterguy]

65. Alas it's not in my collection

[mitchum]

66. That's because you have good taste, my friend

[janx]

67. Allow me to consult my IPod...

First of all, Boston has to be in there somewhere. Santana, "All I Ever Wanted" is a rocker. How about Robert Palmer? And throw in some DAVE (Matthews). Their version of Watchtower is very good, as is Tom Petty's "Change of Heart." YES has to be in there too. Steve Miller maybe?

How long a list do you want? :rofl: Because you know, I could go on...and on...and on... :rofl:

[taterguy]

68. Addicted to Love is on the List

Dave Matthews is not because nothing good ever came out of Charlottesville

Please continue with the list though

[janx]

69. Bowie?

ELP? Pretenders? Fleetwood Mac?

Oh man, do you have INXS? Some of that stuff would push her around the room!

[taterguy]

70. Devil Inside just got added to the list

Thanks

[janx]

71. Peter Gabriel?

Goo Goo Dolls?

Jefferson Airplane/Starship? :rofl:

[taterguy]

72. Goo Goo Dolls cover of the Stones song Bitch just got added to the list