Oldies <1980] (a Boomer Thread)

[tp4tissue]

Post ur Fav Oldies. Pre-1980



Yesterday Once More - Carpenters (1973)

[Olumin]

Post ur Fav Oldies. Pre-1980

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Yesterday Once More - Carpenters (1973)

What, music? God, literally almost anything from Dean Martin, Frank, Crosby, Cole...
Can’t go wrong. Listen to them on a daily basis, almost exclusively by now:

Or...

Pure class.

This one is "wonderfully" patriotic. Don’t care about that, song is great however. So much energy:

Look up more yourself, there are hundreds to choose from, all of them fantastic. If you want something more modern then Elvis perhaps?

Music peaked in the 60s.

I also enjoy Military music and songs from Germany, Britain and the states:

[Sintpinty]

I mean i have a collection of vinyl from my grandparents i could get it from them

[tp4tissue]

What, music? God, literally almost anything from Dean Martin, Frank, Crosby, Cole...
Can’t go wrong. Listen to them on a daily basis, almost exclusively by now:

Great enthusiasm Olumin, let's do it 1 @ a time to give others some space to chime in.

[fohat.digs]

My tastes definitely run to the unconventional and weird, but I have been at it for over half a century.
I have had a few of these lists going for some time, so for this I modified what I had.
This is not exhaustive and obvious choices like the Beatles, Who, and Rolling Stones are not included.

AC / DC – High Voltage + Back in Black
Kevin Ayers – Joy of a Toy
Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation
B-52s – Wild Planet
Ginger Baker – Horses and Trees
Chuck Berry – Is on Top
Big Brother and the Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
Rory Block – Best Blues and Originals
Blondie – Parallel Lines
Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties
David Bowie – Hunky Dory + Scary Monsters
Jack Bruce – Songs for a Tailor + Harmony Row
Tim Buckley – Star Sailor
John Cale – Fear
Can – Monster Movie + Tago Mago
Canned Heat – Livin’ the Blues
Captain Beefheart – Troutmaskreplica + Spotlight Kid
The Clash – London Calling
Cream – Fresh Cream
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Defunkt – Thermonuclear Sweat
Demon Buzz – Afreaka
Dire Straits – Love Over Gold
Donovan – Greatest Hits
Doors - 1st + Morrison Hotel + LA Woman
Bob Dylan – Greatest Hit 1 & 2
Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets + Another Green World
Marianne Faithfull – Broken English
Fleetwood Mac – Then Play On
Fugs – The First Album + It Crawled into My Hand, Honest
Gong – Camembert Electrique + Angels Egg
Groundhogs – Blues Obituary + Split
Hampton Grease Band – Music to Eat
John Hartford – Aereo–Plain + Mark Twang
Harmonia – Musique vo Harmonia
Hawkwind – In Search of Space + Quark Strangeness & Charm
Henry Cow – Legend
Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland
Gil–Scott Heron – Pieces of a Man
John Lee Hooker – No Friend Around
Hot Tuna – 1st + First Pull Up Then Pull Down
Son House – Original Delta Blues
Howlin’ Wolf
Jefferson Airplane – After Bathing at Baxters
Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues
King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King
Kinks – Something Else + Arthur
Jerry Lee Lewis – Greatest!
David Lindley – El Rayo X
MC5 – Back in the USA
Joni Mitchell – Blue + Court & Spark
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
Mothers of Invention – Freak Out + Absolutely Free
Nico – Chelsea Girl
Pere Ubu – Dub Housing + The Modern Dance
Glen Phillips – Lost at Sea
Pink Fairies – Never Never Land
Pink Floyd – Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Plastic People of the Universe – Egon Bondy + Hovezi Porazka
Pretty Things – SF Sorrow + Parachute
Jonathan Richman – Modern Lovers
Roxy Music - 1st + For Your Pleasure + Country Life
Savoy Brown – Raw Sienna+ Street Corner Talking
Paul Simon - 1st + Graceland
Patti Smith – Horses + Radio Ethiopia
Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight
Soft Machine – 1st + Volume 2 + Third + 4 + 5
Spooky Tooth – Spooky Two
Steely Dan – Can’t Buy a Thrill + Aja
Stooges - Funhouse
T – Rex – Electric Warrior
Talking Heads – 77 + Remain in Light + Little Creatures
Taste – On the Boards
Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die
Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground & Nico + Loaded
Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones + Rain Dogs
Johnny Winter – Progressive Blues Experiment + And Live
Robert Wyatt – The End of an Ear + Rock Bottom
Yardbirds – overundersidewaysdown + Roger the Engineer
Neil Young – After the Goldrush + Tonight’s the Night

[fohat.digs]

Cannonball Adderley – Something Else
Albert Ayler – Spiritual Unity
Gato Barbieri – Chapter One Latin America
Anthony Braxton – Dortmund Quartet 1976
Peter Brotzmann – Machine Gun
Gary Burton – Lofty Fake Anagram
Don Cherry – Complete Communion + Eternal Rhythm
John Coltrane – Live at the Village Vanguard
Larry Coryell – Barefoot Boy
Miles Davis – Milestones + In a Silent Way
Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Jan Garbarek – Witchi–Tai–To
Stan Getz – Getz/Gilberto featuring Jobim
Kip Hanrahan – Coup de Tete
Billie Harper – The Awakening
Julius Hemphill – Dogon A.D.
David Holland – Conference of the Birds
Jazz Composers Orchestr Association – Escalator Over the Hill
Kronos Quartet – Pieces of Africa
Steve Lacy – School Days + The Forest and the Zoo
Abbey Lincoln – Straight Ahead
Albert Mangelsdorff – Now Jazz Ramwong
John McLaughlin – My Goal’s Beyond
Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame
Shakti featuring John McLaughlin
Charles Mingus – Ah Um
Thelonius Monk – Misterioso
Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come
Oregon – Music of Another Present Era
Evan Parker – Process and Reality
Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians
Terry Riley – In C
Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
Gabrielle Roth - Bones
Roswell Rudd – Flexible Flyer
Ravi Shankar – 3 Ragas
Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
Archie Shepp – Fire Music + Trouble in Mind
Wayne Shorter – JuJu
Trapezoid – Now and Then
Sun Ra – Space is the Place + Night of the Purple Moon
McCoy Tyner – Sahara
Tony Williams – Emergency

[gipetto]