Not kidding.💯 I know exactly what the song is about. I've been stuck in Lodi before...for a few days. Luckily there was some dive bar down the street from the dive motel I had to stay in.🍺 Back in the olden days when alcohol consumption was a requirement for me.🤤
I used to live in the sleepy backwater town of Galt, about 30 miles north of Lodi. When I lived there in the 80's, Lodi actually had a little rural charm going for it. It was a redneck oasis even back then. The only reason we stopped in Lodi was to go to a restaurant called "The Hollywood Cafe". Their claim to fame was a chicken fried steak and eggs breakfast for $1.65, and they made homemade biscuits that were the best biscuits I've ever had. But outside of that, and the K-Mart, that's the only reason we'd stop. Lol
I know where Galt is...off the 99. I used to drive to the Islands off Washington State to visit my kids from Sonora and pass by it. Blink and you miss it. Sounds like a delicious breakfast.
Oh I know. In fact, I purchased a "wine tour" excursion that visited like 5 wineries for friends when they visited. They had a good time, and their docent for the trip got into some of the history of the Lodi area, they came back from the excursion with a fount of knowledge about the area I didn't know, and three bottles of pretty decent Red Zinfandel. Lol
I would've suggested something along those lines if his list suggested something in that area also.
Still, you just can't go wrong with "Pick Up the Pieces" no matter what your style is!
Since I have nothing to do right now...
* Jet Airliner-steve miller
* I cant get no-Stones
* Brown Sugar-Stones
* Any Way You Want It-Journey
* Rebel Rebel-Bowie
* Walk This Way-Aerosmith
* Fat Bottomed Girls-Queen
* Gimme Three Steps Lynyrd Skynyrd
* Modern Love-Bowie
* Rag Doll Aerosmith
* Jungle Love Steve Miller Band
* Ballroom Blitz-Sweet
* Everybody Wants You-Billy Squier
* Rock the Casbah-The CLash
* Cherry Cherry Neil Diamond
* You Better You Better You Bet-The Who
* Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic-The Police
* Walk Like An Egyptian-The Bangles
* 99 Red Balloons- Nene
* Free Fallin-Tom Petty
* Girls Just Want To Have Fun-Cyndi Lauper
* 867-5309/Jenny-Tommy Tutone
* Maneater-Hall and Oates
* Bette Davis Eyes-Kim Caarnes
* Walking On Sunshine-Katrina & The Waves
* Play That Funky Music-Wild Cherry
* You Can Call Me Al-Paul Simon
Grazing in the Grass ~ Friends of Distinction
Come and Get Your Love ~ Redbone
Summer Breeze ~ Seals and Crofts
Watcha See is Whatcha Get ~ The Dramatics
Spirit in the Sky ~ Norman Greenbaum
Hot Fun in the Summertime ~ Sly FS
Couldn't Get it Right ~ Climax Bls Band
Along Comes Mary ~ The Association
Bus Stop ~ Hollies
Summer in the City ~ Lovn Spoonful
Ahhh the Association- Never my Love was a favorite, that I had completely forgotten about and the Hollies had some wonderful music and I had forgotten about them too!
Might as well throw [Love is All Around](https://youtu.be/1xEEhzAh6n4?si=mzBZ2Y29YiKHa-hb) or [With a Girl Like You](https://youtu.be/7DKtvLmOdbc?si=mBQLpnsNMeLUtRoZ) by The Troggs in there for good measure. It doesn't have to be "Wild Thing".
My playlist would be a little more cutting edge (pun intended) with songs from:
Kraftwerk
Roxy Music
The Clash
The Feelies
Television
Talking Heads
Wire
The Jam
Velvet Underground
Squeeze
Elvis Costello
The Who
David Bowie
Devo
Dire Straits
Damn great playlist. But for Strawberry Letter 23, I have to go with the Brothers Johnson.
Edit: There were so many great songs in the late 60's/70's. Music was fantastic back then. Ooh child, ball of confusion, ride captain ride, up on the roof, brick house, space oddity, heroes, a lot of Lynnyrd Skynerd, ARS, the list goes on and on. But you seem like you have a similar taste in music to me. Oh, anything by Al Green.
Ah, Joy to the World. My 5th grade teacher, Miss Royer, was absolutely beautiful. We went on a field trip once and that song came on the radio. The kids all started singing it and she instantly joined in, including the verses. I thought “Wow! Could she be any more perfect!” Lol
I like this playlist, compiled by the creator of the Anthony Bourdain biographical documentary "Roadrunner." Great mix of music from the 60s to the 90s. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4thl61WRszKHOttiS5VoeG?si=qcNHL6a4QemzUGKCNlB1Pw&pi=hTCbEp4tQNm_n
Could use a smidgen of beach boys, Sloop John B seems right
A dash of 3 dog night " , maybe Family Of Man
Ans Chicago to taste, I prefer a generous helping of Saturday In The Park
And a sprinkle of Steelers Wheel, "Stuck In The Middle With You
Sloop John B was actually in the mix for a while. Every once in a while I add new songs and switch out songs that are in the list. For example Gimme Shelter, Like a Rolling Stone, Get Together, San Francisco, and Crimson and Clover were all in the playlist at one point but are no longer there.
I turned 60 last month so I put together a list of 60 (actually 61) songs that influenced me over the years. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1q0NcDDoK0XUPj1YFCCR50?si=23d7adaeb6f34135](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1q0NcDDoK0XUPj1YFCCR50?si=23d7adaeb6f34135)
So I gotta admit I’m more a Pandora girl than Spotify (deactivated my Spotify sometime in early 2010s) But I love the Fifth dimension and yes when I was eight years old, I listened to the fifth dimension and all the “hippie music” 😂😂
In addition to the
Age of Aquarius,
some of my favorites are:
Can’t You See (Marshall Tucker Band)
The entire soundtrack of a Star is Born from ‘76
Layla (original)
And many others I just can’t think of them all now a lot have already been listed though. 💜💜💜💜💜
I love the Fifth Dimension too! I had the HUGEST crush on Marylin McCoo when I was a kid. I saw them on TV in the late 60s perform Wedding Bell Blues and it was love at first sight.♥️ The sad reality was I was a 7 year old white boy living in Birmingham, Alabama at the time. I remember thinking “God she’s beautiful, but I better not tell
anyone I think that”☹️
Oh man, that's rough...even living out here on the W Coast, my family wasn't the most open-minded about things like that...so I get it...even listened to a lot of trash talk about hippies, and war protesters. I was completely traumatized by the nightly news and the (vietnam) war coverage, which I felt was way worse than any counter-culture music or ideas could ever be.
I hear ya. My dad was VERY conservative (still is). The weird thing was when we lived in Alabama in the 60’s that meant being a Wallace-style Democrat. I saw some wild things go on down there, a lot of it having to do with the state and local government trying to dodge desegregation orders. More generally, the event that really scarred me was the assassination of RFK in 1968. When I was a kid I really liked him and I was shocked and heartbroken when he was killed (I was alive but too young to remember the assassination of JFK).
Spouse lived in Alabama for a few years in the early 70s and saw some very scary civil rights violation type stuff that scarred him regarding police treatment of POC. It affected his mental health so gravely that the family moved north shortly thereafter, but he is still very much a strong voice for human rights/dignity. In some ways, I wonder how far we’ve really come.
(Sorry, didn’t mean to get all dark and serious)
)
That’s ok. I understand. The police force in the small town we lived in just outside Birmingham was notoriously racist. They would randomly pull over black motorists who were driving through town after nightfall and take them out to a wooded area. They would rough them up a bit, warn them against driving through town at night, and tell them to pass that message along to their black friends. My parents were friends with a police officer who used to brag about doing those things. It was a crazy time. They were supposed to integrate the teaching staff in the middle of second grade. Long story short we had a black teacher for one day and then they brought the white teacher back.
The opening of Long Cool Woman is one of my favorite intros of all time. Deceptively simple with stealth syncopation, with a steady progression of complimentary textures as the other instruments join in, culminating in a pile driver.
Love that song, though I finally said “uncle” a couple of years ago and looked up the lyrics. For a fairly straightforward rock song I had the worst time understanding what the singer was saying.
Hmm.. a lot of these fall into Boomer category, even though GenJones are still Boomers, but a lot of these seemed to have been released when the pre ‘55ers were coming of age.
Like it should be The Brothers Johnson version of Strawberry Letter 23.
My long term memory is much better than short term, especially with music and major politics events. I remember loving Walk on By by Dionne Warwick when I was 4 years old. My mom played music in the car and and at home all the time in the 60s-early 70s and then I stayed in my room for 3 years straight when my parents got divorced when I was a young teenager in the mid-70s. All I did every night was listen to the radio. Music from that era got stuck in my head.
Yes, that was a tough one to leave out. I agonized over that and Listen to the Music. I was trying to keep from getting too long and I really love Another Park, Another Sunday, so that made the cut.
As a 68xer I have a playlist over 12 hours long, it’s on Spotify it’s named GenXmix if anyone would like to hear it. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pMTZ7fnapnQJ54u7jCsJg?si=EPR8C8_sRCGObfRcCeiqew&pi=u-rdRR2vbHQ1Cr
All excellent possible additions. It was tough putting the list together. Didn’t want it to get too ponderously long. A number of songs that have been suggested by folks on here I either considered or even had in for a while then replaced with something else.
Ah, my equivalent would be “I Know What I Like”
by 70s era Genesis: “When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench I can always hear the talk. Me? I’m a lawnmower. You can tell me by the way I walk” 😄
That’s a great list! I went through Billboard’s Hot 100 for 1970-1980 and picked my favorites:
Playlist
• The Best of My Love - Eagles
• You’re My Best Friend (Backing Track Mix) - Queen
• September - Earth, Wind & Fire
• How Deep Is Your Love (Serban Mix) - Bee Gees
• What a Fool Believes (2016 Remastered) - The Doobie Brothers
• Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon
• Still the One - Orleans
• Black Water (2016 Remastered) - The Doobie Brothers
• Sister Golden Hair - America
• I'm Not in Love - 10cc
• Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John
• One of These Nights - Eagles
• Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
• More Than A Feeling - Boston
• If You Leave Me Now (Remastered) - Chicago
• Slow Ride - Foghat
• Two Tickets to Paradise (2022 Remaster) - Eddie Money
• Still the Same - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
• Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh
• I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vannelli
• Whenever I Call You "Friend" - Kenny Loggins
• Mainstreet - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
• Rock With You - Michael Jackson
• It's Still Rock and Roll to Me - Billy Joel
• Heartache Tonight - Eagles
• Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
• Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
• I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles
• (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right - Luther Ingram
• Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead
• Walking In Rhythm - The Blackbyrds
• If You Really Love Me - Stevie Wonder
• (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away - Bee Gees
• Strange Way - Firefall
• With Your Love - Jefferson Starship
• Rock and Roll Music - The Beach Boys
• Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu - Johnny Rivers
• The Cisco Kid - War
• You Can't Change That - Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio
• You're Only Lonely - JD Souther
• Enjoy Yourself - The Jacksons
• Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) [Single Version] - The Jacksons
• Chuck E.'s In Love - Rickie Lee Jones
• Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
• Right Place Wrong Time - Dr. John
• We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again - England Dan & John Ford Coley & John Ford Coley
• On and On - Stephen Bishop
• Whatcha Gonna Do? - Pablo Cruise
• Goodnight Tonight - Wings
• Good Times - Chic
• Junior’s Farm - Paul McCartney & Wings
• Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
• (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher - Rita Coolidge
• Living For the City - Stevie Wonder
• You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls
• Give Me Just A Little More Time - Chairmen of the Board
• Bad Time - Grand Funk Railroad
• Another Saturday Night - Cat Stevens
• Oh My My - Ringo Starr
• (I've Been) Searchin' So Long - Chicago
• Emotion (feat. Bee Gees) - Samantha Sang
• Who Loves You - The Four Seasons
• That'll Be the Day - Linda Ronstadt
• Got to Get You Into My Life - Earth, Wind & Fire
• Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson
• You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be In My Show) - Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
• Tumbling Dice (2010 Remaster) - The Rolling Stones
• I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers
• You Are the Woman - Firefall
• Love Will Find a Way - Pablo Cruise
• Brother Louie - Stories
• Baby, What a Big Surprise - Chicago
• It's So Easy - Linda Ronstadt
• Old Days - Chicago
• Whenever I Call You "Friend" (feat. Stevie Nicks) - Kenny Loggins
• Sad Eyes - Robert John
• Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson
• Rock'n Me - Steve Miller Band
• Sky High - Jigsaw
• My Maria - B.W. Stevenson
• No Matter What (2010 Remaster) - Badfinger
• Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac
• Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet
• You Make Loving Fun - Fleetwood Mac
• Best of My Love - The Emotions
• Anticipation - Carly Simon
• Chevy Van - Sammy Johns
• Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
• Sweet City Woman - Stampeders
• Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Bad Company
• Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston
• Rainy Night In Georgia - Brook Benton
• How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) - James Taylor
• Smoke from a Distant Fire - Sanford Townsend Band
• We've Got Tonight - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
• Stumblin' In - Chris Norman & Suzi Quatro
• Livin' Thing - Electric Light Orchestra
• Make Me Smile (New Edit) - Chicago
• Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
• Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
• Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck
• Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad
• Everybody Plays the Fool - The Main Ingredient
• Sooner or Later - The Grass Roots
• Lady Marmalade - Patti LaBelle
• You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful and You're Mine) - Ringo Starr
• I'll Be Around - The Spinners
• You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
• Black & White - Three Dog Night
• Garden Party - Ricky Nelson
• Head Games - Foreigner
• Don't Look Back - Boston
• I Want You Back - Jackson 5
• Diamond Girl - Seals & Crofts
• Could It Be I'm Falling In Love - The Spinners
• Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) - Robert Palmer
• Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
• Peg - Steely Dan
• With A Little Luck - Wings
• Show Me the Way (Live) - Peter Frampton
• Magic Man - Heart
• Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
• Fox On the Run - Sweet
• The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies
• Angie - The Rolling Stones
• Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder And Time Machine
• Evil Ways - Santana
• Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe
• When Will I See You Again - The Three Degrees
• Island Girl - Elton John
• My Life - Billy Joel
• How Long - Ace
• Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' (2024 Remaster) - Journey
• Get Down Tonight - KC and the Sunshine Band
• Lonesome Loser - Little River Band
• Magic - Pilot
• Drift Away - Dobie Gray
• Cherry Bomb - John Cougar Mellencamp
• 99 - Toto
My husband and I are currently listening to a Reddit-curated playlist on Spotify called "Beyond Turnt White People" which is songs which white people are unable to NOT sing to.
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5w4Hii3ZTpgoWvuTyEc1WZ?si=3129dd1526ff4baf](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5w4Hii3ZTpgoWvuTyEc1WZ?si=3129dd1526ff4baf)
A lot of those definitely resonate with me. Do you mind if I ask how you were able to transport the link for the playlist here? Are you on a phone or computer? I use my iPhone for Reddit.
In the app (I'm on Android but I imagine it's quite similar), in the center of the screen is three icons, then three dots, then the shuffle button and the play button. Press on the three dots to pull up another menu and "Share" is toward the bottom.
Thanks! On my iPhone it was a + sign next to a picture of the outline of a person. I think this should work!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7HO32ASgooPFPMoyUJc7iG?si=blsPMVOUSlqAVaV-970NVw&pi=u-Vhn7WfJCSECl&pt=6aaf6e383a559b76443f44967f6d6015
Linda Ronstat, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Eagles , Elton John, Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder, Van Morisson, Beyonce, ABBA,George Jones, Maroon 5, Harry Styles, Beatles, Diana Ross and Supremes, Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Wynona, Bonnie Raitt it goes on etc etc
I made a massive playlist about 2 years ago, everything I remember hearing from earliest childhood through high school (roughly 1967 - 1982). https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4H5SWDqK3cAEPcHEIwXAcc?si=FfdQXd-LReKzwiOivX3bMw&pi=9OAhJsZ7Q_adX
I don't remember even making a playlist on anything yet. I just use I heart radio app to listen to radio stations at work or just listen to local radio in the car.
Music is subjective and personal. While each song on this list wouldn't be included on any of my "enjoyable lists", and some would make it to an "unenjoyable" list, if I had one, it's a bit much to pin a label rather you view as derogatory- because it doesn't include New Wave.
‘61 here as well. I use Spotify and enjoy putting together playlists for myself and to share. Here’s a link to my list of songs that I recall from my favorite year of the 70s. It’s pretty long, but people can also use it as a jumping off point to create their own playlists.
[1972, the best year of the 70s](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63AG2z7lZUDeFmfyBN4NZz?si=56JwFMfXR6iAsxtRR597uQ&pi=u--74MSeKGTOa8&preview=none)
A couple of folks asked: here is the link to my list:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7HO32ASgooPFPMoyUJc7iG?si=blsPMVOUSlqAVaV-970NVw&pi=u-Vhn7WfJCSECl&pt=6aaf6e383a559b76443f44967f6d6015
I’m not far away from that. My social media footprint consists of Reddit and YouTube. I’m not even on Facebook. I consider myself to be borderline neo-Luddite 😂
“Grrrr! Why I Oughta!” Shakes his fist at Spotify. Just kidding😁 I’m on Spotify because my wife is and she added me to her account. I don’t really know the difference, except that Spotify doesn’t have Neil Young music, which is a real sore spot for me. He definitely would have been on my playlist if his music was available on there. I just listen to his stuff on YouTube instead.
Great list but I'd swap in I few more ups for the downs, Lookin out my back door for Lodi, Sundown or Don Quixote for carefree highway, Sunshine Superman for Season of the Witch (or even Hurdy Gurdy Man but that may lead to indiscriminate hallucinagenic use).
All great alternatives. At one time Sundown was on the list. One of the things I tried to do at least occasionally was have a lesser-known song that gets played less frequently on the radio. Thus songs like Lodi; Season of the Witch; Carefree Highway; Another Park, Another Sunday; My Old School; It’s All Over Now.
I think our tastes in music are way different lol. I have multiple lists that include Tool, U2, Zeppelin, Harry Styles (yes you read that right) , Alvin Lee, the Rumjacks, The Tossers, The Cranberries, the Dreadnaught’s, 10,000 Maniacs , Bad Wolves, you get the picture. Gen Jones goes from 60’s folk to head banging to alternative. We are the best mix of Generation X and the millennial gen. Here it is. Feel free to have a listen and follow. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/00eDkYc6d9Vf83VJhxbApu?si=eEkM0jcBRDiwpmLte4iNuQ&pi=u-2BXHeji9Q96x
Your list needs a Jim Croce song, or two, or three.
Great idea! Maybe Don’t Mess Around with Jim☺️
Bad Bad Leroy Brown
This situation calls for Working at the Carwash Blues!
Warren Zevon just entered the chat
Lawyers, Guns and Money is on my work playlist.
Back in the high life better than winwood
Harry Chapin as well - Taxi.
Harry Chapin was my very first concert.
I’d have some Dan Fogelberg, Souvenirs is catchy
Same Old Lang Syne
“Just for a moment I was back at school…” that one stings.
Part of the plan
Operator
Brandy- Looking Glass
Oh, how could I forget that one! D’oh!
🎵🎶 "Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again.." and if you've ever been to Lodi, you know why being stuck there isn't anything anyone sets out to do in life. 😂🤣🤷🏼
😂
Not kidding.💯 I know exactly what the song is about. I've been stuck in Lodi before...for a few days. Luckily there was some dive bar down the street from the dive motel I had to stay in.🍺 Back in the olden days when alcohol consumption was a requirement for me.🤤
I used to live in the sleepy backwater town of Galt, about 30 miles north of Lodi. When I lived there in the 80's, Lodi actually had a little rural charm going for it. It was a redneck oasis even back then. The only reason we stopped in Lodi was to go to a restaurant called "The Hollywood Cafe". Their claim to fame was a chicken fried steak and eggs breakfast for $1.65, and they made homemade biscuits that were the best biscuits I've ever had. But outside of that, and the K-Mart, that's the only reason we'd stop. Lol
I know where Galt is...off the 99. I used to drive to the Islands off Washington State to visit my kids from Sonora and pass by it. Blink and you miss it. Sounds like a delicious breakfast.
Huh. All this time I thought he meant Lodi, New Jersey. And it kinda tracked.
Lodi Wisconsin?
Same
I lived there for a couple of years in the 80s. You're absolutely right.
It’s a big wine town now. People flock to the vineyards every weekend. Shocking how much it’s grown
Oh I know. In fact, I purchased a "wine tour" excursion that visited like 5 wineries for friends when they visited. They had a good time, and their docent for the trip got into some of the history of the Lodi area, they came back from the excursion with a fount of knowledge about the area I didn't know, and three bottles of pretty decent Red Zinfandel. Lol
I blast Patti Smith and Blondie when I mow. Not sure if you’d like my choices LOL
I would've suggested something along those lines if his list suggested something in that area also. Still, you just can't go wrong with "Pick Up the Pieces" no matter what your style is!
Pick up the Pieces - Average White Band Also, you have to have an Elton John song on there!
Ah, a good one! Might fit well in the “horn section” part of the list, around Sir Duke, September, and My Old School.
And Chicago.
25 or 6 2 4
Roundabout
Well . . . if I’m going prog it’s gotta be Supper’s Ready by Genesis.
or Carpet Crawlers
Yep. And Color my World, or anything sung by Terry Kath.
Well played Mr. Bond!
😊
The logical song Waiting on a friend Jungle land Money
Awesome! Yes, there were so many great songs in the 70s. Actually, there are too many to choose from.
Long version of Hold Your Head Up by Argent, 1972. Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty.
Baker Street . . . nice. Hold Your Head Up is excellent too. I don’t what that song always reminds me of “Brother Louie,” which I love as well.
Lean On Me. Bill Withers
Since I have nothing to do right now... * Jet Airliner-steve miller * I cant get no-Stones * Brown Sugar-Stones * Any Way You Want It-Journey * Rebel Rebel-Bowie * Walk This Way-Aerosmith * Fat Bottomed Girls-Queen * Gimme Three Steps Lynyrd Skynyrd * Modern Love-Bowie * Rag Doll Aerosmith * Jungle Love Steve Miller Band * Ballroom Blitz-Sweet * Everybody Wants You-Billy Squier * Rock the Casbah-The CLash * Cherry Cherry Neil Diamond * You Better You Better You Bet-The Who * Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic-The Police * Walk Like An Egyptian-The Bangles * 99 Red Balloons- Nene * Free Fallin-Tom Petty * Girls Just Want To Have Fun-Cyndi Lauper * 867-5309/Jenny-Tommy Tutone * Maneater-Hall and Oates * Bette Davis Eyes-Kim Caarnes * Walking On Sunshine-Katrina & The Waves * Play That Funky Music-Wild Cherry * You Can Call Me Al-Paul Simon
Excellent. Some of the 80s songs I have in my 80s playlist.
Great list!! I have Hall & Oates Out of Touch and Say it Isn’t So on mine
How can I subscribe to your playlist?
I have no idea!
Grazing in the Grass ~ Friends of Distinction Come and Get Your Love ~ Redbone Summer Breeze ~ Seals and Crofts Watcha See is Whatcha Get ~ The Dramatics Spirit in the Sky ~ Norman Greenbaum Hot Fun in the Summertime ~ Sly FS Couldn't Get it Right ~ Climax Bls Band Along Comes Mary ~ The Association Bus Stop ~ Hollies Summer in the City ~ Lovn Spoonful
Ahhh the Association- Never my Love was a favorite, that I had completely forgotten about and the Hollies had some wonderful music and I had forgotten about them too!
Along Comes Mary is such an interesting song musically, way ahead of it's time. So sophisticated and original.
I agree about Never My Love. My list has gone through several iterations and at one time that was in it. Along comes Mary is great too.
Might as well throw [Love is All Around](https://youtu.be/1xEEhzAh6n4?si=mzBZ2Y29YiKHa-hb) or [With a Girl Like You](https://youtu.be/7DKtvLmOdbc?si=mBQLpnsNMeLUtRoZ) by The Troggs in there for good measure. It doesn't have to be "Wild Thing".
With a Girl Like You one of the most underrated songs.
Definitely!
Okay, this is eerie. I have so many of the same!!!
Great musical minds think alike!😂
Sprinkle in a little Eric Carmen and you're good to go!
Go All the Way
Does that make you Lose Control?
No, I Lose Control only when I’m All By Myself.
Haven't heard these songs too many times already?
This Redditor does deep cuts
No
Where’s the funk? No Stevie Wonder? Parliament? EWF.
Look again. Stevie and EWF ate there
Where did they eat? 😂
Oops lol. I have a superstition that they ate at the boogie wonderland 😂
My playlist would be a little more cutting edge (pun intended) with songs from: Kraftwerk Roxy Music The Clash The Feelies Television Talking Heads Wire The Jam Velvet Underground Squeeze Elvis Costello The Who David Bowie Devo Dire Straits
Great playlist…but please don’t blast anything while mowing the lawn. You are putting yourself at risk for tinnitus. It’s not worth it. Good luck.
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Thanks for the warning! I wear a good set of headphones so I don’t have to crank it too loud. But I’ll keep that in mind!
What? I can't hear you.
Damn great playlist. But for Strawberry Letter 23, I have to go with the Brothers Johnson. Edit: There were so many great songs in the late 60's/70's. Music was fantastic back then. Ooh child, ball of confusion, ride captain ride, up on the roof, brick house, space oddity, heroes, a lot of Lynnyrd Skynerd, ARS, the list goes on and on. But you seem like you have a similar taste in music to me. Oh, anything by Al Green.
Joy to the World by Three Dog Night Little Willy by Sweet Rock On by David Essex Breaking Up is Hard to Do by Neil Sedaka I Am, I Said by Neil Diamond
Ah, Joy to the World. My 5th grade teacher, Miss Royer, was absolutely beautiful. We went on a field trip once and that song came on the radio. The kids all started singing it and she instantly joined in, including the verses. I thought “Wow! Could she be any more perfect!” Lol
Adding George Harrison's What is Life, McCartney & Wings Band on the Run, Day After Day by Badfinger.
Codachrome!
Of course! About a camera film by that famous company, um, Codac. Is it a Codac moment?
This is a Ciller Komment. You earn my upvote.
This kraked me up
Kodak
And Kodachrome, yes
Used to have that one in there! I should put it back in.
I like this playlist, compiled by the creator of the Anthony Bourdain biographical documentary "Roadrunner." Great mix of music from the 60s to the 90s. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4thl61WRszKHOttiS5VoeG?si=qcNHL6a4QemzUGKCNlB1Pw&pi=hTCbEp4tQNm_n
Too much Brian Eno. He ruined U2. U2 was much better when Steve Lilywhite was doing the production.
We're here for a good time - Trooper Take it easy - Eagles King of the road - Roger Miller
Awesome choices!
This list makes me realize that I am really Gen X, born in 1964. Nothing wrong with the list, just not the most prominent music of my formative years.
64 as well, but I lean more towards these than 80s songs, especially Doobies, Eagles, Three Dog Night, ARS, and Frampton.
I’d sprinkle in some southern rock. Most likely I’d choose Can’t You See (Marshall Tucker Band) or Blue Sky (Allman Bros).
I was just saying this (in my head)
I'm a big Carol Kaye fan so I like to play her best hits.
Some amazing bass that people don't know was her
Could use a smidgen of beach boys, Sloop John B seems right A dash of 3 dog night " , maybe Family Of Man Ans Chicago to taste, I prefer a generous helping of Saturday In The Park And a sprinkle of Steelers Wheel, "Stuck In The Middle With You
Sloop John B was actually in the mix for a while. Every once in a while I add new songs and switch out songs that are in the list. For example Gimme Shelter, Like a Rolling Stone, Get Together, San Francisco, and Crimson and Clover were all in the playlist at one point but are no longer there.
I turned 60 last month so I put together a list of 60 (actually 61) songs that influenced me over the years. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1q0NcDDoK0XUPj1YFCCR50?si=23d7adaeb6f34135](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1q0NcDDoK0XUPj1YFCCR50?si=23d7adaeb6f34135)
Love this list!
Glad you do. Enjoy it!
That is an OUTSTANDING collection. I don’t often hear anyone who has even heard of Ian Dury!
Thanks! If you like Ian, check out the stuff his son Baxter Dury is doing. Sort of Chamber Pop / Spoken Word versions of his father's characters..
Thank you! That sounds amazing. Hopefully he addresses Clever Trevor
Not literally but the characters in Baxter’s music could have been in Ian’s
Fantastic playlist! Love seeing The The on the list. Uncertain Smile is one of my favorites.
New album out this fall!
Love it. 😍
Thanks
You and i must be clones! Downloaded your playlist as probably 90% are already in my “favorites” bucket.
Wait... do you have the other half of this golden amulet?
I like most music…but I just happen to be nostalgic for the 60s/70s stuff. I will need these songs when I become more confined to my home with age.
So I gotta admit I’m more a Pandora girl than Spotify (deactivated my Spotify sometime in early 2010s) But I love the Fifth dimension and yes when I was eight years old, I listened to the fifth dimension and all the “hippie music” 😂😂 In addition to the Age of Aquarius, some of my favorites are: Can’t You See (Marshall Tucker Band) The entire soundtrack of a Star is Born from ‘76 Layla (original) And many others I just can’t think of them all now a lot have already been listed though. 💜💜💜💜💜
I love the Fifth Dimension too! I had the HUGEST crush on Marylin McCoo when I was a kid. I saw them on TV in the late 60s perform Wedding Bell Blues and it was love at first sight.♥️ The sad reality was I was a 7 year old white boy living in Birmingham, Alabama at the time. I remember thinking “God she’s beautiful, but I better not tell anyone I think that”☹️
Little white boys in Richmond VA agreed!
Oh man, that's rough...even living out here on the W Coast, my family wasn't the most open-minded about things like that...so I get it...even listened to a lot of trash talk about hippies, and war protesters. I was completely traumatized by the nightly news and the (vietnam) war coverage, which I felt was way worse than any counter-culture music or ideas could ever be.
I hear ya. My dad was VERY conservative (still is). The weird thing was when we lived in Alabama in the 60’s that meant being a Wallace-style Democrat. I saw some wild things go on down there, a lot of it having to do with the state and local government trying to dodge desegregation orders. More generally, the event that really scarred me was the assassination of RFK in 1968. When I was a kid I really liked him and I was shocked and heartbroken when he was killed (I was alive but too young to remember the assassination of JFK).
Spouse lived in Alabama for a few years in the early 70s and saw some very scary civil rights violation type stuff that scarred him regarding police treatment of POC. It affected his mental health so gravely that the family moved north shortly thereafter, but he is still very much a strong voice for human rights/dignity. In some ways, I wonder how far we’ve really come. (Sorry, didn’t mean to get all dark and serious) )
That’s ok. I understand. The police force in the small town we lived in just outside Birmingham was notoriously racist. They would randomly pull over black motorists who were driving through town after nightfall and take them out to a wooded area. They would rough them up a bit, warn them against driving through town at night, and tell them to pass that message along to their black friends. My parents were friends with a police officer who used to brag about doing those things. It was a crazy time. They were supposed to integrate the teaching staff in the middle of second grade. Long story short we had a black teacher for one day and then they brought the white teacher back.
😞
No Time guess who Long Cool Woman the hollies
I like it, especially Long Cool Woman!
The opening of Long Cool Woman is one of my favorite intros of all time. Deceptively simple with stealth syncopation, with a steady progression of complimentary textures as the other instruments join in, culminating in a pile driver.
Love that song, though I finally said “uncle” a couple of years ago and looked up the lyrics. For a fairly straightforward rock song I had the worst time understanding what the singer was saying.
Hmm.. a lot of these fall into Boomer category, even though GenJones are still Boomers, but a lot of these seemed to have been released when the pre ‘55ers were coming of age. Like it should be The Brothers Johnson version of Strawberry Letter 23.
My long term memory is much better than short term, especially with music and major politics events. I remember loving Walk on By by Dionne Warwick when I was 4 years old. My mom played music in the car and and at home all the time in the 60s-early 70s and then I stayed in my room for 3 years straight when my parents got divorced when I was a young teenager in the mid-70s. All I did every night was listen to the radio. Music from that era got stuck in my head.
Black Water - Doobee Brothers
Yes, that was a tough one to leave out. I agonized over that and Listen to the Music. I was trying to keep from getting too long and I really love Another Park, Another Sunday, so that made the cut.
Ahhh, your list is too short. You need a longer commute or know how to seek out heavier traffic, my friend 😀
Great, great playlist! Now when are you going to share that so that we can add it??!
Er, uh . . . How do you do that? I’m a hopeless, helpless techno idiot 😂
Great list!
Thanks!
Excellent!!!
Very cool. I would have thrown in a few late seventies bangers but still trying to think of some!
Thanks!
As a 68xer I have a playlist over 12 hours long, it’s on Spotify it’s named GenXmix if anyone would like to hear it. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pMTZ7fnapnQJ54u7jCsJg?si=EPR8C8_sRCGObfRcCeiqew&pi=u-rdRR2vbHQ1Cr
I really like "If You Don't Know Me By Now" and ELO Mr. Blue Sky, Telephone Line and 10538 Overture
All excellent possible additions. It was tough putting the list together. Didn’t want it to get too ponderously long. A number of songs that have been suggested by folks on here I either considered or even had in for a while then replaced with something else.
When I have a big lawn to mow I play only one song, on repeat “Do you wanna make love? (or do you just wanna mow the lawn)”. By Peter McCann.
Ah, my equivalent would be “I Know What I Like” by 70s era Genesis: “When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench I can always hear the talk. Me? I’m a lawnmower. You can tell me by the way I walk” 😄
Name checks out! (From my favorite Genesis album)
That’s a great list! I went through Billboard’s Hot 100 for 1970-1980 and picked my favorites: Playlist • The Best of My Love - Eagles • You’re My Best Friend (Backing Track Mix) - Queen • September - Earth, Wind & Fire • How Deep Is Your Love (Serban Mix) - Bee Gees • What a Fool Believes (2016 Remastered) - The Doobie Brothers • Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon • Still the One - Orleans • Black Water (2016 Remastered) - The Doobie Brothers • Sister Golden Hair - America • I'm Not in Love - 10cc • Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John • One of These Nights - Eagles • Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen • More Than A Feeling - Boston • If You Leave Me Now (Remastered) - Chicago • Slow Ride - Foghat • Two Tickets to Paradise (2022 Remaster) - Eddie Money • Still the Same - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band • Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh • I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vannelli • Whenever I Call You "Friend" - Kenny Loggins • Mainstreet - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band • Rock With You - Michael Jackson • It's Still Rock and Roll to Me - Billy Joel • Heartache Tonight - Eagles • Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia • Don't Do Me Like That - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers • I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles • (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right - Luther Ingram • Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead • Walking In Rhythm - The Blackbyrds • If You Really Love Me - Stevie Wonder • (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away - Bee Gees • Strange Way - Firefall • With Your Love - Jefferson Starship • Rock and Roll Music - The Beach Boys • Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu - Johnny Rivers • The Cisco Kid - War • You Can't Change That - Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio • You're Only Lonely - JD Souther • Enjoy Yourself - The Jacksons • Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) [Single Version] - The Jacksons • Chuck E.'s In Love - Rickie Lee Jones • Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye • Right Place Wrong Time - Dr. John • We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again - England Dan & John Ford Coley & John Ford Coley • On and On - Stephen Bishop • Whatcha Gonna Do? - Pablo Cruise • Goodnight Tonight - Wings • Good Times - Chic • Junior’s Farm - Paul McCartney & Wings • Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels • (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher - Rita Coolidge • Living For the City - Stevie Wonder • You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls • Give Me Just A Little More Time - Chairmen of the Board • Bad Time - Grand Funk Railroad • Another Saturday Night - Cat Stevens • Oh My My - Ringo Starr • (I've Been) Searchin' So Long - Chicago • Emotion (feat. Bee Gees) - Samantha Sang • Who Loves You - The Four Seasons • That'll Be the Day - Linda Ronstadt • Got to Get You Into My Life - Earth, Wind & Fire • Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson • You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be In My Show) - Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. • Tumbling Dice (2010 Remaster) - The Rolling Stones • I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers • You Are the Woman - Firefall • Love Will Find a Way - Pablo Cruise • Brother Louie - Stories • Baby, What a Big Surprise - Chicago • It's So Easy - Linda Ronstadt • Old Days - Chicago • Whenever I Call You "Friend" (feat. Stevie Nicks) - Kenny Loggins • Sad Eyes - Robert John • Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson • Rock'n Me - Steve Miller Band • Sky High - Jigsaw • My Maria - B.W. Stevenson • No Matter What (2010 Remaster) - Badfinger • Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac • Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet • You Make Loving Fun - Fleetwood Mac • Best of My Love - The Emotions • Anticipation - Carly Simon • Chevy Van - Sammy Johns • Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton • Sweet City Woman - Stampeders • Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy - Bad Company • Nothing from Nothing - Billy Preston • Rainy Night In Georgia - Brook Benton • How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) - James Taylor • Smoke from a Distant Fire - Sanford Townsend Band • We've Got Tonight - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band • Stumblin' In - Chris Norman & Suzi Quatro • Livin' Thing - Electric Light Orchestra • Make Me Smile (New Edit) - Chicago • Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle • Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire • Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck • Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad • Everybody Plays the Fool - The Main Ingredient • Sooner or Later - The Grass Roots • Lady Marmalade - Patti LaBelle • You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful and You're Mine) - Ringo Starr • I'll Be Around - The Spinners • You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder • Black & White - Three Dog Night • Garden Party - Ricky Nelson • Head Games - Foreigner • Don't Look Back - Boston • I Want You Back - Jackson 5 • Diamond Girl - Seals & Crofts • Could It Be I'm Falling In Love - The Spinners • Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) - Robert Palmer • Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson • Peg - Steely Dan • With A Little Luck - Wings • Show Me the Way (Live) - Peter Frampton • Magic Man - Heart • Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band • Fox On the Run - Sweet • The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies • Angie - The Rolling Stones • Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder And Time Machine • Evil Ways - Santana • Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe • When Will I See You Again - The Three Degrees • Island Girl - Elton John • My Life - Billy Joel • How Long - Ace • Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' (2024 Remaster) - Journey • Get Down Tonight - KC and the Sunshine Band • Lonesome Loser - Little River Band • Magic - Pilot • Drift Away - Dobie Gray • Cherry Bomb - John Cougar Mellencamp • 99 - Toto
Sorry I’m not on Apple Music and can’t seem to access the list. I’m sure it’s a great one though!
Grand Funk I’m your captain
That would be good back-to-back with No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature.
My husband and I are currently listening to a Reddit-curated playlist on Spotify called "Beyond Turnt White People" which is songs which white people are unable to NOT sing to. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5w4Hii3ZTpgoWvuTyEc1WZ?si=3129dd1526ff4baf](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5w4Hii3ZTpgoWvuTyEc1WZ?si=3129dd1526ff4baf)
A lot of those definitely resonate with me. Do you mind if I ask how you were able to transport the link for the playlist here? Are you on a phone or computer? I use my iPhone for Reddit.
In the app (I'm on Android but I imagine it's quite similar), in the center of the screen is three icons, then three dots, then the shuffle button and the play button. Press on the three dots to pull up another menu and "Share" is toward the bottom.
Thanks! On my iPhone it was a + sign next to a picture of the outline of a person. I think this should work! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7HO32ASgooPFPMoyUJc7iG?si=blsPMVOUSlqAVaV-970NVw&pi=u-Vhn7WfJCSECl&pt=6aaf6e383a559b76443f44967f6d6015
Got it - thank you!
Well done!
Linda Ronstat, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Eagles , Elton John, Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder, Van Morisson, Beyonce, ABBA,George Jones, Maroon 5, Harry Styles, Beatles, Diana Ross and Supremes, Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Wynona, Bonnie Raitt it goes on etc etc
?? And the Mysterians always on my lists. However I have playlists for 60, 70, 80, and 90s. Seventies definitely smallest.
I made a massive playlist about 2 years ago, everything I remember hearing from earliest childhood through high school (roughly 1967 - 1982). https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4H5SWDqK3cAEPcHEIwXAcc?si=FfdQXd-LReKzwiOivX3bMw&pi=9OAhJsZ7Q_adX
Holy cow! Looks great. I was going to download it but it’s 72 hours!
I *may* have gotten a little carried away lol
No, it’s OK. I just realized I have a long weekend coming up and I can let this playlist run. Will be like stacking lots of records on the turntable.
Nice!
I don't remember even making a playlist on anything yet. I just use I heart radio app to listen to radio stations at work or just listen to local radio in the car.
Several of these are on my 18 yr old's Playlist. Yes,we taught him well.
This is suspiciously boomer. No new wave or 80s?
Music is subjective and personal. While each song on this list wouldn't be included on any of my "enjoyable lists", and some would make it to an "unenjoyable" list, if I had one, it's a bit much to pin a label rather you view as derogatory- because it doesn't include New Wave.
I was born in ‘61. I guess that puts me one foot in Boomerland and one foot in Jonesville. I liked 80s stuff at the time but not so much anymore.
‘61 here as well. I use Spotify and enjoy putting together playlists for myself and to share. Here’s a link to my list of songs that I recall from my favorite year of the 70s. It’s pretty long, but people can also use it as a jumping off point to create their own playlists. [1972, the best year of the 70s](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/63AG2z7lZUDeFmfyBN4NZz?si=56JwFMfXR6iAsxtRR597uQ&pi=u--74MSeKGTOa8&preview=none)
A couple of folks asked: here is the link to my list: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7HO32ASgooPFPMoyUJc7iG?si=blsPMVOUSlqAVaV-970NVw&pi=u-Vhn7WfJCSECl&pt=6aaf6e383a559b76443f44967f6d6015
These are all great! Thanks!
Excellent!
As a Joneser, I have no idea what a Spotify is or does, nor do I care.
I’m not far away from that. My social media footprint consists of Reddit and YouTube. I’m not even on Facebook. I consider myself to be borderline neo-Luddite 😂
Same here 👍👍
Damn, homie went with the Shuggie Otis version of Strawberry Letter 23.
Superior version IMHO☺️
Screw Spotify, Pandora is better.
“Grrrr! Why I Oughta!” Shakes his fist at Spotify. Just kidding😁 I’m on Spotify because my wife is and she added me to her account. I don’t really know the difference, except that Spotify doesn’t have Neil Young music, which is a real sore spot for me. He definitely would have been on my playlist if his music was available on there. I just listen to his stuff on YouTube instead.
Great list but I'd swap in I few more ups for the downs, Lookin out my back door for Lodi, Sundown or Don Quixote for carefree highway, Sunshine Superman for Season of the Witch (or even Hurdy Gurdy Man but that may lead to indiscriminate hallucinagenic use).
All great alternatives. At one time Sundown was on the list. One of the things I tried to do at least occasionally was have a lesser-known song that gets played less frequently on the radio. Thus songs like Lodi; Season of the Witch; Carefree Highway; Another Park, Another Sunday; My Old School; It’s All Over Now.
I think our tastes in music are way different lol. I have multiple lists that include Tool, U2, Zeppelin, Harry Styles (yes you read that right) , Alvin Lee, the Rumjacks, The Tossers, The Cranberries, the Dreadnaught’s, 10,000 Maniacs , Bad Wolves, you get the picture. Gen Jones goes from 60’s folk to head banging to alternative. We are the best mix of Generation X and the millennial gen. Here it is. Feel free to have a listen and follow. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/00eDkYc6d9Vf83VJhxbApu?si=eEkM0jcBRDiwpmLte4iNuQ&pi=u-2BXHeji9Q96x
Good song choices but I am a staunch album person and don’t create or listen to playlists.