What oldie songs have you purchased or enjoyed recently?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

I just bought Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy" and ABC's "Poison Arrow" and "Look of Love" and am listening.

I've recently made folks at work listen to "Midnight Train to Georgia" and Billy Paul's "Me and Mrs. Jones", as well as various James Brown of course.

What about you?

[enigmatic]

1. "Makin' Deals"- The Satans

http://www.thehighhat.com/Pop&Clicks/001/001pop&clicks_pebbles.html

"Makin’ Deals,” Satans. Naming your group “The Satans” in 1960s America didn’t turn out to be the commercial boon these guys might have anticipated. Dabbling in Satanic imagery two years before the Rolling Stones released “Sympathy for the Devil,” but lacking some of the edge of the Stones’ classic (“I’m the guy who makes the deals”). The song makes Satan seem more like a smalltime record hustler than a powerful, merciless deity; in other words, Kim Fowley as Satan. Actually, that would explain quite a bit."

Mick Jagger even copped lyrics, too; "Can you guess my name?" is a huge part of this song, too. Classic garage rock..

[TroubleMan]

2. I listen to old songs everyday.

My playlist at work is almost 1500 songs long - and a good 1/4 of the songs are over 15 years old. My favorites are Al Green and Marvin Gaye, but here are some older songs I've sort of rediscovered and have been listening to heavily recently:

"Sookie, Sookie" by Grant Green (1970...I think)

"Buscando Guayaba" by Willie Colón and Rubén Blades (1978)

"Israelites" by Desmond Dekker and The Aces (1969)

[VelmaD]

3. They were playing oldies this morning...

while I was waiting for my tire to get fixed (long story). Anyway, I've had "Let's Go To the Hop" stuck in my head all day. Could have been worse. :) Remember when even the most saccharine pop music had neato harmonies in it?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. Yeah.. not to be too "old coot"/curmudgeonly, but.. music used to be MUSIC! LOL

[VelmaD]

6. I admit to being...

a young fogey. :)

I prefer my music to be music too. I want something that's interesting from a compositional standpoint...not just 3 chords.

[Nicole]

4. I recently bought from iTunes: Wild World - Cat Stevens,

When A Man Loves A woman - Percy Sledge
The Letter - The Box Tops
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot
You Keep Me Hanging On - Vanilla Fudge
A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum
Highwayman - Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson

[SPKrazy]

7. ...

I know, I can't resist replying to your posts

I like Wild World, When a Man Loves a Woman, If you could read my mind, Early morning rain, Whiter shade of pale, and the Highwayman. Of course I love a lot of music so it isn't hard to hit what I like.

:thumbsup: :hi:

[Arugula Latte]

10. That's funny -- I just bought and listened to "If You Could Read My Mind"

There's something about that song that gets to me ...

Other recent purchased tunes include "Make a Circuit" by the Polecats (80s), It's My Life by Talk Talk (80s), In Dulce Decorum by the Damned (80s), Drive That Fast by Kitchens of Distinction (80s) ... Hmmm, I'm sensing a pattern here ...

Okay -- two non-80s I bought recently: Time of the Season by the Zombies (60s) and Bang a Gong by T-Rex (also 60s)

[AlCzervik]

8. Basketball by kurtis Blow.

[Lyric]

9. "White Flag" by Dido

I just like it.

[Arugula Latte]

12. I like that song too.

"Well I will go down with this ship ..."

[Glorfindel]

13. I like it, too...but "oldie"? You must be VERY young

indeed. Good for you! :pals:

[Glorfindel]

11. "Love" by the Beatles

The remixed album - I just love it.

[S n o w b a l l]

14. Curtis Mayfield's Greatest Hits...

[Strawman]

15. She's Gone by Hall & Oates

Sure they bit ass later on with "Maneater," and other such retch inspiring crap like "Family Man," but you could make an argument that "She's Gone" is among the most perfectly executed pop music ballads ever.

And that's funny. I was just listening to "Poison Arrow" tonight as well.

[Richardo]

16. Found The Mamas and The Papas "California Dreaming" in the bargain bin...

...a few weeks back. It's in steady rotation now. Such great music.

RIP Cass, John and Denny. :cry:

[leeroysphitz]

17. I recently dug out my old The Baby's Anthology CD an ripped it

to my mp3 player. Its fun.

[zingaro]

21. Drivin faster than you want me to...

I have some from that CD on my mp3 player too. And recently I had to convince someone who is my age (mid-late 30s) that a group called The Babys did exist.

It was really an odd moment.

[KitchenWitch]

18. I am grooving a lot on Van Morrison lately

"Into the Mystic" is one of my all time faves.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

24. That is definitely my all time favorite song of his. Without a doubt.

:thumbsup:

[GenDem]

27. Mine, too.

I turn it up as loud as I can stand, and waltz around the house like a fool. It is my all time favorite song. :hi:

[mentalsolstice]

19. "I Want To Know What Love Is" by Foreigner

Such a desperate song at the time!

[begin_within]

20. These...

Neil Young - Old Man, Helpless, The Needle and the Damage Done, Alabama, Don't Let it Bring You Down, After The Gold Rush, Oh Lonesome Me, I Believe in You, Love is a Rose, The Loner

Leon Russell - Welcome to Hollywood

Tommy Roe - Jam Up and Jelly Tight

The Spinners - Rubber Band Man

Elton John - Where to Now, St. Peter?

David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul, Ashes to Ashes, Oh! You Pretty Things, Life on Mars?, Kooks, Moonage Daydream, Starman, Hang On To Yourself, Suffragette City

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

Cream - Passing the Time

The Castaways - Liar, Liar

Fatboy Slim - Praise You

Five Man Electrical Band - Absolutely Right

Alvin Cash & The Crawlers - Twine Time

Vince Guaraldi Trio - Rain, Rain Go Away, Linus and Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Greensleeves, Cast Your Fate to the Wind

Three different recordings of Ella Fitzgerald singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" at various points in her career

Gladys Knight and the Pips - I Heard it Through The Grapevine

Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way

Nat King Cole - Stardust

[njdemocrat106]

22. I'm a young'un, but prefer the old songs

I picked up a Nuggets compilation recently ("Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968). "Dirty Water" by the Standells is on it, and a trippy tune I like on it called "My World Fell Down" by Sagittarius as well, with none other than Glen Campbell on lead vocals.

My favorite 80s song probably changes by the hour, but "The Look of Love" is up there as one of my favorites. I like "Be Near Me" as well.

[Le Taz Hot]

23. "Take a Pebble"

Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I had forgotten what a fucking awesome song that was.

[GenDem]

25. Al Green's "Greatest Hits - Deluxe Edition"

Brings me right back to the mid-seventies.

[peekaloo]

26. Never Say Never /Romeo Void, Lucky Number/Lena Lovich

Perfect Way/Scritti Politti (sp)

and damn even Look of Love (very Bowie-esque) :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

28. My whole repertoire is old.

'Stones, Beatles, Steely Dan, Earth/Wind/Fire, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Genesis, Van Morrison, James Taylor, Doobie Brothers, etc.

:P

[carly denise pt deux]

29. I have rhapsody

I have alot of oldies at my disposal...I love it
I have been into a 70's scene for the past 6 months, that was when music was......music.
Carly

[Seabiscuit]

30. A 4-disc/4-DVD collection of Doo Wop from PBS

[achtung_circus]

31. Purchased??? It is to laugh.

Hallelujah

in several of its permutations. Leonard Cohen and kd lang are tied, IMO closely followed by Jeff Buckley.