I was born in 1979. What awesome music did I miss? (60s/70s music)

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Elton John: “Love Lies Bleeding”, “Funeral for a Friend”, just about anything of his from the seventies.

Billy Joel: “The Piano Man”, “Captian Jack”, “Billy the Kid”, I could go on and on but they are the first few that came to mind.

Someone else mentioned Led Zeppelin. I know it’s a cliche, but “Stairway to Heaven” (there’s a reason it’s become a cliche). Also “When the Levee Breaks”.

Neil Young: (I’m listening to his greatest hits CD as I’m typing this so I’ve got a list at hand which is very hard to narrow down.) “Down by the River”, “Cowgirl in the Sand”, “Cinnamon Girl”, “Helpless”, “After the Gold Rush”, “Only Love can Break Your Heart”, “Southern Man”, “Ohio”, “The Needle and the Damage Done”, “Old Man”, “Heart of Gold”, “Comes a Time”, “Hey Hey My My”, “Rockin in the Free World”

Someone made a brief mention of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. It’s hard to know where to even start with them. Check out as much of their stuff as you can.

Just about anything from the Stones is worthwhile (although I’m not really familiar with their really recent stuff).

I know you don’t want to hear about albums but with the Beatles it’s hard not to talk in terms of albums, at least with their later stuff. They were meant to be listened to as a whole. You may want to try it out just to understand.

I love anything by the Beatles but the best stuff, at least for me, is anything from “Help!” (1965) and later. In particular “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, “Magical Mystery Tour”, “The Beatles [White Album]” (probably my favorite), " Abbey Road", “Hey Jude”, and “Let It Be”. If you’re really dead set against albums, see if you can sample some clips and just pick the singles you really like. To someone from my generation it almost seems blasphemous to pull a Beatles song out of it’s context, but I understand that that’s because of the times I grew up in and you may feel differently.

For any of the artists mentioned in this thread, sample as many clips as you can because there’re sure to be things you’ll like that no one will think to mention.

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This is a joke, right?

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He already whooshed the other guy who took it seriously, so I’d say that’s a “yes”

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Anything by Cat Stevens!!!

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Some Jethro Tull stuff:
From “Aqualung”:
Locomotive Breath
Wond’ring Aloud

From “Stormwatch”:
Dun Ringill
Old Ghosts

From “Heavy Horses”:
(this whole album is amazing)
No Lullaby
Heavy Horses

From “Too Old to Rock N Roll, Too Young to Die”:
From A Deadbeat To An Old Greaser
Salamander
The Chequered Flag (Dead or Alive)

From “Minstrel in the Gallery”:
Black Satin Dancer
Cold Wind to Valhalla
Requiem

From “Warchild”:
Bungle In The Jungle
Warchild
Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day

From “Songs From The Wood”:
Velvet Green
Jack-In-The-Green
Hunting Girl

That’s probably enough to start with. Mind you, pretty much every song on each of those albums is well worth listening to, especially “Heavy Horses”, which I could listen to over and over, all day long.

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So what’s the best song on either Abbey Road or Dark Side of the Moon? What’s the sound of one hand Clapping?

If I had to pick my top ten (and this is really hard), I’d have to say:

Layla (Derek and Dominoes)
Sunshine of Your Love (Cream)
I am the Walrus (Beatles)
Time/Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd)
The Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)
Baker Street Blues (Jethro Tull)
Deja Vu (CSN&Y)
Proclamation (Gentle Giant)
Love Reign O’er Me (Who)
Whipping Post (Allman Brothers)

To me, that pretty much is a representative sample of the best of the best. Agree or disagree, but I think we can all agree on Layla. Possibly one of the best songs EVAR.

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Wow. It’s like I couldn’t disagree more on your song choices. But on those albums, there’s not a bum in the lot anyway, so you can’t really go wrong.

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I think you’re agreeing with me (or, rather, with Thudlow Boink, whom I was agreeing with), but when you pose it as a question it’s hard to tell?

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It was very hard to come up with a list of individual songs from those albums, simply because they are so very good. I had to factor in other things as well… for example, Baker St. Muse is a, what, 16 minute song? Probably a little much for a first-timer. And half the songs that are my favorites are only 20 or 30 seconds long! Or they’re great but not really representative of the rest of the album. So I decided to go with songs that, were the CD playing in my car, I’d be most likely to reply once or twice after they finished, before letting the CD move on. Except in the case of Dun Ringill, which I could play 70 or 80 times before letting the CD move on.

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It’s that I cannot conceive of listening to just one track from either of those two albums. Most albums from that era, in fact. The whole concept of shuffle play just seems morally and ethically wrong.

Yes, I agree with you, times a million.

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Yeah, I know. It’s just a tough call all around. I like Baker St. just because it pretty much says everything you need to know about Tull all wrapped up in one song. My choices:

From “Aqualung”:
Aqualung
My God

From “Minstrel in the Gallery”:
Minstrel
Cold Wind to Valhalla
Baker St.

From “Warchild”:
Can’t disagree with you here, but I’d include Queen and Country

From “Songs From The Wood”:
Songs From the Wood
Cap in Hand

But your choices are great too. In fact, about the only song of theirs that I don’t love is Hot Mango Flash.

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I’d have included Cap in Hand except that it’s kind of longish, and it has the long instrumental parts that I am not sure would hold somebody who wasn’t already into Tull. It’s one of my personal favorites on the album, I just wasn’t sure if it was a good “introductory” song.

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Thinking about the OP in a different way, what would some of the greatest but overplayed songs from that era? Ones that I’m sure the OP has heard? Great but my God I can’t listen to that even once more?

Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
Stairway to Heaven (Led Zep)
Ramblin’ Man (Allman Bros)
Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Rock’n’Roll All Night (KISS)
Rock On (David Essex)
Gloria (The Doors)

What else?

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Seconded!

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How did I forget to mention Jethro Tull? Seconded!

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There are some damn good songs mentioned above. Here are a few more to try:

Blood Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel and You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
James Taylor - Anything from the * Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon* Album, but in particular, You Can Close Your Eyes and Mud Slide Slim. Also, Sweet Baby James from the album of the same title.
Emerson Lake & Palmer – From the Beginning
Fleetwood Mack – The Chain
Jefferson Starship – Miracles
The Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin
Kenny Loggins – House at Pooh Corner
Steely Dan – Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
Joe Walsh – Life’s Been Good
Todd Rundgren – Hello It’s Me
Chicago – It’s really hard to pick, since so much of their work is remarkable, but I’d say start with Beginnings and Saturday in the Park
Peter Frampton – Show Me The Way
Bad Company – Can’t Get Enough and Bad Company
Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son
Jim Croce – Operator
Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
Yes – I’ve Seen All Good People and Roundabout

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I didn’t see where anyone mentioned Genesis from the Peter Gabriel / Steve Hackett days. Here are some recommendations:

The Knife (ok, that one was pre-Steve.)
The Musical Box
Watcher of the Skies
Supper’s Ready
Firth of Fifth
Cinema Show

I will also mention “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” but this is one of the quintessential concept albums, I can’t pick single tracks from it.

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Do you subscribe to a service like Rhapsody? If you do, you will be able to search for and listen a lot of what was suggested in this thread. (Unfortunately, you won’t be able to find any Beatles songs since they haven’t been released to any services like Rhapsody, I-Tunes, or Napster yet.)

Here are some more suggestions for tracks/singles you may want to listen to:

[ul]
[li]“Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan[/li][li]“Maggie’s Farm” by Bob Dylan[/li][li]“Tangled Up in Blue” by Bob Dylan[/li][li]“Highway 61 Revisited” by Bob Dylan[/li][li]Anything off “Pet Sounds” by the Beach Boys (especially “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”, “God Only Knows”, and “There Must Be an Answer”)[/li][li]“Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who (Granted, this is one of those “great songs that have been overplayed to death.”)[/li][li]“Baba O’ Riley” by The Who[/li][li]“Tumblin’ Dice” by the Rolling Stones[/li][li]“Gimme Shelter” by the Rolling Stones[/li][li]“Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” by James Brown[/li][li]“Cold Sweat” by James Brown[/li][li]“Since You’ve Been Gone” by Aretha Franklin[/li][li]“Dear Mr. Fantasy” by Traffic[/li][li]“Heroin” by The Velvet Underground[/li][li]“Sweet Jane” by The Velvet Underground[/li][li]“Rock n’ Roll” by The Velvet Underground[/li][li]The second side medley from “Abbey Road” (beginning with “Golden Slumbers”) by the Beatles[/li][li]“Ziggy Stardust” by David Bowie[/li][li]“Allison” by Elvis Costello[/li][li]“Blitzkreig Bop” by the Ramones[/li][li]“Radio, Radio” by Elvis Costello[/li][li]“Superstition” by Stevie Wonder[/li][li]“Livin’ in the City” by Stevie Wonder[/li][/ul]

Those are just off the top of my head. This is just a minute sample of the music from the 60’s and 70’s.

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My personal playlist is about 750 songs, 90% of which are 60s and 70s. But let me recommend an entire genre: the R&B of Stax/Volt, the Memphis sound. Overshadowed by Motown, but better & funkier & groovier & much more soul.

Sam & Dave – Hold On, I’m Comin’
Eddie Floyd – Knock on Wood
Wilson Pickett – Land of 1000 Dances, Mustang Sally, In the Midnight Hour
Otis Redding – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long, Try a Little Tenderness
Edwin Starr – 25 Miles

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Since no one else’s offering up Pink Floyd…

From Dark Side of the Moon:
Time
The Great Gig In The Sky
Money
Us and Them
Brain Damage
Eclipse

From Wish You Were Here:
Shine on You Crazy Diamond, pts. 1-5
Have a Cigar
Wish You Were Here

From The Wall:
Another Brick in the Wall, pt. 2
Mother
Nobody Home
Comfortably Numb
Run Like Hell

From The Final Cut:
When The Tigers Broke Free (thanks, Wierddave)
The Gunner’s Dream
Not Now John
Two Suns in the Sunset

This is the end of the Roger Waters era of Pink Floyd, even though I loved the entire A Momentary Lapse of Reason album.

Pink Floyd has morphed quite a bit since Water’s departure, and I think they lost a certain necessary darkness and cynicism that made them…not cutting edge, but edgy.

As far as anything else goes, U2’s album The Joshua tree. The whole album. There’s nothing bad here.