Re: What's on your Playlist? USCHO Music Thread
Would love to see/hear the list. As an old fart from that era, I've been struggling with a 70's playlist. Too many genres. Got my soul set (heavy into the Philly sound) and southern rock (with 80's mixed in) but a general 70's list has been difficult.
BTW: disco still sucks
Having been born in 1969, I first started listening to music in the 70s and that music has always held a special meaning for me. Both because it's quite possibly the best decade of rock music ever and because it's the soundtrack of my first 10 years of life. That sunny time of life before things get complicated.
Anyway, it's a decade that stylistically is all over the map. I decided to tackle my list from a "What did WLS* play?" standpoint, meaning I tried to keep the styles as broad as I could stomach, without trying to worry about whether southern rock could go with soul or funk. I even call it "70s Radio," to keep me open minded about what it includes.
When you put this stuff on shuffle, it strangely does all work well together.
Can't put my list here as it's well over 300 songs. Ranges from Stevie Wonder to Black Sabbath, from Gordon Lightfoot (Sundown is a great song!) to Aerosmith with everything from John Denver, Manfred Mann, Elvin Bishop, Bee Gees, Zeppelin & P-Funk in between.
I have a HUGE music collection but what I didn't already have, I found by looking over the lists that can be found on this site:
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/bg_hits/bg_hits_70.html
This is how I found songs that I had forgotten about like Year of the Cat and several others. Then I simply went and got those songs by artists that I didn't otherwise have in my collection.
Have fun. The 70s is the best. Sometimes I wish I could go back.
Oh yeah, and disco does still suck (and don't confuse the Bee Gees with other disco!). I remember watching the news when the record burning happened at Commisky Park. The easy listening crap from that decade sucks too.
*WLS was the Chicago station that I grew up listening to and they played mostly rock and mostly quality stuff from what I remember.
