What Are Your Favorite Old Songs?

teentitansfanatic · Still very bored Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 263

Here's a list of mine:

"How Do I Live"- LeeAnn Rimes
"Kokomo"-Beach Boys
"I Will Survive"-Gloria Gaynor
"Crush"-Jennifer Paige
"Fancy"-Reba
Any songs by the Four Seasons(I just love the beats that go with their music!)

((That's about all I can think of right now...what about the rest of you guys?))

fallenangel · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject:

Basically...all my favorite songs are "old". But I'll throw "Coma" (Guns n' Roses) and "Babylon" (Faster Pussycat) out there for starters.
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PhunkYMunkY · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:14 am Post subject:

Aretha Franklin - Say a little prayer for u
The Beatles.. Good ol' scousers Wink

Candy Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Cardigans - My Favourite Game
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's
Elvis Presleyyyyyy
Enya - Now We Are Free (Gladiator soundtrack.. not old but a classic nontheless)
Eric Clapton - White Room / Tears In Heaven.
Garbage - Stupid Girl.
George Michael - Faith
G'n'R
House Of Pain - Jump Around \m/
Hues Corporation - rock The Boat
Jackson 5 - Blame it on the boogie / abc easy as 123 etc
James Brown - Papa's got a brand new bag / Play that funky music white boy
John Lennon
Massive Attack - Teardrop / Blue Lines / Safe From Harm
Metallica
Michael Jackson
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (wooooooow this guy did EVERY piece of music on this track and edited it all together)
Mudvayne - all songs \m/
Oasis - Champagne Supernova - WonderWall
......etc
there's more but I have no time to mention

Nanda · Member Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 81

Like Fallen said, most of the music I like would be considered 'old' now. But here are some of my favs -

"Rock and Roll Suicide" - Bowie ...well, basically [i]anything[/i] Bowie, especially off "Ziggy Stardust."

"If I was your woman," "Midnight Train to Georgia," and "I heard it through the grapevine" performed by Gladys Night and the Pips.

"The very thought of you" - Billy Holiday

And basically anything Marvin Gaye (Ohhh..."let's stay together"), Cyndi Lauper (not so old - well, maybe now, I guess. heh. It has been almost twenty years, hasn't it?), Queen, ELO...

I'll stop now.

DG-sama · Moderator Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 2294

One of my favorites is 99 red ballons by Nena, either German or English version, both are cool (my favorite radio station actually does a pretty good remix of the song using the lyrics from both versions)
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Heathcliff · Rookie Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 29

ALL of the songs I like are old... I'm so out of step with my generation it's not true.... here are my favourite acts... just to show how outdated I truly am! . . . .

Scritti Politti
Westworld
Alison Moyet
Rick Astley
Talk Talk
Living in a Box
Limahl
Tears for Fears
Nik Kershaw
Talking Heads
Julian Cope
The Teardrop Explodes
Heaven 17
Simple Minds
Martika

..oh, and I'm, er, new. Hello. Smile

CherBeliever · Very bored Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 121

I know I don't have to say some of these......but!

I Got You Babe-Sonny & CHer
The Beat Goes On- Sonny & Cher
Gypsies, Tramps, &Theives-Cher
Bang Bang-Cher
All I Really Want To Do-Cher
Paradise Is Here-Tina Turner
I Was Born A Coal Miner's Daughter-Lorettal Lynn
Cussin', Crying, and carryin' on- Ike & Tina Turner
Make Em' Wait-Ike & Tina Turner
Beauty Is Just Skin Deep- Ike & Tina Turner
I'm Fed Up- Ike & Tina Turner

I'm also starting to explore Madonna.

Rebus · Very bored Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 224

You know, if I can remember some of those the first time round I certainly wouldn't count them as old. It's not as if my bones are creaking.

But for my choices....

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Oliver's Army
Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
Ian Drury and the Blockheads - Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick
Ben E King - Stand by Me
The Who - My Generation
Steve Harley - Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile) - which I am now, of course, singing. My neighbours must love me.

Anything by the Beatles (Ringo's new book is, naturally, on my Christmas list). A fair bit of Bowie's stuff. And it's only because I refuse to count them as oldies that Blur and/or Oasis aren't on the list somewhere.

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layzcarter · I used to work here Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 3988

I walk the Line- cash
I'm so lonesome I could cry- h williams sr.
Cats in the cradle - cash version
Johnny Angel
Then he Kissed Me - The crystals
Eve of Destruction
Sunday Morning Coming Down - Cash

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VR_Jay · Very Oldbie Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2725

Anything by Van "The Man" Morrison. The guy is a god. Cool

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ragingflea002 · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:15 pm Post subject:

Jimi Hendrix:
Voodoo Child(Slight Return)
The Star Spangled Banner
Hear My Train A Comin'
Purple Haze
Foxey Lady
Villanova Junction
Hey Joe

Led Zeppelin:
Stairway to Heaven
Black Dog
Rock N' Roll
Immigrant Song
Misty Mountain Hop

Bob Dylan:
The House of the Rsing Sun
Maggies Farm

Guns N' Roses(better name the one I HATE):
Sweet Child O' Mine

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fallenangel · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject:

Aw, you hate Sweet Child? But aren't desperate cries of "omg please don't leave me!" funny, coming from psychopaths? Razz

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ragingflea002 · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject:

It got annoying after 13 times. Even Slash hates it with a passion. I understand why now. WTF?

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fallenangel · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:25 pm Post subject:

Slash hated it before it existed. He always thought it was corny and sucked. Not that I disagree with him, but I've always found the song thoroughly amusing. Plus Slash hates a lot of things I like. Like anything after Lies. Rolling eyes

(though the fact he was so quick to defend Axl about One In A Million and is now saying he didn't like it annoys me...)
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VR_Jay · Very Oldbie Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2725

I love the guitar in Sweet Child. Never gets old to me.
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ragingflea002 · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject:

He used the same riff practically in "Loving the Alien". I noticed there are similarities in both songs. Weird...

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