...for my 30th Birthday. (Part One)
Once upon a time I wrote a post
about music. Then I wrote a
small follow-up to it.
I found those 18th Birthday Tapes the other day (they so deserve capitals) and was reading through the track listings and smiling at the memories that appeared.
So I decided to create my own playlist for my 30th. One hundred songs that represented the thirty years that I'd been around. Then I hit a few snags...mainly the fact that I couldn't narrow it down to 100. So I upped it a little. The list is now
150 songs, split up into 0-10, 10-20 and 20-30 sections so that each decade gets a fair shot. Not every song is in the decade it was released in, they fit in where I remember them within my life.
It's been very good fun - although Anthony is a little scared by some of the choices, and is very scared by some of the songs he didn't know that I then played him.
As I suspected in that first post, there are a few songs that have carried across to the 150. There are also a few that haven't due to not conjuring up a moment in my head. The Beatles are a casualty for this very reason, as are The Rolling Stones. I know. Shocking isn't it. They summon up a general time (sixth form and uni respectively) but no specific memories so I've had to be ruthless and chop them out.
While I'm working on the 150for30, here are my 100for18 - the result of three days choosing and locating the songs (as I had to find all the LP's/tapes with them on) and three weeks or so of Dad arranging them, copying them onto the reel-to-reel and then making the cassettes.
Queen - Headlong
Del Amitri - Driving With the Brakes On
CSN - Just a Song Before I Go
Eagles - Take it to the Limit
Livingstone Taylor - House at Pooh Corner (which I want on the 150for30 list, but this version isn't on iTunes so I've had to go for the version by Loggins & Messina - meh)
Neil Young - Pocahontas
Beatles - Revolution 9
CSN - Long Time Gone
CSN - Cowboy of Dreams
Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Chicago - A Hard Habit to Break
Don McLean - American Pie
Jim Croce - Have to Say I Love You in a Song
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded by the Light
Oasis - Morning Glory/The Swamp Song/Champagne Supernova (since they all just flow into each other on the album)
Four Seasons - December '63
Beatles - The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Jim Croce - Photographs and Memories
Eagles - Hotel California
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Elton John - Candle in the Wind
Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World
Beatles - Yesterday
CSNY - Deja Vu
Jim Croce - New York's not my Home
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Ash - Oh Yeah
Boyzone - Key to my Life
Levellers - Hope Street
Commodores - Easy Like Sunday Morning
Jim Croce - Operator
CSN - Suite: Judy Blue-Eyes
Beatles - Hey Jude
Neil Young - Like a Hurricane
Beatles - Ticket to Ride
Doors - Strange Days
Madness - Our House
CSNY - Our House (two very different songs with the same title - I always loved the fact Dad put them together)
Billy Joel - Always a Woman to Me
Stills-Young Band - Long May You Run
Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Queen - Radio Ga-Ga
Chris De Burgh - Lady in Red (on the tape track listing as by Chris Rea for some reason)
Dodgy - Making the Most of
Aerosmith - Cryin'
Ash - Girl From Mars
Who - My Generation
Bonzos - I'm the Urban Spaceman (Produced by Apollo C. Vermouth, otherwise known as Paul McCartney)
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Oasis - Wonderwall
Al Stewart - Song on the Radio
Mama's & Papa's - California Dreamin'
Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
CSN - Military Madness
Chicago - If You Leave me Now
CSN - Teach Your Children
CSNY - Ohio (These two songs are forever linked in my mind)
Eagles - Best of My Love
Bluetones - Carnt Be Trusted (When I wrote this on the list Dad asked if I needed spelling lessons, then he said the band needed them!)
Queen - We Will Rock You
Ruth - Fear of Flying
Neil Young - Round and Round (It Won't be Long)
CSN - Simple Man
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
Huey Lewis - The Power of Love
CSNY - Helpless
Beatles - All You Need is Love
Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
Bluetones - Putting Out Fires
CSN - Horses Through a Rainstorm
Billy Joel - Christie Lee
Doors - When You're Strange (With the voice of my friend David at the beginning saying "These really are strange days, and they're full of strange people too")
Beatles - Birthday
Bluetones - Bluetonic
Queen - Killer Queen
Dodgy - Grassman
Alanis Morrisette - You Learn
Bryan Adams - Run to You
Doors - Light My Fire
Neil Young - Unknown Legend
CSN - Blackbird
Billy Joel - The Ballad of Billy the Kid
Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
Crosby & Nash - Cathedral
Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
CSN - Chicago/We Can Change The World
Alanis Morrisette - Ironic
Crosby & Nash - Carry Me
Blur - Charmless Man
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
Billy Joel - Famous Last Words
Anyone still here?
So lets see... at 18 I was in a phase of listening to a whole lot of my Dad's music, with occasional bursts of Billy Joel and Queen (courtesy of Mum), and a few dribs of current tunes.
One of the reasons I split the 150for30 into three sections...
2 comments:
what a fun happy birthday game! I've got one of those birthday things coming. I'm in denial, though.
There are songs on this that I absolutely love and there are others that I have never heard of. Or maybe it's just that I've heard of it but didn't know the name or who it was by? I only listened to 50s music until I was about 14...
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