I took it out of my presets. The Point seems to just play about 100 songs from the 80's. That is ridiculous. Let me hear something I haven't heard 1,000 times before, please?
My favorite era would be the early to mid 90's. I'd also include the last half of the 80's. Metallica Nirvana Sound Garden Pearl Jam Stone Temple Pilots Beck Green Day Gun's N Roses Red Hot Chili Peppers Smashing Pumpkins Bon Jovi Collective Soul Hootie and the Blowfish Black Crowes Better than Ezra Dave Matthews Band Everclear Gin Blossoms Live Oasis Sister Hazel Sublime Wallflowers Third Eye Blind Weezer Alice in Chains
70's Soul/Disco/Jazz/Other not already mentioned... (Some Disco is cool.) Bill Withers George Benson Curtis Mayfield The Temptations Eddie Kendricks Barry White Brick Ohio Players Isley Brothers Bar-Kays Billy Preston The Spinners Kool and the Gang O'Jays KC And The Sunshine Band Chic Sister Sledge Pat Metheny Stanley Clarke Dixie Dregs Prince 70's Country... Waylon Jessi Willie Jerry Jeff Cash Hank Jr. Joe Ely Linda Ronstadt Freddy Fender Charley Pride Emmylou Harris Marshall Tucker Band Johnny Paycheck
There's sometimes a fine line between disco and funk. A lot of people consider Chic a disco band, but they were straight up funk.
That would be me I just don't see any decade EVER topping: Bob Dylan The Beatles Jimi Hendrix The Rolling Stones The Who The Kinks The Beach Boys Janis Joplin Cream Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Traffic The Animals The Byrds CCR The Band Jefferson Airplane Johnny Winter Sly and the Family Stone Sweetwater Canned Heat Blood Sweat and Tears Ten Years After Joe Cocker Mountain Paul Butterfield Blues Band Gladys Knight and the Pips Martha and the Vandells The Supremes Aretha Franklin Smokey Robinson James Brown Procol Harum Crazy World of Arthur Brown The Searchers Small Faces Spooky Tooth Them (Van Morrison, "Baby Please Don't Go" features Jimmy Page on guitar) Van Morrison (Astral Weeks his best album) The Troggs The Hollies Herman's Hermits The Yardbirds The Zombies Humble Pie Jeff Beck Group Jethro Tull King Crimson Manfred Mann John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Moody Blues The Move to name just a few...
As much as I LOVE the 80s, have to give the nod to the 70s here. So much classic material. The Rock, Funk, R&B, even Disco which gets such a bad rap was flat_out_awesome. IMHO, the 80s may have produced some of the greatest individual songs, but the 70s is so much stronger overall. Yeah. The funny thing is that when the station first started, they had an ad that cracked on Mix 96.5 for doing the exact same thing they're doing now ("Why **** around with m-m-m-mixed up ideas?"). Fatty hit the nail on the head. Their 80s selection has shrank ridiculously. I could rattle off at least 50 songs that used to be in heavy rotation that they no longer play. If they actually played more stuff, they wouldn't be stale.
late 70's all 80's and early 90's, almost of my favorite bands are in that era (very long by the way )
I grew up on 80s music, but for sheer breadth and quality I don't see how the 60s-70s can be topped, ever Now, whenever I'm hunting for good music I haven't heard before, I go backwards in time rather than sift through all this contemporary crap
i was really torn apart between 60s and the 70s...but felt compelled to say the 60s. motown completely rocked and pretty much set the pace for rock and hip hop to evolve into what it is today. and on top of that... the beatles. enough said. i was born in 82 and am convinced that the 80s is easily the worst decade of music. easily... just awful. im sorry. i know a lot of people wont agree with me. but just everything about the 80s was god awful. the music and fashion style... who the hell wears eletric pink or green? the transistion from 70s to 80s is just mindboggling. 90s were....ehhhhh. mixed emotions. the early 90s were still trying to recover from the nosecandy of the 80s. i remember in 3rd grade listening to my older brothers cds... the first snoop dog album. i was in love with it forever.
Im just going to first start of by saying... rap is crap. to me there is a difference between rap and hip-hop. rap is baseless and is made for the pure commericalization of a product. whereas hip-hop is actually music made for purpose of art. art is of course what you make it... so in that light. i really like the way hip hop artists have really taken it upon themselves to be some of the most creative musicans. A lot of people simply pass by hip hop as rap and are too ignorant to listen. not saying you are... but just listen to it. all the subtleties in the beat breaks or creative lyrical verses telling stories is just captivating. here is a list of some of some people/groups i really enjoy listening to and possibly others can add: Blackstar (mos def and talib kweli) J-Dilla aka Jay Dee R.I.P. common Percee P kanye west encore foreign exchange little brother handsome boy modeling school - album The White People immortal technique madlib mos def talib kweli the roots (ok i know they were in the 90s...but just put em in b/c they have grown in popularity during your specified timeframe) RJD2- the dead ringer album j-live mekalek strange fruit project i tried staying within the time frame of 2000-2006. i could really expand it if we could go into other decades... but that not the point. i realize that couple are late 90s, but whatever. this is a short list, but hopefully it should justify my post. have fun with the music love
Thanks for interrupting work From my heavy rotation playlists on my mp3 player. I only include things I listen to at least once a week: 40's: Bob Wills (he's still the king) There would be no rock, blues, or country without him, IMHO. 50's: Bo Diddley (several albums) Chuck Berry (several albums) Muddy Waters Jimmy Reed George Jones Hank Williams (several albums) Johhny Cash Carl Perkins I listen to this stuff every day. Probably the biggest influence on my own music. 60's: Velvet Underground (3 albums) Rolling Stones (at least 6, the early stuff are covers/ripoffs of the 50's music I like, but they were the first white boys to do it well. I love Keith Richards, but he'll never be Chuck Berry. ) Beatles (Rubber Soul and Revolver- the rest I'm simply burnt out on.) Kinks Elvis Dylan (several albums) Ike and Tina (live in paris) loads of Brazilian Jazz 70's Archie Bell and the Drells Al Green James Brown Marvin Gaye Lou Reed Led Zeppelin (I really like Jimmy Page) Rolling Stones (everything up until 81 is decent; their best albums were 67-72) Waylon Jennings Willie Nelson (the whole catalog baby) Kris Kristofroson (sp?) The guy wrote so many good songs, they are just more famous being sung by other people. Kinky Friedman (yes I'm actually a huge fan) Iggy Pop MC5 Joy Division (everything) Bauhaus (everything) 80's Love and Rockets Cocteau Twins Tones on Tail Cure U2 The Clash!! The Fall The Smiths Siouxsie and the Banshees REM (the old IRS stuff) Public Enemy Getto Boys Jesus and Mary Chain lots of one-hit wonders: punk, ska and pop 90's Mazzy Star (all three albums, shame there isn't more) Old 97's (complete catalog) Belle and Sebastian (complete catalog) Brazzavile (4 albums) Whiskeytown/Ryan Adams (whole catalog) Prodigy (nice beats, but I can honestly name maybe 3 songs) Hank3 Peter Murphy (a few songs that are amazing) Kool Keith 2000's Sigur Ros us3 In sheer volume: I'd go with 50's, then 70's, then 60's, then 90's, then 80's. 80's probably has the most bands I listen to (says more about my age than anything I think), but in terms of the amount of music I listen to by them, it probably goes in that order in terms of amount of play. Also not sure if the Sun Records people are more 50's or 60's.
You know what I voted and WHY? Two words: Michael Jackson (not "mama-say mama-sah mama ku-sah", but the albums with ONE WORD in their title).
