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Haven't kept up, so I wouldn't know. Besides my crush wayback was on the "Mama", anyway
Posted on 03/22/2018 1:52:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan
How can I tell I'm getting old? My go-to music choices don't even come close to popular music currently topping the charts. When I drive my son to preschool, I proudly blast the classic rock station -- which now plays music from the 1990s. If listening to the likes of Pearl Jam and U2 makes me an old fogey? I can deal with that.
Perhaps this is something my parents would have argued a few decades ago, but I firmly believe that there is a good amount of music from the '90s that was so solid it will never be outdated. And I can't say that for much of what I hear on popular radio stations today.
If not for anything but a bit of nostalgia, let's take a look at the top songs from the '90s that still hold their own, shall we?
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All they had to do was play the original version. All of the words are clear. I once heard Richard Berry, its composer and lyricist, perform it in person.
Louie, Louie--Richard Berry & the Pharaohs (1957)
Polyester leisure suit with god-awful flower print shirt open to the navel and a big gold chain. All this 70’s love seems rather amnesiac when it comes to disco.
I also heard it for the first time in a store and had trouble finding it because of the odd title.
I can do some Bee Gees. :) I had this one on 45.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY
I need to shut now. For a long time.
“Wendy Wilson and Carnie Wilson are both great singers.”
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It’s in their blood. Chynna Phillips has a “good enough” voice - nothing to write home about, but she could hide/blend in enough with the Wilson sisters. Her mom was a real dish back in the day.
Nonsuch is a treasure and Apple Venus Vol. 1 is phenomenal
Wendy looks better now than Chyna ever did.
PS...And Barry Gibb had some great hair.
“I can do some Bee Gees. :) I had this one on 45.”
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That about the time they became dead to me - give me “Massachusetts” or any tune of their early career where Barry’s not going wild with his falsetto.
That most certainly was the case. If you listened to KRLA in the summer of 1964, for example, you could hear a song by the Beatles followed by one by Dean Martin, then one by the Supremes, a Beach Boys opus, and then Charles Albertine's orchestra playing the theme from the movie The Long Ships.
The Beatles may have a different chord pattern for every song they put out. I’m biased of course, but 2 hours would only be a small sample of their variety (around 170 songs?).
I didn’t think I knew that one, but it does sound familiar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhGbWCH6IPE
When you've finished dressing, you're get set to cruise the boulevard in your Chrysler Cordoba as you listen to The Captain & Tennille on your eight-track tape player.
You may be interested in this thread I posted a few months back:
THE BEATLES’ 35 Greatest Guitar Techniques
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3626114/posts
“The Beatles may have a different chord pattern for every song they put out. I’m biased of course, but 2 hours would only be a small sample of their variety (around 170 songs?).”
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I’d still wanna break something. Maybe if I were crying-in-my-beer drunk I could listen to one artist non-stop, but otherwise even with my faves (which would include the Beatles) it would get old pretty quick.
Though everyone but me forgot about ELO. One of my favorite groups growing up and I still like them.
Check out Wilson Phillip’s cover of Good Vibrations.
Yes, I have gathered that about him from the little I have read. That’s okay. I still like him. And I like that he told Waters to take a hike.
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