August 29, 2005


Old age whining, Cont'd

Yeah, so as long as I'm on the subject, over at ASZ, they have post up that led me to Roxanne over at Rox Populi who has a list of the top 100 songs from the year of your high school graduation. So I decided I'd go visit the list and see how embarassed I'd be to time travel back and listen to some of that crap again. The songs struck out are those that in many cases define absolute suckiness. Those in bold were pretty good, with a few being awesome (IMHO), denoted by being bold and italic. Anyhow, here's to being an unter-geek!

1. Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree, Tony Orlando and Dawn
2. Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Jim Croce
3. Killing Me Softly With His Song, Roberta Flack
4. Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye
5. My Love, Paul McCartney and Wings
6. Why Me, Kris Kristofferson
7. Crocodile Rock, Elton John
8. Will It Go Round In Circles, Billy Preston
9. You're So Vain, Carly Simon
10. Touch Me In The Morning, Diana Ross
11. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia, Vicki Lawrence
12. Playground In My Mind, Clint Holmes
13. Brother Louie, Stories
14. Delta Dawn, Helen Reddy
15. Me And Mrs. Jones, Billy Paul
16. Frankenstein, Edgar Winter Group
17. Drift Away, Dobie Gray
18. Little Willy, Sweet
19. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life, Stevie Wonder
20. Half Breed, Cher
21. That Lady, Isley Bros.
22. Pillow Talk, Sylvia
23. We're An American Band, Grand Funk Railroad
24. Right Place, Wrong Time, Dr. John
25. Wildflower, Skylark
26. Superstition, Stevie Wonder
27. Loves Me Like A Rock, Paul Simon
28. The Morning After, Maureen McGovern
29. Rocky Mountain High, John Denver
30. Stuck In The Middle With You, Stealers Wheel
31. Shambala, Three Dog Night
32. Love Train, O'Jays
33. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Barry White
34. Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose, Tony Orlando and Dawn
35. Keep On Truckin' (Pt. 1), Eddie Kendricks
36. Dancing In The Moonlight, King Harvest
37. Danny's Song, Anne Murray
38. Monster Mash, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and The Crypt Kickers
39. Natural High, Bloodstone
40. Diamond Girl, Seals and Crofts
41. Long Train Running, Doobie Brothers
42. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth), George Harrison
43. If You Want Me To Stay, Sly and The Family Stone
44. Daddy's Home, Jermaine Jackson
45. Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye), Gladys Knight and The Pips
46. I'm Doing Fine Now, New York City
47. Could It Be I'm Falling In Love, Spinners
48. Daniel, Elton John
49. Midnight Train To Georgia, Gladys Knight and The Pips
50. Smoke On The Water , Deep Purple
51. The Cover Of Rolling Stone, Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show
52. Behind Closed Doors, Charlie Rich
53. Your Mama Don't Dance, Loggins and Messina
54. Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Chicago
55. The Cisco Kid, War
56. Live And Let Die, Wings
57. Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?, Hurricane Smith
58. I Believe In You, Johnnie Taylor
59. Sing, Carpenters
60. Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got), Four Tops
61. Dueling Banjos, Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel
62. Higher Ground, Stevie Wonder
63. Here I Am (Come And Take Me), Al Green
64. My Maria, B.W. Stevenson
65. Superfly, Curtis Mayfield
66. Get Down, Gilbert O'Sullivan
67. Last Song, Edward Bear
68. Reelin' In The Years, Steely Dan
69. Hocus Pocus, Focus
70. Yesterday Once More, Carpenters
71. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Bette Midler
72. Clair, Gilbert O'Sullivan
73. Do It Again, Steely Dan
74. Kodachrome, Paul Simon
75. Why Can't We Live Together, Timmy Thomas
76. So Very Hard To Go, Tower Of Power YES! YES! YES! T.O.P Rox it!
77. Do You Want To Dance?, Bette Midler
78. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu, Johnny Rivers
79. Ramblin' Man, Allman Brothers
80. Masterpiece, Temptations
81. Peaceful, Helen Reddy
82. One Of A Kind (Love Affair), Spinners
83. Funny Face, Donna Fargo
84. Funky Worm, Ohio Players
85. Angie, Rolling Stones
86. Jambalaya (On The Bayou), Blue Ridge Rangers
87. Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend, Lobo
88. Break Up To Make Up, Stylistics
89. Daisy A Day, Jud Strunk
90. Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001), Deodato
91. Stir It Up, Johnny Nash
92. Money, Pink Floyd
93. Gypsy Man, War
94. The World Is A Ghetto, War
95. Yes We Can Can, Pointer Sisters
96. Free Ride, Edgar Winter Group
97. Space Oddity, David Bowie
98. It Never Rains In Southern California, Albert Hammond
99. The Twelfth Of Never, Donny Osmond
100. Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Temptations

Ok. Now, don't tell anyone else that I listened to some of this crap. Please? The kid would laugh at me...LOL!
posted by Jo Fish on 08.29.05 at 07:12 PM





Comments:

Say, you graduated the year I was born. What, you can't read that? I SAID YOU GRADUATED THE YEAR I WAS BORN. Damn, doesn't this font get any larger? #28 is interesting. If I'm not mistaken, that's Marcia Brady.

P.S. Don't give me that do-goody-good bullshit!

 posted by: norbizness on 08.29.05 at 08:53 PM [permalink]

1973, huh? I graduated then too. Most of these songs, I don't recognize at all. And of the few I do, most are from hearing them on oldies stations in the last few years. Maybe my memory is going, huh?

 posted by: paul on 08.29.05 at 10:22 PM [permalink]

I caught this over at Alternate Brain. You and I have the same year and your choices are almost identical to what I was thinking (I didn't actually do it, I just reviewed it.).
It still looked like a pretty strong list to me. A lot of classics, songs as well as performers.


 posted by: CAFKIA on 08.29.05 at 11:04 PM [permalink]

Most of this list makes me nauseous. Three good ones out of a hundred. Dr. John, Stealers Wheel, and the Dan. How I miss the days of "progressive" FM radio. Another casualty of The Drooler aka Reagan's deregulation of the FCC for corporate format/schlock radio.

 posted by: Buzz Meeks on 08.30.05 at 09:28 AM [permalink]

Also a '73 grad plus a BIG Tower of Power fan- #76. If you get the chance go see them in person. Still touring and stil rockin'.

 posted by: Tigerfan on 08.30.05 at 12:05 PM [permalink]

Sorry I missed Bowie at the end of the list. My most abject appology

 posted by: Buzz Meeks on 08.31.05 at 12:58 AM [permalink]


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