Whirlpool

Hi
Just interested to see what everyone thinks are the best old songs (1990s and earlier any genre).

Thanks

MC Hammer - You Can't Touch This

Epitomises early 90's for me.

The usuals

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Eagles - Hotel California
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town

and some others like

Iron Maiden - Hallowed be thy Name
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Metallica - One
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Dio - Holy Diver

In no particular order:

Maxi Priest - Close to You
Snow - Informer
Bobby Brown - My Prerogative
Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel
Seal - Crazy
The O'Jays - For The Love of Money
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Dr. Alban - Sing Halleujah (bah, how do you spell it?)
Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You

Richard Marx - Right here waiting

1 - The Joker - Steve Miller
2 - Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
3 - War Ensemble - Slayer
4 - Mouth For War - Pantera
5 - Epic - Faith No More
6 - Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
7 - Come Out and Play - Offspring
8 - Ruby Soho - Rancid
9 - Raining Blood - Slayer
10 - Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots

All my Life - KC and JOJO
Crazy - KC and JOJO
Tell me it's Real - KC and JOJO

End of the Road - Boyz 2 Men

Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

Some good'uns from the top of my head:

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
David Bowie - Life on Mars
Vivaldi - Four Seasons - No. 2 Presto
Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings)

Azza

Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Billy Joel - Piano Man

run dmc and steve tyler - walk this way
beastie boys - no sleep till brooklyn
tone loc - funky cold medina / wild thing
c&c music factory - everybody dance now
mc hammer - too legit to quit

The Rollling Stones - Sweet Virginia
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
The Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection
The Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven (I think was pre 90)
Pink floyd - Wish You Were Here
David Bowie - Space Oddity

Conclusive proof that bands called the somethings rock!

Slayer9123 writes...

1 - The Joker - Steve Miller

5 - Epic - Faith No More
6 - Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry

8 - Ruby Soho - Rancid

10 - Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots

Impeccable Slayer!

I'd like to add (in no part. order):

1 - The Church: Almost With You
2 - Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone
3 - The Rolling Stones: Paint it Black/You Can't Always get What You Want
4 - Elvis Costello: Olivers Army
5 - Tom Waits: Jersey Girl
6 - The Psychadelic Furs: Love My Way
7 - Max Merrit: Slipping Away
8 - John Sebastian: Welcome Back
9 - Leonard Cohen: Susanne
10 - 10CC: I'm Not In Love

~Brad~ writes...

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Eagles - Hotel California
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - One
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

ah Ming writes...

Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

lightningazza writes...

Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

ministryofsound writes...

Billy Joel - Piano Man

Nick Cave writes...

Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone
Elvis Costello: Olivers Army

If your looking for old school rock, you cant go past this album:

www.amazon.com/gp/produc...&v=glance&n=5174

1. We Will Rock You - Queen
2. Aint Talkin Bout Love - Van Halen
3. Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden
4. Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
5. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
6. Burn - Deep Purple
7. Schools Out - Alice Cooper
8. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
9. Bad Bad Boy - Nazareth
10. Breaking The Law - Judas Priest
11. Easy Livin - Uriah Heep
12. Rock The Nation - Montrose
13. Action - Sweet
14. Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
15. Tush - Zz Top
16. Wheels Of Steel - Saxon
17. Born To Be Wild - Riot
18. Talk Dirty To Me - Poison
19. Cum On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot
20. Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row

And thats just CD1 :)

~Brad~ writes...

and some others like

Iron Maiden - Hallowed be thy Name
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Metallica - One
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Dio - Holy Diver

Me Being A Diehard Hip Hop Fan, Listening To Aussie and Old School Hip Hop. God i fkn h8 gangster and modern commercial rap from america, and now australia is heading the same way.

But anyways, the one song that instantly came to my head pre 90's was
Raising Hell - Run DMC.
But pretty much the entire Raising Hell CD could go in there, Everysong is a classic and is still much better than anything that is being put out today.

In that basket i could add, hundreds of songs from other artist from Public Enemy to Carlos Santana, but im not going to go through them all :p

1. Led Zeppelin - Good Times, Bad Times - While not their best song, I think this is the best album opener ever, add to that the fact that it was their first album. Basically they're saying "Hi, we're Led Zeppelin and we're gonna make your ears bleed" with this song. Extra points for Bonham's brilliant kick drum work (that's not a double kick kids).
2. Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced? - Pure brilliance.
3. Pink Floyd - Echoes - Epic.
4. Rush - 2112 - The title track from Rush's second album, and their first real 'progressive' song. Takes you through all the riffs (there are alot) they're going to use throughout the song in the first couple of minutes with a brilliant intro, then goes about chopping and changing them for the remaining 15 minutes or so. Song structure at its best.
5. Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge - Instrumental with a Saxophone pumped through a wah and a fuzzed out bass. Then of course Zappa comes in with his guitar and makes you forget how good all the other musicians are.
6. Jeff Beck - Constipated Duck - While Frank Zappa is said to have spurned 70s instrumental funk, Jeff Beck epitomised it with this song from Blow By Blow.
7. Soundgarden - Hunted Down - 1987, Seattle 'grunge' is here, and it's not going away.
8. Soundgarden - Rusty Cage - 1991, we're still here and this is how much we've changed in 4 years. Another great opener and a hell of a riff. This song, and the album Badmotorfinger to me are 90s rock at its best.
9. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Sir Psycho Sexy - funk has come a long way.
10. Kyuss - Thee 'Ol Boozeroony - This is music to make love to.

RiotousMind writes...

8. Soundgarden - Rusty Cage - 1991, we're still here and this is how much we've changed in 4 years. Another great opener and a hell of a riff. This song, and the album Badmotorfinger to me are 90s rock at its best.

Absolutely, easily the best thing to come out of Seattle and the "Grunge" movement and Badmotorfinger was "The Garden" at the height of their prowess!

Rusty Cage and Jesus Christ Pose are coupled with 2 of the best videos of the 90's also IMO.

Yep, a seriously solid album as well. Not a weak song on it.

RiotousMind writes...

1. Led Zeppelin - Good Times, Bad Times - While not their best song, I think this is the best album opener ever, add to that the fact that it was their first album. Basically they're saying "Hi, we're Led Zeppelin and we're gonna make your ears bleed" with this song. Extra points for Bonham's brilliant kick drum work (that's not a double kick kids).

Best opening song on a debut album ever? Surely it must be :)

I've just remembered Bob Dylan who deserves at least one song - maybe Tangled Up in Blue or Rainy Day Women (of robvious reasons ;))

Love that Sir Psycho Sexy as well - those harmonics are awesome - how many styles does a 21 year old John Frusciante nail over the course of that one song, let alone the whole damn album.

Oh and for Zappa i'd go "The Gumbo Variations" and Soundgarden i love "outshined".

Nice list mate.

p1owz0r` writes...

Love that Sir Psycho Sexy as well - those harmonics are awesome - how many styles does a 21 year old John Frusciante nail over the course of that one song, let alone the whole damn album.

Oh and for Zappa i'd go "The Gumbo Variations" and Soundgarden i love "outshined".

Yep, and with Flea's wahed bass behind it beautifully syncopated with the drums it's a killer song.

It's hard to pick a best song from Badmotorfinger, Outshined is definitely up there, as is Mind Riot, Slaves & Bulldozers, Room A Thousand Years Wide, New Damage, etc. But I give it to Rusty Cage for the wah filtered guitar, the chugging downtuned low B, and the vocals in the last verse.

As for Zappa, we could be here all day discussing which of his song is the best!

Agadoo by black lace - sadly I still remember the dance and the words. Crap song but it made an impact lol.

Three little pigs by Green Jelly.

Capt. Carnage writes...

If your looking for old school rock, you cant go past this album:

www.amazon.com/gp/produc...&v=glance&n=5174

And thats just CD1 :)

that cd was looking good intill this:

36. How You Remind Me - Nickelback

Will always stop and listen to "House of the Rising Sun" and "Echo Beach" whenever I come across them.

Lighter shade of brown - hey dj
dj jazzy jeff & the fresh prince - summertime
ll cool j - around the way girl

808 state - bond
massive attack - karmacoma
tricky - black steel
definition of sound - pass the vibe

front end loader - pluse
mavises - cry
sidewinder - evil eye

Just stuff that came to mind...

Some really early 80's stuff that I enjoyed back then was psuedo echo . Was the first ever band I saw in concert . Can't beat the 80's in my book .

I got my grandad to give me his top 10 list ;)

1. Swanee - Al Jolson
2. When My Baby Smiles At Me - Ted Lewis
3. Whispering - Paul Whiteman
4. St. Louis Blues - Marion Harris
5. Dardanella - Ben Selvin
6. The Love Nest - John Steel or Art Hickman
7. Hold Me - Art Hickman
8. Alice Blue Gown - Edith Day
9. I've Got My Captain Working For Me Now - Al Jolson
10. Wang Wang Blues - Paul Whiteman

Off the top of my head...

L.A. Woman - The Doors
Panama - Van Halen
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis
Give Me One More Chance - Jackson 5
Hard Days Night - Beatles
Born on the Bayou - Credence
Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix
Somebody to Love - Queen
Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Could You be Loved _ Bob Marley

Light My Fire writes...

that cd was looking good intill this:

36. How You Remind Me - Nickelback

Yep they would ruin any compilation - That guy should be banned from singing for ever- there brand of rock is so wingy

Angie Brown - I'm Gonna Get You
C.L.S - Can You Feel It
Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era - Far Out
SL2 - DJ's Take Control
Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
Prodigy - Out of Space
Jonny L - Hurt You So
The Shamen - Love Sex Intelligence
Ratpack - Searchin' for My Rizzla
Manix - Feel Real Good
Shades of Rhythm - Extasy
Urban Hype - Trip to Trumpton
Oceanic - Insanity
Capella - U Got 2 Let the Music

No particular order all Electronica/Dance

hmm mine is a mixture of pop, rnb,rap,Dance, alternative.

These are not in any order.

Keep Their Heads Ringin' (Dr.Dre)
Breakfast at Tiffanys
California love (2PAC)
ATB--Endless Silence
Nuthing but a G thang
Sweet Song (blur)
Mr Jones (Counting Crows)
Delerium-Silence
Eagle-Eye Cherry-Are You Still Having Fun

This is just a few I can't be stuffed writing all of them in

Cheers

'The Message' by Grand Master Flash

'Push it' by Salt n Pepa

'Sweet dreams' by Eurythmics

Chicken on a wire - Export lamb (hmm - I think the Kiwi's might know this one).

JaaJaa writes...

'The Message' by Grand Master Flash

and don't forget 'Don't push me'

Follow the Leader - Killing Joke

Suspect Device - Stiff little fingers

Law and Order - Stiff little fingers

Peaches - The Stranglers

Get a grip on yourself - The Stranglers

Arrested Development - Mr Wendal
EMF - Unbelievable
Jam & Spoon - Right In The Night
Ace Of Base - The Sign
DJ Bobo - Somebody Dance With Me
Culture Beat - Mr Vain
Three The Hard Way - Hip Hop Holiday
Roxette - Joyride
Southern Sons - Always And Ever
Toni Childs - I've Got To Go Now
De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
Tommy Emmanuel - The Journey
Spin Doctors - Two Princes

yeah... around 93 was a good time, even if I was only about 10.

I really like Soundgarden too, but their music have some sort of "forward compatability" so I don't think of them as old school.

Edit: this thread is giving me lots of reminders of songs I should try to find.

HiAll--Supports Denmark writes...

Delerium-Silence

The remix with Sarah Mclachlan I'll support, but I reckon the original is pretty so-so. Also 2002, so not exactly "old school".

I've been enjoying just listening through RHCP "Blood Sugar Sex Magic". That album just flows so damn well. And you can't go past Blue Monday by New Order

Maveri writes...

and don't forget 'Don't push me'


If you're talking "Don't push me, cos I'm close to the edge...", that *is* The Message.
It's like a jungle some times, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under. Classic

Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever ;-)

Tupac was the king of the 90s

Makaveli2006 writes...

Tupac was the king of the 90s

La roi est mort, viva la pooface!

I'll add

Praga Khan feat. Jade 4 U - Injected With A Poison

NRG - I Need Your Lovin'

This Sound Is For The Underground - Krome & Time

Trip II The Moon (pt. 1) - Acen

To my list before.

In no particular order

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
AC/DC - Back in Black
Scorpions - Winds of Change
Power Station - Get it On
Van Halen - Panama
Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
The Who - Substitute
The Clash - London's Calling
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Don McLean - American Pie
Eagles - Hotel California
Duran Duran - Girls on Film
Midnight Oil - Power and the Passion

I could go on for ages there are so many classic songs out there of all genres

Unchained melody..

WTF!!!!

I always thought that "OLD SCHOOL" meant first wave of RAP like Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, etc.

According to this thread it means friggin CLASSIC ROCK! LMAO!!!!! :P

ah Ming writes...

All my Life - KC and JOJO

Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

I like, I like !

Pavarotti writes...

I always thought that "OLD SCHOOL" meant first wave of RAP like Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, etc.

WTF!

That would be old school hip-hop/rap

The meaning of old school: dictionary.reference.com...wse/old%20school
this group of ideas being music/songs

One of the best songs would have to be The Gambler - Kenny Rogers... HAHAHA!, a great drunken song...

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side.
James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good)
J. J. Cale - Cocaine
Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me
Deep Purple - Black Night
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
Billy Idol - White Wedding
B.B. King - When Love Comes To Town
ACDC - Back In Black + You Shook Me All Night Long
Muddy Waters - Baby Please Don't Go (incl covers by AC/DC and Van Morrison)
The Who - My Generation

Grubs writes...

B.B. King - When Love Comes To Town

The U2/BB King collaboration from Rattle and Hum?

J.

Led zepellin - Kashmir (Physical graffiti) and For your life (presence)
Men without hats - safety dance
Seal - crazy
Black sabbath - The writ (sabotage)
Shine on you crazy diamond parts 6-9 - pink floyd (wish you were here)

#1 the greatest song ever written - Stairway to Heaven - Led Zepplin
#2 Cold Chisel - Bow River
#3 The Doors - Gloria (i know it was a cover but the best version imo)
#4 Deep Purple - Space Trucking/Black Night/Speed King...
#5 U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
#6 Midnight Oil - Best of Both Worlds
#7 Led Zepplin - Black Dog
#8 The Beatles - Revolution
#9 AC/DC - Jailbreak
#10 Travelling Wilburys - Handle With Care

nice thread

think you may have overlooked one of his better songs - Piano Man