Mary J Blige’s version of U2s “One”
https://youtu.be/ZpDQJnI4OhU
Anything from Joni Mitchell’s Blue, Court and Spark, “Woodstock”, “Amelia”
and Los Lobo’s version of “Nothing Can Be Done” from the recent Joni Mitchell 75th birthday tribute.
Tom Petty - Refugee, I won’t Back Down,
Joan Baez, “Diamonds and Rust”
Neil Young “Sugar Mountain”
Pete Buttigieg used High Hopes ( Panic at the Disco version) as his announcement walk out song. I thought it was so perfect and a great call back to JFKs use ( Frank Sinatra version)
Songs:
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Imagine - Lennon
The House of the Rising Sun - the Animals
Proud Mary - Tina Turner
Bohemian Rhasody - Queen
Bands/Artist
Queen
The Who
CCR
Pink Floyd
Tina Turner
My first concert was Meatloaf on New Year’s Eve.
This thread is giving me a lot of songs for a new playlist. Maybe I will call it CC Playlist.
Natalie Merchant
REM
David Broza
Simon and Garfunkel
Pete Seeger.
@mathmom , i see you like townes van zandt, check out David Broza’s music set to his unpublished poetry which his family left to Broza. The album is called Night Dawn.
Okay, albums:
Joshua Tree – U2
The River – Bruce
London Calling – the Clash
Graceland – Paul Simon
Life’s Rich Pageant – REM
Editing to add bonus sixth album:
Tape Deck Heart – Frank Turner
I will probably be thrown out of CC for this, but I was at UGA during the early years of REM and the B-52s and never saw them perform.
That said, I like much of y’all’s choices and it would make a terrific playlist.
I will add Dan Fogelberg to the pool for something different, esp his 1979 live concert at Carnegie Hall. The tapes were found and remastered recently, and it is stupendous.
@jmnva06 – all my favorites! I adore Frank Turner, Billy Bragg, Kirsty McColl, Marshall Crenshaw!!!
@CountingDown Treason. Lol.
Ugh @privatebanker, thanks to you now I’ve got Uprising playing over and over again in my head and it’s like an out of control ear worm ! Lol.
God only knows by the Beach Boys
Robert Downey Jr did a lovely version of River on Ally McBeal.
Most memorable live performance: 6/15/14 Elton John closing out Bonnaroo. Me and 65K+ new friends. Rocket Man. Someone in the audience releases a lit up Buzz Lightyear balloon into the sky. Magical moment.
Bands:
Bread
Beach Boys
Beatles
Queen
Greta van Fleet
Circle Game, Joni Mitchell
Box of Rain, Grateful Dead
Wild Horses, the Stones
Tupelo Honey, Van Morrison
The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel
Rocky Mountain High, John Denver
Part of the Plan, Dan Fogelburg
You Can Close Your Eyes, James Taylor
Closer to Fine, Indigo Girls
Taxi, Harry Chapin
Songs:
~ Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me - George Michael and Elton John (“Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elton John…”)
~ Viva la Vida - Coldplay (Crank it up in the radio and sing along!)
~ The Sound of Silence - Disturbed (I first heard this when my H was watching the 2018? season finale of “The Blacklist” - moving)
~ 100 Years - Five For Fighting (Deeply sentimental as my DF always said he wanted this played at his funeral - His wish came true 5 months ago. [Tears])
~ I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston (Her best of all time)
Artists/Groups:
~ Queen
~ Journey
~ Whitney Houston
~ Luther Vandross
~ James Taylor
Albums:
~ Prince - Purple Rain
~ Queen - Live Killers
~ Styx - The Grand Illusion
~ Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
~ Yanni - Live at the Acropolis
Thanks @privatebanker for your post! You help make my Mother’s Day and beef up my playlist. And I listened to Cowboy Junkies.
Looking back at all our posts, I caught a few errors on my part:
Pet Sounds, not Pet Songs.
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is on Abbey Road.
52nd St, not 42nd. Lol!
Aerosmith played at a dance at my Boston-area high school in early 1970s.
Acts I still don’t understand:
Elton John
Chicago
Stevie Wonder
Huey Lewis
Paul McCartney & Wings
Underrated:
The Band
Little Feat
Best songs to sing while driving between Chicago & Detroit:
Gary, Indiana (Music Man)
I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo
Detroit City
Songs:
Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)
How Soon is Now? (Smiths)
Ever Changing Mood (Style Council)
Comfortably Numb (Floyd)
Dust in the Wind (Kansas)
Bands:
The Smiths
The Jam
ELO
Metallica
Rush
@moooop Milford High School?
@moooop We must be from the same area. I grew up in Somerville. Aerosmith played at Cousins Gym at Tufts when I was in jr high. I’ll always have a soft spot for them.
@bearpanther Thanks for that version of River. Love that. Who knew?