When NPR just beats me down (as it has been this week) I tune into oldies radio. (go ahead, laugh. no wait, don't., which can be hit or miss. Every oldies station (in america anyway) seems to play the same 60 songs despite about 3 decades of material. V. annoying. What golden oldies do you turn the volume up for no matter how many times you've heard and which ones would you take minutes off your life to never hear again?
― Samantha, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Destroy: "Mustang Sally" Wilson Pickett; "Unchained Melody" Righteous Brothers; anything by Franki Valli and the Four Seasons.
― Sean, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
destroy: Judy in Disguise (with Glasses) - John Fred and His Playboy Band, anything by Blood, Sweat & Tears makes me bleed, sweat & cry.
― fritz, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I wouldn't mind missing out on Simply Red.
― james, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Johnathan, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Destroy "You're much too young girl".
I grew up listening to oldies non-stop. I love all that stuff. Other favorites: Ray Charles, Elvis, The Association, all that dippy age-of- Aquarius pop.
Destroy: I've never clicked with Jerry Lee Lewis at all. Also hate to hear Chubby Checker. In too many advertisements, probably.
― Mark, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― DavidM, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Dell Vikings - "Come and Go with Me" Herman's Hermits - "Two Silhouettes on the Shade" and the Crew Cuts, I think - "Sh-Boom."
― Nitsuh, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― ethan, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― shinystuff, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― anthony, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Helen Fordsdale, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Destroy: I don't know if I'd want it destroyed, but almost all Motown is very overrated. I never liked the Everly Brothers much either.
― Justyn Dillingham, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Destroy: Anything by the 5th Dimension (ESPECIALLY THAT GODDAMNED SONG ABOUT THEIR BEAUTIFUL BALLOON, ARRRGH), Beach Boys except for Sloop John B, hippie music, You've Lost That Loving Feeling.
― Ally, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Geoff, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I keep hearing "Suspicion" by Terry Stafford when I'm shopping in Lowe's Supersaver. It's slightly disorienting, because I don't think I've ever heard this song before, but I have heard a snippet of it in some other recording, probably some kind of avant-garde tape collage type of thing, but I can't remember exactly what it was that used that sample. I think it's a pretty good song. I notice that the oldies stations here (in New Mexico) play a different mix from what I used to hear in Philadelphia when I heard oldies stations, which doesn't surprise me or anything, but it's just interesting to hear how the regional differences play out. Another one I hear quite frequently here is "96 Tears" which I am not sure I've ever even heard before.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Saturday, 19 July 2008 19:23 (seventeen years ago)
(Now I see why this is not displaying on ILM.)
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Saturday, 19 July 2008 19:29 (seventeen years ago)