16 Songs Everyone Over 50 Should Own

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The AARP for those who do not know, is the American Association of Retired Persons, is a United States-based non-governmental organization and interest group for people age 50 and over. They have a website with entertainment content, and this article came up.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
"God Only Knows" BEACH BOYS (1966)	9
"Gangsta's Paradise" COOLIO (1995)	9
"You Shook Me All Night Long" AC/DC (1980)	6
"Harvest Moon" NEIL YOUNG (1992)	5
"Crazy" PATSY CLINE (1962)	5
"Landslide" STEVIE NICKS (1975)	5
"In My Life" THE BEATLES (1965)	3
"Little Green" JONI MITCHELL (1971)	2
"C'est La Vie" EMMYLOU HARRIS (1977)	2
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" GEORGE JONES (1980)	2
"A House Is Not a Home" DIONNE WARWICK (1964)	2
"Hotel California" EAGLES (1977)	1
"For What It's Worth" BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD (1967)	1
"Lately" STEVIE WONDER (1980)	1
"Once Upon a Time" FRANK SINATRA (1965)	1
"Jailhouse Rock" ELVIS PRESLEY (1957)	0

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:12 (eleven years ago)

well I can't not vote for Gangsta's Paradise tbh

― i assume "Little Joey" (imago), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:13 (eleven years ago)

Having been 50 for fully two days, I'm happy sticking with Run The Jewels and John Wizards myself.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:15 (eleven years ago)

"Hotel California" Songs Everybody Over 50 Should Be Banned From Owning morelike

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:16 (eleven years ago)

well I can't not vote for Gangsta's Paradise tbh

― i assume "Little Joey" (imago)

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:21 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, Coolio really stands out on that list.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:27 (eleven years ago)

It's like a Ken Bruce playlist, if you take out all the good ones.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:33 (eleven years ago)

Weird mix of autumnal themes and random stuff.

― MV, Monday, 27 January 2014 15:33 (eleven years ago)

Some of the blurbs on the outliers are a little amusing.

"You Shook Me All Night Long"
AC/DC (1980): From the album Back in Black, this is a song about … well, if I have to explain what it’s about, being over 50 still holds a big surprise for you!

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:37 (eleven years ago)

Ooh, it sounds a little bit rude!

*finds 20th floor window to jump from*

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:37 (eleven years ago)

Harvest Moon. But I prefer Cassandra Wilson's cover.

― MV, Monday, 27 January 2014 15:38 (eleven years ago)

There's a man with a gun over there,/Trying to take away my Medicare.

― MV, Monday, 27 January 2014 15:40 (eleven years ago)

I mean, I chiefly associate “You Shook Me All Night Long” with Dale Winton playing it on Pick Of The Pops, announcing the title and then saying: “Thank you, boys.”

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 27 January 2014 15:41 (eleven years ago)

Happy 50th

This list is even dumber than these lists usually are

― LADsy (wins), Monday, 27 January 2014 16:25 (eleven years ago)

I voted AC/DC because old people should like 'em.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1388465/thumbs/o-ACDC-900.jpg?1

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 27 January 2014 16:36 (eleven years ago)

landslide v little green

― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Monday, 27 January 2014 16:38 (eleven years ago)

If you never got into rap, listen to these words, some taken from an arrangement of Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise," all speaking of the desperate sadness of lifelong badness.

― paolo, Monday, 27 January 2014 16:40 (eleven years ago)

Afrika Bambaataa is now 56.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 27 January 2014 16:42 (eleven years ago)

am not sure if I own Ms Warwick's "A House Is Not a Home," I know I have the Brook Benton version on the Burt box.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 January 2014 17:33 (eleven years ago)

I can't vote for any of these, all the songs have fucked off to Minneapolis, are spinning around and throwing their hats into the air. But I am glad for the reminder that I can qualify for my own AARP membership now.

― 330,003 Luftballons (WilliamC), Monday, 27 January 2014 17:39 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 6 February 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Everyone over 50 should own "Propaganda" by Sparks.

― Mark G, Thursday, 6 February 2014 17:04 (eleven years ago)

"Little Green", "Landslide", "C'est La Vie" <------- don't know any of these songs

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2014 17:33 (eleven years ago)

are you over 50 tho?

― ۩, Thursday, 6 February 2014 17:34 (eleven years ago)

am not sure if I own Ms Warwick's "A House Is Not a Home," I know I have the Brook Benton version on the Burt box.

The Warwick version is moving - the way she really tears into the chorus.

― o. nate, Thursday, 6 February 2014 18:45 (eleven years ago)

are you over 50 tho?

More pertinently, I'm not American or a hippy

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2014 18:45 (eleven years ago)

"C'est La Vie" is an alternate title for "You Never Can Tell" by Chuck Berry. Great song. I'm pretty sure you must have heard "Landslide," that's Fleetwood Mac, though, not Stevie solo.

I voted George Jones.

― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbbryan ferry (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 February 2014 19:15 (eleven years ago)

Oh right, I know "C'est La Vie", but not by Emmylou Harris. Never knowingly heard "Landslide"... what album's it on? Self-titled... never heard that album... but then I don't think I've ever heard "Rumours" all the way through either.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2014 19:19 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 7 February 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

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16 Songs Everyone Over 50 Should Own - According to AARP

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