Period Playlist Club

[Dave_Q]

Rule 1: You don't talk about Period Playlist Club

Rule 2: You DO NOT talk about Period Playlist Club

Rule 3: Make a list of songs from the year your car was manufactured from the appropriate Wikipedia list of UK top 10 tracks for that year

Rule 4: Don't come complaining to me if you're into cyber-crunk or electro-country or something and your favourite songs aren't on Wikipedia.

Rule 5: Ignore or amend the above rules as you please. 

[Dave_Q]

My playlist.

 

Subaru Impreza - year 1995.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mg7ok8dmDU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEhiFzU_B5g

[mercrocker]

This car...... 

 

 

 

 

 

(had the owner specified the HMV radio....) 

 

would have been listening to this lot when new.... 

 

 

 

 

I love my Fifties music but not that lot, unfortunately.    Tennessee Ernie Ford's the only one that gets a go on my turntable. 

 

 

[Junkman]

 

 

1 MAGGIE MAY/REASON TO BELIEVE - ROD STEWART

2 THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - REDBONE

3 SIMPLE GAME - THE FOUR TOPS

4 TIRED OF BEING ALONE - AL GREEN

5 TILL - TOM JONES

6 THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - JOAN BAEZ

7 SULTANA - TITANIC

8 COZ I LUV YOU - SLADE

9 FOR ALL WE KNOW - SHIRLEY BASSEY

10 TWEEDLE DEE, TWEEDLE DUM - MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

[garbaldy]

This isn't such a good idea if you have too many cars though,

I would be here for hours making a list.

[xtriple]

Makes no difference what year the car is, the playlist remains the same.

 

Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd.

Marillion.

Marillion.

Dire straits.

Aerosmith.

Alanis Morissette.

Best of Baroque.

 

You get the picture.

[alcyonecorporation]

https://youtu.be/X6bsoyT86LE

Ride Mobylette between shots. 

[alcyonecorporation]

Then, when the TV shuts off for the night:

[DVee8]

October 1968.

 

  "Little Green Apples" O. C. Smith 2 October 26 8 "I Say a Little Prayer" Aretha Franklin 10 October 5 1 October 12 "Midnight Confessions" The Grass Roots 5 November 2 5 "My Special Angel" The Vogues 7 October 12 2 "Over You" Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 7 October 26 4 October 19 "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" James Brown 10 October 19 1 October 26 "Those Were the Days" Mary Hopkin 2 November 2 7 "Elenore" The Turtles 6 November 2 4 November 2 "Love Child" Diana Ross & The Supremes 1 November 30 11

[Supernaut]

The Bavarian Misery Wagon / BMW 316i - 1995

 

https://youtu.be/18W9WYw9HaA

 

 

 

 

 

I even have a 3 CD compilation album of 90s Anthems in the glovebox.

[Supernaut]

Now for the Xantia, which is from the year 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/rg66j0fUbUk

 

I like this game.

[Junkman]

1 DON'T SPEAK - NO DOUBT
2 HUSH - KULA SHAKER
3 DON'T YOU LOVE ME - ETERNAL
4 ENCORE UNE FOIS - SASH!
5 ALONE - BEE GEES
6 NATURAL - PETER ANDRE
7 WHERE DO YOU GO - NO MERCY
8 YOU GOT THE LOVE - SOURCE FEATURING CANDI STATON
9 SHOW ME LOVE - ROBIN S
10 REMEMBER ME - BLUEBOY

[Junkman]

 

1 FIRESTARTER - PRODIGY

2 THE X FILES - MARK SNOW

3 RETURN OF THE MACK - MARK MORRISON

4 CHILDREN - ROBERT MILES

5 OOH AAH...JUST A LITTLE BIT - GINA G

6 CALIFORNIA LOVE - 2 PAC FT DR DRE

7 GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE TIME - GABRIELLE

8 BULLS ON PARADE - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

9 X-FILES - DJ DADO

10 HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE - TAKE THAT

[mercrocker]

Makes no difference what year the car is, I refuse to accept the existence of any music made since 1962

 

 

I have ignored my newer vehicles......

[spartacus]

Some fine 90s tracks here, Dave Q has impeccable taste!

[fordperv]

Snap rhthym is a dancer

https://youtu.be/u_ppF2yK4NM

Rozalla are you ready to fly

https://youtu.be/ZIqugitfTH0

Right said Fred deeply dippy

https://youtu.be/O9u7-lWE54M

K.D lang constant craving

https://youtu.be/oXqPjx94YMg

[Dave_Q]

Some fine 90s tracks here, Dave Q has impeccable taste!

 

Thanks. Turns out 1995 was a good year for STR8 BANGERS.

 

I'm actually going to burn some of those to a CD to play in the car.

 

Mind you, in 1995 one would have to have been pretty loaded to burn a CD - $2500 for a 1x burner and $10-15 a disc according to this.

 

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L8IEyhjiSk8C&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=1995+pc+cd+burner&source=bl&ots=EvPE1vs6sq&sig=Orgm24HgERiwZ9xisCoSRRUEqas&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX8PmfvL_RAhWCJMAKHZjlCsc4ChDoAQgzMAg#v=onepage&q=1995%20pc%20cd%20burner&f=false

[Stanky]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/142081136941

 

TDK Fe-90 FTMFW

 

Period playlist on period media format

[eddyramrod]

I'm getting an 8-Track player fitted to Huggy this weekend.  Among the tapes I've been given with it are Abba, Vegas-era Elvis, and Gilbert O'Sullivan.  Some of them won't be totally correct for 1973 but it'll be close enough for me!

I'd like some Mud, Showaddywaddy and Dolly Parton to add in though...

[strangeangel]

The early '90s is one of my favourite periods for music. Shame little of it made the Top Ten.

 

 

Here's 1993:

 

"Get the Girl! Kill the Baddies!" Pop Will Eat Itself

"We Are Family" Sister Sledge

"Oh Carolina" (#7) Shaggy

 

"Jump Around" House of Pain

 

"Heart-Shaped Box" Nirvana

"Creep" Radiohead

"Little Fluffy Clouds"  The Orb

 

Sorry, I couldn't even make it to 10.

[strangeangel]

 

"Don't Turn Around"     Aswad

 

"Crash"     The Primitives

 

"Gimme Hope Jo'anna"     Eddy Grant

 

"Suedehead"     Morrissey

 

"I Should Be So Lucky"      Kylie Minogue

 

"Beat Dis"     Bomb The Bass

 

"All Day and All of the Night"     The Stranglers

 

"That's the Way it Is"     Mel and Kim

 

Nope, still not got 10.

[Dave_Q]

I think sir is forgetting rule 5 of Period Playlist Club, which is to ignore or amend the rules as required.

 

If you've got other period songs that weren't in the charts then go ahead and educate us.

[Junkman]

 

 

1 MAGGIE MAY/REASON TO BELIEVE - ROD STEWART

2 THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS - REDBONE

3 SIMPLE GAME - THE FOUR TOPS

4 TIRED OF BEING ALONE - AL GREEN

5 TILL - TOM JONES

6 THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - JOAN BAEZ

7 SULTANA - TITANIC

8 COZ I LUV YOU - SLADE

9 FOR ALL WE KNOW - SHIRLEY BASSEY

10 TWEEDLE DEE, TWEEDLE DUM - MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

 

 

Massive, massive edit:

 

 

Since 1971 is the first year in my life I actually remember actively listening to music, while being glued to my mother's 1958 Blaupunkt Toledo (I still have it!) in the middle of Germany,

thus tuned to AFN or BFBS and I decided then and there that the plebs has no taste and I thus shit on the top 10 and rules in general forever from now forward,

here is my personal 1971 Playlist:

 

1. Whammer Jammer - J. Geils Band

2. Thirty-Two Twenty Blues - Chain

3. Taylor's Rock - Hound Dog Taylor ATHRs

4. Boogie Chillun - Hooker N' Heat

5. Rock Medley - Johnny Winter

6. Resurrection Shuffle - Ashton, Gardner and Dyke

7. Don't know where I'm going - Rory Gallagher

8. London Sessions - Howlin' Wolf

9. Hocus Pocus - Focus

10. Wanted Man - Johnny Cash

 

Mind you, I didn't understand a word of what those folks were singing, but the sound not only fascinated, but downright hypnotised me in a 100% Oompah and weepie infested

media landscape. Consequently I no longer had a bench neighbour at school, my classmates stopped talking to me and I started to hang out with a group of teenagers

who adopted me as some kind of mascot and gave me some whacky clothes to wear.

Jeezers fuck, have I grown old and stupid since. But I still listen to this kind of shit and it still totally absorbs me and thus I can't really listen to it while driving because that

experience also completely absorbs me visually and emotionally. I guess that's why I have an impeccable track record of cars that had a big hole puking wires where the

radio belongs - it would just keep me from daydreaming. In the same way as driving would keep me from daydreaming to this kind of quirk.

 

It was also around that time I started to dislike new cars.

 

[strangeangel]

I think sir is forgetting rule 5 of Period Playlist Club, which is to ignore or amend the rules as required.

 

If you've got other period songs that weren't in the charts then go ahead and educate us.

 

Actually, I quite like the rules, cos only choosing from the top tens for 1993 has reminded me of some of the hits of the time that I enjoyed but didn't buy (PWEI aside). Some of those I'd completely forgotten about, so they bring back memories of the only time I associate them with. Music's great, innit?

[Ghosty]

 

9. Hocus Pocus - Focus

 

<snip>

 

Mind you, I didn't understand a word of what those folks were singing, 

 

 

Well, that doesn't surprise me.

[mercrocker]

Well, then fuck the rules..... 

 

I am sticking to 1955 however because I am only a Rebel not an Anarchist. 

 

These are some of the tunes I played last night - at least the ones relevant to my chosen chariot.   My other cars are 1963, 1987 and 1990 - all Beatle-onwards which does not interest me apart from a brief Seventies period in between.   

 

Johnny CASH - Cry, Cry, Cry 

 

Chuck BERRY - Maybelline

 

George JONES - Why Baby, Why

 

LaVern BAKER - Tweedle Dee

 

Ray CHARLES - I Got a Woman

 

Bo DIDDLEY - Bo Diddley

 

Elvis PRESLEY - Mystery Train

 

Bill HALEY & The Comets - Rock Around the Clock

 

Fats DOMINO - Aint That a Shame

 

Little Richard - Tutti Frutti

 

 

One or two of these recordings were actually cut significantly ahead of their first chart appearance (mainly in the US) particularly Bill Haley's rocking anthem which actually had more release dates than Gary Glitter.    

 

 

I am not old enough to have been around (I put in a very late 1950s appearance) but I have listened to rocking music most of my adult life having discovered after two weeks of Radio 1 in the early 1970s that ORL MODRN MUZAK IS SHITE.   For many years this trait alienated me from my peers, instigated a social aloofness that I still possess but has come full circle over the last 15 years in that I am out every Saturday, many Fridays and many Sundays just enjoying this kind of music, wearing the gear and having a good time with like minded fellas and their ladies.    

 

It never died in that plane crash, the Beatles didn't kill it and neither did Johnny Rotten.   There are kids still in school today who are picking up Gibson copies, second hand Gretschs and Chinese Strats, plugging them into vintage Fender and Vox amps and kicking the bollocks out of 65 year old riffs.   I know, because I see them on the rock and roll scene. 

 

As you were, chaps.....

[Junkman]

You said it a lot better than I managed to.

Music wise we are a generation apart, despite we were born within just a few years of each other.

I call it the 1960 watershed.

[Junkman]

Ghosty, on 14 Jan 2017 - 11:07 AM, said:

Well, that doesn't surprise me.

 

But they communicated everything there was to say.

In those days you were glad for every sentence that didn't contain Phnom Penh, Vietcong, Nixon, or Saigon.

[mercrocker]

You said it a lot better than I managed to.

Music wise we are a generation apart, despite we were born within just a few years of each other.

I call it the 1960 watershed.

 

Ah but, I am sure you know many of your favourite tracks have 1950s origins!   

 

Similarly, I hold in extremely high regard the work of Rory Gallagher - one of the few good things about being a teenager in the 1970s. 

 

I never have music in my cars either - only for when I am parked.   It takes me too far from the job in hand and never sounds any good anyway.

[hennabm]

My 323 was built in week 52 of 1982. So really just before Christmas.

Oh god what a week that was for (none) music;

 

1 Save your love for me - Renee & Renate

2 Beat surrender - Jam

3 Time - Culture club

4 Shakin Steven EP

5 Our house - Madness

6 Truly - Lionel Ritchie

7 Mirror man - Human League

8 Young Guns - Wham

9 Best years of our lives - Modern Romance

10 Peace on Earth - David Bowie/Bing Crosby

 

I shall not inflict on you any more of the charts....