What Music are You Listening To? - 67, the Summer of Love

[Farm Boy]

What a great sound!

You're a sucker for the folksyish ladies.

 

[Birdjaguar]

You're a sucker for the folksyish ladies.

Absolutely!

 

[AdamCrock]

Good old Johnny B !

 

[Fippy]

There's something special about this tune..unlike most pop songs it doesn't invade my mind but swings.

 

[thetrooper]

Thank you for this @EgonSpengler

 

[Kyriakos]

I suppose this is the french version of what britpop was for England. Ie largely trash-themed but catchy.

 

[PhroX]

 

[AmazonQueen]

 

[thetrooper]

 

[EgonSpengler]

Thank you for this @EgonSpengler

You're welcome. My goth playlist is up to 198 songs. Gettin' there.

"A Ghost" (2021) by Floating Ashes

 

[Fippy]

Interesting song cos REM wrote it as some kind of parody and challenge, hey we can do something silly too.
Saw a video where they say some of their own fans hate it, and they are not too fond on it either
But i think it's good fun.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Interesting song cos REM wrote it as some kind of parody and challenge, hey we can do something silly too.
Saw a video where they say some of their own fans hate it, and they are not too fond on it either
But i think it's good fun.

I always liked it

 

[EgonSpengler]

Goth playlist is up to 200 songs. To celebrate, a new icon for the playlist.

Spoiler :

"Hard Rain" (2021) by Fluid Ghost has been kicking my [butt].

Also, I've decided to go ahead and throw open the doors to old-school industrial. Screw it. That means I'll have to go back and grant new auditions to Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, Cabaret Voltaire, maybe Die Form. That's without even stepping foot into the '90s, at which point I suppose I'll have to wave in some EBM bands. I've got my work cut out for me. Three early killers, just to get us started banging on the pots and pans and dancing like robots:

Spoiler :

"Yü-Gung" (1985) by Einstürzende Neubauten

"Over the Shoulder" (1986) by Ministry

"Headhunter v3.0" (1988) by Front 242

 

[Fippy]

 

[EgonSpengler]

I noticed that my Classic Rock playlist had become something of a sausage-party, partly because rock music has always been kind of a sausage-party. I've got Heart and Fleetwood Mac and a couple of Stevie Nicks' solo songs. I threw in some Fanny. I've been thinking I should take a closer look at The Runaways, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, The Pretenders, Scandal, Patti Smith. I don't want to drift too far into other categories of music, though. Alternative rock was always much more female, but that's a whole 'nother playlist. "Love is a Battlefield" is one of my favorite songs, but I think of that as '80s pop, which could also be its own playlist. The Motels were one of my low-key favorites, back in the day, but are they 'classic rock'? I can't decide, but I could grow this playlist a lot if I loosened its boundaries and definitions a little more.

 

[Fippy]

@EgonSpengler
The Bangles are close to being pop but played guitars etc.

 

[EgonSpengler]

@EgonSpengler
The Bangles are close to being pop but played guitars etc.

Yeah, I'd definitely call them pop. I'm glad you didn't post "Walk Like an Egyptian." That song was overrated, and all over the radio, back in the day. I liked "Manic Monday" and their cover of "Hazy Shade of Winter" from Less Than Zero (1987) better. Underrated movie, too, although I haven't seen it in ages. The Bangles do get credit for being an all-woman band, like The Runaways and The Go-Gos. Most of the bands I've mentioned were all men, but with a woman singer (in the cases of Joan Jett, Patty Smith and Pat Benatar, they were the leaders of those bands, so I'm comfortable calling them 'women bands', even though 'women-led bands' is more accurate).

 

[AmazonQueen]

I noticed that my Classic Rock playlist had become something of a sausage-party, partly because rock music has always been kind of a sausage-party. I've got Heart and Fleetwood Mac and a couple of Stevie Nicks' solo songs. I threw in some Fanny. I've been thinking I should take a closer look at The Runaways, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, The Pretenders, Scandal, Patti Smith. I don't want to drift too far into other categories of music, though. Alternative rock was always much more female, but that's a whole 'nother playlist. "Love is a Battlefield" is one of my favorite songs, but I think of that as '80s pop, which could also be its own playlist. The Motels were one of my low-key favorites, back in the day, but are they 'classic rock'? I can't decide, but I could grow this playlist a lot if I loosened its boundaries and definitions a little more.

Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Girlschool (the last more Heavy Metal perhaps), Tourists, Adverts (maybe those 2 are more New Wave/Post-Punk)

 

[EgonSpengler]

Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Girlschool (the last more Heavy Metal perhaps),

I've decided to widen the scope of the playlist to include some '60s psychedelia, so Big Brother & The Holding Company and Jefferson Airplane are definitely going to get some attention. I think Grace Slick was the first woman I heard singing rock, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper.

I'm not familiar with Girlschool at all. I'll have to give them a listen.

Tourists, Adverts (maybe those 2 are more New Wave/Post-Punk)

Yeah, I'd probably call them New Wave, which I'm reserving in my head for its own playlist someday. I was a huge Eurythmics fan in high school, and still listen to them once in a while. I probably haven't listened to the Tourists in 30 years, though. I'm not super-familiar with the Adverts either, now you mention them. If I can't find enough New Wave to make a good playlist by itself, I would probably fold it into "alternative rock", rather than "classic rock."

 

[AmazonQueen]

I've decided to widen the scope of the playlist to include some '60s psychedelia, so Big Brother & The Holding Company and Jefferson Airplane are definitely going to get some attention. I think Grace Slick was the first woman I heard singing rock, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper.

I'm not familiar with Girlschool at all. I'll have to give them a listen.


Yeah, I'd probably call them New Wave, which I'm reserving in my head for its own playlist someday. I was a huge Eurythmics fan in high school, and still listen to them once in a while. I probably haven't listened to the Tourists in 30 years, though. I'm not super-familiar with the Adverts either, now you mention them. If I can't find enough New Wave to make a good playlist by itself, I would probably fold it into "alternative rock", rather than "classic rock."

Girlschool were very much the Saxon, Def Leppard era of British heavy metal. Not my sort of thing at all but they were an all female band in a vey macho genre. Now I think about it it was just the bassist who was female in the Adverts.