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Hipster friendly classic rock

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Brooklyndon

The point of this thread is to discuss singles from 65-75 that would fit on a station with a core of MGMT, Phoenix, Arcade Fire, the Bravery, My Morning Jacket, etc, but also a station with a core of Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, U2, etc. Feel free to join in with your five, or comment on my five:

my five:
Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice
David Bowie - Starman
Moody Blues - Story in Your Eyes
Greatful Dead - Sugar Magnolia
Beatles - Baby, You're a Rich Man
 
The Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man
The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
Patti Smith - Gloria
Lou Reed - Walk On the Wild Side
The Beatles - Revolution
 
Also any Barrett-era Floyd would work.

See Emily Play
Bike
Arnold Layne
Astronomy Domine
A Saucerful of Secrets
etc.
 
Hmmm...

Beatles - She Said She Said, Glass Onion
T. Rex - Bang A Gong, Jeepster, Mambo Sun
David Bowie - much of his catalog
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
New York Dolls - Looking For A Kiss, Personality Crisis
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain, Love Is The Drug
Golden Earring - Radar Love

(and the appearance of all these on Altrok 90.5 HD2 is purely a coincidence.)
 
Beatles - "come together" and "while my guitar gently weeps"
Pink Floyd - "Time" and "Another Brick in the Wall"
 
Any Beatles album cuts would probably work, especially ones from Revolver or the White Album. More Bowie, Iggy, Ramones, Velvet Underground, pretty much any proto-punk would work. Just stay away from the big bloated corporate acts from the 70s like Elton John, Steve Miller, Foreigner, Yes, etc and you should be fine.
 
Most Bowie (with the exception of a couple of harder songs like "Jean Genie")
Kinks- Sunny Afternoon, Waterloo Sunset, Celluloid Heroes
Beatles- Here, There, and Everywhere, most of the "Let It Be" album
Hombres- Let It Out
Cheap Trick- Surrender
J. Geils Band- Give It To Me, Must Have Got Lost

Also, the last poster mentioned Yes in the list of artists to avoid. I disagree, as Yes' early material was very progressive. If it means anything, their '80's comeback "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" was on 'RXP's 2010 countdown.
 
frozenfiresb said:
Also, the last poster mentioned Yes in the list of artists to avoid. I disagree, as Yes' early material was very progressive. If it means anything, their '80's comeback "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" was on 'RXP's 2010 countdown.
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Well, that's interesting: I view Yes as indicative of the bloated excess that the punk movement rebelled against (and I'm rebelling against the bloated excess that Alternative turned into.) That said, I play Yes' very lean and danceable (in a Marquee Club sort of way) cover of Richie Havens' "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed", which segues very well with new tracks from Everything Everything (Haven't heard of 'em? You will) as well as classics from The Jam (their bassist idolized Yes' bassist, and on that track it shows.) Also, Yes' 90125 era was overseen by Trevor Horn from Buggles, and directly resulted in the creation of The Art Of Noise - both are responsible for core classic-alternative tracks.

But I think I'm overanalyzing this...
 
Well, punk was originally rebelling against the sort of "grand" or "pompous" bands that had dominated the mid-'70's (Yes, Kansas, Jethro Tull) by going back to the "roots" of rock'n'roll.
 
almaniac27 said:
Any Beatles album cuts would probably work, especially ones from Revolver or the White Album. More Bowie, Iggy, Ramones, Velvet Underground, pretty much any proto-punk would work. Just stay away from the big bloated corporate acts from the 70s like Elton John, Steve Miller, Foreigner, Yes, etc and you should be fine.
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This is a guy who understands hipsters.

No prog rock, and in the Northeast, no southern rock. Elsewhere you might be able to get away with Allman Bros. but not in New York.
 
Actually, I think hipsters these days are far more germane t/w all so-called classic rock than they would have been back in the punk era. It's just that, except for occasional "Rock Of Ages" camp value, they don't like the idjit mouth-breather way commercial radio handles it.
 
this sounds like what I suggested here over the past few years and got laughed at.....hmmm....the world catches up...
1-Personality Crisis-New York Dolls
2-I Wanna Be Your Dog-The Stooges
3-You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory-Johnny Thunders
4-Max's Kansas City,1976-Wayne County(which namechecks every late 70s downtown hipster band, first wave)
5-The Punk-Cherry Vanilla
 
lalumia said:
this sounds like what I suggested here over the past few years and got laughed at.....hmmm....the world catches up...
1-Personality Crisis-New York Dolls
2-I Wanna Be Your Dog-The Stooges
3-You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory-Johnny Thunders
4-Max's Kansas City,1976-Wayne County(which namechecks every late 70s downtown hipster band, first wave)
5-The Punk-Cherry Vanilla
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Well, your time has come! ;)
 
All tracks mentioned (aside from some early 80s AOR) are great examples of the roots of the alternative of 90s.  But I was saddened to see less mention of psychedelic-rock.  Perhaps its just my personal taste biasing my perception, but this music has already tested positively with the Boomers once before, and the current trend in Electric Indie/Alternative, as the Nu-Rave bands of the '00s reach technical proficiency on their instrument, is toward a more sparkling sound.
 
Try Big Star....they've got a lot of good tracks. Their 1973 Radio City LP is really good.

Considering all the garbage being released today, modern hipsters should be gravitating toward all the old stuff. Then again, they are hipsters 8)
 
I got that Big Star album as a gift in the late 90's. I remember being floored at hearing them play that theme to that 70s show, but also not being particularly overwhelmed with what I was told was going to be life changing music.
 
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