Old Fart's Playlist

[nrgbeat]

"Strangers In The Night" Frank Sinatra
"Feelings" Morris Albert
"Lady" Kenny Rogers
"Mandy" Barry Manilow
"I Left My Heart In S.F." Tony Bennett
"Winchester Cathedral" New Vaudeville Band
"Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime" Dean Martin
"Tie A Yellow Ribbon" Tony Orlando and Dawn

[Funky Dude]

Good one, here's my additions:

1 - Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me (and all of his other old fashion material)
2 - Kenny Rogers - Lucille
3 - Pavarotti and other opera music
4 - Just A Gigolo (old old old version before Village People and David Lee Roth)
5 - Beethoven and other classical music
6 - Theme from "The Nanny"
7 - Kamahl (all of his crap)
8 - Bing Crosby (all of his material)
9 - Start and end theme for the hilarious comedy "All In The Family"
10 - Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (sorry to mention it, it's okay but I put it under the old farts music category)

Now that's what I call a list of old farts music.

[Funky Dude]

Oh and here's another old farts song:

When You Wish Apon A Star (I remember watching a Donald Duck cartoon and he gets cracked on the head by a flower pot and his personality and voice changes and he sings that uncool "When You Wish Apon A Star" song)

I guess it was used in a number of Walt Disney cartoons.

Anyhow I'll come up with more uncool old farts tunes tomorrow when I get back online.

[Jeff H]

Oh, I thought this thread was a continuation of Marky's Toilet playlist... :grin:

[markydefad]

Ya know Jeff, my ol' pal....

My toilet list was a slightly satiric, very sarcastic attempt to make a point that maybe the playlist-making to cover every moment of the day was getting a tad out of hand....

BUT, still they come. :roll:

Hey, I tried. :lol:

[Funky Dude]

Here are some more really uncool old farts songs:

1 - “When The Saints Come Marching In” (and all of that other old brass band music)
2 - “Sound Of Music” Soundtrack
3 - Slim Dusty – Beer With Duncan (and his other Australian country music crap that Australian men over the age of 60 love listening to)
4 - Mario Lanza (all of his music)
5 - Bing Crosby – White Christmas
6 - “Clip Goes The Shears Boys” (19th century Australian bush music about shearers shearing sheep)
7 - Buddy Grecco – The Lady’s A Tramp
8 - “Putting On The Ritz” (1930’s pop music)
9 - The old version of the waltz song that Rice & Beans Orchestra later discotized and called it “Blue Danube Hustle”
10 – “The Heel’n’Toe Polka” (When I was in primary school the bloody teachers made us dance to this crap, and it was terrible)

Anything that’s before rock’n’roll is old farts music to me. It’s funny how in the 1950’s when rock’n’roll singers and groups started to form, they were considered as danger to society by parents because back in those days there were lots of old fashioned self-righteous people who listen to opera, classical, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, broadway music etc… and think that Elvis Presley and other rock’n’rollers are sexually offensive and ban their children from listening to it. When I was watching Ed Sullivan’s Rock’n’Roll classics on TV, with the Rolling Stone’s first appearance on the Sullivan stage, the narrator said that parents send their kids straight to their rooms when the Rolling Stones came on. BLOODY HELL!!! If you compare the Rolling Stones to Eminem, Eminem makes the Rolling Stones look like Frank Sinatra. I guess that’s why the hippy era started and kids rebelled against their parents because of their parents old fashioned thinking.

Speaking of old farts music, in the past couple of years of searching for disco records at the Salvation Army op shop, it’s been very disappointing. Hardly any disco is there anymore and 90% of the records there are old farts records such as “Hooked On Classics”, “Best Of Kamahl”, “The Best Of Country & Western”, heaps of brass marching band records, heaps of orchestra records, heaps of classical music records, HEAPS OF ANYTHING THAT’S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO ROCK’N’ROLL AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jeff H]

You know, it occurs to me that for a group of people who like disco music, for gawd's sake, some among us aren't too tolerant of other people's musical tastes.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not putting down our favorite genre of music (mine anyway; it's about all I ever play). But a LOT of other people consider disco music garbage and, let's face it, some of it is pretty disposable.

Yeah, I hate rap, and have very little patience for the wailers like Mariah, Cristina and Bolton, and the no-talents like Britney, but no one's forcing you to listen.

As for songs by singers like Neil Diamond, Kenny Rogers and other "old farts," there's an audience for these songs too. They wouldn't be my first choice, but I'd rather listen to a goofy song by, say, Tony Orlando than a hateful one by Eminem.

Lighten up, everyone.

[nrgbeat]

Jeff, my lists were meant to be tongue in cheek with the exception of the Tropical Breeze list. I actually like some of the songs on the old fart's list.

Songs like "Feelings", "Mandy", etc. are the songs most people love to trash when discussing easy listening pop music.

BTW, did you really think the Puss Dripping Pussy Mix of "Come On and Do It" really existed? :grin:

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[BrunoRepublic]

On 2002-07-13 12:12, Jeff H wrote:
Yeah, I hate rap, and have very little patience for the wailers like Mariah, Cristina and Bolton, and the no-talents like Britney, but no one's forcing you to listen.

I would like to challenge that last point.

We are, in fact, forced to listen to this crap, because it is so omnipresent. You hear this stuff everywhere -- in shops, restaurants, bars, at the office, in people's cars, etc. There's no escape.

I don't listen to the radio. I seldom watch TV (maybe 2 hours a month on average). I hardly go out. And I am seldom at new record stores these days. Yet I've still been subjected to the likes of "Oops, I Did It Again", "I Want It That Way", "Who Let The Dogs Out", "Hit 'Em Up Style", etc., dozens of times, despite the fact that nobody I knows owns these albums or will even admit to liking the songs.

The fact of the matter is that unless you wear a walkman 24/7, or live in a remote shack on Baffin Island or someplace like that, you are indeed forced to listen to this crap. Even all but opting out of society doesn't spare you, as I have learned. The only real solution would be self-inflicted deafness, and I'm not willing to go that far.

I started the "Hell's Playlist" series as a protest to all the shitty, soul-less, brain-dead, advertiser-friendly, industry-manufactured, created-specifically-to-satisfy-demand-in-a-specific-target-market, spiritually bankrupt sonic product that is shoved into my ears. Granted, some of these wretched tunes don't get played much these days, but others continue to torment me even now.

[Funky Dude]

Jeff H wrote:

You know, it occurs to me that for a group of people who like disco music, for gawd's sake, some among us aren't too tolerant of other people's musical tastes.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not putting down our favorite genre of music (mine anyway; it's about all I ever play). But a LOT of other people consider disco music garbage and, let's face it, some of it is pretty disposable.

Yeah, I hate rap, and have very little patience for the wailers like Mariah, Cristina and Bolton, and the no-talents like Britney, but no one's forcing you to listen.

As for songs by singers like Neil Diamond, Kenny Rogers and other "old farts," there's an audience for these songs too. They wouldn't be my first choice, but I'd rather listen to a goofy song by, say, Tony Orlando than a hateful one by Eminem.

Lighten up, everyone.

The way I see it, we're just having a bit of fun pissing around for laughs. I know not all people who listen to this music are elderly people over the age of 60, but the songs are obviously more for the older generation as the younger generation would consider them uncool. But again it depends on taste.

Anyhow I'm just having a bit of fun with this list, and I enjoy doing my additions to the Hell's playlist thinking up all of the songs I dislike and bagging them out. It makes me feel so much better.

Just having a bit of fun mate :lol: .

[Blaxman]

On 2002-07-13 14:42, Graham Start wrote:

I started the "Hell's Playlist" series as a protest to all the shitty, soul-less, brain-dead, advertiser-friendly, industry-manufactured, created-specifically-to-satisfy-demand-in-a-specific-target-market, spiritually bankrupt sonic product that is shoved into my ears. Granted, some of these wretched tunes don't get played much these days, but others continue to torment me even now.

I'm with Graham on this!! His Hell's topics are just the only way we have our.....REVENGE!!! :lol:

A little bit of humor is healthy. Come on!!