Back in the vinyl days, I would take a U.K. pressing of Abbey Road to test amps/speakers at stereo shops.

Abbey Road was the first Beatles album to be recorded with 'modern' transistors and the first Beatles album released originally in stereo. Sonically, Here Comes The Sun was one of the best produced track of all of the Beatles' catalog.

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

And every song on Joni Mitchell's "Court and Spark."

favorite songs are the greatest.

By the Eagles:

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Very meaningful to me.

Jimi Hendrix, "All Along The Watchtower"

From the Beatles "Sgt Pepper."

The French hit Je N'aurais Pas Le Temps written and performed by Michel Fugain. And the other one I'm sure needs no explanation. I love the tunes of the 60s when beautiful music was being made all over the world.

I love it so much. This version in particular never fails to send a shiver up my spine. He sounds as good as he did decades ago.

Here's one of my greatest of all time.

I was born a little late (early 70s) for most of the stuff I like. How weird is that?

I find it refreshing. It means that you are open to all kinds of music. Being a mere 54 myself, I find it irritating when kids say, oh that's old people music!

Back in the day, my ex and I had an extensive vinyl collection. My sons grew up with all kinds of music. They are amazed sometimes at how little some of their colleagues know about older music.

(I'm 42, by the way, so I'm a little younger than you.)

Awesome! I was not all that familiar with their music. The only songs I knew were "Whiter Shade" and "Conquistador".

It was great hearing those two songs live, but everything else was great too. I didn't realize they were such a hard rocking band.

Wish I could have seen them. I bet it was a great show.

I bought their first album when I was a kid in the 60s and I liked this tune almost as much as Whiter Shade Of Pale. The influence of Bach is very evident.

going to cut it, and vice versa.

And sometimes, I like silly nonsense songs like 'Iko, Iko' and other times I want something heavy and sad like 'Midnight' from Cats.

...but that one is on my list of preferreds. Music is absolutely magic.

I'm rather eclectic but here in no particular order is a short list:
Miss You
Changing of the Guard (prefer the Patti Smith)
All Along the Watchtower (when I'm feeling biblical)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Highwayman (if I'm feeling country)
Tam Lin (Fairport Convention)
Butterfly
Miami (Will Smith just makes me smile)
Stand by Me (please google the Ben E King Stand By Me Foundation if you like)
Life's Been Good
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Time (for when there's a thunderstorm)
White Rabbit
Snowblind
Firelake

For some reason, it reminds me of Chicago in the springtime, when it gets warm and the last of the snow is melting.

Around and Around it be.

Hard to say-but just to give an idea of where I am at...

Maybe "Bring it to Jerome" by Bo Diddley?

No Perticular Place to Go- Chuck Berry

The Fat Man- Fats Domino

DOnt Lose YOur Mind- The Spiders

I Need You Baby- The What-Nots

Good Guys Dont Wear White- The Standells

New Kind of Kick- The Cramps

It is everything a great rock-n-roll song should be.

One that haunts me in a bit of a "been there, done that" kind of a way:

Great song, great lyrics.. Rich vocal harmonies..

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...Locomotive Breath.

I just think Ian Andersons songwriting and producing skills hadn't yet matured until Thick as a Brick

IIRC I liked side 2 but I haven't listened in about 20 years.

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...singer Merry Clayton, who sang with the Stones in the recording of the song had a miscarriage afterwards. According to some sources, this was due to the strain associated with reaching such high notes while singing.

#38 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and definitely on my list as well.

I had the pleasure of seeing CSNY at Merriweather Post Pavilion years ago. One of my favorite shows

Anyway, The Beatles have SO many great ones, but I simply love this song:

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As pertinent today as it was in the mid-60's. A timeless classic!

So good you should listen twice! (first link has lyrics)

Great lyrics, never once has failed to make me tear up. But for sheer fun, his version of "Oh Mary Don't Weep" is just the ticket.

They never fail to put me in a better mood......i truly believe had Brad Nowell not died they would have changed the direction music was headed....nealy two decades since his death and you still see "sublime" stickers on cars.....that tells you something...

April 29th, 1992

good pick

since there is nothing on the list that isn't a pop/rock song from this era?

An amazing cover of a great Neal Young tune by Grace Potter and Joe Satriani with Shaggy from Scooby Doo playing bass.

(also because I miss my sweet child of mine who's at college right now, but that's not important)