The Ultimate Summer Music Mix

[SteyrAUG]

This pretty much filled my first MP3 player:

Lucas Davenport's "Best Songs of the Rock Era" list, in no particular order,except that, as any intelligent person knows, any decent road trip will start with ZZ Top.

1. Sharp-Dressed Man · ZZ Top
2. Legs · ZZ Top
3. Mustang Sally · Wilson Pickett
4. Superman's Song · Crash Test Dummies
5. Rock On · David Essex
6. Radar Love · Golden Earring
7. Heart of Glass · Blondie
8. White Rabbit · Jefferson Airplane
9. Somebody to Love · Jefferson Airplane
10. Layla · Derek and the Dominoes

11. Roadhouse Blues · Doors
12. House of the Rising Sun · Animals
13. Sweet Emotion · Aerosmith
14. Dude (Looks Like a Lady) · Aerosmith
15. Dancing in the Dark · Bruce Springsteen
16. Born to Run · Bruce Springsteen
17. Thunder Road · Bruce Springsteen
18. Every Breath You Take · Police
19. Heart of Saturday Night · Tom Waits
20. Hot for Teacher · Van Halen

21. Won't Get Fooled Again · Who
22. Hotel California (covers the Eagles) · Gipsy Kings
23. Give Me One Reason · Tracy Chapman
24. Down on the Corner · CCR
25. Lyin' Eyes · Eagles
26. Life in the Fast Lane · Eagles
27. Skateaway (Roller Girl) · Dire Straits
28. Mary Jane's Last Dance · Tom Petty
29. Me 'n Bobby McGee · Janis Joplin
30. Black Water · Doobie Brothers

31. I Love Rock 'n Roll · Joan Jett
32. Jack and Diane · John Mellencamp
33. The Wall (Part 2) · Pink Floyd
34. Money · Pink Floyd
35. Piano Man · Billy Joel
36. After Midnight · Eric Clapton
37. Lay Down Sally · Eric Clapton
38. You Shook Me (All Night Long) · AC/DC
39. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap · AC/DC
40. Long Cool Woman · Hollies

41. Like a Rolling Stone · Bob Dylan
42. Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Bob Dylan
43. Subterranean Homesick Blues · Bob Dylan
44. Satisfaction · Rolling Stones
45. Brown Sugar · Rolling Stones
46. Sympathy for the Devil · Rolling Stones
47. Anarchy in the UK · Sex Pistols
48. Sugar Magnolia · Grateful Dead
49. Slow Hand · Pointer Sisters
50. Sweet Dreams · Eurythmics

51. Jailhouse Rock · Elvis Presley
52. Ziggy Stardust · David Bowie
53. Night Moves · Bob Seger
54. Bye-Bye-Love · Everly Brothers
55. Purple Haze · Jimi Hendrix
56. Lola · Kinks
57. Tender is the Night · Jackson Browne
58. Louie Louie · The Kingsmen
59. Bad to the Bone · George Thorogood
60. Turn the Page (covers Bob Seger) · Metallica

61. Sweet Home Alabama · Lynryd Skynyrd
62. We Will Rock You · Queen
63. Ramblin' Man · Allman Brothers
64. Rock 'n Roll · Led Zeppelin
65. What's Love Got to Do With It · Tina Turner
66. Born to Be Wild · Steppenwolf
67. With or Without You · U2
68. Paranoid · Black Sabbath
69. Blue Morning Blue · Foreigner
70. White Wedding · Billy Idol

71. Sweet Child o' Mine · Guns 'n Roses
72. Paradise City · Guns 'n Roses
73. Knockin' on Heaven's Door (covers Dylan) · Guns 'n Roses *
74. Walk on the Wild Side · Lou Reed
75. Feel Like Makin' Love · Bad Company
76. Rock of Ages · Def Leppard
77. Brown Eyed Girl · Van Morrison
78. Devil With a Blue Dress · Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
79. Respect · Aretha Franklin
80. I'm in the Mood · John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt

81. I Got You (I Feel Good) · James Brown
82. Unchained Melody · Righteous Brothers
83. Little Red Corvette · Prince
84. Roll Over Beethoven · Chuck Berry
85. Mr. Tamborine Man (covers Dylan) · Byrds
86. Ohio · CSNY
87. Peggy Sue · Buddy Holly
88. Great Balls of Fire · Jerry Lee Lewis
89. Pretty Woman · Roy Orbison
90. Runaway · Del Shannon

91. Walk This Way · Aerosmith / Run-DMC
92. (Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay · Otis Redding
93. Smells like Teen Spirit · Nirvana
94. Still Crazy After All These Years · Paul Simon
95. Who Do You Love? · Bo Diddley
96. One Toke Over the Line · Brewer and Shipley
97. I Wanna Be Sedated · Ramones
98. Should I Stay or Should I Go · Clash
99. Burning Down the House · Talking Heads
100. Waltz 2 / Jazz Suite · Dimitri Shostakovich

* Yeah, yeah, I know it's on the list twice.

Nice list. I'd add "Driver's Seat" by Sniff n The Tears and My Sharona by The Knack. And lose Skynard.

[SteyrAUG]

I feel like I'm on a forum with a bunch of old men who grew up in the 60's-70's. Don't forget:

Stevie Ray Vaughan,
Dire Straits,
Fleetwood Mac,
Hall & Oates,
Phil Collins,
Huey Lewis,
Earth Wind & Fire
SOS Band
Chicago
Howard Jones
Peter Cetera
Steve Winwood
The Whispers

Robbie Neville - C'est la Vie
Karyn White - "Secret Rendezvous"
Brenda K. Starr "Pickin' Up Pieces"
Paul Hardcastel - Forest Fire & Sound Chaser

Lose Huey Lewis. Glad to see somebody else who gets Howard Jones.

[Doc Safari]

Lose Huey Lewis. Glad to see somebody else who gets Howard Jones.

Since I started subscribing to satellite radio, he's one of the few artists that I've started thinking, "Why didn't I like his music back in the day?"

[26 Inf]

Nice list. I'd add "Driver's Seat" by Sniff n The Tears and My Sharona by The Knack. And lose Skynard.

I'm not a huge Skynard fan, so we are in agreement.

I don't know if you follow John Sandford, the main character in his LE books is a guy named Lucas Davenport (and now slowly transitioning to Virgil Flowers). In one book he (Davenport) was always asking folks what to put on his new MP3 player, this was the result.

[SteyrAUG]

Since I started subscribing to satellite radio, he's one of the few artists that I've started thinking, "Why didn't I like his music back in the day?"

Weird dude haircut, looked like a guy version of Cyndi Lauper. Put me off at first too, but once I got past the look I realized he had some actual talent.

[flenna]

Mark Knopfler is basass

Totally. Sultans of Swing is sublime and has one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. Dire Straits and Tom Petty are at the top of my play list.

[Gunfixr]

Some great lists.
A few I'm not familiar with, but know and really like almost all of it.

Mark Knopfler is badass.
I might have to pull out Brothers in Arms and give it a turn on the table.

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[SteyrAUG]

I don't know if you follow John Sandford, the main character in his LE books is a guy named Lucas Davenport (and now slowly transitioning to Virgil Flowers). In one book he (Davenport) was always asking folks what to put on his new MP3 player, this was the result.

I don't have much time for fiction.

[tb-av]

Not sure why, but these songs always remind me of summer. The first one is pretty obvious.

Summertime blues - The Who
Low Rider - War -- several of their songs actually.
Under The Boardwalk - The Drifters
Waitin' for the Bus / Jesus just left Chicago - ZZ Top
She's a Woman - Jeff Beck
St. Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast / Father O'Blivion - Frank Zappa
Long Cool Woman - The Hollies
Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
30 Days in the Hole - Humble Pie
Panic in Detroit - David Bowie
In the Summer time - Mungo Jerry
On the Road Again - Canned Heat
The Letter - The box Tops
Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Rock and Roll Doctor - Little Feat
Light My Fire -the Doors
Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

[flenna]

Some great lists.
A few I'm not familiar with, but know and really like almost all of it.

Mark Knopfler is badass.
I might have to pull out Brothers in Arms and give it a turn on the table.

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