This is a cross section of the sort of songs i grew up listening too. By “grew up” I tried to stick to stuff made before the 90’s so I’d have been no older than 10.
- Night boat to Cairo - Madness
- All day and all of the night - The Kinks
- Jumpin’ Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
- Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces
- That’ll be the day - Buddy Holly
- Bridge over troubled water - Simon & Garfunkel
- Evil woman - Electric Light Orchestra
- Killer Queen - Queen
- My generation - The Who
- Immigrant song - Jimmy Page
- Inbetween days - The Cure
- Fast car - Studio Allstars (I had to pick this as Tracy Chapmans early stuff is not on Spotify)
- Pinball wizard - The Who
- Under the broadwalk - The Drifters
- [Sittin’ on] The dock of the bay - Otis Redding
- Respect - Aretha Franklin
- I heard it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye
- Fight for your right - Beastie Boys (This was mainly from radio and TV, can’t say it was my parents sort of thing)
- Close to me - The Cure
- Everybody whats to rule the world - Tears For Fears
- Footloose - Kenny Loggins
- Take on me - A-ha
- 99 Red balloons - Nena (The English language version of this was made specially for the UK market, other english markets got the German version)
- We built this city - Starship
- Luka - Suzanne Vega