Give me some old-school white people music recs

[M2d]

England Dan and John Ford Coley
Ambrosia
Little River Band

Hey, you said you wanted to check out "Soft Rock"

[IndieMatty]

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

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Steely Dan
Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young)
Fleetwood Mac

A Steely Dan greatest hits album probably won't do them justice - I recommend Pretzel Logic or Katy Lied, but everything up to Gaucho is good.

[VBM]

Queen.

really, they weren't afraid to try & incorporate any genre (from opera to soul) in their music.

oh and "Dream On" turned me on to some of Aerosmith's pre-80's stuff (which i'm lukewarm on, it's not all goodor bad, but kind of nondescript, IMHO)...

[mike l.]

two words:

steely dan

[YourFoxyGrandma]

Steely Dan and Supertramp.
Supertramp is sweet.

[mike l.]

"The Pogues"

perhaps the most annoying band of all time. up there with midnight oil.

but kudos on townes van zandt. youd love a band from sweden called able if you love him.

[ethan]

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Queen.

really, they weren't afraid to try & incorporate any genre (from opera to soul) in their music.

oh and "Dream On" turned me on to some of Aerosmith's pre-80's stuff (which i'm lukewarm on, it's not all goodor bad, but kind of nondescript, IMHO)...

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I love the old Aerosmith stuff...basically, everything from back when they were on drugs. Their self-titled debut or "Rocks" would be good places to start. And I'll second the Queen recommendation.

[jakethebake]

The title of this thread just kills me. "old school white people music". I'm so unhip...LOL.

[zephed56]

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Right now, I'm currently listening to the greatest hits cds of the following artists/groups:

The Eagles - wankers
Hall & Oates- wankers
The Doobie Brothers-wankers, yer kiddin me
Chicago (their earlier stuff (which is flat-out fantastic), not their smarmy 80's power ballad stuff)wankers
Simon & Garfunkelwankers
The Beatles- good

Hopefully that should kind of give you a vague idea of the kind of music I'm liking.

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