Geezers Party Playlist

[Pryderi]

What songs would you recommend for a playlist for a party of 40-50 year old ppl?

[taterguy]

1. You'll have to provide way more information

I'm 40 but I doubt what would appeal to me would appeal to the people at the party.

Of course no one at parties pays attention to the music so I wouldn't waste much time on it.

[Pryderi]

3. hmmm...interesting point. The people are going to be disco/80s relics. Hard to ignore the followin

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4jIu_DeKY

[madinmaryland]

4. BTW, most people in the 40-50 age range hated disco!!

Me included!

[Pryderi]

5. Research shows that the "Tweener" generation loves disco read this

From 1996:

http://www.tweeners.org/usatoday.htm

Technically they're baby boomers. But those born the first five years of the 1960s know who they really are. They're Tweeners.Now 31 to 36 years old, they have been lumped by a statistical fluke with the cloth-diapered post-World War II set, who are beginning to turn 50. These youngest boomers are a lost generation, stuck between Woodstock and Lollapalooza.

Howdy Doody was canceled before most were born. They didn't wear Davy Crockett coonskin hats. They don't remember JFK's assassination. The Vietnam War ended before they reached the draft age. AIDS abolished free love. Baby boomers were born from 1946 through 1964. But the spotlight has always been focused on older boomers, those 40 to 50 now. In the mid-'90s, they're starting to fret about retirement and aging. Tweeners, a few of whom even have parents who are boomers, just can't relate.

"Everybody talks about the '60s as if everybody was there," says Tamara Ruiz of Stafford, Va., whose October 1964 birth makes her one of the last baby boomers. "Sometimes I feel like saying to them "Well, a lot of people didn't experience it so just shut up!'" Ruiz is among dozens who regularly vent in the Tweener section of America Online's Baby Boomer Club. Terry Roy, 33, of Richmond, Calif., expressed a typical online complaint. "I've always kind of resented being called a boomer," Roy wrote. "I don't 'remember' the Beatles, never heard of Jimi Hendrix until... he was already dead."

Tweeners started school in the '60s, became teenagers in the '70s and left school in the '80s. By the time they reached adulthood, the idealism and optimism of their predecessors had been squelched by Watergate, the oil crisis, inflation and recession. They approached their future with cynicism and pessimism. "The trailing edge (of boomers) were the first to experience a lack of confidence," says market researcher Walker Smith of Yankelovich Partners. Unlike earlier boomers, who grew up in a 1950s America where anything seemed possible, later boomers found a world where "the sense of entitlement began to break down."

Despite such differences, the more than 20 million Tweeners aren't recognized as a separate generation. They are counted among the 75 million baby boomers. Yet many are closer in age to Generation Xers who were born from 1965 through 1976. But that designation doesn't feel right either. "Growing up I always felt I was the only person my age. They spoke in the media as if everyone was 15 years older than me," says Ruiz, who listened to Andy Gibb and Olivia Newton-John and resents older boomers who sneer at disco. "My age group got a little bit forgotten. I'm still considered a baby boomer... but I'm younger than Cindy Brady," Ruiz says, referring to the youngest daughter on TV's The Brady Bunch.

[madinmaryland]

6. I am a definately a tweener, but where I grew up

Disco was widely hated. Born in 61 here.

:hi:

[Iris]

9. I agree. No one I know "loved" disco!

In fact, we called all pop-dance music "disco" and said it with DISDAIN!


I find it hard to believe anyone did an actual survey of "Tweeners" -we're pretty much invisible.

[pokerfan]

7. Disco sucked

I graduated HS in 77; this is what we listened to:

Foghat
ZZ Top
Zeppelin
Skynyrd
Aerosmith
Dire Straits
Boston

[cyberswede]

8. Is that you, sis?

Just kidding - my older sister graduated in '77 and listened to exactly that stuff. LOL!

She went bananas when I showed her "Dazed and Confused" - she loved it! She said she had those exact characters in her HS class.

[pokerfan]

12. Dazed and Confused. Best documentary ever.

http://damox.com/entertainment/dazed_and_confused/pics.htm">Dazed and Confused Yearbook

(I was Tony.)

[cyberswede]

14. I would have hung out with you!

I was a cross between Cynthia (probably not as smart) and Michelle (definitely not as pretty). This would have been the 1984 versions of the characters - not too much had changed in those 7 years. :)

That link is priceless, BTW - looks just like my yearbook! LOL

[pokerfan]

15. All right all right all right...

I love them redheads!

I even knew a couple of Woodersons. Guys, who instead of leaving after graduation, just kinda hung around and hit on girls.

I was so Tony. Worked on the paper and the annual as a photographer. Total science nerd. Even had the same hair. No glasses though; I got contacts when I was a sophomore.

[cyberswede]

18. Wooderson - LOL

Sadly, I meant I was a cross of the character types, not the appearances of those lovely characters.
I was a band geek & hung out with the school paper folks and the stoners. Funny!

[BOSSHOG]

10. Throw in Bad Company and Rare Earth and we got us a party

[pokerfan]

13. Forgot Bad Co...

Never listened to much Rare Earth.

[Pryderi]

20. Pure Prairie League? Poco?

[madinmaryland]

2. I'm no Geezer!!1!!

:grr:

[cyberswede]

11. Well...

this 41-y.o. "geezer" listens to:

Tool, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Slipknot, Disturbed, Green Day, In Flames, Kittie...etc.
But my hubby, who is the same age would HATE all that.

You might try classic rock (Zeppelin, Stones, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Who, Cream, Santana...like that) - it's pretty widely accepted these days, isn't it? John Prine is lots of fun, too (and not too loud for a party setting).

Have a fun party! :)

[Pryderi]

16. Van Halen with David Lee Roth?

[cyberswede]

19. Sure - just NOT with Sammy Hagar!

[Burma Jones]

17. Motown, Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones, The Who

Elvis (Costello AND Presley), Prince, The Clash, Springsteen, some 50's music, Pointer Sisters, Sly and the Family Stone, War, more Motown...Mandrill (if you can find it)

I spun records at DC bars and parties from 1983 - 1986 and that's what got these folks going.

[SoxFan]

21. This 41 year old

Gen X post punk twit's high school/college age listening list:

U2
REM (when they were only played on college radio)
Waterboys
Lone Justice
The Alarm
Violent Femmes
Smithereens
Pogues
Big Country
The Cure
Echo & the Bunnymen
Guadalcanal Diary
Hoodoo Gurus
Jason & the Scorchers
Tommy Keene
Del Fuegos
Scruffy the Cat
Neighborhoods
A whole bunch of cool old British Invasion stuff (Kinks, Beatles, Animals, Stones)