Old Skool music thread.....let's hear what you were/are still listening too!

I'm addicted mostly to the rock and heavy genres so there's not many exceptions of them in my list, I decided to mention also best tracks of the bands:

- Deep Purple (Smoke In The Water)
- Jimi Hendrix (Purple Haze)
- Iron Maiden (Wrathchild, Where Eagles Dare, Clairvoyant, Children Of The Damned...)
- CCR (I Heard It Through The Grapevine)
- Camel (Mystic Queen)
- Iron Butterfly (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida)
- AC/DC (Hell's Bells)
- Steppenwolf (Born To Be Wild)
- The Cult (Here Comes The Rain)
- Judas Priest (Breaking The Law)
...

And I'm born in '79.

 

Glad to see some diversity as far as rap/rock choices! Black Sabbath,Bob Seger,Slayer,Journey,80's Metallica,Led Zep, Pink Floyd,original Misfits,Dead Kennedy's,DRI,Motley Crue,AC/DC,the Bangles just to name a few

 

Shit, I forgot to mention Misfits and Samhain in my list. I'll try to burn my speakers with He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named as repentance rite.

 

Don't forget "Mother of Mercy" Romero. Play that and all is forgiven

 

I'll do that at later this evening, wallowing in the sin for a while will teach me humility.

 

i hear you man, the old ninetys rap is the shit, they broke down walls for a lot of artists, they do what most try to do now and fail at. i listen to a lot of early ninetys rap. lot of bay area stuff...

as for jus ol skool rap
of course

Public Enemy
EPMD
KRS-ONE
Rakim (& eric b)
Run dmc
Ll cool j
Fat boys
Kurtis Blow
Donald d


arghhhhh, cant think right now

 

I saw no mention of
The Boo Yah Tribe
Public Enemy
M.C. Shy D
Rob Base
The Queen Latifa
3RD Base
Biz Markie
Whodini
M.C. Shan
Doug E Fresh
U.T.F.O.
Afrika Bambaata Nation
Mantronix
Kool Moe Dee
Roxanne Shante
The Boogie Boys
The Sugar Hill Gang
Big Daddy Kane
Ice-T
Eric B. & Rakim
The Skinny Boys
Kurtis Blow
F.B.I & The Redhead Kingpin
Word Of Mouth
Shawn Brown
Timex Social Club
Oran Juice Jones
Newcleus
Jellybean
L.A Dreamteam and OH! cant forget my Boy
Slick Rick and AH! ol'
E.U.
Laid Back
The Gap Band
M.C. Lyte
Melle Mell

 

"bobright" what do you class as bay area stuff.

 

ah yes, whoodini, slick rick newcleus...kool moe dee, roxanne shante, ice, biz, big daddy on the money. all the artists you mentioned. they were swimmin in the back of my head somewhere...


@weazel

artists like
dre dog
rbl posse
e-40
luniz

the late
cougnut
mac dre

 

I'm not much of a music listener, but run dmc and beastie boys are the only ones from my playlist that fit this category. Pink Floyd has few good tracks too.

 

Good to see you again, VenomX05.. havent seen your name around for a while.

I think we all consider 'Old Skool' the music we first got into when in our early teens, right?

when i was in primary school i was into stuff like Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, ZZ top etc, all the usual stuff shown on MTV when we first got cable/satellite TV in the UK.. until i first heard Run DMC / Aerosmith's 'walk this way', then everything changed & i got into Rap/Hip Hop until 1988 when my generation got our own 'new music' in Acid House.

Rap was great, but it was an american thing & my generation needed a UK movement to follow like older people had found in Ska, Punk & Prog Rock.

best tracks i can remember at the time :-

Adonis - No way back
Bang the Party - Royal House (can you feel it)
New Order - Blue Monday
Strings Of Life - Strings of Life
Happy Mondays - Step On
Adamski - Killer
Inner City - Big Fun/Good life

Im sure more would come to me if i could think, but now my brain hurts after thinking that far back LOL

 

romero .i think my fave "Iron Maiden" song would have the be "Rime Of The Anicent Mariner" the 13 minute epic from the "Powerslave" album it kicks butt .Fave. Iron Maden album is a toss up between "Powerslave" album or "Number Of The Beast"