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Songs or Bands that have the word Free or anything to do with Freedom.
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The 70’s Weekend. The last decade of Classic Rock. Models like Jane Birkin and Jerry Hall (who famously dated Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger) epitomized ‘70s style. Bell bottom pants, flowing maxi dresses, ponchos and frayed jeans dominated 1970s fashion. Tie-dye inspired by the 1960s “hippie” style continued to be worn, while patchwork and plaid fabrics gained popularity. In 1974, Diane von Furstenberg debuted her famous wrap dress, embodying the modern working woman’s desire for both comfort and style.
People turned to pop culture–easy to do in such a trend-laden, fad-happy decade. They listened to 8-track tapes of Jackson Browne, Olivia Newton-John, Donna Summer and Marvin Gaye. Disco rose and with it, the sounds of Abba, the Bee Gees and Donna Summer. On the rock front, bands like the Rolling Stones, Van Halen, Pink Floyd and Queen dominated airwaves.
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Special request-The 60’s
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The 1960s (pronounced “nineteen-sixties”, shortened to “the ’60s” or “the Sixties“) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. It was the seventh decade of the 20th century.[1]
The “cultural decade” of the 1960s is more loosely-defined than the actual decade, beginning around 1963–1964 with the John F. Kennedy assassination[2][3] and the Beatles‘ arrival in the United States,[1] and ending around 1969–1970 with the Altamont Free Concert,[4] the Beatles’ breakup,[5] and the Kent State shootings[6] or with the withdrawal of troops from Vietnam and the resignation of U.S. President Nixon in 1974.
The term “the Sixties” is used by historians, journalists, and other academics in scholarship and popular culture to denote the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends around the globe during this era. Some use the term to describe the decade’s counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing, music, drugs, dress, sexuality, formalities, and schooling; others use it to denounce the decade as one of irresponsible excess, flamboyance, and decay of social order.
The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos that occurred during this time, but also because of the emergence of a wide range of music; from a folk music revival, to the Beatles revolution, to the introspective lyrics of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. Norms of all kinds were broken down, especially in regards to civil rights and precepts of military duty.
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Disco-Moving the feet and body
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Disco-Moving the feet and body.
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States‘ urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.
Well-known disco artists include Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Giorgio Moroder, Boney M., Earth Wind & Fire, the Bee Gees, Chaka Khan, Chic, KC and the Sunshine Band, Thelma Houston, Sister Sledge, The Trammps, the Village People, and Michael Jackson.[2][3][4] While performers garnered public attention, record producers working behind the scenes played an important role in developing the genre. Films such as Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Thank God It’s Friday (1978) contributed to disco’s mainstream popularity.
Disco started as a mixture of music from venues popular with African Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Italian Americans,[5][6] and gay men[7] in Philadelphia and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco can be seen as a reaction by the 1960s counterculture to both the dominance of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music at the time. Several dance styles were developed during the period of disco’s popularity in the United States, including “the Bump” and “the Hustle“.
By the late 1970s, most major U.S. cities had thriving disco club scenes, and DJs would mix dance records at clubs such as Studio 54 in Manhattan, a venue popular among celebrities. Discothèque-goers often wore expensive, extravagant, and sexy fashions. There was also a thriving drug subculture in the disco scene, particularly for drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud music and the flashing lights, such as cocaine and Quaaludes, the latter being so common in disco subculture that they were nicknamed “disco biscuits”. Disco clubs were also associated with promiscuity as a reflection of the sexual revolution of this era in popular history.
Disco was the last popular music movement driven by baby boomers, peaking in popularity during the mid-late 1970s. It declined as a major trend in popular music during the late 1970s to early 1980s, but remained a key influence in the development of electronic dance music, house music, hip-hop, new wave, and post-disco. While no new disco movement has dominated popular music since its decline, the style has had several revivals since the 1990s, and the influence of disco remains strong across American and European pop music.
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Transportation songs. Songs about getting from here to there. Let’s spend the weekend playing songs about getting from here to there. Or play songs with a mode of transportation in the band or artists name.
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Songs about Friendship. Let’s all be friends. Let’s play songs about friendship or being friends.
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Great Jazz Guitar Players
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Jazz guitarists are guitarists who play jazz using an approach to chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist (rhythm guitar) and soloist in small and large ensembles and also as an unaccompanied solo instrument.
Until the 1930s, jazz bands used banjo because the banjo’s metallic twang was easier to hear than the acoustic guitar when competing with trumpets, trombones, and drums. The banjo could be heard more easily, too, on wax cylinders in the early days of audio recording. The invention of the archtop increased the guitar’s volume, and in the hands of Eddie Lang guitar became a solo instrument for the first time. Following the lead of Lang, musicians dropped their banjos for guitars, and by the 1930s the banjo hardly existed as a jazz instrument.
Amplification created possibilities for the guitar. Charlie Christian was the first to explore these possibilities. Although his career was brief, it was influential enough for critics to divide the history of jazz guitar into pre- and post-Christian eras.
Influences from free jazz in the 1960s made its way to the guitar. Sonny Sharrock used dissonance, distortion effects units, and other electronic gear to create sonic “sheets of noise” that drove some listeners away when he performed at festivals. He refused to play chords, calling himself a horn player, which is where he got his inspiration.[19] English guitarist Derek Bailey established his reputation as part of the European free jazz scene. Like Sharrock, he sought liberation for its own sake and the breaking of all conventions in the name of originality. He belonged to the Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the 1970s. Beginning in the 1990s, he formed duos with DJs, Chinese pipa musicians, and Pat Metheny.[16]
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It’s the guys turn. Male Singers
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It’s the guys turn. Male Singers. OK let’s spend the weekend doing guy songs.
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We are in the age of robotics and electronics. Almost everything we do is through data, electronics and/or robots. They even have robots designed to comfort the lonely, robots designed for passion, robotic limbs, working robots and robots for our amusement for adults and children. As a child I had an old fashioned robot…
The first robot I saw on TV was on the series Lost In Space…
Now they’ve evolved..
Have you ever owned a robot? If so what was your first robot?
Let’s post songs about robots, pictures, gifs, memes of robots we’ve had, seen or find on the internet. Remember to have a blast!
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Have you ever wondered if there are many songs about science? Or songs with the science in the title? Let’s see how we all do.
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Let’s hear some tunes from the ladies.
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Let’s hear some tunes from the ladies. It’s the girls turn so play your favorites.
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Songs with Food in the title.
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Songs with Food in the title. At the intersection of music and food rests a dazzling buffet of options for self-expression. Quick-witted songwriters turn to the dinner table when formulating life advice (e.g., “mind your biscuits and gravy“). They use food imagery as a tantalizing way to communicate pick-up lines and flirtation (e.g., “my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard,” “Do fries go with that shake?” and “spread it like peanut butter and jelly“).
Food isn’t just for sustenance. It’s also a language of self-expression. If you love food for all of its uses, then make a playlist of pop, rock, and country songs with food in the title. We have a long list to start you out!
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Weekend Hair Bands.
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Weekend Hair Bands. It’s been a while so let’s put yout best hair band tunes out there.
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Let’s head on down the road to the weekend. Strike up the music on your playlist. The middle of the week, usually regarded as being from Tuesday to Thursday. So play all your favorites.
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Free for all weekend Jam.
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Free for all weekend Jam. Play what ever songs move you.
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Koda Special. Big Band Music.
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Koda Special. Big Band Music. For some it’s Monday. So let’s start with some big band tunes. Or if you feel that you want to post other types of music, feel free.
A big band is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term “big band” is also used to describe a genre of music, although this was not the only style of music played by big bands.
Big bands started as accompaniment for dancing. In contrast to the typical jazz emphasis on improvisation, big bands relied on written compositions and arrangements. They gave a greater role to bandleaders, arrangers, and sections of instruments rather than soloists.
