Looking for song suggestions: age/getting older
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Looking for song suggestions: age/getting older
I've been recruited to put together a compilation CD for a friend's 50th bday. The theme is kind of loose, but should relate to age/getting older or perhaps staying young
Off the top of my head:
18 - Alice Cooper
100 Years - Five For Fighting
Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin
Looking for any and all ideas, though metal and/or rap probably wouldn't be the best fit...
Off the top of my head:
18 - Alice Cooper
100 Years - Five For Fighting
Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin
Looking for any and all ideas, though metal and/or rap probably wouldn't be the best fit...
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Re: Looking for song suggestions: age/getting older
Here are some of my current favs.
Numb Encore- Linkin Park/ Jay Z
Apoligize- One Republic
Buy U a drank- T-Pain/Young Joc
Ghetto Gospel- 2pac/ Elton John
Arab Money- Busta Rhymes
Numb Encore- Linkin Park/ Jay Z
Apoligize- One Republic
Buy U a drank- T-Pain/Young Joc
Ghetto Gospel- 2pac/ Elton John
Arab Money- Busta Rhymes
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Re: Looking for song suggestions: age/getting older
Got just the song for you. It's entitled "Middle Age" and is the opening track on Steve Forbert's Strange Names & New Sensations.
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Re: Looking for song suggestions: age/getting older
jerry lee lewis- middle age crazy
this is the perfect song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj0o0QO2riY
this is the perfect song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj0o0QO2riY
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Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
Old Man - Neil Young
Old Man - Neil Young
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Re: Looking for song suggestions: age/getting older
"Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw" by Jimmy Buffet. OK, doesn't really have anything to do with growing older, but when your friend makes a comment about it, just wink and say "thinkin' of you".
There's always "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull or "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by the Police, about older men.
Or, back to Jimmy Buffet, "Growing Older but not Up" with the chorus:
I'm growing older but not up
My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck
So let the winds of change blow over my head
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead
Edit: Here's a list of 25 songs on aging. From this list, Steely Dan's "Hey 19" would work well... about an older guy who meets a younger woman:
Hey nineteen
No we got nothing in common
No we cant talk at all
Please take me along
When you slide on down
http://www.slate.com/id/2199897/pagenum/all/#page_start
There's always "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull or "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by the Police, about older men.
Or, back to Jimmy Buffet, "Growing Older but not Up" with the chorus:
I'm growing older but not up
My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck
So let the winds of change blow over my head
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead
Edit: Here's a list of 25 songs on aging. From this list, Steely Dan's "Hey 19" would work well... about an older guy who meets a younger woman:
Hey nineteen
No we got nothing in common
No we cant talk at all
Please take me along
When you slide on down
http://www.slate.com/id/2199897/pagenum/all/#page_start
Last edited by Heat; 02-22-09 at 01:11 AM.
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Re: Looking for song suggestions: age/getting older
Excellent choice!!! Add to that Floyd's "Free Four" found on Obscured By Clouds album.
Free Four lyrics
The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime.
You suffle in gloom in the sickroom
And talk to yourself till you die.
Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long cold rest.
You get your chance to try
In the twinkling of an eye:
Eighty years, with luck, or even less.
So all aboard for the American tour,
And maybe you'll make it to the top.
And mind how you go.
I can tell you, because I know.
You may find it hard to get off.
You are the angel of death
And I am the dead man's son.
And he died like a mole in a fox hole.
And everyone is still in the run.
And who is the master of fox hounds?
And who says the hunt has begun?
And who calls the tune in the courtroom?
And who beats the funeral drum?
The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime.
You suffle in gloom in the sickroom
And talk to yourself till you die.
Free Four lyrics
The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime.
You suffle in gloom in the sickroom
And talk to yourself till you die.
Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long cold rest.
You get your chance to try
In the twinkling of an eye:
Eighty years, with luck, or even less.
So all aboard for the American tour,
And maybe you'll make it to the top.
And mind how you go.
I can tell you, because I know.
You may find it hard to get off.
You are the angel of death
And I am the dead man's son.
And he died like a mole in a fox hole.
And everyone is still in the run.
And who is the master of fox hounds?
And who says the hunt has begun?
And who calls the tune in the courtroom?
And who beats the funeral drum?
The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime.
You suffle in gloom in the sickroom
And talk to yourself till you die.
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Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
Old Man, on the other hand, Nice call there.
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"Reminiscing" - Little River Band (with lyrics)
"Reminiscing" - Little River Band (with lyrics)
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Re: Looking for song suggestions: age/getting older
I second this, along with:
They Might Be Giants - I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
Sometimes I feel like being wispy
And once in a while I feel like being dry
But we're doomed and we're drowned by this feeling we surround
So I hope that I get old before I die
Ohhhhh
It's a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope
And I wonder why this hasn't happened
Why why why
And I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt
And I hope that I get old before I die
Clear off the kitchen table darling
For on the kitchen table I must lie
I'm just tired for my wife just served the banquet of my life
And I hope that I get old before I die
Ohhhhh
It's a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope
And I wonder why this hasn't happened
Why why why
And I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt
And I hope that I get old before I die
Ohhhhh
It's a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope
And I wonder why this hasn't happened
Why why why
And I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt
And I hope that I get old before I die
They Might Be Giants - I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
Sometimes I feel like being wispy
And once in a while I feel like being dry
But we're doomed and we're drowned by this feeling we surround
So I hope that I get old before I die
Ohhhhh
It's a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope
And I wonder why this hasn't happened
Why why why
And I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt
And I hope that I get old before I die
Clear off the kitchen table darling
For on the kitchen table I must lie
I'm just tired for my wife just served the banquet of my life
And I hope that I get old before I die
Ohhhhh
It's a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope
And I wonder why this hasn't happened
Why why why
And I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt
And I hope that I get old before I die
Ohhhhh
It's a long, long rope they use to hang you soon I hope
And I wonder why this hasn't happened
Why why why
And I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt
And I hope that I get old before I die
Last edited by Walker Boh; 02-22-09 at 04:49 PM.
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