What are some good songs/albums for a cookout?
We’re having a big cookout for family and friends and I’d like to fill up my iPod with music to play during the event but am having a hard time coming up with ideas.
Most of our guests will be in the late thirties-early forties age range, but also a good number of 60+ and about a gazillion kids. So, nothing overtly sexual or explicit. I’d just like to have some fun, mood-setting background music.
Thanks!
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The Eagles greatest hits, volume 1 and 2 should play well to that audience. Mellow and clean.
Van Morrison – Moondance, etc.
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road
Beach Boys
The Drifters – Under the Boardwalk
Some Bruce Juice
Mamas and the Papas
The Doors would do nice for these ages.
Some Motown thrown in the mix.
Beck’s Odelay is a fun album that may be pleasantly nostalgic for the late 30s/early 40s crew. I have summer associations with this album for some reason, and my kids dig some of the songs.
It’s hard to go wrong with Jimmy Buffett for any outdoor occasion.
80’S through and through!
Oh. that’s easy. Bob Segar. Inside and out! Funny…we’re getting ready for a BBQ tomorrow and I was JUST thinking, before I read this, that we need to get Bob Segar out of the Durango and into the back yard.
Aerosmith, Sweet Emotion. One of my all time favs.
@Dutchess_III Bob Seger is great summer time music! I often think of him as “most unappreciated”.
John Cougar Mellenkamp and early Tom Petty is good summer music too.
You might add a few tracks from the Woodstock album: Santana, Canned Heat, Ten Years After.
Aerosmith, No More No More goes pretty well too.
o lord. TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT NOBODY WEARS!!! Yeah…I gotta go get it. “Come to Poppa!
@zenvelo Yeah…the older I get the more I appreciate Bob Segar’s music. It is truly timeless.
Pretty much anything by the Beach Boys should work.
WEARIN OTHER THINGS THAT NOBODY WEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s one for the rockers ACDC, Hard As A Rock.
That was Bob Segar. “Like a rock! Mmmmmm Like a rock!” It’s getting awfully crowded in my head here….
Thanks for the suggestions so far! Keep ‘em coming!
More ACDC: Thunderstuck. Fire Your Guns.
I like what several here have mentioned and would add Roy Orbison and the Traveling Wilburys to the mix.
A little Skynyrd would probably work well also. Good summertime music.
I’m going to have to look a lot of these up. I was too young to really remember the 80’s and not much into music until those wonderful hair bands came along. Bon Jovi was the first band my friends and I went really crazy over…in middle school, of course. Anything much before those years, I’m not really familiar with. This will give me something to do when my husband is on his next business trip!
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