r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 12h ago

George Harrison & Ringo Starr - While My Guitar Gently Weeps ( Live at The Prince’s Trust Rock Gala 1987 ) [HD]

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369 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 14h ago

Dee Dee and Johnny Ramone at Heathrow Airport about to change music, 1976

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171 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 12h ago

Don McLean - American Pie [Folk Rock] (1971)

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 18h ago

Uriah Heep & lan Anderson from Jethro Tull live in London in 2002 with “Circus”

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57 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 21h ago

Van Halen - Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love ( NEW Live Video 1982 ) [HD]

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45 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 10h ago

Blind Faith, Blind Faith

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 3h ago

R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (1991 official music video)

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 16h ago

ROLLING STONES MOTHER S LITTLE HELPER

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Doctor please, some more of these
Outside the door, she took four more
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What a drag it is getting old


r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 3h ago

The Goo Goo Dolls - "Iris" (1998 official music video)

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 1h ago

Devo - Whip It ( Live On ABC’s Fridays in 1980 ) (HQ)

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 28m ago

AFTER THE GOLD RUSH/Neil Young (1970):

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AFTER THE GOLD RUSH (1970) is a landmark recording - not just for Neil Young but '70s rock as a whole.

https://samtimonious.com/neil-young-after-the-gold-rush/


r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 21h ago

Peter Tosh - Johnny B. Goode (Official Music Video)

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 17h ago

The late, great John Prine and Iris DeMent - In Spite of Ourselves (Live From Sessions at West 54th)

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 17h ago

oct 27 1979...a little known benefit for the native american center, santa barbara california fighting to stave off a gas company who wanted their land. it featured jackson browne and friends. it helps when your friends are CSN, joe walsh, don henley, roger mcguinn, and danny o'keefe.

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was only able to find part of our program from this show...but the early show audio is here on youtube. could only get tickets to the early show:

https://youtu.be/yWruscZNvnk?si=mTg2zMCErFxQ9Nra


r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 1h ago

Tommy Dorsey: "Boogie Woogie" (1938)

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Tommy Dorsey — “Boogie Woogie”
Genre: Big-band swing / boogie-woogie
Era: Late 1930s–1940s
Key musical characteristic: A relentlessly driving, blues-based groove.

Why this music grooves so effectively
1. The boogie-woogie bass pattern
The foundation of boogie-woogie is a repeating bass figure, traditionally played by the pianist’s left hand.
Typically, it’s built around a 12-bar blues progression, with an eight-note-to-the-bar rhythmic pattern.
That repetition produces something almost hypnotic. You don’t need a complicated melody because the rhythmic foundation is already so satisfying.
2. The swinging eighth notes
Unlike mambo, which generally employs straight subdivisions, boogie-woogie frequently uses a swung or shuffled rhythmic feel.
The uneven subdivision creates that rolling, bouncing sensation.
It’s one reason the music feels so physically engaging.
3. The brass arrangements
In Tommy Dorsey’s big-band interpretation, the horns transform what originated as a piano-centered blues style into something much bigger.
The brass riffs provide rhythmic punctuation, melodic excitement, and dramatic contrasts.
4. The interplay between sections
The rhythm section establishes the groove while the horns introduce variations and accents.
The music can maintain the same underlying pulse while continually changing what’s happening above it.
That’s a remarkably effective way to sustain excitement without sacrificing coherence.

An important historical detail
Tommy Dorsey’s famous recording of “Boogie Woogie” dates to 1938, although your compilation album was released much later.
His recording helped bring boogie-woogie into the mainstream swing-band repertoire.
The arrangement is associated with Sy Oliver, who subsequently became one of Dorsey’s most important arrangers, although the original 1938 recording predates Oliver’s joining the orchestra.


r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 3h ago

Aerosmith - "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" (1998 official HD video)

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 23h ago

Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - Stay

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 3h ago

Radiohead - "Creep" (1993)

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 9h ago

Chic - Chic Cheer (1978). What Faith Evans sampled for her 1998 release, "Love like This".

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2 Upvotes

r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 12h ago

Toto - I'll Supply the Love

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 2h ago

T. Rex - Spaceball Ricochet

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 3h ago

The Beastie Boys performing "Sabotage" live on Letterman in 1994

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r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 9h ago

found an old cassette tape in my parents garage labeled summer road trip nineteen ninety four with a handwritten tracklist in faded blue sharpie

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popped it into an old boombox i dug out of storage fully expecting it to either shred the tape or play complete silence but it actually fired right up with some fuzzy sounding grunge track that instanly brought back the smell of hot vinyl seats and melted

gas station candy from when we drove down to the coast with the windows rolled all the way down.


r/OldSchoolCoolMusic • • 21h ago

Disco and Funky

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