Your Favorite Song By Decade (or Join the Zeppelin Lovefest it's morphing into)

'60s: "The Gift," Velvet Underground
'70s: "Birdland," Patti Smith Group
'80s: "Wave of Mutilation," Pixies (UK Surf version)
'90s: "I Want to Touch You," Catherine Wheel
'00s; "NYC," Interpol
'10s: "Sprawl 2," Arcade Fire

 

From the decades I've been alive (and I'd probably do a different list if you asked me tomorrow):

1970s: Baba O'Riley, Who
1980s: Freewill, Rush
1990s: Yellow Ledbetter, Pearl Jam (so many could go here).
2000s: Not sure. Either Army Reserve (PJ) or Just Breathe (another PJ), though Life Wasted is a definite contender too.
2010s: Need You Now, Lady Antebellum (A lot of haters, but I like this song).

 

70s - How Do You Do by Mouth and McGee. That shit rocked when I was 7.
I'm On Fire by Dwight Twilley Band.
80s - Rough Night In Jericho by Dreams So Real.
Bad by U2.
90s - Thunderkiss 65 by White Zombie.
00s - Decoration Day by Drive-By Truckers.

 

The Stones 68-72 was about as good as gets in rock and roll, so trying to measure up to that in future years is basically impossible. Howevah, Some Girls is tremendous, Emotional Rescue was quite solid (She's So Cold is a highly undervalued rock song) and Tattoo You was very good as well--I love the 'side 2' ballads (you old fogeys know what that means). Interesting that the Tattoo songs came from all over various 70s sessions, going ack to Goats Head Soup. They needed an album to support the tour and Mick went into the studio, dug things out of the trash bin and produced that.

In the 80s, you certainly never got the same start to finish quality albums, but there were plenty of good nuggets if you sifted through the material. Undercover of the Night was a solid effort with 'She Was Hot', the title track ( a very good song) and 'Too Much Blood'. Others from the 80s that merit a mention include 'One Hit to the Body' and ' Winning Ugly', and 'High Wire', a single from one of their live albums that is a fantastic song, but got lost in the shuffle. Even stuff of their later material like 'I Go Wild' was very listenable.

Yes, not 68-72 levels, but some good stuff all in all.

 

Same here, I posted mine and then thought of about a dozen songs from every decade I should have considered.

 

Some of these trigger great memories for me. Tomorrow's another day, but my list for today:

1950s: Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
1960s: Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
1970s: Layla - Derek & The Dominos
1980s: Riding With the King - John Hiatt
1990s: No One to Run With - The Allman Brothers Band
2000s: Django/Just Got Paid - Joe Bonamassa (LFNIP)
2010s: JJ Grey - The Hottest Spot in Hell

 

A DBT mention. Awesome. Decoration Day is an incredible song. Too bad the Truckers and Isbell are now light years from their ass-kicking best without each other.

 

Jed Lowrie.

 

1960s: Dazed and Confused, Led Zeppelin
1970s: The Rain Song, Led Zeppelin
1980s: Ozone baby, Led Zeppelin
1990s: City Don't Cry, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant
2000s: Toxic, Britney Spears

 

Sprawl 2 is simply amazing, I listen to it every day. That whole album grows on me more and more as times passes.

 

Nice to see some love for JJ Grey, one of the better young guns out there.

And way to go on the album of the week avatar concept, Machine Head! Maybe I've got a convert.

 

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