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

Re: Your Favorite Song By Decade

1950s: Rave On, Buddy Holly
1960s: My Generation, The Who
1970s: Life During Wartime, The Talking Heads
1980s: These Days, R.E.M.
1990s: Loser, Beck
2000s: Fake Empire, The National
2010s: Half Light II, Arcade Fire

 

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50s: "No More Hot Dogs" - Hasil Adkins
60s: "Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks
70s: "Marquee Moon" - Television
80s: "Makes No Sense At All" - Husker Du
90s: "Game of Pricks" - Guided By Voices
00s: "Another Sunny Day" - Belle and Sebastian
10s: "Round and Round" - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti or "Runaway" - Kanye West

 

Re: Your Favorite Song By Decade

1890s: Hello, My Baby (1897)
1900s: Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1908)
1910s: St. Louis Blues (1914)
1920s: Happy Days are Here Again (1929)
1930s: September Song (1938)
1940s: This Land is Your Land (1940)
1950s: Johnny B. Goode (1958)
1960s: Revolution (1968)
1970s: Badlands (1978)
1980s: Fall On Me (1986)
1990s: All Apologies (1993)
2000s: Walk On (2000)

 

Re: Your Favorite Song By Decade

Well done.

 

Re: Your Favorite Song By Decade

1960s: The Wanderer (Dion and the Belmonts)
1970s: Born to Run (Springsteen)
1980s: Forever (Kenny Loggins)
1990s: Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
2000s: There You'll Be (Faith Hill)

 

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I'm thinking PB & J would be a heavy favorite for me for the 60s and perhaps a wildcard upset pick for the 70s with Underwood Deviled Ham.

And nice work Starman. Stephen Foster is pissed you didn't go further back into the 1800s.

 

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Without West End Blues, this list is a fraud.

1970s: Saturday In The Park, Chicago
1980s: Don't Dream It's Over, Crowded House
1990s: Wonderwall, Oasis
2000s: Rebellion (Lies), Arcade Fire
2010s: You Will Leave A Mark, A Silent Film

 

Re: Your Favorite Song By Decade

1950s: I Can't Help Falling In Love With You, Elvis
1960s: Happiness is a Warm Gun, Beatles
1970s: Stairway to Heaven, Zeppelin
1980s: The Longest Time, Billy Joel
1990s: Tonight Tonight, Smashing Pumpkins
2000s: Icky Thump, White Stripes
2010s: No Love, Eminem and Lil Wayne

 

Re: Your Favorite Song By Decade

1940s: "One For My Baby" - Frank
1950s: "Ready Teddy" - Little Richard
1960s: "Red House" - Hendrix (particularly the version on Hendrix In The West)
1970s: "Layla" - Derek and the Dominos
1980s: "That's Entertainment" - The Jam
1990s: "Santa Monica" - Everclear
2000s: "Here's Looking At You, Kid" - Gaslight Anthem
2010s: "I Should Have Known It" - Tom Petty

 

Re: Your Favorite Song By Decade

Self Esteem came out in the early 1990s.

 

Re: Your Favorite Song By Decade

And it sucked.

 

Re: Your Favorite Song By Decade

"Runaway Train" was from "Grave Dancers Union" which came out in October 1992.