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50 songs from 50 years


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Here is mine;

 

64 - The Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night

65 - The Kinks - Till the End of the Day

66 - Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

67 - Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love

68 - The American Breed - Bend Me, Shape Me

69 - Led Zeppelin - I Can't Quit You Baby

70 - The Kinks - Lola

71 - The Who - The Seeker

72 - Alice Cooper - School's Out

73 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

74 - Queen - Killer Queen

75 - Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine

76 - Queen - Tie Your Mother Down

77 - The Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

78 - Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone

79 - The Clash - Clampdown

80 - The Dead Kennedy's - Holiday In Cambodia

81 - Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime

82 - The Clash - Rock the Casbah

83 - Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire

84 - Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane

85 - Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

86 - Slayer - Raining Blood

87 - The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

88 - Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour

89 - Nirvana - Negative Creep

90 - The Sundays - My Finest Hour

91 - Nirvana - Lithium

92 - The Lemonheads - Its A Shame About Ray

93 - Radiohead - Creep

94 - Oasis - Cigarettes And Alcohol

95 - The Cardigans - Hey! Get Out Of My Way

96 - Placebo - Nancy Boy

97 - Radiohead - No Surprises

98 - Placebo - Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)

99 - Blink 182 - What's My Age Again

00 - The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

01 - Garbage - Breaking Up the Girl

02 - Muse - Citizen Erased

03 - Kings Of Leon - Molly's Chambers

04 - The Killers - Mr. Brightside

05 - The White Stripes - My Doorbell

06 - Muse - Supermassive Black Hole

07 - Klaxons - Totem On The Timeline

08 - Does It Offend You, Yeah - Dawn Of The Dead

09 - Florence And The Machine - Dog Days Are Over

10 - Ash - Neon

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Not a bad list. I think you've chosen a few bands that I'd put elsewhere- like the stones. They wrote and recorded much better songs a few years later. I'd put the zep earlier, too, and pick from their first LP.

 

If I was picking the best tracks by those bands then yeah, I'd have done the same. Getting the whole thing to fit together made me change stuff though, the 60's really weren't that great so choices are a bit thin on the ground up to 68. By the 60's (imo) Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles et all who were big in the 50's had lost it a bit, some very poor albums. That leaves The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Yardbirds for the majority of the 60's. Not really a fan of The Yardbirds or Beachboys so it was either double dip or go with early Stones/Beatles/Who tracks.

 

Might move Led Zep though, having the Jackson 5 in '69 is a bit of a disgrace given how good a year it was.

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If I was picking the best tracks by those bands then yeah, I'd have done the same. Getting the whole thing to fit together made me change stuff though, the 60's really weren't that great so choices are a bit thin on the ground up to 68. By the 60's (imo) Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles et all who were big in the 50's had lost it a bit, some very poor albums. That leaves The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Yardbirds for the majority of the 60's. Not really a fan of The Yardbirds or Beachboys so it was either double dip or go with early Stones/Beatles/Who tracks.

 

Might move Led Zep though, having the Jackson 5 in '69 is a bit of a disgrace given how good a year it was.

 

How dare you!

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