OT Time of Our Lives: Songs from EVERY YEAR (1970-2020) - DJ Earworm

A few songs that I found big influences...not lookin' up the years but....Get up Stand up...Bob Marley and the Wailers.....Trouble Man....Marvin Gaye.....Shaft...Isaac Hayes....The Weight...the Band...Driven to Tears...the Police....Stop making Sense...Talking Heads....Natural Woman...Aretha...this would be a book if I kept going

 

I used to love the local libraries collection of top 40 cds from the 1940s through the 90s....last time I went in they had gotten rid of the whole collection

 

Late 80s and early 90s were the best period for music. Most of the stuff Post 2002 is garbage.

 

Bohemian Rhapsody...Queen
1999 Prince
I can hear it in the air tonight Phil Collins
September Earth Wind and Fire
What is hip Tower of Power
Blue Joni Mitchell
Madman across the water Elton John
Start me up ..Rolling Stones
Rapture Anita Baker
Would I lie to you....Eurythmics
Sweetest Taboo....Sade
50 ways to lose your lover....Paul Simon
Don't dream it's over...Crowded House
Middle of the road....Pretenders
Imagine...John Lennon

 

I liked the 50s, 60s and 70s.

 

The Beatles released Let it Be in 1970

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that those two groups couldn't get one song in the 70's on the list is a failure.

 

I disagree. I'd say mid-60's thru the 70's was the golden age of music.

 

Late 50's - 60's - early 70's

 

IMO, the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were all very good and distinctive eras of music. The 1990s, despite that being part of "my era" of music lacked that distinctiveness to me--grunge and the last of New Jack Swing (carrying over from the 1980s) were the main signifiers of the decade before it collapsed into the "alternative" scene, which had some good points (like the Smashing Pumpkins) but often blended into each other in a pretty bland soup.

At least, from a rock/pop perspective. Hip-hop obviously took off in the 1990s and it was arguably the golden age for the genre.

The 2000s weren't great from a mainstream perspective but was one of the best eras for indie rock and pop and pretty good for conscious rap (Common, Kweli, Lupe Fiasco, etc). The 2010s have been pretty decent--at least, if you like dance tracks. EDM has basically crossed over and merged with everything else, from hip-hop and soul to rock and pop. Some of the best stuff, though, has been throw-back music to the 1970s and 1980s, like from Pharrell, Daft Punk and more recent Bruno Mars (basically his stuff since Uptown Funk).

 

War was a great band....Slippin' into Darkness, The world is a ghetto and Spill the Wine. Cisco Kid
David Crosby once said we look at musical decades wrong....we should start musical decades from the 5.....1955-65, 1965-75, 1975-85. 1985-1995...etc....I tend to agree

 

The 2010’s have been great for country.

 

Reelin' in the Years...Steely Dan
Listen to the Music ...Doobie Bros
Time Loves a Hero...Little Feat
Such a Night...Dr John
The piano has been drinking, not me...Tom Waits
Any damned song by John Prine....
Blood on the Tracks ...Bob Dylan
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys...Willie
Rainy Night in Georgia...Brook Benton

 

This video seemed to be aiming at keeping a similar tone from song to song for ease of letting them transition into one another but if you were going with the most important or representative song of each year, it would be very different. Like 1991 should certainly be Smells Like Teen Spirit.

 

Now you're talkin'....

I've always loved this song. The lyrics crack me up. Heh, call me a Dixie chicken. In my case.....it stuck...and stuck well.