40 years of song

pickarooney

I'm trying to put together a compilation for a birthday including one song from each year from 1970 to 2010. There are a lot of years with dozens of great songs and others with a lot of crap and what I've got so far is not really hanging well together. Can anyone help with suggestions for songs from any genre for any of the years which are reasonably well known but not played to death? I left my mp3 player at home so I don't even have the 20 songs I started with on me, but I'll bring it in tomorrow...

odonopenmic

That's a deadly idea!! What years are you missing/have doubts about? That might be a better starting point

bullpost

Stab at the 1970s':
1970 Wandrin star Lee Marvin
1971 Double Barrel Dave & Ansil Collins
1972 In a broken dream Python Lee Jackson
1973 Love Train O'Jays
1974 How Come Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance
1975 I'm Not In Love 10CC
1976 Let's Stick Together (Let's Work Together) Bryan Ferry
1977 God Save The Queen Sex Pistols
1978 Wuthering Heights Kate Bush
1979 Girls Talk Dave Edmunds

Superbus

1980: Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
1981: Vienna - Ultravox
1982: Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
1983: Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
1984: Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
1985: Dancing in the Street - Bowie and Jagger
1986: Final Countdown - Europe
1987: Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
1988: Orinoco Flow - Enya
1989: Ride on Time - Black Box

Good variety of great/good/cringy '80s stuff.

pickarooney

Well, I started off just picking the number one singles from each birthday, but there is some woeful stuff in there! Then I expanded it to songs off the top albums from that date and I need to fill in the blanks for the following years at least (although I'd choose a better song from a different date in a given year over a bad number one).

Good variety of great/good/cringy '80s stuff.

It's actually a really good cross-selection of "Oh I loved this one/Jesus how did I listen to that"

Updating the current list now, will post it up with blanks in a bit.

DazMarz

A more ''rock-tacular'' 1980's list:

-1980: 'Breaking The Law' by Judas Priest
-1981: 'Live Wire' by Motley Crue
-1982: 'The Number Of The Beast' - Iron Maiden
-1983: 'Photograph' - Def Leppard
-1984: 'Jump' - Van Halen
-1985: 'Only The Young' - Journey
-1986: 'Livin' On A Prayer' - Bon Jovi
-1987: 'Here I Go Again' - Whitesnake
-1988: 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' - Poison
-1989: 'Youth Gone Wild' - Skid Row

Cicero

1980- Blondie- Call me
1981- Police- Don't stand so close to me
1982- Dexy's Midnight runners com'on Eileen or Irene Kara- "Fame" or "Eye of the Tiger" were iconic from this year...
1983- Men at Work- Down Under
1984- probably talking Frankie Goes to Hollywood- Relax , also, Eurythmics released 1984 in...1984...of course, bandaid "do they know it's christmas" was out then too...
1985- Dire Straits- Money for Nothing
1986- Paul Simon Graceland
1987- U2- Still haven't found what I'm looking for..
1988- Robert Palmer- Simply Irresistable
1989-REM Stand

^^cringe/iconic or just plain sad, depending on your taste....:D....please post the years ure struggling with soon...looking forward to this one...

Cicero

Here's a ...eh..."mix"...from the 70's

1970-
All right now – Free
Get Up.... James Browne
Paranoid- Black Sabbath

1971-
Imagine- Lennon
Maggie May- Rod Stewart
Stairway to heaven- Led Zep
Brown Sugar- Rolling Stones

1972
Superstition- Stevie Wonder

1973-
Goodbye yellow brick road- Elton John

1974
No woman no cry- Bob Marley
Sweet Home Alabama- Lynyrd Skynrd

1975
Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
I’m not in love – 10cc (pure cheese here!! )

1976
Hotel California – Eagles
The boys are back in Town- Thin Lizzy

1977-
Stayin Alive –Bee Jees
Jamming- Marley

1978
I will survive- Gloria Gaynor
Roxanne –Police

1979
We are family- Sister Sledge
Brass in Pocket- Pretenders
Message in a Bottle- Police

pickarooney

Making progress now. I need some good ones from 1973,1985, 1988 and the late 90s.
If anyone can think of a defiing hip-hop, jazz or blues track from these or any other years...