<p>Starting with the 70s! So only 4 songs. You can back further if you wish, but I figured that may be a bit far.</p>
<p>This song incorporate the trends, culture, and style of that decade. Of course, it could just be that one standout song of that particular decade. This should be fun.</p>
<p>1970s…I think you have to break the seventies into two different categories–early 70s and late 70s. They were so different!</p>
<p>My vote for the ONE song of the late 70s would be something from Saturday Night Fever–Staying Alive, How Deep is Your Love, perhaps. Since I can only pick ONE–Staying Alive.</p>
<p>1980s–Madonna definitely–Like a Prayer would be my song pick.</p>
<p>Awesome idea!</p>
<p>1970s - “Joy to the World”
1980s - “My Sharona” (OK, released in '79, but the song that killed disco and all that)
1990s - “Love Shack”
2000s - “Hey Ya”</p>
<p>Love the One You’re With - Stephen Stills - 1970</p>
<p>Adding a few decades to show trends…ha ha</p>
<p>1940s-“We’ll Meet Again” Vera Lynn
1950s-“Young at Heart” Frank Sinatra
1960s-“Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” Beatles, whole album
1970s-“Y.M.C.A.” Village People
1980s- “Material Girl” Madonna</p>
<p>Overseas:
I agree with Sgt. Pepper ,Beatles, Village People and Madonna, But I would have to say HoundDog by Elvis for the 50’s</p>
<p>50’s Rock Around the Clock
60’s She Loves You (Yah, Yah, Yah…)
70’s Disco Infernol
80’s True</p>
<p>90’s and 00’s some hip hop rap crap…</p>
<p>1880’s - “A Rollicking Band Of Pirates, We” w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>1960’s It’s My Party</p>
<p>1960s The Times they are a Changing - Dylan
1970s Lady Marmelade - LaBelle (one of the few disco songs I liked)
1980s Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
1990s Macarena - Los Del Rio (why not it played at every party I went to in the 90s)
2000s Oops I did it again - Brittney Spears (she represents so much of what was wrong with that decade)</p>
<p>Impossible to pick only 4 songs</p>
<p>early 1960s Blowin’ in the Wind
mid 1960s Sgt Pepper (whole album, The Beatles)
late 1960s Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
very early 1970s For What It’s Worth (Buffalo Springfield)/Sweet Baby James (James Taylor)
mid 1970s Layla
late 1970s The BeeGees songs from Saturday Night Fever
1980s good: Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper)
bad: Material Girl (Madonna)</p>
<p>Purple Haze, Sgt Peppers and For What It’s Worth are all from 1967. It was a very good year for music.</p>
<p>70s Born to Run – Bruce
80s It’s the End of the World as We Know It – REM
90s Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
00s American Idiot – Green Day</p>
<p>garland, I think I like your list even better than mine. :)</p>
<p>60’s All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe - Hollies (our wedding song in 88)
70’s Never Been to Spain or Shambala - Three Dog Night
80’s Never Going to Give You UP - Rick AStley
90’s You Get What You Give - New Radicals
00’s My Wish - Rascal Flatts</p>
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<p>I know that Sgt P and Jimi were contemporaneous, but I think that Sgt P represents a slight earlier sensibility than Jimi. </p>
<p>And although I love For What It’s Worth, I realized that I cited the wrong song. I meant to say the Crosby Stills & Nash one about Kent State (4 Dead in Ohio?)</p>
<p>I also support Born to Run. You could slide ti right in between Layla and disco. </p>
<p>I like Rascal Flatts, too, as well as Smells Like Teen SPirit.</p>
<p>If you want a funny political song…The Taliban song by Toby Keith to some it might be offensive, Toby Keith calls it a patriotic love song.</p>
<p>70s: “Ventura Highway” (1972) - America
80s: Theme from *Dallas<a href=“1978-91”>/i</a> - Jerrold Immel (comp)
90s: “Walkin’ on the Sun” (1997) - Smash Mouth
00s: “Things Have Changed” (2000) - Bob Dylan
10s: “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (1931) - Bing Crosby</p>
<p>This is a fun thread, but like Ellenmope I cannot pick just one. So, I’ll pick one decade. Early 80’s would have to be Hungry like the Wolf. Not their first release, not their biggest seller, not my favorite of the Duran Duran stuff, but certainly the song we first associate them with. They had hit after hit and influenced many similar bands to come later.
Late 80’s is tough. I think that would have to go a dance song, as so much of those ruled the charts then. I’d call it a tie between Girls Want to Have fun and Straight Up.</p>
<p>Although I liked REM, I can’t agree on “End of the World…” The progressive New Wave(as REM was called then) imo, only played a small part of the musical influence.</p>
<p>Younghoss–re REM, I was picking songs for reasons only partly musically representationally.</p>
<p>Wasn’t “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” early/mid 80s? I remember my D dancing to it at 2, and she was born in 82.</p>
<p>I personally abhor “Hungry Like the Wolf”. It’s a rape song, essentially. But it *was *their big, big hit. Strictly musically, I’d pick a Madonna song to represent that era.</p>