<p>60’s:
Scott McKenzie, San Francisco (Be sure to wear flowers in your hair)</p>
<p>OMG, LA to SFO, PSA, $20 ticket, flowers in my hair. 1967.</p>
<p>It’s pretty impossible to pick only one song to define an entire decade, what with subcultures and all. And I presume this song only has to represent the US, and not the entire world, correct?</p>
<p>This becomes particularly hard with the 2000s, for obvious reasons.</p>
<p>Anyways:</p>
<p>Popular music, USA-centered:
1920s ~ Avalon Blues [Mississippi John Hurt]
1930s ~ Hellhound on My Trail [Robert Johnson]
1940s ~ Minor Swing [Django Reinhardt]
1950s ~ Blue Train [John Coltrane]
1960s ~ Eve of Destruction [Barry McGuire]
1970s ~ Have You Ever Seen the Rain? [Creedence Clearwater Revival]
1980s ~ Institutionalized [Suicidal Tendencies]
1990s ~ Them Bones [Alice in Chains]
2000s ~ Ocean [The John Butler Trio]</p>
<p>Popular music, non-USA-centered:
1950s ~ Anouman [Django Reinhardt]
1960s ~ As m</p>
<p>2000s - Hymn of USSR with the old lyrics.</p>
<p>The only problem with this thread is now I have “it’s the end of the world as we know it” just going over and over againg in my head.</p>
<p>Somebody some new songs, so I can change that tune…PLEASE!</p>
<p>I know. Proof that Garland’s list rocks!</p>
<p>I just realized I need to change my 70’s tune.</p>
<p>Paradise By the Dashboard Lights - Meatloaf</p>
<p>And if anybody puts Mandy for 70’s, I will report it as a PROBLEM POST :D</p>
<p>The same goes for You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone, or Turn on Your Heartlight by Neil Diamond.(Sweet Caroline and Forever in Blue Jeans is allowable)</p>
<p>19702- American Pie (Don McLean)</p>
<p>I’ll need to mull this over.</p>
<p>WHen Bullet and I lived in Kansas (2001) there was an unofficial bar that we went to every Friday night, and at 10 O’Clock they always played American Pie and took pictures of the crowd singing it, and I can’t sing the song now without inserting curse words at certain refrains
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<p>American Pie. I love that song. My mom used to turn it up really loud and we’d all sing it on the way to the beach. I haven’t thought of that in ages. I should go call my mom. ;)</p>
<p>I am at least singing Bye Bye Miss American Pie in my head now. Of course I am still cursing when it comes up to the refrain. Iam officially putting on Itunes on our computer so I can move foward :)</p>
<p>Early 60s - “She Loves You,” The Beatles
Later 60s - “California Dreaming,” The Mammas and the Papas
The 70s - “Staying Alive,” The Bee Gees
The 80s - “Material Girl,” Madonna
The 90s - “Losing My Religion,” REM</p>
<p>None of these are my favorite songs from each era, but they capture the sound or “feel” of that time.</p>
<p>Did music not exist prior to the 60s?</p>
<p>^^It did, but I was a little kid back in the 50s and have no clear memory of the sound and the feel of the music and the times. Others older than I will have to speak to earlier times.</p>
<p>We are fortunate enough to live in a time of recorded music. :)</p>
<p>I apologize if it seemed like I made a snarky comment to you personally; I just find it bizarre that so many people who grew up in the 60s-70s seem incapable of listening to music from “before their time”, as if that would be morally wrong; as well as sad that if this mindset persists, popular music from the early 20th century will eventually be completely forgotten (outside of academia).</p>
<p>Stop ! In The Name of Love! Supremes’ 60s
ABC! Jackson 5 70s</p>
<p>With an apology to the OP for remaining slightly off-topic….</p>
<p>There’s a computer geek-conceived conspiracy theory running around the Web concerning “American Pie” and the rise of Bill Gates. According to the conspiracy theorists, Don McLean wrote “American Pi” (their alternative title) while he was reportedly auditing Harvard courses at the time Bill Gates was an undergraduate. (They conveniently dismiss the fact that Gates didn’t enter Harvard until two years after McLean wrote–and copyrighted–“American Pie.”) It’s a wacky but intricately developed theory, and an interesting read. Search Google for details.</p>
<p>yawn,</p>
<p>Not true at all. I’m a huge fan of doo-wop, Sinatra, Tony Bennett, all that jazz that the dudedad’s dad listened to…</p>
<p>^ Good to hear, though exceptions such as yourself are why I said “so many people” instead of just “people”. :)</p>
<p>I personally find the big band swing jazz of the 30’s and 40’s to be much more enjoyable than any of the pop/rock music from the 60s and 70s (and 80s, for that mater).</p>
<p>Though, sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who listens to ragtime from the 1910’s.</p>
<p>The gift Bullet gave me for the birth of our daughter in 92 was to buy box seats to see Frank Sinatra at the Royal Opera House in London. </p>
<p>Summer Wind is my 2nd all time favorite song (second to our wedding song)</p>