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l was going to post this one a few days ago, but decided to wait until after the shift to the new server. Not a poll. Perhaps an exercise in futility, just pick 2 songs that best represent a decade for you. The title of the thread pretty much sums up the conditions. Pick any 2 songs that best represent what each decade meant to you. Play / post as often as you like. Reasons can be given for selections … or not. Not going back any further than the 1960's but if others want to that is fine.   

 

1960's: Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream

Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum. 

 

1970's: Layla - Derek And The Dominoes. 

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd.

 

1980's: Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel. 

Shout - Tears for Fears. 

 

1990's: Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve.

(still thinking about the other, but most likely something form Massive Attack). 

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Wow....interesting thread CJ...I'll give it my best

 

1960's: Turn Up Your Radio - The Masters Apprentices (I remember being always asking my mum to turn up the radio)

 

The Real Thing - Russell Morris (was just so different and it was sung by an Australian)

 

1970's: The Last Resort - The Eagles (this song matched my growing interest in looking after the environment..."you call someplace paradise, kiss it good bye)

 

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (I remember seeing this on what might have been the first ever episode of "Night Moves"...it just blew me away and I went out and bought the cassette the very next day [One More From The Road])

 

1980's: Don't Change - INXS (Rocked my way around Europe in '83 listening to Shabooh Shoobah and knew the entire album word for word...Don't Change was (and still is) my all time favourite INXS track

 

The Unforgettable Fire - U2 (my all time favourite U2 track...I still get goosebumps whenever I hear it)

 

1990's: One Country - Midnight Oil (I remember liking this track but when I saw it performed live...it was completely fucking brilliant)

 

Lost For Words - Pink Floyd (Classic Floyd lyrics - So I open my door to my enemies, And I ask could we wipe the slate clean, But they tell me to please go fuck myself, You know you just can't win)

 

2000's: The Game - Disturbed ( I was looking for new music as the shit that was being played on the radio was doing my head in...a mate burnt me a CD with a few Disturbed tracks...I went out and bought their debut album and this was the standout track for me)

 

Bye Bye Beautiful - Nightwish (Another band that I found through the CD my mate burnt for me...the song is about the split between the band and their original vocalist)

 

2010's: Walk Like A Giant - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Neil is still walking like the giant he is...still making great music and still shit hot live)

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Keeping in mind the thread asks for songs that represent a decade, not good songs...

 

60's

 

Twist 'n' Shout - The Beatles

Strawberry Fields - The Beatles

 

70's

 

Eagle Rock - Daddy Cool

Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez

 

80's

 

Gold - Spandau Ballet

Billie Jean - Michael Jackson (tie with Wham! - Wake Me Up etc)

 

90's

 

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

 

2000's

 

Numb (Numb/Encore) - Linkin Park

Get Free - The Vines

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1960's

Hey Jude - The Beatles

Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys

 

1970's

 

Waterloo - ABBA

Disco Inferno -  The Trammps

 

1980's

 

Material Girl - Madonna

Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

 

1990's

 

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

2000's

 

Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day

Sing For The Moment - Eminem

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2010's: Walk Like A Giant - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Neil is still walking like the giant he is...still making great music and still **** hot live)


Someone (pretty brave, or very lazy) played all 18 minutes of Ordinary People off the new one the other day. He's still churning out good music.
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2010's: Walk Like A Giant - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Neil is still walking like the giant he is...still making great music and still **** hot live)


Someone (pretty brave, or very lazy) played all 18 minutes of Ordinary People off the new one the other day. He's still churning out good music.

 

Ordinary People is a great track but it's not from his latest album...it's from Chrome Dreams II which came out in 2007.
 

And you're right about him still churning out good music...I'm still buying (almost) everything he releases

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Wow....interesting thread CJ...I'll give it my best

 

1960's: Turn Up Your Radio - The Masters Apprentices (I remember being always asking my mum to turn up the radio)

 

The Real Thing - Russell Morris (was just so different and it was sung by an Australian)

 

1970's: The Last Resort - The Eagles (this song matched my growing interest in looking after the environment..."you call someplace paradise, kiss it good bye)

 

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (I remember seeing this on what might have been the first ever episode of "Night Moves"...it just blew me away and I went out and bought the cassette the very next day [One More From The Road])

 

1980's: Don't Change - INXS (Rocked my way around Europe in '83 listening to Shabooh Shoobah and knew the entire album word for word...Don't Change was (and still is) my all time favourite INXS track

 

The Unforgettable Fire - U2 (my all time favourite U2 track...I still get goosebumps whenever I hear it)

 

1990's: One Country - Midnight Oil (I remember liking this track but when I saw it performed live...it was completely ******* brilliant)

 

Lost For Words - Pink Floyd (Classic Floyd lyrics - So I open my door to my enemies, And I ask could we wipe the slate clean, But they tell me to please go fark myself, You know you just can't win)

 

2000's: The Game - Disturbed ( I was looking for new music as the **** that was being played on the radio was doing my head in...a mate burnt me a CD with a few Disturbed tracks...I went out and bought their debut album and this was the standout track for me)

 

Bye Bye Beautiful - Nightwish (Another band that I found through the CD my mate burnt for me...the song is about the split between the band and their original vocalist)

 

2010's: Walk Like A Giant - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Neil is still walking like the giant he is...still making great music and still **** hot live)

l was going to leave it for a week or so and then do another thread on Ozzie songs of the decade. That way l can sneak a few more tracks in. 

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1980 

 

Funky Town - Pseudo Echo

Run to Paradise - Choirboys (Repping Australia)

 

1990's

 

Macarena - Los Who ever the hell it was

Gangstas Paradise - Coolio

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Love the keytar.  Can't get more eighties than that.

I really wanted a SAW song, given they owned the last half of that decade, but couldn't decide on one.

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Who is SAW?

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1960's:

 

 

I saw her standing there - The Beatles

White Rabbit - Jefferson airplane

 

The decade was owned by The Beatles. Like no-one else ever has ( perhaps one threatened to two decades later but fell well short) and almost certainly never will.  I'm not a huge fan, but there's no denying they changed, well, pretty much everything from what i can tell.  from about 3000 possible songs, lol, i ended up choosing track 1 from album 1.

 

I was tempted to run with the Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil as song 2.  I didn't live in this decade at all, but it seems to me that they (Jagger and Co) stamped a harder edge on the 60's rock and roll, and cast the mold for the bad boy rock band.  But in the end i went for Jefferson Airplane. I've always been fascinated by that song, and in my mind it sums up the psychedelic, drug- themed, vietnam war era that marked the music of the late decade.

 

 

1970's.

 

Shine on you crazy diamond , parts 1- 1000 billion.  Pink Floyd

Pretty Vacant - The Sex Pistols.

 

 

Difficult. by the end of the decade i was old enough to remember the music as it happened, but many of my favourites i found after the event in the next decade.  First instinct was to run with the glam aspect.  I considered Suffragette City by Bowie, and I was made.. by Kiss.    Kiss in particular effected my life a lot, but i figured they pushed more into the eighties for me.  In the end, my first song was chosen largely because my second song/ movement was a direct protest against the rampant self-indulgent crap of the first.

 

By and large, i despise Pink Floyd.  Probably because i liked the song Wish you were Here enough to buy the record and then found the album excruciating.  Seriously, most of their stuff is never-ending farking bollocks (theme intended).  I also find some of Led Zep tedious as well, for the record.  Which in my opinion spawned a counter revolution.  Now, I'm not saying The Pistols were great. I actually prefer early The Clash albums.  But if we're summing up a decade, then the Mclaren-manufactured shooting-star phenomenon of angst and "anarchy" probably nails it best.  A weird decade of extremes.

 

 

 

1980's.

 

Thriller - Michael Jackson.

Locomotion - kylie Minogue.

 

 

aaaarrrrgghhhhh!   the pain, the pain!  ok, song 1 and the entire Michael Jackson superstar period.  Awesome.  Biggest selling album of all time.  Took music video to another level.  we rushed home when seven announced they would show the entire Thriller video at 4 pm one day.  Kids whose parents were rich enough to buy the early VCR's became school moguls because" They've got it on tape!!".   This bloke was Beatle like in his effect on music in the first part of the decade. But he couldn't keep it up, andeven with him around  the musical decade descended into the hell of my second song.  Seriously, what the fark did we allow to happen?  stock/aitken/waterman siezed control of way too many peoples brains with total and utter drivel.  I could have selected a Rick Astley song. Bros were probably around then, i cant be bothered checking.  A few bands fought the good fight.  Guns and Roses tried to save the day with Appetite.  U2 went to top drawer. Queen took parts of 70's theatrics with great songs and a stage presence ( Freddie)  unmatched. But the late 80's for me was generally a cess pool of pop bubblegum dross that tbh has never quite vanished, despite a developing scene that rescued many of us a year or two later.

  ps- Funky town was a brilliant nomination from earlier in the thread.  probably THE 80's sound for much of it.

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Who is SAW?

Stock Aitken Waterman.

English producers who put the same 'percolated coffee' sound on all their artists.

Started with Dead or Alive, and I remember Molly asking them if they were worried about anyone stealing their sound and they said no because it was quite expensive.

They were really, really wrong.

Actually, I think Divine might have even been before DoA.  Anyone remember him?

 

Anyway, all of Kylie's stuff (except for the original recording of Locomotion, SAW re-recorded it) up to about Shocked was SAW.

Jason Donovan.  Mel and Kim.  Banarama from Venus on (I didn't mind their early stuff).

Samantha Fox.  Oh, Rick Astley of course.  Undoubtedly others that I've forgotten.

Soooo many English and Australian number ones.

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Thanks for explaining :slight_smile:

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50s

 Straight, No Chaser  - Thelonius Monk put Jazz through the mincer and no self respecting keyboard player can do without him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVb9e1DgKJ4

So What – Well there‘s before Kind of Blue and there‘s after.  Nuff said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk

60s

Resolution – Philip Larkin, the great poet and sometime jazz critic, accused Coltrane of creating music that was ugly on purpose but he still admired A Love Supreme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6pSffe4k60

The Girl from Ipanema –Jobim, Gilberto and Getz and the most evocative of Latin jazz classics. The girl in question was allegedly 13 or 14 at the time.And the opening verses are in Portuguese, not Spanish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5QfXjsoNe4

70s

Bit ches Brew – Arguably initiated Jazz Rock which some would argue is nothing to be proud of but this is great  music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AR93r-ASWI

Koln Concert Part 1 – The first 4 notes announce Keith Jarrett‘s arrival as the artist of the decade. Listed as the greatest selling solo piano album ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NcSmtBUD84

(Apologies to “Birdland” admirers but it‘s 2 only)

80s

Think of one - Wynton Marsallis is the self appointed custodian of all things Jazz which can be really annoying at times but he can play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_kmp1ABelQ

Smoke gets in your eyes- It‘s hard to pick one track from the Keith Jarrett Standard‘s Trio, probably the greatest trio ever, but this is from “Tribute” and Kurt Elling does a version of this version on his live album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ8OhD5c8ks

90s

The Moon‘s a Harsh Mistress – The best selling “Beyond the Missouri Sky” by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny seemed to herald the release of a raft of duet albums, not all of them as good as this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-YpbI3Lb10

Blackbird – Interpreting pop music is a tradition in jazz that sort of got lost but the Brad Mehldau Trio brought it back with a vengeance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw-X5GTiYGw

00s

Dolores in a Shoestand – Lots of good modern bands sound a lot like EST who were just starting to break out when their leader died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NihSwyAHZRQ

The Pretty Road – The modern big band revival has a lot to do with the Maria Schneider Orchestra  and the multi award winning Sky Blue is just about as good as music gets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-p1kPrYN_8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJPUC0mgJ8

Basically my list of most influential favs.

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For me the music styles that stick in the memory are,

 

70's - Disco - Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gee's

70's - Punk - Rock the Casbah - The Clash

 

80's - New Wave - I ran - A flock of seagulls

80's - Big Hair / Glam Rock - Livin' on a prayer - Bon Jovi

 

90's - Grunge - Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana

90's - Electronic Dance - What is love - Haddaway

 

00's - Hip Hop - Stan - Eninem

00's - Alternative Rock - Clocks - Coldplay

 

(Yes, some of these style / song links are tenuous)

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Well this has obvious difficulties as Im not across all music so I will just try and narrow it down to what songs nail each decade - for me. I will take into account what other people liked but only to a point. This is how I (revisionary) picture those decades...

 

60's

Like  Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

The Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (could have gone with "With a Little Help..." or "A Day in  the Life" but it matters not.)

 

70's

The Joker - Steve Miller Band

California Dreamin - The Mammas and the Pappas (so what if its from the 60's, it was ahead of its time!)

 

80's

Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name

G'n'F'n'R - Sweet Child o Mine

*Honourable mention to Metallica - Enter Sandman & Bryan Adam's - Summer of '69...go figure...

(80's were a good decade for Oz Rock actually. This was when I first started listening to Rage and I was a huge fan of Choirboys/INXS/Icehouse but I don't think they sold enough records to be relevant).

 

90's

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Paranoid Android - Radiohead

(Honourable mentions to Stinkfist - Tool, Epic - Faith No More, Jeremy - Pearl Jam, Suck My Kiss - RHCP, hell even Rockerfella Skank - Fat Boy Slim)

 

00's

Muse - Plug In Baby

Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger

 

10's

Too early to tell...

 

Since I was born late 70's I really can't comment on 60's & 70's but that's my impression.

 

And I only managed to listen to very mainstream stuff in the 80's....

 

90's are different, that's pretty much my era. 5 years of high shool and 5 years of uni, and over 100,000km travelled delivering pizzas and listening to triple J. Plus live music gigs every week and music being a major topic of conversation and experimentation.

 

2000's were when I settled down, got married, worked 9-5 and dropped off listening to music. Still went to BDO's and big shows but only really kept track of bands I knew from the 90's or older, I didn't like much new stuff as a general rule.

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Anyone who doesn't pick a rap/hip-hop/urban song as representing the charts in the '00s is kidding themselves.

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I went for the metal/rap crossover.

Should I have gone Black Eyed Peas instead?

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I think that would better represent what the majority of people were listening to & buying.

 

Aren't people just the worst?

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I think that would better represent what the majority of people were listening to & buying.

 

Aren't people just the worst?

Just because it hit #1 on the charts or copped a lot of radio/MTV airtime doesn't mean it's enduring and indicative of it's decade.

 

Otherwise you might as well just lock in Gangnam Style for the 2010's, Crazy Frog for 2000's, Achy Breaky Heart for the 90's, Turn Back Time for the 80's, Shaddap ya Face for the 70's...etc...