Your personal Decennial favourite Toon (Age dependant of course).

For me............... (allowed 3/decade)

60's = Bo Diddley - Let Me Pass, Gimme Shelter - Rollin Stones, Fortunate Son - CCR.

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70's = Freebird - LS, American Pie - DMc, Sweet Home Alabama - LS.

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80's = Welcome To The Jungle - G&R, Nothing But A Good Time - Poison, Wanted, Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi.

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90's = Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana, Streets Of Philadelphia - BS, Alive - Pearl Jam.

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00's Chop Suey - SOD, Staind - It's been A While, Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff

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10's/Teens- TBC

This has been rattling my cage ever since I first saw it. 3 songs per decade is sooooo huge a task. Impossible even. Just can't get my head around it. So I've resoreted to buzz words...

60s: rock 'n' roll, Motown, Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Who, Mods, Rockers, blues, psychedelia, folky protest...

So...

I feel fine - The Beatles



I was made to love her - Stevie Wonder



All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix



70s: Prog, glam, heavy rock, west coast, disco, reggae, punk

NIB - Black Sabbath



Kaya - Bob Marley



Powderfinger - Neil Young



More to follow.

Powderfinger, just one of many NY classics that could've made the list imo

Agonised over that or Out of the Black...

80s: big hair, post punk, synth bands, indie, hip hop

Tainted love - Soft Cell



Turqoise Days - Echo and the Bunnymen



Fight the power - Public Enemy



90s: Britpop, Madchester, more hip hop, Spice Girls

Waterfalls - TLC



Television - Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy



Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits



2000s - too recent to get a handle on

Pagan Poetry - Bjork



I bet you look good on the dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys



Black Horse and the Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall



2010s

Video Game - The Freudian Slip, Nelson Can & Echo Me



Figure It Out - Royal Blood



Changed The Way You Kiss Me - Example











There you go. Impossible really but I gave it a go.

Hard as hell, isn't it?

I could quite easily choose 250/decade. If I sat down and had another quick think, I'd probably choose a completely different selection of tunes.

There you are: no Led Zep, Floyd, Zappa, Who, Stones, Bowie, Ian Dury, Pistols, Stranglers, Pfurs, Billy Bragg, Cure, Purple, Rainbow, Elvis (either one), Buddy, Arethra, ZZ Top, Temptations, LKJ, Velvets, Siouxsie and a million others...

Too big a task for me. Kudos for the thread, though.

Why not open the thread to include the best damn tunes you have ever heard in your miserable lives on this planet, so-far.

60s
Procol Harum - White shade of pale
Them - Here comes the night
Kenny Rogers & the first edition - Just dropped in

70s
Squeeze - Up the junction
Bill withers - Who is he, and what is he to you?
Dolly Parton - Jolene

80s
Tom Waits - Yesterday is here
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Lightning Seeds - Pure

90s
Mazzy Star - Fade into you
Manic Street Preachers - PCP
Muse - Muscle Museum

2000s
Buck 65 - The Outskirts
Deftones - Passenger
Portishead - The Rip

2010s
The Wytches - Burn out the bruise
Enter Shikari -Arguing with thermometers
Future of the left - Bread, Cheese, Bow and Arrow.

I'll open with this little gem

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he asks for 3 and sfd does his usual and names way more lol

And follow with a bit of this

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And you can stick some of this in your pipe and smoke it too

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And I'll bow out with this piece of heavy shit, warning not suitable for the easily offended

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Sorry, but all toons pale since the release of this...

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

Agonised over that or Out of the Black...

Out of the Blue?............................or..........................Into the Black?

Into the black.

Rock music as a sonic weapon. Just pure heady, reckless, IDGAF noise.

I got confused.

If going acoustic off that album then Thrasher.

Rust Never Sleeps is awesome. My fave NY LP. Not a bad track on it.

"I'd love to ride my llama from Peru to Texarcana."

Flat_Track_Bully wrote:

60s
Procol Harum - White shade of pale
Them - Here comes the night
Kenny Rogers & the first edition - Just dropped in

70s
Squeeze - Up the junction
Bill withers - Who is he, and what is he to you?
Dolly Parton - Jolene

80s
Tom Waits - Yesterday is here
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Lightning Seeds - Pure

90s
Mazzy Star - Fade into you
Manic Street Preachers - PCP
Muse - Muscle Museum

2000s
Buck 65 - The Outskirts
Deftones - Passenger
Portishead - The Rip

2010s
The Wytches - Burn out the bruise
Enter Shikari -Arguing with thermometers
Future of the left - Bread, Cheese, Bow and Arrow.

I have tried, I have persevered, and tried again, but I just don't get Tom Waits!

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

Into the black.

Rock music as a sonic weapon. Just pure heady, reckless, IDGAF noise.

I got confused.

If going acoustic off that album then Thrasher.

Rust Never Sleeps is awesome. My fave NY LP. Not a bad track on it.

"I'd love to ride my llama from Peru to Texarcana."

Cracking lyric, isnt it - and that album is a fantastic listen. As you say, not a bad track on it.

"If I were a tracker I'd give a million pelts
to sleep with Pocahontas just to find out how she felt..."

"It was that great Grand Canyon rescue episode"

You know the one. You do. You know you do. Even though you haven't the foggiest about which TV series it even was.

"Last night I was cool at the pool hall
Held the table for eleven games
Nothing was easier than the first seven
I beat a woman with varicose veins"

It's old but it's good.

I've struggled with Tom Waits also. Every time I think about this I see everybody else's choices and you think, shit, that has got to be in there, impossible task.

It is indeed an impossible task, Iggs. Therefore, I am locking the thread.

That is all.