pop rock?

[dave mustaine #2]

i have this project i have to do for my writing class and what we have to do is research what music was popular in each decade from the 50s to the 90s, and we have to choose 2 songs that were popular in each decade and analyze them. the 90s werent hard because i was around then, i choose jeremy by pearl jam and slim shady by eminem(gross stuff but it was popular), and the 80s were pretty easy i choose talk dirty to me by poison and sweet child o mine by gnr. and now im onto the 70's which i dont know much about all i know is there was alot of drugs and that disco was popular so i know i have to choose one disco song and another that will probly be classic rock, but i need help with the seventies, sixtys and fifties so if anyone could help me i would really apreciate it

[Jom]

The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was the #1 radio hit in 1965, and everybody and his mother seems to know that song, haha.

As for the '50s, surely you could pick something by Elvis, right?

[Thor]

You would probably want to talk about this in the pop forum.

[Dave de Sylvia]

Nah, it'll get better exposure here.

For the '50s, I'd say you go with Elvis' 'Heartbreak Hotel' and something a little croon-ier/ballad-ier, like Gene Vincent's 'Be Bop A Lula' (my favourite song from the decade)

For the '60s, you're obviously looking at the Beatles and perhaps the Stones like Jom said. Maybe the Beach Boys too; you could use 'Good Vibrations' to show how complex music was particularly well implemented in the charts at the time.

[dave mustaine #2]

thanks but their are 2 songs im thinking about, can you tell me when they were written, they are i walk the line by johnny cash and knockin on heavens door

[Dave de Sylvia]

thanks but their are 2 songs im thinking about, can you tell me when they were written, they are i walk the line by johnny cash and knockin on heavens door
Walk the Line was '50s; KOHD '60s.

[MBS]

Walk the Line was '50s; KOHD '60s.

Seriously? I always thought it was early 60's?

[Dave de Sylvia]

Walk The Line was on his second album, if I remember correctly. That would make it around 1956.

[MBS]

Walk The Line was on his second album, if I remember correctly. That would make it around 1956.

Yeah, I just looked it up on Wikipedia, you're right.

Damn.

[Dave de Sylvia]

:cool:

[dave mustaine #2]

ok thanks, well my list so far is this

50's elvis - hound dog
johnny cash - i walk the line

60's rolling stones - satisfaction
bob dylan - kohd

70's led zeppelin - kashmere ( not quite sure if it was popular can some help me with this one
Some disco song ( i have no idea, and i doubt anyone here knows disco but its worth a shot)

80's poison - talk dirty to me
GnR - sweet child of mine

90's Pearl jam - jeremy
eminem - slim shady

if any of the years are off please correct them or if anyone has any better ideas for songs?

[Dave de Sylvia]

Kashmir wasn't particularly popular, no.

For the '50s, I think you should replace one of those songs with something a bit different. They're both just blues-based primitive rock tracks so you should probably go for variety. The same goes for your '80s choices.

[MBS]

led zeppelin - kashmere ( not quite sure if it was popular can some help me with this one

Pearl jam - jeremy

These two may not go as well.

[MBS]

Oh wait, I just got one. 90's: Macarena. :cool:

[Dave de Sylvia]

I'd have gone with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' over PJ.

[Jom]

Replace Eminem with "Mambo #5" by Lou Bega :p

[dave mustaine #2]

ok then il replace the poison song and the elvis song and kashmere, but i think im going to keep jeremy because grunge was a big thing in early nineties and jeremy is a great song and has an amzing video, but i was condidering evenflow by pearl jam aswell so i dunno

[MBS]

I'd have gone with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' over PJ.

I agree with this.

Replace Eminem with "Mambo #5" by Lou Bega

*horn riff*

/parties

Edit: This site might help you get an idea of what was popular during a specific time period.

http://tunecaster.com/

[dave mustaine #2]

ok ill go with teen spirit cuz that will be a good segway from the death of kurt cobain and grunge music to the rise of pop and hip hop, what if i put down every rose has a thorn instead of talk dirty to me, i know its the same band but they are 2 completely different songs

[Dave de Sylvia]

segway
segue

[italic zero]

For the other 70's track instead of strictly disco do "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" by James Brown. Rather than classic rock, for the other track I would do "London Calling" by The Clash; punk was a much more important movement for the decade, as rock had theirs in the 60's.

[Dave de Sylvia]

Yes, do that.