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A brief history of the 20th century
Posted by GunsOfBrixton on 16 September 2010 - 9:26pm.
I just discovered the following 20th century year songs in my record collection
1901 - Phoenix
1921 - The Who
1939 - Blue Bedouin
1961 - Nick Heyward
1963 - New Order
1969 - Boards Of Canada
1969 - Vines
1969 - The Stooges
1970 - James Williamson With The Careless Hearts
1974 - Ryan Adams
1977 - The Clash
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
1983 - Jimi Hendrix
1984 - David Bowie
1985 - Manic Street Preachers
1992 - Blur
1999 - Prince
Any others out there?
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1973...
...James Blunt
73-74 The Connells
1982 Randy Travis
2000 AD The Rezillos
(I Wish It Was)1965 Again - The Barracudas
Pedant alert...
The Connells song is/was 74-75.
Mind you, I thought that song was about how much they'd value your house...
Ker-tishhh
!
Ash
True Love 1980
The Auteurs - 1967
Moz - Munich Air Disaster 1958
The Rutles - Back in '64
Sparks - It ain't 1918
Motorhead - 1916
Some more
Here are the ones in my collection:
1826 Frank Black
1917 Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
1962 Grass Show
1963 Jonathan Richman
1967 The Auteurs
1968 Richmond Fontaine
1969 Joey Ramone
1985 The French Kicks
1989 Clem Snide
1993 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine
1994 Silvery
2129 Alabama 3
Some more
1915 Gospel of the Horns
1970 The Stooges
1996 Marilyn Manson
And of course if you weren't limiting yourself to the 20th century you could have In The Year 2525.
I'll raise you
Year 3000 by Busted
Ringo-fucking-Starr
Early 1970
Lives on a farm, got plenty of charm, beep, beep.
He's got no cows but he's sure got a whole lotta sheep.
And brand new wife and a family,
And when he comes to town,
I wonder if he'll play with me.
Laying in bed, watching tv, cookie!
With his mama by his side, she's japanese.
They scream and they cried, now they're free,
And when he comes to town,
I know he's gonna play with me.
He's a long-haired, cross-legged guitar picker, um-um.
With his long-legged lady in the garden picking daisies for his soup.
A forty acre house he doesn't see,
'Cause he's always in town
Playing for you with me.
I play guitar, a - d - e.
I don't play bass 'cause that's too hard for me.
I play the piano if it's in c.
And when I go to town I wanna see all three,
And when I go to town I wanna see all three,
And when I go to town I wanna see all three.
Neutral Milk Hotel
Holland 1945
1903-70
Idlewild "1903-70"
Some more
1913 Massacre - Woody Guthrie
1914 - Randy Newman
1916 - Motorhead
Paris 1919 - John Cale
Louisiana 1927 - Randy Newman
1930 - The Gaslight Anthem
Last Day of June 1934 - Al Stewart
New York Mining Disaster 1941 - The Bee Gees
1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson
1953 - Olafur Arnald
Disney Girls (1957) - The Beach Boys
1959 - The Sisters of Mercy
1959 - Patti Smith
Dunwich Beach, Autumn 1960 - Brian Eno
December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
Toxic Girl (Monte Carlo 1963 version) - Kings of Convenience
On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 - Ricky Lee Jones
1972 - Giant Sand
1972 - Josh Rouse
1974 - Robyn Hitchcock
1975 - Gene Clark
1976 - RJD2
Freedom of '76 - Ween
Winter of '79 - Tom Robinson Band
1980 - Estelle
Sons of 1984 - Todd Rungren
1991 - Crystal Castles
Why hip hop sucks in '96 - DJ Shadow
NYC 1999 - Pussy Galore
Argh, mine have been mostly taken
1984 - Van Halen
1975 - chris Difford
1993 - Carter USM
1983 - flying lotus
1985 - radio dept.
Paul McCartney & Wings
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
Two more
1941 - Harry Nilsson
1978 - Toy Love
Zager & Evans...
In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus)
1952 Vincent Black Lightning - RT
Yay
I was going to mention In the Year 2525, but that song has to be a candidate for Worst #1 there's ever been, so it wasn't going to be me... Truly banal... It's the 26th Century, anyway, so shouldn't count
No it's not...
...Mungo Jerry's Baby Jump is the worst number one ever*. In fact I've never met anyone who even remembers how it goes.
Hmmmm..... this sounds like a new thread: least memorable #1 records.
(*or at least from the period when people actually cared what was at number one)
Catch 22
How are we supposed to remember them?
Well...
...the point being that I clearly remember Baby Jump was Mungo Jerry's second #1 and I recall seeing them perform it on TOTP, but I couldn't sing a line of it if you paid me a million quid.
I was 9 years old...
... when "In The Year 2525" was number 1. I thought it was a bit scary, but I liked it.
Wasn't the actual title 'Exordium & Terminus'
and it was only known unofficially as 'In The Year 2525'?
1988
Steve Hillage - 1988 Aktivator
By the way, I'm putting all these into a spreadsheet :-)
We currently have a run from 1957-2000 apart from
1966
1971
1981
1986
1990
1995
1997
1998
To fill some holes
I've just done a search through my collection and found:
1966 And All That - Half Man Half Biscuit
Hollywood 1995 - Neilson Hubbard
Prefab Sprout
2000
(Carnival 2000)
Joakim Thåström
19hundra80sju, which means 1987. I´m doing my best to help here.
1983
Wasn't it Jimi who sang " In 1983, a merman I will be" ? Ah, I now see GunsOfBrixton beat me to it.
Somewhere, from the sludge
of my late 80's\early 90's metal fixation I seem to remember Dan Reed Network - Stardate 1990.
Some fillers
1966 - Cobra (Chinese all female rock band!)
Havin' Fun In '71 - Jim Nesbitt
1981 - PiL (a demo track I think)
Expo '86 - Death Cab For Cutie
1990 - The Temptations (album as well)
1995 - Luna
'97 Bonnie & Clyde- Eminem
September '98 - David Kilgour
Richie Havens
Had a double LP titled Richard P. Havens, 1983
When it was released in 1969, the year in the title must have seemed impossibly distant.
Randy Newman - Dayton Ohio 1903
- one of my favourites, sung here by Nilsson from his long forgotten "Nilsson sings Newman" album