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Our Picks of the Finest Songs from Each Decade of the Rock Era -- Have You Missed Any?

We Reviewed Well Over 100,000 Songs From the Most Creative Artists of the Rock Era

Find your favorite decade and click songs from the artists that you like [Use back arrow to go to the next song]. Test play other songs. If you like 70% of the songs that you recognize then, in all liklihood, you'll like 70% of the songs that you don't recognize.

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1940's Dawn of Rock and Roll

• 1946 Joe Turner - My Gal’s a Jockey Earliest Rock and Roll song we’ve run across

• 1949 Fats Domino - The Fat Man

1950's

• 1951 Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years

• 1952 Ivory Joe Hunter - Rockin’ Chair Boogie §

• 1952 Shirley & Lee - Shirley Come Back to Me

• 1953 The Crows - Gee

• 1954 Marvin and Johnny - Cherry Pie

• 1954 The Harptones - Since I Fell for You

• 1955 The Dodgers - Drip Drop

• 1955 The Leaders - A Lover of the Time

• 1955 The Spiders - Witchcraft

• 1955 The Penguins - Baby Let’s Make Some Love

• 1955 The Orchids - Newly Wed Frank Zappa's favorite Doo Wop

• 1955 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley [Live]

• 1955 The Counts - To Our Love §

• 1956 Mickey & Sylvia - Love is Strange

• 1956 The Marquis - Bohemian Daddy

• 1956 Joe Turner - Corrine, Corrina

• 1956 James Brown - Please Please Please ---- [Incredible 1964 James Brown Live Version]

• 1956 Arthur Lee Maye & the Crowns - Gloria

• 1957 The Cookies - Hippy Dippy Daddy

• 1957 Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin’

• 1957 The Dells - Time Makes You Change

• 1957 The Dumauriers - Baby it’s You

• 1958 Esquerita - Golly Golly Annie Mae §

• 1958 Howlin' Wolf- Wang Dang Doodle

• 1958 Wade Flemons - Here I Stand

• 1958 Bobby Day - Rockin’ Robin

• 1958 The Silhouettes - Bing Bong

• 1958 Richard Berry And The Pharaohs - You’re the Girl

• 1958 Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful

• 1958 The Barker Brothers - Nancy

• 1958 Don Covay - Betty Jean

• 1958 Dion and the Belmonts - I Wonder Why

• 1958 Ritchie Valens - Doobie Doobie Wah

• 1958 The Jaytones - Oh Darling

• 1958 Larry Williams - Slow Down §

• 1958 Carl Dobkins Jr. - If You Don’t want My Loving

• 1958 Howlin' Wolf - Goin’ Down Slow

• 1959 Jerry Wallace - Primrose Lane

• 1959 Patsy Cline - Got a Lot of Rhythm in My Soul

• 1959 The Ovations - Real True Love

• 1959 The Jaguars - The Way You Look Tonight §

• 1959 The Crests - The Angels Listened In

• 1959 Sarah Vaughan - Broken Hearted Melody

• 1959 Otis Rush & His Band - All Your Love [I Miss Loving]

• 1959 The Eternals - Rock 'N' Roll Cha-Cha

1960's

• 1960 Elvis Presley - Stuck on You

• 1960 Buster Brown - Don't Dog Your Woman

• 1960 Brenda Lee - That’s all You Gotta Do

• 1960 Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs - Stay

• 1960 The Scarlets - Truly Yours

• 1960 Bob Luman - You’ve Got Everything

• 1960 Elvis Presley - I Gotta Know

• 1961 Rockin' Robin Roberts & the Wailers - Louie, Louie §

• 1961 Gerry Granahan - Dance Girl Dance

• 1961 The Five Discs - You Belong to Me [Demo]

• 1961 Dion - Runaround Sue

• 1961 Rockin' Sidney - You Ain’t Nothin’ but Fine

• 1961 The Tokens - Tonight I Fell in Love

• 1961 Don Gibson - Sea of Heartbreak

• 1961 The Magnificent Four - The Closer Your Are

• 1961 The Shirelles - Baby it’s You

• 1961 Elvis Presley - [Marie's The Name] His Latest Flame

• 1962 Arleemah Wadood - Oh! Baby

• 1962 Dion - Love Came to Me

• 1962 Julito and the Latin Lads - Nunca [Sung in Spanish]

• 1962 Gene Pitney - Half Heaven Half Heartache

• 1962 The Isley Brothers - Twist and Shout

• 1962 Arthur Alexander - Soldier of Love

• 1962 The Five Discs - Never Let You Go §

• 1962 Del Shannon - Little Town Flirt

• 1962 The Concords - Away

• 1962 Steve Alaimo - Every Day I have to Cry

• 1962 Linda Scott - I’ve Told Every Little Star

• 1962 Johnny Crawford - Cindy’s Birthday

• 1963 Dion - This Little Girl

• 1963 Tommy James and the Shondells - Hanky Panky

• 1963 Johnny Greco and the Masters - Rocket Ride

• 1963 The Olympics - The Bounce

• 1963 The 4 Seasons - Walk Like a Man

• 1963 The Orlons - The Wah Watusi

• 1963 The Marketts - Out of Limits

• 1963 The Raindrops - The Kind of Boy You Can’t Forget

• 1963 Dion - Donna the Prima Donna

• 1964 Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop § [This song launched the Reggae Movement] §

• 1964 The Beatles - What You're Doing

• 1964 The Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now

• 1964 Susan Lynn - Don’t Drag No More §

• 1964 The 4 Seasons - Dawn [Go Away]

• 1964 Gene Pitney - It Hurts to be in Love

• 1964 Pete Drake and His talking Guitar - Forever

• 1964 Irma Thomas - Time is on My Side

• 1964 John Lee Hooker - Dimples

• 1964 Donnie Elbert - Run Little Girl

• 1964 Four Seasons - Stay [This is as close to Psychedelic Doo Wop that we've run across]

• 1964 Danny Williams - White on White

• 1964 The Beatles - Twist and Shout

• 1964 The Valrays - Yo Me Pregunto [Sung in Spanish]

• 1964 The Beatles - I Feel Fine

• 1965 Chubby Checker - Lovely, Lovely [Loverly, Loverly]

• 1965 The Rolling Stones - The Last Time

• 1965 The High Spirits - (Turn on Your) Love Light §

• 1965 The Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul

• 1965 Reparata and the Delrons - I Have a Boyfriend

• 1965 Marvin Gaye - I'll be Doggone

• 1965 The Beatles - It's Only Love

• 1965 The 4 Seasons - Let's Hang On

• 1965 Ian Whitcomb - You Turn Me On

• 1965 Marianne Faithful - As Tears Go By

• 1965 Bob Kuban and the In-Men - The Cheater

• 1965 The Beach Boys - Do You Want to Dance?

• 1965 Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run

• 1965 April Young - Gonna Make Him My Baby §

• 1965 The Beau Brummels - Just a Little

• 1966 The Torreadores - Do You Remember

• 1966 Jr. Walker & the All-Stars - Road Runner

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Shapes of Things

• 1966 The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb

• 1966 Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Little Lain Lupe Lu

• 1966 The Brogues - I Ain’t No miracle Worker

• 1966 Donovan - Sunshine Superman

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago

• 1966 Norma Tanega - Walking My Cat Named Dog

• 1966 The Gants - Crackin’ Up

• 1966 The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down

• 1966 The Uniques - Not too Long Ago

• 1966 Them - It’s all Over Now, Baby Blue

• 1966 The Rolling Stones - Out of Time [UK Version]

• 1966 The Spiders - Hey Boy [sung in Japanese]

• 1966 The Electric Prunes - I had too Much to Dream (Last Night)

• 1966 Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally

• 1967 Boyce and Heart - I Wonder What’s She’s Doing Tonight

• 1967 The Seeds - I Can’t Seem to Make You Mine

• 1967 Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata [Sung in Xhosa - a South African Language]

• 1967 The Doors - Take it as it Comes

• 1967 The Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow

• 1967 The Music Explosion - Little Bit O’ Soul

• 1967 The Riddles - It’s One Thing to Say §

• 1967 13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House

• 1967 Sunshine Company - Back on the Street Again

• 1967 Chocolate Watchband - Are You Going to be There (At the Love-In)

• 1967 The Easybeats - Friday on My Mind

• 1967 The Velvet Underground & Nico - Femme Fatale

• 1967 The Doors - Twentieth Century Fox

• 1967 Small Faces - Itchykoo park

• 1967 Marcia Strassman - The Flower Children §

• 1968 The Beach Boys - Darlin'

• 1968 Tommy James and the Shondells - Do Something to Me

• 1968 Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native) §

• 1968 Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man

• 1968 Eric Burdon and the Animals - Sky Pilot [Long Version]

• 1968 Tommy James and the Shondells - Mony Mony

• 1968 Thee Prophets - Playgirl

• 1968 Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind § Early Ted Nugent §

• 1968 The Beach Boys - Do it Again

• 1968 Friend and Lover - Reach out of the Darkness

• 1968 The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

• 1968 Eric Burdon and the Animals - White Houses

• 1968 Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson and Clover [Uncorrected Original Long Version]

• 1969 Cream - Badge

• 1969 The Clique - Sugar on Sunday

• 1969 Edwin Starr - Twenty-Five Miles

• 1969 Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

• 1969 Johnny Nash - Cupid

• 1969 The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

• 1969 Frank Zappa - Electric Aunt Jemima

• 1969 Bob Seger - Ramlin’ Gamblin’ Man

• 1969 The Flirtations - Nothing but a Heartache

1970's

• 1970 Love - Alone Again Or §

• 1970 Jethro Tull - Teacher

• 1970 Eddie Floyd - Don’t Tell Your Mama

• 1970 The Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll

• 1970 Simon and Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York

• 1970 Marmalade - Fight Say the Mighty §

• 1970 The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane

• 1970 George Harrison - Awaiting on You All

• 1970 The Shocking Blue - Never Marry a Railroad Man

• 1971 Ten Years After - I’d Love to Change the World

• 1971 Melanie - Ruby Tuesday

• 1971 Greyhound - Black and White §

• 1971 Lally Stott - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep §

• 1972 Badfinger - Baby Blue

• 1972 Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids - She’s So Fine

• 1973 Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

• 1973 Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away

• 1973 Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo

• 1973 Lou Reed - Vicious

• 1953 The Jackson 5 - The Love You Save

• 1973 Ozark Mountain Dare Devils - If You Wanna get to Heaven

• 1973 Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak'er

• 1973 New York Dolls - Personality Crisis §

• 1974 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby

• 1974 The Raspberries - Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)

• 1975 Head East - Never Been any Reason

• 1976 Patti Smith - Ask the Angels §

• 1976 Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing

• 1976 Flaming Groovies - Shake Some Action §

• 1977 Iggy Pop - The Passenger

• 1978 Norma Jean - I Like Love §

• 1978 The Cars - Just What I Needed

• 1978 Hot Chocolate - Every 1's a Winner

• 1978 Clout - Sunstitute [South African Girl Band]

• 1978 Sweet - Love is Like Oxygen [Extended Version]

• 1978 Hot Chocolate - Every 1's a Winner

• 1978 The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl

• 1979 Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot

• 1979 Ian Gomm - Hold On

• 1979 Nick Lowe - Cruel to be Kind

• 1979 Dave Edmunds - Girl’s Talk

• 1979 The Cars - It's all I Can Do

• 1979 Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

1980's

• 1980 Red Rider - White Hot

• 1980 Pat Benatar - We Live for Love

• 1980 Generation X - Dancing With Myself §

• 1980 The B-52's- Rock Lobster

• 1980 The Cars - Touch and Go

• 1980 Rocky Burnette - Tired of Toein’ the Line

• 1980 Dire Straits - Skate Away

• 1980 The Kings - This Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide

• 1980 Blondie - Atomic

• 1980 Oingo Boingo - Only a Lad

• 1980 Blondie - Angels on the Balcony §

• 1980 The Vapors - Turning Japanese

• 1980 B-Movie - Nowhere Girl §

• 1980 The B-52's- Private Idaho

• 1981 Bauhaus - She’s in Parties

• 1981 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

• 1981 The Ramones - We want the Airwaves

• 1981 Billy Idol - Mony Mony

• 1981 Toni Basil - Mickey [Special Club Mix]

• 1981 R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe

• 1982 U2 - Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl

• 1982 Gap Band - Early in the Morning

• 1982 Huey Lewis and the News - Do You Believe in Love

• 1982 Fad Gadget - Life on the Line

• 1982 Dazz Band - Let it Whip

• 1982 Peter Godwin - Images of Heaven (Razormaid! Version)

• 1982 Scandal - Goodbye to You

• 1983 Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again

• 1982 The Gap Band - Early in the Morning

• 1982 Fad Gadget - Wheels of Fortune

• 1983 Industry - State of the Nation (Extended Dance Version)

• 1983 Cyndi Lauper - When You Were Mine

• 1983 New Order - Blue Monday

• 1983 Neil [Young] and the Shocking Pinks - Wonderin’

• 1983 Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People

• 1983 Michael Jackson - Beat It

• 1983 Adam Ant - Desperate but not Serious

• 1983 Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (All Night Version)

• 1984 Secession - Touch (DJK Edit) §

• 1984 Midnight Star - No Parking (On the Dance Floor) [12" Mix]

• 1984 Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

• 1984 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell [Live]

• 1984 The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You

• 1984 Vicious Pink - Cccan’t You See §

• 1984 Billy Idol - Catch My Fall

• 1984 Vicious Pink - Take Me Now (Extended Version)

• 1985 Katrina and the Waves - Do You want Crying (Extended Version)

• 1985 Shoes - Will You Spin for Me

• 1985 Billy Connoly, Chris Tummings - Freedom §

• 1985 Space Monkey - On the Beam (Razormaid! Version) §

• 1985 Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Around (Like a Record) [Murder Mix]

• 1985 Baltimora - Tarzan Boy

• 1985 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

• 1985 The Smiths - How Soon is now

• 1985 The Cure - A Night Like This

• 1985 The Firm - Radioactive

• 1985 Belois Some - Some people

• 1985 Allison Moyet - Love Resurrection

• 1985 King - The Taste of Your Tears (Breaker Heart Mix) §

• 1985 A-ha - The Sun only Shines on TV (Extended Version) §

• 1985 Jean-Philippe Marthely - Rété § [Sung in French. Zouk] §

• 1985 Alphaville - Forever Young [Special Dance Version]

• 1986 The BoDeans - Fadeaway

• 1986 The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink

• 1986 Genesis - Land of Confusion (Extended Version)

• 1986 Communards - Don’t Leave Me this Way

• 1986 New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle [Shep Pettibone Remix]

• 1986 Berlin - Like Flames

• 1986 The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again

• 1986 China Crisis - Arizona Sky

• 1986 Blue Öyster Cult - Dancin’ in the Ruins

• 1986 Opus - Live is Life

• 1986 INXS And Jimmy Barnes - Good Times

• 1986 Divinyls - Pleasure and Pain

• 1986 The Stranglers - Always the Sun §

• 1987 Pixies - Here Comes Your Man [Purple Tapes] §

• 1987 Faith No More - We Care A Lot

• 1987 Allison Moyet - Is This Love

• 1987 Radio Heart Featuring Gary Numan - Radio Heart (Extended Verion)

• 1987 France Gall - Ella, Elle L’a [Sung in French]

• 1987 The Cure - How Beautiful You Are

• 1987 Communards - Don'y Leave Me This Way

• 1987 The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

• 1987 Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Passenger

• 1987 The Cure - All I Want

• 1987 Connie Francis - He’s Just a Scientist [Recorded early 1960's released 1987]

• 1987 The Cure - Hot Hot Hot

• 1987 The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat

• 1987 Michael Zager Band - Let’s All Chant [1987 Remix of the 1978 Hit]

• 1987 New Order - True Faith

• 1987 The Cure - Just Like Heaven

• 1988 Marc Almond - Tears Run Rings

• 1988 The Feelies - Higher Ground §

• 1988 Peter Murphy - All Night Long

• 1988 The Church - Under the Milky way

• 1988 Camouflage - The Great Commandment

• 1988 Siouxie & the Banshees - The Killing Jar

• 1988 Cetu Javu - Situations (Extended Mix) §

• 1988 Erasure - Phantom Bride

• 1988 The Church - Reptile

• 1989 Guadalcanal Diary - Always Saturday

• 1989 U2 - Dancing Barefoot

• 1989 The Cure - Fascination Street

• 1989 Pixies - Wave of Mutilation

• 1989 Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

• 1989 Xymox - Obsession

• 1989 Xymox - Blind Hearts

• 1989 The Jesus & Mary Chain - Head On

• 1989 Peter Shilling - The Different Story (World of Lust and Crime) [Razormaid! Extended Mix]

1990's

• 1990 Charlatans UK - The Only One I Know §

• 1990 Cause & Effect - You Think You Know Her (The Promiscuous Mix)

• 1990 The Lightning Seeds - Pure

• 1990 Heart Throbs - Dream Time §

• 1990 Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow Wendy

• 1990 Faith No More - Epic

• 1990 Real Life - God Toight (7" Version)

• 1991 The Dylans - Planet Love

• 1991 Toad the Wet Sprocket - Walk on the Ocean (Single Version)

• 1991 Throwing Muses - Not too Soon §

• 1991 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

• 1992 Blur - There’s no Other Way

• 1992 Supreme Love Gods - Souled Out §

• 1992 Snap! - Rhythm is a Dancer

• 1992 Golden Smog - Son

• 1992 U2 - Laady with the Spinning Head (Extended Dance Mix)

• 1993 Haddaway - What is Love (12" Mix)

• 1993 Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

• 1994 The Stone Roses - Love Spreads

• 1994 Dink - Green Mind

• 1994 Love Spit Love - Am I Wrong

• 1994 Ween - Voodoo Lady (Radio Edit)

• 1995 Agnes Poetry - State of Mind

• 1995 Catchers - Apathy §

• 1995 The Pietasters - Girl Take it easy

• 1995 The King Krooners - Pretty Little Girl [released 1995 - recorded in the late 1950's]

• 1995 Elastica - Waking Up §

• 1995 Peter Murphy - The Scarlet Thing in You

• 1995 Rancid - Ruby Soho

• 1995 Throwing Muses - Bright Yellow Gun

• 1996 Linda - Nikomu Ya Tebya Ne Otdam Sung in Russian

• 1996 R.E.M. - Bittersweet Me

• 1996 Cracker - Sweet Thistle Pie §

• 1996 Amber - This is the Night

• 1996 Os Paralamas Do Sucesso - De Música Ligeira § [Sung in Portuguese] §

• 1997 The Dandy Warhols - Everyday Should be a Holiday §

• 1997 White Town - Your Woman

• 1997 The Crystal Method - Busy Child

• 1997 Echo & the Bunnymen - Don’t Let it Get you Down

• 1997 Radiohead - Karma police

• 1997 Hurricane #1 - Step into My World

• 1998 Sheryl Crow - Members Only

• 1998 Dance Hall Crashers - Lady Luck

• 1999 The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright

• 1999 Fountains of Wayne - Denise

• 1999 Santana featuring Maná - Corazón Espinado [Sung in Spanish]

• 1999 The Magnetic Fields - I Think I Need a New Heart §

2000's

• 2000 Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk

• 2000 The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You §

• 2001 Kristin Hersh - Troouble

• 2001 Bad Religion - Sorrow

• 2002 Reel Big Fish - Where Have You Been

• 2003 No Doubt - It’s My Life

• 2003 AFI - This Calluloid Dreeam

• 2005 Collective Soul - Better Now §

• 2005 The Raveonettes - Love in a Trashcan

• 2005 Franz Ferdinand - Walk Away

• 2005 The Raveonettes - Ode to LA §

• 2005 Alexis & Fido - Eso Ehh..!! [Sung in Spanish. Reggaetón]

• 2005 The Used And My Chemical Romance - Under Pressure

• 2005 Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds

• 2006 Coldplay - The Hardest Part

• 2006 All-American Rejects - Move Along

• 2006 Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body

• 2006 AFI - Love Like Winter

• 2007 Yeasayer - 2080 §

• 2007 Hard-Fi - Suburban Knights

• 2007 Muse - Map of the Problematique

• 2007 Collective Soul - Hollywood

• 2008 Shiny Toy Guns - Rainy Monday

• 2008 Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet About Me

• 2008 Glasvegas - Flowers & Football Tops

• 2008 Carolina Liar - I’m not Over

• 2009 Kasabian - Where did all the Love Go §

• 2009 Flex - Te Amo Tanto [Sung in Spanish. Reggaetón]

• 2009 Broken Bells - The High Road

2010's

• 2010 Decemberists - Down by the Water

• 2010 Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside

• 2011 Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks

• 2012 New Electric Sound - Heartbeat

• 2012 The Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling

• 2014 Artik & Asti - Polovina (Alexander Pierce Rmix) § [Sung in Russian] §

• 2015 X-Ambassadors - Renegades

• 2016 LP - Lost on You (Live)

• 2017 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber - Despacito [Sung in Spanish. Reggaetón]

• 2018 The Interrupters - She's Kerosene §