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
If the average song length we reviewed is between 3½ minutes to 4 minutes then the time it would take to listen to all these songs would be about a year [and we mean 24/7 for a whole year]. These are Our Picks Regardless of whether the Song was a Big Hit or whether it got lost in the Dustbin of Hisory.
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.
Dates shown can either be the recording date, release date or the date the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts.
Look for this red symbol "§" to the right of the song title on songs that we recommend that you "Test Play". These are songs you are likely to have missed!
LISTENING TIP: If you download the Brave browser and then open YouTube within that browser then YouTube will run like a jukebox with NO ADS whatsoever.
Enjoy!
1940's Dawn of Rock and Roll
1950's
- 1955 The Orchids - Newly Wed Frank Zappa's favorite Doo Wop
- 1956 Arthur Lee Maye & the Crowns - Gloria
- 1958 The Barker Brothers - Nancy
1960's
- 1960 Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs - Stay
- 1962 Julito and the Latin Lads - Nunca [Sung in Spanish]
- 1964 Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop § [This song launched the Reggae Movement] §
- 1964 Pete Drake and His talking Guitar - Forever
- 1964 Four Seasons - Stay [This is as close to Psychedelic Doo Wop that we've run across]
- 1966 The Spiders - Hey Boy [sung in Japanese]
- 1967 Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata [Sung in Xhosa - a South African Language]
- 1968 Tommy James and the Shondells - Mony Mony
1970's
1980's
- 1983 Neil [Young] and the Shocking Pinks - Wonderin’
- 1985 Billy Connoly, Chris Tummings - Freedom §
- 1985 Jean-Philippe Marthely - Rété § [Sung in French. Zouk] §
- 1989 The Jesus & Mary Chain - Head On
1990's
- 1990 The Lightning Seeds - Pure
- 1990 Faith No More - Epic
- 1999 Fountains of Wayne - Denise
2000's
- 2005 Alexis & Fido - Eso Ehh..!! [Sung in Spanish. Reggaetón]
2010's
- 2017 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber - Despacito [Sung in Spanish. Reggaetón]
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