Our 1960 to 2024 lists: One track per year and act

One need not cover 1960 to 2024, but whatever years you want to cover. Please try to only cover one track/song per act for more variety.

Another list topic from me with the focus on years and tracks. My list covers many choices that I have covered in other topics and represents music that I have been very likely to revisit, re-visit and various discoveries over the past five years. I feel this is very representative of me and where I am currently despite missing many of my favourites (like Weyes Blood, VdGG, Wyatt, lots of jazz etc.)

My approach was to list one track off an album per year for every year from 1960 to 2024, and I decided to only include a band/artist name once. That said, I have Beth Gibbons twice, once for a song under Portishead song and once for one under her name. I think this is fine.

This is a not a very ambitious project for me because I have done other lists covering these years (did series covering five year periods before and I have wanted to cover the predictable from me here), but I would like to see what others come up with for these years preferably with just one track per act. One need not cover all these years in one post or cover all of them.

My list, I expect various others would have a greater diversity of styles and moods...

1960: John Barry "Main Title - Beat Girl" (Music From the Film 'Beat Girl', England)
1961: Joan Baez "The Trees They Do Grow High" (Joan Baez, Vol. 2, US)
1962: The Tornadoes "Ridin' the Wind" (Telstar: The Sounds of The Tornadoes, US)
1963: Dick Hyman & Mary Mayo "Maid of the Moon" (Moon Gas, US)
1964: The Ventures "Out of Limits" ((The) Ventures in Space, US)
1965: Los Relámpagos "Misirlou" (Los Relámpagos, Spain)
1966: Ennio Morricone "L'estasi dell'oro" (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Italy)
1967: Love "The Red Telephone" (Forever Changes, US)
1968: Dr. John, the Night Tripper "I Walk on Guilded Splinters" (Gris-Gris, US)
1969: Nick Drake "River Man" (Five Leaves Left, England)
1970: Magma "Naü ektila" (Kobaïa, France)
1971: Serge Gainsbourg "Cargo culte" (Histoire de Melody Nelson, France)
1972: Jean-Claude Vannier "Les gardes volent au secours du roi" (L'enfant assassin des mouches, France)
1973: Spirogyra "The Furthest Point" (Bells, Boots and Shambles, England)
1974: Cluster "Hollywood" (Zuckerzeit, Germany)
1975: Cortex "Troupeau bleu" (Troupeau Bleu, France)
1976: Far East Family Band "Kokoro" (Parallel World, Japan)
1977: Marius Popp "Inscripţie" (Panoramic JazzRock, Romania)
1978: Nina Hagen Band "Naturtrane" (Nina Hagen Band, Germany)
1979: Wire "I Should Have Known Better" (154, England)
1980: Joy Division "Decades" (Closer, England)
1981: This Heat "Cenotaph" (Deceit, England)
1982: Kate Bush "Night of the Swallow" (The Dreaming, England)
1983: Eskaton "La danse des feux" (Fiction, France)
1984: Siouxsie and The Banshees "Swimming Horses" (Hyæna, England)
1985: Dead Can Dance "Advent" (Spleen and Ideal, Australia)
1986: Camberwell Now "Working Nights" (The Ghost Trade, England)
1987: Cardiacs "Big Ship" (Big Ship, England)
1988: Talk Talk "I Believe in You" (Spirit of Eden, England)
1989: Thinking Plague "Lycanthrope" (In This Life, US)
1990: Cocteau Twins "I Wear Your Ring" (Heaven or Las Vegas, Scotland)
1991: Swans "Love Will Save You" (White Light From the Mouth of Infinity, US)
1992: Current 93 "Hitler as Kalki (SDM)" (Thunder Perfect Mind, England)
1993: Komeda "Borgo" (Pop pa Svenska, Sweden)
1994: The Future Sound of London "Vertical Pig" (Lifeforms, England)
1995: Björk "Isobel" (Post, Iceland)
1996: Fishmans "Long Season Part 5" (Long Season, Japan)
1997: Stereolab "Ticker-Tape of the Unconscious" (Dots and Loops, England)
1998: Massive Attack "Teardrop" (Mezzanine, England)
1999: Mr. Bungle "Pink Cigarette" (California, US)
2000: Juana Molina "El perro" (Segundo, Argentina)
2001: Radiohead "Pyramid Song" (Amnesiac, England)
2002: Boards of Canada "The Beach at Redpoint" (Geogaddi, Scotland)
2003: Pram "Penny Arcade" (Dark Island, England)
2004: Air "Cherry Blossom Girl" (Talkie Walkie, France)
2005: Coil "Fire of the Mind" (The Ape of Naples, England)
2006: North Sea Radio Orchestra "Kingstanding" (North Sea Radio Orchestra, England)
2007: William D. Drake "Seahorse" (Briny Hooves, England)
2008: Portishead "The Rip" (Third, England)
2009: St. Vincent "Black Rainbow" (Actor, US)
2010: Joanna Newsom "Have One on Me" (Have One on Me, US)
2011: PJ Harvey "The Glorious Land" (Let England Shake, England)
2012: Beach House "Wishes" (Bloom, US)
2013: Chelsea Wolfe "Reins" (Pain Is Beauty, US)
2014: Bruno Pernadas "Pink Ponies Don't Fly on Jupiter" (How Can We Be Joyful in a World Full of Knowledge, Portugal)
2015: Susanne Sundfør "Silencer" (Ten Love Songs, Norway)
2016: David Bowie "Blackstar" (Blackstar, England)
2017: Julia Holter "Words I Heard" (Aviary, US)
2018: Anna von Hausswolff "Ugly and Vengeful" (Dead Magic, Sweden)
2019: Lingua Ignota "May Failure Be Your Noose" (Caligula, US)
2020: Ciśnienie (with Lód 9) "Same Trupy" (The Brass Album, Poland)
2021: black midi "Ascending Forth" (Cavalcade, England)
2022: Melody's Echo Chamber "Alma_The Voyage" (Emotional Eternal, France)
2023: Sufjan Stevens "Goodbye Evergreen" (Javelin, US)
2024: Beth Gibbons "Floating on a Moment" (Lives Outgrown, England)

A playlist of my choices:



Love to see other people's choices, and to see how many appreciate music across all of these decades (can cover other decades too).

Some of us already did some very ambitious lists in this CLICK and other topics.

I added countries to my list because some seem very interested in such things. I would have liked to do styles but thought that might be too cluttered.

Please comment on some of what you like from other people's lists as well as hopefully coming up with your own lists. And if you think post-1979 is poor (or maybe just my examples), well, feel free to discuss that.

I've done similar topics but never this that I recall (participants doing one track per year and one artist per list covering decades).   I did do a series of one track per five years and a decade based list. Maybe I forgot (would not put it past me) or someone else had the same idea. Of course the more lists one makes the easier to refine and adapt if covering similar ground. I really liked the one in PA and out of PA albums topic as well as the five year series.

I'm working on a youtube thing, need better equipment, just testing for now, where I do some lists and talk about the particular music. I link to the official uploads. I won't share it if it never comes together well, which it probably won't. Would work better with two people (I think preferably with quite different music interests) where we have listened to and talk about each others likes (including albums of the year etc.). I can think of some good PA member pairings for such talks, but none involve me.

Edited by Logan - June 15 2024 at 18:45

Edited by Mirakaze - June 19 2024 at 09:01

Would want to listen again to all I list, very nice, but hardly doable during the Euros. 

^ I did another list (again covering acts not yet covered in my other lists) and I did add "The Girl From Ipanema" which really should have been my first pick for it year. I love it. You reminded me of Salle Gaveau, which I revisited and chose a track from.

1960: Miles Davis "Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio" (Sketches of Spain)
1961: Hideo Shiraki "In fiesta" (In fiesta)
1962: Sun Ra "Tapestry From an Asteroid" (The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra)
1963: Mingus "Duet Solo Dancers" (The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady)
1964: Stan Getz & João Gilberto "The Girl From Ipanema" (Getz / Gilberto)
1965: The Beatles " Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (Rubber Soul)
1966: Bert Jansch "Nottamun Town" (Jack Orion)
1967: The Velvet Underground & Nico "Venus in Furs" (s/t)
1968: The Incredible String Band "A Very Cellular Song" (The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter)
1969: Arzachel "Azathoth" (Arzachel)
1970: Cat Stevens "Trouble" (Mona Bone Jakon)
1971: Leonard Cohen "Avalanche" (Songs of Love and Hate)
1972: Janko Nilovic "Underground Session" (Rythmes contemporains)
1973: Karl Heinz Schäfer "Couleurs" (Les gants blancs du diable)
1974: Bobbie Hutcherson "Even Later" (Cirrus)
1975: Henry Cow "Beautiful as the Moon - Terrible as an Army With Banners" (In Praise of Learning)
1976: Picchio dal Pozzo "Seppia" (Picchio dal Pozzo)
1977: Douji Morita "Boku ga kimi no omoide ni natte ageyou" (A Boy)
1978: Cos "Mein Maschine ist schön" (Babel)
1979: Led Zeppelin "Carouselambra" (In Through the Out Door)
1980: Gary Numan "I Die You Die" (Telekon)
1981: Dün "L'épice" (Eros)
1982: Laurie Anderson "Big Science" (Big Science)
1983: Codona "Inner Organs" (Codona 3)
1984: Penguin Cafe Orchestra "Air" (Broadcasting From Home)
1985: Hellebore "Introduction végétarienne" (Il y a des jours)
1986: News From Babel "Dark Matter" (Letters Home)
1987: Renaldo and the Loaf "Hambu Hodo" (The Elbow Is Taboo)
1988: The Church "Antenna" (Starfish)
1989: The Cure "Pictures of You" (Disintegration)
1990: Depeche Mode "Waiting for the Night" (Violator)
1991: Bondage Fruit "Kakuu No Sakana" (Bondage Fruit)
1992: Red House Painters "Medicine Bottle" (Down Colorful Hill)
1993: Tindersticks "Tyed" (Tindersticks)
1994: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds "I Let Love In" (Let Love In)
1995: The Cardigans "Beautiful One" (Life)
1996: Księżyc "Verlaine I" (Księżyc)
1997: Yo La Tengo "Moby Octopad" (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
1998: Pulp "Dishes" (This Is Hardcore)
1999: The Flaming Lips "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" (The Soft Bulletin)
2000: Grandaddy "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot" (The Sophtware Slump)
2001: Kōenji Hyakkei "Nivraym" (Nivraym)
2002: Woven Hand "My Russia' (Woven Hand)
2003: Mogwai "Killing All the Flies" (Happy Songs for Happy People)
2004: Ghost "Dominoes (Celebration For The Gray Days)" (Hypnotic Underworld)
2005: Espers "Rosemary Lane" (The Weed Tree)
2006: Saturnia "Aqua" (Muzak)
2007: Salle Gaveau "Alloy" (Alloy)
2008: Isengrind/TwinSisterMoon/Natural Snow Buildings "Spells" (The Snowbringer Cult)
2009: Boredoms "Tilde" (Vision Creation Newsun)
2010: CocoRosie "Lemonade" (Grey Oceans)
2011: Fleet Foxes "Helplessness Blues" (Helplessness Blues)
2012: Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken "La Lethe" (The Death Defying Unicorn)
2013: Kosmischer Läufer "Sandtrommel" (Vol. 1)
2014: Bent Knee "Being Human" (Shiny Eyed Babies)
2015: Thee Oh Sees "Holy Smoke" (Mutilator Defeated at Last)
2016: Xiu Xiu - "Into the Night" (Plays the Music of Twin Peaks)
2017: Richard Dawson "Masseuse" (Peasant)
2018: Cages "D.I.E.?" (Inside a Ringing Chord)
2019: The Comet Is Coming "Super Zodiac" (Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery)
2020: Aksak Maboul "Spleenétique" (Figures)
2021: Black Country, New Road "Opus" (For the First Time, 2021)
2022: Perfume Genius "Teeth" (Ugly Season)
2023: Squid "If You Had Seen The Bull's Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away" (O Monolith)
2024: The Smile "Bending Hectic" (Wall of Eyes, 2024)



Edited by Logan - June 18 2024 at 02:28

Incidentally, in case anyone might consider otherwise, or wonder, the playlists, including the one I made of yours, are mostly for my enjoyment and ease. I would not expect others to make use of these in this kind of topic. It makes it easier for me to check out other people's music and to re-visit ones I suggest. I share it here just in case any one, other than myself, might be at all interested in vising or re-visiting any of the music. I got the making my own cassettes bug as a teen, and got it again when Geo started making youtube playlists for the interactive polls (which made listening and re-visiting so much easier for me).

^ Thanks for those. With Ozric Tentacles the only one I had remembered was the "Erpland" title track (discovered that through PA's old, long gone mp3 service). I will check those out to which you linked. I know music/albums by all of those acts. As for Wendy Carlos, I have tried to track down music of hers online before with difficulty, like Beauty in the Beast. Wonderful artist.

Nice, Mira, thanks you so much, and for the playlist too -- those take a while to make, but not as long as a list. With not repeating acts, coming up with multiple lists can be challenging for certain years, and of course we don't necessarily end up with our favourites from the artists because we juggle those with others. I will do one more at some time, but it does get harder and I might have to research to discover some new-to-me things. I want my list to reflect on what I currently am into which may not be what I was into several years ago when I was still a vivacious strapping young 40-something year old lad. ;)

Listening to that Morricone now, as despite having many of his albums, I don;t have that one. Of course I really like it (sure I have heard it before).

Without listening now, of the others that I know, remember and really like (I do have the Miles Davis and Yugen albums too but would have to refresh my memory):

1967: H.P. Lovecraft - The White Ship (love this and this could easily have been a pick of mine. If I do another it probably will be.)
1970: Magma - Aïna (my fave Magma album and one of my fave Magma pieces)
1971: Egg - Long Piece No. 3 (Part 2) (I revisited this recently after some years due to a topic on Egg at PA)
1973: Henry Cow - Amygdala (love it!)
1974: Gentle Giant - No God's a Man (while I have returned to early Giant more, this has always been one of my favourite GG songs)
1976: Area - Gerontocrazia (have the album, did refresh my memory, wonderful)
1999: Mr. Bungle - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (that and Pink Cigarette are my fave Bungle songs!)
2019: Uboa - The Origin Of My Depression (I love Uboa, one of my faves. Glad I'm not the only Xandra fan here)

Mira, I scanned your youtube playlist and listened to quite a bit of it in full.

That Eric Dolphy is fantastic! I had not heard it before that I recall. And I REALLY loved that Donald Byrd. The only album of his in my collection is Electric Byrd where he sort of jumped on the Bitches Brew bandwagon (I suggested it directly to the JRF team many years ago).

Of course Morricone I know and love. As said, The White Ship is a personal favourite song of mine from the 60s. JA and Zappa I know and like. I adore that Magma track (to me Magma never got better than its debut). Egg is great. Like that Davis album. Amygdala is one of very favourites from the Cow. That's a favourite Gentle Giant song of mine. Enjoy the Eno, love the Area. I really love that Vangelis track! Top Vangelis! Had heard but not for years.

I won't keep commenting on most cause it lacks substance, but I loved hearing Kenji Kawai! I have seen Ghost in the Shell over twenty year ago, and that music is wonderful. Underworld is a great discovery for me. As said, that is a fave Bungle of mine. Silent Hill gets me going. I knew and liked the album The Mantle album a lot.

Love Rubén D'Hers' Anna Y Las Palmas. Really like Farmers Market. That Tigran Hamasyan is so wonderful (really, reall love that). Schooldazed makes me feel good. I have listened to that Uboa considerable times as she is one of my fave modern artists. Matt Stober's Brook I really like and is very reminiscent in part of a a mix of things (they will all come to mind later hopefully). Love the Artadi song. And I think my eldest child has played that last song for me.

Great stuff. Thanks for the double-list. Hope some others too might give this a go, but I know it is time-consuming to put together, especially if one has not made many prior lists.

This series CLICK I made last year helped me with these lists and then I did another series of my choices for ones in and out of PA with more choices. And there are many different choices in my lists here not there. I enjoy refining and re-defining lists and also my interests shift and I like to cover that which most interests me now.

Edited by Logan - July 14 2024 at 17:25