As a result, instead of doing six CDs worth of music history, we ended up with two (plus the CD of covers and parodies previously mentioned). This means we weren't as comprehensive as we hoped to be (and even one CD a decade was in adequate). We decided to pick two or three songs from each 5th year of the span, songs that we felt were representative of or important that year. We took a little license by a year or two when we thought a song needed to be pulled in. Here is the final playlist for our History of Modern Music (super Reader's Digest version):
1950
Rag Mop-The Ames Brothers
Rolling Stone-Muddy Watters
1955
Rock Around the Clock-Bill Haley
Maybellene-Chuck Berry
1960
Cathy's Clown-The Everly Brothers
The Twist-Chubby Checker
1965
Wooly Bully-Sam the Sham and the Pharoes
I Can't Help Myself-The Four Tops
1970
Evil Ways-Santana
I'll Be There-Jackson Five
1975
Get Down Tonight-K.C. and the Sunshine Band
We Will Rock You-Queen
1980
What I Like About You-The Romantics
Rappers Delight-Sugar Hill Gang
1985-86
Material Girl-Madonna
Fight For Your Right (to party)-Beastie Boys
Ride The Lightening-Metalica
1990
Vogue-Madonna
Ice Ice Baby-Vanilla Ice
1995
Jeremy-Pearl Jam
Hey Lover-LL Cool Jay
2000
Smooth-Santana w/Rob Thomas
Lose Yourself-Eminem
It Wasn't Me-Shaggy
2005
Holiday-Green Day
Snow-Red Hot Chili Peppers
Welcome Home-Coheed & Cambria
2008
Paper Planes-M.I.A.
Handlebars-Flobots
Good to be a Geek-Deaf Pedestrians
Overall, the project was a lot of fun. Now I have the Herculean task of putting all the CDs away that we ripped from this week (plus a bunch others that have been stacking up).
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