Pick songs by year starting with 1960 to current chronologically

'86 Flood' - CoCoa Tea


aka Coco Tea
Coco Tea* - 86 Flood
1986 Jamaica floods - Wikipedia

 

“Expo '86” — Death Cab For Cutie

1986 is a lean year but I have a few left...


from Transatlanticism (Barsuk, 2003)
Expo '86 – Wikipedia

 

“1986” — Turnpike Glow


from 1986 (Fünke Pop, 2012)

 

“1986” — Staya Staya

Didn't know you needed a little Argentinian ska/rocksteady in your life, did you?


from Soul Gedes (Sonido Conurbano, 2015)

 

“Lake Placid 1986” — The Ivory Coast


from Clouds (Polyvinyl, 2001)

 

“January 28, 1986 / Galaxies” — Owl City

The date of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.


from All Things Bright and Beautiful (Universal Republic, 2011)
Challenger disaster: Wikipedia, YouTube (CNN live broadcast, Reagan speech)

Others:
“1986” — HÅN (from 2017) Italian electropop
“On Sundays 1986” — Kumiko Yamashita (from 1986, 1986) J-pop
“1986” — Eric Delay (from Foundations 2, 2012) ambient
“1986” — The Waiting Game (from Bend or Break, 2017) Belgian rock
“1986” — New Rome (from Elsewhere, 2017) ambient/electronic

 

Nice find. You guys have gone way beyond what I thought was even available for 1986.

 

************1987**********

Well this year has far fewer choices. I found some songs but it took some time to find one I could listen to.

The song is by Destroyer-Watercolours into the Ocean

 

“Goodbye It’s 1987” — Microdisney

One of those 1980s Irish band not named U2.


from Clock Comes Down the Stairs (Rough Trade, 1987)

 

You missed my post on the page before. Beatcha to it

 

Halfway listenable "Hot Fudge" by Robbie Williams gives us 1988.

"There's a green card and a way
The holy ghost
And the whole east coast
Are moving to LA
'Cause we've been
Dreaming of this feeling
Since 1988
Mother, things have got to change
I'm moving to LA, LA, LA"

 

“1987” — David Kilgour

There seem to be a lot of international acts represented here, or should I say acts outside of the USA and the UK. David Kilgour is from New Zealand.

from Sugar Mouth (Flying Nun, 1994)

 

“1987” — Minus Six

1987
What if we skipped that year?
The world would be better

Obviously this isn’t a new song, or it’d be called “2020,” amirite?

from Some Things Change (M6, 2005)

 

As am I. On behalf of all New Zealanders I will thank you for helping promote my mother country's music. Although, I'll point out that this post prompted some thought, and I've realised that I've spent more of my life in the UK than in NZ. Apologies for OT.

I've got two songs for today, but I'm holding back on the non-English language one as I don't want to be always posting music outside of the Western focus that the SHF forums have in general.

This is Milow with 'Herald of Free Enterprise'. My notes say: 'sounds folky'.



This is the legend of eight sisters, Herald was the famous one
It happened twenty years ago although the sea was calm
It was 1987 and winter nearly gone
On that Friday running late with rolling off and rolling on

I've noted that we have two different speeds with years. While I'm listening to and enjoying everything posted by everybody, I'm taking my lead from @AKA-Chuck G as to which year we are in, as he's the OP.

 

“Princess Castle 1987” — Peach Kelli Pop

Girl group garage rock with a cotton candy buzz. CAUTION: May cause severe sugar rush followed by mild headache and fatigue. From Ottawa, Ontario, one of the English-speaking provinces.

from Peach Kelli Pop III (Burger, 2015)

 

“1987” — Calogero

Anglophiles beware: We've come to the non-English language portion of the proceedings. French, by way of Sicily. Love the Super-8 look of the video.

from Liberté Chérie (Polydor, 2017)

 

'1987' - Juliet Turner


"it was the first time that you kissed me, just before the school bell rang"
from the 2004 album "Season of the Hurricane"
Juliet Turner – Season Of The Hurricane (2004, Digipak, CD)
Juliet Turner

 

Thanks for posting this. It reminds me somewhat of the Church. I'm a big fan of NZ and Aussie bands.

 

Yes it did. I'm glad it was a short song.

 

*********************1988*************
Ramones-Planet Earth 1988

We're getting loud and punky now!

 

I don't know the music of Steve Hillage well, and didn't expect this new wavey track. '1988 Activator'.



And, not really music but: '1988 Capitol Lake Jam Commercial' by Kurt Cobain.

 

“In Search of 1988” — Ozma

Pasadena, CA alt-rockers sound a little like Weezer's echo seven years later.


from Rock and Roll Part Three (Kung Fu, 2001)

 

“1988 Was A Million Years Ago” — Mike Keneally

Guitarist and keyboardist Mike Keneally has played in the touring bands of Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani among others. Here's a profile on Mike from The San Diego Union-Tribune.


from Boil That Dust Speck (Immune, 1995)

 

“1988” — Lanu

Another one for those of you with connections Down Under! From AllMusic: "Lanu is the experimental side project of the Bamboo's guitarist and leader, Lance Ferguson (born in New Zealand), one of the most prolific and well-respected musicians on the Australian funk and soul scene."


from Her 12 Faces (True Thoughts, 2011)

 

“Losing My Edge” — LCD Soundsystem

This song is so freakin' brilliant and hilarious in the way it sends up every annoying rock snob and "too cool for school" music geek who fears he's not keeping up with the times anymore. Which, I don't know, maybe describes me to a 'T' these days but what the hell, I love it anyway. I'm usually not much for electronic/dance music, but this beat is insistent (it actually rocks), the singer's delivery is perfectly droll, and the "lyrics" are a perfect mash up of obscure but sublime rock 'n' roll name dropping and historical references.

The full-length version of the songs mentions the years 1962, 1968, 1974, 1978, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988... The video below is the single/radio edit and loses the reference to 1988, but if you follow this link, you will hear the line:

I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988​

from the full-length version of the song. But I wanted to link to this video of the edited version, because there's something about watching James Murphy getting slapped for four and a half minutes that makes it a compelling watch...


from LCD Soundsystem (Capitol, 2005)