Pick songs by year starting with 1960 to current chronologically

“1983 Squire” — Bloomypetal (2013)

Musically engaging instrumental scoring an equally engaging video.

 

Time to go progressive rock. Great song by Spock's Beard

Bennett Lamb's been holed up in his shack Working ever patiently
Clocks are ticking Bennett's headed back to New York 1983

 

“1983” — Lindisfarne (1979)

Nearly forgotten '70s English folk-rock band.

 

“1983” — Femmepop (2013)

Femmepop (aka Margaret O'Sullivan) music sounds like its name.

 

There's been some really interesting music posted today. Ry Cooper being one such example - are those electronic sounds? Early for synth use in popular music if that is.

This inspired me to go off and find something else. Here is '1983' by Ten Walls featuring DOMAS ALEKSA. I haven't heard the latest additions here, but I think the description 'Musically engaging instrumental' fits this too.

 

That's actually a theremin on the Ry Cooper track, certainly an early use in pop music (around the same time as "Good Vibrations").

It's not my jam (is this EDM? House?), but yes there is a summer song for 1983:


“Summer of 1983” — Koen Groeneveld (2016)

 

“1983” — Eddie Palmieri


from Palo pa' rumba (Musica Latina International, 1984)

 

“1983” — Sophie Hunger

More foreign language adventures. I'd never heard of Sophie Hunger, a Germany-based Swiss singer-songwriter, but this really was too interesting not to post. The title track from her 2010 album, released only in France and Switzerland.


from 1983 (Two Gentlemen, 2010)

 

“Texas 1983 (For Daniel Johnston, With Respect)” — Wooden Eye

From a compilation of songs written by singer-songwriter-producer Brett Hartenbach (Allmusic bio), covered and interpreted by musicians who have worked with him. This song was inspired by cult favorite Daniel Johnston, whom Brett Hartenbach produced and accompanied. The LP was a benefit for Hartenbach, who had been diagnosed with a brain tumor; he passed away in 2017.


from Everything's OK... If You Look At It That Way: A Benefit for Brett Hartenbach (Crooked Cove, 2012)

 

“1983” — Soft Machine

Eerie instrumental from English progressive art-rockers Soft Machine, post-Robert Wyatt.


from Six (CBS/Columbia, 1973)

 

“Sept 15 1983” — The Mountain Goats


from Heretic Pride (4AD, 2008)

 

“1983” — Stefano Guzzetti

Neoclassical piece incorporating both traditional and electronic instruments.


from Project XII (Deutsche Grammophon, 2019)

 

'Paradise '83' - Vern Gosdin


from his 1989 album "Alone"
Vern Gosdin – Alone (1989, Vinyl)

 

“California 1983” — The Nojons


from The Nojons (Feral Kids, 2007)

 

**************1984***********

Sorry for taking your song again nocturnal!

 

1984 at last! We definitely got our money's worth out of 1983, but I was waiting upon the 'new year'.

Getting perhaps the most obvious tracks out of the way, here is 'Sexcrime 1984' by Eurhythmics from the soundtrack of the film. This is the only track on the soundtrack album that has the year in the title. It also has the year intoned in (probably) vocoded vocals.



Perhaps less obvious is the song 'Children's Crusade' by Sting.

The lyrics include:
Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty four
Fixing in doorways, opium slaves
Poppies for young men, such bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade

 

“1984” — The Holy Mackerel

What I learned about Paul Williams, pop singer-songwriter (“Old Fashioned Love Song,” “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Rainy Days and Mondays,” “Rainbow Connection”) and sometimes actor (“Smokey and the Bandit”), while researching this song:

He has two brothers — one was a NASA Mercury/Apollo rocket scientist who was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal; the other was also a songwriter who wrote Dobie Gray’s biggest hit “Drift Away.”

...and before he started writing hits for Three Dog Night, the Carpenters, and Kermit the Frog, he was part of The Holy Mackerel, psych-pop folkies who recorded one solitary album.


from The Holy Mackerel (Reprise, 1968)

 

Great information! That's one talented trio!

 

'1984' - Spirit


"fourteen years from tonight" - December, 1969 single
Spirit – 1984 (1969, 1st Issue, Vinyl)

 

'1984' - the Wheels of Time


1967 single by group from Belfast; their only release
Irish Rock Discography: Wheels Of Time

 

'1984' - Cheap Freaks


"the year that I was born" - from 2011 album "Bury Them All"
Cheap Freaks – Bury Them All (2011, CD)

 

Orwell's Year- Golden Earring

I have this LP. Think I will dig it out!

Welcome, welcome to 1984
Orwell's year is here, Orwell's year is here
It's the ministry of energy
The ministry of ecology

 

“1984” — Sun Ra & His Arkestra

Of course Sun Ra would have done a 1984 song. Not that he was predictable or anything, though. Talk about someone who blazed his own trail... what an interesting cat he was.


from Paris 1983 (Enterplanetary Koncepts, 2015) and The Space Age Is Here To Stay (Modern Harmonic, 2016)

 

I've found it harder to find 1984 music that I like than some years. Here is Lynne Grimes with '1984'.

 

“Sons of 1984” — Todd Rundgren

Coming from the 1974 perspective of baby boomer wizard rock star Todd Rundgren, this sounds like a love letter to the next generations (Gen X or Millennials):

Open your eyes and see
The world I couldn't change for you
Reach out your hand and take
The world that will belong to you
We were on our way to a better day
And the spirit was in us all
But as time went by we fell by the wayside
Maybe you'll be the last to fall
You are the only ones
There is nobody left but you
You are the chosen ones
There is nobody else to choose
Back when I was young, my hope was strong
But the time blew it all to hell
If I thought I knew what was good for you
I would have gone and done it for myself
Worlds of tomorrow
Life without sorrow
Take it because it's yours
Sons of 1984
I can still see the great panorama of hate
Being cleansed by our loving hands
But the brothers broke stride, the sisters cried
Now you have to start all over again


from Todd (Bearsville, 1974)