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Nov 12, 2023 · The following '60s rock anthems are in no order, they're just songs pulsating, groovy songs that we can't turn off whenever we hear them on the radio. From early mod-rock hits to destructive ...
- 100 Send Me A Postcard. Dutch psych rockers Shocking Blue would score a US Billboard Hot 100 No.1 with 1970’s ‘Venus’ (covered so memorably by Bananarama 16 years later), but ‘Send Me A Postcard’ is a darker proposition altogether, singer Mariska Veres evoking Julie Driscoll or Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick as she hollers over fuzzed guitar and the obligatory swirling organ.
- 99 Ring Of Fire. This paean to the grisly aftermath of an unforgiving curry – or tribute to love’s steamy embrace, whatever you fancy – was written by Johnny Cash’s future wife June Carter with Merle Kilgore, and originally recorded by June’s sister Anita.
- 98 I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) The opening track on Lenny Kaye’s ‘Nuggets’, his essential compilation of late-60s garage and psych rock, ‘I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)’ was written by professional songwriting team Annette Tucker and Nancie Mantz but musses up its classic structure with needling, distorted guitar from Ken Williams – recorded backwards – and a growling lead vocal from James Lowe.
- 97 My Girl. They might have done the gritty thing with ‘Ball Of Confusion’ and ‘Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone’ or tried overwrought testifying on ‘Ain’t Too Proud To Beg’, but the Temptations song that gets reeled out most these days is this soppy, doo-wopping poem to a girl who makes everything all right.
- Whole Lotta Love- Led Zeppelin (1969)
- Like a Rolling Stone- Bob Dylan (1985)
- You Really Got Me- The Kinks (1964)
- I Want To Hold Your Hand- The Beatles (1964)
Mar 4, 2020 · Last month, we listed the 200 greatest songs of the 1970s by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees. This time around, with the 1960s, we made things even harder, narrowing down the list to 100. As...
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Aug 17, 2006 · The ’60s marked a time when pop music became more than a teenage fad, turning into an important art form in its own right as it soundtracked the civil rights movement, the hippie heyday, and...
Sep 13, 2008 · 2 Johnny Horton North To Alaska, 1960. The theme to the John Wayne movie of the same name. Horton also had a country No 1 with 'When it's Springtime in Alaska (It's 40 Below)'.
