Last year, my brother Mike turned 50, so I decided to build him a playlist of a song from every year since 1966.
One year on, and I’ve tidied things up a little, fixed some broken links, and added some new songs.
Enjoy the music. And last but not least… happy birthday, Mike! 🎁
- The Surfers / Wipe Out
- Jefferson Airplane / White Rabbit
- Manfred Mann / Mighty Quinn
- Jimi Hendrix / The Star-Spangled Banner (Live)
- The Kinks / Lola
- The Who / Won’t Get Fooled Again
- Steely Dan / Do It Again
- T Rex / 20th Century Boy
- Steve Miller Band / The Joker
- Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel / Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
- David Bowie / Golden Years
- Aerosmith / Walk This Way
- Joe Walsh / Life’s Been Good
- ELO / Don’t Bring Me Down
- M / Pop Muzik
- The Specials / Ghost Town
- Phil Lynott / Old Town
- Flash and the Pan / Waiting for a Train
- Echo & the Bunnymen / The Killing Moon
- The Smiths / How Soon Is Now?
- The Bangles / Walk Like An Egyptian
- Robbie Robertson / Somewhere Down The Crazy River
- Bill Withers / Lovely Day
- Tears for Fears / Sowing the Seeds of Love
- Deee-Lite / Groove Is in the Heart
- The Source Featuring Candi Staton / You’ve Got the Love
- Crowded House / Weather with You
- Beck / Loser
- Tori Amos / Cornflake Girl
- Blur / Country House
- Sneaker Pimps / 6 Underground
- White Town / Your Woman
- Len / Steal My Sunshine
- Blondie / Maria
- The Avalanches / Frontier Psychiatrist
- OutKast / Ms Jackson
- Elvis vs. JXL / A Little Less Conversation
- Electric Six / Gay Bar
- Green Day / American Idiot
- KT Tunstall / Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
- Goldfrapp / Ride a White Horse
- The Fray / How to Save a Life
- Gabriella Cilmi / Sweet About Me
- The Killers / Human
- Man Like Me / You’ll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties
- Lykke Li / I Follow Rivers
- Gotye Featuring Kimbra / Somebody That I Used to Know
- Jake Bugg / Lightning Bolt
- Pharrell Williams / Happy
- Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats / SOB
- Elle King / Ex’s & Oh’s
- Pumarosa / Dragonfly
Updates
- 2017/03/05: New songs for 1966, 1971, and 1988.
- 2017/05/01: New songs for 2015–17.
- 2017/05/24: New version of Golden Years.
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