Very difficult some of that especially the seventies where the likes of Ronstadt's Someone to Lay Down Beside me was put in three times. After the Eighties there are less "great songs" as pop/chart music turned to garbage mostly and the best music found on albums within the context of the album.
60's
Eight Miles High - The Byrds
Fresh Garbage - Spirit
70's
Then Came the Last Days of May - Blue Oyster Cult
Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army
80's
A Forest - The Cure
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
90's
Wide Open Spaces - Mansun
Roads - Portishead
2000's
Waiting around to Die - Be Good Tanyas
Pure Pleasure Seeker - Moloko
2010's (just in case)
In Hell I'll be in Good Company - Dead South
Outta My Mind - B.o.B featuring Nicki Minaj
70s - Blonde Heart of Glass she was my first true teen crush
80s - The Jam Strange Town - the sound track to my late teens as I travelled throughout the UK with the RAF
90s - Paul Weller - Changing Man just me
This was so hard choosing one from each era especially the 80/90s I love loads plus I’m a massive Northern Soul fan so have a huge record collection
Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun Mrs 64
Animals - When I Was Young Liggy
Marianne Faithful - As Tears Go By Swan
Gary Puckett And The Union Gap - Young Girl Swan
Temptations - My Girl Bert
Kinks - You Really Got Me John
Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where the Time Goes John
David Bowie - Space Oddity Hector
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love Hector
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit Ges
Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused Ges
Nice - America Gandi
Byrds - Eight Miles High Faaip
Spirit - Fresh Garbage Faaip
70's
Blondie - Heart of Glass Rat
Miles Davis - Miles Runs the Voodoo Down John
John Lennon - Imagine John
David Bowie - Life on Mars? Hector
Slade - Far Far Away Hector
Jam - In the City Nick
Clash - White Man In Hammersmith Palais Nick
Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace Gandi
Genesis - Firth of Fifth Gandi
Blue Oyster Cult - Then Came the Last Days of May Faaip
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric Faaip
ELO - Mr Blue Sky Mrs 64
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Mrs 64
80's
Jam - Strange Town Rat
Prince - When Doves Cry John
Richard and Linda Thompson - Walking On A Wire John
Smiths - How Soon Is Now Nick
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain Nick
Marillion - Incommunicado Gandi
Cure - A Forest Faaip
NWA - Straight Outta Compton Faaip
Abba - Thank You For The Music Mrs 64
90's
Cliff Richard - The Millennium Prayer Liggy
Paul Weller - Changing Man Rat
Verve - Lucky Man Nick
Pulp - Something Changed Nick
Mansun - Wide Open Spaces Faaip
Portishead - Roads Faaip
Michael Jackson - Earthsong Mrs 64
Fools Garden - Lemon Tree Mrs 64
2000's
Be Good Tanyas - Waiting around to Die Faaip
Moloko - Pure Pleasure Seeker - Moloko Faaip
Shirley Bassey - The Girl From Tiger Bay Mrs 64