The Beach Boys' music has a quintessential summer feel, and not just the song "Kokomo." "Surfer Girl," "Feel Flows" and these others transport us to the season.
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Cinema has long been associated with hit music, but who's heard of a single climbing the charts from a commercial? Turns out, it's more common than you think.
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The diverse, experimental, and energetic music scene of the 1980s gave the radio repertoire some of its most crowd-pleasing bangers.
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Though Carly Simon's long and illustrious career has had many high points, many fans consider 1972 to be the year that she hit her creative peak.
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From Rush to AC/DC, these were the hits that teens were playing in the '70s, yet their creators never attended their own high school graduation party.
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Noise rock was never mainstream, but for fans of that experimental music, songs like "Cop," and "Lady Sniff" make 1984 the decade's best year for the subgenre.
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Some classic rock songs have appeared in commercials so far removed from their artistic rebel roots that the team-up leaves you dazed and confused.
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Artists over 40 had a great year in 1976, with guys like Lou Rawls, Glen Campbell, and Frankie Valli releasing songs that were huge Billboard successes.
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Everyone has to start somewhere, and even legendary groups like the Beatles and Toto got their first shot at stardom playing in another artist's shadow.
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These songs, including Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" and Van McCoy's "The Hustle," were the soundtrack to many boomers' first ventures into the dance club.
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Some very famous back up singers were featured on songs like "Somebody's Watching Me" and "Money For Nothing," and their contributions carried the songs.
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Artists like John Prine and Joni Mitchell might not have had the most commercially successful output of the 1970s, but critics are still singing their praises.
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Eric Burdon's music career took him from dingy jazz clubs to the vanguard of psychedelic rock in the late '60s to the groundbreaking funk rock of the '70s.
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Several wealthy music rights agencies have snapped up the potentially income-generating catalogs for a number of rock and pop stars.
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If you've ever heard of AC/DC, Van Halen, Prince, or the Runaways, it's despite the best efforts of Deep Purple, Journey, Rick James, and Rush, respectively.
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Boomers can take a trip down memory lane by listening to songs of the '60s and '70s. These rock anthems will make them nostalgic for high school graduation.
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After the first wave of punk crested in 1977, this vein of underground rock consolidated into something faster, leaner, louder, and meaner.
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One thing all genres and song formats can do is make you want to sing along, and high schoolers loved to sing these songs in the '70s.
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From Aretha Franklin to Elvis Presley, these musical titans all have a signature song associated with them, but they weren't the first to write and perform it.
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Boomers came of age in the '60s and '70s, so songs by bands like AC/DC, the Bee Gees, and Kiss likely still remind them of some wild nights they had.
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When disco dominated club dancefloors after the release of "Saturday Night Fever," these now-legendary songs propelled the Bee Gees to a career high in 1978.
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These bands saw members depart to become successful in fields such as particle physics, precision watchmaking, television animation, and transportation.
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If you're a fan of '90s shoegaze, you'll appreciate these dreamy covers by the High Violets, Japancakes, Beetleflux, Tearjerker, and Casper Iskov.
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With acts like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alanis Morissette leading the charge, these alt-rock songs were a wake-up call for Generation X.
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There are guitarists who made a massive musical impact on their respective generations, revered by fellow ax wielders but rarely remembered by music fans.
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Think you're a diehard Cat Stevens fan? We've combed the singer-songwriter's catalog for five lesser-known tracks that only his most loyal listeners will know.
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Only so many musicians who specialize in a horn have ever traversed the mostly electric and percussive world of rock music, making them a rare commodity.
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