Our staff ranked 100 of our favorite songs from 1969! 🎼 From ledzeppelin to RollingStones, did your favorite make the list?
If it seems like 2019 is a lot to live through, look back at the summer of 1969. The Stonewall Riots, the first letters from the Zodiac killer, the first troop withdrawals from Vietnam and the Nixon doctrine, the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Chappaquiddick incident, the death of Brian Jones and the murder of Sharon Tate, and of course, the original Woodstock Festival -- not only did it all happen that summer, it all occurred in the span of about a month and a half.
The music was no different. Nearly every rock band we associate with the decade today released a classic album at the end of it -- Creedence Clearwater Revival alone dropped three of 'em -- while bands who would go on to define the '70s in both the mainstream and the underground poked their heads out for the first time. Outside of rock, artists like Isaac Hayes, Nina Simone and Miles Davis were continuing to push the envelope in fusing soul, funk and jazz, on and off the charts.
To commemorate this most eventful year in music and culture on the week of Woodstock's 50th anniversary, the staff is ranking our 100 favorite songs from a year treasured by Bryan Adams and New York Mets fans alike. As we usually do with our staff, we're counting songs if they were released in '69, debuted on the Hot 100 or hit No. 1 that year -- but not if they debuted or topped the chart after the year was over.
But as you'll see, there's still an embarrassment of riches to be had: pop classics, singer-songwriter standards, FM rock perennials, intergalactic side-long jazz odysseys and only-in-'69 oddities all among them. Read on, and get ready to be taken higher. When Aldrin and Armstrong stepped onto the moon - the signature engineering achievement of the century -- the No. 1 song on Earth was a doomy folk-rocker about planetary death by technology.
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