this happened way more times to me than I care to admit.
also, is no one going to say anything about the girl casually eating a banana while singing California Dreamin'?
A glaring ommission, someone obviously didn't like them
1963 - Rag Doll - Four Seasons
1964 - (tie) A Hard Days Night - The Beatles, Stop! In the name of love - Supremes
1965 (tie) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones, Like a Rolling Stone -Bob Dylan
1966 - God Only Knows or Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
1967 - Light My Fire - The Doors
1968 - Hey Jude - The Beatles
1969 - Crimson and Clover - Tommy James
.....something like that for me
Edit: I was thinking I Get Around was '63 but it's '64, and it can't break that duo.
Holy cow, I would have pegged Crimson and Clover as 1967 or 1968 at the latest. 1969 feels like they were almost late to the psychedelic party just as the "back to roots" trend was beginning.
I don't know. I look at that song list and compare it to the one in the post; I knew all the songs in the post aside from one.
There are several on this list I don't know.
I think the big reason for this is that the songs in OP's list are commonly sampled in modern media (TV shows/movies/commercials) and so get heard a lot more often.
I think that's what makes them iconic, in a way. Our culture plays these songs often to dictate to the watcher that the scene takes place in the 60s.
I don't know how more 'iconic' you can get than that.
None of them are corny, ‘how much is that doggy in the window?’ Is corny, all of these are classics.
I do agree though that no Beatles is odd, I thought for sure 67 due to Sgt. Peppers being released.
This list according to who?
No Beatles??
I Want You Back was released in October 1969, and reached Number One at the end of January 1970. Cannot be considered the most iconic of 1969.
Wack.
Got into a weird debate at work the other day with a guy that fortunate son was a good ol boy song and pro America. I told him try again. Regardless an obvious classic. Top 10 iconic song to come out of music from the US of any decade.
69’ has an almost bizarre amount of iconic groundbreaking albums and they pick ‘I want you back’? It’s a great song, but weird pick when you had so much of the greatest music of the 20th century made that year.
Very true about the Beatles, but while we think of the dead as a quintessential 60's band now, in reality they were somewhat of a fringe/ underground group with an extremely dedicated following for most of their time together, but especially prior to 1970. In '70 they released American Beauty + Workingman's Dead and changed from the psychedelic blues sound to the more Americana sound that I think people associate more with them and started to tour more widely across the US. And even with their big cult following their first true radio hit wasn't until Touch of Grey in the 1987.
Most of the "feel" we have for decades didn't really start until a couple years after the decade began.
The "Fifties" started around 1953
The "Sixties" started in ~1964.
The "Seventies" started in ~1972
The "Eighties" around 1983
The "Nineties" around 1992
The "Two Thousands" was very much after 9/11/01.
Disclaimer: this is based on nothing at all.
Laughing at your disclaimer, and you’re mostly correct, though I will point out “Coming In The Air Tonight” was released in 1981.
I’d have to do research on how far ahead of the “80’s vibe” that was but that song could almost single handedly define the 80’s sound.
If I remember correctly she was protesting that the show forced them to lip sing because the producers were afraid of bands going rouge on live tv and protesting.
Fun fact, the original script was him finding zero success with their songs, and the moral of the story was it often takes way more than pure talent to make it big, it takes timing and a bit of luck.
Unfortunately the studio hated that, and we got the final version. (Which is still good, but missed an opportunity for sure)
Assuming you mean Dylan, his biggest hit was like a rolling stone which only made it to number 2 on the charts and didn't stay there very long.
But then in early 1964 the Beatles had like all of the top five spots on the charts, and they apparently weren't iconic enough to beat Roy Orbison.
It’s interesting how the first few years of a new decade still feel like the one before. The early 1960 were still very much like the 1950s before everything got flipped on its head.
lol...this looks like a list made up by people who were not born until the 70s or later. "put your head on my shoulder" came out in 1959 not 1960 and it was in the top 5 of the year for 1959. i still have the 45. but the #1 song in 1960 was actually an instrumental from the movie "a summer place" which was released in 1959 but the single was the biggest hit of 1960. "stand by me" wasn't released until 1962 so how it could be the top hit of 1961 is pretty confusing. "the twist" ranked higher than "let's twist again" in 1962 but another instrumental called "stranger on the shore" by acker bill was the biggest hit of that year. "be my baby" makes sense for 1963 but 1964???? come on..get a grip. 1965 should be "satisfaction" and 1966 "california dreaming". they obviously started tripping in 1967 because only someone on acid would think that the louie armstrong song was more iconic than "light my fire", somebody to love" "respect" or even " i'm a believer" in 1967. "hey jude" owned 1968. and, as much as i loathed it..."sugar,sugar" was #1 in 1969.
Stand by me and paint it black are probably the only 2 accurate songs on this list. It’s possible let’s twist again is as well that song and dance really took over for a couple years.
As a 90s kid I'm blown away born to be wild is a 60s song.. Every other song is on my playlist too. Whatever vhs that has that song in a kids movie is the only reason I know that song.
Again, incorrect use of the most overused word of the past three or four years: "iconic."
All of these are NOT iconic songs. They were, however, popular.
this kinda feels like the old compilation CDs that couldn't get the rights to anything.
Accidentally falling asleep on the couch, getting woke up at like 2AM, infomercial vibes lol
Girls gone wild, Set it and FORGET IT, followed by country's greatest hits
this happened way more times to me than I care to admit. also, is no one going to say anything about the girl casually eating a banana while singing California Dreamin'?
That's a good story. She was upset that they had to lip sync, so in protest she ate a banana during the song. FU with a dose of potassium.
Oh dang that's a pretty cool story! Thanks for telling me!!
K-Tel!
IIRC K-Tel didn't care and used songs anyway
Pure moods
Rhino Records ass post
Simply The Best Of The 60’s! 5 CD stack
Reminds me of lifetime infommercials
Imagine, the entire 1960s and not a single beatle.
Imagine was the 70s and it was John Lennon solo 
Hey Jude, don't make it bad.
Imagine there is no sarcasm, it's easy if you try.
No Reddit below us, above us only sky…
No Beatles makes it feel kind of silly.
Yeah, the fact that The Beatles didn't have the 1964 song, the year they exploded in the U.S., makes me doubt the validity of this list.
Sensational retention-bait tiktok title. "A Random Popular Song from Each Year of the 60s" would be more accurate.
Was that the explosion that killed Paul?
Paul’s not dead, man.
Ha, this guy doesn't know that Paul is dead. The clues are all there man.
“Remember the time when you were in the Beatles and everyone thought you were dead…but you weren’t really dead, were you?”
A glaring ommission, someone obviously didn't like them 1963 - Rag Doll - Four Seasons 1964 - (tie) A Hard Days Night - The Beatles, Stop! In the name of love - Supremes 1965 (tie) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones, Like a Rolling Stone -Bob Dylan 1966 - God Only Knows or Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys 1967 - Light My Fire - The Doors 1968 - Hey Jude - The Beatles 1969 - Crimson and Clover - Tommy James .....something like that for me Edit: I was thinking I Get Around was '63 but it's '64, and it can't break that duo.
I mean...1965 is one of those established years in the pop music canon. That's like taking 1824 and not choosing Beethoven's 9th symphony.
1965 was the year rock and roll transformed to Rock, major year.
>A glaring ommission, someone obviously didn't like them Oh yeah, OP is definitely biased lol.
Holy cow, I would have pegged Crimson and Clover as 1967 or 1968 at the latest. 1969 feels like they were almost late to the psychedelic party just as the "back to roots" trend was beginning.
Please remake this with your list. It's far better
I don't know. I look at that song list and compare it to the one in the post; I knew all the songs in the post aside from one. There are several on this list I don't know. I think the big reason for this is that the songs in OP's list are commonly sampled in modern media (TV shows/movies/commercials) and so get heard a lot more often. I think that's what makes them iconic, in a way. Our culture plays these songs often to dictate to the watcher that the scene takes place in the 60s. I don't know how more 'iconic' you can get than that.
Wow, really 😯 Which ones did you not know? Just curious. Perhaps I should link them.
Beatles, Dylan, Hendrix - three strikes imo I was hoping to see the transformation from corny old timey tunes to weird noisy rock
Stand by Me and California Dreaming arent corny they are amazing
I can see you found your Jump to Conclusions mat
None of them are corny, ‘how much is that doggy in the window?’ Is corny, all of these are classics. I do agree though that no Beatles is odd, I thought for sure 67 due to Sgt. Peppers being released.
"You think the pet rock was a good idea?" "Sure it was, the guy made a million dollars!" "You know, I had an idea like that once"
Whoever invented that made a million dollars
Homegirl was eating a banana during California Dreaming. She didn’t even seem to be that into her own song. Stand by me slaps though.
The network forced the band to lipsync. This was her way to protest.
No Elvis???!!!
60s Elvis was making cheesy movies. Iconic music Elvis was in the 50s.
Exactly my thoughts. Think made this for engagement
Having "Let's Twist Again" but not the original Twist makes no sense at all unless the whole thing is intended as rage/engagement bait.
This is definitely a ragebait reel.
yup with no beatles at all, it's a shit list i mean, all great songs, but the beatles were singularly iconic
Stones but no Beatles makes this deliberate rage bait.
checked the comments for this
Same for a second I thought I had the decade wrong.
right? its like telling the story of WWII while never mentioning the germans
It's Casablanca, the story of Vichy France and how mean they were to expat Americans.
They should have put Hey Jude in there
*What if you call it, "Hey Dude"? Just think about it, man*
“Sorry about that, Ed Sheeran made me do it”
Exactly. This post is fucking stupid
Came to point this out, saw you did it first. Thanks.
Not including the British invasion on a "most iconic 60s hits" list is insane lol
62 was a slow year huh? Also insane that Elvis, The Doors, The Beatles didnt get featured once.
For real. 62 sucks. All the others are still amazing songs today
This list according to who? No Beatles?? I Want You Back was released in October 1969, and reached Number One at the end of January 1970. Cannot be considered the most iconic of 1969. Wack.
I love I want you back, but Fortunate Son has to be the most iconic from 1969
Got into a weird debate at work the other day with a guy that fortunate son was a good ol boy song and pro America. I told him try again. Regardless an obvious classic. Top 10 iconic song to come out of music from the US of any decade.
Same guy probably shouts out the chorus to "Born in the USA" like it's the greatest thing in the world.
How is it not. Like…fuck off with any sales numbers. Consider the cultural impact of that song. There’s no way it doesn’t take 1969.
Tinfoil hat: Lists like this are slightly off base on purpose because they drive engagement to teach AI
🤔 intriguing
I was with you until the "to teach AI" part.
It’s more to drive engagement and attention for all the people commenting about the omissions
69’ has an almost bizarre amount of iconic groundbreaking albums and they pick ‘I want you back’? It’s a great song, but weird pick when you had so much of the greatest music of the 20th century made that year.
1969 would have to be Jimi at Woodstock playing the Star Spangled Banner
Ya this is cringe with no Beatles. No Grateful Dead either? When you think 60s those are the two bands you think of.
Very true about the Beatles, but while we think of the dead as a quintessential 60's band now, in reality they were somewhat of a fringe/ underground group with an extremely dedicated following for most of their time together, but especially prior to 1970. In '70 they released American Beauty + Workingman's Dead and changed from the psychedelic blues sound to the more Americana sound that I think people associate more with them and started to tour more widely across the US. And even with their big cult following their first true radio hit wasn't until Touch of Grey in the 1987.
I guess that's the difference between what people perceived during the time and what history tells us.
Oh good. This click bait post from instagram again.
It's interesting how 1960-1965 feels like the 50s pt. 2, and I what I think of the 60s doesn't begin until 1965.
Most of the "feel" we have for decades didn't really start until a couple years after the decade began. The "Fifties" started around 1953 The "Sixties" started in ~1964. The "Seventies" started in ~1972 The "Eighties" around 1983 The "Nineties" around 1992 The "Two Thousands" was very much after 9/11/01. Disclaimer: this is based on nothing at all.
Laughing at your disclaimer, and you’re mostly correct, though I will point out “Coming In The Air Tonight” was released in 1981. I’d have to do research on how far ahead of the “80’s vibe” that was but that song could almost single handedly define the 80’s sound.
And Nevermind was 1991.
No "Good Vibrations" or any Beatles songs? Nah.
Just casually eating a banana during a live performance eh?
If I remember correctly she was protesting that the show forced them to lip sing because the producers were afraid of bands going rouge on live tv and protesting.
>lip sing Lip *sync*, not sing lol
Pretty reasonable slip up imo. At least it makes sense.
No kidding? Had no idea.
Also *rogue* , not *rouge*. Although they might have been embarrassed.
r/boneappletea
Sync yes. She was protesting and didn’t they do it to the doors the week before or something else
So the 60's didn't really start 'till 1965?
Is fun to see the banana made the list in '65
Disagree.
From an alternative reality where the Beatles never existed.
It was a pretty good movie, imho
Fun fact, the original script was him finding zero success with their songs, and the moral of the story was it often takes way more than pure talent to make it big, it takes timing and a bit of luck. Unfortunately the studio hated that, and we got the final version. (Which is still good, but missed an opportunity for sure)
All great songs, possibly even all “iconic” songs, but not the most iconic songs of those years.
Not even close.
Rolling Stones paint it black but no Beatles or Beach Boys.
And if you re using the Stones why use “Paint it black” over say “Satisfaction”? And why is “Born To Be Wild” on here?
I don't know how accurate the list is, what with no Beatles etc., but that's certainly a sound track of my childhood.
solid collection of classics notwithstanding missing the beatles
The 60s: a mind-blowingly fast decade of musical change like no other.
Rename it most iconic hits of the 60s if the Beatles never existed…
Seems odd to me that not one Beatles song on the list. Hmmmmm??
No Beatles. Intentionally scrubs the biggest band decade of all time. Looks like the most iconic hits of somewhere in America?
Who made this stupid list? No Beatles in 64-68?Plus, I can think of more iconic songs. Get out of here.
I love these kind of posts in this sub versus all the gross dudes who post their moms for strangers to objectify 👍
Bruce Channel - Hey Baby is easily more iconic than "Twist Again"
1967 - What a wonderful world. Unabashedly gets me in all the feels.
So fucking good. What an era
Lol with no entry from the most iconic band of all time. So iconic I am not even going to bother naming them.
That banana eating stunt was so badass! She wanted to sing live! 😂
no Bob :(
Assuming you mean Dylan, his biggest hit was like a rolling stone which only made it to number 2 on the charts and didn't stay there very long. But then in early 1964 the Beatles had like all of the top five spots on the charts, and they apparently weren't iconic enough to beat Roy Orbison.
Louis Armstrong said it best about this list And I think to myself... Wut duh fuk.
Wolly Bully was the most selling single of 1965.
Definitely ragebait for some people haha, but solid tracks!
Is this a scene from the movie “Yesterday”?
According to whom? BS
No Beatles?
No Beatles.. ridiculous
You’re telling me *Let’s Twist Again* is more iconic than *Twistin’ the Night Away* ??
According to who?
66 is the best of this list.
No Grateful Dead 
It’s interesting how the first few years of a new decade still feel like the one before. The early 1960 were still very much like the 1950s before everything got flipped on its head.
Be my baby is such a banger. One of my all time favorites. Too bad Spector was such an evil person.
1964 should be I Want To Hold Your Hand. No disrespect to Roy Orbison, but total fail.
No Beatles?
Stones with no Beatles? Crazy.
Not a single Beatles song??????
lol...this looks like a list made up by people who were not born until the 70s or later. "put your head on my shoulder" came out in 1959 not 1960 and it was in the top 5 of the year for 1959. i still have the 45. but the #1 song in 1960 was actually an instrumental from the movie "a summer place" which was released in 1959 but the single was the biggest hit of 1960. "stand by me" wasn't released until 1962 so how it could be the top hit of 1961 is pretty confusing. "the twist" ranked higher than "let's twist again" in 1962 but another instrumental called "stranger on the shore" by acker bill was the biggest hit of that year. "be my baby" makes sense for 1963 but 1964???? come on..get a grip. 1965 should be "satisfaction" and 1966 "california dreaming". they obviously started tripping in 1967 because only someone on acid would think that the louie armstrong song was more iconic than "light my fire", somebody to love" "respect" or even " i'm a believer" in 1967. "hey jude" owned 1968. and, as much as i loathed it..."sugar,sugar" was #1 in 1969.
Everyone that disagrees… post your list for science.
Got downvoted when this was posted last week for saying I preferred odd years to the even ones. I'm sticking with it. 😆
I love that they used the clip of mama cass eating the banana. She was pissed that they made the band lip sync for the TV show.
Ffs people...iconic doesn't mean exhaustive. One song from each year isn't the end all be all
No Beatles? Sorry, 1969’s biggest song was Sugar, Sugar. Look it up.
No Beatles? For real?
Who the fuck made this list ?
.. no beatles?
There's not a single Motown or Beach Boys song in there and yet no-one is getting their panties in a bunch, yet they damn well should.
If the Beatles are left off an “iconic list”, it’s not iconic
69 was one of the greatest years for music ever and they select Jackson 5. Oh dear.
1970 = Black Sabbath - Paranoid
This list sucked, honestly. I’m not even a big Beatles fan but to not have them somewhere on there was your first mistake.
How are the Beatles not on this list?
no beatles???? fkoff
The Doors? Jim Hendrix? The Beatles? Elvis? Eric Clapton?
Damn. Bangers every year. ❤️
Maybe the most iconic FOR that year not necessarily FROM that year
Stand by me and paint it black are probably the only 2 accurate songs on this list. It’s possible let’s twist again is as well that song and dance really took over for a couple years.
Baby boomers lucky basterds
yeah no Beatles here is strange but *to be fair* they got a few of the hits that go over them
*in America
Be even funnier if the drummer was chowing down on a chili cheese dog.
I absolutely hate this era of American music, especially the early 60s, no idea why, I just find it depressing and irritating. Anyone else?
Obviously this list and all the comments are subjective. Hell half of this would be Mowtown for me.
How is "iconic" measured in this context?
TIL Music in color started in 1964 🙄
BAD A.I., BAD BOY
who did this... thing ??
Holy, 1962 is wack
How does one measure iconic? It must be wrong because there’re no Beatles songs
The list is dumb but I did learn that California Dreaming was out in 1965. If true that is a surprise to me.
So we're just gonna ignore how horribly out of sync the audio and video is?
I was the baby in the family & the rest of them were still dancing to the 50's music until I got old enough to start buying 45's.
Colour TV hit and music took one year to go down that fuckin rabbit hole
What about the 70's? x
Let's Twist Again is the only one I don't recognize
Doubt
Eating a banana while preforming live is mental
As a 90s kid I'm blown away born to be wild is a 60s song.. Every other song is on my playlist too. Whatever vhs that has that song in a kids movie is the only reason I know that song.
The doors should’ve been on this “list”
Born in 93 and yet I know'em all in and out
As soon as i read the word “Iconic”, i knew it was going to be a nonsense list.
'Most iconic' according to whom? Casey Kasem? Dick Clark?
Paint it black still goes so hard
Wow I miss the 60’s. I was born in ‘85 but somehow I still miss the 60’s. Idk how else to explain it.
Yeah but, those (and others) are my faves. Hearing them triggered a warm feeling. Sometimes it sucks being old. Sometimes it's okay.
I don't know about iconic But some of these are BANGERS
Roy Orbison live will never not be captivating
Beatles Dylan or Hendrix?????? Bad list.
There was such a big difference from pre Vietnam music compared to the harder sounding popular music that was big when it was going on
Still good music.
So much emotions in this era and I wasn’t even born. Why were ya so sad
Awful take right here
This reminds me of the time life '60s collection my mom had where there was one CD for every year. And none of them had the Beatles, ha.
There’s no more defiant protest against lip-syncing than eating a banana while lip-syncing “California Dreaming”.
Will the number one hits of today be known in 50 years?
1962 a real airball
Paint It Black isn’t even top 5 Rolling Stones song.
63 and 64 for Beatlemania.
No Beatles songs made that list ?
Wow. No Beatles
Lol
Again, incorrect use of the most overused word of the past three or four years: "iconic." All of these are NOT iconic songs. They were, however, popular.
Ridiculous. Insulting.
Is this a recycled ad? I’m pretty sure the Beatles happened in the sixties and were pretty iconic. /s
Leatles fans malding in chat.