She sings, “You been making your brags about town/ That you been lovin’ my man/ But the man I love, when he picks up trash/ He puts it in a garbage can.” One of many Lynn songs banned for their candor, the Kentuckian singer lobs a perky opening salvo at the bigmouth homewrecker. While blues singers Irma Thomas and later Koko Taylor were howling “You Can Have My Husband (But Please Don’t Mess With My Man),” Lynn drew a line in the sand around her catting around lesser half Doolittle “Mooney” Lynn. SNAP! Before there was a mainstream feminist movement, Loretta Lynn was tackling the hardcore throw-down.

“Israelites” was one of native Jamaican Desmond Dekker’s first international hits and offered the world its first taste of this now-beloved genre. Reggae originated in the Jamaica in this decade, combining elements of ska, R&B, and Caribbean percussion to give sound to the country’s diaspora and social issues.

(But don’t worry, you can just click here to find our best-of lists for some of those bands like The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Velvet Underground.) Here are the 100 best songs from the ‘60s. However, bands with votes for multiple songs were limited to two tracks each. With two dozen people voting for more than 500 songs, we whittled the list down to the top 100 hits of the ‘60s. Jazz felt free.Īlthough we at Paste had previously compiled the 60 Best Albums of the 1960s, we felt that a number of songs were missing. Folk enjoyed a political revival, yet, the British Invasion was blessedly not political. The 1960s are often considered the best decade for music in America.

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