Time 100: Music of Our Lives 1960-1980 is a pleasant, but almost necessarily incomplete history of the mid-to-late century's pop and rock touchstones. The first half of the collection is particularly strong, featuring such untouchable early- and mid-'60s classics as Ben E. King's "Stand by Me," the Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown," and Roy Orbison's "Oh Pretty Woman." Though the lack of British Invasion singles is glaring -- Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" is the closest the collection comes -- Motown is paid respect with ...
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Time 100: Music of Our Lives 1960-1980 is a pleasant, but almost necessarily incomplete history of the mid-to-late century's pop and rock touchstones. The first half of the collection is particularly strong, featuring such untouchable early- and mid-'60s classics as Ben E. King's "Stand by Me," the Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown," and Roy Orbison's "Oh Pretty Woman." Though the lack of British Invasion singles is glaring -- Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" is the closest the collection comes -- Motown is paid respect with the Supremes' "Baby Love," and the Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice" nods to sunny Californian pop. Folk-rock, hippie pop, and soul are all touched on as watermarks of '60s music and lend more diversity to the first half of Time 100: Music of Our Lives 1960-1980 than its second half. The collection envisions a '70s where punk and new wave never happened (although the inclusion of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" could be considered the album's nod to the underground), and where disco and funk were barely blips on the radar. Even though the collection's mix of singer/songwriters (Carly Simon's "You're So Vain," Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"), soft rock (the Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes," Christopher Cross' "Sailing"), and rock ballads (Santana's "Evil Ways," Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight") is probably closer to what most Time readers were listening to in the '70s and '80s, the tunnel vision of disc two's track listing stands in sharp contrast to the inclusiveness of disc one. Despite its historical gaps, Time 100: Music of Our Lives 1960-1980 is a very listenable collection for anyone with an appreciation of middle-of-the-road pop from the '60s to the '80s. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi
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