One For Every Year

As another birthday has come and gone, I had the crazy, ridiculous idea to try to pick one of my favourite songs from each year of my life.  Yup, one for every year (what? it's just a number).  Keep in mind, this is one of my favourite songs that was released in that particular calendar year, and is in no way a reflection of what I was actually listening to.  I mean, I have no recollection what I was listening to as a toddler (knowing my mom though, it was probably Supertramp's Breakfast In America, but I digress).  Here goes...

1977 - Fleetwood Mac / 'Go Your Own Way'
1978 - The Police / 'Can't Stand Losing You'
1979 - The Clash / 'Rudie Can't Fail'
1980 - The Cure / 'A Forest' (eerily, this song came on on my iTunes shuffle as I was pondering this particular year, so it gets the nod)
1981 - The Specials / 'Ghost Town'
1982 - Tears For Fears / 'Mad World'
1983 - David Bowie / 'Let's Dance'
1984 - Echo & The Bunnymen - 'The Killing Moon'
1985 - Simple Minds / 'Don't You (Forget About Me)'
1986 - Pet Shop Boys / 'West End Girls'
1987 - The Smiths / 'Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before'
1988 - INXS / 'Devil Inside'
1989 - The Stone Roses / 'She Bangs The Drums'
1990 - Depeche Mode / 'Enjoy The Silence'
1991 - U2 / 'The Fly'
1992 - Nirvana / 'Sliver' (the re-release obviously)
1993 - Suede / 'Animal Nitrate'
1994 - Blur / 'Tracy Jacks'
1995 - Pulp / 'Sorted For E's And Whizz'
1996 - The Chemical Brothers / 'Setting Sun'
1997 - Foo Fighters / 'Everlong'
1998 - Massive Attack / 'Protection'
1999 - Stereophonics / 'Pick A Part That's New'
2000 - Oasis / 'Go Let It Out'
2001 - Travis / 'Side'
2002 - Doves / 'Caught By The River'
2003 - Muse / 'Hysteria'
2004 - The Killers / 'Somebody Told Me'
2005 - Bloc Party / 'Banquet'
2006 - Kasabian / 'Me Plus One'
2007 - Arctic Monkeys - 'Fluorescent Adolescent'
2008 - The Verve / 'Love Is Noise'
2009 - Lily Allen / 'The Fear'
2010 - Gorillaz / 'White Flag'
2011 - The Joy Formidable / 'The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade'

Wow, that was harder than I expected, mainly because, it's hard to narrow it down to one song.  In the end I, more often than not, went with the first one that came to mind.

Thanks for reading!