Popular Christmas songs, like advertising ... The culture of the ’50s was to a great extent an epiphenomenon of its economic arrangements—and those arrangements are not coming back.

Big comebacks, creative leaps and multiplatinum records dominated the year’s greatest music, as you’ll see in the below list ...

Most of the songs on this list come from the 1960s and '70s, but they recorded plenty of essential music throughout the 1980s (and the occasional knockout in the 1990s). This is a daunting task ...

They took their cues from Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Motown and, of course, Elvis Presley, and gifted us with some of the greatest songs ever recorded. With that in mind, let's riffle ...