Dave's School of Rock

I wanted to introduce my daughter to a variety of rock bands and a high-level history of rock as well.  So, I decided to make a compilation of songs that would fit on a single audio CD.  Here's what I did:

1. I picked one song per year from the year I was born through the year I graduated high school.
2. The song had to have been released that year.
3. The band had to be important (not necessarily pivotal) to rock history.
4. It had to be a song I like.

The major difficulty was that often when I wanted to pick a song that was either most representative of a band, or my favorite song of theirs, the year was already taken by another song I had chosen.  So, some songs were my second or third choice.

(Not an image of the actual CD)

Here's my list:

1969  Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
1970  The Guess Who - American Woman
1971  The Doors - Riders on the Storm
1972  Chicago - Saturday in the Park
1973  Pink Floyd - Brain Damage
1974  Kiss - Black Diamond
1975  Aerosmith - Uncle Salty
1976  Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
1977  Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner
1978  Van Halen - Runnin' with the Devil
1979  The Cars - Dangerous Type
1980  Devo - Whip It
1981  Rush - Limelight
1982  The Clash - Rock the Casbah
1983  Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
1984  Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
1985  Ratt - Lay It Down
1986  Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
1987  Guns N' Roses - Mr. Brownstone

What would yours be?