You're stranded on the proverbial desert island. It's a miracle that it has batteries and electricity.  ;) Pick a top ten from one artist from each decade to listen to before you're rescued. You can't repeat artists, and the songs come from just that decade.

'40s: Frank Sinatra
'50s: Chuck Berry
'60s: The Beatles
'70s: The Rolling Stones
'80s: U2
'90s: Depeche Mode
'00s: The Killers
'10s: Adele

1960s - The Beatles

1. I Wanna Hold Your Hand
2. Drive My Car
3. Help!
4. Eleanor Rigby
5. Norwegian Wood
6. Strawberry Fields Forever
7. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
8. Here Comes the Sun
9. Come Together
10. Yesterday

1970s - Billy Joel

1. Piano Man
2. Summer, Highland Falls
3. Just the Way You Are
4. Stiletto
5. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
6. Miami 2017
7. Vienna
8. Captain Jack
9. If I Only Had the Words
10. New York State of Mind

1980s - Kate Bush

1. Babooshka
2. Army Dreamers
3. Cloudbusting
4. This Woman's Work
5. All We Ever Look For
6. Hello Earth
7. Night of the Swallow
8. Running Up That Hill
9. Deeper Understanding
10. Sat in Your Lap

1990s - Alice in Chains

1. Rooster
2. Got Me Wrong
3. Man in the Box
4. Grind
5. Them Bones
6. Dam That River
7. Would?
8. Nutshell
9. I Stay Away
10. Rotten Apple

2000s - Rachel Stevens
For those who haven't figured it out on their own, Rachel Stevens is actually the woman in my avatar. She's certainly nowhere near as talented a musician as Kate Bush, seeing her only writing credit is co-writing the Joe Pesci song (thankfully excellent stuff), but she does at least have a solid voice that does justice to the surprisingly memorable and cutting edge pop songs she recorded in the mid-2000s. She's also darn attractive – she was actually sort of my first celebrity crush back in 2004 when I saw the cover for the Some Girls single (promoted as part of the British Now 58) – and was even voted FHM's sexiest woman of all time. From what I've read about her, she seems like a rather non pretentious person, considering her stint with a teen pop group, beauty, and lack of creative involvement. I guess I'm rambling on a bit for what clearly seems like a biased choice, but seeing how mediocre the 2000s were for music anyway, I guess I may as well go with a playlist for the pop artist who a big part of me wishes I was.

1. I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)
2. Some Girls
3. Sweet Dreams My LA Ex
4. Crazy Boys
5. Gangsta Love (technically an S Club song, but she's the primary vocalist)
6. Fools
7. Glide
8. Funny How
9. Breathe In Breathe Out
10. I Will Be There

2010s - Arctic Monkeys
As much as I really wish I could include songs from their 2006 debut, AM is still easily one of the best albums of this decade, and Suck It and See is pretty decent as well, though it also happened to be released on the worst day of my life (June 6, 2011).

1. Do I Wanna Know?
2. R U Mine?
3. Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
4. Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
5. Reckless Serenade
6. Suck It and See
7. One for the Road
8. Snap Out of It
9. She's Thunderstorms
10. Black Treacle

I haven't listened to enough from the 40s or 50s to really make a list out of those decades, although I will say the 40s artist would probably be Thelonious Monk, while I'd likely go with Frank Sinatra for the 50s.