I really liked this list at a first glance, since it's not trying to be "cool" and favours a good tune. Then I realised that the only single past 1991 is "The Rising". Okay...
I remember you saying that sometimes you "blanked out" (?)some songs for a certain period in order not to harm the cohesiveness of the master list; maybe you can do the same here! just keep the period 1950-1991!
Who says that's cheating?