For some reason I had two copies of this song on my iPod until this morning. One of her lesser known songs, but still an amazing song. 1) Madonna "The Power of Goodbye":
2) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Don't Come Around Here No More":
3) Shontelle "Impossible":
I love the RHCP version of this song and kinda didn't pay much attention to Stevie's version until the other day. Then I was reminded how funky the original is. 4) Stevie Wonder "Higher Ground":
Couldn't he just have squeezed a bit more passion out of this song? 5) Joe Cocker "With A Little Help From My Friends":
I first heard this song last night thanks to YouTube. 6) Shannon "Give Me Tonight" (12" Version):
7) Kool and the Gang "Celebration":
8) Echo and the Bunnymen "Bring On The Dancing Horses":
Only 1,669 views, I'm not the only one that hasn't played it enough. 9) Tommy Shaw "Girls With Guns":
I know, I know but I love this song so much. I don't care that it's corny. 10) Styx "Mr. Roboto":
I'm not a bit Coldplay fan, but this song is a moment of genius. 11) Coldplay "Fix You":
This is a great, great song but I'm surprised it has 95 million YouTube views. Guessing accurately the number of YouTube views is foolhardy. 50) The Talking Heads "Psycho Killer":
25) Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man":
26) Charley Pride "Kiss An Angel Good Morning":
27) Marty Robbins "El Paso City":
28) B.J. Thomas "Raindrops Keep On Falling On My Head":
"Absolutely nothing", true then and still true now except for very rare exceptions. 29) Edwin Starr "War":
30) Tony Orlando and Dawn "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree":
31) Bill Withers "Lean On Me":
The story at the center of this film never felt realistic for oh so many reasons. However this is an amazing song. 32) Barbra Striesand "The Way We Were":
33) The Four Seasons "December '63 (Oh What A Night)":
34) Bee Gees "Night Fever":
35) Donna Summer "Bad Girls":
36) Peaches and Herb "Reunited":
37) Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street":
I wanted to post something of what my blog looks like while it's still in the rough draft stage. Sometimes I post the wrong video for the song listed, I usually fix that before the final publishing. As I'm working on this blog I'm also working on a blog about songs with the Number Two in the title and my still not quite finished countdown blogs. I'm ready to start countdown blogs for both Journey and Meat Loaf. But I'm a pretty threadbare operation so I only have so much time to work on my blogs.
As always my blogs are alive and can be fixed, updated and changed at any time. I will be publishing polished versions of these blogs eventually.
Thanks to Pitchfork, NME.com and my faulty memory for providing the songs for this list. Eventually this will become a much more polished collection of blogs.
Only 13,000 YouTube views, that's a crime. 1) Waylon Jennings
"Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way":
2) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "There's A Darkness On The Edge of Town":
3) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "American Girl":
4) Harry Nilsson "Without You":
5) Cheap Trick "Surrender":
6) The Rolling Stones "Miss You":
7) Roberta Flack "Killing Me Softly With His Song":
8) Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear The Reaper":
9) Thin Lizzy "The Boys Are Back In Town":
10) Steely Dan "Deacon Blues":
11) Hall & Oates "She's Gone":
12) Elvis Costello "Alison":
13) Earth, Wind and Fire "September":
14) The Doobie Brothers "What A Fool Believes":
15) The Clash "Train In Vain":
16) Led Zeppelin "Immigrant Song":
17) Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road":
18) Concrete Jungle":
19) Blondie "Dreaming":
20 "Peg":
21) The Kinks "Lola":
22) "Dancing Queen":
23) The Who "Baba O' Riley":
24) "Hey Hey My My (Into The Black)":
25) Superstition
26) "Papa Was A Rolling Stone":
27) "Waiting In Vain":
28) The Chain":
29) "Young Americans":
30) "Psycho Killer":
31) Good Times":
32) "Wish You Were Here":
33) "Blitzkrieg Pop":
34) "Rock With You":
35) "When The Levee Breaks":
36) David Bowie "Changes":
37) Blondie "Heart of Glass":
38) Born To Run":
39) Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody":
40 "Ain't No Sunshine":
41) Don't Stop Until you Get Enough":
42) Brass In Pocket":
43) Le Freak":
44) Instant Karma
45) Heart of Gold":
46) Who Are You
47) "You're So Vain":
48) Gary Numan "Cars":
"Because The Night":
50 "Tiny Dancer":
51) Hanging on the Telephone
52) Smoke On The Water
53) My Sharona
54) "Stayin' Alive":
55) "Midnight Train":
56) "Let's Stay Together":
57) Highway To Hell":
58) "Let's Get It On":
59) "Stairway To Heaven":
60) "Brown Sugar":
61) "Superstition":
62) "Comfortably Numb":
63) "Imagine":
64) "Band On The Run":
65) "Go On Your Way":
66) "Is She Really Going Out With Him":
67) Nick Lowe "Cruel To Be Kind":
68) Breakfast In America":
69) Barry Manilow "Copacabana":
70) The Eagles "Heartache Tonight":
71) Jackson Browne "Running On Empty":
72) "The Load Out/ Stay":
73) The Commodores "Sail On":
74) "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight":
75) "Reminiscing":
76) Paul Davis "I Go Crazy":
77) America "Sister Golden Hair":
78) Dr. Hook "Sharing The Night Together":
79) Star Wars Theme
80) Dave Loggins "Please Come To Boston":
81) Chevy Van":
82) Jim Croce "Operator":
83) Gordon Lightfoot "If You Could Read My Mind":
84) Thank God I'm A Country Boy:
Released just barely in the 70's, February, 1970. 85) "Fire and Rain":
86) Carole King "Tapestry":
87) Harry Chapin "Cats In The Cradle":
Not to get to religious on you, but Easter is the day we celebrate the rising of our Savior over the bands of death, these are songs that relate to that theme.
1) for King and Country "For God Only Knows":
2) Lauren Daigle "You Say":
3) Lauren Daigle "Come Alive (Dry Bones)":
I don't know how you can't have an immense amount of gratitude after listening to this song? 4) Lauren Daigle "Still Rolling Stones":
5) Andra Day "Rise Up":
6) Cat Stevens "Morning Has Broken":
Goosebumps!!! 7) Sinead O' Connor "I Don't Know How To Love Him":
The Wallflowers are one of my favorite 90's bands and I've been thinking about writing this blog for awhile.
The Wallflowers have had several members over the years, with Jakob Dylan being the singer and face of the band. They've released 6 CDs over the years. Their most recent CD was 2012's "Glad All Over". Their most famous CD is their 1996 CD "Bringing Down The Horse". That CD contains most of those songs you think of when you think of The Wallflowers. It features "One Headlight", "6th Avenue Heartache", "Three Marlenas" and "Difference". Other great songs by The Wallflowers include "Some Flowers Bloom Dead", "Murder 101" and "Letters From The Wasteland".
They have toured as late as April of this year, just a few days ago. I would love to see them again, but seem to be on a bit of a hiatus now. On recent sets they've been playing their classics, lesser known songs, some Jakob Dylan solo songs and a cover of Tom Petty's "The Waiting".
1) "The Waiting":
2) "Three Marlenas":
3) "Some Flowers Bloom Dead":
4) "One Headlight":
5) "Letters From The Wasteland":
6) "Murder 101":
7) "Nearly Beloved":
8) "I've Been Delivered":
9) "Sleepwalker":
10) "God Don't Make Lonely Girls":
11) "Laughing Out Loud":
12) "Bleeders":
13) "Everything I Need":
14) "Hospital For Sinners":
15) "First One In The Car":
16) "Reboot The Mission":
17) "It's A Dream":
18) "6th Avenue Heartache":
This song has some of the most incomprehensible lyrics for any song ever. 19) "The Difference":
Every once in awhile I like to post a mash up blog. I post songs from two very different musicians. Both are musicians I like a lot, but they play completely different genres of music. Obviously Stevie Wonder has received plenty of love over the years. Nelly Furtado also got plenty of attention when she broke onto the scene, but when was the last time you thought about her? I don't think about her much other than when one of her amazing songs pops up on my iPod.
