(Finished November 18th, 2024) Let's Enjoy Some Yacht Rock

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Today I bought some tickets to Yacht Rock Revue on March 15th, 2025. The rock concert girlfriend and I will be going and enjoying some of the best movie of the mid 70s to mid 80s. Yacht Rock Revue is a real band and they are currently touring. For this blog I'm going to go with the original artists.

This will be some of the music I'll be turning to to help me survive the upcoming nightmare years of Trump.

1) Crosby, Stills and Nash "Southern Cross":

2) Bill Withers and Grover Washington Jr. "Just The Two Of Us":

3) Dan Fogelberg "Same Old Lang Syne":

4) The Alan Parsons Project "Eye In The Sky":

5) Donald Fagen "New Frontier":

6) Al Stewart "Time Passages":

7) Paul Davis "I Go Crazy":

8) Little River Band "Reminiscing":

9) The Eagles "I Can't Tell You Why":

10) England Dan and John Ford Coley "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight":

11) Steely Dan "Hey 19":

12) Boz Scaggs "Lowdown":

13) The Doobie Brothers "What A Fool Believes":

14) Christopher Cross "Arthur's Theme (The Best You Can Do":

15) America "Sister Golden Hair":

16) Jackson Browne "Doctor My Eyes":

17) Gerry Rafferty "Right Down The Line":

18) Robbie Dupree "Hot Rod Hearts":

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(Finished November 17th 2024) Part 2 of The Best Songs from TV Series

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Due to my job and the World Series- congratulations to the World Series champion Dodgers- I haven't had much time to blog. I'll only list the title of the show if it's not very obvious what the show is.

From "The Wonder Years". 18) Joe Cocker's "With A Little Help From My Friends":

Composed by Neal Hefti 19) The "Batman" Theme:

Michael Giacchino composed this theme. 20) Theme From "Lost":

If this song sounds familiar, look at #37 on this list. 21) Theme from "Superstars" the name of the song is "Heavy Action":

Composed by Bernard Herrmann 22) Theme from "The Twilight Zone":

23) Composers Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage, Arrangement: Dennis McCarthy 23) Theme Song from "The Next Generation":

From "The Lone Ranger" 24) Gioachino Rossini "The William Tell Overture":

Theme song from "Rizzoli and Isles": 25) Dropkick Murphys "Shipping Up To Boston":

I'd never heard of this song or show before working on this blog. 26) Written by David Mackay and Carla Lane Performed by Cast Theme Song from "Bread":

Theme Song from "Mash" 27a) Johnny Mandel "Suicide is Painless" (Vocal Version):

27b) Actual Theme "Suicide Is Painless" (Instrumental Version):

28a) From "Blackberry" Elastica "Connection":

28b) Elastica "Connection":

29a) Henry Mancini "Peter Gunn" Theme:

29b) Sarah Vaughn (Max Sedgley Remix" "Peter Gunn" Theme:

30a) Lorne Greene "Bonanza" Theme:

30b) Written by David Rose, performed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans 'Bonanza" Theme:

31) Waylon Jennings Theme From "Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)":

32) Theme from "Fame": Irene Cara "Fame":

From the British TV show "Game On", it was also a theme song for "Dumb and Dumber". 33) The Gigolo Aunts "Where I Find My Heaven":

34) Mike Post featuring Larry Carlton Theme from Hill Street Blues

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(Finished November 16th, 2023) Part 4 of the Best of 1973

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What were some of the biggest hits of 50 years ago, 1973? Also a couple of days ago I discovered the British version of "Life on Mars", part of which is based in 1973. That got me thinking I could post a blog about the best songs of 1973, then I realized that was also 50 years ago. 

I've watched the first couple episodes of "Life On Mars" and so far so good. It's a bit of a formula in that there's a case a week. But there's also the fish out of water aspect of Sam Tyler coming from 2006 to 1973. Or at least that's what his reality appears to be. In the second episode Sam says he wishes he could have been put in 1988. I agree with him on that. The only reason I would want to go to 1973 over 1988 is to be able to see Led Zeppelin in their full glory. 

The song that inspired the title of the show was released in 1973. There is a second show in this series. It's also named after a David Bowie song "Ashes to Ashes". 

There may be some duplicates in these next few songs. If so enjoy them twice.

52) Jim Croce "Bad Bad Leroy Brown":

53) The Edgar Winter Group "Frankenstein":

From the movie "The Sting": 54) Scott Joplin "The Entertainer":

55) Charley Pride "Don't Fight The Feelings of Love":

56) Rick Derringer "Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo":

57) Tanya Tucker "What's Your Mama's Name":

58) George Harrison "Give Me Love":

59) Dr. Hook "Cover of the Rolling Stone":

60) The Carpenters "Sing A Song":

61) Eric Weissberg "Dueling Banjos":

62) Steely Dan "Reelin' In The Years":

63) The Carpenters "Yesterday Once More":

64) Bette Midler "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy":

65) The Rolling Stones "Angie":

66) Tower of Power "So Very Hard To Go":

67) The Edgar Winter Band "Free Ride":

68) Albert Hammond "It Never Rains In Southern California":

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(Finished November 14th, 2024) Part 1 of The Best Mellow Songs- But A Certain Kind of Mellow

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These are some of the best mellow songs of all-time. Not just mellow- but a certain kind of mellow. I don't know how to describe this kind of mellow, but these songs are that kind of mellow.

1) Soul 2 Soul "Back To Life":

2) The La's There She Goes":

3) The Sundays "Here's Where The Story Ends":

I discovered this song because of the great British detective show "Unforgotten". 4) Oh Wonder "All We Do":

5) Mazzy Star "Fade Into You":

6) Sneaker Pimps "6 Underground":

7) Black Box "Fantasy":

8) Death Cab For Cutie "Sounds of Settling":

9) Lord Huron "The Night We Met":

10) Sufjan Stevens "Casimir Pulaski Day":

11) The Smiths "Please Please Let Me Get What I Want":

12) Lana Del Rey "Summertime Sadness":

13) Paula Cole "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone":

14) Ladytron "Runaway":

15) Dan Seals "Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold":

16) Cathy Dennis "Too Many Walls":

17) Celine Dion "It's All Coming Back To Me Now":

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(Finished November 10th, 2024) Part 2 of The Best Songs About or Mention Time + The Top 34 Time Songs

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The best songs about time or mention time. This is the second of two parts of the 34 best songs about time. 

18) Clint Black "Killin Time":

19) Wang Chung "Dance Hall Days":

19) Dan Hill "Sometimes When We Touch":

20) The Doors "Love Me Two Times":

21) Styx "Best of Times":

22) The Chicks "Cold Day In July":

23) The Cure "Friday I'm In Love":

24) Morrissey November Spawned A Monster

25) EWF "September":

26) We The Kings "August Is Over":

27) Michael McDonald "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near):

28) Mariah Carey "Someday":

29) John Conlee "Friday Night Blues":

30) Housemartins "Happy Hour":

31) Rascal Flatts "These Days":

32) Neil Diamond "Thank The Lord For The Nighttime":

33) Celine Dion "It's All Coming Back To Me Now":

Why are so many of these time songs so wistful. 34) Eric Church "Springsteen":

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(Finished November 9th, 2024) A Recent JD McPherson Setlist

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Jonathan David "JD" McPherson is a musician with an Americana flair to his music. However when you think you can attach a genre to his music the next song is completely different. He mostly has mellow and mid tempo songs. 

McPherson is 47 years old and he counts as his influences such diverse acts as Wu-Tang Clan, The Pixies and Led Zeppelin. Not a criticism: Zeppelin may be an influence, but I don't hear it in his music.

My rock girlfriend and I are going to go see him two weeks from tonight. The show will be in Salt Lake City. 

1) "Sunshine Getaway":

2) "Just Like Summer":

3) "Desperate Love":

4) "Fire Bug":

5) Baby Blues":

6) "That's My Little Suzie":

7) "Lust For Life":

8) "Bloodhound Rock":

9) "I Can't Go Anywhere With You":

10) "Nite Owls":

11) "On The Lips":

12) "Don't Travel Through The Night Alone":

13) "The Rock and Roll Girls":

14) "Head Over Heels":

15) "White Light/ White Heat":

16) "Lucky Penny":

17) "Let The Good Times Roll":

Encore

18) "The Phantom Lover of New Rochelle":

19) "Shining Like Gold":

20) "North Side Gal":

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(Finished November 6th, 2024) Part 1 of Songs For Our National Nightmare To Accompany A Second Trump presidency

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On this very incredibly sad night it looks like we'll have to live under the draconian rule of president Dumbass again. I find this incredibly sad and heartbreaking. The man has no moral character, honesty isn't a thing he values and he has the brain cells of a donkey. He's like Danny Devito in "Twins", he has every bad attribute one person can have. It's going to be four more years of hell with this buffoon as our "leader".

Although this makes me very sad I did have some positive feelings. I still live in the greatest country in the world- for now. This is a time we are going to have to stand up our fellow Americans and anyone else that needs our help.

1) Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here":

2) R.E.M. "Everybody Hurts":

3) Elton John "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word":

I'll be listening to a lot of these songs of peace and contentment the next four years. 4) Lana Del Rey "Summertime Sadness":

5) Smokey Robinson and the Miracles "The Tracks of My Tears":

6) Tori Amos "Silent All These Years":

I say this about a lot of songs, but this truly is one of the greatest songs of all time. 7) The Smiths "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out":

8) Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band "The River":

9) The Counting Crows "A Long December":

10) Midnight Oil "Blue Sky Mine":

11) The Fiery Furnaces "Single Again":

12) Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling":

13) Rachel Platten "Fight Song":

Journey and the nearly incomparable singing voice of Steve Perry. 14) "Don't Stop Believin'":

15) Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World":

16) Bon Jovi "It's My Life":

17) Corey Hart "Never Surrender":

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