This blog is inspired by "Cold Case" Season 2, episode 3 "Daniela". I love "Cold Case" and how poignant so many episodes are. And this episode was especially good and poignant, here are the most fitting songs from 1979 for that blog and year.
18) Melissa Manchester "Don't Cry Out Loud":
19) Michael Jackson "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough":
20) Peaches and Herb "Reunited":
21) Randy VanWarmer "Just When I Needed You The Most":
22) Robert John "Sad Eyes":
23) Robert Palmer "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)":
24) Sister Sledge "We Are Family":
25) Styx "Renegade":
26) The Knack "My Sharona":
27) Toto "Hold The Line":
R.I.P Victor Willis, lead singer of The Village People. 28) The Village People "Y.M.C.A.":
29) Abba "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)":
30) Atlanta Rhythm Section "Spooky":
31) Billy Preston and Syreeta Wright "With You I'm Born Again":
32) Christopher Cross "Ride Like The Wind":
33) The Clash "Train In Vain":
One of the greatest ballads ever. 34) The Commodores "Still":
It's again about time to relive that great time of the early to mid 80s of New Wave music. New Wave is a genre that has quirky people, quirky lyrics and quirky music. It doesn't work all the time, but when it work at it's best the songs are great.
What exactly is/ was New Wave music. Well two things New Wave typically is energetic and fun. New Wave never took itself too seriously. The lyrics weren't serious. New Wave is basically just fun upbeat music to dance to. Who were some of the best New Wave musicians? The Thompson Twins, Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order, Howard Jones and many others have to be considered the best New Wave bands.
This was a living blog series until that became too time consuming of a task. As of the morning of June 11th this blog series is locked. That means I've typed all the songs and their number of listens and will not be making any changes.
These are all the songs that are on my iPod. I'm going to start with the least played songs on my iPod all the way up to the most played song on my iPod. These songs are on my iPod are songs that I've loved all my life, just barely discovered, songs from concerts that I've been too and concerts I'll be going to soon. I love all sorts of songs and genres. There are no weird songs on my iPod, just a bunch of great songs. One of the things I love the most about my iPod is that it's a living thing. Six months from now the songs on my iPod will be drastically different.
The first ten blogs will have 18 songs and the last 30 blogs will have 17 songs. Songs 809 to 806 haven't had any listens so far. Like my iPod updates the number of listens a song when a song plays I'll update this blog series to correspond with that. However again that's too time consuming so these blogs are locked.
600) The English Beat "Mirror In The Bathroom":
From the "Back To The Future" musical 599) "Teach Him A Lesson":
Songs 598 to 571 all have 6 listens.
A timeless song that holds up over 40 years later. 598) Yes "Owner of A Lonely Heart":
597) Wings of Steel "Garden of Eden":
596) Tone Loc "Funky Cold Medina":
595) Thunder "Love Walked In":
594) Stevie Nicks "The Lighthouse":
593) She Wants Revenge "Tear You Apart":
592) The Runarounds "Funny How The Universe Works":
591) Queensryche "Jet City Woman":
590) Nightwish "The Day Of...":
589) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones featuring Gene Simmons "Detroit Rock City":
588) Michael Jackson "Bad":
One of those random great songs that one adds to their iTunes over the years. 587) Little Daylight "Overdose":
I have labeled some of these songs as best of the best, the 90s was a tremendous decade for country music. As usual I don't just post the hits, I post the best country songs of that decade.
RollingStone.com has a big article about Generation Z is loving 90s country. Here's the article : https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/nineties-country-blowing-gen-z-142735025.html
From the article:
But the Nineties country resurgence isn’t limited to Spotify. Apple Music, Amazon Music and Pandora have all realized the demand for the subgenre and curated their own Nineties country playlists. Today’s Nashville stars have taken note as well: For the past few years, artists like Luke Combs, Jon Pardi, Carly Pearce, Hailey Whitters, and Midland have been mining the sound, songwriting, and even style of the decade to great success. Blake Shelton based his entire Friends and Heroes Tour around celebrating veterans like John Anderson and Tracy Byrd. And when Joe Diffie, a Nineties icon with hits like “John Deere Greene” and “Pickup Man,” died in March 2020 from Covid-19, our remembrance of Diffie was one of Rolling Stone’s most-read stories ever.
239) Terri Clark "Everytime I Cry":
240) Doug Stone "Warning Labels":
241) Sawyer Brown "The Boys and Me":
242) Reba McEntire "The Greatest Man I Never Knew":
243) Dan Seals "L.O.A. (Love On Arrival)":
244) Restless Heart "You Can Depend On Me":
243) Randy Travis "The Box":
244) Collin Raye "One Boy, One Girl":
245) Trace Adkins "This Ain't No Thinkin' Thing":
246) Hal Ketchum "Small Town Saturday Night":
247) John Anderson "She Just Started Liking Cheating Songs":
Sixty-eight years ago Prince came roaring into the world. I'm sure he had a guitar in his hand, which must have made it uncomfortable for his Mom. Prince peaked with one of the greatest CDs of all-time, the timeless "Purple Rain". Although that was his peak- every song on that CD is great- his career was full of many other great songs.
Since "Purple Rain" is so timeless I won't be including any songs from that CD here. This blog is 22 of Prince's greatest hits not on "Purple Rain".
Cyndi Lauper also recorded a cover of this song, see below. 19) "When You Were Mine":
20) With the New Power Generation "Diamonds and Pearls":
21) "Alphabet Street":
22) "Shockadelica":
23) "Erotic City (Make Love, Not War)" (Extended version):
24) featuring George Clinton "We Can Funk":
25) "Pop Life":
One of his best songs, especially one of his best late career songs. 26) "Rock and Roll Love Affair":
27) "I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man":
28) "Witness 4 The Prosecution":
29) Prince "Peach":
Songs Written By Prince for other musicians:
30) The Time "Jungle Love":
31) Sheila E "The Glamorous Life":
32) Chaka Khan featuring Melle Mel "I Feel For You":
These are some of the best love songs of all-time. The good, the bad, the sad, the happy, the up, the down, the fun, the brutal, the sexy and the oh my that's not sexy at all. This is inspired by a NPR story about love songs. And yes I know that this blog series could literally turn into hundreds of blogs.
103) Beach Boys "Good Vibrations":
104) The Spinners and Dionne Warwick "Then Come You":
Normally I would use Billboard's rankings for these kind of blogs, but I don't want to pay to have access to those charts. I figure Cashbox, or whoever else, would have similar rankings. This is Cashbox's Top 100 Songs for April 3rd, 1982.
Oh I do remember this song, barely. 100) Poco "Sea of Heartbreak":
Three years previous Poco had this song "Crazy Love":
The follow up song to "Crazy Love", also released in 1979 is "Heart of The Night":
99) Stevie Woods "Just Can't Win Them All":
98) Fred Parris & Five Satins "Memories of Days Gone By":
Twenty six years previously The Five Satins had this hit:
"In The Still of the Night":
97) Sammy Hagar "I'll Fall In Love Again":
96) Sugarhill Gang "Apache":
But of course The Sugarhill Gang is known most for this song "Rapper's Delight":
95) Gene Cotton "If I Could Get You Into My Life":
94) Atlantic Starr "Circles":
93) Bobby Vinton "She Will Survive (Poland)":
Nineteen years earlier Vinton had this song "Roses Are Red (My Love)":
92) Sneaker "Don't Let Me In":
One year previously Sneaker had this minor hit "More Than Just The Two Of Us":
91) Sheena Easton "You Could Have Been With Me":
Sheena Easton had big hits between 1980 to 1988. My favorite song of hers has always been the ballad from a Bond movie "For Your Eyes Only":
90) Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings "Just To Satisfy You":
89) John Hall Band "You Sure Fooled Me":
88) Chris Rea "Loving You Again":
Simon and Garfunkel peaked at #27 with their cover. 87) Simon and Garfunkel "Wake Up Little Susie":
Twenty-five years previously The Everly Brothers went to #1 with "Wake Up Little Susie":
This song went to #58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Country Chart. 86) T.G. Sheppard "Finally":
However my favorite T.G. Shepherd song, also from 1982, is "War Is Hell (On The Homefront Too)":
85) Carole King "One To One":
Eleven years previously King had released one of the best CDs of all-time "Tapestry", which featured this all-time great song "I Feel The Earth Move":
84) Deniece Williams "It's Gonna Take A Miracle":
Williams was only two years away from one of the most joyous songs ever "Let's Hear It For The Boy":
