(Finished February 13th, 2026) Part 2 of The Best Pop Songs: Not Necessarily Pop But Popular (Overall Or At Least To Someone)

Hello,

Pop songs, but more popular than pop. Yeah, I don't know what means either. This blog could also be songs I really like.

18) Lou Bega "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of..)":

19) Semisonic "Closing Time":

20) Snap! "The Power":

21) Natalie Merchant "Carnival":

22) C + C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)":

23) "Good Vibrations":

24) Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch "Good Vibrations":

25) Heavy D and the Boyz "Now That We Found Love":

26) Trombone Shorty "Here Come The Girls":

27) The Brian Setzer Orchestra "Jump, Jive and Wail":

28) Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians "What I Am":

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

30) Shawn Colvin "Sunny Came Home":

31) Peter Gabriel "Digging In The Dirt":

32) Scorpions "Tease Me, Please Me":

33) Poison "Unskinny Bop":

34) R.E.M. "Losing My Religion":

themusicaddict

(Finished February 11th, 2026) My Most Played R.E.M. Songs

Hello,

R.E.M. was Bill Berry, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Michael Stipe. They sold over 90 million CDs in their career, which ran from 1980-2011. R.E.M. is one of those bands that say they'll never reunite. For a lot of bands I don't believe that. However for R.E.M. I very much believe that. Thanks gentleman for many great years of music.

I'm going to put these songs in order of how they are listed on my iTunes in ranks of plays.

1) "Orange Crush" has 57 listens:

2) "Pop Song '89" has 54 listens:

Yes, two of the three most played R.E.M. songs on my iTunes is this song. Can you tell I like it. This song has 34 listens. 3) "Orange Crush":

These next two songs have 29 listens. 4) "Mine Smell Like Honey":

5) "Finest Worksong":

These next two songs have 27 listens. 6) "Drive":

7) "It's The End of The World (And I Feel Fine)":

8) "What's The Frequency Kenneth" has 23 listens:

9) "Losing My Religion" has 21 listens:

10) "King of Comedy" has 20 listens":

Both of these songs have 19 listens. 11) "Everybody Hurts":

12) "Electrolite":

These two songs have 18 listens. 13) "Don't Go Back To Rockville":

featuring Patti Smith 14) "E-Bow The Letter":

15) "Bang and Blame" has 17 listens":

16) "Stand" has 17 listens:

This song has 12 listens. 17) "Fall On Me":

Both of these have 12 listens. 18) "Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight":

19) "Fall On Me":

This song has 10 listens. 20) "Drive":

themusicaddict

(Finished February 8th, 2026) Part 6 of The Best Love Songs

Hello,

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.

86) Tiffany "All This Time":

87) The Carpenters "Superstar":

88) Steve Winwood "Valerie":

89) Material Issue "Valerie Loves Me":

A complete combination of beauty and that voice! Too bad she also had some pretty severe personal demons. 90) Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You":

91) Wilson Phillips "Next To You (Someday I'll Be)":

92) Wang Chung "Hypnotize Me":

93) The Heights "How Do You Talk To An Angel":

All I can say after watching this video is "WOW". 94) Renee Elise Goldsberry, Lin Manuel-Miranda and Phillipa Soo "It's Quiet Uptown":

95) Shaggy featuring Rayvon "Angel":

This is such a beautiful song. 96) Peter Cetera and Amy Grant "Next Time I Fall":

97) Robert Palmer "Simply Irresistible":

98) Atlantic Starr "Always":

99) Klymaxx "I Miss You":

100) Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson  "Think of Me":

101) The Andrews Sisters "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree":

102) The Counting Crows "A Long December":

themusicaddict

(Finished February 6th, 2026) Part 6 of The Top 100ish Pop Punk Songs

Hello,

I'm posting the greatest Pop Punk songs of all-time. We'll see how that goes, it ended up not going far enough. I will make the time to post as many of the best Pop Punk songs ever. What is Pop Punk? It's a genre of music that joins both the best of pop and punk in the same song. In other words its poppy songs that rock. At least that's my definition. People are going to disagree with my definition of Pop Punk and that's perfectly fine. Either enjoy this blog, make your own blog or do both.

I'm a long time fan of Pop Punk music.

86) Meet Me @ The Altar "Wake Up":

87) Rooney "Sorry Sorry":

88) Weezer "Buddy Holly":

89) Angels and Airwaves "Some Origins of Fire":

90) SR-71 "Empty Spaces":

91) My Chemical Romance "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)":

92) Blink-182 "Dammit":

93) Fall Out Boy "Phoenix":

94) Green Day "Jesus Of Suburbia":

95) Paramore "Born For This":

96) Demi Lovato "Cool For The Summer":

97) The Rentals "Friends of P":

98) Tacocat "Spring Break Up":

A very serious song for a genre not known for serious songs. 99) Blink-182 "Adam's Song":

100) Fall Out Boy "My Songs Know What You Did (Light 'Em Up)":

101) Olivia Rodrigo "good 4 u":

102) Paramore "Miracle":

themusicaddict

(Finished February 2nd, 2026) Part 6 of Fun and Joyous Songs of the 80s

Hello,

When I'm just watching TV, watching a show set in space in the 23rd century I don't think I'm about to hear a song from the 80s. That would be the 1980s. Out of nowhere comes Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go". But sure enough there it was and I was reminded of the universality of 80s music. Even when I try I can't escape it. Here are some great and fun songs from the 80s. 

This show was Season 3, episode 2 "Wedding Bell Blues" and I hate to say how boring that episode was. Also the end of the episode suggested what the next episode would be about. I have no desire to see that episode. I've pretty much given up on that show.

There are so few sci-fi shows that are great. So far I've been enjoying the bizarre "Pluribus". It's bizarre in a very entertaining way though. I also have been enjoying "Welcome To Derry". I need a good show to watch with about 50 episodes I can just watch without spending time looking for something to watch.

86) Yes "It Can Happen":

87) ABC "Vanity Kills":

88) Traveling Wilburys "End of The Line":

What a talented and beautiful woman. 89) Belinda Carlisle "Leave A Light On":

90) The Cars "Since You're Gone":

91) The Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls":

92) Debbie Gibson "Electric Blue":

93) Paul McCartney "Spies Like Us":

94) The Steve Miller Band "Abracadabra":

95) Q Feel "Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)":

96) Motley Crue "Live Wire":

97) Def Leppard "Excitable":

98) The Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way":

99) Billy Joel "Sleeping With The Television On":

100) Michael Jackson "Girlfriend":

101) Bon Jovi "Runaway":

102) XTC "Senses Working Overtime":

themusicaddict

(Finished February 1st, 2026) Part 8 of The Best Songs About Places or Locations: Songs 120-136

Hello,

These are songs about places and locations, even if the title has nothing to do with the place mentioned. Real places, literary places and fantasy places.

If you're wondering, yes I'm still completing a lot of old blogs.

120) Live "Shit Towne":

121) The Pretenders "Middle of the Road":

122) U2 "Red Hill Mining Town":

123) U2 "Van Diemen's Land":

124) Midnight Oil "Stars of Warburton":

125) Jan and Dean "Dead Man's Curve":

126) Fergie "London Bridge (Oh Snap)":

127) Billy Joel "Vienna":

From "Hamilton" 128) "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)":

129) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Lodi":

130) Martika "I Feel The Earth Move":

131) Green Day "Last Night On Earth":

132) Simon and Garfunkel "America":

133) Midnight Oil "Kosciusko":

134) The Wallflowers "Letters From The Wasteland":

135) The Wallflowers "Here In Pleasantville":

136) Oak Ridge Boys "American Made":

themusicaddict

(Started January 31st, 2026) Rage Against The Machine Is The Band We Need Now

Hello,

With the disastrous Trump regime terrorizing America the band we need right now is the angry and butt kicking Rage Against The Machine. Here are some of their best songs and other great protest songs. Resist now and until the regime is no longer. Most people would probably assume from looking at me that I'm MAGA. But my Mom taught me better than that and I'm as far from being MAGA as one can be.

I'm sending my RATM floodlight into the sky for them to write new material about these scary times we live in.

1) Rage Against The Machine "Bombtrack":

2) Rage Against The Machine "Testify":

3) Rage Against The Machine "Killing In The Name":

"American Idiot" is truly one of the greatest CDs ever made. 4) Green Day "American Idiot":

5) Rage Against The Machine "Take The Power Back":

6) Green Day "The American Dream Is Killing Me":

7) Rage Against The Machine "Settle For Nothing":

This song played on my morning walk and I thought these lyrics were spot on for the times we live in now. 8) Creed "One":

"I feel angry, I feel helpless

Want to change the world, yeah

I feel violent, I feel alone

Don't try and change my mind, no"

9) Rage Against The Machine "Bullet In The Head":

10) Judas Priest "You've Got Another Thing Coming":

11) Rage Against The Machine "Know Your Enemy":

12) Queensryche "Empire":

With them wanting to have 1.5 trillion for the defense budget, can you imagine what the numbers are for their other government programs. None of my money should go to ICE. 13) Rage Against The Machine "Wake Up":

14) Queensryche "Spreading The Disease":

15) Rage Against The Machine "Fistful of Steel":

16) Bruce Springsteen "Death To My Hometown":

17) Rage Against The Machine "Township Rebellion":

From "Les Mis" 18) "Do You Hear The People Sing":

19) Rage Against The Machine "Freedom":

20) Queensryche "Suite Sister Mary":

21) Rage Against The Machine "Calm Like A Bomb":

22) Bruce Springsteen "Streets of Minneapolis":

I have included this song twice intentionally, this may be the most necessary song for these times. 23) Rage Against The Machine "Killing In The Name":

themusicaddict