(Finished April 3rd, 2026) Twentyish Great Songs From 1968 to 1970 (Mostly)

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Inspired by yet another episode of the amazing "Cold Case", it's set in 1969. As with any era there are so many great songs and here are twenty.

1) The 5th Dimension "Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine In":

2) The Cowsills "Hair":

3) Zager and Evans "In The Year 2525":

4) The Zombies "Time Of The Season":

5) The Doors "Touch Me":

6) The Byrds "Lay Lady Lay":

7) Hugo Montenegro and His Orchestra "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly":

8) Classics IV "Spooky":

9) Steppenwolf "Born To Be Wild":

10) The Beatles "Revolution":

11) Cream "White Room":

12) Simon and Garfunkel "Scarborough Fair": 

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band has opened both of his recent concerts with this song. I couldn't think of a more timely song. 13) Edwin Starr "War":

14) Neil Diamond "Cracklin' Rosie":

15) Brook Benton "Rainy Night In Georgia":

16) The Hollies "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother":

17) The Brotherhood of Man "United We Stand":

18) James Taylor "Fire and Rain":

19) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Run Through The Jungle":

20) Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "Woodstock":

21) The Papas and the Mamas "Creeque Alley":

22) Scott Mckenzie "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)":

23) Ten Years After "I'd Love To Change The World":

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(Finished March 30th, 2026) Part 2 of The Best Love Songs Ever

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This blog series is inspired by the near perfect love song "The Glory of Love" by Peter Cetera. I thought it's time to do another extensive blog series about the all-time best love songs. This is the best love songs, all kinds of songs relating to love and relationships. The sappy ballad, the falling in love/ new love song, the angry/ anti-love song and any related song that fits in between those two moods. The lust, love, hate, reconciliation, tearing apart, the sublime, the waiting, the heartbreak and anything else that goes along with our most complicated emotion.

18) Skeeter Davis "The End of The World":

19) George Strait "You Know Me Better Than That":

20) Patsy Cline featuring The Jordanaires  "Crazy":

21) Gene Watson "Love In The Hot Afternoon":

22) Robert Palmer "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On":

23) Diamond Rio "Norma Jean Riley":

Still holding a probable permanent place on my iPod. 24) Shakey Graves and Esme Patterson "Dearly Departed":

See above. Also if you get a chance to see The Darkness in concert you really should go. 25) The Darkness "I Believe In A Thing Called Love":

26) Reba McEntire "What Am I Gonna Do About You":

27) The Chicks "You Were Mine":

28) Leann Rimes "How Do I Live":

Without a doubt one of the most powerful songs of all-time. 29) Celine Dion "It's All Coming Back To Me Now":

30) Meat Loaf "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad":

Still holding a probable permanent place on my iPod. 31) Paula Abdul "Straight Up":

She's definitely the perfect model for this video. 32) Boston "Amanda":

33) Waylon Jennings "Amanda":

34) Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam "All Cried Out":

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(Finished March 28th, 2026) Part 1 of the Best of Bad

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On my morning walk I heard Michael Jackson's "Bad" and I'm sure I've never done such a blog before. I tried to come up with all the songs that have "Bad" in the title while still on my walk. I thought of the songs "Bad" by U2, Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine", Cinderella's "Bad Seamstress Blues", Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands". I also thought of the bands Bad English and Bad Company. Then when I got home I realized Bad Company has a song titled "Bad Company". The rest of the things on this list came after I got home and did some research.

1) Michael Jackson "Bad":

2) U2 "Bad":

3) Bon Jovi "Bad Medicine":

4) Cinderella "Bad Seamstress Blues":

5) The Arctic Monkeys "The Bad Thing":

6) Avril Lavigne featuring Marilyn Manson "Bad Girl":

7) Bad Company "Bad Company":

8) Bad English "When I See You Smile":

9) Bad Wolves "Zombie":

10) Badflower "Soap":

11) Bastille "Bad Blood":

12) Billie Eilish "bad guy":

13) The Aces "Bad Love":

14) Black Stone Cherry "Bad Luck and Hard Love":

15) Bon Jovi "You Give Love A Bad Name":

16) Boston "Used To Bad News":

17) Brave Rival "Bad Choices":

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(Finisheh March 30th, 2026) Part 1 of The Best Love Songs Ever

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This blog series is inspired by the near perfect love song "The Glory of Love" by Peter Cetera. I thought it's time to do another extensive blog series about the all-time best love songs. This is the best love songs, all kinds of songs relating to love and relationships. The sappy ballad, the falling in love/ new love song, the angry/ anti-love song and any related song that fits in between those two moods. The lust, love, hate, reconciliation, tearing apart, the sublime, the waiting, the heartbreak and anything else that goes along with our most complicated emotion.

1) Peter Cetera "The Glory of Love":

2) Barbra Streisand "The Way We Were":

3) Gladys Knight and the Pips "Midnight Train To Georgia":

4) Shania Twain and Breland "Boots Don't":

5) The Smiths "There's A Light That Never Goes Out":

6) Rosario Dawson and Adam Pascal "Light My Candle":

7) Styx "The Best of Times":

This is one of the most joyous songs of all-time. 8) Train "Drive By":

9) Fastball "Out of My Head":

10) Beyonce featuring Jay-Z "Crazy In Love":

11) The Dead Milkmen "Punk Rock Girl":

One of this modern era's greatest love songs. I love this non-professionally made video as well. 12) "Casimir Pulaski Day":

13) Ella Langley "Choosin Texas":

14) Kenny Rogers "She Believes In Me":

15) Lady Gaga "You and I":

This video is absolutely perfect for this song. 16) Green Day "Whatsername":

17) The Beach Boys "Surfer Girl":

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(Finished March 22nd, 2026) Part 2 of She's A Country Classic: The Best Songs From "Twisters":

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These lyrics are from Kane Brown's "Country Classic". It's performed by Brown and written by Jon Capeci, Gabe Foust and Free. This was a good reminder of many great songs are in this soundtrack.

That girl, she's a sweet home Alabama
She could paint me a Birmingham
Hot damn, if I could make it to Cheyenne
Or Amarillo by morning (By morning)
Man, she feels like a woman
Like I heard her on the radio
Driving down that red dirt road (Woo-hoo)
Oh, I can't get her out of my head
Know I gotta have it
That girl, that girl is a country classic, mm yeah
Yeah, she's a country classic

The above song is from Kane Brown, it's titled "Country Classic". It's a country classic as well a song from one of the best CDs of this century. That's the soundtrack for "Twisters". Many country classics are mentioned in the above lyrics.

Kane Brown's "Country Classic":

1) Benson Boone "Death Wish Love":

2) Connor Smith featuring Tucker Wetmore "Steal My Thunder":

3) Dylan Gossett "Stronger Than A Storm":

4) Flatland Cavalry "Touchdown":

5) Jelly Roll "Dead End Road": 

6) Jelly Roll featuring Alexandra Kay "Leave The Light On":

7) Lainey Wilson "Out of Oklahoma":

8) Lanie Gardner "Chasing The Wind":

9) Luke Combs "Ain't No Love In Oklahoma":

10) Miranda Lambert "Ain't In Kansas Anymore":

11) Shania Twain featuring Breland "Boots Don't":

12) Tanner Adell "Too Easy":

13) Tanner Usrey "Blackberry Wine":

14) Thomas Rhett "Feelin' Country":

15) Tucker Wetmore "Already Had It":

16) Tyler Childers "Song While Your Away":

17) Tyler Halverson "New Loop":

18) Warren Zeiders "The Cards I've Been Dealt":

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(Finished March 21st, 2026) Part 1 of The Most Poignant and Uplifting Songs of 1979

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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.

This song is from 1977, but it fit perfectly with in this episode. 1) David Gates "Goodbye Girl":

2) Al Stewart "Time Passages":

3) Amii Stewart "Knock On Wood":

4) Bee Gees "Love You Inside Out":

5) Bee Gees "Tragedy":

6) Bad Company "Rock and Roll Fantasy":

7) Blondie "Heart of Glass":

8) The Commodores "Sail On":

9) Dionne Warwick "I'll Never Love This Way Again":

10) Dire Straits "Sultans of Swing":

11) Donna Summer "Bad Girls":

12) Electric Light Orchestra "Don't Bring Me Down":

13) Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive":

14) Herb Alpert "Rise":

15) John Stewart featuring Stevie Nicks "Gold":

16) Kenny Rogers "She Believes In Me":

17) Little River Band "Lonesome Loser":

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(Finished March 21st, 2026) Part 13 of The Best, No Matter How Obscure, Videos of The Beginning Days of Music Videos Through 1989

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In honor of the 43rd, now almost 45th anniversary, of MTV, these are hundreds of the many best videos from MTV's early days. Also videos before there was ever a MTV. I'm also including videos from pre-MTV days. This blog has expanded from my original intent. From only 51 songs to who knows how many songs? Videos from the mid 60s to 1989.  These are the notable videos since the beginning of videos.

I'm changing these blogs to the best, no matter how obscure videos of The Beginning Days Of Music Videos From when videos started to 1989.  These may not all be great videos- although most are iconic- but nearly all the songs are great.

205) Tom Petty "Runnin Down A Dream":

206) A Flock of Seagulls "Space Age Love Song":

207) Depeche Mode "Everything Counts (Live)":

208) RUN-D.M.C. featuring Aerosmith "Walk This Way":

209) Starship "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now":

210) Nena "99 Luftballons":

211) Mike and the Mechanics "Silent Running":

212) Peter Gabriel "Big Time":

The greatest speech in 80s music to start this song. 213) Prince "Let's Go Crazy":

214) Thomas Dolby "Europa and The Pirate Twins":

215) Madonna "Into The Groove":

One of the most sublime songs ever, it starts off with such a great line. "You must understand though that the touch of your hand makes my pulse react." 216) Tina Turner "What's Love Got To Do With It": 

217) Billy Idol "White Wedding":

218) Paula Abdul "Straight Up":

219) Janet Jackson "When I Think Of You":

220) Phil Collins "Sussudio":

221) Duran Duran "Rio":

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