Let's go back and check on the best songs from 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20 and 10 years. Hey and maybe even some of the best songs from 2025. 1955 was a hard year for me to find 17 songs for this blog. However 1965 is a much easier year for me to find a bunch of great songs.
1965 was known for the funeral of Winston Churchill, one of the finest leaders in the history of the world.
Also the assassination of Malcolm X, another great although much more controversial leader. In Vietnam the beginning of Operation Rolling Thunder, Also President Johnson increases the number of troops in Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,00 as the war continues to get out of hand for America. 58,000 Americans would die in this conflict, which sadly reminds me a lot of the current Iranian quagmire.
Martin Luther King's four day march in Selma, which is immortalized by the move of the same name. Also Tokyo officially becomes the largest city, bypassing New York City.
35) The Rolling Stones "Satisfaction":
36a) The Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin":
Fifteen years later Hall and Oates released their own, but not as iconic version. 36b) "You've Lost That Feeling":
37) Petula Clark "Downtown":
38) Tom Jones "Thunderball":
39) The Temptations "My Girl":
40) Gary Lewis and the Playboys "This Diamond Ring":
Hermit's Hermits 41) "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter":
42) The Supremes "Stop! In The Name of Love":
43) The Righteous Brothers "Unchained Melody":
44) The Supremes "Silhouettes":
45) The Rolling Stones "Get Off Of My Cloud":
One of the most iconic duets ever. 46) Sonny and Cher "I Got You Babe":
It's time for a Mandatory Monday Metallica blog, although it's only mandatory on some Mondays. These are the most played Metallica songs on my iTunes. It's not a coincidence that the five most highest played songs are from The Black Album. There are from 313 related to Metallica on my iTunes. These are cover songs, original songs, live tracks and songs from The Metallica Blacklist.
1) "Sad But True" has 28 listens.
2) "Through The Never" has 26 listens.
3) Metallica "Enter Sandman" has 19 listens.
4) "The Unforgiven" has 14 listens.
These next two songs have 13 listens.
5) "Nothing Else Matters":
6) "Until It Sleeps":
Live July 13th, 2013, but I couldn't find that video. This video was recorded a few months later. 7) Metallica "Blackened":
These next three songs all have ten listens:
8) "Eye of the Beholder":
9) "Slither":
10) "Fade To Black":
These next two songs have nine listens.
This is the studio version. 11) "Blackened":
12) "Dyers Eve":
Metallica "Through The Never" version. 13) "Creeping Death" has 8 listens:
Here comes some ghostly songs for your Halloween season.
35) The Doors "Ghost Song":
36) Michael Jackson "Ghosts":
37) Shenandoah "Ghost In This House":
38) Taylor Swift "Haunted":
39) Johnny Cash "Ghost Riders In The Sky":
40) Mercy Me "Ghost":
41) The Specials "Ghost Town":
And now several songs by the rock band Ghost, who I saw in concert this past February. Ghost isn't for everybody, but I like a lot of their songs. They put on a good show. These next several songs are by Ghost.
42) "From The Pinnacle To The Pit":
43) "Square Hammer":
44) "Mummy Dust":
45) "Ritual":
46) "Faith":
47) "See The Light":
Cover of the Eurythmics classic song. 48) "Missionary Man":
This is exactly what it sounds like. I'll post blogs until I get to 5,000 songs, then once I get to 5000 songs I will start deleting songs to maintain 5,000 songs. I'm then going to outdo that by trying to rank all 5000 songs in order of how much I like them. I decided that last sentence is completely impossible, but I am going to try and rank the songs in someway. I thought about putting them in alphabetical order, but that would be too hard with 294 blogs.
18) Queens of the Stone Age "No One Knows":
19) Alexander O'Neal "Fake":
20) Michael Jackson "Human Nature":
21) Madonna "Crazy For You":
22) Tears For Fears "The Working Hour":
23) Journey "Girl Can't Help It":
24) Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston "When You Believe":
This is exactly what it sounds like. I'll post blogs until I get to 5,000 songs, then once I get to 5000 songs I will start deleting songs to maintain 5,000 songs. I'm then going to outdo that by trying to rank all 5000 songs in order of how much I like them. I decided that last sentence is completely impossible, but I am going to try and rank the songs in someway. I thought about putting them in alphabetical order, but that would be too hard with 294 blogs.
1) Brad Paisley "Ticks":
2) K.T. Oslin "Do Ya":
3) Gary Clark Jr. "This Land":
4) Sufjan Stevens "Casimir Pulaski Day":
5) Fastball "Out of My Head":
6) Squirrel Nut Zippers "Hell":
7) Ella Langley "Choosin' Texas":
8) George Jones "The Corvette Song (The One I Loved Back Then)":
These blogs are out of order because I have two different blog series. The first is the definitive songs of the 80s and the second is the best songs of each year 1980-1989.
I have nothing to do with this Kickstarter project, I'm not even a backer. Of course I would love to see this movie but it's not important enough to me that I'll contribute to it.
What does it take to have the most and best representative music of the 80s? There are several groups that need to be represented. We need at least one song by Madonna, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, Def Leppard, INXS, U2, Elton John, Billy Joel, Journey, Styx, Billy Idol, REO Speedwagon, The Smiths, The Police, Sheena Easton, The Thompson Twins, Motley Crue, Poison, Warrant, Guns N' Roses, ZZ Top, David Bowie, Tears For Fears, Lionel Richie, Whitney Houston, Foreigner, Heart, Bon Jovi, Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Bangles, The Go-Go's, Bryan Adams, The Pointer Sisters
We need at least one song from from the genres of rock, pop. hair metal, rap, soul, new wave, also needed a quirky or goofy song or two, at least a smattering of one hit wonders
We also have to have a representative sample of the best 80s CDs: the much underappreciated INXS with "Kick", AC/DC's "Back In Black", ZZ Top's "Eliminator" and "Afterburner", Billy Joel's "Glass Houses", Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The USA", Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms", Def Leppard's "Pyromania" and "Hysteria", Foreigner "4", Peter Gabriel's "So",
We also have to have a representative sample of the best 80s soundtracks "Pretty In Pink", "Purple Rain", "Footloose", "Top Gun", "Flashdance", "Breakin'", "Less Than Zero", "Dirty Dancing", "Fame", "Urban Cowboy", "The Last Boys", Batman the Prince soundtrack, Batman the Danny Elfman score, "Urban Cowboy",
Musicians will be covered while discussing everything else. Thirty-two songs will be in two different blogs from September, 2023's Classic Rock magazine's 80's issue. These fifteen songs are 80s songs picked by artists including Lzzy Hale, Phil Collen and Neil Fallon and others. I've ranked them from #32 to # 1 based on how much I like these songs. The first name is who's mixtape it is, then the name of the artist and the song. This is part one of those two blogs.
1) Neil Fallon The Police "Synchronicity 2":
2) Neil Fallon Def Leppard "Rock of Ages":
3) Lzzy Hale The Scorpions "No One Like You":
4) Phil Cullen U2 "Pride (In The Name of Love)":
5) Phil Cullen Billy Idol "Eyes Without A Face":
6) Phil Cullen Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Relax":
7) Phil Cullen David Bowie "Let's Dance":
8) Phil Cullen Chaka Khan featuring Melle Mel "I Feel For You":
9) Phil Cullen INXS "Need You Tonight":
10) Phil Cullen The System "Don't Disturb This Groove":
11) Phil Cullen AC/DC "Shoot To Thrill":
12) Lzzy Hale Dio "Straight Through The Heart":
13) Lzzy Hale The Cars "Drive":
14) Phil Cullen The Police "Every Little Thing That She Does Is Magic":
Let's go back and check on the best songs from 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20 and 10 years. Hey and maybe even some of the best songs from 2025. 1955 was a hard year for me to find 17 songs for this blog. However 1965 is a much easier year for me to find a bunch of great songs.
18) The Beach Boys "California Girls":
19) Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three "Orange Blossom Special":
20) The Yardbirds "For Your Love":
21) The Herman's Hermits "Henry The 8th, I Am"":
22) The Beatles "Nowhere Man":
23) David Houston "Livin' In The House of Love":
24) The Beach Boys "Help Me Rhonda":
25) The Vogues "Five O'Clock World":
26) Herman's Hermits "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat":
27) Otis Redding "I've Been Loving You Too Long (Too Long)":
28) Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions "People Get Ready":
29) The Beach Boys "Barbara Ann":
30) Sam the Sham and Pharaohs "Wooly Bully":
31) The Supremes "Back In My Arms Again":
32) Simon and Garfunkel "I Am A Rock":
33) The Four Tops "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)":
34) Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders "Game of Love":
