(Started March 19th, 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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(Finished March 16th, 2026) Part 3 of All of Boston's Original Songs

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This blog series is every original song by Boston from their six CDs across the years. Those CDs are 1976's "Boston", 1978's "Don't Look Back", 1986's "Third Stage", 1994's "Walk On", 2002's "Corporate America" and 2013's "Life, Love and Hope".

Sadly Boston's last two CDs aren't that good, but maybe we'll discover some good songs together.

"Corporate America":

R.I.P. Tommy DeCarlo. He died just a few days ago at the way too young age of 60.  41) "I Had A Good Time":

42) "Stare Out Your Window": 

43) "Corporate America":

44) "With You":

47) "Someone":

48) "Turn It Off":

49) "Cryin'":

50) "Didn't Mean To Fall In Love": 

51) "You Gave Up On Love": 

52) Livin' For You" (Live)":

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(Finished March 14th, 2026) Part 11 of The 213 Greatest Songs of 1984 And Counting

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Since I've been sharing countdowns from 1984 and listening to all those great songs again, I thought I would post a series of blogs with the greatest songs of 1984.

Notable events of 1984 include the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Steve Jobs launches the Mac in a world of primitive PCs, this commercial:

"Purple Rain"- all that incredible music and a dopey movie- Geraldine Ferraro, Tetris, "Footloose", "Sixteen Candles" (which also means the lovely Molly Ringwald, "Ghostbusters", Eddie Murphy, the first MTV Video Music Awards, "Do They Know It's Christmas" and Marvin Gaye is killed.

Best movies of 1984 include those mentioned above, "The Terminator", "Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom", "Gremlins", "Beverly Hills Cop", "The Karate Kid", "1984" (of course), "Top Secret", "The Natural" (still a great movie), "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Splash".

171) Dio "Last In Line":

172) Murray Head "One Night In Bangkok":

173) Dio "Egypt (The Chains Are On)":

174) Sheena Easton "Sugar Walls":

175) Steve Perry "Foolish Heart":

176) Klymaxx "I Miss You":

177) Survivor "The Search Is Over":

178) Rush "Red Sector A":

179) The Thompson Twins "Doctor Doctor":

180) Depeche Mode "People Are People":

181) The Thompson Twins "The Gap":

182) Iron Maiden "Powerslave":

183) Billy Idol "Catch My Fall":

184) Roger Waters "5:01A.M. The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking":

185) INXS "Original Sin":

186) David Bowie "Blue Jean":

187) Klymaxx "Meeting In The Ladies Room":

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(Finished March 13th, 2026) Part 2 of Some of The Best Songs of 1961

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What were some of the best songs of 1961, here are some of my favorites.

18) Henry Mancini "Moon River":

19) The Tokens "The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)":

20) Ricky Nelson "Travelin' Man":

21) The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman":

22) Dave Brubeck "Take Five":

23) Bobby Vee "Take Good Care Of My Baby":

24) Connie Francis "Where The Boys Are":

25) Patsy Cline "I Fall To Pieces":

26) Gary U.S. Bonds "Quarter To Three":

27) Ernie K. Doe "Mother-In-Law":

28) Ferrante and Theme From "Exodus":

Released on the last day of 1960 and thus a big hit in 1961. 29) Ben E King "Spanish Harlem":

30) Leroy Van Dyke "Walk On By":

31) Neil Sedaka "Calendar Girl":

32) The Shirelles "Dedicated To The One I Love":

33) Sam Cooke "Cupid":

34) The Dovells "Bristol Stomp":

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(Finished March 8th, 2026) Part 2 of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, March 11th, 1989

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I really love reliving these charts from back in the day. Instead of picking and choosing the subjective best of these lists I'm going to break them down into two blogs and posts videos for all the songs. So many of these songs I know and love so much, but so many of these songs I've never heard of!!

All thanks to Billboard for all the great memories and song information.

15) Thrashing Doves "Angel Visit":

14) Edie Brickell & New Bohemians "Little Miss S.":

13) Julian Cope "5 O'Clock World":

12) The Fixx "Driven Out":

11) New Order "Fine Time":

10) Easterhouse "Come Out Fighting":

9) R.E.M. "Stand":

8) Cowboy Junkies "Sweet Jane":

7) Midge Ure "Dear God":

6) Fine Young Cannibals "She Drives Me Crazy":

5) Violent Femmes "Nightmares":

4) XTC "The Mayor of Simpleton":

3) Lou Reed "Dirty Boulevard":

2) Elvis Costello "Veronica":

1) The Replacements "I'll Be You":

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(Finished March 7th, 2026) Part 4 of The Most Obscure Songs On My iPod

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How many obscure songs are there out there? I don't know the answer to that but what might be obscure to you may not be obscure to me and vice versa. I picked songs that I thought would be the most obscure to the most people. I wasn't aware of how many obscure songs I had on my iPod until now. All the songs on my iPod have one trait in common they're all great. Just because a song is obscure doesn't mean it's not great. I only have great songs on my iPod.

52) JD McPherson "Nite Owls":

53) Trombone Shorty "Here Come The Girls":

54) Michael Penn "No Myth":

55) The B-52's "Strobe Light":

56) Baby Bee "High Heeled Leather Boots":

57) Royal Bliss "Burn It Down":

58) Aquabats "Martian Girl":

59) Green Day "21 Guns":

60) Lindsey Stirling featuring Elle King "The Upside":

61) Dub Trio featuring Mike Patton "Not Alone":

62) Gary Clark Jr. "This Land":

63) Switchfoot "Ammunition":

62) Echosmith "Let's Love":

63) Shakey Graves featuring Esme Patterson "Dearly Departed":

The only reason I know about this song is because she opened for Wynonna and Little Big Town last year on tour. Obviously she's not the first person to sing this song, but I think her version is fantastic. Sadly she didn't sing this song at her concert. 64) Shelby Lynne "Don't Get Around Much Anymore":

Let's hope they perform this song on their upcoming tour, it's too bad Geddy Lee has lost his voice. 65) Rush "Red Barchetta":

66) Rob Thomas "Timeless":

67) Motor Gun Hotel "Leave It All Behind":

68) Sting "Rushing Water":

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(Finished March 5th, 2025) Part 3 of Best Songs With Famous/ Real People In Title

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Songs that mention or are about real or imaginary people. I will let you guess or actually find out who the song is about when it's not obvious.

35) The Knack "My Sharona":

36) James Taylor "Fire and Rain":

37) The Chordettes "Mr. Sandman":

38) Falco "Rock Me Amadeus":

This song may or may not be about the original J Lo, Jennifer Love Hewitt. It's just too good of a song not to include here. 39) John Mayer "Your Body Is A Wonderful":

40) Aerosmith "Dude Looks Like A Lady":

41) Roberta Flack "Killing Me With His Song":

42) R.E.M. "Man On The Moon":

43) The Cranberries "I Just Shot John Lennon":

44) Madonna "Vogue":

45) Billy Dean "Billy The Kid

46) Ronnie McDowell "The King Is Gone":

47) Alan Jackson "Midnight In Montgomery":

48) U2 "Until The End of the World":

49) "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands":

50) Fleetwood Mac "Rhiannon":

51) The Beatles "Hey Jude":

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