Exactly one year ago I wrote this kind of blog and I thought it was time to do it again. Here are many great songs on my mind today for many various reasons.
1) Lauren Daigle "Still Rolling Stones":
The next band I'm going to go see in concert is The Smashing Pumpkins, thus a lot of their songs are on my mind today. 2) "Tonight, Tonight":
3) Ella Langley "Choosin' Texas":
4) David Bowie "Suffragette City":
5) Sinead O'Connor "Mandinka":
6) Tim McGraw "Red Ragtop":
I've always wondered where she has gone to and will she come back? These are three of her better songs. 7a) Duffy "Rockferry":
Bonus songs 7b) Duffy "Warwick Avenue":
7c) Duffy "Mercy":
8) Metallica "Nothing Else Matters":
9) Gavin DeGraw "The Best I Ever Had":
10) Rachel Platten "Fight Song":
Here in Utah we are having October rain. Speaking of rain "November Rain" is a Top 5 Guns N' Roses song. 11) "November Rain":
After seeing Brandon Flowers and My Chemical Romance in the last few weeks, my next concert is The Smashing Pumpkins. I'll be writing a few different Smashing Pumpkins blogs. I was trying to post these videos in chronological order. However "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" has 28 tracks, thus I'm going to post that CD all by myself. On this blog I will post songs from "Siamese Dream" and "Adore". I will also post "Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts" all by itself.
"Siamese Dream" was released on July 19th, 1993.
1) "Cherub Rock":
2) "Quiet":
3) "Today":
4) "Hummer":
5) "Rocket":
6) "Disarm":
7) "Soma":
8) "Geek U.S.A.":
9) "Mayonnaise":
10) "Spaceboy":
11) "Silver-":
12) "Sweet Sweet":
13) "Luna":
The compilation CD "Pisces Iscariot" was released on October 4th, 1994.
The best songs about time or mention time. The first two blogs of this series were the top 34 time songs.
69) The Housemartins "Happy Hour":
70) Aqua "Freaky Friday":
71) Delta Rae "Cold Day In Heaven":
72) Mary Chapin Carpenter "Quittin Time":
This is such an amazing song. 73) Tim McGraw "Red Ragtop":
I have no idea why this band isn't bigger. Eisley is a great band and their CD "Room Noises" is a modern classic. 74) Eisley "One Day I Floated Away":
A song that's as close to perfect as can see. The lyrics, the melody and the vocal performance all elevate this song to near perfection. 75) Vanessa Williams "Save The Best For Last":
I watched the Kurt Warner movie "American Underdog" tonight. It's a great movie and it's such a heart warming, unbelievable, in overcoming all odds just to reach your dream. He literally won a Super Bowl in his first season as a starting NFL quarterback. Trent Green had to be injured for him to get his chance, but when he got that chance he took full advantage of it. He had learned earlier to always be ready. Honestly I thought I would be crying in this, but I did not. If they would have played the emotional aspect more I would have cried like a baby.
The first part of this movie is set in the early 90s and a few of those songs are in this movie. 1990-1993 had so many great country songs that I wanted to publish a few blogs about that amazing music.
1) Clint Black "Nobody's Home":
2) Travis Tritt "Anymore":
3) Reba McEntire "Rumor Has It":
4) Alan Jackson "Chattahoochee":
5) Mark Chesnutt "Your Love Is A Miracle":
6) Alan Jackson "Midnight In Montgomery":
7) Patty Loveless "Chains":
8) Alan Jackson "Dallas":
9) Tracy Lawrence "Alibis":
10) Dwight Yoakam "Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose":
11) Brooks and Dunn "Boot Scootin' Boogie":
12) Wynonna "No One Else On Earth":
13) Billy Dean "Somewhere In My Broken Heart":
14) Randy Travis "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart":
15) Brooks and Dunn "My Next Broken Heart":
16) Aaron Tippin "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio":
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",
The musicians will be covered while discussing everything else. These are the best songs from "The Albums That Built That 80s". I didn't include all of those albums, just the ones I consider the best.
Ozzy Osbourne "Diary of a Madman":
52) "Over The Mountain":
I saw a few concerts back in the day at The Salt Palace, but I didn't see Ozzy. 53) "Flying High Again":
My favorite magazine currently is Classic Rock. I love how many great articles it has and it has the best review section of any magazine. Also it's supposed to be a monthly magazine, but it feels like I get an issue every three weeks. These are the 15 most intriguing/interesting CDs/DVDs.
I'll be using the current tracklists, rather than what the tracklists may have been November of last year.
I know if you click on the play button the videos don't play. I hate when a song/video only has one picture for most of the songs. Since the videos don't play I try to vary the picture from the video. There aren't a lot of choices for this particular CD. For this blog specifically I varied those pictures as much as I could.
I'm not sure what Classic Rock magazine but I think this CD is terrible. I mean there are a couple of decent songs but for the most part it's a pretty forgettable CD.
7) Cardiacs "LSD":
60) "Men In Bed":
61) "The May":
62) "Gen":
63) "Woodeneye":
64) "Spelled All Wrong":
65) "By Numbers":
66) "The Blue and Buff":
67) "Skating":
68) "Breed":
69) "Volob":
70) "Busty Beez":
72) "Lovely Eyes":
This song has several videos to choose from. I like the lyrics videos. 73) "Ditzy Scene":
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.
Just a couple of days ago I found out that Metallica will be coming to my hometown, Salt Lake City. I bought a couple of tickets tonight. This is their setlist from their last show they played at, which was in London, England.
From tape AC/DC "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)":
Ennio Morricone "The Ecstasy of Gold":
1) "Whiplash":
2) "For Whom The Bell Tolls":
3) "Ride The Lightning":
4a) "The Memory Remains":
4b) "The Memory Remains" (Live):
5) "72 Seasons":
6) "Screaming Suicide":
It seems like that's a real momentum killer, the "singing" somehow makes it worst. 7) "Kirk and Rob Doodle (featuring Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral" and Sex Pistols "Holidays In The Sun")
8) "The Day That Never Comes":
9) "Wherever I May Roam":
10) "The Call of Ktulu":
11) "The Unforgiven":
12) "Whiskey In The Jar (preceded by "And Justice For All)":
