themusicaddict's Not Quite Greatest CDs Of All-Time (Finished December 13th, 2014)

Hello,

I took a break from themusicaddict's Greatest CDs of All-Time and I wrote this blog featuring songs from some not quite greatest CDs of all-time. (Don't worry I'll be going back to the Greatest Hits blogs soon. I wrote about Soundgarden's "Superunknown" and I'm on the fence still about XTC's "Oranges and Lemons".) I worked on this blog over several days.

These CDs, with their various degrees of closeness to greatest CDs of all-time, make me appreciate all the more those CDs that actually are the greatest CDs ever. I posted the videos of all the good songs on the below CDs. Many of these cds have 3 or 4 great songs, but the other songs aren't good enough to take the CD to the greatest CD of all-time status.

1) Robert Cray's "Strong Persuader": The Blues legend's CD was released on October 25th, 1990. It starts out with two really strong songs and the solid "I Guess I Showed Her", but after that the quality of the CD goes downhill. The fourth best song on this CD is probably "Foul Play".

1) "Smoking Gun":

2) "I Guessed I Showed Her":

3) "Right Next Door (Because of Me):

4) "Nothin' But A Woman"
5) "Still Around"
6) "More Than I Can Stand"
7) "Foul Play"
8) "I Wonder"
9) "Fantasized"
10) "New Blood"

2) David Bowie's "Let's Dance" was released April 14th, 1983. First of all, what's up with these 8 song CDs? Of course this CD has 3 great songs, 1 good song and a bunch of filler. It seems 8 songs was more than enough. As with Robert Cray's "Strong Persuader", this album is front loaded. For those that bought the actual record (ask your parents) side 2 was played once and hardly ever again.

1) "Modern Love":

2) "China Girl":

3) "Let's Dance":

4) "Without You
5) "Richochet"
6) "Criminal World"
7) "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)":

8) "Shake It"

3) The Smiths "The Queen Is Dead" was released June 16th, 1986. Honestly this one CD as an almost greatest CD of all-time breaks my heart. The Smiths have a lot of great songs, but only a few great songs on each CD. Again this is a pretty good CD, it's not quite classic. Although this is definitely the Smiths most consistent CD.

Here's the full CD if you don't believe me:

1) "The Queen Is Dead":

2) "Frankly, Mr. Shankly":

3) "I Know It's Over"
4) "Never Had No One Ever"
5) "Cemetry Gates"
6) "Bigmouth Strikes Again": I love this song, although it has been my theme song.

7) "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side":

8) "Vicar in a Tutu"
9) "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out":

10) "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others"

4) John Mellencamp's "Uh Huh" was released October 7th, 1983. This CD is so close to all-time greatest, but didn't quite reach that threshold.

1) "Crumblin' Down":

2) "Pink Houses":

3) "Authority Song":

4) "Warmer Place To Sleep"
5) "Jackie O"
6) "Play Guitar":

7) "Serious Business":

8) "Lovin' Mother fo Ya"
9) "Golden Gates"
10) "Pink Houses" (acoustic)

5) Aretha Franklin's "Who's Zoomin Who" was released in July, 1985.

1) "Freeway of Love": I love the sax solo.

2) "Another Night"

3) "Sweet Bitter Love"

4) "Who's Zoomin' Who":

5) "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves": (with the Eurythmics):

6) "Until You Say You Love Me"

7) "Ain't Nobody Ever Loved You":

8) "Push"

9) "Integrity"

6) The Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream"was released on July 27th, 1993.

1) "Cherub Rock":

2) "Quiet":

3) "Today":

4) "Hummer"

5) "Rocket"

6) "Disarm":

7) "Soma"

8) "Geek U.S.A."

9) "Mayonaise"

10) "Spaceboy"

11) "Silver"

12) "Sweet Sweet"

13) "Luna"

themusicaddict