themusicaddict's Greatest Songs of Sheena Easton

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Quite simply the greatest songs of Sheena Easton. Enjoy!

"For Your Eyes Only":

"For Your Eyes Only" (Live):

"Strut":

"Almost Over You":

Morning Train (Nine to Five):

"Sugar Walls" : (Can you tell this song is written by Prince?)

"Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)":

"Modern Girl":

"Someone To Watch Over Me" (Not the best version of this song. However she does a good job, although the arrangement is a bit slow.)



Sheena Easton with Prince "The Arms of Orion":



Sheena Easton & Prince "U Got The Look"/ "Sugar Walls": (This is the best version I could find on Youtube. Seriously Prince it's time to allow your music on youtube.)



Sheena Easton & Kenny Rogers "We've Got Tonight":

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The Surprisingly Enduring Debut CD From Louis XIV "The Best Little Secrets Are Kept"

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Louis XIV is one of those bands that release a great CD early in their career. That CD is "The Best Little Secrets Are Kept". The CD is so good that I expected a lot of great things from them in the future. However like many other bands that early CD is their peak, for Louis XIV it's been downhill since then. After filling their debut CD with 8 great songs, they've never been able to capture that magic again. Don't you think the cover of that CD has some real crack photography :)

But we still have that pretty solid CD. Now Louis XIV's lyrics are never going to have Mensa invite them to join. But hey it's alternative/pop music, it's not really suppose to be smart. It's suppose to be fun to listen to and be great dance music. Louis XIV hit the nail on the head in regards to both of those goals.

Three years after releasing their transcendent second CD, Louis XIV returned with their third CD "Slick Dogs and Ponies". Honestly that CD has none of the fun of "The Best Little Secrets" and sadly it's a sloppy mess. After breaking up for a couple of years, after they probably should have after that stink bomb of a CD, they reunited in 2012. However they haven't released any new music since the misfire  of "Slick Dogs and Ponies". (Thanks to Wikipedia.org for the biographical information.)

Here are the best songs from that CD:

"Louis XIV":

"Finding Out True Love Is Blind":

"Paper Doll":

"God Killed The Queen":

"A Letter To Dominique": (This probably is my favorite song on the CD.)

"A Letter To Dominique" (Live) I always like to see how a band sounds live, this isn't a way to tell as the sound here is horrible:

"Illegal Tender":

"Illegal Tender" (Live) The sound is a lot better here.

"Pledge of Allegiance":

"Hey Teacher":

The last 3 songs on the original version of this CD you can skip. Since "The Best Little Kept Secrets", Louis XIV's best song has been their remake of the "Theme from Flash Gordon":

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themusicaddict's Reviews of Recently Experienced Items

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Things I've seen, read or otherwise experienced recently.

Movies: "Thanks For Sharing", the movie about several people's battle with sex addiction that stars Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins, Patrick Fugit (Salt Lake native!), Alecia Moore (aka P!nk) and Josh Gad. For a movie that's about sex addiction, it has a sweet undercurrent. Perhaps a bit too sweet, but the movie ends on a hopeful note. The first half of the movie is very slow, but that's the set up for a much better second half. Tim Robbins and Mark Ruffalo both have great performances, Robbins especially puts on a master acting class. I really hated the character Josh Gad plays for the first half of the movie. But as we watched Neil's progress his character became much more likable. Grade C+/ B-

"Get The Gringo", a movie that's about Driver (Mel Gibson). We don't actually get his name, Driver is a reference to the opening scene of the movie. Anyway Driver is in a Mexican prison, trying to survive, escape and get the money he stole back. This is one of those movies that is pretty much as you expect it to be. The quintessential "video movie". It was never going to win any Oscars, but it's a pleasant enough diversion. Grade: C-

"Seventh Son", another movie that's exactly what one expects. This is a movie I would have stayed far away from, but my kids picked it. Skip this movie as it steals most of the tired conventions of fantasy movies. Why the hell was Spook (Jeff Bridges) using that ridiculous voice the whole movie? That's just one of the puzzling things in this movie. Other puzzling things: why was this movie made?, why did anyone want to see it? what's the point of making a movie that's been made hundreds of time before. (Yes I know money, but this slog of a movie couldn't have made that much money.) But the most puzzling thing about this movie is why did Julianne Moore agree to be in it? I kept on seeing her and wondering is that really Miss Julianne Moore? It obviously had to be a paycheck movie for her. If you have any say in it, there's no need to watch this movie ever. Grade: F

I also tried to watch "Europa Report", but I couldn't get past the first 10 minutes.

The movie "Horns" is available on Netflix now, but I'm a bit afraid to watch it. That's one of my favorite books of all-times and I've afraid they've ruined what is such a great piece of entertainment.

Books: I've started reading two books lately. The first book is George F. Will's "A Nice Little Place On the North Side: Wrigley Field At One Hundred". This is a hilarious take on the tortured history of the Chicago Cubs and their pleasant prison/ stadium. Among the highlights is the motto "anyone can have a bad century", the disputed Babe Ruth called home run and many other things. Will takes the perfect tone with this franchise.

Would it surprise you to know it was a Cubs player and the woman who shot him that inspired the movie "The Natural". Eddie Waitkus, a war hero who earned 4 bronze stars, became the object of intense affection of a lady named Ruth Ann Steinhagen. She became obsessed with Waitkus, even building a shrine for him in her apartment. In June 1949 she stayed at the same hotel the Cubs were staying at. She lured him to her hotel room, where she shot him.

Three years later Bernard Malamud published "The Natural". As Will says "the story of Roy Hobbs, who is shot by a woman." "The Natural" isn't only one of the best baseball movies of all-time, but it's also one of the best movies of all-time.

Will obviously has quite a bit fondness for Ernie Banks, as he highlights the many accomplishments of Mr. Cub.

This book shares how the Ivy came to added to Wrigley Field in 1937. The author also marks one of the most Cubness moments ever, a moment that happened on July 20,1962. In a loss to the Dodgers, the Cubs fell below .500 in the history of Wrigley Field. They have remained below .500 ever since then, in fact they have fallen even more below .500. The Cubs finished 16 games below .500 in 2014, which is a lot better when they finished 30 games under .500. Somehow they still had 2.6 million fans come to Wrigley each of those two years.

This book also details the Cubs connection to Jack Ruby, Ronald Reagan and Ray Kroc.

(However with the Core Four maturing and gaining experience, the signing of Jon Lester and Joe Maddon the good times have got to be right around the corner? Right? The NL Central may be the strongest division in the 2015 season. I'm considering doing a game by game review of the Cubs season as I did with the Dodgers a couple of years ago.)

I also started reading David Wong's "John Dies At The End" and I've read about the first 10% and so far I'm a bit disappointed. For some reason I was expecting another "Ready Player One" type novel. However it reminds me so much more of the spiritualist that's also a detective, the name of whom escapes me now.

Music: Catfish and the Bottlemen's "The Balcony". This is a CD that gets bogged down by the band's immaturity, from the inappropriate cover to the too liberal use of the f bomb. They do have a few good songs, but their songs aren't distinct enough to notice usually when a new song is playing. They do rock and they have a good singer. But they need to gain maturity and a more diverse sound. Grade: C

I've also listened to a series of CDs on Rdio today to see if they are worthy of themusicaddict's Greatest CDs of all time. A Rdio heart is a favorite song.

1) Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs": Is this CD a classic, not even close. Only 3 of the 16 songs received a Rdio heart. Grade: C-

2) INXS's "Kick": definitely a classic. All 12 songs received a Rdio heart. Grade: A +

3) Cyndi Lauper's "She's So Unusual" This isn't a themusicaddict classic CD, although this CD starts out really strong. 5 of the first 6 songs are certified classics, some of the best songs the 80's produced. However the final four songs are filler. Grade B-

4) The Band Perry's "Pioneer". Because I might be seeing them in concert in July and because they are a great band, I listened to it. I can't believe this CD is almost 2 years old. Without a doubt this CD is a classic, 10 of the 12 songs get a Rdio heart. Grade: A- (On a side note with all their pictures they always have a bunch of hair. I'm thinking a good back up name for them would be The Band Hairy.)

5) Adele's "21": Listening to this CD, it's not as good as I thought. While it certainly has some great songs, but only 6 of 11 songs earned a Rdio heart. Grade: B-

Food: My favorite place to eat is Olive Garden and I'm a big fan of their fettucini alfredo. The top 3 Olive Garden locations for fettucini alfredo in the Salt Lake to Provo area.

1) Provo, they've figured out the perfect amount of sauce to put on their fettucini, their fettucini is to die for.
2) Layton, they've figured out recently about adding the right amount of sauce lately. We went there yesterday to celebrate my daughter's 14th birthday and the fettucini was the bomb. We also had a fantastic waitress that was no nonsense and did her job fantastically well.
3) Sugarhouse, let's just put it this way: their fettucini was disappointing.

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(Updated, February 17th, 2021) Give themusicaddict A $15 iTunes Gift Card And What Will I Do?

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I know you weren't at home sitting on your couch and wondering what themusicaddict would do with a $15 gift card. But I'm going to tell you anyway. This was a gift card I received from my oldest son for Christmas. I also had $2.00 in iTunes credit, so I actually had $17 credit to spen.

I keep a list of songs and CDs I want to buy for those rare times when I have money or gift cards. I bought songs off that list, some songs I bought were brought to my attention by iTunes and I also downloaded a couple of very decent free songs.

These are the songs I bought, with their videos. First up are the songs I bought off of my list of songs. 

I've only listened to this song twice since I bought it six years ago. It's good to have it there when I want to listen to it. 1) Jackyl "Dirty Little Mind":

Hey I've listened to this song eight times. 2) Jackyl "Down On Me":

With shaky camera work, but the sound is pretty good. Also AC/DC's Brian Johnson joins with Jackyl to sing this great song. (This song immediately went on my iPod). 3) Jackyl "I Stand Alone":

Here's a much better sounding version, sadly no Brian Johnson to be found.

4) Jackyl "When Will It Rain":

Only 409,000 views, that's a damn shine. This is a great song!! 5) Saga "On The Loose":

6) Midnight Oil's "Kosciusko":

7) Kool and the Gang's "Tonight":

A "Lost Boys" soundtrack twofer. 8) Jimmy Barnes with INXS "Good Times":

9) Echo and the Bunnymen "People Are Strange":

10) Bon Jovi "Shot Through The Heart":

11) Conway Twitty "I'd Love To Lay You Down":

The 69c songs, for a limited time only obviously:

12) Catfish and the Bottlemen "Kathleen":

13) Echo and the Bunnymen "Lips Like Sugar":

14) Parachute's "Kiss Me Slowly":

Free songs, again only for a limited time.

15) Wild Party's "OutRight":

16) Thousand Foot Krutch "Untraveled Road":

17) CRUISR "All Over":

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Not Your Dad's Greatest Hits of Motley Crue Blog, the Crue's Truly Great Songs

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One of my favorite eras of music was the so-called hair metal era. That was when bands like Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Cinderella, Poison, Ratt and others ruled from about the mid-80s to the early-90s. A lot of this music was very predictable and sounded the same after awhile. And the Crue had their own songs like that. That includes the brain dead "Slice of Your Pie". Also I'm not a big fan of their new song "All Bad Things Must End".

However the Crue also had some very melodic songs that sound as great today as when they ruled the music landscape. Motley Crue pretty much wrote all of their own songs, mainly Nikki Sixx- who is one of the best songwriters ever. This blog features those great songs that break the hair metal mold. Some are classics and some should be classics.

Starting with "Too Young To Fall In Love": (Such an 80's video.)

This is a great song, but the video is a cliche and misogynistic. But this is a no judgment zone, this is just great songs. There's so many cool songs going on in "Girls Girls Girls", a true rock and roll song:

"Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)": (I love the part of this song when it really kicks into gear at 2:25.)

Just another great melodic rock and roll song, a song that both kicks butt and breaks the mold. Yes, Motley Crue is still kicking ass!! "Kickstart My Heart":

"Home Sweet Home", I have to say this is the second best hair metal ballad, I don't think any song ever topped Poison's "Every Rose Has It's Thorn":

I'm on my way, just set me free "Home Sweet Home":

"Primal Scream" and shout, kick that mother out!:

"Saints of Los Angeles":

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Song Lyrics Full of Wisdom, Humor and Pathos (A Continuing Blog) (Updated February 17th, 2015) (Excuse the experimentation)

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I've tried to put this into two columns as it would look better, don't ya think. I searched around the internet, but html fries my brain so I wasn't able to figure it out. If any of you know how I can make this one blog entry into two columns, I would be very grateful.

This blog will be featuring some of the most intelligent, funny and just downright weird lyrics. Feel free to add some by commenting on this blog. Pathos definition: "the quality or power, esp in literature or speech, of arousing feelings of pity, sorrow, etc". (The British definition, thanks to dictionary.com.) Special thanks to lyricsfreak.com.

"Gimme your heart, make it real or else forget about it."

- Santana (featuring Rob Thomas) "Smooth"

"Yes, some people claim that there's a woman to blame,
And I know it's my own damn fault"

- Jimmy Buffet "Margaritaville"                                           "Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

Remember me to one who lives there

She once was a true love of mine"

Simon and Garfunkel "Scarborough Fair"

                                                                              

All I ever needed

Is here in my arms

Words are very unnecessary

They can only do harm

Enjoy the silence

Depeche Mode  "Enjoy The Silence"

"Regrets, I've had a few;

But then again, too few to mention

I did what I had to do

And saw it through without exemption

I planned each charted course;

Each careful step along the byway,

And more, much more than this,

I did it my way

- The Great Frank Sinatra "My Way" (The line "regrets, 
I've had a few" has played a few times in my head over 
the years.)

"Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end                                 
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I would see you again"

James Taylor "Fire and Rain"

Aw "I wish I knew then
What I know now
Wouldn't dive in
Wouldn't bow down
Gravity hurts
You made it so sweet
Till I woke up on
On the concrete

"Wide Awake" Katy Perry These lyrics describe the end of a relationship perfectly.

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themusicaddict's Greatest Hits Of Loverboy, Part 3: The Best of the Rest (Finished February, 2015

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From 1995's (or 1987 depending on where you get your info) "Wildside":

"Notorious":

"Love Will Rise Again":

"Can't Get Much Better":

"Wildside":

From 1997's "Six", this CD must be terrible, I couldn't find this anywhere online to listen to it.

From 2007's "Just Getting Started":

"Just Getting Started":

"One Of Them Days":

"As Good As It Gets":

From 2012's "Rock 'n' Roll Revival", here's the whole CD:

"Rock 'n' Roll Revival":

"No Tomorrow":

"Heartbreaker":

From 2014's "Unfinished Business":

"Fire Me Up":

"Countin' The Nights":

"You Play The Star": (No video as of yet.)

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themusicaddict's Reviews of Music, Movies, TV, etc.

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Recent media I've experienced:

1) "Get Low", a movie starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray. Duvall turns in a performance for the ages, he's absolutely fantastic. Murray also does a great job as well, playing a very muted performance, not his usual manic performance. It's a bit of a slow movie, but well worth your time. Grade: B

2) "Snowpiercer", a movie that came with a stellar reputation. However it was so boring and humorless that I fell asleep while watching it. I haven't seen the last half yet and honestly it's not worth my time. Grade: D-, it didn't get an F because there are some cool visuals in it.

3) "Project Almanac", a movie that turns out to be exactly what you think it will be. It's slightly above mediocre, not the worst way to spend two hours of your life. Grade: C+

4) "Romance In The Outfield" is a movie made for the conservative Utah market. It's unbelievably bad. The acting is okay, but the dialogue and story are extremely stupid. The story relies on a series of dumb misunderstandings that would make "Three's Company" proud.

The woman I went to see the movie said after the movie that we should have went to see Sponge Bob, definitely!

There's only one thing to recommend this movie and that's the gorgeous cast. That cast is highlighted by one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. Her name is Lauryn Kent:

Miss Kent looks amazing in these pictures, but they do not capture how amazing she looks on the movie screen. Too bad you have to see the awful movie to get the full impact.




























Sorry this is all I can show of this movie and not feel like I'm subjecting you to pure torture:

5) Season 1, Episode 4 of the "12 Monkeys" television series. After a pretty amazing first couple of episodes, the show has slowed down. There are still 9 more episodes to go of this season and it feels like this first season will be stretched out farther than it should. Cautious grade: C, but that will probably change before the end of the season.

6) Olive Garden's fettucini, oh my goodness that's so good. Grade: A+

7) This past season's Super Bowl, that sucked! Grade F. Whoever decided to not have Beast Mode run for the 1 yard, Grade F-.

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themusicaddict's Greatest Hits Of Loverboy, Part 2: The Non "Keep It Up" 80's Highlights (Finished 2/7/15)

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This blog features the rest of Loverboy's greatest songs, this is Part 2 of a two blog series. The entry directly before this is about their "Keep It Up" CD. In my not so humble opinion that's one of the greatest CDs of all-time. It has 9 songs and all 9 songs are great. This blog features the other 26 songs that I've deemed greatest songs of Loverboy. These are ordered by the album they come from and the videos will be coming later.

From 1980's "Loverboy":

"The Kid Is Hot Tonite":

"Turn Me Loose":



"Always On My Mind":

From 1981's "Get Lucky":

"Working For The Weekend":

"When It's Over":

"Gangs In The Street":

"Lucky Ones" (I was more than a little creeped out when I found out the girl in this classic cover shot was only 13 when this picture was taken. She later died in a car crash with this as her only modeling credit.) :

"It's Your Life":

"Take Me To The Top":

From 1984's "Footloose" Soundtrack:

"Almost Paradise" (featuring Ann Wilson):

From 1985's "Lovin' Every Minute Of It":

"Lovin' Every Minute Of It":

"This Could Be The Night":

"Destination Heartbreak":

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themusicaddict's Greatest CDs of All-Time" Loverboy's "Keep It Up" (Updated February 4th, 2015)

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As I continue working on the greatest songs of all-time blog, now with about 3,000 to 4,000 songs, I listen to as much music I can for each musician I'm focusing on that at that time. I'll be breaking down all of Loverboy's greatest songs of all-time in two blogs. This is part 1 and later I'll publish Part 2. I count a combined 27 songs for greatest songs of all-time by Loverboy. Since I love every song on "Keep It Up", I'll put all those songs on this one blog.

Sometimes I find a lot of cool music, great songs by an artist that I had never heard before. I'm a sap for 80's music and I love synth music as much as anyone else. I've often made the joke that you can tell an 80's movie by all the synth music. Some of these memories are coming back to me as this is the 30th anniversary of graduating from high school. Now that's old.

Well one of those bands that featured a lot of synth in their music is the Canadian rock band Loverboy. Loverboy made their first entrance in the national consciousness with their first CD, 1980's self-titled CD. "Loverboy" was released March 28th, 1980. I wasn't thrilled by "Turn Me Loose", but I loved "The Kid Is Hot Tonight" immediately:

Gee, I can't tell is Mike Reno lip synching? Over the years I've got to the point where I quite like "Turn Me Loose". The next best song on that CD was "Always On My Mind", but after that song the rest of the CD is basically filler.

This was in a much different time. People listened to music mostly through radio, record albums and cassette tapes. Either you had to own a copy or have a friend who owned a hard copy of a tape or album to listen to a specific piece of music. You couldn't listen to music on your phone, no Rdio, no Spotify, no iTunes, no Youtube- in other words no music buffet like there is now. (How incredible is it now that almost anyone can listen to any piece of music now for free.) However it does seem that radio was a lot better back then, more music and less commercials. Radio now is nearly unlistenable with the constantly nattering DJs and corporate radio run amuck. 

It was also a different time in release schedules. Currently most musicians take 3 or 4 years between CDs. Back in the early 80s Loverboy released three CD's in four years time. There's a lot of classic music on those 3 CDs also. (Of course no one can top the hard working Creedence Clearwater Revival's hectic 1969, in that single year alone they released 3 albums. Those 3 albums contain the majority of their hits.)

So although it was 18 months later, it was still the next year when Loverboy released their second CD, "Get Lucky". It was released on October 7th, 1981. "Get Lucky" is a deeper CD, it had a few more great songs than their first release. The best songs on "Get Lucky" are "Working For The Weekend", "When It's Over", "Gangs In The Street" and "Take Me To The Top".

"Get Lucky" marked maturity for Loverboy and it lead to probably their greatest CD. "Keep It Up" is definitely a themusicaddict greatest CD of all-time. That CD was released on November 8th, 1983. Loverboy had at least one or two great songs on each of their first few CDs, however every song on "Keep It Up" is great. There's not a weak track in the bunch.

The key members of this band at the release of this CD were Mike Reno, Paul Dean, Doug Johnson, Scott Smith and Matt Frenette. They were able helped by Nancy Nash, Maggie Ryder and Jean Piche, who plays the synthesizer. I'm quite surprised by how little live music is available for Loverboy on Youtube.

"Hot Girls In Love" (This model has a very 80's look.):

"Hot Girls In Love" (Live):

"Strike Zone":

"It's Never Easy":

"Chance of a Lifetime":

"Queen of the Broken Hearts":



"Queen of the Broken Hearts" (bad sound and did Mike have a cold, he sounds very nasally):

"Prime of Your Life":



Here's the immortal Slobber's cover of "Prime of Your Life":

"Passion Pit":



"Passion Pit" (Mostly Instrumental):

"One-Sided Love Affair":

"Meltdown" (There's no video for this song) In "Meltdown's" place here is "The Kid Is Hot Tonight" (Live in 1983):

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