(Started Dec 30th, 2018) Who The Funk Is Janelle Monae?

Hello,

Other than her duets with fun. and Duran Duran, I don't know much about Janelle Monae. However the cover of the Rolling Stone I'm currently reading features Janelle Monae on the cover. I've always thought she was a beautiful woman and immensely talented so I want to check out her music. I'm using this blog to do that.

According to axs.com these are Janelle Monae's ten best songs, all of the comments are from axs.com. (Thanks to axs.com for the countdown and the comments.)

10. Tight Rope
The hit pop single featuring Big Boi (1/2 of Outkast's) which ignited Monae's music career.

9. Electric Lady
This track featuring Solange Knowles, a upbeat, critically acclaimed anthem, as well, title of album 
released in 2013 consisting of rock, pop, gospel, R&B and other genres.

Here's the video for the song:

8. We Were Rock & Roll
Janelle Monae's heavily influenced rock track via The Electric Lady.

7. Dorothy Dandrige Eyes

A song obviously inspired and a tribute to the icon Dorothy Dandrige featuring Esperanza Spalding. This 

single has been compared to the vibes one who hear from the late Michael Jackson.

6. Can't Live Without Your Love

A traditional love song by Monae, also from her album which consists of deep expression of one's 
emotions when in true love. The chorus: "I can't live without your love and affection, I can't face another 
night on my own, I'd give up my pride to save me from being alone, Cause I can't live without your love..."

5. Givin Em What They Love

A timeless yet edgy track featuring the one and only, Prince.

4. What Is Love

This upbeat, festive single recorded specially for feature film, Rio 2.

3. Primetime

This single featuring vocals backed by Miguel is about Monae's constant message she wishes to promote 
- her talent is based off her talent, not her image (or sexuality), told in a format of a love story.

2. Cold War

This single via The ArchAndroid which speaks on loneliness and Monae's own insecurities about being 
an African-American woman in the world and other pressures.

1. Q.U.E.E.N (feat. Erykah Badu)

This track via "The Electric Lady" featuring Erykah Badu, a single that promotes femininity and was both 
Badu and Monae created to start conversations.

"Make Me Feel":

With Duran Duran and funkmaster Nile Rodgers "Pressure Off":


With fun. "We Are Young":

"Yoga":

"Pressure":

"Venus Fly":

"Dance Apocolyptic":

"Many Moons":

"I Like That":

"Take A Byte":


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(Started Dec 29th, 2018) themusicaddict's 1599 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 18 Songs 330-349

Hello,

I did a thorough multiple hour search over the last couple of days of the Top 100 songs from 1980-1989. I found several songs by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Little River Band, Linda Ronstadt, Asia, Irene Cara, Poison and several one hit wonders. That's why the number of Best 80s songs have jumped so much. I think I've probably found about 99% of the Best Songs.

330)  Chris Deburgh "Lady In Red":

331) Paul Young "Every Time You Go Away":

332) Bow Wow Wow "I Want Candy":

This was released a few months before 1980, but it's close enough. 333) Rupert Holmes "Escape (The Pina Colada Song"):

334) The Honeydrippers "Sea of Love":

335) Wham! "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go":

336) The Waitresses "I Know What Boys Like":

337) Frida "I Know There's Something Going On":

338) Juice Newton "Queen of Hearts":

339) Icehouse "Electric Blue":

340) Mr. Mister "Kyrie":

341) Double "The Captain of Her Heart":

342) Sly Fox "Let's Go All The Way":

343) Survivor "Eye of the Tiger":

One of my all-time favorite ballads. 344) Survivor "The Search Is Over":

345) Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney "The Girl Is Mine":

346) Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson "Say Say Say":

347) John Lennon "Just Like Starting Over":

348) John Lennon "Woman":

349) George Harrison "Got My Mind Set On You":

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(Finished March 31st, 2019) themusicaddict's 1344 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 17 Songs 310-329

Hello,

Here's a three song set from INXS to start off this blog:

310) "Need You Tonight":

311) "New Sensation":

312) "Never Tear Us Apart":

Now here are three classics from Mr. Billy Idol: 

313) "Dancing With Myself":



314) "Mony Mony":

315) "Eyes Without A Face":

Here's three songs by Jackson Browne:

316) "Somebody's Baby":

317) "Lawyers In Love":

318) "Boulevard":

319) J.D. Souther and James Taylor "Her Town Too":

Bruce Springsteen "Is it you baby or just 320) "A Brilliant Disguise":

Three songs by Stevie Wonder, including one of his funkiest classics up first.

321) Stevie Wonder "Master Blaster (Jammin')":

322) Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney "Ebony and Ivory":

323) "I Just Called To Say I Love You":

324) Chaka Kahn "I Feel For You":

325) Berlin "Take My Breath Away":

326) Eddy Grant "Electric Avenue":

Two by Lita Ford, including her duet with Ozzy.

"Close My Eyes Forever":

"Kiss Me Deadly":

Wang Chung "Everyone Have Fun Tonight":

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(Finished March 14th, 2019) themusicaddict's 1319 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 16 Songs 290-309

Hello,

I spent a lot of time trying to collect all the songs that would end up on my Best Songs of the 80s blogs the last couple of days. That's why the number of songs have increased by 300 songs in just a couple of days. I'm hoping now that I have 95% of the songs that will appear on these blogs.

290) Toto "Africa":

291) Air Supply "Every Woman In The World":

292) Air Supply "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All":

293) Toto "I Won't Hold You Back":

294) Living Colour "The Cult of Personality":

295) Living Colour "Glamour Boys":

296) Living Colour "Open Letter To A Landlord":

297) Starship "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now":

One of the best songs from one of the best soundtracks and movies of the 80s. The next five songs are all from "Pretty In Pink". 298) Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink":

299) OMD "If You Leave":

300) New Order "Shellshock":

301) Danny Hutton Hitters (Nik Kershaw also does a version.) "Wouldn't It Be Good":



Here's three songs from Echo and the Bunnymen, the first song is from "Pretty In Pink".

302) "Bring On The Dancing Horses":

303) "The Killing Moon":

304) "Lips Like Sugar":

These next two songs are from Tracy Chapman's excellent debut CD, one of the best debut CDs ever. 305) Tracy Chapman "For My Lover":

306) Tracy Chapman "Baby Can I Hold You":

307) Oxo "Whirly Girl":

308) Boom Crash Opera "Onion Skin":

309) INXS "Original Sin":

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(Finished December 25th, 2018) Led Zeppelin's 50 Best Songs To Celebrate Their 50th Anniversary, Part 2

Hello,

I love the 80s and writing about all those amazing songs, but I thought it was time I posted something different.

I rated all of Led Zeppelin's songs using the same ratings that iTunes uses, from 0 stars through 5 stars. Some songs I only gave a half star to. By my count, Led Zeppelin has 32 5 star songs, 11 4.5 star songs, 26 4 star songs, 1 3.5 star song ("Black Country Woman") and 11 3 star songs. That adds up to 81 total songs. Combining the 5 star songs and the 4.5 star songs equals 43 songs. I selected 7 of the the 26 4 star songs to finish with 50 songs. One song year for each year of existence for the best band ever. These songs are in no particular order other than what I rated them. On my first Zep blog i posted the 7 4 star songs that brought the total to 50 songs. For this blog I'm posting the 11 songs that I rated 4.5 stars.

1) "Tangerine":

2) "Misty Mountain Hop":

3) "The Rain Song":

4) "Over The Hills and Far Away":

5) "In The Light":

6) "Ten Years Gone":

7) "For Your Life":

8) "In The Evening":

9) "Walter's Walk":

10) "Darlene":

11) "Wearing and Tearing":

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(Finished Dec 25th, 2018) themusicaddict's 1010 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 15 Songs 270-289

Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate and Happy Day to everyone else,

270) The Alan Parsons Project "Time":

271) Bon Jovi "Never Say Goodbye":

272) Foreigner "Urgent":

273) Foreigner "Juke Box Hero":

274) Foreigner "Waiting For A Girl Like You":

275) Pink Floyd "Learning To Fly":

I love the bass at the start of the song. I hear this song referenced every time someone leaves the Trump presidency. 276) Queen "Another One Bites The Dust":

277) Eric Carmen "Hungry Eyes":

278) Patrick Swayze (featuring Wendy Fraser) "She's Like The Wind":

279) Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes "(I've Had) The Time of My Life":

280) Real Life "Send Me An Angel":

281) The Alan Parsons Project "Eye In The Sky":

282) Jeffery Osborne "On The Wings of Love":

283) James Ingram "Just Once":

284) James Ingram "One Hundred Ways":

What a perfect day for this song. However it's so sad that this song is still relevant. 285) Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas":

286) Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Elton John and Gladys Knight.
"That's What Friends Are For":

287) Dionne Warwick "Heartbreaker":

288) The J. Geils Band "Freeze Frame":

289) Brothers Johnson "Stomp":

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(Finished March 14th, 2019) themusicaddict's 904 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 14 Songs 251-269

Hello,

251) The Bangles "Hazy Shade of Winter":

This is a very beautiful ballad. 252) The Bangles "Eternal Flame":

253) Cyndi Lauper "I Drove All Night":

254) Pat Benatar "We Live For Love":

255) Swing Out Sister "Am I The Same Girl":

256) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "I Won't Back Down":

257) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Free Falling":

258) The Pretenders "My City Was Gone":

259) Ratt "Round and Round":

260) The Tubes "She's A Beauty":

261) Poison "Fallen Angel":

262) Pretty Poison "Catch Me I'm Falling":

263) Charlene "I've Never Been To Me":

264) U2 "Bullet The Blue Sky":

265) El DeBarge "Who's Johnny":

266) DeBarge "Rhythm of the Night":

267) Cyndi Lauper "Time After Time":

268) Blondie "Call Me":

269) Blondie "Rapture":

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(Finished Dec 25th, 2018) themusicaddict's 760 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 13 Songs 232-250

Howdy and Merry Christmas,

232) Motley Crue "Home Sweet Home":

233) Motley Crue "Girls Girls Girls":

234) Motley Crue "Kickstart My Heart":

235) Bette Midler "The Rose":

236) Christopher Cross "Ride Like The Wind":

237) Boz Scaggs "Breakdown Dead Ahead":

238) Hall and Oates "Kiss On My List":

239) Hall and Oates "You Make My Dreams":

240) Hall and Oates "Private Eyes":

241) The Human League "Human":

242) The Cars "Hello Again":

243) Neil Diamond "America":

244) Neil Diamond "Heartlight":

245) Juice Newton "Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me":

246) The Hooters "And We Danced":

247) Ready For The World "Oh Sheila":

248) Kiss "Lick It Up":

249) Madonna "Papa Don't Preach":

250) Whitney Houston "One Moment In Time":

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(Finished Dec 23rd, 2018) themusicaddict's 750 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 12 Songs 213-231

Hello,

Starting this blog with 3 songs from one of the best CDs of all-time, Nine Inch Nails "Pretty Hate Machine":

213) "Head Like A Hole":

214) "Down In It":

215)"Terrible Lie":

216) They Might Be Giants "Ana Ng":

217) They Might Be Giants "Don't Let's Start":

218) The Smiths "Girlfriend In A Coma":

219) The Smiths "How Soon Is Now":

220) The Dead Milkmen "Punk Rock Girl":

221) Van Halen "Right Now":

222) Van Halen "And The Cradle Will Rock":

223) Van Halen "Why Can't This Be Love":

224) Van Halen "Finish What Ya Started":

225) The Cure "Just Like Heaven":

226) Belinda Carlisle "Heaven Is A Place On Earth":

227) David Lee Roth "Yankee Rose":

228) The Dazz Band "Let It Whip":

229) The Cars "Shake It Up":

230) The Cars "Magic":

231) Johnny Kemp "Just Got Paid":

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(Finished Dec 22nd, 2018) themusicaddict's 648 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 11 Songs 195-212

Hello,

I'm going to do my best to stay at about 750 songs for this series of blogs.

195) Quarterflash "Harden My Heart":

196) The Cutting Crew "(I Just) Died In Your Arms":

197) Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock "It Takes Two":

198) Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science":

199) Modern English " I Melt With You":

200) Toni Basil "Mickey":

201) Tommy Tutone "867-5309":

202) A Flock of Seagulls "I Ran (So Far Away)":

203) Loverboy "Working For The Weekend":

204) LL Cool J "Going Back To Cali":

Some of the best advice about love in a pop song. This song was actually released on January 16th, 1990. But for all intents and purposes of this blog, that's close enough to the 80s. It feels like an 80s song and even has a goofy 80's video. 205) Depeche Mode "Enjoy The Silence":

206) Young MC "Bust A Move":

207) Men Without Hats "Pop Goes The World":



208) M "Pop Musik":

209) Siouxsie and the Banshees "Peek A Boo":

210) Judas Priest "You've Got Another Thing Coming":

211) Judas Priest "United":

212) New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle":

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(Finished Dec 22nd, 2018) themusicaddict's 670 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 10 Songs 176 to 194

Hello,

I look forward to writing the Madonna blogs when I get to her in my Top 106 Greatest 80's Era Musicians. She just has so many great songs. 176) Madonna "Express Yourself":

177) Oingo Boingo "Weird Science":

178) The Fabulous Thunderbirds "Tuff Enuff":

179) Midnight Oil "Beds Are Burning":

180) Club Nouveau "Lean On Me":

181) Red Rider "Lunatic Fringe":

182) Aldo Nova "Fantasy":

183) Alannah Miles "Black Velvet":

184) Bertie Higgins "Key Largo":

185) Information Society "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)":

186) Swing Out Sister "Breakout":

187) T Pau "Heart and Soul":

188) Peter Schilling "Major Tom":

189) Nu Shooz "I Can't Wait":

190) Taco "Puttin' On The Ritz":

191) Yello "Oh Yeah":

192) Georgia Satellites "Keep Your Hands To Yourself":

193) Billy Vera and the Beaters "At This Moment":

194)  Matthew Wilder "Break My Stride":

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(Finished Dec 23rd, 2018) themusicaddict's 511 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 9 Songs 157 to 175

Hello,

Some of the greatest lyrics in a rock song ever.  157) U2 "With or Without You":

158) U2 "Desire":

159) U2 "Pride (In The Name of Love)":

Originally I had The Police's "Don't Stand So Close To Me" here. However I realized I had already had posted that video. Then I remembered this great Police song. 160) The Police "King of Pain":

161) Sting "Fortress Around Your Heart":

162) RUN-D.M.C. "It's Tricky":

163) AC/DC "Back In Black":

164) AC/DC "You Shook Me All Night Long":

165) Sinead O 'Connor "The Last Day of Our Acquaintance":

166) Whitesnake "In The Still of the Night":

167) Metallica "One":

168) Elton John "I'm Still Standing":

169) Billy Joel "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me":

170) The Scorpions "Rock You Like A Hurricane":

171) Meat Loaf  "Midnight at The Lost and Found":

172) Madonna "Vogue":

173) Bon Jovi "The Edge of A Broken Heart":

174) Whitney Houston "Saving All of My Love For You":

175) John Cougar "R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.":

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(Finished Dec 17th, 2018) themusicaddict's 123 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 8 Songs 138 to 156

Hello,

138) Dennis DeYoung "Desert Moon":

139) Styx "Mr. Roboto":

It's time to update this video for the freak show known as Trump, we had no idea how good we had it under any previous president. 140) Genesis "Land of Confusion":

141) Bananarama "Cruel Summer":

142) Murray Head "One Night In Bangkok":

143) Stevie Nicks "Stand Back":

144) Stevie Nicks "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around":

Okay this is a bit of a stretch, but I just couldn't not represent Kiss. Yes, I know the 70's was their peak decade. 145) Kiss "Heaven's On Fire":

146) In A Big Country "In A Big Country":

147) The Cars "Drive":

148) .38 Special "Caught Up In You":

149) Lionel Richie "Say You, Say Me":

150) After The Fire "Der Kommissar":

151) Animotion "Obsession":

152) M.C. Hammer "U Can't Touch This":

153) Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby":

A three song set by Rush, who had a fantastic start to the 80s:

154) "Spirit Of Radio":

One of the greatest lines from rock music "I can't pretend a stranger is a long awaited friend". 155) "Limelight":

156) "Tom Sawyer":

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(Finished Dec 16th, 2018) themusicaddict's 123 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 7 Songs 118 to 137

Hello,

It started out with only 123 songs, but obviously I long ago passed that number. As of now I have 451 songs on my best 80's songs list.

118) George Michael "Faith":

119) Wham "Careless Whisper":

120) George Michael "I Want Your Sex":

121) Yes "Owner of a Lonely Heart":

122) Peter Cetera "Glory of Love":

123) Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)":

124) Patti Labelle featuring Michael McDonald "On My Own":

125) Rick Springfield "Jessie's Girl":

126) Madonna "Crazy For You":

127) Denice Williams "Let's Hear It For The Boy":

128) Mr. Mister "Broken Wings":

129) REO Speedwagon "Can't Fight This Feeling":

130)  Laura Branigan "Gloria":

131) Steve Winwood "Roll With It":

132) Paula Abdul "Straight Up":

133) Billy Ocean "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car":

134) Men At Work "Who Can It Be Now":

135) Men At Work "Down Under":

136) Whitesnake "Here I Go Again":

137) Queensryche "Revolution Calling":

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