(Started February 27th, 2019) Poignant and Melancholy Songs

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With the death of a close dog friend of mine yesterday, I was in a melancholy mood. I found a bunch of songs that fit with that mood. However as I was writing a blog about great songs about animals, none of them fit. One song I was tempted to add to that blog was "Cats In The Cradle", but that song isn't about animals at all.

But that song partially inspired this blog and thus is the first video on it. There are some bands, Arcade Fire, Pink Floyd, that could fill up this blog with just their songs. But I wanted to share videos from a bunch of bands. Thus here's this blog.

I thought that this song was much longer. 1) Harry Chapin "Cats In The Cradle":

2) Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here":

3) Goo Goo Dolls "Black Balloon":

86 million views for a lyric video, that shows the power of this amazing song. 4) Don McLean "American Pie":

5) Fleetwood Mac "Landslide":

6) Peter Schilling "Major Tom (Coming Home)":

7) Simon & Garfunkel "The Sounds of Science":

8) U2 "One":

9) Death Cab For Cutie "We Looked Like Giants":

10) Midnight Oil "Beds Are Burning":

11) Gordon Lightfoot "Sundown":

12) The Verve Pipe "The Freshman":

13) The Gin Blossoms "Hey Jealousy":

14) Mazzy Star "Fade Into You":

15) Pearl Jam "Black":

16) Sting "Fields of Gold":



17) Metallica "Nothing Else Matters":

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(Finished February 26th, 2019) Best Songs About Animals: Goodbye Cody

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It was a very sad day for themusicaddict today, a good old dog friend of mine was laid to rest today. Cody, everybody's loving, cuddly friend died today. Although I haven't been able to see him much the last several years I enjoyed the times I got to see him. He was just a big loving dog. Cody, I love you and I miss you. I hope to see you again in the next life when we are both in better health.

These are actually songs about animals, not an animal being used in place of person. Although "Hound Dog" is a great song, it's not actually about a dog.

"Feed Jake":

Lobo "Me And You and a Dog Named Boo":

A fictional dog, but a dog nonetheless. The Royal Guardsmen "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron":

Patti Page "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window":

Carrie Underwood "The More Boys I Meet":

Michael Martin Murphey "Wildfire":

Pearl Jam "Rats":

America "Horse With No Name":

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(Started February 25th, 2019) themusicaddict's 1743 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 34 Songs 610-627

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Let's start off with three songs by The Cars:

610) "You Might Think":

R.I.P. Benjamin Orr 611) "Hello Again":

612) "Tonight She Comes":

Now here's four songs by Billy Squier:

613) "Lonely Is The Night":

614) "My Kinda Lover":

615) "Everybody Wants You":

616) "Emotions In Motion":

617)  Sade "Sweetest Taboo":

618) Sade "Never As Good As The First Time":

619) The Tubes "Talk To Ya Later":

620) Scandal "The Warrior":

621) Queen "One Vision":

622) Queen "Under Pressure":

623) Queen "I Want It All":

624) David Bowie "Fashion":

625) David Bowie "China Girl":

626) David Bowie "Modern Love":

627) David Bowie "Blue Jean":

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(Finished February 24th, 2019) Blog 3004: Some Classics & Some Songs That Should Get More Love, Part 4

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1) Toto "Africa":

2) Peter Cetera "Glory of Love":

3) Lauryn Hill "Doo Wop (That Thing)":



4) Black Eyed Peas "Let's Get It Started":



5) Sinead O' Connor "Nothing Compares 2U":



6) Sinead O' Connor "The Last Day of My Acquaintance":



7) Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody":



8) U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday":



9) B.B. King "The Thrill Is Gone":



10) Melora Hardin "Begin The Beguine":



11) Bob Marley and Wailers "Iron Lion Zion":



12) AWOLNATION "Sail":



13) Simply Red "Holding Back The Years":



14) 'Til Tuesday "Voices Carry":



15) Annie Lennox "Walking On Broken Glass":



16) M "Pop Muzik":



17) Paula Abdul "Straight Up":



18) Madonna "Live To Tell":

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(Started February 23rd, 2019) The Best of Muse Live, Part 2

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Encore

18) "Take A Bow":

19) "Uprising":

20) "Knights of Cydonia":

Other songs I would love to see them play, especially "Something Human". I'm disappointed this song isn't on their current setlist:

"Defector":

"Reapers":

"Unnatural Selection":

"The Dark Side":

"Algorithm" Intro /"Pressure":

One of my favorite songs from their most recent CD. "Propaganda":

"Break It To Me":

"Blockades":

"Big Freeze":
"Pray":

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(Finished February 23rd, 2019) The Female Future of Pop Music, Part 3: Meg Myers, Lady Gaga and Carrie Underwood

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Meg Myers:

"Sorry":

"Desire":

"Lemon Eyes":

"Take Me To The Disco":

"Little Black Death":



"Monster":



"Numb":



Lady Gaga obviously is a female singer and still relevant. She also had the best Super Bowl halftime performance over the last several years. Sadly there's not much competition for that title.

"Diggin' My Grave":



"I'll Never Love Again":



"Always Remember Us This Way":



"John Wayne":



"Angel Down":



"Diamond Heart":



I haven't been watching "The Masked Singer"- well because it's terrible- but Rumer Willis covering "Diamond Heart" here is pretty darn good:



"Aura":



"Manicure":



"Born This Way":



"Poker Face":



Carrie Underwood:

"Kingdom":



"Love Wins":



"Choctaw County Affair":



"Dirty Laundry":



"Ghosts On The Stereo":

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(Finished February 22nd, 2019) Blog 3003: Some Classics & Some Songs That Should Get More Love, Part 3

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1) Tracy Chapman "Fast Car":

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

3) "Camouflage":

4) Kim Carnes "Bette Davis Eyes":

Bonnie Tyler is more than just that one song. 5) Bonnie Tyler "Holding Out For A Hero":

6) Oxo "Whirly Girl":

7) Fergie "Fergalicious":

8) K's Choice "Not An Addict":

9) The Sundays "Here's Where The Story Ends":

10) Paul Simon "You Can Call Me Al":

11) Pink & Nate Ruess "Just Give Me A Reason":



12) The Fratellis "Creepin' Up The Backstairs":



13) Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes "Love Lifted Us Up Where We Belong":



14) Duran Duran (featuring Nile Rodgers and Janelle Monae) "Pressure Off":



Did you first hear this song on an iPod commercial? 15) The Caesars "Jerk It Out":



16) Mr. Mister "Broken Wings":



17) Dua Lipa "IDGAF":

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(Finished February 21st, 2019) themusicaddict's 1743 Best Songs of the 80s, Part 57 Songs 978-993

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I jumped from Part 33 to Part 57 because I'm in a Madonna mood. I could've just created a Madonna blog out of the thin air. But I decided to just use part of this series of blogs that I'm already working on and that has a bunch of Madonna songs on it.

Madonna

978) "Everybody":

979) "Angel":

980) "Love Don't Live Here Anymore":

981) Dress You Up":

982) "Open Your Heart":

983) "Live To Tell":

984) "True Blue":

985) "La Isla Bonita":

986) "Causing A Commotion":

987) "Cherish":

988) "Oh Father":

989) "Keep Together":

George Michael

990) "Father Figure":

991) "One More Try":

992) "Monkey":

993) "Kissing A Fool":

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(Started February 19th, 2019) Blog 3002: Some Classics & Some Songs That Should Get More Love, Part 2

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1) U2 "Bullet The Blue Sky":

I love where Johnny's voice drops low as he sings "baby". 

2) Johnny Duncan and Janie Fricke "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better":

3) The Commodores "Sail On":

4) Nick Lowe "Cruel To Be Kind":

5) The Kinks "Come Dancing":

6) From "Evita", Madonna singing "Buenos Aires":

7) Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls";

8) Elton John "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues":
9) Rush "Subdivisions":
10) Dua Lipa "IDGAF":
11) Masked Intruder "If Only":
12) Black Crowes "Remedy":
13) From "Rent", "Light My Candle":



14) "The Age Of Aquarius":
15) My Chemical Romance
16) Oasis "Wonderwall":
17) Duran Duran "Come Undone":

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(Started February 19th, 2019) Blog 3001: Some Classics & Some Songs That Should Get More Love, Part 1

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1) Lady Gaga "Bad Romance":

2) Lady Gaga "Poker Face":

3) Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson "I Know Him So Well":

4) Whitney Houston "Saving All My Love For You":

5) C + C Music Factory "Everybody Dance Now":

6) Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk":

7) Madonna "Papa Don't Preach":

8) Arcade Fire "Sprawl 2 (Mountains Beyond Mountains):

9) Miranda Lambert "The House That Built Me":

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

11) From Hamilton "It's Quiet Uptown":
12) Simon and Garfunkel "The Sound Of Silence":
Yes I know that the lyrics don't make a lick of sense. 13) The Wallflowers "The Difference":



14) The Counting Crowns "Rain King":
15) Tracey Ullman "They Don't Know":
16) Jet "Are You Going To Be My Girl":

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(Finished February 18th, 2019) Muse Live At Hollywood Palladium February 9th, 2019

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Tomorrow is Tuesday, today is Museday I hope I amuse you today. A week from Thursday a friend and I will be going to see Muse here in Salt Lake City. Muse have resumed their tour, so I'm going to be posting songs from their most recent setlist. I plan on working exclusively on Muse blogs today, I have several Muse blogs that are incomplete. This Muse setlist was is from the Hollywood Palladium concert on February 9th, 2019

1) "Algorithm":

2) "[Drill Sergeant]/ Psycho":

This is from the Hollywood Palladium show. 3) Break It To Me":

Also from the Hollywood Palladium, but not all the songs on this blog will be from that concert.
4) "Time Is Running Out":

5) "The Dark Side":

6) "Uprising":

7) "The 2nd Law: Unsustainable":

8) "Madness":

9) "Pressure":

10) "Supermassive Black Hole (with "Close Encounters of The Third Kind" intro:

11) "Thought Contagion":

12) "Stockholm Syndrome/ Assassin/ Reapers/ The Handler/ New Born":

Encore

13) "Starlight":

14) "Knights of Cydonia":

This is from The Reading Festival and is very cool. Brian Johnson and Muse playing "Back In Black":

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(Finished February 17th, 2019) Songs from World War 1 & World War 2

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I was looking for inspiration to find a blog topic that's appropriate on the Sabbath. Looking through today's paper, shout out to the Salt Lake Tribune, I stumbled across their monthly magazine Valor. In there they have a feature about the power of music. They have selected 5 songs each from World War 1 to the Afghanistan War. The Afghanistan War started in 2001 and unbelievably 18 years later is still ongoing.

I've already done similar blogs for the Vietnam War, so I won't be writing that blog again. I'll do this blog and see if I'll so any other blogs for any other wars.

World War 1:

Yeah, I know the picture is upside down. 1) John McCormack "Keep The Home Fires Burning":

2) Oscar Seagle "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Kit Bag":

3) George Cohan "Over There":

4) Henry Burr "If You Were the Only Girl In The World":

5) Jo Stafford  "Roses of Picardy":

6) John McCormack "It's A Long Way To Tipperary":

7) American Quartet "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France":

8) Courtland & Jeffries "Oh! It's A Lovely War":

World War 2:

1) Vera Lynn "We'll Meet Again":

2) George Formby "Imagine Me On Maginot Line":

3) Glenn Miller "Moonlight Serenade":

4) Dooley Wilson "As Time Goes By":

5) Andrews Sisters "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree":

6) Vera Lynn "The White Cliffs of Dover":

7) The Andrews Sisters "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy":

8) Elsie Carlisle "Kiss Me Goodnight Seargeant Major":

9) Melora Hardin "Begin the Beguine":

10) The Spaniels "Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight":

11) Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters "Don't Fence Me In":

I know this was a Civil War song, but it was also listed as a song of World War 2. I just went with it. 12) "When Johnny Comes Marching Home":

13) Johnny Horton "Sink The Bismarck":



14) Vera Lynn "Bless 'Em All":



15) Pink Floyd "When The Tigers Broke Free":

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(Finished March 2nd, 2019) 1979's Best Songs, Part 4: Songs 55-71

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55) The Bellamy Brothers "If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me)":

56) The Village People "In The Navy":

57) Randy Vanwarmer "Just When I Needed You Most":

58) Maxine Nightingale "Lead Me On":

59) Supertramp "The Logical Song":

60) The Clash "London Calling (with bonus "Train In Vain)":

61) The Little River Band "Lonesome Loser":

62) The Police "Message In A Bottle":

63) Frank Mills "Music Box Dancer":

64) Billy Joel "My Life":

65) Madness "One Step Beyond":

66) Blondie "One Way Or Another":

67) KC & The Sunshine Band "Please Don't Go":

68) Sham 69 "Questions and Answers":

69) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Refugee":

70) Michael Jackson "Rock With You":

71) Pink Floyd "Run Like Hell":

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(Finished March 2nd, 2019) 1979's Best Songs, Part 3: Songs 37-54

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37) Queen "Crazy Little Thing Called Love":

38) Nick Lowe "Cruel To Be Kind":

"Captain" Daryl Dragon died on January 2nd of this year. R.I.P. Daryl.
39) Captain and Tennille "Do That To Me One More Time":

40) Melissa Manchester "Don't Cry Out Loud":



41) Blondie "Dreaming":

42) Cheap Trick "Dream Police":

43) Donna Summer "Dim All The Lights":

44) John Stewart "Gold":

45) Abba "Gimme Gimme Gimme":

46) The Cars "Let The Good Times Roll":

47) Supertramp "Goodbye Stranger":

48) Donna Summer "Sunset People":

49) Toto "99":

50) Billy Joel "Honesty":

51) Barbara Mandrell "If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want To Be Right)":

52) Anne Murray "I Just Fall In Love Again":

53) The Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated":

54) Cheap Trick "I Want You To Want Me":

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(Finished March 2nd, 2019) 1979's Best Songs, Part 2: Songs 19-36

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Another set of selected songs from 1979, as always enjoy!!!

19) The Eagles "Heartache Tonight":

This is one of the Top 50 ballads of all-time, a classic. 20) The Commodores "Still":

This features a sorta introduction from The Village People.
21) Rupert Holmes "Escape (The Pina Colada Song):

 No introduction from Rupert Holmes for 22) The Village People "Y.M.C.A.":

23) The Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star":

24) Dr. Hook "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman":

25) Pink Floyd "Another Brick In The Wall":

26) Earth, Wind and Fire "After The Love Is Gone":

27) Meat Loaf "Bat Out of Hell":

28) Meat Loaf "All Revved Up With No Place To Go":

This is a stretch, but just go with it, the movie was released in 1979. 29) "Ride of the Valkyries" from "Apocalypse Now":

30) McFadden and Whitehead "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now":

One of my favorite songs from the late 70s. 31) Robert Palmer "Bad Case of Loving You":

32) Billy Joel "Big Shot":

33) Anne Murray "I'll Fall In Love Again":

34) Anne Murray "Broken Hearted Me":

35) The Police "Can't Stand Losing You":

36) Rickie Lee Jones "Chuck E's In Love":

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(Finished March 2nd, 2019) 1979's Best Songs, Part 1: Songs 1-18

Hello,

Forty years ago was some of the greatest music ever, I'm going to post some of the greatest songs from the year.

One reason music was so much better back in the day was there were so many classic songs from multiple genres. Let's take 1979 for instance, it was the year for Disco. Not only were there some one hit wonders in the Disco genre, for instance Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell". But there were also some more established Disco artists that had big years, for instance Donna Summer. But also 1979 is the year of sappy sad songs- songs like Robert John's "Sad Eyes". But there were also a lot of rock bands that had great songs that year, for instance Led Zeppelin's "Fool In The Rain". However 1979 was also the year of Anne Murray, Blondie, The Commodores and Abba. So just off the top of my head these were some of the classics from rock, pop and disco. 1979 was also the year that Rap and Hip Hop got it's "first commercially successful hip hop song", which was The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight".  (Thanks to Wikipedia.)

I'm going to start off with six of the biggest songs of 1979.

1) Blondie "Heart of Glass":

For a one hit wonder, this song has had a long pop culture shelf life.
2) Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive":

3) M "Pop Muzik":

4) Donna Summer "Hot Stuff":

5) Donna Summer "Bad Girls":

6) Patrick Hernandez "Born To Be Alive":

7) Bee Gees "Too Much Heaven":

8) Chic "Le Freak":

9) Rod Stewart "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy":

10) Bee Gees "Tragedy":

11) The Doobie Brothers "What A Fool Believes":

12) Amii Stewart "Knock On Wood":

13) Peaches and Herb "Reunited":

14) Anita Ward "Ring My Bell":

15) Robert John "Sad Eyes":

16) Michael Jackson "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough":

17) Herb Alpert "Rise":

Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer 18) "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)":

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(Finished April 13th, 2019) Songs Rocking My iPod

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1) Muddy Waters "Mannish Boy":

2) Papa Roach "Getting Away With Murder":

Thanks to Paste Magazine music samplers for me being to discover this great song.

3) The Cat Empire "Sly":

4) Oingo Boingo "Who Do You Want To Be":

5) Muse "Uprising" (Live At Rome Olympic Stadium):

6) Awolnation "Sail":

7) Everything But The Girl "Missing":

8) Led Zeppelin "Fool In The Rain":

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

10) Grandmaster Flash "White Lines (Don't Do It)":

11) Prophets of Rage "Living On The 110":

12) AC/DC "Who Made Who":

13) Morrissey "All You Need Is Me":

14) Panic! At The Disco "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off":

15) Paul Hardcastle "19" (Destruction Mix):

16) Wolf Alice "Beautifully Unconventional":

17) Erasure "Phantom Bride":

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(Finished February 15th, 2021) Part 2 of The Female Future of Music

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Halsey "Castle":

"Colors":

"Hurricane":

featuring Gigi Hadid "Gasoline":

Chainsmokers featuring Halsey. "Closer":

"Bad At Love":

"You Should Be Sad":

Janelle Monae featuring Big Boi "Tightrope":

"Violet Stars Happy Hunting":

featuring Erykah Badu "Q.U.E.E.N."

featuring Solange "Electric Lady":

With Duran Duran and featuring funk master Nile Rodgers "Pressure Off":

Featuring C. Viper "We Were Rock & Roll":

"Make Me Feel":

Alice Merton "No Roots":

"Lash Out":

"Why So Serious":

"Hit The Ground Running":

Only 2,100 YouTube page views, that's just not right. "Trouble In Paradise":

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