(Finished March 31st, 2020) The Top 5 Songs + #100 Ranked Song Every Year I've Been Alive Part One: 1970, 1971, 1972

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I was hatched in June of 1967, the #1 about the week I was born was Aretha Franklin's "Respect". If that isn't exactly accurate, it's pretty close. And it's close enough that I will take it. These rankings are from Billboard magazine.

1970:

R.I.P. Aretha, she was so incredible. 100) Aretha Franklin "Call Me":

5) Edwin Starr "War":

4) B.J. Thomas "Raindrops Falling On My Head":

3) The Guess Who "American Woman":

2) The Carpenters "They Long To Be Close To You":

1) Simon and Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water":

1971:

100) Perry Como "Somos Novios (It's Impossible)":

5) The Bee Gees "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart":

4) The Osmonds "One Bad Apple":

This was a double sided A single according to Wikipedia. 3) Carole King "It's Too Late/ I Feel The Earth Move":

2) Rod Stewart "Maggie May/ Reason To Believe":



His version he made of this song several years later is a lot better, although this version is fine.



This is the mentioned above version that I enjoy so much more.

1) Three Dog Night "Joy To The World":

1972:

100) The Isley Brothers "Pop That Thang":

5) Sammy Davis Jr. "Candy Man":

4) Harry Nilsson "Without You":

3) Don McLean "American Pie":

2) Gilbert O'Sullivan "Alone Again":

1) Roberta Flack "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face":

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(Finished March 30th, 2020) The Top 5 Songs + #100 Ranked Song Every Year I've Been Alive Part One: 1967,1968,1969

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I was hatched in June of 1967, the #1 about the week I was born was Aretha Franklin's "Respect". If that isn't exactly accurate, it's pretty close. And it's close enough that I will take it. These rankings are from Billboard magazine.

1967:

100) Neil Diamond "Thank The Lord For The Night Time":

5) The Monkees "I'm A Believer":

4) The Association "Windy":

3) Bobby Gentry "Ode To Billy Joe":

2) The Box Tops "The Letter":

I'm very glad this was #1 for the year when I was born. 1) Lulu "To Sir With Love":

1968:

Honestly I've never even heard of this song or the artist. But I love it's old school feel.
100) Jerry Butler "Never Gonna Give You Up":

5) The Rascals "People Got To Be Free":

4) Otis Redding "(Sittin' On) The Dock of The Bay":

This is not a song that I would associate with the radical year of 1968. 3) Bobby Goldsboro "Honey":

2) Paul Mauriat "Love Is Blue":

Not a big Beatles fan, but this is without a doubt a classic. 1) The Beatles "Hey Jude":

1969:

100) The Box Tops "Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March":

5) Sly and The Family Stone "Everyday People":

4) Rolling Stone "Honky Tonk Women":

3) The Temptations "I Can't Get Next To You":

2) The Fifth Dimension "Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine In":

1) The Archies "Sugar, Sugar":

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(Finished March 29th, 2020) Multiple Word Titles Featuring A Woman's Name, Part 2: Songs 19-36

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I work at a bank and I helped a girl named Cecelia today, anyway that put the Simon and Garfunkel song in my head for the rest of the day. I was inspired to write a blog about songs with women's names. I wanted to twist that up a bit, so I'm writing this series of blogs. These are songs with women's names that have more than one word in the title.

19) Breaking Benjamin "The Diary Of Jane":

20) Counting Crow "Goodnight Elisabeth":

21) L.A. Guns "The Ballad of Jayne":

22) Green Day "Viva La Gloria":

23) They Might Be Giants "Ana Ng":

24) Queensryche "Della Brown":

25) Shinedown "Her Name Is Alice":

26) Death Cab For Cutie "What Sarah Said":

27) Fountains of Wayne "Stacy's Mom":

28) The Killers "Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine":

29) The Kaiser Chiefs "Caroline, Yes":

30) Kiss "Christine Sixteen":

31) The Association "Along Comes Mary":

32) Looking Glass "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)":

33) Kenny Rogers and The First Edition "Ruby (Don't Take Your Love To Town)":

34) Hall and Oates "Sara Smile":

35) The Beach Boys "Help Me Rhonda":

36) Dexy's Midnight Runners "Come On Eileen":

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(Started March 27th, 2020) Mash Up Blog: Aerosmith and Simon and Garfunkel/ Paul Simon

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Do you ever get the feeling that Steven Tyler is sort of a d bag? He's one of the lamer front men/singers in all of rock music. That being said Aerosmith does have a lot of great songs! I have never considered myself a big fan of them. I saw them in concert once and they were awful. But I heard this song today for the first time in a long time and I forgot of how great of a song it is. I bet it's a fun song to sing as well.

1) Aerosmith "Dream On":

2) Simon and Garfunkel "The Sounds of Silence":

3) Aerosmith "Sweet Emotion":

4) Simon and Garfunkel "I Am A Rock":

5) Aerosmith "Amazing":

6) Simon and Garfunkel "Homeward Bound":

7) Aerosmith "Cryin":

8) Simon and Garfunkel "Cecelia":



9) Aerosmith "Angel":



10) Simon and Garfunkel "The Boxer":



11) Aerosmith "Back In The Saddle":



12) Simon and Garfunkel "Mrs. Robinson":



13) Aerosmith "Walk This Way":



What a lovely song!! 14) Simon and Garfunkel "Scarborough Fair":



15) Aerosmith "Come Together ":



16) Simon and Garfunkel "April Come She Will":



17) Aerosmith "Hangman Jury":



18) A solo song by Paul Simon "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard":



19) Aerosmith "St. John":



20) Simon and Garfunkel "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)":



21) Aerosmith "Love In An Elevator":



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



23) Aerosmith "Janie's Got A Gun":



24) Paul Simon "Mother and Child Reunion":
25) Aerosmith "Heart's Done Time":
26) Paul Simon "Still Crazy After All These Years":
27) Aerosmith "Jaded":



28) Simon and Garfunkel "America":



29) Aerosmith "Just Push Play":
30) Simon and Garfunkel "Kodachrome":

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(Finished April 19th, 2020) A Pandemic Playlist

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This is a pandemic playlist, some good tunes for bad times. These songs came from me, the following website https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLAcAswYb6L_rq2fHqvzwJNUkd6IQCOEyQ and
https://www.rockmyworld.com/the-pandemic-playlist-music-in-the-time-of-the-coronavirus/

1) R.E.M. "It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)":

Fever and shortness of breath are two key attributes of Covid-19, but of course you can also be asymptomatic. 2) Peggy Lee "Fever":

Social distancing works!! 3) The Police "Don't Stand So Close To Me":

4) Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear The Reaper":

5) Skeeter Davis "The End of the World":

6) Johnny Cash "The Man Comes Around":

7) Barry McGuire "Eve of Destruction":

8) Pink Floyd, so much for social distancing, this is what I want to do "Run Like Hell":

9) KMFDM "Virus":

Even when keeping those hands to yourself, you still gots to wash those hands.
10) The Georgia Satellites "Keep Your Hands To Yourself":

Ultimately if we all do what we're suppose to do we will survive. 11) Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive":

12) Lita Ford "Kiss Me Deadly":

13) Maroon 5 "Harder To Breathe":

14) Flyleaf "I'm So Sick":

15) Def Leppard "Hysteria":

Remain calm, there's no reason to panic. 16) The Smiths "Panic":

17) Disturbed "Down With The Sickness":

So far about 41,000 Americans have been the person in the box. 18) Alice In Chains "Man In A Box":

We all have the power to limit the effects of this coronavirus, please do what you can.
 19) Snap! "The Power":

Wash your hands!!! 20) Alanis Morissette "Hands Clean":



Sadly the Coronavirus, Covid-19, has brought death to many of our hometowns.
21) Bruce Springsteen "Death To My Hometown":



What does the Grandfather of Grunge think about the whole pandemic mess.
22) Neil Young and band "Shut It Down":



23) Bruce Springsteen "We Take Care of Our Own";

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(Finished April 29th, 2020) All of The Best 80s and 90s Rock Ballads, Part 5: Songs 65-81 Little Caesar to Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks

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I started this blog off with website: https://entertainment.expertscolumn.com/top-100-power-ballads-and-acoustic-rock-ballads-80s-and-90s if a song isn't listed here, it's not worthy of its' peers. It also has to be a real rock ballad or mid-tempo song. Probably the best rock ballad of all-time is Poison's "Every Rose Has It's Thorn".

While I do love Sheriff's "When I'm With You", it IS NOT a rock ballad!! Neither is Chicago's "Hard To Say I'm Sorry". Ultimately Journey may have some songs qualify, but "Open Arms" isn't one of those songs.

65) Little Caesar "In Your Arms":



66) Man O War "The Heart of Steel":



Okay this might be a bit of a stretch. 67) Meat Loaf "Objects In The Rearview Mirror":

68) Metallica "Nothing Else Matters":

69) Metallica "The Unforgiven":

70) Motley Crue "Home Sweet Home":

71) Motley Crue "Time For Change":



72) Motley Crue "Without You":



73) Motley Crue "You're All I Need":

74) Night Ranger "Goodbye":

75) Night Ranger "Sister Christian":



76) Mr. Big "To Be With You":

77) Ozzy Osbourne "Mama I'm Coming Home":

78) Ozzy Osborne "No More Tears":



79) Ozzy Osborne and Lita Ford "Close My Eyes Forever":



80) Ozzy "The Road To Nowhere":



I would have never considered this song for this blog before tonight. But it is a ballad and it does rock and who doesn't love Tom Perry and Stevie Nicks?
81) Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around":

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(Started March 24th, 2020, Revamped and Revised March 18th, 2023) Part 1 of The "Oh Yeah" Songs

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These are songs that I haven't heard or thought that much the last few years, but hearing or seeing them once again I remember how great of songs they are. I hear the song and then think "oh yeah" that's a great song.

1) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "The Impression That I Get":

2) Jean Knight "Mr. Big Stuff":

With the recent death of Kenny Rogers this great song was played on local country music radio station, it was good to hear this song again. 3) "Love Or Something Like It":

4) Trace Adkins "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk":

5) Meat Loaf "Life Is A Lemon and I Want My Money Back":

6) Bad Company "Shooting Star":

7) Barry Manilow "Copacabana":

8) Clint Black "Nobody's Home":

9) Van Halen "Everybody Wants Some":

10) David Lee Roth "Yankee Rose":

11) The Heavy "How You Like Me Now":

12) Bon Jovi "Living On A Prayer":

13) Prince "Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)":

14) Amy Winehouse "You Know I'm No Good":

15) Toby Keith "Blue Bedroom":

16) Alanis Morissette "That I Would Be Good":

17) Dan Hill "Sometimes When We Touch":

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(Finished March 23rd, 2020) Best Country Songs of the 90s, Part 5: Songs 69-85

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69) Marty Stuart "Burn Me Down":



70) Confederate Railroad "Daddy Never Was The Cadillac Kind ":



71) Clint Black "A Good Run of Luck":



72) Trace Adkins "I Left Something Turned On At Home":



73) The Dixie Chicks "You Were Mine":



74) The Dixie Chicks "Sin Wagon":



75) Suzy Bogguss "Outbound Plane":



76) Linda Davis and Reba McEntire "Does He Love You":



77) Wynonna "I Saw The Light":



78) Wynonna "No One Else On Earth":



79) Wynonna "Girls With Guitars":



80) The Judds "Love That Can Build A Bridge":



81) Alan Jackson "Gone Country":



82) John Michael Montgomery "Life's A Dance":



83) Dwight Yoakam "Crazy Little Thing Called Love":



84) Tim McGraw and Faith Hill "It's Your Love":



85) John Anderson "Let Go Of The Stone":

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(Finished March 22nd, 2020) Best Country Songs of the 90s, Part 4: Songs 52-68

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52) Kenny Chesney "All I Need To Know":

53) John Michael Montgomery "Life's A Dance":

54) Sawyer Brown "Puttin' The Dark":

55) Joe Diffie "Third Rock From The Sun":

56) Joe Diffie "John Deere Green":

57) Mary Chapin Carpenter "Down At The Twist and Shout":

58) Mary Chapin Carpenter "He Thinks He'll Keep Her":

59) Mindy McCready "Ten Thousand Angels":

60) Aaron Tippin "There Ain't Nothing Wrong With The Radio":

Has Garth finally started allowing his music on YouTube or has this song somehow found a way to be here. Will this and other Garth videos soon be deleted from Facebook?
61) Garth Brooks "The Thunder Rolls":

62) Garth Brooks "What She's Doing Now":

The best video I could find for this song is a cover. It's okay, but ain't quite up to the level of Garth. Garth is this really how you want your music represented? I eventually found this very amateur  video of Garth Brooks. 63) Garth Brooks "She's Every Woman":



This is the best version of this song I found:

64) Toby Keith "A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Talkin":

65) Toby Keith "How Do You Like Me Now":

66) Travis Tritt "Help Me Hold On":

67) Travis Tritt "Drift Off To Dream":

68) Marty Stuart "Little Things":

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(Finished March 22nd, 2020) Best Country Songs of the 90s, Part 3: Songs 35-51

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These first two songs are Mark Chesnutt, he's one of my favorite country music singers of the 90s. He has so many great songs, I'm not sure why he wasn't a bigger star. This is one of my favorite songs of his. It's wrong this song only haw 28,691 views. 35) "I Just Wanted You To Know":



36) Mark Chesnutt "Your Love Is A Miracle":

37) Alan Jackson "Chattahoochee":



38) Alan Jackson "Don't Rock The Jukebox":



39) Alan Jackson "Here In The Real World":



40) Randy Travis "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart":



41) Faith Hill "Wild One":



42) Faith Hill "This Kiss":



Like Mark Chesnutt, another musician who never received his due. 43) Chris LeDeoux "Riding For A Fall":



44) Trace Adkins "This Ain't No Thinkin' Thing":



45) Billy Dean "Somewhere In My Broken Heart":



46) Collin Raye "In This Life":



47) Collin Raye "One Boy One Girl":



48) Sammy Kershaw "Queen of My Double Wide Trailer":



49) Tim McGraw "Indian Outlaw":



50) Tim McGraw "Where The Green Grass Grows":



51) Kenny Chesney "She's Got It All":

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(Finished March 21st, 2020) Best Country Songs of the 90s, Part 2: Songs 18-34

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18) Patty Loveless "I'm That Kind of Girl";

19) Clay Walker "This Woman and This Man":

20) The Dixie Chicks "Ready To Run":

21) Collin Raye "That's My Story":

22) Pam Tillis "Maybe It Was Memphis":

23) Wynonna Judd "No One Else On Earth":

24) Lonestar "Amazed":

25) David Lee Murphy "Dust On The Bottle":

26) Leannn Rimes "Blue":

27) Travis Tritt "Anymore":

28) Collin Raye "I Can Still Feel You":

29) Little Texas "God Blessed Texas":

30) The Dixie Chicks "Wide Open Spaces":

31) Shania Twain "Any Man of Mine":

32) Deanna Carter "Strawberry Wine":

33) Brooks and Dunn "Boot Scootin' Boogie":

34) Tim McGraw "I Like It, I Love It":

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(Finished March18th, 2020) Best Country Songs of the 90s, Part 1: Songs 1 to 17

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1) Shenandoah "Next To You, Next To Me":

2) Dwight Yoakam "Fast As You":

3) Patty Loveless "I Try To Think of Elvis":

4) Leann Rimes "How Do I Live":

5) Faith Hill "Breathe":

6) SHeDaisy "Little Goodbyes":

7) Tim McGraw "Something Like That":

8) Clint Black "Nobody's Home":

9) K.T. Oslin "Come Next Monday":



This song actually came out late 1989, it was released in October of that year. It probably was still charting in 1990. 10) Keith Whitley "It Ain't Nothin":

11) Travis Tritt "I'm Gonna Be Somebody":

12) Alabama "Pass It On Down":

13) Clint Black "Nothing's News":

14) Pam Tillis "Don't Tell Me What To Do":

15) The Kentucky Headhunters "Dumas Walker":

16) Doug Stone "Why Didn't I Think of That":

17) Carlene Carter "Every Little Thing":

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(Finished March 17th, 2020) Best Country Songs of the 80s: Part 3 Songs 35-52

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35) Janie Fricke "Let's Stop Talkin' About It":



36) Earl Thomas Conley "Angel In Disguise":



37)  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Long Hard Road (The Sharecroppers Dream)":



38) Johnny Lee "You Could Have Heard A Heartbreak":



39) Reba McEntire "Little Rock":



40) Reba McEntire "The Last One To Know":



41) Ricky Van Shelton "Somebody Lied":



42) Steve Wariner "Life's Highway":



43) Ronnie Milsap "Lost In The Fifties Tonight (In The Still of The Night)":



44) Juice Newton "Queen of Hearts":



45) Mel McDaniel "Stand Up":



46) Rosanne Cash "I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me":



47) Dan Seals "Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold":



48) Dan Seals "My Old Yellow Car":



49)  Lee Greenwood "God Bless The USA":



50) The Oak Ridge Boys "Trying To Love Two Women":



In honor to all who were affected by the Vietnam War. 51) The Charlie Daniels Band "Still In Saigon":



52) "She Can't Say That Anymore":

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(Finished March 15th, 2020) Best Country Songs of the 80s: Songs 18-34

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18) Restless Heart "That Rock Won't Roll":

19) Kenny Rogers "Through The Years":

20) Randy Travis "1982":

21) Shenadoah "The Church on Cumberland Road":

22) Reba McEntire "Can't Even Get The Blues No More":

23) John Anderson "Wild & Blue":

24) T.G. Sheppard "War Is Hell On The Home Front Too":

25) Merle Haggard "I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink":

26) Earl Thomas Conley "Fire and Smoke":

27) Conway Twitty "Tight Fittin' Jeans":

28) Jerry Reed "She Got The Goldmine (I Got The Shaft)":

29) Michael Martin Murphey "What's Forever For":

30) Earl Thomas Conley "Somewhere Between Right and Wrong":

31) John Anderson "Swingin'":

32) Shelly West "Jose Cuervo":

33) Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson "Pancho and Lefty":

34) Earl Thomas Conley "Holding Her and Loving You":

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(Started March 14th, 2020) Classic Rock's 50 Blues Rock Songs You Should Hear Before You Die: Part 3

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This list is from the August 2019 Classic Rock magazine. I have never thought blues received enough love, it's some of the most vital music ever created. I'm going to post videos for the 50 songs Classic Rock listed and likely I'll add a few of my own. I'll start with the ones I come up with first. There were a couple of duplicates with my list and Classic Rock's list, the duplicates will be listed with the Classic Rock list.

37) Jeff Beck "Cause We've Ended As Lovers":

38) Van Halen "Ice Cream Man":

39) Whitesnake "Walking In The Shadow of the Blues":

40) ZZ Top "A Fool For Your Stockings":

41) George Thorogood & The Destroyers "Bad To The Bone":

42) Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble "Pride and Joy":

43) Lonnie Mack "Cincinnati Jail":

44) Danny Gatton "Notcho Blues":

45) Soundgarden "Smokestack Lightning":

46) Cinderella "Gypsy Road":

47) Nirvana "Where Did You Sleep Tonight":

48) The Stone Roses "Love Spreads":

49) Chris Isaak "Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing":

50) The White Stripes "Stop Breaking Down":

51) Aerosmith "Road Runner":

52) Clutch "Electric Worry":

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(Started March 13th, 2020, Updated March 14th, 2023) Classic Rock's 50 Blues Rock Songs You Should Hear Before You Die: Part 2

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This list is from the August 2019 Classic Rock magazine. I've never thought blues received enough love, it's some of the most vital music ever created. I'm going to post videos for the 50 songs Classic Rock listed and likely I'll add a few of my own. I'll start with the ones I come up with first. There were a couple of duplicates with my list and Classic Rock's list, the duplicates will be listed with the Classic Rock list.

19) The Yardbirds "The Nazz Are Blue":

20) Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band "Diddy Wah Diddy":

21) Albert King "Born Under A Bad Sign":

22) Cream "Strange Brew":

23) Fleetwood Mac "Oh Well (Part 1)":

24) Free "The Hunter":

25) Creedence Clearwater Revival "The Midnight Special":

26) The Allman Brothers Band "Whipping Post":

27) Led Zeppelin "You Shook Me":

28) The Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler":

29) Mountain "Mississippi Queen":

30) The Groundhogs "Cherry Red":

31) Derek & The Dominos "Layla":

32) The Doors "L.A. Woman":

33) Deep Purple "Lazy":

34) Rory Gallagher "Messin' With The Kid":

35) Humble Pie "Black Coffee":

36) Roy Buchanan "Roy's Bluz":

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(Started March 12th, 2020) Some of the Best Funny Songs and Some of the Best Funny Sad Songs

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I don't think I've ever done a funny songs blog, no better time than the present. Some of these songs are sad funny.

1) Bowling For Soup "1985":

2) Presidents of The United States "Peaches":

3) Flight of The Conchords "Business Time":

4) Johnny Cash "A Boy Named Sue":

5) Weird Al Yankovic "Eat It":

6) Crimson Wave "Tacocat":

7) "Tribute":

8) Goalposts of Life":

9) "You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith Too":

10) Take The Skinheads Bowling":

11) Jerry Reed "She's Got The Goldmine, I Got The Shaft":

12) Thanks To The Cathouse

13) Istanbul

14) Barbie Girl":

15) "Particle Man":

Ticks

17) The Smiths "There's A Light That Never Goes Out":

18) B. Reith "Go On":

19) Fat

20) Amish Paradise

21) Punk Rock Girl

22) The extremely lovely Carly Pearce "You Kissed Me First":

23) Dierks Bentley "":

24) Trace Adkins "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk":

25) Maddie and Tae "Girl In A Country Song":

26) Adam Ant "Goody Two Shoes":



27) Fountains of Wayne "Stacy's Mom":



28) AC/DC "Big Balls":
29) Lump



30 Cake
31) Julie Brown "The Homecoming Queen Has A Gun":



32) "":



33) Welcome To Earth Third Rock From The Sun
34) George Jones "The Corvette Song (The One That I Loved Back Then)":



35) The One That's On The Left
36) "Purple People Eater":