Songs that I should have on my blog more. One thing about my blog that I have noticed is that I post basically the same couple hundred songs for nearly every blog. This blog is dedicated to those songs that are great that I never or rarely publish. Enjoy.
18) Belly "Feed The Tree":
"If you don't expect too much from me I might not let you down". 19) Gin Blossoms "Hey Jealousy":
20) The Breeders "Cannonball":
21) Chris DeBurgh "Don't Pay The Ferryman":
22) The Moody Blues "Gemini Dream":
23) Christopher Cross "All Right":
24) Missing Persons "Walking In L.A.":
25) Doobie Brothers "Real Love":
26) Journey "The Party Is Over (Hopelessly In Love)":
I updated, and finished, this blog on March 1st, 2022.
Songs that I should have on my blog more. One thing about my blog that I have noticed is that I post basically the same couple hundred songs for nearly every blog. This blog is dedicated to those songs that are great that I never or rarely publish. Enjoy.
1) The Wondergirls featuring Robbie Williams "Let's Go All The Way":
2) Ready For The World "Oh Sheila":
"The Ultimate Sin" may be Ozzy's finest solo CD. 3) Ozzy Osbourne "Secret Loser":
4) Janet Jackson "The Pleasure Principle":
5) Dream Academy "Life In A Northern Town":
6) Rod Stewart "Lost In You":
7) Wax "Right Between The Eyes":
I just discovered this CD "Twelfth" today, this is one of the many great songs from it.
8) Old 97s "Bottle Rocket Baby":
9) Steve Earle "Copperhead Road":
10) Lone Justice "Shelter":
11) Billy Idol "Hot In The City":
Whatever happened to Macy Gray? 12) Macy Gray "I Try":
13) Sarah Vaughn (Max Sedgley Remix) "Peter Gunn":
14) Propellers featuring Miss Shirley Bassey "History Repeating":
15) Billy Porter "Land of Lola":
16) Peter Schilling "Different Story (World of Lust and Crime)":
A very sad story breaking tonight is the death of Chadwick Boseman. After 4 years of fighting colon cancer Boseman died tonight. I wasn't aware that he was sick even, so his sudden death tonight came as quite a shock tonight. Also 57 years ago this day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have A Dream". Although very sad it seems fitting that the man that once played Jackie Robinson died on the anniversary of "I Have A Dream" speech.
R.I.P. Chadwick
"Every day, every hour turn that pain into power." 1) The Script "Superheroes":
2) Queen "Flash":
3) Five For Fighting "Superman (It's Not Easy)":
4) Prince "Batdance":
5) Seal "Kiss From A Rose":
6) U2 "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me":
7) Meshell N "Poison Ivy":
8) The Smashing Pumpkins "The End Is The Beginning Is The End":
9) R.E.M. "Superman":
10) Kendrick Lamar "Black Panther":
11) Terry Jacks "Seasons In The Sun":
Yes, 43 is young. 12) The Band Perry "If I Die Young":
These are the greatest songs of 1985 of all genres. I spent a few hours today finding these songs from all genres. 1985 was a pretty big year for me, it was the year that I graduated from Woods Cross High School. Wildcats!! I also worked at Safeways at that time. Then that Fall I left home for the first time to go to Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. I think I might still be on academic probation at what now is Brigham Young-Idaho. That's okay as I eventually graduated from the University of Utah in 1997. My first brush of college honestly was a struggle for me. I somehow survived and it eventually turned out to be a great experience for me. It was a time for firsts for me.
Now here are the greatest songs of 1985. If a song was released as a single I went with that year as the release date. Some of these songs were released on a CD in 1984, but weren't released as a single until 1985. I counted those as a song from 1985. Those songs with a number are where that song ended on the Year End Chart of 1985. These songs are in alphabetical order by artist. If a song from 1984 charts high enough in 1985 that it's ranked in the Top 100 I will include that as a 1985 song.
9) Madonna "Crazy For You":
98) Madonna "Dress You Up":
2) Madonna "Like A Virgin":
58) Madonna "Material Girl":
Barbara Mandrell "Angel In Your Arms":
I somehow missed this song back in the day, which is amazing how much music I've listened to over the years. This song is pretty much my entire knowledge of this band. Marillion "Kayleigh":
Imagine if you will a hot summer, back when time moved slowly, no driver's license and not much to do. Imagine if there's a really new innovation called cable TV, but honestly there's not that much to watch. Let's fast forward to August 1st, 1981 when MTV first started. Now imagine that you don't have access to MTV but you hear a lot about how cool it is. Sure there are a couple of other places to watch videos, but they're not 24 hours. Finally a year or two later there you are on that hot summer day watching video after video on MTV and absolutely love it. Although these blogs are focusing on 1981-1985, I will include videos from before if they were also memorable. Now almost 40 years later on this hot summer day imagine this is that long ago hot summer day and enjoy....
Sometimes I'm not sure what the original video or I can't find the original video, but I did my best.
Imagine if you will a hot summer, back when time moved slowly, no driver's license and not much to do. Imagine if there's a really new innovation called cable TV, but honestly there's not that much to watch. Let's fast forward to August 1st, 1981 when MTV first started. Now imagine that you don't have access to MTV but you hear a lot about how cool it is. Sure there are a couple of other places to watch videos, but they're not 24 hours. Finally a year or two later there you are on that hot summer day watching video after video on MTV and absolutely love it. Although these blogs are focusing on 1981-1985, I will include videos from before if they were also memorable. Now almost 40 years later on this hot summer day imagine this is that long ago hot summer day and enjoy....
Sometimes I'm not sure what the original video or I can't find the original video, but I did my best.
61) Juice Newton "Queen of Hearts":
62) Marty Balin "Hearts":
63) Sheena Easton "Strut":
64) Prince "Let's Go Crazy":
65) Wham! "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go":
66) Madonna "Like A Virgin":
67) Bruce Springsteen "Dancing In The Dark":
68) Cyndi Lauper "Girls Just Want To Have Fun":
69) George Michael "Careless Whisper":
Such a great song. 70) Journey "Who's Crying Now":
71) Survivor "Eye of The Tiger":
72) Asia "Heat of the Moment":
73) Thompson Twins "Hold Me Now":
74) Rockwell "Somebody's Watching":
75) Toto "Africa":
76) Adam Ant "Goody Two Shoes":
77) Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney "Say Say Say":
Imagine if you will a hot summer, back when time moved slowly, no driver's license and not much to do. Imagine if there's a really new innovation called cable TV, but honestly there's not that much to watch. Let's fast forward to August 1st, 1981 when MTV first started. Now imagine that you don't have access to MTV but you hear a lot about how cool it is. Sure there are a couple of other places to watch videos, but they're not 24 hours. Finally a year or two later there you are on that hot summer day watching video after video on MTV and absolutely love it. Although these blogs are focusing on 1981-1985, I will include videos from before if they were also memorable. Now almost 40 years later on this hot summer day imagine this is that long ago hot summer day and enjoy....
Sometimes I'm not sure what the original video or I can't find the original video, but I did my best.
41) The Police "Spirits In The Material World":
42) Sheena Easton "9 to 5 (Morning Train)":
43) Blondie "Rapture":
Sadly I couldn't find an original video for this song, such a great song.
44) A Taste of Honey "Sukiyaki":
45) Foreigner "Urgent":
46) Rod Stewart "Passion":
47) Pat Benatar "Hit Me With Your Best Shot":
48) The Alan Parsons Project "Games People Play":
49) Neil Diamond "Love On The Rocks":
Stone cold classic. 50) Olivia Newton-John "Physical":
Stone cold classic. 51) Nena "99 Luftballoons":
Stone cold classic. 52) Prince "When Doves Cry":
53) J. Geils Band "Freeze Frame":
Stone cold classic. 54) Spandau Ballet "True":
55) Toto "Rosanna":
Of course this video is a stone cold classic. 56) Michael Jackson "Billie Jean":
I might not have ever heard this song if it wasn't for MTV, it took awhile to grow on me.
57) Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science":
58) Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes "Up Where We Belong":
59) The Stray Cuts "Stray Cat Strut":
Stone cold classic. 60) The Police "Don't Stand So Close To Me":
22) The Thompson Twins "Don't Mess With Dr. Dream":
23) Tom Petty "Running Down a Dream":
24) "Tell Me I Was Dreaming":
25) The Mamas and the Papas "California Dreamin'":
26) Monster Magnet "Temple of Your Dreams":
27) Set It Off "Nightmare":
28) Avenged Sevenfold "Nightmare":
29) Metallica "All Nightmare Long":
30) Asia "Wildest Dreams":
31) The Cranberries "Dreams":
32) Dua Lipa "Dreams":
33) Fleetwood Mac "Dreams":
34) Hall and Oates "You Make My Dreams":
35) Billy Joel "The River of Dreams":
36) Human League "Together In Electric Dreams"
37) Pink "A Million Dreams":
38) Tim McGraw "Refried Dreams":
39) Van Halen "Dreams":
40 Weezer "Only In Dreams":
41) Glen Campbell "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife":
"Last night I dreamt of San Pedro" 42) Madonna "La Isla Bonita":
"Last night I had the strangest dream, I sailed away to China in a little rowboat to find ya."
43) Matthew Wilder "Break My Stride":
Imagine if you will a hot summer, back when time moved slowly, no driver's license and not much to do. Imagine if there's a really new innovation called cable TV, but honestly there's not that much to watch. Let's fast forward to August 1st, 1981 when MTV first started. Now imagine that you don't have access to MTV but you hear a lot about how cool it is. Sure there are a couple of other places to watch videos, but they're not 24 hours. Finally a year or two later there you are on that hot summer day watching video after video on MTV and absolutely love it. Although these blogs are focusing on 1981-1985, I will include videos from before if they were also memorable. Now almost 40 years later on this hot summer day imagine this is that long ago hot summer day and enjoy....
Sometimes I'm not sure what the original video or I can't find the original video, but I did my best.
A&E is starting a series on Tuesday called "I Want My MTV", here's a trailer.
To tie in with that I am continuing my series of the the glory days of MTV 1981-1985. I have enough songs for at least 14 of these blogs and there are dozens of songs that I haven't found yet. I'm in process of finding at least most of those songs.
21) Rod Stewart "Tonight's The Night":
22) Nick Lowe "Cruel To Be Kind":
23) Blondie "Heart of Glass":
24) J. Geils Band "Love Stinks":
25) REO Speedwagon "Keep On Loving You":
26) Lee Ritenour featuring Eric Tagg "Is It You":
27) REO Speedwagon "Tough Guys":
28) Elvis Costello "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding":
29) The Vapors "Turning Japanese":
30) The Cars "Double Life":
31) Cliff Richard "We Don't Talk Anymore":
32) Andrew Gold "Lonely Boy":
33) Soft Cell "Tainted Love":
One band that took full advantage of MTV, which was one of the reasons they were the biggest band in the world for about 6 months in the 80s. 34) The Police "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic":
Stone cold classic. 35) The Human League "Don't You Want Me":
36) Kim Carnes "Bette Davis Eyes":
Diana Ross and Lionel Richie 37) "Endless Love":
Stone cold classic. 38) Rick Springfield "Jessie's Girl":
Stone cold classic. 39) Prince "1999":
Stone cold classic. 40) Tina Turner "What's Love Got To Do With It":
Imagine if you will a hot summer, back when time moved slowly, no driver's license and not much to do. Imagine if there's a really new innovation called cable TV, but honestly there's not that much to watch. Let's fast forward to August 1st, 1981 when MTV first started. Now imagine that you don't have access to MTV but you hear a lot about how cool it is. Sure there are a couple of other places to watch videos, but they're not 24 hours. Finally a year or two later there you are on that hot summer day watching video after video on MTV and absolutely love it. Although these blogs are focusing on 1981-1985, I will include videos from before if they were also memorable. Now almost 40 years later on this hot summer day imagine this is that long ago hot summer day and enjoy....
Sometimes I'm not sure what the original video or I can't find the original video, but I did my best.
A&E is starting a series on Tuesday called "I Want My MTV", here's a trailer.
To tie in with that I am continuing my series of the the glory days of MTV 1981-1985. I have enough songs for at least 14 of these blogs and there are dozens of songs that I haven't found yet. I'm in process of finding at least most of those songs.
Although this song was released in 1979 it also was the first video played on MTV so I'm counting it for purposes of this blog. 1) The Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star":
Great musician, great song but not a very memorable video. 2) Pat Benatar "You Better Run":
3) The Who "You Better You Bet":
4) The Pretenders "Brass In Pocket":
5) REO Speedwagon "Take It On The Run":
6) Styx "Rockin' The Paradise":
7) .38 Special "Hold On Loosely":
8) April Wine "Just Between You and Me":
9) Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight":
10) Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around":
11) Rod Stewart "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy":
12) Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street":
13) Styx "Best of Times":
This is a video I hadn't seen until working on this blog. This song is a cool song, but it's a bit of a hidden gem. 14) Tom Johnston "Savannah Nights":
15) Blotto "I Wanna Be A Lifeguard":
16) REO Speedwagon "Don't Let Him Go":
17) Juice Newton "Angel of the Morning":
From my research April Wine didn't have any official videos at all. But they had at least three great songs. "I Like To Rock" looks like a official video though.
18) April Wine "Sign of the Gypsy Queen":
19) Saga "On The Loose":
This is such a great song. Since videos were fairly new people were still learning how to make videos. This video isn't a great video. 20) Michael Stanley Band "He Can't Love You":
Do you know how many songs Diane Warren has written, well it's a lot. She was written 9 #1 songs and 32 Top Ten Songs. These are her best songs that she wrote or co-wrote.
1) Starship "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now":
2) Alice Cooper "Bed of Nails":
3) Celine Dion "Because You Loved Me":
4) Milli Vanilli "Blame It On Rain":
5) Whitney Houston featuring Enrique Iglesias "Could I Have This Kiss Forever":
6) Olivia Newton-John "Deeper Than A River":
7) Ace of Base "Don't Turn Around":
8) Leann Rimes "How Do I Live":
9) Chicago "I Don't Want To Live Without Your Love":
10) Belinda Carlisle "I Get Weak":
11) Whitney Houston "I Learned From The Best":
12) Christina Aguilera "I Turn To You":
13) Taylor Dayne "I'll Be Your Shelter":
14) Expose "I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me":
I selected my favorite songs from Ranker's Top 70s One Hit Wonders. Technically not all of these songs are from One Hit Wonder bands. Some of these bands have more than one hit and have more than several good songs.
70) Jaggerz "The Rapper":
71) King Harvest "Dancing In The Moonlight":
72) Hot "Angel In Your Arms":
73) The Five Stairsteps "Ooh Child":
74) David Soul "Don't Give Up On Us":
75) Elvin Bishop "Fooled Around Fell In Love":
76) John Sebastian "Welcome Back":
77) Vehicle "Ides of March":
78) "Happy Days":
79) Maria Muldaur "Midnight At The Oasis":
Such an incredibly pretty song. 80) Henry Mancini "Nadia's Theme":
81) Rick Dees "Disco Duck":
82) Peter McCann "Do You Wanna Make Love":
83) Samantha Sang featuring the Bee Gees "Emotion":
I'm pretty sure that I've never done a Ska blog before. I wanted to first write a New Wave blog, but I have written that blog before. In no way would I consider myself an expert on Ska music- or any kind of music for that matter. But I really am not an expert on Ska music, which is why I got most of these songs from various websites.
Other than possibly Reel Big Fish's sell out I don't know that I like a Ska song more than this one.
1) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "The Impression I Get":
2) Madness "One Step Beyond":
3) Sublime "Wrong Way":
4) No Doubt "Sunday Morning":
5) Reel Big Fish "Sell Out":
6) Save Ferris "Come On Eileen":
7) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "Where'd You Go":
8) Operation Ivy "Sound System":
9) The Specials"A Message To Rudy":
10) The Aquabats "Martian Girl":
11) Bad Manners "Special Brew":
12) Skamelon "Wonderwall":
13) Tokyo Sky Paradise Orchestra "Pride of Lions":
14) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "Someday I Suppose":
Why yes I am loving the Ska 80s covers. 15) Reel Big Fish "Take On Me":
Happy Birthday to one of my all-time favorite 80s babes,
I was chilling on YouTube when I stumbled across a Prince concert, which reminds me of how great of a musician, singer, performer and songwriter etc he was. (Let's be honest, he wasn't a very good actor.) I was inspired to write a series of blogs about the Top Ten musicians of the 80s. But I wanted to rely on someone else's Top Ten, so I Googled my way around the internet. One list had The Beastie Boys as #1, another list had Kenny Rogers as #1- um, no and no. Don't get me wrong I love both of those artists, but neither are even close to #1. I came across a udiscovermusic.com blog about The Top Ten Superstars of the 80s. I may have a few quibbles with their Top Ten, but overall it's a pretty solid list.
Other musicians that should be considered for any Top Ten 80s musicians include RUN-D.M.C., Def Leppard, U2, George Michael, R.E.M., Duran Duran (or as the kids called them back in the day Duran squared), Journey, Tina Turner, Van Halen, Ozzy, The Boss and a few others.
Here, in no particular order, is udiscovermusic.com's Top 10 80s artists. It should be obvious which musicians are the ones I like the most. Yes, Madonna is one of those musicians. She had a mix of fire, beauty and that overwhelming musicianship. She also picked great songs or had people help pick great songs for her. Great talent with great songs made her one of the Top Ten 80s musicians. And let's not forget how good she was at marketing her brand.
These are Madonna's best songs of the 80s:
17) "Jimmy Jimmy":
Yet another one of my favorite Madonna songs. 18) "Who's That Girl":
Happy Birthday to one of my all-time favorite 80s babes,
I was chilling on YouTube when I stumbled across a Prince concert, which reminds me of how great of a musician, singer, performer and songwriter etc he was. (Let's be honest, he wasn't a very good actor.) I was inspired to write a series of blogs about the Top Ten musicians of the 80s. But I wanted to rely on someone else's Top Ten, so I Googled my way around the internet. One list had The Beastie Boys as #1, another list had Kenny Rogers as #1- um, no and no. Don't get me wrong I love both of those artists, but neither are even close to #1. I came across a udiscovermusic.com blog about The Top Ten Superstars of the 80s. I may have a few quibbles with their Top Ten, but overall it's a pretty solid list.
Other musicians that should be considered for any Top Ten 80s musicians include RUN-D.M.C., Def Leppard, U2, George Michael, R.E.M., Duran Duran (or as the kids called them back in the day Duran squared), Journey, Tina Turner, Van Halen, Ozzy, The Boss and a few others.
Here, in no particular order, is udiscovermusic.com's Top 10 80s artists. It should be obvious which musicians are the ones I like the most. Yes, Madonna is one of those musicians. She had a mix of fire, beauty and that overwhelming musicianship. She also picked great songs or had people help pick great songs for her. Great talent with great songs made her one of the Top Ten 80s musicians. And let's not forget how good she was at marketing her brand.
These are Madonna's best songs of the 80s:
1) "Everybody":
2) "Holiday":
3) "Lucky Star":
4) "Like A Virgin":
5) "Material Girl":
6) "Crazy For You":
7) "Into The Groove":
8) "Dress You Up":
This is one of Madonna's songs that I love the most. 9) "Live To Tell":
10) "Love Don't Live Here Anymore":
11) "Over and Over":
This is one of Madonna's songs that I love the most. 12) "Papa Don't Preach":
