(Started January 1st, 2021) The Best Rock Songs of 1999, Part 1: Songs 1-17

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Prince sang about 1999 as the end of the world, "we're going to party like 1999". He could've been singing about the rock scene that year and what a colossal wasteland it was. 1999 was not rock's finest year. Even at the height of the Disco craze in 1979, rock had a better year. To put it mildly 1999 sucked for rock music. Prince's "1999" rocked more than many of the rock songs of 1999.

If it wasn't for Creed (I know a lot of people didn't like them, but they were one of the rockingest bands of that year), Tom Petty, Stone Temple Pilots (not their best CD, but still), Live, Incubus, Blink-182 and Rage Against The Machine 1999 might have been the wussiest year ever. It still might be. How did I survive that year in rock? Obviously by listening to all the great music from previous years.

I've never been so disappointed with a rock year before. I hope 2009 is better when I get to that year. 

1) Citizen King "Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out)":

2) Goo Goo Dolls "Iris":

This comes from a CD that was released in 1996, this song was released late in 1998. It then ranked #49 on Billboard's Year End chart of 1999. 3) Matchbox 20 "Back 2 Good":

4) Third Eye Blind "Jumper":

Even the 1999 song released by Pearl Jam was a pretty mellow and sad song. 5) Pearl Jam "Last Kiss":

Not a big Kravitz fan, but I do love this song. 6) Lenny Kravitz "Fly Away":

7) Santana featuring Rob Thomas "Smooth":

8) Blink-182 "What's My Age Again":

9) Blondie "Maria":

10) Everlast "Ends":

11) Foo Fighters "Learn To Fly":

12) Bruce Springsteen "Trouble River":

13) Incubus "Stellar":

14) Live "Dolphin's Cry":

15) Nine Inch Nails "Into The Void":

16) Rage Against The Machine "Testify":

17) Tom Petty "Free Girl Now":

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(Finished January 3rd, 2021) The Best of Random Songs, Part 1: Songs 1-17

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For some reason the first song on this blog popped into my head yesterday. Like a craving I had to fulfill that craving and then decided to build a blog around it. Here's some other random songs that have caught my attention.

1) Prince "Melody Cool":

2) Paula Abdul "Straight Up": 

3) TLC "Waterfalls":

4) Bobby Brown "Every Little Step":

I love the slinky rhythm of this song. 5) Robert Palmer "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On":

6) Janet Jackson "State of the World":

7) Neneh Cherry "Buffalo Stance":

8) XTC "Dear God":

9) Rush "Limelight":

10) Audioslave "Dandelion":

11) Chris Cagle "My Love Goes On and On":

12) James Taylor "Never Die Young (Hold Them Up)":

13) Wham! "The Edge of Heaven":

14) Veruca Salt "Victrola":

15) Joyous Wolf "Said Too Much":

16) The Thompson Twins "Savage Moon":

17) The Champs "Tequila":

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(Started December 28th, 2020) The Best Rock Songs of 1989, Part 2: Songs 18-34

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For the rest of these songs I did some deep digging. Not only is rock a form of music, but it's also an attitude. I've included some songs that aren't necessarily rock music, but have rock attitude.

18) Billy Joel "We Didn't Start The Fire":

19) Camper Van Beethoven "Pictures of Matchstick Man":

20) Warrant "Heaven":

21) Poison "Every Rose Has It's Thorn":

22) Bon Jovi "Born To Be My Baby":

23) Bonnie Raitt "Thing Called Love":

24) The Cult "Fire Woman":

I'm not saying all of these songs are great and indeed some of these songs are just dumb. But rock music doesn't need brilliant lyrics to actually rock. 25) Dangerous Toys "Teas'n Pleas'n":

26) Danger Danger "Naughty Naughty":

27) Eurythmics "Don't Ask Me Why":

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

29) Faster Pussycat "House of Pain":

30) Janet Jackson "Black Cat":

31) Jefferson Starship "It's Not Enough":

32) Aerosmith "What It Takes":

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

34) Lou Gramm "Just Between You and Me":

(Finished December 27th, 2020) The Best Rock Songs of 1989, Part 1: Songs 1-17

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Some of these songs were released in 1988, but became big hits in 1989.

1) Motley Crue "Dr. Feelgood":

2) Aerosmith "The Other Side":

Yes, this very much is a rock song. Not only a rock song, but a great rock song. 3) Michael Jackson "Smooth Criminal":

4) Alice Cooper "Poison":

5) Guns N' Roses "Paradise City":

6) Bon Jovi "Lay Your Hands On Me":

7) Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne "Close My Eyes Forever":

8) R.E.M. "Stand":

9) Eddie Money "Walk On Water":

10) The Bangles "In Your Room":

11) .38 Special "Second Chance":

12) Skid Row "18 & Life":

Released in November 1988, but a big hit in 1989. 13) Def Leppard "Armageddon It":

14) Great White "Once Bitten, Twice Shy":

15) Bang Tango "Someone Like You":

16) Billy Squier "Don't Say You Love Me":

17) Guns N' Roses "Patience":

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(Finished December 27th, 2020) Whoa oh oh The Sweetest Songs, Part 3: Songs 35-51

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I've searched through my blogs and I don't show that I've ever done a sweetest songs blog before. I've done similar blogs, but I can't find a sweetest songs blog. Here are two or three or maybe more? I don't think it's possible to get too much sweetness in your life.

35) Ambrosia "Biggest Part Of Me":

36) Christopher Cross "Arthur's Theme":

37) Bobby Brown "Roni":

38) Cat Stevens "Peace Train":

39) Shenandoah "Mama Knows":

40) Whitney Houston "Greatest Love of All":

41) Warrant "Heaven":

42) Seal "Kiss From A Rose":

43) Ed Sheeran "Galway Girl":

One of the best country music songs ever!! 44) Eric Church "Springsteen":

45) Parachute "Kiss Me Slowly":

This song isn't quite as sweet as I remember. 46) Secondhand Serenade "Fall For You":

47) James Taylor "How Sweet It Is":

48) Elton John "Your Song":

49) O'Neill Brothers "Gift From Heaven":

50) Madonna "Cherish":

51) Bread "Make It With You":

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(Finished December 26th, 2020) The Best Rock Songs of 2019, Part 1: Songs 1-17

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Last blog I reviewed the best rock songs of 1979, This time I'm going to jump ahead 30 years to 2019. Although rock music no longer has the cultural impact that it did as back in the day, it's still thriving. It's not as easy as to find it as before, but it's still out there. Rock on!!

1) The Interrupters "Gave You Everything":

2) New Year's Day "Shut Up":

3) Whitesnake "Shut Up and Kiss Me":

4) Drag Me Out "I'm Sorry":

5) Black Keys "Go":

6) Pop Evil "Be Legendary":

From one "legendary" band to another "legendary" band!! 7) Skillet "Legendary":

8) Five Finger Death Punch featuring Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brian May and Brantley Gilbert "Blue On Black":

9) Wolf Jaw "Choke":

10) Volbeat "When We Were Kids":

11) I Prevail featuring Justin Stone "Rise Above It":

Only 6 YouTube views? 12) Stigmatics "I Need More":

This video is incredibly freaky, it's not for everyone. 13) Steel Trees "Deaf In One Eye":

14) Sleigh Bells "Where Did You Sleep":

15) Skillet "This Is The Kingdom":

16) Set It Off "For You Forever":

17) Scarlet Rebels "Can I Open My Eyes":

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(Finished December 25th, 2020) Part 1 of What Rock Music Broke Through in The Peak Year of Disco?: Best Rock Songs of 1979

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I updated some of the video links that had ended and finished this blog again on May 25th, 2022. 

1979 was the probably the peak year of Disco, that genre dominated the top 100 year end chart. But by the next year, 1980, Disco was quickly on it's way around. But the year 1979 was a banner year for Disco. Despite that Disco break out year there was still a lot of great rock songs that broke through. I'm not one of those who hated Disco, I loved Disco and all of the great songs that came out of it. These blogs are an appreciation of all the great songs of 1979.

1) The Knack "My Sharona":

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

A couple of songs that are very much Disco songs, but they also rock!! Are these next two songs rock songs, disco songs or a combination of those two genres? Who cares both of these songs rock and kick butt. 

3) Blondie "Heart Of Glass":

4) The Bee Gees "Tragedy":

5) Supertramp "The Logical Song":

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

7) John Stewart featuring Stevie Nicks "Gold":

8) Toto "Hold The Line":

9) Bad Company "Rock and Roll Fantasy":

10) Ace Frehley "New York Groove":

11) Dire Straits "Sultans of Swing":

12) ELO "Don't Bring Me Down":

13) Foreigner "Double Vision":

14) Robert Palmer "Bad Case Of Loving You":

15) Pink Floyd "Run Like Hell":

16) The Scorpions "Loving You Sunday Morning":

From Bon Scott's last CD with AC/DC with his too early death following shortly after. 17) AC/DC "Highway To Hell":

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(Finished December 27th, 2020) The Best Fun, Funny and Zany Songs

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For some reason I had the song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" song come to my mind today. I thought I would do a blog about the best songs with the longest titles. Sadly that didn't work out as there aren't enough great songs with long titles. I thought I might do a fun song blog and I may still do that, but I'll see where the blog goes.

1) "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini":

2) The Cartoons "Witch Doctor":

3) Lipps Inc. "Funky Town":

4) Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta "Summer Nights":

5) The B-52's "Love Shack":

One of the all-time greatest songs ever, probably Top 300. 6) Paula Abdul "Straight Up":

7) Michael Jackson "Pretty Young Thing":

8) Queen "Crazy Little Thing Called Love":

9) Hot Chocolate "You Sexy Thing":

Let's mix it up a bit here. 10) Sugarland and Sara Bareilles  "Come On Eileen":

11) Lady Gaga "Poker Face":

K.T. recently passed away, R.I.P. K.T. 12) K.T. Oslin "Hey Bobby":

13) Bobby Pickett "Monster Mash":

14) Dr. Hook "The Cover Of Rolling Stone":

15) "Weird Al" Yankovic "Eat It":

"American Pie" is such a solid song, that even with these lyrics it's still a great song. 16) "Weird Al" Yankovic "The Saga Begins":

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(Started December 22nd, 2020) The Best Randys In Music, Part 1

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I tried to find the best video that showcases the Randy mentioned.

1) Randy Meisner, an update:

Randy was with the Eagles 1971-1977 and had a big hand in these two songs with them.

"Take It To The Limit":

"Saturday Night":

With Kim Carnes "Deep Inside My Heart":

"Hearts On Fire":

2) Randy Castillo, drummer with Ozzy from about 1986-1993, and briefly with Motley Crue. Sadly Castillo died at the way too young age of 51.

"The Ultimate Sin":

"Thank God For The Bomb":

"Killer of Giants":

"Mama I'm Coming Home":

"I Don't Want To Change The World":

"Shot In The Dark":

The poor drummer doesn't get much love in these videos. "Lightning Strikes":

Randy Rhoads, guitarist with Quiet Riot and the early part of Ozzy Osbourne's solo career. He also died at way too young of age of 25. Don't play with airplanes kids. All of these songs are from Randy playing with Ozzy Osboourne's band.

"Crazy Train":

"Suicide Solution":

"Flying High Again":

"Steal Away The Night":

"Mr Crowley":

Randy VanWarmer, singer and songwriter.

"Just When I Needed You Most":

He co-wrote this song with Roger Murrah. "I'm In A Hurry And Don't Know Why":

He wrote this song for the Oak Ridge Boys. "I Guess It Never Hurts To Hurt Sometimes":

Randy Montana "Ain't Much Left Of Lovin' You":

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(Finished December 20th, 2020) Whoa oh oh The Sweetest Songs, Part 2: Songs 18-34

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I've searched through my blogs and I don't show that I've ever done a sweetest songs blog before. I've done similar blogs, but not that I can find a sweetest songs blog. Here are two or three or maybe more.

18) Whitney Houston "Where You Are":

19) Kina Grannis "Can't Help Falling In Love":

20) Taylor Swift "You Belong With Me":

21) The Beach Boys "God Only Knows":

22) John Barry "Theme From 'Born Free'":

23) Bryan Adams "Everything I Do I Do For You":

24) The Bee Gees "How Deep Is Your Love":

25) Chris DeBurgh "Lady In Red":

26) Taylor Dayne "Love Will Lead You Back":

27) Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes":

28) Sixpence None The Richer "Kiss Me":

Yes, I do know what this song is about, but it's still incredibly sweet. 29) Madonna "Papa Don't Preach":

30) Andy Gibb "Love Is Thicker Than Water":

31) John Legend "All of Me":

32) Christina Perri "A Thousand Years":

33) Ed Sheeran "The Shape of You":

34) Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris "We Found Love":

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(Finished December 20th, 2020) Whoa oh oh The Sweetest Songs, Part 1: Songs 1-17

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I've searched through my blogs and I don't show that I've ever done a sweetest songs blog before. I've done similar blogs, but not that I can find a sweetest songs blog. Here are two or three or maybe more.

When the remake is better than the original. "See if you can spot this one." 1) Eric Clapton "Layla":

2) Rod Stewart "Reason To Believe":

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

4) Maroon 5 "Sweetest Goodbye":

5) Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram "Somewhere Out There":

6) Linda Ronstadt "Still Within The Sound of My Voice":

7) Henry Mancini "Nadia's Theme":

8) Chicago "Hard To Say I'm Sorry":

9) Peter Cetera and Amy Grant "Next Time I Fall":

10) George Michael and Aretha Franklin "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me":

11) Patti Austin "Baby Come To Me":

12) James Ingram "Just Once":

13) Expose "Seasons Change":

14) Boy Meets Girl "Waiting For A Star To Fall":

15) Whitney Houston "All At Once":

16) Percy Faith "Theme From A Summer Place":

17) Bryan Adams "Heaven":

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(Finished December 19th, 2020) The Best of Sci Fi Songs, Part 1: Songs 1-17

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These are the best of Sci Fi songs, thanks to ranker.com for most of these songs.

1) David Bowie "Space Oddity":

2) Peter Schilling "Major Tom":

3) Queen "Flash's Theme":

4) Elton John "Rocket Man":

5) The Beastie Boys "Intergalactic":

6) Zager and Evans "In The Year 2525":

7) Styx "Mr. Roboto":

8) Blondie "Rapture":

I had no clue what this song was about until I started working on this blog. It was a song that I loved rocking out to. 9) Rush "Red Barchetta":

10) Radiohead "Subterranean Homesick Alien":

11) Sufjan Stevens "Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois":

12) Sheb Wooley "Purple People Eater":

13) The Aquabats "Martian Girl":

14) They Might Be Giants "The Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)":

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

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

For a band who sang so many love songs this song is so unexpected from them. However this is as good as all their other hits. 17) The Carpenters "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft":

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(Started December 17, 2020) The Top 106 Greatest 80s Era Musicians #13 AC/DC, Part 1

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A few years ago I started a series of blogs where I was counting down the greatest 80s Era musicians of all-time. By 80s era I mean from 1977 to 1993. I started out with 106 bands and have thought of 29 more bands. This morning on my walk I decided to finally finish this series of blogs. I'm going to post blogs for the Top 13 80s Era musicians and then go back and rank all 135 bands being considered for this series of blogs. Well at least that's the plan now.

First up the best band from Australia, AC/DC. These are their best songs from 1977-1993. Enjoy!! These songs are in no particular order, other I didn't want to lump all the songs from the same albums together.

1) "Go Down":

AC/DC is one of the greatest bands of all-time. Too bad the movie made with their music "Maximum Overdrive" could be the worst piece of crap ever made. How do things get so bad when both Stephen King and AC/DC are attached? 2) "D.T.":

3) "Let There Be Rock":

4) "Dog Eat Dog":

5) "Sin City":

You gotta have the live version for the bells!! 6) "Hells Bells":

7) "Gimme A Bullet":

8) "For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)":

9) "Rising Power":

10) "Rock and Roll Damnation":

11) "Shake Your Foundations":

12) "This House Is On Fire":

AC/DC has never been accused of being the most subtle band. 13) "Sink The Pink":

14) "Bad Boy Boogie":

15) "Next To The Moon":

(Started December 16th, 2020) Songs About Walk, Walks, Walking and Heck Even Christopher Walken, Part 1

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One of my favorite things to do nearly each day is going walking each morning, here's a bunch of songs about walk, walks, walking and what the heck even Christoper Walken. 

1) Toni Childs "Don't Walk Away":

For the second straight day an AC/DC song inspired a blog. Although other than a metaphor I'm sure there's not a lot of walking going on in this song. 2) AC/DC "Walk All Over You":

3) Aerosmith "Walk This Way":

4) Annie Lennox "Walking On Broken Glass":

5) The Bangles "Walk Like An Egyptian":

6) The Dark Element "The Pallbearer Walks Alone":

7) Dionne Warwick "Walk On By":

8) Dire Straits "Walk Of Life":

9) Dr. Hook "Walk Right In":

10) ELO "Don't Walk Away":

11) Fitz and The Tantrums "The Walker":

There's a lot of walking going on with this song. I love this song, it seems like a song I could have written- just obviously not as good. 12) Green Day "Boulevard of Broken Dreams":

I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known

Don't know where it goes

But it's home to me, and I walk alone

I walk this empty street

On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Where the city sleeps

And I'm the only one, and I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk a-

13) The Eurythmics "Walking In A Winter Wonderland":

14) Nancy Sinatra "These Boots Are Made For Walking":

15) Lorrie Morgan "We Both Walk":

16) Sawyer Brown "The Walk":

17) Michael Jackson "Streetwalker":

(Finished December 21st, 2020) I Get A Kick About You: Part 1: Songs About Kick/Kicks & Kicking

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I thought I'd get a kick out of a blog about kick/kicks & kicking. Yes, I realize the word kick and it's variants mean multiple more things than actually a kick. I'm probably not the only one that thinks songs about kick, kicks & kicking should be great songs. It's true many of these songs do kick butt!!

1) AC/DC "Kick You When You're Down":

2) Big & Rich "Kick My Ass":

3) Def Leppard "Stand Up (Kick Love In Motion)":

4) Foster The People "Pumped Up Kicks":

5) Heart "Kick It Out":

6) Motley Crue "Kickstart My Heart":

If this song doesn't get you up and moving I have some bad news for you. You have died and you've yet to find out. 7) Simple Minds "Alive & Kicking":

8) Soundgarden "Kickstand":

9) Rage Against The Machine "Kick Out The Jams":

10) Skid Row "Mudkicker":

Let's kick back a bit, here are 5 of the best songs from one of the best CDs of the 80s. That would be INXS' "Kick" of course.

Another great singer gone too soon, sadly at his own hand. R.I.P. Michael. 11) "Tiny Daggers":

12) "New Sensation":

13) "Need You Tonight":

14) "Mystify":

15) "Never Tear Us Apart":

I'm going to do a twofer with this song.16a) Depeche Mode "Get Your Kicks On Route 66":

16b) Nat King Cole "Get Your Kicks On Route 66":

17) Frank Sinatra "I Get A Kick Out of You":

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(Finished December 21st, 2020) Songs About Planes and Flying

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Songs and music videos about planes, helicopters and flying. The emphasis will be on the first two though.

1) The Steve Miller Band "Jet Airliner":

2) Chantal Kreviazuk "Leaving On A Jet Plane":

3) Paul McCartney & Wings "Jet":

4) Kim Carnes "Crazy In The Night (Barking At Airplanes)":

5) Red Hot Chili Peppers "Aeroplane":

6) Iron Maiden "Aces High":

7) AFI "Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings)":

From "Come From Away" 8) "38 Planes":

9) Maddie and Tae "Waitin' On A Plane":

10) Smashing Pumpkins "Aeroplane Flies High":

11) Frank Sinatra "Come Fly With Me":

12) The Royal Guardsmen "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron":

13) Suzy Bogguss "Outbound Plane":

14) Susan Raye "L.A. International Airport":

15) Queensryche "Jet City Woman":

16) Neil Young "Let's Roll":

17) Jason Aldean "Fly Over States":

18) Lady A "747":

19) Bloc Party "Helicopter":

20) Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone":

21) Rush "Fly By Night":

22) The Ataris "Takeoffs and Landings":

The Anthem of the United States Air Force. 23) "Wild Blue Yonder":

24) M.I.A. "Paper Planes":

25) Meat Loaf "Objects In The Rearview Mirror":

26) U2 "Beautiful Day":

Never even heard of this song before this blog, but this is a pretty cool song. 27) The 69 Eyes "Jet Fighter Plane":

28) Sky Fighters "Into The Fire":

"Take a jumbo across the water." 29) Supertramp "Breakfast In America":

30) Cheap Trick "Mighty Wings":

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