(Finished January 31st, 2021) Part 2 of Selected Best Duets, Songs 18-34

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

19) Johnny Cash and June Carter "Jackson":

20) Ashford and Simpson "Solid As A Rock":

Indeed one of the greatest songs of all-time. 21) The Human League "Don't You Want Me":

At worst one of the greatest duets ever! 22) Sonny and Cher "I Got You Babe":

23) Mike Reno and Ann Wilson "Almost Paradise":

24) Temple of the Dog basically an Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell duet. "Hunger Strike":

25) Led Zeppelin and Sandy Denny "The Battle of Evermore":

26) Billy Preston and Syreeta "With You I'm Born Again":

Hated this movie, but this is an amazing song. 27) Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova "Falling Slowly":

28) Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell "Ain't No Mountain High Enough":

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

30) Indigo Girls "Closer To Fine":

Congratulations on your pregnancy Halsey. 31) The Chainsmokers and Halsey "Closer":

Two great voices working together. 32) James Ingram and Michael McDonald "Ya Mo B There":

This is how to do a rock duet!! 33) Meat Loaf and Aspen Miller "Paradise By The Dashboard Light":

34) Michael Jackson and Siedah Garrett "I Just Can't Stop Loving You":

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(Updated and Finished November 4th, 2021) Part 1 of The Best Rock Music of the Late 70's: 1976-1980, Songs 1-17

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I was watching the first episode newly reprised "Freaks and Geeks" on Hulu the other day. The show is based in 1980 and has many of the great songs of that time played in the show. The song that really stood out was Styx's "Come Sail Away". It's a song I didn't like much for the longest time but have grown to like over the last few years. But last night it really hit me how great of a song it is. For 1979 we know that was a terrible year for rock music as that year was the peak of disco. But there were still dozens of great rock classics in this five year window.

1) Boston "More Than A Feeling":

2) ELO "Telephone Line":

3) Toto "Hold The Line":

4) Pink Floyd "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2":

5) John Lennon "Just Like (Starting Over)":

6) Thin Lizzy "The Boys Are Back In Town":

7) Styx "Come Sail Away":

8) The Rolling Stones "Miss You":

9) The Knack "My Sharona":

10) The Rolling Stones "Emotional Rescue":

11) The Steve Miller Band "Fly Like An Eagle":

12) Foreigner "Feels Like The First Time":

13) ELO "Turn To Stone":

14) Gary Numan "Cars":

15) The Rolling Stones "She's So Cold":

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

17) Manfred Mann "Blinded By The Light":

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(Finished January 29th, 2021) Part 2 of The Best Exploding Eargasms, Songs 18-34

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18) Supertramp "Bloody Well Right":

19) Aerosmith "Dream On":

20) Weezer "Tired of Sex":

21) Live "Lightning Crashes":

22) Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You":

23a) Paul McCartney and Wings "Live and Let Die":

23b) Guns N' Roses "Live and Let Die":

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

25) Candlebox "Far Behind":

26) Pulp "Common People":

27) Weezer "Say It Ain't So":

28) En Vogue "Hold On":

29) "Starla":

30) The Scorpions "Coming Home":

31) Evanescence "My Immortal":

32) Guns N' Roses "November Rain":

33) "The Day That Never Comes":

34) Ozzy Osborne "Diary of A Madman":

(Fiinished January 29th, 2021) The Best Exploding Eargasms

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These are the more of songs that start out slow and then explode. Some people call them eargasms. The first two songs are basically the patron saints of musical eargassms. 

1) Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight":

2) Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody":

3) The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again":

Led Zeppelin's best song, this entire song is an eargasm. 4) Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love":

5) The New Pornographers "The Bleeding Heart Show":

6) Ike and Tina Turner "Proud Mary":

7) Led Zeppelin "Over The Hills and Far Away":

8) Radiohead "Creep":

9) Alabama Shakes "Hold On":

10) The Foo Fighters "The Pretender":

11) Heart "Crazy On You":

12) Aztec Camera's "Jump":

13) Brandi Carlile "The Story":

14) Jethro Tull "Aqualung":

15) Pearl Jam singing the Mother Love Bone classic. "Chloe Dancer/ Crown of Thorns":

16) My Chemical Romance "Welcome To The Black Parade":

The newly revamped Fleetwood Mac 17) Fleetwood Mac "The Chain":

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(Finished January 28th, 2021) Part 1 of Exploring New Wave Obscurities Together, Songs 1-17

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I couldn't decide to focus on Greatest Duets of all-time or exploring new wave music. I've decided to go with New Wave music that I'm not familiar with (and maybe a few favorites), at least from the title. Let's see how this works out. For the foundation of these blogs I'm using songs from the "Just Can't Get Enough" 15 CD compilation of new wave classics.

Is this not the absolute definition of an obscurity, I had never heard of this song before. To be fair I don't know what radio station this would have been played on in the late 70s. In 2010 Roger Francois Jouret, aka Plastic Bertrand" was revealed to be having Milli Vanilli issues with his first 4 CDs. 

1) Plastic Bertrand "Ca plane pour moi":

2) The Normal "Warm Leatherette":

3) Flash and the Pan "Hey St. Peter":

4) D-Day "Too Young To Date":

5) Graham Parker "Local Girls":

6) Dave Edmunds "Girls Talk":

7) Tim Curry "I Do The Rock":

8) The Inmates "Dirty Water":

I was wondering if this was a cover of the classic Monkees/ Neil Diamond song. It is indeed!!

9) Tin Huey "I'm A Believer":

11) Suburban Lawns "Gidget Goes To Hell":

12) Ian Dury & The Blockheads "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick":

13) Human Sexual Response "What Does Sex Mean To Me?":

14) The Kingbees "My Mistake":

A very weird title for an offbeat song, but I like it. 15) Tonio K "The Funky Western Civilization":

16) The Beat "You Won't Be Happy":

I was fairly sure I knew this song, but I couldn't quite place the song. Then I heard the first few notes and instantly remembered it. 17) Split Enz "I Got You":

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(Finished February 15th, 2021) Part 1 of Selected Best Duets, Songs 1-17

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

This is a crash course on how to sing a duet. 2) Pink and Nate Ruess "Just Give Me A Reason":

3) Peaches and Herb "Reunited":

4) Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson "Beauty and the Beast":

5) Dan Hill and Vonda Shepard "Can't We Try":

6) Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes "Up Where We Belong":

From "Les Miserables" 7) "Confrontation":

From "Evita": 8) Madonna and Jonathan Pryce "I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You":

From "Phantom of the Opera" 9) Sarah Brightman and Michael Ball "All I Ask Of You":

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

11) Michael Jackson and Diana Ross "Ease On Down The Road":

12) Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta "You're The One I Want":

13) Prince and Sheena Easton "U Got The Look":

14) George Jones and Tammy Wynette "Golden Ring":

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

16) Reba McEntire and Vince Gill "The Heart Won't Lie":

Do we really need last names for these two? 17) Waylon and Willie "Mamma's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys":

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(Finished January 26th, 2021) Part 4 of Best Songs About The Wistful Passage of Time, Part Songs 54-71

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54) Fleetwood Mac "Landslide":

55) The Outsiders "Time Won't Let Me":

56) Shenandoah "Mama Knows":

57) Sarah Brightman "Time To Say Goodbye":

You can't get too much of Mila Kunis. 58) Guns N' Roses "There Was A Time":

59) Survivor "The Search Is Over":

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

61) Steely Dan "Deacon Blues":

62) Neil Young "Buffalo Springfield Again":

63) George Harrison "When We Was Fab":

64) Johnny Rivers "Memphis":

65) "Leaving On A Jet Plane":

66) Pink Floyd "When Tigers Break Free":

67) Rascal Flatts "These Days":

68) Frank Sinatra "My Way":

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

70) Little Texas "What Might Have Been":

71) Queen "Time Waits For No One":

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(Finished January 24th, 2021) The Best of 80s Ballads, Part 3: Songs 35-51

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I updated this blog and replaced a couple of expired links on September 4th, 2022.

"Cobra Kai" Season 3, episode 10 when Ali (the still beautiful Elisabeth Shue), Daniel and Johnny all get together and I had a complete surge of 80s nostalgia. Then Journey's classic "Faithfully" started playing and the feels took over. Here are a few of the likely hundreds of great 80s ballad. Long live the pop culture of the 80s.

35) Champaign "How 'Bout Us":

36) Boz Scaggs "Miss Sun":

\37) Don Williams "I Believe In You" :

38) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "American Dream":

39) Elton John "Nikita":

40) Janet Jackson "Let's Wait Awhile":

41) Michael Jackson "Human Nature":

42) Journey "Who's Crying Now":

43) Irene Cara "Out Here On My Own":

44) John Anderson "1959":

45) Juice Newton "Angel of The Morning":

46) Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson "Friends and Lovers":

47) Kenny Rogers "Love The World Away":

48) Kool and the Gang "Cherish":

49) Little River Band "Cool Change":

50) Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard "Suddenly":

51) Cheap Trick "The Flame":

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(Finished January 23rd, 2021) The Best of 80s Ballads, Part 2: Songs 18-34

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"Cobra Kai" Season 3, episode 10 when Ali (the still beautiful Elisabeth Shue), Daniel and Johnny all get together and I had a complete surge of 80s nostalgia. Then Journey's classic "Faithfully" started playing and the feels took over. Here are a few of the likely hundreds of great 80s ballad. Long live the pop culture of the 80s.

18) Madonna "Promise To Try":

19) Madonna "Love Don't Live Here Anymore":

20) Madonna "Live To Tell":

21) Expose "Seasons Change":

22) The Jets "Make It Real":

23) Tiffany "All This Time":

24) Debbie Gibson "Foolish Beat":

25) Reba McEntire "Whoever's In New England":

26) Anita Baker "Caught Up In The Rapture":

27) Keith Whitley "When You Say Nothing At All":

28) Christopher Cross "Arthur's Theme (The Best You Can Do)":

29) Sheena Easton "For Your Eyes Only":

30) Sade "Smooth Operator":

I don't think I've ever done a duets blog, maybe I'll do some of those. Although not all duets are as great as this one. 31) Barbra Striesand and Barry Gibb "What Kind of Fool":

32) Chris Deburgh "Lady In Red":

33) Cinderella "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)":

34) Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band "Against The Wind":

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(Finished March 29th, 2021) Part 1 of The Best 80s Ballads: Songs 1-17

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I updated a couple of the video links and the rest of the blog on September 4th, 2022.

"Cobra Kai" Season 3, episode 10 when Ali (the still beautiful Elisabeth Shue), Daniel and Johnny all get together and I had a complete surge of 80s nostalgia. Then Journey's classic "Faithfully" started playing and the feels took over. Here are a few of the likely hundreds of great 80s ballad. Long live the pop culture of the 80s.

What a great song! 1) Journey "Faithfully":

2) Berlin "Take My Breath Away":

3)  Laura Branigan "Power of Love":

4) Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes":

5) Whitney Houston "Greatest Love of All":

6) Whitney Houston "All At Once":

7) Whitney Houston "Didn't We Almost Have It All":

8) Whitney Houston "One Moment In Time":

Bonus non-80s video from the amazing Whitney "I Have Nothing":

All of these ballads are great, but this song is pure pop protection. 9) Roxette "It Must Have Been Love":

10) George Michael "Careless Whisper":

11) Belinda Carlisle "Circle In The Sand":

12) Will To Power "Baby I Love Your Way":

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

14) Danny Wilson "Mary's Prayer":

15) Stevie B "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)":

This is such a lovely melody and such a beautiful song. 16) David Foster "Love Theme From St. Elmo's Fire":

17) Debarge "Who's Holding Donna Now":

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(Finished January 21, 2021) Best Songs About Love the Second Time Around, Part 1: Songs 1-17

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These songs range from hitting the nail on this head to not so close, but still a great song. This song is inspired by Olivia Newton-John's "Twist of Fate". That song is coming in a later blog. I like blogs like this that force me to expand the music I'm listening to, a few of these songs I had never heard before.

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

2) One Direction "Change My Mind":

3) Dierks Bentley "Come A Little Closer":

4) Lonestar "Let's Be Us Again":

5) Jason Mraz "I Won't Give Up":

6) Thompson Square "Glass":

7) Daughtry "It's Not Over":

8) Sergio Mendes "Never Gonna Give You Up":

9) Lonestar "Not A Day Goes By":

10) Mariah Carey "We Belong Together":

11) Alabama "Old Flame":

12) .38 Special "Second Chance":

13) This Century "Second Chance":

14) Jackson 5 "I Want You Back":

Rihanna is such a gorgeous and sexy woman. 15) Rihanna "P.S. (I'm Still Not Over You)":

16) Peter Cetera and Cher "After All":

17) Vanessa Hudgens "Come Back To Me":

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(Finished January 20th, 2021) Songs With The Best Bass Lines, Part 2: Songs 19-36 (According To Bassplayer, MusicRadar and ultimate-guitar.com)

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I was scrolling through my blogs looking for good blog ideas. A couple of years ago I wrote about the best Synth Pop songs and I was thinking about writing another synth music blog. Then I remembered that I've been wanting to do a bass blog for awhile. Here it is, thanks to Bassplayer, MusicRadar and ultimate-guitar.com. Many of these songs are on all three lists, not just the list I post them under.

I discovered both of these songs on the MusicRadar website. 19) Metallica "For Whom The Bells Toll":

20) Rush "Freewill":

Thanks to ultimate-guitar.com for the excellent selections below.

21) Wild Cherry "Play That Funky Music":

22) Parliament "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)":

23) Electric Light Orchestra "Last Train To London":

24) The Trammps "Disco Inferno":

25) Incubus "Glass":

26) Led Zeppelin "Lemon Song":

27) Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart":

28) James Brown "I Got You (I Feel Good)":

29) Metallica "My Friend of Misery":

30) Green Day "Longview":

31) Primus "Jerry Was A Racecar Driver":

32) Rage Against The Machine "Calm Like A Bomb":

33) Megadeth "Peace Sells":

34) Alice In Chains "Would?":

35) Tool "Schism":

36) The Commodores "Brick House":

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(Finished January 19th, 2021) Songs About The Black Experience: An Education, Part 1: Songs 1-17

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Best songs about the black experience. I'm a white guy and I have no idea what the black experience is like. So this isn't coming from knowledge, but from trying to understand the black experience.

1) Nina Simone "To Be Young, Gifted and Black":

2) Bob Marley "Redemption Song":

3) Lauryn Hill "Black Rage":

4) Pete Seeger "We Shall Overcome":

5) Mahalia Jackson "Go Tell It On The Mountain":

6) Soweto Gospel Choir "This Little Light of Mine":

7) Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised":

8) Public Enemy "Fight The Power":

9) Mavis Staples "We Shall Not Be Moved":

10) Sweet Honey In The Rock "Ain Gonna Let No One Turn Me Around":

11) The Staple Singers "Freedom Highway":

12) Artists United Against Apartheid "Sun City":

13) Nina Simone "Mississippi Goddam":

14) RUN-D.M.C. "Proud To Be Black":

15) James Brown "Say It Loud- I'm Black and Proud":

16) Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions "People Get Ready":

17) Nina Simone "Why? The King of Love Is Dead":

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(Finished January 18th, 2021) The Best "Obscure" 70's Songs, Part 1: Songs 1-17 (But What Is Obscure?)

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What is obscure? I guess that would be any thing that you might not be familiar with. For instance I've heard The Knack's "My Sharona" many times, and it has been in movies etc, but it might be obscure to you. Even some songs on here by big named artists are obscure to me. To paraphrase I guess obscurity is in the ear of the beholder.

1) Ocean "Put Your Hand In The Hand":

Uh, some of the lyrics have been changed from the original. It hurts. 2) The Knack "Good Girls Don't":

3) Melanie "Brand New Key":

4) King Harvest "Dancing In The Moonlight":

5) Jessi Colter "I'm Not Lisa":

6) Sanford Townsend Band "Smoke Of A Distant Fire":

7) Walter Egan "Magnet and Steel":

8) The New Seekers "I'd Like To Teach The World":

9) Ides of March "Vehicle":

10) Climax Blues Band "Couldn't Get It Right":

11) Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight":

I'm sure this song is obscure for most people, that's a shame. This is one of the greatest songs ever!! 12) C.W. McCall "Convoy":

13) Albert Hammond "It Never Rains In Southern California":

14) Cheryl Lynn "Got To Be Real":

15) Billy Ocean "Love Really Hurts Without You":

16) Paul Nichols "Heaven On the 7th Floor":

17) Morris Albert "Feelings":

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(Started January 17th, 2021) Great Covers of 70's Songs

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I'm going to post both the original and the cover of each one of these songs.

1) The Beatles "The Long and Winding Road":

This has always been one of my favorite 70s covers. 2) Billy Ocean featuring Ruby Turner

3) Joni Mitchell "Big Yellow Taxi":

4) The Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton:

5) The Rolling Stones "Tumbling Dice":

6) Linda Ronstadt

7) The Sex Pistols "Anarchy In The U.K.":

8) "Motley Crue":

9) Roberta Flack "Killing Me Softly":

10) The Fugees:

11) The Beatles "Come Together":

12) Aerosmith:

13) Harry Nilsson "Without You": 

14) Mariah Carey

15) Bill Withers "Lean On Me":

16) Club Nouveau

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

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19) Fleetwood Mac "Landslide":

20) The Smashing Pumpkins

(Started January 16th, 2021) The Best of Linda Ronstadt, Part 1: Songs 1-15

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Linda Marie Ronstadt was born July 15th, 1946. She's a great singer that had hits from 1967 all the way through the early 90s. She sang in multiple genres from rock, pop and country. Ms. Ronstadt has recorded and worked with Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash and many others

As always these are a collection of her best songs, not necessarily her biggest hits. Although obviously there's a lot of overlap.

1) "Silver Threads and Golden Needles":

2) "Only Mama That'll Walk The Line":

3) As part of The Stone Poneys "Different Drum":

4) "Long Long Time":

5) "Will You Love Me Tomorrow":

6) "I Still Miss Someone":

7) "Rock Me On The Water":

8) "You're No Good":

9) "When Will I Be Loved":

10) "It Doesn't Matter Anymore":

11) "Love Is A Rose":

12) "Heat Wave":

13) "Tracks Of My Tears":

14) "That'll Be The Day":

15) "It's So Easy":