(Finished June 30th, 2021) Part 2 of Great Modern Rock (Mostly) Covers of Classic Songs

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Why does taking a great song and adding a rock feel to it make the great song even better? I don't really know the answer to that question. It's even better when the band remaking the song puts their own spin on that song and not a note for note recreation. The Five Finger Death Punch directly below is a bit harder than I would like, although it's still a fine version. Although no one will ever top the Animals original.

18) Five Finger Death Punch "House of The Rising Sun":

18b) The House on Cliff "House of The Rising Sun":

19) Smashing Pumpkins "Landslide":

20) Rage Against The Machine "Renegades":

21) Zakk Wylde "Mississippi Queen":

22) Deftones "Drive":

Not a bad version, but this makes me remember how great Prince's original version is. 23) Foo Fighters "Darling Nikki":

24) Black Stone Cherry "Can't You See":

Here's a twofer for you. 25) Needtobreathe "Got My Mojo Workin'/ Folsom Prison Blues":

25b) Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown "Got My Mojo Workin'":

26) Relient K "Africa":

27) Everlast "Folsom Prison":

28) Metallica "Turn The Page":

29) Urge Overkill "Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon":

30a) Social Distortion "Ring of Fire":

30b) Raised On Vinyl "Ring of Fire":

31) Machine Head "Message In A Bottle":

32) Dishwalla "It's Going To Take Some Time":

33) Sick Puppies "Say My Name":

34) Alien Ant Farm "Smooth Criminal":

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(Started June 29th, 2021) Part 1 of Great Modern Rock (Mostly) Covers of Classic Songs

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Why does taking a great song and adding a rock feel to it make a great song even better? For instance Three Days Grace "The Chain" is a great cover of a great original. I'm not saying it's better than the Fleetwood Mac original, both versions are great. 

1a) Three Days Grace "The Chain":

1b) Wild Fire "The Chain":

Not a rock cover, but still an amazing cover of this amazing Fleetwood Mac original. This has got to be one of the best covers of all-time. I especially love the harmonies. 1c) The Highwomen "The Chain":

2) Kon Kan "I Beg Your Pardon":

This cover is sorta meh. 3) Disturbed "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You":

4) Lizzy Hale, Maria Brink and Taylor Momsen "We Will Rock You":

5) Mark Morton and Lzzy Hale "She Talks To Angels":

6) Diamante and Breaking Benjamin "Iris":

I love how well their voices blend together. 7) Halsey and Kelsea Ballerini "Dreams":

8) Chris Cornell "Showdown":

9) Chris Cornell "Watching The Wheels":

I wasn't expecting much from this cover and it was pretty disappointing. I like some of Miley's music, but am I the only one that doesn't think she can sing? 10a) Miley Cyrus "Wish You Were Here":

Can Larkin Poe do better? Still nowhere as good as the original, but a step up from the above version. 10b) Larkin Poe "Wish You Were Here":

11) Smith & Myers "Rockin' In The Free World":

Not a big Nirvana fan, but that being said this is one of my favorite covers ever. 12) Nirvana "Where Did You Sleep Last Night":

13) The Ataris "The Boys of Summer":

14) Reel Big Fish "Take On Me":

15) Deftones "No Ordinary Love":

16) Disturbed "Sounds of Silence":

17) Tool "No Quarter":

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(Finished June 28th, 2021) Part 2 of The Wallflowers and Other New Music

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I love rock music- first and foremost- but I also love pop and country. I basically love most songs that have a rock vibe, but that doesn't go to the extremes of screamo. I want to understand the words so I can sing along. I am not a big hip hop fan. I've reached the age where nearly all hip hop sounds the same. These are some of the best new songs I've found- mostly thanks to YouTube.

I love hearing new music- sorta new from Prince and Dua Lipa, Barenaked Ladies, twenty one pilots and Night Ranger.

18) Cynthia Ervio "The Good":

19) Dua Lipa "We're Good":

20) Mabel "Let Them Know":

21) Jackson Browne "My Cleveland Heart":

22) Jackson Browne "Downhill From Everywhere":

23) Jackson Browne "A Little Soon To Say":

24) Jena Rose "Checkmate":

25) twenty one pilots "Shy Away":

28) Imagine Dragons "Cutthroat":

29) Bebe Rexha "Sacrifice":

30) Night Ranger "Breakout":

31) Barenaked Ladies "Flip":

32) Barenaked Ladies "New Disaster":

I think both of these songs have been around for awhile. I'm calling them new as they are set to be released as a 12 song CD on July 30, 2021. 33) Prince "Born 2 Die":

The above mentioned CD is called "Welcome 2 America". 34) Prince "Welcome 2 America":

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(Finished June 28th, 2021) Part 3 of The Wallflowers and Other New Music

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I love rock music- first and foremost- but I also love pop and country. I basically most things that have a rock vibe, but that doesn't go to the extremes of screamo. I want to understand the words so I can sing along. I am not a big hip hop fan. I've reached the age where nearly all hip hop sounds the same. These are some of the best new songs I've found- mostly thanks to YouTube.

35) Billy F Gibbons "She's On Fire":

36) Pretty Reckless "Only Love Can Save Me Now":

39) Spiritbox "Secret Garden":

40) Nothing But Thieves "Futureproof":

41) The Dead Daisies "Like No Other":

42) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds "Flying On The Grounds":

43) Volbeat "Wait A Minute My Girl":

44) One Ok Rock "Broken Heart of Gold":

45) Green Day "Pollyanna":

46) Mammoth WVH "Don't Back Down":

I love Halsey!! 47) Machine Gun Kelly featuring Halsey "Forget Me Too":

48) Royal Blood "Typhoons":

49) Escape The Fate featuring Lindsey Sterling "Invincible":

50) Ayron Jones "Boys From Puget Sound":

51) Five Finger Death Punch "Darkness Settles In":

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(Finished June 27th, 2021) Part 1 of The Best Heartbreak Songs

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1) Cinderella "Heartbreak Station":

2) Corona "Don't Go Breaking My Heart":

3) Def Leppard "Bringing On The Heartbreak":

Not a heartbreak song per se, but close enough. 4) Demi Lovato "Give Your Heart A Break":

Has there ever been a duo that had less chemistry? 5) Elton John and Kiki Dee "Don't Go Breaking My Heart":

This is the song that inspired this series of blogs. 6) Dirty Honey "Heartbreaker":

7) Elvis Presley "Heartbreak Hotel":

8) Johnny Lee "You Could've Heard A Heart Break":

9) Led Zeppelin "Heartbreaker":

10) Loverboy "Destination Heartbreak":

11) Madonna "HeartBreakCity":

12) Marina and the Diamonds "How To Be A Heartbreaker":

13) Neil Young "Only Love Can Break Your Heart":

14) Pat Benatar "Heartbreaker":

15) Psychedelic Furs "Heartbreak Beat":

16) Sorrows "Teenage Heartbreak":

17) Taylor Swift "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince":

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(Finished June 26th, 2021) The Best of Billboard's #2 Songs, Part 3

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Whoever knew how many songs had peaked at #2, it's a lot. For about 90% of these songs it's so very sad that they didn't break into the #1 position. But not every song, no matter how great, can reach #1. Reaching #2 is quite an accomplishment. 

Easily one of my favorite of Madonna's songs. 35) Madonna "Express Yourself":

36) CCR "Who'll Stop The Rain":

37) Alias "More Than Words Can Say":

38) The Cowsills "Hair":

39) The Ventures "Walk Don't Run":

40) Nena "99 Luftballoons":

41) Avril Lavigne "Complicated":

42) Foreigner "Double Vision":

43) Marty Robbins "A White Sport Coat and A Pink Carnation":

44) Sam Cooke "Chain Gang":

45) "Get A Job":

46) Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls of Fire":

47) The Chordettes "Lollipop":

48) Laurie London "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands":

49) Whitney Houston "Heartbreak Hotel":

50) CCR "Bad Moon Rising":

51) Madonna "Frozen":

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(Finished June 26th, 2021) The Best of Billboard's #2 Songs, Part 2

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Whoever knew how many songs had peaked at #2, it's a lot. For about 90% of these songs it's so very sad that they didn't break into the #1 position. But not every song, no matter how great, can reach #1. Reaching #2 is quite an accomplishment. 

18) Gnarls Barkley "Crazy":

19) Elvis Presley "Can't Help Falling In Love":

20) Lady Gaga "Bad Romance":

21) The Ronettes "Be My Baby":

22) Janet Jackson "Rhythm Nation":

23) Carly Simon "Nobody Does It Better":

24) Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street":

25) En Vogue "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)":

26) Linda Ronstadt "When Will I Be Loved":

27) Ellie Goulding "Lights":

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

This song was kept out of the #1 spot by Huey Lewis and the News' "Jacob's Ladder". Although this song only peaked at #2, it still is one of the greatest songs of all-time. 29) Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram "Somewhere Out There":

30) Sheryl Crow "All I Wanna Do":

31) Madonna "Causing A Commotion":

32) Leann Rimes "How Do I Live":

33) Cathy Dennis "Touch Me (All Night Long)":

34) The Everly Brothers "Bird Dog":

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(Started June 24th, 2021) The Best of Billboard's #2 Songs

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Whoever knew how many songs had peaked at #2, it's a lot.

This was such a dumb show, but this is a pretty good song. 1) Joey Scarbury "Theme From "Greatest American Hero (Believe It Or Not)":

2) Fergie "Fergalicious":

3) Glenn Frey "You Belong To The City":

4) Journey "Open Arms":

5) Eddy Grant "Electric Avenue":

6) The Moody Blues "Nights In White Satin": 

7) Linda Ronstadt "Don't Know Much":

8) Cyndi Lauper "Girls Just Want To Have Fun":

9) Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under The Bridge":

10) Sister Sledge "We Are Family":

11) Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody":

12) The Carpenters "Rainy Days and Mondays":

13) Steppenwolf "Born To Be Wild":

14) Bruce Springsteen "Dancing In The Dark":

15) The Rolling Stones "Start Me Up":

16) Madonna "Material Girl":

17) Village People "Y.M.C.A.":

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(Started June 24th, 2021) Under Appreciated 80's Rock Bands, Part 1

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When one thinks of 80's rock bands, the bands most of us think of include Def Leppard, U2, Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, The Police, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Journey, Van Halen and AC/DC. While all of those bands are great bands and some of my favorite bands, there are a lot of other great 80s bands. This will include a bands 80's songs, but I will not limit it to their 80's songs.

I googled the top 50 or 100 80s rock bands and I immediately eliminated the top 30 in those lists, I built the blog around the my favorites of the remaining bands.

This is Spinditty's under appreciated bands and the bands ranking, Asia (99):

1) "Heat of The Moment":

2) "Wildest Dreams":

3) "Sole Survivor":

4) "Without You":

5) Asia featuring John Payne "Go":

6) Asia featuring John Payne "Here Comes The Feeling":

Cinderella (39):

6) "Shake Me":

7) "Somebody Save Me":

8) "Nobody's Fool":

9) "Night Songs":

10) "Long Cold Winter":

11) "Gypsy Road":

12) "Nothin' For Nothin":

13) "The Last Mile":

Rush (51):

14) "Limelight":

15) "Spirit of Radio":

16) "Distant Early Warning":

17) "Red Barchetta":

18) "Subdivisions":

19) "Tom Sawyer":

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(Finished June 27th, 2021) Part 1 of The Wallflowers and Other New Music

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I love rock music- first and foremost- but I also love pop and country. I basically most things that have a rock vibe, but that doesn't go to the extremes of screamo. I want to understand the words so I can sing along. I am not a big hip hop fan. I've reached the age where nearly all hip hop sounds the same. These are some of the best new songs I've found- mostly thanks to YouTube.

1) Olivia Rodrigo "Good For You":

2) Jinjer "Vortex":

3) Anne-Marie and Niall Horan "Our Song":

4) Dua Lipa "Love Again":

These two new Switchfoot songs aren't very good. 5) Switchfoot "fluorescent":

6) Switchfoot "i need you (to be wrong)":

7) Martin Garrix featuring Bono and The Edge "We Are The People":

8) Melissa Etheridge "One Way Out":

9) Modest Mouse "We Are Between":

10) Modest Mouse "The Sun Hasn't Left":

11) Katy Perry "Electric":

12) Jam & Lewis & Sounds of Blackness "Till I Found You":

13) Chvrches "He Said She Said":

14) Chvrches featuring Robert Smith "How Not To Drown":

15) Galantis, David Guetta & Little Mix "Heartbreak Anthem":

16) The Wallflowers "Maybe Your Hearts Not In No More":

17) Lindsey Buckingham "I Don't Mind":

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(Started June 21st, 2021) Best Bands Named After Locations, Part 2

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I'm hopefully going to go see Asia in concert on Wednesday night June 23rd. I say hopefully because I'm still not sure Covid-19 has completely left America. However I'm fairly confident that I'll be attending my first post Covid concert Wednesday night. These are bands named after locations. Heavy on the Asia as I'll be seeing them in two days!!

This website is one of the basis' of this blog: https://www.ranker.com/list/best-bands-named-after-real-places/ranker-music 

5) Asia "Only Time Will Tell":

"Heat of the Moment":

"Here Comes The Feeling":

"Go":

"Sole Survivor":

"Who Will Stop The Rain":

"Open Your Eyes":

"Wildest Dreams":

"Valkyrie":

"Without You":

As you can tell I really love me some Alabama. 6) Alabama "Old Flame":

"Why Lady Why":

"There's A Fire In The Night":

"There's No Way":

"The Closer You Get";

"Take Me Down":

"Mountain Music":

"Angels Among Us":

"Song Of The South":

"Dixieland Delight":

"Pass It On Down":

"Tar Top":

7) Oak Ridge Boys "It Takes A Little Rain":

"Make My Life With You":

"Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight":

"Trying To Love Two Women":

"Sail Away":

"American Made":

"I Guess It Never Hurts To Hurt Sometime":

"Everyday":

"You're The One":

"Elvira":

"Heart of Mine":

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(Finished June 20th, 2021) Part 2 of The Best Religious/Sunday Worthy Rock and Pop Songs

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These are songs that are perfect for your Sundays and any times you want mellow music. All of these are great songs.

18) Cat Stevens "Morning Has Broken":

Wow, what a powerful song!! 19) Josh Groban "You Raise Me Up":

20) Creed "Higher":

21) Amy Grant "El Shaddai":

22) Amy Grant "Stay For Awhile":

23) Trace Adkins "Arlington":

24) Kenny Loggins "Return To Pooh Corner":

25) The Cranberries "Dreams":

26) Huey Lewis and the News "Jacob's Ladder":

27) Cristy Lane "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands":

28) Fleetwood Mac "Dreams":

29) U2 "One":

30) Marmalade "Reflections of My Life":

31) The Hollies "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother";

32) Breathe "Hands To Heaven":

33) Lukas Graham "7 Years":

34) Terry Jacks "Seasons In The Sun":

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(Started June 19th, 2021) Best Bands Named After Locations, Part 1

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I'm hopefully going to go see Asia in concert on Wednesday night June 23rd. I say hopefully because I'm still not sure Covid-19 has completely left America. I'm fairly confident that I'll be attending my first post Covid concert Wednesday night. These are bands named after locations. 

This website is one of the basis' of this blog: https://www.ranker.com/list/best-bands-named-after-real-places/ranker-music

So much red hair!! 1) Kansas "Carry On My Wayward Son":

"Point of Know Return":

"Fight Fire With Fire":

"Play The Game Tonight":

2) Boston "We're Ready":

"Peace of Mind":

"Rock & Roll Band":

"More Than A Feeling":

"Party":

"Cool The Engines":

"Feelin' Satisfied":

"Let Me Take You Home Tonight":

3) Chicago "Stay The Night":

"Feelin' Stronger Every Day":

"Alive Again":

"Hard Habit To Break":

25 or 6 to 4":

"Love Me Tomorrow":

4) America "Sister Golden Hair":

"Ventura Highway":

"You Can Do Magic":

"Tin Man":

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(Finished June 17th, 2021) Cool Songs Worthy of More Attention

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These are cool songs I've discovered while surfing YouTube and looking for other songs. Many of these bands or songs I have never heard of. I only heard about Mammoth WVH today as they'll be opening for Guns N' Roses on some postponed tour dates. 

1) Mammoth WVH "Don't Back Down":

2) Doc Holliday "Dead Man's Road":

3) The Highwomen "Highwomen":

4) The Revivalists "Wish I Knew You":

5) Garbage "The Men Who Rule The World":

6) The Pretty Reckless "Death By Rock and Roll":

7) Billy Gibbons "Missin' Yo' Kissin":

8) Acacia Ridge "Acid":

9) The Secret Machines "Nowhere Again":

10) The Spirit Machines "Portland":

11) Scarlette Fever "Crash and Burn":

12) Zero 9:36 "Adrenaline":

Jones, Zero 9:36, The Struts and Shinedown will be going on tour August 6th, 2021. That should be a great show. 13) Ayron Jones "Take Me Away":

14) Ayron Jones "Boys From The Puget Sound":

15) Sons of Liberty "Damaged Reputation":

16) Sons of Apollo "Goodbye Divinity":

17) Broken Witt Rebels "Money":

18) Broken Witt Rebels "OK Hotel":

19) JoanofArc "Slipping Away":

20) Trucker Diablo "Tail End of Hurricane":

21) Pop Evil "Set Me Free":

22) KinStrife "Cursed":

23) KinStrife "Make Me":

23) Billy F Gibbons "More-More-More":

24) Broken Witt Rebels "Running With The Wolves":

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(Finished June 16th, 2021) I Need A NWOCR Blog Today, Part 2

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18) The Hot Damn! "Enjoy The Ride":

19) The Hot Damn! intro:

20) Treatment "Wrong Way":

21) The Treatment "Hang Them High":

22) The Treatment "Let's Get Dirty":

23) The Treatment "Let It Begin":

24) Hollowstar "Let You Down":

25) Hollowstar "All I Gotta Say";

26) Hollowstar "Holding It Together":

I'm not a big fan of this band so far. 27) Revival Black "Wide Awake":

28) King Creature "Captives":

29) King Creature "Lowlife":

These are other interesting NWOCR bands:

30) Sons of Apollo "Goodbye Divinity":

31) Sons of Apollo "Coming Home":

32) Sons of Apollo "Alive":

33) Sons of Apollo "Lost In Oblivion":

34) Sons of Apollo featuring the Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony "Comfortably Numb":

35) Dead Man's Whiskey "Last Train Home":

36) Dead Man's Whiskey "Make You Proud":

37) Dead Man's Whiskey "My Year":

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