Another Greatest Songs of All-Time issued from on high by Rolling Stone magazine. I love that magazine and I've been a subscriber since approximately the early 80s. I get that a lot of people have different taste in music- which is great- but as this is all opinion I don't agree with everyone of their choices. But just as fervently as I agree with some of their choices. Currently I'm working on my Top 200ish Songs of All-Time and honorable mentions. Below is some of the honorable mentions in regards to my greatest songs of all-time. This list will change constantly I assure you. These songs are in no particular order.
52) Wings "Live and Let Die":
53) Janet Jackson "State of The World":
54) Eddy Grant "Electric Avenue":
55) Boy Meets Girl "Waiting For A Star To Fall":
56) XTC "Mayor Of Simpleton":
57) Mary Hopkins "Those Were The Days":
58) Toto "Africa":
59) Toto "Rosanna":
60) Metallica "Nothing Else Matters":
I've just heard this song way too much. 61) Led Zeppelin "Stairway To Heaven":
Another Greatest Songs of All-Time issued from on high by Rolling Stone magazine. I love that magazine and I've been a subscriber since approximately the early 80s. I get that a lot of people have different taste in music- which is great- but as this is all opinion I don't agree with everyone of their choices. But just as fervently as I agree with some of their choices. Currently I'm working on my Top 200ish Songs of All-Time and honorable mentions. Below is some of the honorable mentions in regards to my greatest songs of all-time. This list will change constantly I assure you. These songs are in no particular order.
35) Elaine Paige "Memory":
36) Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford "The Music of the Night":
37) Sheena Easton "For Your Eyes Only":
I'm surprised I put this song here, because I absolutely love this song. I'm just gonna go with it as song opinions can change from day to day. 38) The Carpenters "Superstar":
My favorite version of this song. 39) Greta Van Fleet "A Change Is Gonna Come":
The best Beatle song and the only one worthy of this list. I actually prefer the non-Beatles discography of both John Lennon and Paul McCartney over the Beatles. 40) The Beatles "A Day In The Life":
41) Dionne Warwick "Walk On By":
Either version is great. 42) Donna Summer "On The Radio" (Long Version):
What happens when one listens to one of my favorite NWOCR bands and also is reading Emerging Rock Bands magazine? I get the desire to write a NWOCR blog. I've posted a few of these NWOCR blogs in the last little while so I've tried to change up the songs I've selected a bit.
103) JOANovARC "Jane":
104) Ashen Reach "Tear It Down":
105) Gin Annie "Love Ain't Here":
106) Dirty Honey "When I'm Gone":
Wow, this is a really cool song. 107) Black Tree Vultures "The Unforeseen":
108) The Late Aprils "Hurricane":
109) Trucker Diablo "Insects":
110) Inglorious "Unaware":
111) Hearts and Hand Grenades "Nothing Left":
112) Inglorious "God of War":
113) Witchrider "You Lied":
114) Bad Touch featuring Mollie Marriot "Let's Get It On":
115) Mollie Marriott "Control":
Not a NWOCR song, but covered by two NWOCR stalwarts. Anyone that covers Led Zeppelin this well deserves some love. 116) Mollie Marriott and Kris Barras "Since I've Been Loving You":
What happens when one listens to one of my favorite NWOCR bands and also is reading Emerging Rock Bands magazine? I get the desire to write a NWOCR blog. I've posted a few of these NWOCR blogs in the last little while so I've tried to change up the songs I've selected a bit.
86) Massive Wagons "Ratio"
87) Ayron Jones "Baptized In Muddy Waters":
88) Witchrider "Let Go":
89 "Massive Wagons "The Day We Fell":
90) Elles Bailey "Medicine Man":
91) Primitai "Valley Of Darkness":
92) The Outlaw Orchestra "Done My Time":
93) Rocket Dolls "The Art of Disconnect":
94) Sons of Liberty "Fire And Gasoline":
95) Black Tree Vultures "Downfall":
96) Damn Truth "Everything Fades":
97) Dirty Honey "Rolling 7's":
98) Royal Blood "Back Out of The Black":
I don't know if I really count The Pretty Reckless of NWOCR, they've been around longer than the movement. Also most NWOCR bands are British bands. But people post about The Pretty Reckless in the NWOCR Facebook group so I'm okay with it. Taylor Momsen and the boys are a great band.
99) The Pretty Reckless featuring Tom Morello "And So It Went":
I usually have to work Fridays, but I don't have to work this Friday. I want to share some of my joy with you. Turn these videos up very loud, all the way to 11.
1) Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit":
2) Guns N' Roses "Paradise City":
3) Prince "Let's Go Crazy":
4) Evanescence "Bring Me To Life":
5) Sting featuring Lady Gaga "King of Pain":
6) Alanis Morrissete "You Oughta Know":
7) The Toadies "Possum Kingdom":
8) Hole "Celebrity Skin":
9) Andra Day "Rise Up":
10) STP "Wicked Garden":
11) STP "Sex Type Thing":
12) Veruca Salt "Seether":
13) Elastica "Connection":
14) Broken Witt Rebels "Running With The Wolves":
15) Motley Crue "Kickstart My Heart":
16) Meat Loaf Lemons
17) Sixx A.M. "Rise":
18) Bonnie Tyler "Holding Out For A Hero":
19) The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again":
20) The Who "Who Are You":
Not many things worse than "a humiliating kick in the crotch." 21) The Police "Synchronicity 2":
Another Greatest Songs of All-Time issued from on high by Rolling Stone magazine. I love that magazine and I've been a subscriber since approximately the early 80s. I get that a lot of people have different taste in music- which is great- but as with all opinions I don't agree with everyone in their choices. Just as fervently I agree with some of their choices. Currently I'm working on my Top 100 Songs of All-Time and honorable mentions. There are just some songs that I can't not include in the Greatest Songs of All-Time. I started with 100 Greatest Songs of All-Time. That has now worked up to 180 songs and will continue to rise. For this blog I'm going to focus on the actual Greatest Songs, not the honorable mentions. These are songs that are ranked outside of my Top 100.
These lists are very fluid. Most of these songs could have also been in my All-Time Top 100 if only I had thought of them earlier. There are probably about 300 to 500 songs that will always be in my GSOAT. Again these are GSOAT, just not the Top 100 GSOAT. I will be posting my Top 100 Greatest Songs of All-Time eventually. These are the songs that didn't quite make the Top 100.
101) Paula Abdul "Straight Up":
102) Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer":
103) The Commodores "Still":
104) Carly Simon "You're So Vain":
105) Frank Sinatra "New York, New York"
106) Frank Sinatra "Fly Me To The Moon":
107) Frank Sinatra "Luck Be A Lady":
108) Carly Simon "Nobody Does It Better":
109) Lulu "To Sir With Love":
110) Supertramp "Breakfast In America":
111) Led Zeppelin "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You":
112) Yonsei Central Baptist Church "Hallelujah Chorus":
113) Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight":
114) The Counting Crows "A Long December":
115) Ed Sheeran "Shape of You":
R.I.P. Tawny Kitaen 116) Whitestanke "Here I Go Again":
This song is pure joy, albeit masking a hidden darkness. 117) Madonna "Buenos Aires":
What do Sting, Robert Plant, Lauryn Hill, Neil Young and Michael Jackson all have in common? They all had big solo careers after being in some very famous bands. These are some of those musicians best solo songs.
From a relatively short and highly successful career with The Police to solo stardom. 1) Sting "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free":
"Brand New Day":
"All This Time":
"Fields of Gold":
What a magnificent song!! "Fortress Around Your Heart":
"We'll Be Together":
"Russians":
"Love Is The Seventh Wave":
"Children's Crusade":
"We Work The Black Seam":
"Mad About You":
"Soul Cages":
"If I Ever Lose My Faith In You":
"Heavy Cloud No Rain":
"It's Probably Me":
"Desert Rose":
"Fragile":
One of the two musicians who broke out big after leaving Genesis behind. 2) Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer":
This blog is inspired some great Pink Floyd guitar solos and I get the foundation for this list from this blog. https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2018/01/101_greatest_guitar_songs_by_r.html
86) The Rolling Stones "Brown Sugar":
87) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "Born To Run":
88) Van Halen "Panama":
89) The White Stripes "7 Nation Army":
90) James Taylor "Fire and Rain":
How can you have a series of guitar blogs without some B.B. King? 91) B.B. King "How Blue Can You Get":
92) Queen "Crazy Little Thing Called Love":
93) Santana "Black Magic Woman/ Gypsy Queen":
94) Led Zeppelin "Over The Hills and Far Away":
95) ) Van Halen "Panama":
96) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Have You Ever Seen The Rain":
97) Ozzy Osborne "Crazy Train":
98) The Smashing Pumpkins "Bullet With Butterfly Wings":
This blog is inspired some great Pink Floyd guitar solos and I get the foundation for this list from this blog. https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2018/01/101_greatest_guitar_songs_by_r.html
What happens when one listens to one of my favorite NWOCR bands and also is reading Emerging Rock Bands magazine? I get the desire to write a NWOCR blog. I've posted a few of these NWOCR blogs in the last little while so I've tried to change up the songs I've selected a bit.
These next several songs are by one of NWOCR's best bands, Those Damn Crows. 69) "The Fighter":
70) "Rock and Roll Ain't Dead":
71) "Fear of The Broken":
72) "King of Second Chances":
73) "Go Get It":
74) "Sin on Skin":
If you want both really great rock music with some really dumb lyrics then Bootyard Bandits are for you! 75) Bootyard Bandits "Country Music":
76) Electric Black "Homecoming":
77) Bad Touch "Skyman":
These next 4 songs are by Collateral. 78) Collateral "Mr. Big Shot":
I have labeled some of these songs as best of the best, the 90s was a tremendous decade for country music. As usual I don't just post the hits, I post the best country songs of that decade.
RollingStone.com has a big article about Generation Z is loving 90s country. Here's the article : https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/nineties-country-blowing-gen-z-142735025.html
From the article:
But the Nineties country resurgence isn’t limited to Spotify. Apple Music, Amazon Music and Pandora have all realized the demand for the subgenre and curated their own Nineties country playlists. Today’s Nashville stars have taken note as well: For the past few years, artists like Luke Combs, Jon Pardi, Carly Pearce, Hailey Whitters, and Midland have been mining the sound, songwriting, and even style of the decade to great success. Blake Shelton based his entire Friends and Heroes Tour around celebrating veterans like John Anderson and Tracy Byrd. And when Joe Diffie, a Nineties icon with hits like “John Deere Greene” and “Pickup Man,” died in March 2020 from Covid-19, our remembrance of Diffie was one of Rolling Stone’s most-read stories ever.
121) Roseanne Cash "Hold On":
122) Willie Nelson "Always On My Mind":
123) George Strait "Baby's Gotten Good At Goodbye":
124) Alabama "The Closer You Get":
125) Dan Seals "My Old Yellow Car":
126) John Anderson "1959":
127) Vince Gill "Liza Jane":
128) "She Believes In Me":
129) Shenendoah "Two Dozen Roses":
130) Barbara Mandrell "Married But Not To Each Other":
131) Keith Whitley "No Stranger To The Rain":
132) Blackhawk "Every Once In A While":
133) Anne Murray "Just Another Woman In Love":
134) The Bellamy Brothers "Redneck Girl":
135) Alabama "Take Me Down":
136) Kathy Mattea "Eighteen Wheels and A Dozen Roses":
I was on my morning walk and I had the really weird thought that I hadn't listened to Chant music for awhile. When I got home I listened to several chant songs and remembered why I found that music so compelling. Here are some of the most compelling Gregorian chant songs. I will list the Chant artists if the names are available.
Most of these songs come straight from this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch v=dJdkAwSRpoA&list=PLVf11frQ-YqvTV4YBlAkni3zPiTNyiq8B&index=3
18) Gregorian "Gleurs Du Mal":
19) Gregorian "Enjoy The Silence":
20) Gregorians Masters of Chant "In The Air Tonight":
21) Gregorian "Lucifer":
22) Enigma "Return To Innocence":
23) "Against All Odds":
24) Gregorian "Live and Let Die":
25) Gregorian and Amelia Brightman "Dark Side":
26) Gregorian "Chariots of Fire/ Conquest of Paradise":
Another Greatest Songs of All-Time issued from on high by Rolling Stone magazine. I love that magazine and I've been a subscriber since approximately the early 80s. I get that a lot of people have different taste in music- which is great- but as this is all opinion I don't agree with everyone of their choices. But just as fervently as I agree with some of their choices. Currently I'm working on my Top 100 Songs of All-Time and honorable mentions. Below is the honorable mentions in regards to my greatest songs of all-time. This list will change constantly I assure you. These songs are in no particular order.
This song should be in the Top Ten songs ever, but that version hasn't been made yet. I just feel that there is someone out there who will turn it into the masterpiece it should be. This is the best version I have heard yet. 1) Rufus Wainwright "Hallelujah":
2) Adele "Rolling In The Deep":
This song comes from my recent deep dive into NWOCR music. A fairly new song, but 100% amazing. 3) Black Tree Vulture "Unforeseen":
4) Lin Manuel-Miranda et al "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)":
5) Murray Head "One Night In Bangkok":
6) Trucker Diablo "Insects":
7) Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love":
8) Neneh Cherry "Buffalo Stance":
9) Bon Jovi "Work For The Working Man":
10) Bruce Springsteen "Death To My Hometown":
11) Shirley Bassey "Diamonds Are Forever":
12) Bruce Springsteen "Shackled and Drawn":
13) Neil Young "Let's Roll":
14) Carole King "Tapestry":
15) George Michael "Freedom '90":
The Queen of Soul is not a one greatest song of all-time wonder. 16) Aretha Franklin "Think":
Another Greatest Songs of All-Time issued from on high by Rolling Stone magazine. I love that magazine and I've been a subscriber since approximately the early 80s. I get that a lot of people have different taste in music- which is great- but as this is all opinion I don't agree with everyone of their choices. But just as fervently I agree with some of their choices. Currently I'm working on my Top 100 Songs of All-Time and honorable mentions. I will publish that eventually, but it's still in progress. The Top 100 I post constantly be changing as I always think of different songs.
Rolling Stone's Top 20 Greatest Songs of All Time and selected commentary.
I can completely agree with this song choice, also it was #1 around my date of birth. I don't know if there's such a thing as a perfect song. But if this isn't a perfect song it's damn close. 1) Aretha Franklin "Respect":
I think this is a great song and I love it. However is it the #2 song of all-time? No, not even close. 2) Public Enemy "Fight The Power":
I love the sentiment of this song, but as for the song I've not been a big fan. I actually think that the Greta Van Fleet version is the best song of all-time. 3) Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come":
One of the most overrated songs ever by one of the most overrated musicians ever. 4) Bob Dylan "Like A Rolling Stone":
An amazing song by an overhyped band. If it wasn't for this song and Cobain dying at a young age this band would not be such an overhyped band. I'm not sure they would even be remembered much at all. But this song is four and a half minutes of magic. No doubt about it. 5) Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit":
If any Marvin Gaye song is at #6 it should be the amazing "Let's Get It On" or perhaps "Ain't No Mountain High Enough". Again a great song, but not the sixth best song of all-time. 6) Marvin Gaye "What's Going On";
Don't even get me started on how wrong this is. 7) The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever":
Not even in the top million songs of all-time. 8) Missy Elliott "Get Ur Freak On":
Stevie Nicks, do I need to say anything else at all? A great, great song. Is it the #9 song of all-time or even the best Fleetwood Mac song. No and no, but it's still an amazing song. 9) Fleetwood Mac "Dreams":
One of the most addicting dance songs that just gets in your head and stays there. Is this the tenth greatest song ever? I don't know, but it could be. 10) Outkast "Hey Ya":
Just one of many amazing Beach Boys songs, Brian Wilson is a genius- sorry thin skinned Mike Love. 11) The Beach Boys "God Only Knows":
A great song, but not even the best Stevie Wonder song. 12) Stevie Wonder "Superstition":
This is how to make a great song. 13) The Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter":
A decent song, but ranked undeservedly high. I don't even think this is one of the Top 5 best Kinks songs. 14) The Kinks "Waterloo Sunset":
This is a much more better song than "Strawberry Fields Forever". 15) The Beatles "I Want To Hold Your Hand":
The second best version of this song. Beyonce is one of those musicians I've never figured out why people love them so much. 16) Beyonce "Crazy In Love":
Just a great great song, it should probably be in the Top Ten. 17) Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody":
A magical magician and a great guitarist with a superb song. From one of the all-time greatest CDs ever. 18) Prince "Purple Rain":
Combination of a great song and a great message. Is it really #19 of all-time, no. 19) John Lennon "Imagine":
One of those songs that's so much loved, but I just have never understood why. A very average song and nowhere close to the top 200,000 songs of all-time. 20) Robyn "Dancing On My Own":
Stay tuned for the real rankings, at least according to me.
Carrie Fisher would have been 65 today if she was alive. Best songs about Carries, "Star Wars", princesses and any other thing that strikes my fancy.
1) John Williams "Main Title" of "Star Wars":
2) Lindsey Sterling and Peter Hollens "Star Wars Medley":
3) Europe "Carrie":
4) The Hollies "Carrie Ann":
Let's do a few Carrie Underwood songs:
5) "Choctaw County Affair":
6) "Good Girl":
7) "So Small":
8) "The Bullet":
9) "Backsliding":
10) "Star Wars The Force Theme" on a one hour loop:
11) "The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)":
12) John Williams "Princess Leia Theme":
13) A Tribute To Carrie Fisher:
14) "You're My Only Hope":
15) Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia:
16) Tribute To Carrie Fisher:
These songs were brought to my attention by my fellow Blogger blogger: https://histopten.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-top-ten-carrie-fisher-songs.html
It seems a song about Carrie by her ex-husband. 17) Paul Simon "She Moves On":
See above 18) Paul Simon "Hearts and Bones":
19) Neon Neon "I Told Her On Alderaan":
20) Blink-182 "A New Hope":
An expanded video of a previously posted above clip:
Mos Eisley according to Obi Wan-Kenobi was "a wretched hive of scum and villainy". The complete opposite is the band named after Mos Eisley. They are simply Eisley.
