(Started January 31st, 2022) Newly Added Songs About Three Years Ago

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This topic randomly came to me while I was at lunch today. I was wondering which songs I was buying or discovering about three, two or one year ago this time. Well you do need to fear, here's the answer to that question. These songs might have been released several years ago or just before the day in question. As always there's always good music out there, you just might have to dig for it.

Songs discovered/ rediscovered/ bought three years ago:

1) Belinda Carlisle "I Get Weak":

2) Belinda Carlisle "Circle In The Sand":

3) Belinda Carlisle "Heaven Is A Place On Earth":

4) Chickenfoot "Soap On A Rope":

5) Chickenfoot "My Kinda Girl":

6) Tears For Fears "Mad World":

7) Tears For Fears "Pale Shelter":

8) Tears For Fears "Change":

9) The Gaslight Anthem "American Slang":

10) The Gaslight Anthem "Bring It On":

11) The Gaslight Anthem "Boxer":

12) The Gaslight Anthem "Old Haunts":

13) The Gaslight Anthem "The Spirit of Jazz":

14) Those Damn Crows "Rock and Roll Ain't Dead":

15) Those Damn Crows "Fear of The Broken":

16) Those Damn Crows "Blink of An Eye":

17) Those Damn Crows "The Fighter":

18) H.E.A.T. "Redefined":

I don't say this very much, but there isn't a video at all for this song. Too bad as it's a great song. 19) The Living Strange "1000 Pretty Girls and 3 Ugly 1's":

20) The Cranberries "I Just Shot John Lennon":

21) The Cranberries "Forever Yellow Skies":

22) The Cranberries "Free To Decide":

23) The Cranberries "Salvation":

24) Halestorm "Still of the Night":

25) Halestorm "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover":

26) Halestorm "I Hate Myself For Loving You":

27) Halestorm "Heathens":

28) Halestorm "Fell On Black Days":

(Finished January 30th, 2022) Part 2 of The Best Songs of 1968 to 1970

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I watched another episode of "For All Mankind" tonight. It's set in the late 60s-early 70s and some of those songs are just so good. I wanted to trip the light fantastic on this series of blogs from the songs of those years. 

In some ways those songs seem so innocent, but hiding a darker truth underneath. It feels like there's a big societal change coming. That darker undercurrent was seen with the student protests of Vietnam, the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots and the chaos at the Altamont Rolling Stones concert. But also we had the mostly peaceful Woodstock concert and of course the moon landings, which seemed to bring Americans together. It certainly was an interesting time.

18) Manfred Mann "The Mighty Quinn":

19) Frank Sinatra "My Way":

20) Neil Diamond "Sweet Caroline":

21) Steppenwolf "Born To Be Wild":

 What a pretty song. 22) Henry Mancini "Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet":

23) Gary Puckett and Union Gap "Young Girl":

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

25) Neil Young "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere":

26) B.B. King "The Thrill Is Gone":

Bonus video: B.B. King featuring Tracy Chapman "The Thrill Is Gone":

27) Ventures "Hawaii Five-O Theme":

28) Simon and Garfunkel "Mrs. Robinson":

29) The Beatles "Revolution":

30) Simon and Garfunkel "The Boxer":

31) Dionne Warwick "Do You Know The Way To San Jose":

32) Stevie Wonder "For Once In My Life":

33) The Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man":

34) B.J. Thomas "Raindrops Falling On My Head":

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(Finished January 30th, 2022) Part 1 of The Best Songs of 1968 to 1970

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I watched another episode of "For All Mankind" tonight. It's set in the late 60s-early 70s and some of those songs are just so good. I wanted to trip the light fantastic on this series of blogs from the songs of those years. 

In some ways those songs seem so innocent, but hiding a darker truth underneath. It feels like there's a big societal change coming. That darker undercurrent was seen with the student protests of Vietnam, the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots and the chaos at the Altamont Rolling Stones concert. But also we had the mostly peaceful Woodstock concert and of course the moon landings, which seemed to bring Americans together. It certainly was an interesting time.

1) The Fifth Dimension "Aquarius":

2) The Temptations "Can't Get Next To You":

3) Led Zeppelin "Heartbreaker/ Living Loving Maid":

4) Neil Diamond "Cracklin' Rosie":

5) The Archies "Sugar Sugar":

"Sugar Sugar" usually makes me think of this song for obvious reasons. Bonus video Stars on 45 "Stars On 45":

6) Norman Greenbaum "Spirit In The Sky":

7) John Fred and His Playboys "Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)":

8) The Rolling Stones "Honky Tonk Women":

9) Three Dog Night "One":

10) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Bad Moon Rising":

11) Crosby, Stills and Nash "Suite Judy Blue Eyes":

12) Led Zeppelin "Dazed and Confused":

13) CCR "Fortunate Son":

14) Tommy Roe "Dizzy":

One of the most beautiful and heart breaking songs ever. 15) Bobby Goldsboro "Honey":

This is one of the coolest songs ever, I love this song. 16) The Cowsills "Hair":

17) The Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter":

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(Finished January 29th, 2022) Part 1 of Neil Young vs. Spotify: The Best of Neil

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There's been a verbal battle going on between Neil Young and Spotify over the lies of Joe Rogan. I don't care what your politics are I'm always going to go for the music. Especially when that music is created by the Godfather of Rock Mr. Neil Young. 

Joni Mitchell has now announced that she will pull her music from Spotify.

With Buffalo Springfield 1) "For What It's Worth":

As part of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. 2) "Teach Your Children":

With The Band 3) "Helpless":

4) "Woodstock":

5) "Deja Vu":

6) "Our House":

7) "Cowgirl In The Sand":

8) "Rockin' In The Free World":

9) "Old Man":

10) "Let's Roll":

11) "Be With You":

12) "Only Love Can Break Your Heart":

13) "Hey Hey, My My":

14) "Heart of Gold":

15) Alabama

16) "Downtown":

17) "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere":

18) "Driveby":

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(Finished January 27th, 2022) Part 4 of Oh What Memories: Quirky and Fun Songs of the 80s

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What is obscure? I guess that would be any song that you might not be familiar with. For instance I've heard Madonna's "Like A Prayer" hundreds of times. It has been in commercial etc, but it still 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.

So here they are the fun, the quirky and a few heartfelt songs as well.

59) Tracy Chapman "Baby Can I Hold You":

60) The Jo Boxers "Just Got Lucky":

61) Camouflage "The Great Commandment":

"A humiliating kick in the crotch". 62) The Police "Synchronicity 2":

63) Gap Band "You Dropped A Bomb On Me":

64) Kenny Loggins featuring Steve Perry "Don't Fight It":

65) Dead Milkmen "Punk Rock Girl":

For some reason one of the most hated songs of the 80s, but I love this song. Almost 100 million You Tube views can't be wrong, can they? 66) Starship "We Built This City":

67) Modern English "I Melt With You":

68) New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle" (Extended):

69) Real Life "Send Me An Angel":

70) Warrant "Cherry Pie":

71) John Parr "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)":

72) Bonnie Tyler "Holding Out For A Hero":

73) Pretty Poison "Catch Me I'm Falling":

74) The Whispers "Rock Steady";

75) Teena Marie "Lover Girl":

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(Finished January 26th, 2022) Part 3 of Oh What Memories: Quirky and Fun Songs of the 80s

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What is obscure? I guess that would be any song that you might not be familiar with. For instance I've heard Madonna's "Like A Prayer" hundreds of times. It has been in commercial etc, but it still 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.

So here they are the fun, the quirky and a few heartfelt songs as well.

One of the most beautiful ballads ever. 35) Simply Red "Holding Back The Years":

36) Howard Jones "No One Is To Blame":

37) Blues Brothers "Gimme Some Lovin'":

38) Breathe "Hands To Heaven":

39) Rush "Tom Sawyer":

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

41) David Bowie "Let's Dance":

42) Peter Gabriel "Big Time":

43) Breathe "How Can I Fall":

44) The B-52's "Private Idaho":

45) Men Without Hats "Pop Goes The World":

46) The B-52s "Strobe Light":

I'm in a Thompson Twins mood tonight, these next several songs are by The Twins. 47) The Thompson Twins "Get That Love":

48) "Sugar Daddy":

49) The Thompson Twins "Doctor, Doctor":

50) "Into The Gap":

51) "Lay Your Hands On Me":

52) "We Are Detective":

53) "Hold Me Now":

54) "Lies":

55) "You Take Me Up":

56) "If You Were Here":

57) "My Funky Valentine":

58) "Love On Your Side":

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(Finished January 26th, 2022) My Tool Dream Setlist

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Last night I went with my friend to see Tool at the Maverick Center in West Valley, Utah. Their setlist was highlighted by "Opiate", "Right In Two", "The Pot" and "Pneuma".  They put on a very good show, the musicianship was amazing and Maynard was in great voice. Maynard was even making jokes- who knew he had a sense-of-humor? But this Tool show to me was not about the songs they played, but it's more about the songs that they didn't play. This is my Tool dream setlist.

"Pneuma":

1) "Forty-Six and 2":

2) "H.":

3) "Ticks and Leeches":

4) "Hush":

5) "The Pot":

6) "Chocolate Chip Trip":

Intermission

I was disappointed that Tool didn't play one song from their best CD, "Undertow" last night. In my dream setlist they would play the entire disc straight through minus all the weird stuff that comes after the main part of "Disgustipated". Of course this being Tool and Maynard they would play the songs in backward order. That's fine as that might be better. 7) "Intolerance":

8) Prison Sex":

9) "Sober":

10) "Bottom":

11) "Crawl Away":

12) "Swamp Song":

13) "Undertow":

14) "4 Degrees":

15) "Flood":

16) ) Disgustipated":

Encore:

17) "Stinkfist":

18) "Opiate":

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(Finished January 24th 2022) Part 1 of Sleazy and/or Crunchy Rock

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Inspired by the first episode of "Peacemaker" and it's mid-level hair metal soundtrack I wanted to post a blog about crunchy and sleazy rock songs. I found quite a few songs from Leighton and Tracey Stead's 80's and 90's Glam Sleaze and Rock 'N Roll YouTube collection of videos.

As for the "Peacemaker" show there's a lot of language and sexual storylines. I was less than impressed by the first episode.

In honor of the big man's passing a couple of days ago I'm going to start off with two of Meat Loaf's crunchier rock songs. 1) "Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are":

2) "Life Is A Lemon and I Want My Money Back":

3) Silverchair "Tomorrow":

4) Midnight Oil "Beds Are Burning":

I had completely forgotten this song. 5) Green Jelly "Three Little Pigs":

6) Poison "Flesh and Blood (Sacrifice)":

7) Temple of The Dog "Hunger Strike":

8) Queen "Another One Bites The Dust":

9) L.A. Guns "Electric Gypsy":

10) Bulletboys "For The Love Of Money":

11) Warrant "Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich":

12) Metallica "Enter Sandman":

13) Stone Temple Pilots "Plush":

14) Ratt "You're In Love":

15) Kiss "Calling Dr. Love":

16) Slaughter "Up All Night":

17) Quireboys "Hey You":

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(Finished October 5th, 2022) Part 3 of "1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything", The Best of 1971

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I have no connection to the Apple series "1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything". However I started watching the 8 episode season tonight and reliving all that history and great music. I'll use this series as an inspiration for this blog. 1971 was a weird year in many away. One of the biggest artists of that year was The Osmonds. I was only 4 that year so I didn't have an opinion, but my opinion I'm sure would not have been that high. Looking back now I'm still shocked. How did a bunch of white Utah Mormon boys be in the same league as Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin and many others?

 "1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything":

The Guitar Historian's look at the best albums of 1971:

Songs That Shaped 1971 (Part 2)

35) Gordon Lightfoot "If You Can Read My Mind":

36) Elton John "Your Song":

37) Neil Diamond "I Am...I Said":

38) Neil Diamond "Crunchy Granola Suite":

39) From The Carpenters self-titled CD. Carpenters "For All We Know":

40) The Carpenters "Rainy Days and Mondays":

My favorite Carpenters song. 41) The Carpenters "Superstar":

42) The Carpenters "Let Me Be The One":

43) From "A Song For You": "Bless The Beasts and The Children":

44) The Carpenters "Hurting Each Other":

45) Mountain "Don't Look Around":

46) Mountain "Traveling In The Dark":

47) Badfinger "Day After Day":

48) Don McLean "American Pie":

49) The Who "Behind Blue Eyes":

50) The Who "Baba O'Riley":

51) Beach Boys "Surf's Up":

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(Started January 22nd, 2022) R.I.P. Meat Loaf

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I knew what blog I was going to write Friday morning until the news broke that Meat Loaf had died. Obviously that changed quickly what blog I was going to write. I love Meat Loaf and all that great music he excelled at. 

Earlier this morning the news broke that Meat Loaf, og name Marvin Lee Aday and aka Robert Paulson ("Fight Club") died at the age of 74. Meat Loaf was known for what many are calling "operatic rock", he had his most success when singing the songs of Jim Steinman. Steinman himself died this past April 19, 2021. That power duo are responsible for such classic songs "Bat Out of Hell", "You Took The Words Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)", "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad", "Paradise By The Dashboard Light",  "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)", "Life Is A Lemon and I Want My Money Back" and "Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are". 

1) "Home By Now/ No Matter What":

2) "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back":

3) "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)":

4) "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad":

5) "Modern Girl":

6) "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through":

7) "Paradise By The Dashboard Light":

8) "Heaven Can Wait":

9) "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)":

10) "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste":

11) featuring Cher "Dead Ringer For Love":

12) "Midnight At The Lost and Found":

13) "Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are":

14) "Bat Out of Hell":

15) "For Crying Out Loud":

16) "Good Girls Go To Heaven":

17) "Everything Louder Than Anything Else":

18) "Wasted Youth":

19) "Out of the Frying Pan

20) "All Revved Up and Nowhere To Go":

21) "Not A Dry Eye In The House":

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(Finished January 26th, 2022) Part 2 of Oh What Memories: Quirky and Fun Songs of the 80s Era

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What is obscure? I guess that would be any song that you might not be familiar with. For instance I've heard Madonna's "Like A Prayer" hundreds of times. It has been in commercial etc, but it still 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.

So here they are the fun, the quirky and a few heartfelt songs as well.

18) Sheena Easton "Strut":

19) The Scorpions "Big City Nights":

20) Sheena Easton "Sugar Walls":

20) Robbie Dupree "Hot Rod Hearts":

21) Frida "I Know There's Something Going On":

22) ZZ Top "Velcro Fly":

23) Rush "Limelight":

24) Billy Crystal "You Look Marvelous":

25) Moon Unit Zappa "Valley Girl":

26) Julie Brown "Homecoming's Queen Got A Gun":

27) Haysi Fantayzee "Shiny, Shiny":

28) Maria Vidal "Body Rock":

29) Quarterflash "Harden My Heart":

30) Thompson Twins "Don't Mess With Dr. Dream":

31) Thompson Twins "King For One Day":

32) Tracy Chapman "Fast Car":

33) Tracey Ullman "They Don't Know About Us":

34) Barry Gibb and Barbra Streisand "Guilty":

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(Updated January 20th, 2022) Part 1 of Oh What Memories: Quirky and Fun Songs of the 80s (Extreme Rough Draft)

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What is obscure? I guess that would be any song that you might not be familiar with. For instance I've heard Madonna's "Like A Prayer" hundreds of times. It has been in commercial etc, but it still 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.

So here they are the fun, the quirky and a few heartfelt songs as well.

1) Jellybean Benitez featuring Madonna "Sidewalk Talk":

2) Information Society "(What's On Your Mind) Pure Energy":

3) Samantha Fox "Love House":

All the cool kids called them TMBG. 4) They Might Be Giants "Women and Men":

5) ZZ Top "Sleeping Bag":

6) "Runner":

7) The Hooters "And We Danced":

8) Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam "Head To Toe":

9) Stacey Q "Two of Hearts":

10) The Producers

11) Jane Weidlin "Rush Hour":

12) Kon Kan "I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)":

13) Onion Skin

14) April Wine "I Like To Rock":

15) "Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum":

16) El Debarge "Who's Johnny":

17) ELO "So Serious": 

(Finished January 17th, 2022) Part 2 of The Best "Obscure" 70's Songs, Part 2: Songs 18-34 (But What Is Obscure?)

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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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.

18) Bonnie Tyler "It's A Heartache":

19) Gallery "It's So Nice To Be With You":

20) The Three Degrees "When Will I See You Again":

21) DeFranco Family "Heartbeat (It's A Lovebeat)":

This song is deservedly obscure, it's just not very good. 22) Bobby Bloom "Montego Bay":

23) Lee Michaels "Do You Know What I Mean":

24) J.D. Souther "You're Only Lonely":

25) UFO "Too Hot To Handle":

26) Mary McGregor "Torn Between Two Lovers":

Now this literally is an obscure song to me. Working on this blog a year after I started and I have no clue what it's all about. I guess we'll all rediscover it together. 27) Steely Dan "Haitian Divorce":

28) Ten Years After "I'm Going Home":

29) Linda Ronstadt "Just One Look":

The silky smooth vocals of Mr. Lou Rawls. 30) Lou Rawls "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine":

31) Mocedades "Eres Tu":

32) Jonathan Edwards "Sunshine (Go Away Today)":

33) Gerry Rafferty "Right Down The Line":

34) Maxine Nightingale "Lead Me On":

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(Finished January 17th, 2022) Tool Setlist October 18th, 2019 in Salt Lake City

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With it being 8 days away from me seeing Tool, I wanted to go back and review a previous Salt Lake tour stop. This is their setlist for their concert at The Vivint Smart Home Arena, aka The Viv. This concert was on October 18th, 2019. At that point no one had any idea what was coming right around the corner, Covid-19. One of the most disruptive things for the music industry, and just about everything else, we've faced. 

1) "Fear Innocolum":

2) "Ænema":

Same song with a lot better sound:

3) "The Pot":

4) "Parabol" / 5) "Parabola":

6) "Pneuma":

7) "Schism":

8) "Jambi":

9) "Vicarious":

10) "Intolerance":

11) "Forty Six & 2":

Intermission

12) "Chocolate Chip Trip":

13) "Invincible":

14) "Ions"/15) "Stinkfist":

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(Finished January 17th, 2022) Part 2 of "1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything", The Best of 1971: Soft Rock and Ballads

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I have no connection to the Apple series "1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything". However I started watching the 8 episode season tonight and reliving all that history and great music. I'll use this series as an inspiration for this blog. 1971 was a weird year in many away. One of the biggest artists of that year was The Osmonds. I was only 4 that year so I didn't have an opinion, but my opinion I'm sure would not have been that high. Looking back now I'm still shocked. How did a bunch of white Utah Mormon boys be in the same league as Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin and many others?

 "1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything":

The Guitar Historian's look at the best albums of 1971: 

Songs That Shaped 1971 (Part 1):

23) Cat Stevens "Moonshadow":

24) Cat Stevens "Morning Has Broken":

25) Cat Stevens "Wild World":

26) Bread "Baby I'm A Want You":

27) Bread "If":

28) Bread "Let Your Love Go":

The most shocking music superstars of 1971: The Osmonds. 29) Donny Osmond "Go Away Little Girl":

One of the many amazing albums of 1971 was Carole King's career defining "Tapestry". It has several amazing songs on it. Here are a few of them. 30) Carole King "It's Too Late":

31) Carole King "I Feel The Earth Move":

32) Carole King "So Far Away":

Carole King wrote this classic with Gerry Goffin, then the Shirelles took it and made it into a # 1 hit in 1960. Then Miss King took the classic, slowed it down and released it on her "Tapestry". 33) "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow":

34) Carole King "Tapestry":

Obviously a very good version but not as good as Aretha's version, but I like Miss King's cover or her own co-written song. 35) Carole King "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman":

36) Carole King "Smackwater Jack":

37) James Taylor "You've Got A Friend":

Amazing enough this song isn't written by Carole King, but no it was written by Mr. Paul Anka. 

38) Tom Jones "She's A Lady":

39) Lynn Anderson "Rose Garden":

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