I wanted to listen to a lot of songs about heart/ hearts today- that's the reason for this blog. I hope you have the heart for it and maybe take it to heart as well.
Yes it's another blog topic that I won't finish quickly, but hopefully finish eventually, is the best debut CDs of all-time. I originally was going to organize the CDs from best to worst, but I don't have that much time. I've given up on organizing them in alphabetical order, that just turned into too many issues. I scoured rankings/lists from Ranker, Wikipedia.org and rollingstone.com to come up with this list. There are also a few CDs that came to me on their own. On previous blogs for this topic I've mentioned other CDs that came close to being greatest CDs ever, but they just fell a bit short.
This is AC/DC's first international CD, their first two CDs were released mainly in Australia.
19) AC/DC "High Voltage":
"It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)":
"The Jack":
"T.N.T":
"Live Wire":
"She's Got Balls":
"High Voltage":
Whatever happened to these guys, they were great. 20) Bloc Party "Silent Alarm": "Like Eating Glass":
The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 100 greatest 90s songs in order of the way I thought of them. Once I hit 100 songs I will go and look at the 100 listed songs and see if there are any other songs that the 101st song might be better than. If so I will replace the previously listed song. That way I can stay at 100 songs and have truly the 100 greatest 1990s songs of all-time. This isn't a ranking by best songs, that's just too much work. As best as I can these are the 100 greatest 1990s songs.
I will also post other great 80s songs by each band listed. As all of these artists are so much more than one of the 100 greatest songs of the 1990s. Yeah I'm going to try and do all the decades from the 1950s to now, some decades will be harder/easier than others. Again not all of these songs will still be around in the final edition of this decade's Top 100 Best Songs.
I included Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" and M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" in with the best songs of the 80s. I won't be including those songs here.
Almost 4 million YouTube views. That ugly dude used to be in a relationship with Kate Hudson, it's must be true that women love singers. 18) The Black Crowes "Hard To Handle":
Boys 2 Men peaked on this their first song, sadly it was downhill after that. But almost 12 million people have enjoyed this video. 19) Boys 2 Men "Motownphilly":
Just shy of 50 million YouTube views. 20) Enigma "Sadeness":
Not even 3 million YouTube views, that's a disgrace. 21) The Wallflowers "The Difference":
Almost 47 million YouTube views. 22) Lit "My Own Worst Enemy":
Also almost 47 million YouTube views for one of the most beautiful ballads of all-time. 23) Mazzy Star "Fade Into You":
Over 34 million YouTube views. 24) The Offspring "Come Out and Play":
Almost 27 million YouTube views. 25) Black Box "Everybody Everybody":
Not even 5 million YouTube views? Shameful. 26) Bell Biv Devoe "Poison":
Almost 7.5 million YouTube views. 27) Firehouse "Don't Treat Me Bad":
Almost 71.5 million YouTube views. 28) Aerosmith "Livin' On The Edge":
Almost 2 billion YouTube views. How does this video get so many views when equally worthy videos only get a few million views? 29) Guns N' Roses "November Rain":
Almost 1.5 billion YouTube views. When this song was first released it was a big hit to the status quo. It was the beginning of the end for hair metal. Although grunge only lasted as a significant musical genre for about 3 or 4 years. It was a flash in the pan but it has left behind a lot of great music. 30) Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit":
Over 291 million YouTube views. 31) Aerosmith "Cryin":
Almost 281.5 million YouTube views, just a few thousand short views of that goal. 32) Santana featuring Rob Thomas "Smooth":
I always thought this was an incredibly sappy song, but it somehow hot it's hooks into me and I now absolutely love it. And I'm not the only one as over 953 million of my closest friends have viewed this video on YouTube. 33) The Scorpions "Wind of Change":
Over 312 million YouTube views. Released on the CD "Enema of the State" in 1999, so I went with this song as being a 90s song. That's despite it was released as a single in 2000.
The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 80s songs in order of the way I thought of them. Once I hit 102 songs I will go and look at the 102 listed songs and see if there are any other songs that the 101st song might be better than. If so I will replace the previously listed song. That way I can stay at 102 songs and have truly the 102 greatest 80s songs of all-time. This isn't a ranking by best songs, that's just too much work. As best as I can these are the 102 greatest 80s songs.
I may or may not post other great 80s songs by each band listed. All of these artists are so much more than one of the 102 greatest songs of the 80s. Since most of my blogs have 17 songs each I upped this to the 102 Best Songs of the 80s. That would be six blogs with seventeen songs = 102 songs.
Almost 52 million YouTube views. 30) Tracy Chapman "Fast Car":
The entire Tracy Chapman self-titled CD is full of great songs. Including that CD, other great 80s Tracy Chapman songs: "Baby Can I Hold You":
"For My Lover":
"If Not Now":
This video is only a couple of years old, which is why it only has 127,000 views. 31) Ozzy Osbourne "Crazy Train":
The entire Ozzy Osbourne "Ultimate Sin" CD is full of great songs. Including that CD, other great 80s Ozzy Osbourne songs. "The Ultimate Sin":
"Secret Loser":
"Thank God For The Bomb":
So so so very close to 3 million YouTube views. "Shot In The Dark":
"Miracle Man":
I thought this video would have had at least 10 time more views than the almost 38.5 million views it has. 32) Murray Head "One Night In Bangkok":
Everything about this song is great, 155 million YouTube views confirms that to me. 33) The Human League "Don't You Want Me":
A bunch of other great 80s songs by The Human League. "Love Action (I Believe In Love)":
"Mirror Man":
"Keep Feeling (Fascination)":
"Human":
Only slightly over 5.2 million YouTube views. 36) Styx "The Best of Times":
Other great 80s songs by Styx. "Rockin' The Paradise":
The latest issue of Planet Rock asks is 1980 "Rock's Greatest Ever Year"? I included not all, but most of 1980's great rock albums. Let's explore:
Van Halen "Women and Children First":
18) "And The Cradle Will Rock":
19) "Everybody Wants Some":
Whitesnake "Ready An' Willing" and "Live In The Heart of the City":
They re recorded and re released this song a few years later than this 1980 special. 20) "Fool For Your Loving":
The updated and butt kicking version of "Fool For Your Loving":
21) "Ready An' Willing":
22) "Ain't No Love In The Heart of The City":
23) "Walking In The Shadow of the Blues":
Journey "Departure":
24) "Anyway You Want It":
25) "Walks Like A Lady":
26) "Line of Fire":
27) "Stay Awhile":
Although "The Wall" was released in 1979, it was #1 for 15 weeks in 1980. It was also 1980's Top Selling CD. (Technically they were what were called albums, cassettes and even 8-tracks. CDs were still a few years away.) Pink Floyd "The Wall":
28) "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2":
29) "Run Like Hell/ Waiting For The Worms":
30) "Comfortably Numb":
31) "Young Lust":
32) "Mother":
33) "In The Flesh":
34) "The Happiest Days Of Our Lives":
35) "Hey You":
First up 80s covers of songs from previous decades or even songs from the 80s as well. Then covers of 80s songs by musicians from 1990 onwards.
1) RUN-D.M.C. featuring "Walk This Way":
2) Alien Ant Farm "Smooth Criminal":
3) Chaka Khan "I Feel For You":
4) Fall Out Boy "Beat It":
This is one of those an 80s singers covering another 80s singer. Paul Young drastically improved a song previously done by Hall and Oates. 5) Paul Young "Everytime You Go Away":
This song is originally by Depeche Mode. One of their founding members and keyboardist, Andy Fletcher, died today at the age of 60. R.I.P. Andy. 6) Rammstein "Stripped":
7) Whitney Houston "The Greatest Love of All":
8) Goldfinger "99 Red Balloons":
9) Billy Idol "Mony Mony":
10) Seether "Careless Whisper":
11) Club Nouveau "Lean On Me":
12) Orgy "Blue Monday":
13) Quiet Riot "Cum On Feel The Noize":
14) My Chemical Romance with The Used "Under Pressure":
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.
18) AC/DC "Night Prowler":
19) April Rock "I Like To Rock":
These next three songs are from "In Through The Out Door", the last real Led Zeppelin studio album.
20) "All My Love":
21) "Fool In The Rain":
22) "In The Evening""
23) The Cars "Let's Go":
24) Fleetwood Mac "Sara":
25) Rickie Lee Jones "Chuck E's In Love":
26) Journey "Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin'":
27) The Knack "Maybe Tonight":
28) Molly Hatchet "Flirtin With Disaster":
These next two songs are by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 29) "Refugee":
30) "Don't Do Me Like That":
31) "Hey Hey My My":
The next two songs are by ZZ Top. 32) "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide":
I've been wanting to do a blog series like this for awhile. What kind of songs were big hits 40 years ago, it's hard to believe all these songs are at least 40 years old.
I'll pick five or more songs from 1953 to 2022. I would've started the previous year but I'm not very familiar with songs of the years up to 1952. In 1952 I was still 15 years from being born, please forgive me for my lack of knowledge. 1953 is the first year I actually know six songs by title alone. I'll be posting several songs for each year. As these blogs continue I find more songs that I can't find a reason to leave off the list. So much for the five to ten songs for each year, which was the original plan.
Sometimes I like to organize these blogs by genre. The main problem with that is some songs could be genre defying. Just what genre is Royal Philharmonic Orchestra "Hooked On Classics"? Some songs can be multiple genres. I would argue The Go-Go's could be rock or pop. Also some bands have songs that could be considered multiple genres, see Journey, Foreigner and a few other bands. So admitting all those issues I tried to be as consistent as possible.
Also if a song was a hit or released in two different years I count it as a hit in both years. That would explain the overlap. You can't hear a classic song too many times.
Sticking with the theme this is the second blog of the best rock songs of 1976. Going back to a time when 21 innocent people weren't being killed in a Texas elementary.
1) Blue Oyster Cult "Don't Fear The Reaper":
2) Elton John and Kiki Dee "Don't Go Breaking My Heart":
3) Manfred Mann's Earth Band "Blinded By The Light":
I have no idea how Arcade Fire isn't one of the biggest bands in the world, they have so many amazing songs. Arcade Fire's first full length CD "Funeral" is easily one of the best CDs from the last several years. Currently they're working on their latest CD, "We". It was released on May 6th, 2022.
This is a great newer song, but I don't find it available anywhere. Another amazing song from Arcade Fire. 1) "Generation A":
The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 100 greatest 80s songs in order of the way I thought of them. Once I hit 100 songs I will go and look at the 100 listed songs and see if there are any other songs that the 101st song might be better than. If so I will replace the previously listed song. That way I can stay at 100 songs and have truly the 100 greatest 80s songs of all-time. This isn't a ranking by best songs, that's just too much work. As best as I can these are the 100 greatest 80s songs.
I will also post other great 80s songs by each band listed. As all of these artists are so much more than one of the 100 greatest songs of the 80s.
Almost 175 million YouTube views. 25) Bryan Adams "Summer of '69":
Other great 80's songs by Bryan Adams "Straight From The Heart":
"Cuts Like A Knife":
"Run To You":
"Somebody":
This video hasn't been back long on YouTube, thus only 1,800 views. 26) Don Henley "The End of the Innocence":
Other great 80s songs by Don Henley "Dirty Laundry":
"All She Wants To Do Is Dance":
Almost 38 million YouTube views. 27) George Michael "Faith":
"Monkey":
"I Want Your Sex":
Almost 873 million YouTube views for this song. And that sax solo....... 28) George Michael "Careless Whisper":
Other great 80s songs by George Michael With Aretha Franklin "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me":
"Hard Day":
One of my all-time favorite songs and over 150 YouTube viewers agree with me. 29) Mr. Mister "Broken Wings":
The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 90s songs in order of the way I thought of them. Once I hit 102 songs I will go and look at the 102 listed songs and see if there are any other songs that the 101st song might be better than. If so I will replace the previously listed song. That way I can stay at 100 songs and have truly the 100 greatest 1990s songs of all-time. This isn't a ranking by best songs, that's just too much work. As best as I can these are the 102 greatest 1990s songs.
I will also post other great 90s songs by each band listed if motivated enough. As all of these artists are so much more than one of the 100 greatest songs of the 1990s. Yeah I'm going to try and do all the decades from the 1950s to now, some decades will be harder/easier than others. It's likely not all of these songs will still be around in the final edition of this decade's Top 102 Best Songs.
I included Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" and M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" in with the best songs of the 80s. I won't be including those songs here.
Almost 82.5 million YouTube views. 1) Pearl Jam "Alive":
Another great 90s song by Pearl Jam "Red Mosquito":
Over 24 million YouTube views. 2) Eve 6 "Inside Out":
Over 68.5 million YouTube views. 3) The Cardigans "Lovefool":
Over 422 million YouTube views. 4) Oasis "Wonderwall":
Just slightly over 66 million YouTube views. 5) Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know":
Over 247 million YouTube views, well deserving. 6) The Counting Crows "Mr. Jones":
115,000 YouTube views. 7) Pearl Jam "Elderly Woman Behind A Counter In A Small Town":
8) Everclear "Santa Monica":
Over 1.2 billion YouTube views. 9) The Cranberries "Zombie":
Almost 22 million YouTube views. 10) Third Eye Blind "Semi-Charmed Life":
85 million YouTube views. 11) "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)":
Almost 81 million YouTube views. 12) No Doubt "Just A Girl":
About 21 million YouTube views. 13) Gin Blossoms "Hey Jealousy":
About 143 million YouTube views for one of the best songs ever. 14) Lauryn Hill "Doo Wop (That Thing)":
Almost 103 million YouTube views. 15) Green Day "When I Come Around":
Originally I had Nine Inch Nails "Head Like A Hole" here. Just now I'm realizing that "Pretty Hate Machine" was actually released in 1989. Since the ten songs on that CD were obviously released in 1989 I'm including those songs in the 102 best songs of the 1980s. So Nine Inch Nails here will be replaced by
Over 28 million YouTube views. Damn Yankees. 16) "High Enough":
Almost 35.5 million YouTube views. 17) The Toadies "Possum Kingdom":
There are a few classic man songs, but I think the female gender is much better represented in classic songs. I found out that's not actually the case though.
Only 13.5 million YouTube views for this amazing song. That's a crime. 18) John Parr "Man In Motion (St. Elmo's Fire)":
Almost 2.8 million YouTube views. 19) Human League "Mirror Man":
This better have at least 100 million YouTube views. Okay good it has over 532 million YouTube views, well deserved. 20) Metallica "Enter Sandman":
Over 6.5 million YouTube views. 21) Heart "Magic Man":
305 million YouTube views. 22) Abba "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)":
23) Alabama "Can't Keep A Good Man Down":
24) Alicia Keys "Samsonite Man":
25) Aqua "Be A Man":
Slightly over 6,000 YouTube views since it was posted the first of this year. This is one of the many great songs on their first CD. 26) Aqua "Lollipop (Candyman)":
1.4 million YouTube views. 27) Billy Joel "Prelude/ Angry Young Man":
