(Started June 30th, 2022) Part 1 of The 102 Best Songs of the 1970s

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The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 1970s 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 1970s 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 1970s songs.

I will also post other great 1970s 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 1970s. Yeah I'm going to try and do all the decades from the 1970s 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.

This might be the toughest decade to come up with only 102 greatest songs, there are just so many great songs.

Is this the greatest Disco song of all-time? If not it's damn close. This song is very worthy of every one of it's over 630,000,000 YouTube views. 1) The Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive":

19.5 million YouTube views. 2) Led Zeppelin "Rock and Roll":

5.5 million YouTube views. 3) Billy Joel "Piano Man":

Now this is more like it, over 109 million YouTube views. But it's still not enough views for one of the greatest songs of all-time. 4) Led Zeppelin "Stairway To Heaven":

15.2 million YouTube views. 5) Carly Simon "Nobody Does It Better":

55.6 million YouTube views. 6) Elton John "Your Song":

Just slightly over 5 million YouTube views. 7) Marvin Gayes "Let's Get It On":

Over 2.2 million YouTube views. 8) Cat Stevens "Peace Train":

9) Fleetwood Mac "The Chain":

10) Queen "The Bohemian Rhapsody":

11) James Taylor "Fire and Rain":

Not even 1.4 million YouTube views? This video is over 6 years old so it should have a lot more views. 12) Don McLean "American Pie":

Slightly over 10 million YouTube views. 13) The Doobie Brothers "What A Fool Believes":

14) Tony Orlando and Dawn "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree":

Slightly over 1 million YouTube views is all. 15) Edwin Starr "War":

Over 4 million YouTube views!! 16) Stevie Wonder "Sir Duke":

17) Eddie Money "Two Tickets To Paradise":

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(Finished June 29th, 2022) Part 5 of Best Songs From Soundtracks

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There have been so many amazing songs that have been associated with music, these are some of the all-time best. There have been so many amazing songs with movies. Sometimes the movies are good, but not always. But all of the songs in these blogs are amazing.

69) The Muffs "Kids In America":

70) Journey "Only The Young":

71) Pink Floyd "Run Like Hell":

72) ZZ Top "Doubleback":

73) John Travolta etc "Greased Lightning":

74) The Cardigans "Lovefool":

One of the all-time best ballads. 75) Roxette "It Must Have Been Love":

76) Deniece Williams "Let's Hear It For The Boy":

77) Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova "Falling Slowly":

78) Olivia Newton-John "Magic":

79) Pink Floyd "In The Flesh":

80) The Bee Gees "How Deep Is Your Love":

81) Henry Mancini "The Pink Panther Theme":

82) Prince "Let's Go Crazy":

83) The 5th Dimension "Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine In":

84) Suzanne Vega "Left Of Center":

85) Bryan Adams "Run To You":

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(Finished June 28th, 2022) Part 1 of The 102 Best Songs of the 1950s

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The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 1950s 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 1950s 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 1950s songs.

I will also post other great 1950s 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 1950s. 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.

1) Paul Anka "Put Your Head On My Shoulder":

2) Patsy Cline "Stop The World (And Let Me Off)":

3) Frank Sinatra "Luck Be A Lady":

How does this amazing song from 1958 only have 305,000 YouTube views? 4) The Big Bopper "Chantilly Lace":

Much better this video has 29 million YouTube views. 5) From 1954 Bill Haley and The Comets "Rock Around The Clock":

712,000 YouTube views for this Elvis classic. From 1957 6) Elvis Presley "All Shook Up":

Over 10 million views for this song that's very memorable in "Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure". 

From 1958 7) The Champs "Tequila":

7.5 million YouTube views. From 1959 8) Bobby Darin "Dream Lover":

Almost 5.7 million YouTube views. 9) Bobby Vinton "Mr. Lonely":

Almost 49 million YouTube views. From 1954 10) The Platters "Only You":

Almost 215,000 YouTube views. 11) Danny and the Juniors "At The Hop":

12) Bo Diddley "Who Do You Love":

1.2 million YouTube views. 13) The Everly Brothers "Wake Up Little Susie":

Only 90,000 YouTube views, that's just not right. Although this video is only about 10.5 years old. 

14) The Penguins "Earth Angel":

Over 88,000 YouTube views. 15) The Coasters "Yakety Yak":

Over 14 million YouTube views. 16) The Platters "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes":

71, 395 YouTube views. 17) Muddy Waters "Got My Mojo Working":

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(Finished June 27th, 2022) Part 7 of The 102 Best Songs of the 1980s

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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.

Over 116 million people have enjoyed this classic by Kenny Loggins. 37) Kenny Loggins "Footloose":

Other 80s classics by Kenny Loggins. "Vox Humana":

"Nobody's Fool":

"Meet Me Halfway":

Not even 50,000 views, but this video has only been available less than 6 weeks. "Heartlight":

"Forever":

The other Kenny Loggins song from the first "Top Gun" soundtrack. "Playing With The Boys":

Almost 87 million YouTube views. 38) Laura Branigan "Gloria":

Other great 80s Laura Branigan songs:

Over 122 million YouTube views for this wildly underappreciated 80s classic. If I expanded this to The 204 Best Songs of the 80s this song almost certainly would be included. "Self-Control":

"Solitaire":

"The Power of Love":

Closing in on 88 million YouTube views in the almost 10 years this version of the video has been available. 39) Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar On Me":

Other great 80s songs by Def Leppard:

"Photograph":

"Rock of Ages":

"Foolin'":

"Rock Rock (Til You Drop)":

40) RUN-D.M.C. "It's Tricky":

Other great 80s classics by RUN-D.M.C. "It's Like That":

"King Of Rock":

"You Talk Too Much":

"Can You Rock It Like This":

"Mary Mary":

"Run's House":

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(Finished June 27th, 2022) Part 2 of The 102 Best Songs of the 1960s

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The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 60s 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 103rd 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 1960s songs of all-time. This isn't a ranking in order from #102 to #1, that's just too much work. As best as I can these are the 102 greatest 1960s songs.

18) Scott McKenzie "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Her Hair)":

19) Led Zeppelin "Good Times, Bad Times":

20) The Kingsmen "Louie Louie":

21) The Animals "House of The Rising Sun":

22) Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love":

23) Chubby Checker "The Twist":

24) Steppenwolf "Magic Carpet Ride":

25) Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World":

26) The Rolling Stones "Paint It Black":

27) Sonny and Cher "I Got You Babe":

28) The Mamas and Papas "California Dreamin'":

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

30) The Tokens "The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)":

31) Skeeter Davis "The End of the World":

32) Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit":

33) The Monkees "Daydream Believer":

34) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Fortunate Son":

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(Finished June 26th, 2022) Part 2 of Bands That Should Not Be Forgotten

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These are bands of any decade, the key thing being a band that was great but has been consigned to the trash heap of history. One band that I really love is The Knack, known most for "My Sharona". But I have written about them so many times so I'm not going to write about them here.

The third band up is Veruca Salt, yes named after a character from "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory". They also quote a line from an AC/DC song for their debut CD "American Thighs". 

1) "Seether":

2) "All Hail Me":

3) "Spiderman '79":

4) "Forsythia":

5) "Victrola":

6) "Straight":

7) "Awesome":

8) "With David Bowie":

The numero quatro band is the pop friendly MisterWives, they are a New York based band.

1) "Our Own House":

2) "Machine":

3) Covering the Cranberries "Dreams":

4) "Not Your Way":

5) "Coming Up For Air":

6) "Hurricane":

7) "Reflections":

8) "Best I Can Do":

9) "No Need For Dreaming":

10) "Box Around The Sun":

11) "Imagination Infatuation":

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(Started June 26th, 2022) Part 1 of Bands That Should Not Be Forgotten

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These are bands of any decade, the key thing being a band that was great but has been consigned to the trash heap of history. One band that I really love is The Knack, known most for "My Sharona". But I have written about them so many times so I'm not going to write about them here.

First band up is Eisley, who's new song, "Raise Your Glass" isn't available yet on YouTube. Their debut CD, 2005's "Room Noises", was one of the best debuts ever. It featured some of the most pleasant, lovely and enjoyable pop songs of all-time. Sadly they have yet to match that amazing debut.

Only 371,000 YouTube views, that's criminal for such a beautiful song. 1) "Memories":

2) "Telescope Eyes":

3) "Golly Sandra":

4) "Marvelous Things":

5) "Brightly Wound":

6) "One Day I Floated Away":

7) "Trolleywood":

8) "Smarter":

Second band up is Age of Chance, a band I hadn't even heard of until today. But once I saw their name on two different lists of bands that shouldn't have been forgotten I knew I needed to check them out. They do have some cool songs, but I don't know their genre is deep enough to not sound the same after a few songs?

1) "Time's Up (Timeless Mix)":

2) "Don't Get Mad Get Even! (The Beats of New York)":

3) "Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Noise!":

4) "Higher Than Heaven":

5) Playing With Fire":

Yes, a cover of the Trammps classic. 6) "Disco Inferno":

7) "We Got Trouble":

Yes a sorta cover of the Prince classic. 8) "Kiss":

"Take It":

"Crash Conscious":

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(Finished June 25th, 2022) Part 2 of The Best of 80s British Music Alphabetically

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The best of 80s British music, soon getting to the song that's sweeping the world right now. That would be Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill". Thanks again to Ranker.com for this great idea. Now these are 80s musicians but songs are from their entire career. I will post as many or as few songs as I want for each band. For the purposes of this blog I will consider any band that had a hit or great song in the 80s a 80s band. Even if that band had their first hit in the 60s or 70s.

These next six songs are by 6) Bananarama. "Robert De Niro's Waiting":

"Venus":

"I Want You Back":

"I Heard A Rumor":

"Cruel Summer":

"Love In The First Degree":

The next couple of songs are by 7) Big Country. "Fields of Fire":

Big Country "In A Big Country":

The next 7 songs are by 8) David Bowie "Blue Jean":

"The Jean Genie":

David Bowie "Let's Dance":

"Modern Love":

Space Oddity":

"Suffragette City":

"Under Pressure":

The next 3 songs are by 9) Kate Bush "Running Up That Hill":

With Peter Gabriel, another Brit, singing "Don't Give Up":

Kate Bush is covering Elton John, another Brit, with "Rocket Man":

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(Finished June 23rd, 2022) Part 1 of The Best of 80s British Music Alphabetically

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The best of 80s British music, soon getting to the song that's sweeping the world right now. Thanks again to Ranker.com for this great idea. Now these are 80s musicians but songs are from their entire career. I will post as many or as few songs as I want for each band. 

1) These next seven songs are by ABC. "Be Near Me":

"How To Be A Millionaire":

ABC "The Look of Love":

"The Night You Murdered Love":

"Poison Arrow":

"Vanity Kills":

"When Smokey Sings":

2) Adam and the Ants "Stand and Deliver":

3) These next three videos are by Adam Ant. "Desperate But Not Serious":

Adam Ant "Goody Two Shoes":

"Strip":

4) Alphaville "Forever Young":

It's not many 80s videos that have over 1 billion YouTube views. These next three songs are by Rick Astley. 5) Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up":

"Together Forever":

"Whenever You Need Somebody":

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(Updated June 22nd, 2022) Part 3 of The Best of Summer Nights of The Stars in Layton, Utah

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The above lineup is coming to the Kenley Amphitheater in Layton, Utah Summer 2022. This is a place that I have seen many great concerts. Those acts include Night Ranger, Starship featuring Mickey Thomas, Boz Scaggs, Joan Osborne and a few others. This year I would like to see .38 Special, Sara Evans, Blue Oyster Cult and Kansas. Since I first started this series of blogs I've decided to also see Jocelyn and Chris, they are the entire focus of Part 1 of this blog series. 

These next several songs are by Kansas:

24) "The Song The River Sang":

I love the billowing red hair in this video. 25) "Carry On Wayward Son":

26) "Point of Know Return":

27) "Play The Game Tonight":

28) "Fight Fire With Fire":

29) "The Absence of Presence":

"Hopelessly Human":

"Sparks of the Tempest":

"Nobody's Home":

4) Starship featuring Mickey Thomas:

Jefferson Starship "Jane":

Jefferson Starship "Stranger":

Just plain Starship, no airplanes or jeffersons to be found. "It's Not Enough":

Almost 105 million YouTube views. "We Built This City":

"Find Your Way Back":

"Layin' It On The Line":

"Sister Golden Hair" is one of the most sublime songs ever. However there's no way I'll pay $90 a ticket to go see America:

"Sister Golden Hair":

"You Can Do Magic":

A little less than a month until I get to see the lovely Miss Evans in concert, I am looking forward to it. In fact you could say I could not ask for more. Sara Evans:

"I Could Not Ask For More":

"A Real Fine Place To Start":

"No Place That Far";

"Suds In The Bucket":

"Born To Fly":

"Every Little Kiss":

"I Keep On Looking":

"Perfect":

Sara Evans with REO Speedwagon and her band "Take It On The Run":

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(Started June 21st, 2022) Part 1 of The 102 Best Songs of the 2010s

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The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 2010s 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 2010s 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 2010s songs.

I will also post other great 2010s 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 2010s. 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.

1) "Alexander Hamilton":

2) Halsey "Castle":

Over 5.7 billion YouTube views. 3) Ed Sheeran "Shape of You":

4) "A Thousand Years":

Over 4.6 billion YouTube listens. 5) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk":

Almost 430 million YouTube views. 6) The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey "Closer":

7) Cher Lloyd "Want U Back":

8) The Weeknd "Blinding Lights":

9) Grace "You Don't Own Me":

10) "No Roots":

Slightly over 2 billion YouTube views. 11) Adele "Rolling In The Deep":

12) Passenger "Let Her Go":

13) Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris "We Found Love":

Over 1.9 billion YouTube views. 14) Gotye featuring Kimbra "Somebody I Used To Know":

15) Alice Merton "Lash Out":

Over 761 million YouTube views. 16) Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera "Moves Like Jagger":

17) Lord Huron "The Night We Met":

(Finished June 20th, 2022) Part 4 of The 102 Best Songs of the 1990s

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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 74 million YouTube views. 52) Wilson Phillips "Hold On":

Over 1 billion YouTube views. 53) Aqua "Barbie Girl":

Above 675.5 million YouTube views. 54) Radiohead "Creep":

Over 920 million YouTube views. 55) "They Don't Care About Us":

Over 416 million YouTube views. 56) Lou Bega "Mambo No. 5":

Almost 184 million YouTube views. 57) Haddaway "What Is Love":

Just slightly over 3 million YouTube views. 58) Barenaked Ladies "It's All Been Done":

This video has only been up 3 months and it already has 3 million YouTube views. 

59) Cher "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)":

60) The Smashing Pumpkins "Today":

Almost 9 million YouTube views. 61) Culture Beat "Mr. Vain":

Over 152 million YouTube views. 62) Montell Jordan "This Is How We Do It":

Almost 10.5 million YouTube views. 63) Stone Temple Pilots "Sex Type Thing":

Over 64 million YouTube views. 64) Creed "Higher":

Almost 200 million YouTube views. 65) Christina Aguilera "Genie In A Bottle":

Over 211 million YouTube views. 66) Meat Loaf "I'd Do Anything For Love":

Almost 287 million YouTube views. 67) Green Day "Basket Case":

Almost 200 million YouTube views. 68) Alanis Morissette "Ironic":

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(Finished June 19th, 2022) Part 2 of The 102 Best Songs of the 2000s

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The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 2000s 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 2000s 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 2000s songs.

As all of these artists are so much more than one of the 102 greatest songs of the 2000s. 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 102 Best Songs. Let's see how these songs compare in terms of YouTube views.

Slowly but surely closing in on two million YouTube views. The official music video for this song has almost 108 million YouTube views. 18) Sara Bareilles "Love Song":

Just slightly over 19 million YouTube views. 19) Lady Gaga "Bad Romance":

You knew this one would be here, didn't you? One of my all-time favorite songs. This has almost three million YouTube views. I certainly exaggerating, but it feels like half of those listens are by me. 20) Green Day "Whatsername":

This video only has 140,000 views. How are not more people aware of one of the 100 best songs of the 2000s? 21) Annie "Me Plus One":

I had planned not to include country songs in this series of blogs. I was going to create a separate blog series for country songs, which I'm still going to do. But there are just songs that break out into greater consciousness that I feel I must include here. This video has almost 514 million YouTube views. 

22) Lady A "Need You Now":

Almost 17.5 million YouTube views. 23) Incubus "Nice To Know You":

Slightly over 1 billion YouTube views. 24) Lady Gaga "Poker Face":

This video has 474 million YouTube views, slightly under half of the above song. 25) The White Stripes "Seven Nation Army":

Over 224 million YouTube views. 26) Creed "My Sacrifice":

Over 165 million YouTube views. 27) Paramore "CrushCrushCrush

Over 622 million YouTube views. 28) James Blunt "You're Beautiful":

Over 696 million YouTube views. 29) Outkast "Hey Ya":

Over 49.6 million YouTube views. 30) Arctic Monkeys "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor":

Almost 242 million YouTube views. 31) Paramore "Misery Business":

Almost 345,000 YouTube views. 32) Pink "Missundaztood":

33) Britney Spears "Toxic":

5.5 million YouTube views. 34) Garbage "Androgyny": 

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(Finished June 19th, 2022) Part 12 of Selected Classic Ballads

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I started watching Amazon Prime's so very good (so far) Season 1 of "Reacher". Check it out. Anyway there's a scene where Reacher was dancing with his potential lady friend, Roscoe (yes, that's her name). Patsy Cline's "Crazy" inspired Roscoe to ask Reacher to dance. They went to the dance floor and that nearly perfect song matched the romantic moment perfectly. I was inspired to work on a series of classic ballads, starting with "Crazy".

186) Amy Grant "That's What Love Is For:

187) Patty Smyth featuring Don Henley "Sometimes Love Ain't Enough":

188) Alabama "Lady Down On Love":

189) Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band "Night Moves":

190) REO Speedwagon "Keep On Loving You":

191) Tiffany "All This Time":

192) Gregory Abbott "Shake You Down":

193) Peter Cetera and Cher "After All":

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

195) Anita Baker "You Bring Me Joy":

196) Taylor Dayne "Love Will Lead You Back":

197) Gloria Estefan "Here We Are":

198) Dido "Thank You":

199) Christopher Cross "Sailing":

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

201) Alabama "There's No Way":

202) Billy Joel "Just The Way You Are":

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