Sometimes when one is in a bad mood it's better to go with a happy song than a cathartic song. That's what this blog is. I looked for the most fun, joyful, silly, uplifting etc. songs. Enjoy.
1) Napoleon XIV"They're Coming To Take Me Away":
2) Allan Sherman "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah":
3) Classics IV "Spooky":
4) Men Without Hats "Safety Dance":
5) Men Without Hats "Pop Goes The World":
6) Cartoons "Witch Doctor":
7) Baltimora "Tarzan Boy":
8) Aquabats "Martian Girl":
9) Aqua "Barbie Girl":
10) Lou Bega "Mambo #5 (A Little Bit...)":
11) The Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive":
12) Lipps Inc. "Funky Town":
13) John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and everyone else "Summer Nights":
"Cobra Kai" Season 3, episode 10 when Ali (the still beautiful Elisabeth Shue), Daniel and Johnny all get together and I had a complete surge of 80s nostalgia. Then Journey's classic "Faithfully" started playing and the feels took over. Here are a few of the hundreds of great 80s ballads. Long live the pop culture of the 80s.
86) Journey "Open Arms":
87) Elton John "Sad Songs (Say So Much)":
88) Sade "Your Love Is King":
89) Marty Balin "Hearts":
90) Klymaxx "I Miss You":
91) Breathe "Hands To Heaven":
92) Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around":
93) Starship "Sara":
94) Kenny Rogers "Lady":
95) Chicago "Love Me Tomorrow":
96) Kool and The Gang "Joanna":
97) Whitney Houston "You Give Good Love":
98) Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band "Like A Rock":
99) Motley Crue "You're All I Need":
100) Foreigner "I Want To Know What Love Is":
101) Barbra Streisand "Comin' In And Out of Your Life":
I keep on thinking of songs that go along with the book I just finished reading, Doug Twohill's very good "Death In Durango". "Durango" is a short, fun and fast read. It's a love letter to the old West and all of it's myths, legends and real life brutalities.
These are songs about the Old West or the attitude of the Old West.
18) Johnny Horton "North To Alaska":
19) Tom T. Hall "Faster Horses" (The Cowboy and The Poet):
20) The Statler Brothers "Whatever Happened To Randolph Scott":
21) Big & Rich "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)":
22) The Chicks "Cowboy Take Me Away":
23) Bon Jovi "Wanted Dead or Alive":
24) Glen Campbell "Rhinestone Cowboy":
25) Paula Cole "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone":
26) Tesla "Modern Day Cowboy":
27) Garth Brooks "In Lonesome Dove":
28) Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson "Pancho and Lefty":
29) Johnny Cash "The Legend of John Henry's Hammer":
30) Johnny Cash "The Man Comes Around":
31) Merle Haggard "Mama Tried":
32) Bon Jovi "Blood On Blood":
33) Hank Williams Jr. "A Country Boy Can Survive":
What do George Michael, Robert Plant, Lauryn Hill, Neil Young and Stevie Nicks 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.
Morrissey was the lead singer of one of the best 80s bands The Smiths. 10) Morrissey "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get":
"Suedehead":
"Everyday Is Like Sunday":
"November Spawned A Monster":
"Tomorrow":
"Irish Blood, English Heart":
"I Will See You In Far Off Places":
"The Last of The International Playboys":
"The First of the Gang To Die":
Of course Lennon was a member of the Beatles. 11) John Lennon "Instant Karma":
Keeping with the current reboot trend I'm going to reboot this series of blogs.
Now with complete and accurate numbering from 1) ? and the Mysterians to ?
As of now these songs are only in the order of artist, I'm writing down songs as I think of them. I've already come up with several hundred songs and will continue adding songs until sometime in eternity. I'll then pare that down to an undetermined amount of songs. I might or might not, who knows at this point? The more I work on this blog, the more I realize I've just scratched the surface. I'm not sure how many songs I'll have before I start to pare down. This whole topic will probably eventually take up several blogs. Obviously I'm dismissing many songs out of hand immediately. I'll post selected videos, but that's no guarantee those songs will qualify for my final ? greatest songs of all-time. Of course there's no guarantee I'll stick with 100 songs only, I'm thinking of many different combinations of songs.
Obviously this isn't an easy task for one person to accomplish, but I'll work on it until it's complete. Either that or I'll get so frustrated I'll give up. The numbers to each song only for now serve as a count of how many songs I have on this blog. I'll keep these organized alphabetically by artist name for the time being. That makes it easier for me to know if I've already listed a song.
Please remember this is a blog very much in progress. Also if two or more versions of a song are very good, then both songs qualify.
1) ? & the Mysterians "96 Tears":
The next four songs are by 2 Unlimited. 2) 2 Unlimited "No Limit":
3) "The Real Thing":
4) "Tribal Dance":
5) "Here I Go":
6) 3 Doors Down "Going Down In Flames":
7) 3 Doors Down "Here Without You":
8) 3 Doors Down "Kryptonite":
9) 3 Doors Down "When I'm Gone":
10) 3 Doors Down "Be Like That":
11) 3 Doors Down "Loser":
12) 3 Doors Down "I Feel You":
13) 4 Non Blondes "What's Up"
14) 5th Dimension, The "Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine In"
15) 5th Dimension, The "One Less Bell To Answer"
16) 5th Dimension, The "Wedding Bell Blues"
17) 10cc "The Things We Do For Love"
18) 10cc "I'm Not In Love":
19) 10 Years "Sleeper":
20) 10 Years "Dancing With The Dead":
21) Ten Years After "I'd Love To Change The World":
22) 12 Stones "Open Your Eyes":
23) 12 Stones "Eric's Song":
24) 12 Stones "Home":
25) 12 Stones "Back Up":
26) 12 Stones "Soul Fire":
These guys weren't even a band I was aware of when I started this blog, now I've seen them in concert twice. twenty one pilots "Heavydirtysoul":
27) "Stressed Out":
28) "Tear In My Heart":
29) "Guns For Hands":
30) The Judge":
31) "Heathens":
Since I started working back on this blog in 2014 I have since seen .38 Special in concert. 32) .38 Special "Back To Paradise":
33) .38 Special "Back Where You Belong":
34) .38 Special "Caught Up In You":
35) .38 Special "Chain Lighting":
36) .38 Special "Fantasy Girl":
37) .38 Special "Hold On Loosely":
38) .38 Special "If I'd Been The One":
39) .38 Special "Like No Other Night":
40) .38 Special "Rockin' Into The Night":
41) .38 Special"Rough Housin'"
42) .38 Special "Second Chance"
43) .38 Special "Somebody Like You"
44) .38 Special "Squeeze, The"
45) .38 Special "Stone Cold Believer":
46) .38 Special "Teacher, Teacher"
47) .38 Special "Twentieth Century Fox"
48) .38 Special "Wild Eyed Southern Boys"
49) 311 "Down":
50) 311 "All Mixed Up"
51) 311 "You Wouldn't Believe":
52) The 1975 "Chocolate":
53) The 1975 "Sex":
54) The 1975) "Girls":
55) 500 Miles To Memphis "All My Friends Are Crazy"
Congrats to Albert Pujols for hitting his 699th and 700th career homers tonight. That's amazing and he seems to be such a good guy.
52) Snap! "Rhythm Is A Dancer":
53) Zombie Nation "Kernkraft 400":
54) La Bouche "Be My Lover":
55) Eric Prydz "Call On Me":
56) Crazy Frog "Axel F":
57) The Weeknd "Blinding Lights":
58) Smash Mouth "Walking On The Sun":
59) Veruca Salt "Seether":
60) Michael Jackson Beat It":
61) Shaggy "It Wasn't Me":
62) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk":
The 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates used this song as their theme all the way to winning the World Series. It's so sad the team of Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell and Kent Tekulve has cratered to the bottom due to an unfair MLB industry. 63) Sister Sledge "We Are Family":
What do you do when you can't quite reach #1, I guess you'll have to settle for #2.
86) Taylor Swift "I Knew You Were Trouble":
The sixth best selling single of 1999. 87) Sixpence None The Richer "Kiss Me":
This was Roxette's fifth straight Top 10 song. 88) Roxette "Fading Like A Flower":
This is the follow up song to their earlier hit "Treat Her Like A Lady". 89) Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose "Too Late To Turn Back Now":
This song was used so effectively in the amazing movie "The Fisher King". One of the best dance songs ever. 90) Snap! "The Power":
Among the people that covered this song include The Temptations, The Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin and Milli Vanilli? Also Led Zeppelin did an instrumental cover, 91) Isley Brothers "It's Your Thing":
92) "Shattered Dreams":
Didn't this song predict it would finish at #2? 93) Seduction "Two To Make It Right":
94) The Rolling Stones "19th Nervous Breakdown":
95) Jody Watley "Real Love":
96) Tom Jones "She's A Lady":
97) Pebbles "Mercedes Boy":
98) Pet Shop Boys "What Have I Done To Deserve This":
I have started reading the second of two books from Marc Myers "Anatomy Of A Song" articles. Of the four or so songs I have read about so far, my favorite article is about Donovan's "Sunshine Superman". I am also amazed at how much effort, collaboration and work was put into the creation of "Good Vibrations".
But the first book is titled "Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop". I haven't read any of this book so far, but I have looked through the list of songs. These are the seventeen most obscure or songs that haven't received enough love. Some of these songs I have never heard before this blog.
1) The Four Tops "Reach Out (I'll Be There)":
2) The Young Rascals "Groovin":
3) Loretta Lynn "Fist City":
4) The Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man":
5) Elvis Presley "Suspicious Minds":
6) Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love":
7) The Staple Sisters "Respect Yourself":
8) The Allman Brothers "Ramblin Man":
9) The Hues Corporation "Rock The Boat":
10) Steely Dan "Deacon Blues":
11) The Clash "London Calling":
12) Merle Haggard "Big City":
13) Bonnie Raitt "Nick of Time":
14) Elvis Costello "Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes":
15) Janis Joplin "Mercedes Benz":
16) The Rolling Stones "Moonlight Mile":
Featuring The Dixie Cups in this performance. 17) The Neville Brothers "Brother John/ Iko Iko":
The best of 80s Australian music, soon getting to the lady whose songs are lighting up the Billboard top songs after her too early death yesterday. That would be the lovely Olivia Newton-John. Thanks again to Ranker.com for this great idea. Now these are 80s musicians but I will only use their 80s songs. 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. I'm going to alternate the songs by band in alphabetical order.
35) INXS "What You Need":
36) Men At Work "Overkill":
37) Midnight Oil "Forgotten Years":
38) Olivia Newton-John "Physical":
39) Rick Springfield "Don't Talk To Strangers":
40) AC/DC "Hells Bells":
41) Air Supply "Here I Am":
42) The Bee Gees "Someone Belonging To Someone":
43) INXS "This Time":
44) Men At Work "It's A Mistake":
45) Midnight Oil "King of the Mountain":
46) Olivia Newton-John "Make A Move On Me":
47) Rick Springfield "Affair of the Heart":
48) AC/DC "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution":
49) Air Supply "Sweet Dreams":
50) INXS "Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)":
This is the second in a series of blogs that eventually I hope to do for dozens of musicians.
R.E.M. was a touring and recording juggernaut from their beginnings in 1980 until they sadly broke up in 2011. They left behind dozens of good to great songs, smart lyrics and a jangly sound. They were one of the first bands that brought light to a lot of things that had been in the dark for a long time. They still seem to have that strong will as to this day they insist they will not reunite. For that I got to give them a lot of credit- although I would love to see them back together recording and touring.
R.E.M was made up of Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe and Bill Berry
These are without a doubt- okay there are a lot of doubts - their 17 best songs.
1) "Drive":
2) "Man On The Moon":
3) "It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)":
Googling around the internet it seems about the same 30 to 50 songs are considered the most annoying/ obnoxious. Some songs are annoying and obnoxious it's true. But what I've noticed is the most "annoying" songs are earworms. The only way earworms are annoying is when you can't get it out of your head. But other than that earworms are great songs.
First I'm going to start off with three songs that I didn't see on any list of most annoying songs. But these three songs are songs I'm surprised weren't mentioned anywhere.
1) Psy "Gangnam Style":
2) Sheppard "Geronimo":
3) Black Eyed Peas "Don't Phunk With My Heart":
Now the rest of these songs are the called the most annoying songs. Now song of them may be annoying but they still are great.
4) Starship "We Built This City":
5) Cher "Believe":
Starland Vocal Band 6) "Afternoon Delight":
This earworm has over a billion YouTube views, how can anyone consider this song annoying. This is just a great great song. 7) Europe "The Final Countdown":
8) Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby":
9) Los Del Rio "Macarena":
How is this song annoying or obnoxious, it's just a fun upbeat song. 10) Lou Bega Jr. "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)":
11) Barry Manilow "Copacabana":
12) The Spin Doctors "Two Princes":
13) The Rednex "Cotton Eyed Joe":
14) Baltimora "Tarzan Boy":
This song is NOT obnoxious or annoying, it's a just a great pop song. 15) Owl City "Fireflies":
16) Daniel Powter "Bad Day":
17) Baha Men "Who Let The Dogs Out":
18) Rick Dees "Disco Duck":
19) The Sherman Brothers "It's A Small World":
20) Hanson "MMMBop":
21) Aqua "Barbie Girl":
22) The Police "Message In A Bottle":
The Spice Girls "Wannabe" is considered one of the most annoying songs ever and that's fine. However I don't think this amazing song gets enough love. 23) "2 Become 1":
I keep on thinking of songs that go along with the book I just finished reading, Doug Twohill's very good "Death In Durango". "Durango" is a short, fun and fast read. It's a love letter to the old West and all of it's myths, legends and real life brutalities.
These are songs about the Old West or the attitude of the Old West.
1) Toby Keith and Willie Nelson "Beer For My Horses":
2) Garth Brooks "Wolves":
3) Johnny Cash "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky":
4) Willie Nelson "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys":
5) Michael Martin Murphey "Wildfire":
6) Conway Twitty "Don't Call Him A Cowboy":
One of the greatest songs of all-time.7) Dan Seals "Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)":
8) Garth Brooks and Chris LeDoux "What'cha Gonna Do With A Cowboy":
9) Marty Robbins "El Paso":
10) Marty Robbins "El Paso City":
11) Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys":
12) Toby Keith "Should've Been A Cowboy":
13) Eddy Arnold "Cattle Call":
14) Frankie Laine "Rawhide":
15) Clint Black "A Good Run of Bad Luck":
16) Gogi Grant "The Wayward Wind":
17) Gene Pitney "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance":
