(Started March 30th, 2023) Part 1 of The Best of Radio Songs

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The best of songs that mention or are about radio. This is about the first of four blogs about this topic.

1) The Buggles " Video Killed The Radio Star":

2) Donna Summer "On The Radio":

3) Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio":

4) ZZ Top "Heard It On The X":

5) Autograph "Turn Up The Radio":

6) R.E.M. "Radio Free Europe":

7) Queen "Radio Gaga":

8) Journey "Raised On Radio":

9) Roger Waters "Radio Waves":

10) Pop Will Eat Itself "Radio P.W.E.I."

11) Firehouse "Rock On The Radio":

12) R.E.M. "Radio Song":

13) Aaron Tippin "There Ain't Nothing Wrong With The Radio":

14) "Radio Lover":

15) Rush "Spirit of Radio":

16) Rage Against The Machine "Guerilla Radio":

17) The Clash "This Is Radio Clash":

(Finished March 28rd, 2023) Part 3 of The "Oh Yeah" Songs

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These are songs that I haven't heard or thought that much the last few years, but hearing or seeing them once again I remember how great of songs they are. I hear the song and then think "oh yeah" that's a great song. I'm going to add another "oh yeah" to this blog. It's "oh yeah" I completely forgot about that song.

35) Dire Straits "Sultans of Swing":

36) R.E.M. "What's The Frequency Kenneth":

37) They Might Be Giants "Women and Men":

38) Hole "Celebrity Skin":

39) Counting Crows "Einstein On The Beach":

40) Barenaked Ladies "This Old Apartment":

41) Jon Bon Jovi "Blaze of Glory":

42) Soundgarden "Spoonman":

43) The Smashing Pumpkins "Cherub Rock":

44) The Chicks "Not Ready To Make Nice":

45) Reel Big Fish "Sell Out":

46) Earth, Wind and Fire "Boogie Wonderland":

47) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "The Impression I Get":

48) Smash Mouth "Walkin' On The Sun":

49) Ready For The World "Love You Down":

50) Steve Winwood "Roll With It":

51) The Brian Setzer Orchestra "Jump, Jive and Wail":

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(Finished March 26th, 2023) Part 1 of Pop/ Rock/ Country Songs With Religious References

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Looking for a Sunday themed blog for this Sunday, thus it's pop/rock and country songs with some religious references. Sorry no sappy songs, I'm looking at you "Jesus Take The Wheel". Some of these songs are more religious than others. 

1) Barlow Girl "Never Alone":

2) Jars of Clay "Flood":

3) The Byrds "Turn Turn Turn":

4) Midnight Oil "King of The Mountain":

5) Big and Rich "Live This Life":

6) Josh Turner "Long Black Train":

7) Lauren Daigle "You Say":

8) Lauren Daigle "Still Rolling Stones":

9) Skillet "Save Me":

10) U2 "End of The World":

Cue the goosebumps. 11) Alabama "Angels Among Us":

12) Johnny Cash "God's Gonna Cut You Down":

13) Johnny Cash "The Man Comes Around":

14) Rufus Wainwright "Hallelujah":

15) Don McLean "American Pie":

16) George Harrison "My Sweet Lord":

17) Joan Osborne "One of Us":

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(Finished March 25th, 2023) Part 1 of Songs On My Mind: "Bad Cinderella" and Musicians I'll Be Seeing In Concert Soon

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These next nine videos are from the latest Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Bad Cinderella". I hadn't even realized that he had a new musical out- some music addict I am I know. But "Bad Cinderella" has been getting terrible reviews. I don't know about the musical to have an opinion yet, but I do love many of the songs so far. These first 9 songs are all from "Bad Cinderella".

1) "Bad Cinderella":

2) "It Has To Be Her/ "Bad Cinderella":

3) "I Know I Have A Heart":

4) "So Long":

5) "Unfair":

6) "Beauty Has A Price":

7) "Hunks" Song:

8) "Man's Man":

9) "I Am No Longer Me":

10) Depeche Mode "Ghosts Again";

My rock concert girlfriend and I are going to go see this tribute band in a couple of weeks. They look and sound so much like the actual Depeche Mode it's crazy. 11) Strangelove- The Depeche Mode Experience "Enjoy The Silence":

 The actual Depeche Mode on their new tour supporting "Memento Mori". 12) "Just Can't Get Enough/ "Never Let Me Down Again" and "Personal Jesus":

Also Duran Duran is coming with Bastille and Nile Rodgers featuring Chic to Salt Lake City on June 3rd. I love Duran Duran- and have seen them in concert before. They were great and I'll be sharing some of their best songs on an upcoming blogs.  I also love Chic, although I'm not quite as familiar with Bastille. These next five songs are all by Bastille. 13) "Pompeii":

14) Bastille "Things We Lost In The Fire":

15) Bastille "Bad Blood":

16) Bastille "Oblivion":

17) Bastille "Revolution":

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(Finished March 23rd, 2023) Part 2 of The "Oh Yeah" Songs

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These are songs that I haven't heard or thought that much the last few years, but hearing or seeing them once again I remember how great of songs they are. I hear the song and then think "oh yeah" that's a great song.

18) The Dave Matthews Band "The Space Between":

19) Hot Chocolate "You Sexy Thing":

20) M "Pop Musik":

21) Bon Jovi "It's My Life":

22) New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle":

23) Alanis Morissette "Uninvited":

24) Grand Funk Railroad "We're An American Band":

25) Frank Mills "Music Box Dancer":

I'm a big fan of the newer country singer Lainey Wilson, here are three songs by her.  26) "Heart Like A Truck":

27) "Grease":

28) "Weak-End":

The next three songs are by Little River Band 29) "Reminiscing":

30) "Cool Change":

31) "Take It Easy On Me":

This is Frontiers, they bill themselves as the ultimate Journey tribute band. They are pretty good from what I can tell. I would love to hear all those songs live again by a band as good as this. Frontiers is coming to the Layton Amphitheater 32) Frontiers "I'll Be Alright Without You":

33) This is a medley by Frontiers of Journey classics:

I might go see these guys as well, this guy sounds like Dave Gahan. 34) The Depeche Mode Experience "Master and Servant": 

35) Strangelove: The Depeche Mode Experience "Never Let Me Down Again":

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(Finished March 21st, 2023) Metallica: The 80s, The 90s and Now

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There's a local radio station that is promising songs from the 80s, 90s and now. I decided to riff off of that for a couple of blogs. I thought that I'd go with a theme for most of those blogs. Today the theme is Metallica.

Metallica The 80s, 90s and Now: 

1) "Fade To Black":

2) "Master of Puppets":

3) "Blackened":

4) "Eye of the Beholder":

5) "The Shortest Straw":

6) "Harvester of Sorrow":

The 90s:

7) "Sad But True":

8) "The Unforgiven":

9) "Wherever I May Roam":

10) "The God That Failed":

11) "Hero of The Day":

12) "Bleeding Me":

13) "King Nothing":

14) "Until It Sleeps":

Metallica is releasing their new CD on April 14th of this year. It's titled "72 Seasons" and so far it has three singles that are released. ... and Now

15)  "Lux Æterna":

16) "Screaming Suicide":

17) "If Darkness Had A Son": 

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(Finished March 20th, 2023) Part 3 of The Best Sad Love Songs

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Tonight I watched the very good movie called "Stuck In Love". It was a sweet movie starring Jennifer Connelly, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins and Kristen Bell- who had a hilarious several stolen scenes. It's a movie that features many beautiful women. Not only does it have a sweet story and beautiful women, it also has a lot of great songs. This blog is about great sad love songs as well as a couple of great songs from "Stuck In Love".

35) Noah and the Whale "L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.":

36) Goo Goo Dolls "Iris":

37) Christopher Cross "Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)":

38) U2 "With or Without You":

39) U2 "One":

40) Martika "Toy Soldiers":

41) Meat Loaf "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad":

42) Mark Chesnutt "Almost Goodbye":

43) The Commodores "Sail On":

44) Reba McEntire "Whoever's In New England":

45) Carly Pearce "Every Little Thing":

46) Guns N' Roses featuring Elton John  "November Rain":

47) The Commodores "Still":

48) Pearl Jam "Last Kiss":

49) Bonnie Raitt "I Can't Make You Love Me":

50) Michael Jackson "She's Out Of My Life":

51) Bill Withers "Ain't No Sunshine":

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(Started March 17th, 2023) Part 1 of Best 90s Bands With Female Singers and Solo Female Singers

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These are the best songs by 90s bands led by female singers. I will include the best songs from all years for these bands.

I'm starting off with one of the lesser known but also one of the best 90s bands. They should be so much more famous than they are now.

The next eight songs are from L7 1) "Pretend That We're Dead":

2) "Off The Wagon":

3) "Bad Things":

4) "Mr. Integrity":

"Mr. Integrity" studio version":

5) "Drama":

6) "Monster":

7) "Shove":

8) "This Ain't The Summer Of Love":

R.I.P. Dolores. The next ten songs are by The Cranberries 9) "Forever Yellow Skies":

10) "I Just Shot John Lennon":

11) "Dreams":

12) "Linger":

13) "Zombie":

14) "Ode Be To My Family":

15) "Ridiculous Thoughts":

16) "Free To Decide":

17) "Analyse":

18) "Salvation":

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(Finished March 16th, 2023) Part 1 of Songs That No One In Their Right Mind Should Try and Cover

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These are songs that no one should ever try and cover, how can you improve these classics. I know that many songs below there have been covers made. A tip of the hat to those that are brave enough to do that. Saying that though these are songs that NO ONE should ever attempt to cover. Now if you want to do a faithful cover that's one thing. But to try and improve on these songs? No, just no.

1) Ed Sheeran "The Shape of You":

2) Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love":

Someone may be able to "sing" this song better, but the Pet Shop Boys put their trademark on this song.

3) The Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls"

4) The Platters "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes":

5) Lady Gaga "Bad Romance":

6) The Commodores "Brick House":

7) Lionel Richie "Say You Say Me":

8) Michael Jackson "Billie Jean":

9) Papa Roach "Last Resort":

10) Sade "Smooth Operator":

Pretty much any Whitney Houston song should not be covered by anyone else. 11) Whitney Houston "Saving All Of My Love For You":

12) Metallica "Master of Puppets":

13) Stevie Wonder "Master Blaster (Jammin)":

14) Shakira "Whenever Wherever":

15) AC/DC "You Shook Me All Night Long":

16) Kenny Loggins and Steve Perry "Don't Fight It":

With Geddy Lee having lost his singing voice so much, even he shouldn't sing this song any more.

17) Rush "Tom Sawyer";

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(Finished March 16th, 2023) Part 3 of Utah's KJQ SLC Radio Station 80's Playlist

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KJQ was a Salt Lake radio station that played "new wave" music back in the early to mid 80's. I did some research, but couldn't find the exact years it was operating. Anyway they played so-called new wave music. Some of the most famous artists of that genre include U2, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, The Fixx, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Thompson Twins, The Human League, The Smiths and likely my favorite new wave band, R.E.M. Some of these bands are still performing today.

So why am I writing about this now in 2017. Reason #1 is I love 80's music. But more importantly reason #2, within the last few months there's been a new station in the Salt Lake radio market that plays those same songs (right now playing Men Without Hats "Safety Dance"). It's a flashback to the greatest music decade and some of the more obscure, but great, new wave hits from then.

Again this blog isn't about those famous artists, this blog is about the obscure artists and the obscure songs of this amazing era of music. Some bigger bands had some songs that were a bit obscure, so I will include some of those. I've also included some well known songs, just because I like them.

One small request for The Wave 103.1, I wish they would keep a running list of the songs they're playing. But other than that, good job. I also love Rewind 100.7, it also plays 80's music. However it leans towards the rock and pop of that decade.

I can't guarantee all these songs were played on KJQ or The Wave 103.1.

Other than a greatest hits New Wave blog coming later I'll be focusing on more obscure songs. Many of these songs I've never heard. I've come up with many of these songs from Mr Secondsoul's YouTube video of classic New Wave songs. Thanks to him- guessing it's a him.

35) Split Enz "I Got You":

36) Fine Young Cannibals "She Drives Me Crazy":

37) Camouflage "Love Is A Shield":

38) The Thompson Twins "Lies Lies Lies":

39) Simple Minds "Take A Step Back":

40) Art of Noise "Close To The Edit":

41) Adam Ant "Goody Two Shoes":

42) Underworld "Stand Up":

43) The Darling Buds "Let's Go Round There":

44) Depeche Mode "Master and Servant":

45) Love and Rockets "So Alive":

46) Billy Idol "Hot In The City":

47) The Thompson Twins "Hold Me Now":

48) Elvis Costello "Veronica":

49) U2 "With Or Without You":

50) Gary Numan "Cars":

51) New Order "Blue Monday":

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(Finished March 15th, 2023) Part 1 of The Best Music of 1994

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https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2017/09/the_15_greatest_years_in_music.html- that website rates 1994 as the 11th best year in music. I just might have to disagree. All the writing in the bigger text comes from cleveland.com.

Green Day and The Offspring kickstart pop punk. Beastie Boys become alt-rock star. Nine Inch Nails push industrial rock forward. Nas releases the greatest hip-hop album of all time. Oasis and Blur become the biggest thing in England since the Beatles. Nirvana goes unplugged. Notorious B.I.G. releases his debut.

Notable albums: Nine Inch Nails – 'The Downward Spiral;" Nas – "Illmatic;" Green Day – "Dookie;" Jeff Buckley – "Grace;" Notorious B.I.G. – "Ready to Die;" Oasis – "Definitely Maybe;" Nirvana – "MTV Unplugged in New York;" Beastie Boys – "Ill Communication;" Pearl Jam – "Vitalogy;" Weezer – Weezer;" Pavement – "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain;" Hole – "Live Through This;" Soundgarden – "Superunknown;" Johnny Cash – "American Recordings;" Portishead – "Dummy;" The Offspring – "Smash"

1) Nine Inch Nails "The Downward Spiral" These next four songs are by Nine Inch Nails "Reptile":

2) "Heresy":

3) "March of the Pigs":

4) "Big Man With A Gun":

5) Green Day "Dookie" These next six songs are by Green Day "Burnout":

6) "Longview":

7) "She":

8) "Welcome To Paradise":

9) "When I Come Around":

10) "Basket Case":

Nirvana "MTV Unplugged In New York" These next four songs are by Nirvana. 11) "Come As You Are":

12) "Where Did You Sleep Last Night":

13) "About A Girl":

14) "All Apologies":

Beastie Boys "Ill Communication" These next three songs are by The Beastie Boys. 15) "Sure Shot":

16) "Root Down":

17) "Sabotage":

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(Started November 16th, 2021/ Finished March 14th, 2023) Part 10 of An October NWOCR Playlist

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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. 

154) Tomorrow Is Lost "White Noise":

155) Unknown Refugee "If The Gods Be Good":

156) Hearts and Hand Grenades "The In Crowd":

157) Muscle Car "Destroyer";

158) The Rocket Dolls "None of This Is Right":

159) The Rocket Dolls "DeadHead":

160) Black Tree Vultures "Downfall":

161) Wolf Jaw "Thunder Child":

162) Skarlett Riot "Human":

164) Plush "Better Off Alone":

165) Blacktop Mojo "Prodigal":

166) The Struts "Put Your Money On Me":

167) Skam "The Cure":

168) Skam "Hipsters Don't Lie":

169) Crownlands "White Buffalo":

170) "Context Fearless Part 1":

171) Crown Lands "Lead Foot":

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