(Finished August 30th, 2023) Part 8 of 90s Earworms: 120-136

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I completed the first five of these blogs in late 2021 and early 2022. I finished Part 6 January of this year and now plan on completing a bunch more editions here in August of 2023.

Many of these songs are earworms, but eventually this blog turned into the best songs of the 1990s. I still think the 80s is the best decade for music, but these songs show the 90s was a very good decade as well. On this specific blog entry we have pop, a Santana classic, the Hip-Hop of Cypress Hill and Coolio, a Spice Girls ballad, a lot of great dance music and several classics by Metallica.

This specific blog is like a 90s greatest hits playlist.

120) Snow "Informer":

121) The Toadies "Possum Kingdom":

122) Third Eye Blind "Semi-Charmed Life":

123) Live "I Alone":

124) Sinead O' Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U":

125) Madonna "Justify My Love":

126) Whitney Houston "Run To You":

127) Black Box "I Don't Know Anyone Else":

128) Ace of Base "Don't Turn Around":

129) Arrested Development "Mr. Wendal":

130) The Black Crowes "She Talks To Angels":

131) Ricochet "Daddy's Money":

132) Sir Mix-A-Lot "Baby Got Back":

133) Def Leppard "Let's Get Rocked":

134) Incubus "New Skin":

135) Depeche Mode "Enjoy The Silence":

136) George Clinton "We Can Funk":

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(Finished August 28th, 2023) Part 7 of 90s Earworms: 103-119

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I completed the first five of these blogs in late 2021 and early 2022. I finished Part 6 January of this year and now plan on completing a bunch more editions here in August of 2023.

Many of these songs are earworms, but eventually this blog turned into the best songs of the 1990s. I still think the 80s is the best decade for music, but these songs show the 90s was a very good decade as well. On this specific blog entry we have pop, a Santana classic, the Hip-Hop of Cypress Hill and Coolio, a Spice Girls ballad, a lot of great dance music and several classics by Metallica.

103) Billy Joel "Stormfront":

104) The Magnificent Miss Houston "I'm Your Baby Tonight":

105) The Flaming Lips "She Don't Use Jelly":

106) Black Box "Hold On":

107) Jane's Addiction "Been Caught Stealing":

108) Meredith Brooks "B----":

109) Marcy Playground "Sex and Candy":

110) The Black Crowes "Hard To Handle":

111) Joan Osborne "One of Us":

112) MC Hammer "Have U Seen Her":

113) The Counting Crows "Mr. Jones":

114) Destiny's Child "Say My Name":

115) Jewel "You Were Meant For Me":

Even a sexual deviant can have a moment of genius. 116) R. Kelly "I Believe I Can Fly":

117) Garbage "Stupid Girl":

118) En Vogue "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)":

119) Madonna "The Power of Goodbye":

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(Finished August 27th, 2023) Part 5 of The Best 80sish Synth Songs

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I like to make the joke that the best way to tell if a movie is an 80s movies is by the synth background music. A lot of time those are great synth songs, but not always. There were a lot of terrible synth songs in the 80s. It was a trend that a lot of people tried to exploit, some much better than others.

Thanks again to ranker.com for the ideas. Also thanks to Paramo de Tres Incendios Records for their Synth Pop YouTube video. Thanks for introducing to so much new music.

68) The Cutting Crew "(I Just) Died In Your Arms":

69) ZZ Top "Stages":

70) Duran Duran "Wild Boys":

71) Romeo Void "A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing)":

72) Video Kids "Woodpecker From Space":

73) Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Welcome To The Pleasuredome":

74) Duran Duran "The Reflex":

75) Baltimora "Tarzan Boy":

76) Tears For Fears "Shout":

77) Pet Shop Boys "What Have I Done To Deserve This":

78) Alphaville "Sounds Like A Melody":

79) Matthew Wilder "Break My Stride":

80) Echo and the Bunnymen "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo":

This is a really cool song, another song I had never before. 81) Silent Circle "Stop The Rain In The Night":

82) Ministry "Revenge":

83) Eddy Grant "Electric Avenue":

84) Romantics "Talking In Your Sleep":

85) Pat Benatar "Love Is A Battlefield":

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(Finished August 24th, 2023) Part 7 of Apple's Top 200 Most Streamed 80s Songs 80-61

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Holy hell I'm in an 80s mood. After seeing David Bowie and Depeche Mode tribute bands and the actual Love and Rockets I've heard a lot of great 80s music live this year. Later this year I'll be seeing the Lost 80s tour which feature bands such as Wang Chung, General Public, Naked Eyes and others. And tonight I'll be seeing Duran Duran, Nile Rodgers and Chic and Bastille. With all that going on I'll be doing an 80s blog, but I desperately wanted to do something different than I've done before.  Thus I Googled for the best selling 80s songs of all-time. 

I normally would go to Billboard for this kind of thing, however I didn't want to pay for access for that. I continued Googling and came across a list of the most streamed songs on Apple Music. For some reason there are only 199 songs on their Top 200, that gives me the option to provide my own song at #200. There are some very unusual songs on this list, including songs I've never heard of. But that's why I wanted a list like that to force me to include songs that I don't usually share. 

I'm considering coming up with a second set of blogs about songs that I can't believe aren't on this list.

80) Madness "It Must Be Love":

79) George Michael "Faith":

78) Fleetwood Mac "Gypsy":

77) Dire Straits "Money For Nothing":

76) The Stone Roses "Waterfall":

75) Bonnie Tyler "Total Eclipse of the Heart": 

One of the greatest songs of all-time. 74) Elton John "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues":

73) Foreigner "I Want To Know What Love Is":

72) Bob Marley and the Wailers "Buffalo Soldier":

71) Technotronic "Pump Up The Jam":

70) N.W.A. "Straight Outta Compton":

69) Rufus and Chaka Khan "Ain't Nobody":

68) Guns N' Roses Paradise City":

67) Billy Joel "Uptown Girl":

66) Guns N' Roses "Welcome To The Jungle":

65) Erasure "A Little Respect":

64) Stevie Nicks "Edge of Seventeen":

63) Michael Jackson "PYT":

62) Cyndi Lauper "Girls Just Want To Have Fun":

61) Culture Club "Karma Chameleon":

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(Finished August 22nd, 2023) Part 3 of The Best Country Songs of the 2000s

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The best decade for country music, in terms of popularity, was probably the 90s. Country music absolutely exploded that decade. However Country music still has maintained a fair level of popularity in the last 23 years. Songs continue to break out. Lady A's "Need You Now" broke out in a big way. As did "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X. Then of course that song that has been driving much talk of late is Jason Aldean's "Try That In A Small Town". That's a song I still haven't listened to and have little desire to.

Other country songs that have broken out since 2000 include Little Big Town's "Girl Crush", Tim McGraw's "Red Ragtop", multiple songs by Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road". More songs that have broken out coming out later. 

35) Tim McGraw "Something Like That":

36) Miranda Lambert "Over You":

37) Ashley Shepherd "Look It Up":

38) The Band Perry "Better Dig Two":

39) Carly Pearce "Next Girl":

40) Jake Owen "Barefoot Blue Jean Night":

41) Lee Brice "One of Them Girls":

42) Phil Vassar "Just Another Day In Paradise":

43) Jamey Johnson "In Color":

44) Luke Bryan "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye":

45) Dierks Bentley "Come A Little Closer":

46) Terri Clark "A Little Gasoline":

47) Brooks and Dunn "Ain't Nothing About You":

48) Luke Bryan "All My Friends Say":

49) Blake Shelton "Some Beach":

50) Jessica Andrews "Who Am I":

51) Chad Brock "Yes":

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(Updated August 22nd, 2023) Part 3 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.

Over 1.2 million YouTube views. 35) Ritchie Valens "La Bamba":

36) Frank Sinatra "I Get A Kick Out of You":

37) Frank Sinatra "Love and Marriage":

38) Bobby Darin "Mack The Knife":

2.3 million YouTube views. 39) Elvis Presley "Love Me Tender":

About to hit 59 million YouTube views. 40) Elvis Presley "Blue Suede Shoes":

41) Nat King Cole "Nature Boy":

42) Buddy Holly and the Crickets "Peggy Sue":

43) The Isley Brothers "Shout":

44) The Crests "Sixteen Candles":

47) Frank Sinatra "I've Got You Under My Skin":

Quickly closing in on 16 million YouTube views. 48) The Platters "The Great Pretender":

50) "Lonely Teardrops":

56) Frank Sinatra "I've Got The World By A String":

66) Dion "I Wonder Why":

67) Elvis Presley "Jailhouse Rock":

68) Thurston Harris "Little Bitty Pretty One":

     

   72) Bobby Darin "Splish Splash":

76) Glenn Miller "In The Mood":

77) Ray Charles "Hard Times":

80) "Ain't That A Shame":

96) "In The Still of The Night":

97) Muddy Waters "Hoochie Coochie Man":

98) "Long Tall Sally":

102) "Lollipop":

(Finished August 19th, 2023) The Best Songs of 1983-1986, Part 10: Songs 165-181

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This blog is inspired by Season 3 of "Cobra Kai", it takes me back to "The Karate Kid". That was an extremely fertile time in music, the years of 1983-1986. These are the best of the best songs for those four years. So many of these songs are from 80s movies. The first two blogs in this series have a lot of songs from movies. The other blogs also have movie related songs. I can't remember how many music videos were just basically clips of the movie that song was from. With such great 80s music and movies it was a great time to grow up. 

What CDs, songs, soundtrack etc. were being released these 4 years? These were the years of "Thriller", "Purple Rain" (best soundtrack ever), "Footloose", "Pretty In Pink" (not only a great movie, but a great soundtrack that really captures the music of it's time). Also this was the era of New Wave, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Def Leppard from getting their foot into the door to when they became the biggest band in the world, "We Are The World", Live Aid, "Karate Kid" and it's great music, Also only of the funkiest CDs ever produced, David Bowie's "Let's Dance", CDs started replacing albums and cassettes as the most popular way to listen to music

Number one overall songs of 1983) The Police "Every Breath You Take", 1984) Prince "When Doves Cry", 1985) Wham! "Careless Whisper" and 1986) "That's What Friends Are For":

Number one overall albums of 1983 and 1984) Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Yes it was a monster. 1985) Bruce Springsteen "Born In The U.S.A.", 1986) Whitney Houston self-titled. 

Top overall country songs of each year according to playback.fm. 1983) Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers "Island In the Stream" 1984) Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" 1985) Kenny Rogers "Morning Desire"- since I barely heard this song back in the day, I doubt this really was the 1985 #1 country song and from playlistresearch.com 1986) The Judds "Grandpa (Tell Me About The Good Old Days".

Many times I just want to go back and listen to the amazing music of the 80s, thanks for coming along.

165) Anita Baker "Been So Long":

166) Bryan Adams "Run To You":

167) The Thompson Twins "King For A Day":

168) Robert Plant "In The Mood":

169) Chaka Khan featuring Grandmaster Melle Mel  "I Feel For You":

170) The Dream Academy "Life In A Northern Town":

171) The Human League "Human":

172) Dan Seals "One Friend":

173) They Might Be Giants "Youth Culture Killed My Dog":

174) The Police "King of Pain":

175) Depeche Mode "People Are People":

176) INXS "What You Need":

177) INXS "Listen Like Thieves":

178) Spandau Ballet "True":

179) Pat Benatar "We Belong":

180) Air Supply "Just As I Am":

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

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(Finished August 17th, 2023) The Best Songs of 1983-1986, Part 9: Songs 148-164

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This blog is inspired by Season 3 of "Cobra Kai", it takes me back to "The Karate Kid". That was an extremely fertile time in music, the years of 1983-1986. These are the best of the best songs for those four years. So many of these songs are from 80s movies. The first two blogs in this series have a lot of songs from movies. The other blogs also have movie related songs. I can't remember how many music videos were just basically clips of the movie that song was from. With such great 80s music and movies it was a great time to grow up. 

What CDs, songs, soundtrack etc. were being released these 4 years? These were the years of "Thriller", "Purple Rain" (best soundtrack ever), "Footloose", "Pretty In Pink" (not only a great movie, but a great soundtrack that really captures the music of it's time). Also this was the era of New Wave, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Def Leppard from getting their foot into the door to when they became the biggest band in the world, "We Are The World", Live Aid, "Karate Kid" and it's great music, Also only of the funkiest CDs ever produced, David Bowie's "Let's Dance", CDs started replacing albums and cassettes as the most popular way to listen to music

Number one overall songs of 1983) The Police "Every Breath You Take", 1984) Prince "When Doves Cry", 1985) Wham! "Careless Whisper" and 1986) "That's What Friends Are For":

Number one overall albums of 1983 and 1984) Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Yes it was a monster. 1985) Bruce Springsteen "Born In The U.S.A.", 1986) Whitney Houston self-titled. 

Top overall country songs of each year according to playback.fm. 1983) Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers "Island In the Stream" 1984) Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" 1985) Kenny Rogers "Morning Desire"- since I barely heard this song back in the day, I doubt this really was the 1985 #1 country song and from playlistresearch.com 1986) The Judds "Grandpa (Tell Me About The Good Old Days".

Many times I just want to go back and listen to the amazing music of the 80s, thanks for coming along.

148) Billy Ocean "Caribbean Queen":

This song might be more timeless than ever. 149) Sting "Russians":

150) Duran Duran "Notorious":

151) Night Ranger "You Can Still Rock In America":

152) The Commodores "Night Shift":

153) INXS "Shine Like It Does":

154) The Thompson Twins "Nothing In Common":

155) Alabama "Dixieland Delight":

156) Sheena Easton "Sugar Walls":

157) Iron Maiden "Run To The Hills":

158) They Might Be Giants "Don't Let's Start":

159) OXO "Whirly Girl":

160) Billy Ocean "The Long and Winding Road":

161) John Mellencamp "Lonely Ol' Night":

I saw these guys for the first time ever this past Friday, 4.5 songs just wasn't enough for them. 162) Wang Chung "Everybody Have Fun Tonight":

163) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "Born In The U.S.A.":

164) George Strait "The Chair":

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(Finished August 15th, 2023) Part 7 of The 102 Best Country Songs of the 1980s

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I'm just going to turn these blogs into the greatest 80s country songs of all-time. I may or may not post other great 80s songs by each band listed. All of these artists are so much more than some of the greatest songs of the 80s. 

This is in conjunction with my Top 102 Best Songs of each decade from the 50s to the 20s. I limited those blogs to the 102 best non-country songs. The first 102 songs are unofficially the best of 80s country music. 

103) Earl Thomas Conley "Your Love's On The Line":

104) Reba McEntire "The Last One To Know":

105) Kenny Rogers "Love The World Away":

106) Jerry Reed "Eastbound and Down":

107) Tanya Tucker "Can I See You Tonight":

108) Mel McDaniel "Let It Roll":

109) The Oak Ridge Boys "Heart of Mine":

110) Suzy Bogguss "Cross My Broken Heart":

111) K.T. Oslin "Hey Bobby":

112) Lacy J Dalton "Hard Times":

113) Charley Pride "Roll on Mississippi":

114) The Charlie Daniels Band "Still In Saigon":

115) Lacy J. Dalton "16th Avenue":

Thanks to the Avett Brothers for reminding me of this song. 116) Merle Haggard "Rainbow Stew";

117) Mickey Gilley "True Love Ways":

118) Patty Loveless "Blue Side of Town":

119) George Jones "The One I Loved Back Then":

120) The Judds "Girls Night Out":

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(Finished August 13th, 2023) Part 6 of The Greatest Country Songs of the 1980s

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I'm just going to turn these blogs into the greatest 80s country songs of all-time. I may or may not post other great 80s songs by each band listed. All of these artists are so much more than some of the greatest songs of the 80s. 

This is in conjunction with my Top 102 Best Songs of each decade from the 50s to the 20s. I limited those blogs to the 102 best non-country songs. The first 102 songs are unofficially the best of 80s country music. 

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

87) Keith Whitley "Miami, My Amy":

88) John Conlee "Common Man":

89) Dan Seals and Marie Osmond "Meet Me In Montana":

90) The Judds "Mama He's Crazy":

91) Eddie Rabbitt "Step By Step":

92) Ronnie Milsap "Stranger In My House":

93) Ricky Van Shelton "Somebody Lied":

Released in 1979 and was a hit in 1980. 94) Kenny Rogers "Coward of The County":

95) Alabama "Tennessee River":

96) John Anderson "1959":

97) Earl Thomas Conley "Somewhere Between Right and Wrong":

98) Earl Thomas Conley "Holding Her and Loving You":

99) Dan Seals "One Friend":

100) Earl Thomas Conley "Nobody Falls Like A Fool":

101) Clint Black "Nobody's Home":

102) Alabama "There's No Way":

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(Finished August 12th, 2023) Part 2 of the Second Tour Stop of the 2023 Lost 80's Live

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Today is Day the second tour stop of the Lost 80s tour, it will be held in the Sandy Amphitheatre in Sandy, Utah. Review is following.

For some reason most of the sets were shorter than on the first night of the tour. It was also an incredibly hot night. Also time to break down and set up stages may have been longer than the actual performances themselves. My suggestion for the next Lost 80's Live is to have fewer acts, have them play more songs and start a hour later. Starting later especially if it's in the middle of the summer in an outdoor venue.

Overall it was a fun experience and I was glad I did it. However, without major changes, I wouldn't need to do Lost 80s Live ever again.

Here in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy Musical Youth played 3 songs, as opposed to the first night of the tour when they played 4 songs. That's according to setlist.fm.

Naked Eyes now only has one member, maybe he should change the name to Naked Eye?, and a crew of backup musicians. Pete Byrne is the remaining member of the original duo. For some reason on a hot night he was wearing a coat, scarf and sunglasses that didn't fit quite right. Byrne is a bit of an odd duck. He also had way too much filler in his set, "Voices In My Head" doesn't need to be stretched out. I did love the sound from his cool guitar though. There was some drama, I couldn't tell if it was real or fake, about him playing over his allotted time? But of course he has to play "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me"! 

1) "(What) In The Name of Love":

2) "Voices In My Head":

3) "Promises Promises":

This is one of those amazing songs that I played so many times back in the day that I got sick of it. 4) (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me":

General Public, still led by Dave Wakeling after all of these years, actually had a full band. Wakeling played guitar, plus they had a drummer, saxophonist, a great bassist and back up singers. This is one band that I'd be perfectly happy if they played more songs. It's really a talented collective with a lot of great songs, they didn't even play their self-titled song.

1) "I'll Take You There":

2) "Never You Done That":

This is an all-time classic. 3) "Tenderness":

This is one of those songs that you don't realize is as good as it is until one hears it again. 4) "Save It For Later":

Deservedly so Wang Chung was the headliner. Again they should have been given more songs. I would argue a four band Lost 80's live and they all can play at least five songs. Kon Kan was a great opener, then Stacey Q followed by Dave Wakeling playing all the great English Beat and General Public songs- maybe a 10 song set? And finally Wang Chung winding out the night, singing all the songs below plus the I can't believe it wasn't a huge hit "Hypnotize Me". Also they could play "Fire In The Twilight" and a couple of deeper cut. These guys act like they still like each other and it helps their set.

1) "Let's Go":

A shout out to the recently deceased William Friedkin, they worked with him on this movie. 2) "To Live and Die In LA":

3) "Dance Hall Days":

4) A cover of The Clash classic "Should I Stay Or Should I Go (which morphs into "Should I Wang Or Should I Chung:":

which morphs into 5) "Everybody Have Fun Tonight":

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(Finished August 12th, 2023) Part 1 of the Second Tour Stop of the 2023 Lost 80's Live

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Today is Day the second tour stop of the Lost 80s tour, it will be held in the Sandy Amphitheatre in Sandy, Utah. Review is following.

For some reason most of the sets were shorter than on the first night of the tour. It was also an incredibly hot night. Also time to break down and set up stages may have been longer than the actual performances themselves. My suggestion for the next Lost 80's Live is to have fewer acts, have them play more songs and start a hour later. Starting later especially if it's in the middle of the summer in an outdoor venue.

Here in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy Musical Youth played 3 songs, as opposed to the first night of the tour when they played 4 songs. That's according to setlist.fm.

We found out the reason they play this song is because they are actually in the original video. That's pretty cool as we all know Bob Marley is the man. In Sandy they played "One Love", "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Pass The Dutchie". 1) A cover of the Bob Marley classic "One Love":

2) "Youth Of Today":

Here are two incomplete videos of this song 3) "Never Gonna Give You Up":

4) "Pass The Dutchie":

Kon Kan played the same three songs in Sandy. Part of their band was a brilliant female singer, I do not remember her name. But she more than ably covered the "ahhhhhhh" from Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song". Her vocals on "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" were also fantastic. Kon Kan:

1)  "Puss 'N Boots/ These Boots Are Made For Walkin":

2) "Move To Move":

3) "I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden)":

Animotion only played three songs on night 2 of the tour "Room To Move", "Let Him Go" (I think) and of course the incredible earworm "Obsession". That last song is a pure moment of pop bliss.

1) "Room To Move":

2) "Let Him Go":

3) "I Engineer":

4) "Obsession":

Coming out in a Superwoman cape Shannon took the stage and performed all of two songs. There was also a lot of filler in her two songs and much of the singing was done by the very talented percussionist. They, yes it's they, performed "Give Me Tonight" and "Let The Music Play". Both songs are classic 80s jams but maybe she could have thrown in a Donna Summer cover and have a more tight set?

1) "My Heart's Divided":

2) "Give Me Tonight":

3) "Let The Music Play":

I had heard Stacey Q wasn't very good in previous Lost 80's Live performances, but she was pretty good last night. My only complaint she only played three songs and one of those songs wasn't "We Connect". In Sandy she played "Insecurity" possibly "Dancing Nowhere" and of course the classic "Two of Hearts". Stacey Q: 

1) "Insecurity":

2) "Dancing Nowhere":

3) "We Connect":

4) "Two of Hearts":

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(Finished August 8th, 2023) Part 5 of The Best of the First Eleven Years of This Century: 2000-2010

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Ah the 2000s, a decade known for 9/11, the 2008 financial crash, 2003's Iraq War, a tsunami that killed over 230,000 people. There's a growing awareness of climate change, which continues to escalate.

While there were some bad things those 11 years there were also a lot of great things. Things such as Harry Potter, "The Davinci Code" (opinions may vary), 

It was also the time that included Clint Eastwood's masterful "Million Dollar Baby" and that amazing performance by Hillary Swank. Also that was the year of "The Dark Knight" and "King Kong".

Obviously some of the songs of the decade are below. Some of the best CDs of that timeframe are Alicia Keys "Songs In A Minor", Ryan Adams "Gold", The New Pornographers "Electric Version", Sufjan Stevens "Illinois", Franz Ferdinand's self-titled CD, U2's "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb", Death Cab For Cutie's "Transatlanticism", Arctic Monkeys' "Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not", Green Day's masterclass "American Idiot", The White Stripes "White Blood Cells", Bruce Springsteen's best CD "The Rising" (you heard me), U2's "All That You Can't Leave Behind", Arcade Fire's "Funeral" and The Strokes "This Is It". Expect to see several songs from the above CDs on here.

And yes I know 2000-2010 is actually 11 years, it's okay and just enjoy the music. For those of you who think my 102 songs for the 2000s is too limiting these blogs have a lot more songs for your enjoyment.

69) The Pipettes "ABC":

70) Coldplay "Fix You":

71) Puddle of Mudd "Blurry":

72) Train "Soul Sister":

73) Dido "Thank You":

74) Audioslave "Like A Stone":

75) Disturbed "Shout":

76) Aqua "Freaky Friday":

77) AC/DC "Can't Stand Still":

78) Rascal Flatts "Once":

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

80) The Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow":

81) Franz Ferdinand "Take Me Out":

82) Sum 41 "Still Waiting":

83) Alicia Keys "No One":

84) Audioslave "Set It Off":

85) Rihanna "Disturbia":

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(Finished August 5th, 2023) Part 5 of The 102 Best Country Songs of the 1980s

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I'm just going to turn these blogs into the greatest 80s country songs of all-time. I may or may not post other great 80s songs by each band listed. All of these artists are so much more than some of the greatest songs of the 80s. 

This is in conjunction with my Top 102 Best Songs of each decade from the 50s to the 20s. I limited those blogs to the 102 best non-country songs. The first 102 songs are unofficially the best of 80s country music. 

69) Alabama "Mountain Music":

70) Garth Brooks "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)":

71) Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton "We've Got Tonight":

72) Dan Seals "Bop":

73) Eddie Rabbitt and Juice Newton "Both To Each Other (Friends and Lovers)":

74) The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Fishin' In The Dark":

75) Kenny Rogers "Love Will Turn You Around":

76) The Oak Ridge Boys "Tryin' To Love Two Women":

77) Dan Seals "My Old Yellow Car":

78) Alabama "Old Flame":

79) Terri Gibbs "Somebody's Knockin":

80) Alabama "The Closer You Get":

81) Ronnie Milsap "There's No Getting Over Me":

82) Randy Travis "Forever and Ever, Amen":

83) Restless Heart "Why Does It Have To Be (Wrong Or Right)":

84) Rosanne Cash "Seven Year Ache":

85) The Judds "Why Not Me":

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