These are some of the best mellow songs of all-time. Not just mellow- but a certain kind of mellow. I don't know how to describe this kind of mellow, but these songs are that kind of mellow.
18) Claire Windham "Kingdom Fall":
19) The Sneaker Pimps "Spin Spin Sugar":
20) Seal "Kiss From A Rose":
21) The Verve Pipe "The Freshman":
22) Marcy Playground "Sex and Candy":
23) Natalie Merchant "Wonder":
24) Alannah Myles Black Velvet
25) Sarah McLachlan "Building A Mystery":
26) Billie Myers "Kiss The Rain":
27) Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories "Stay (I Missed You)":
28) Shontelle "Impossible":
29 Jewel "Foolish Games":
30) Duran Duran "Come Undone":
31) Sixpence None The Richer "Don't Dream It's Over":
These are the best of the best diamond certified CDs. To be a diamond CD at least 10 million units have to be sold. I'll only be focusing on original CDs and not any greatest hits collections. Although some of these CDs feel like they are greatest hits collections. I'm only making an exception for Bob Marley's "Legend". I know that's a greatest hits collection, but it seems it was meant to raise awareness of the great music ailers. Not all Diamond CDs are equal. I'll post the six or more best songs from each CD.
19) Pink Floyd "The Dark Side of the Moon" "Time":
"The Great Gig In The Sky":
"Breathe (In The Air)":
"Money":
"Us and Them":
"Eclipse":
20) Bon Jovi "Slippery When Wet" "Let It Rock":
"You Give Love A Bad Name":
"Livin' On A Prayer":
"Wanted Dead or Alive":
"Never Say Goodbye":
"I'd Die For You":
"Wild In The Streets":
What a great CD this is and every song from the CD is worthy to be included here. 21) Def Leppard "Hysteria" "Women":
I know I can't go back to 1985, but I really wish I could. That's the year I graduated from high school, went away to college for the first time and also began preparing for my LDS mission.
Just things seemed to be so much better than and the future seemed so bright. But with the terrible Trump disaministration coming back it's going to go to be a rough four years. I may have to go back to the musical vault through the next four years. Tonight I'm going back to 1985.
1) George Michael "Careless Whisper":
Madonna was my girl back in 1985, I even had her poster hung on my wall. It wasn't this one but it was similar. I was such a huge Madonna fan that I've even seen "Shanghai Surprise" and that's a terrible movie.
2) Madonna "Like A Virgin":
3) Chaka Khan featuring Grandmaster Melle Mel "I Feel For You":
4) Dire Straits "Money For Nothing":
5) Madonna "Crazy For You":
6) Starship "We Built This City":
7) Huey Lewis and the News "The Power of Love":
"You can break the boy in me but you won't break the man." 8) "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)":
I just found out there's a version of this song with lyrics, but this instrumental version is so much better. 9) David Foster Love Theme From "St. Elmo's Fire":
10) U.S.A. For Africa "We Are For The World":
The incomparable Queen of Pop. 11) Whitney Houston "Saving All My Love For You":
12) Jan Hammer "Miami Vice Theme":
13) The Commodores "Nightshift":
14) Murray Head "One Night In Bangkok":
15) Tina Turner "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)":
Today I bought some tickets to Yacht Rock Revue on March 15th, 2025. The rock concert girlfriend and I will be going and enjoying some of the best movie of the mid 70s to mid 80s. Yacht Rock Revue is a real band and they are currently touring. For this blog I'm going to go with the original artists.
This will be some of the music I'll be turning to to help me survive the upcoming nightmare years of Trump.
1) Crosby, Stills and Nash "Southern Cross":
2) Bill Withers and Grover Washington Jr. "Just The Two Of Us":
3) Dan Fogelberg "Same Old Lang Syne":
4) The Alan Parsons Project "Eye In The Sky":
5) Donald Fagen "New Frontier":
6) Al Stewart "Time Passages":
7) Paul Davis "I Go Crazy":
8) Little River Band "Reminiscing":
9) The Eagles "I Can't Tell You Why":
10) England Dan and John Ford Coley "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight":
11) Steely Dan "Hey 19":
12) Boz Scaggs "Lowdown":
13) The Doobie Brothers "What A Fool Believes":
14) Christopher Cross "Arthur's Theme (The Best You Can Do":
Due to my job and the World Series- congratulations to the World Series champion Dodgers- I haven't had much time to blog. I'll only list the title of the show if it's not very obvious what the show is.
From "The Wonder Years". 18) Joe Cocker's "With A Little Help From My Friends":
Composed by Neal Hefti 19) The "Batman" Theme:
Michael Giacchino composed this theme. 20) Theme From "Lost":
If this song sounds familiar, look at #37 on this list. 21) Theme from "Superstars" the name of the song is "Heavy Action":
Composed by Bernard Herrmann 22) Theme from "The Twilight Zone":
23) Composers Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage, Arrangement: Dennis McCarthy 23) Theme Song from "The Next Generation":
From "The Lone Ranger" 24) Gioachino Rossini "The William Tell Overture":
Theme song from "Rizzoli and Isles": 25) Dropkick Murphys "Shipping Up To Boston":
I'd never heard of this song or show before working on this blog. 26) Written by David Mackay and Carla Lane Performed by Cast Theme Song from "Bread":
Theme Song from "Mash" 27a) Johnny Mandel "Suicide is Painless" (Vocal Version):
27b) Actual Theme "Suicide Is Painless" (Instrumental Version):
28a) From "Blackberry" Elastica "Connection":
28b) Elastica "Connection":
29a) Henry Mancini "Peter Gunn" Theme:
29b) Sarah Vaughn (Max Sedgley Remix" "Peter Gunn" Theme:
30a) Lorne Greene "Bonanza" Theme:
30b) Written by David Rose, performed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans 'Bonanza" Theme:
31) Waylon Jennings Theme From "Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)":
32) Theme from "Fame": Irene Cara "Fame":
From the British TV show "Game On", it was also a theme song for "Dumb and Dumber". 33) The Gigolo Aunts "Where I Find My Heaven":
34) Mike Post featuring Larry Carlton Theme from Hill Street Blues
What were some of the biggest hits of 50 years ago, 1973? Also a couple of days ago I discovered the British version of "Life on Mars", part of which is based in 1973. That got me thinking I could post a blog about the best songs of 1973, then I realized that was also 50 years ago.
I've watched the first couple episodes of "Life On Mars" and so far so good. It's a bit of a formula in that there's a case a week. But there's also the fish out of water aspect of Sam Tyler coming from 2006 to 1973. Or at least that's what his reality appears to be. In the second episode Sam says he wishes he could have been put in 1988. I agree with him on that. The only reason I would want to go to 1973 over 1988 is to be able to see Led Zeppelin in their full glory.
The song that inspired the title of the show was released in 1973. There is a second show in this series. It's also named after a David Bowie song "Ashes to Ashes".
There may be some duplicates in these next few songs. If so enjoy them twice.
52) Jim Croce "Bad Bad Leroy Brown":
53) The Edgar Winter Group "Frankenstein":
From the movie "The Sting": 54) Scott Joplin "The Entertainer":
55) Charley Pride "Don't Fight The Feelings of Love":
56) Rick Derringer "Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo":
57) Tanya Tucker "What's Your Mama's Name":
58) George Harrison "Give Me Love":
59) Dr. Hook "Cover of the Rolling Stone":
60) The Carpenters "Sing A Song":
61) Eric Weissberg "Dueling Banjos":
62) Steely Dan "Reelin' In The Years":
63) The Carpenters "Yesterday Once More":
64) Bette Midler "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy":
65) The Rolling Stones "Angie":
66) Tower of Power "So Very Hard To Go":
67) The Edgar Winter Band "Free Ride":
68) Albert Hammond "It Never Rains In Southern California":
These are some of the best mellow songs of all-time. Not just mellow- but a certain kind of mellow. I don't know how to describe this kind of mellow, but these songs are that kind of mellow.
1) Soul 2 Soul "Back To Life":
2) The La's There She Goes":
3) The Sundays "Here's Where The Story Ends":
I discovered this song because of the great British detective show "Unforgotten". 4) Oh Wonder "All We Do":
5) Mazzy Star "Fade Into You":
6) Sneaker Pimps "6 Underground":
7) Black Box "Fantasy":
8) Death Cab For Cutie "Sounds of Settling":
9) Lord Huron "The Night We Met":
10) Sufjan Stevens "Casimir Pulaski Day":
11) The Smiths "Please Please Let Me Get What I Want":
12) Lana Del Rey "Summertime Sadness":
13) Paula Cole "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone":
14) Ladytron "Runaway":
15) Dan Seals "Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold":
Jonathan David "JD" McPherson is a musician with an Americana flair to his music. However when you think you can attach a genre to his music the next song is completely different. He mostly has mellow and mid tempo songs.
McPherson is 47 years old and he counts as his influences such diverse acts as Wu-Tang Clan, The Pixies and Led Zeppelin. Not a criticism: Zeppelin may be an influence, but I don't hear it in his music.
My rock girlfriend and I are going to go see him two weeks from tonight. The show will be in Salt Lake City.
On this very incredibly sad night it looks like we'll have to live under the draconian rule of president Dumbass again. I find this incredibly sad and heartbreaking. The man has no moral character, honesty isn't a thing he values and he has the brain cells of a donkey. He's like Danny Devito in "Twins", he has every bad attribute one person can have. It's going to be four more years of hell with this buffoon as our "leader".
Although this makes me very sad I did have some positive feelings. I still live in the greatest country in the world- for now. This is a time we are going to have to stand up our fellow Americans and anyone else that needs our help.
1) Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here":
2) R.E.M. "Everybody Hurts":
3) Elton John "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word":
I'll be listening to a lot of these songs of peace and contentment the next four years. 4) Lana Del Rey "Summertime Sadness":
5) Smokey Robinson and the Miracles "The Tracks of My Tears":
6) Tori Amos "Silent All These Years":
I say this about a lot of songs, but this truly is one of the greatest songs of all time. 7) The Smiths "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out":
8) Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band "The River":
9) The Counting Crows "A Long December":
10) Midnight Oil "Blue Sky Mine":
11) The Fiery Furnaces "Single Again":
12) Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling":
13) Rachel Platten "Fight Song":
Journey and the nearly incomparable singing voice of Steve Perry. 14) "Don't Stop Believin'":
These are all the best songs of 1980, all genres included. I can't guarantee all of these songs are actually from 1980. I'm taking all the websites that I have stumbled across at what they say. In other words I believe that the song was released or was a hit in 1980.
52) Air Supply "All Out of Love":
53) Kenny Rogers "Lady":
This might not be the best of 1980, I have no recollection of this song. 54) Fred Knoblock "Why Not Me":
55) Kenny Loggins "I'm Alright":
56) ELO "Don't Walk Away":
57) Johnny Lee "One In A Million":
58) Donnie Iris "Ah Leah":
59) Ronnie Milsap "My Heart":
60) Eddie Rabbitt "Drivin' My Life Away":
61) Bruce Springsteen "The River":
62) Irene Cara "Fame":
63) Bob Marley and the Wailers "Could You Be Loved":
64) Michael Jackson "Rock With You":
65) Christopher Cross "Sailing":
66) Heart "Even It Up":
67) The Charlie Daniels Band "The Legend of Wooley Swamp":
68) Electric Light Orchestra "All Over The World":
Due to my job and the World Series- congratulations to the World Series champion Dodgers- I haven't had much time to blog. I will make it up this weekend starting with this blog. I will only list the title of the show if it's not very obvious what the song is.
This is the full version of the song. Great song, dumb show. "The Greatest American Hero". 1) Joey Scarbury "Believe It Or Not":
From the excellent British detective series "Unforgotten". 2) Oh Wonder "All We Do":
3) Hoyt Curtin, Joseph Barbera and William Hanna "Meet The Flintstones":
4) John Sebastian "Welcome Back Kotter":
Theme song from "Bosom Buddies". 5a) Billy Joel "My Life":
I'm looking forward to seeing Billy Joel and Sting together in May of next year. Joel is a great live performer. 5b) Billy Joel "My Life":
From "One Tree Hill". 6a) Gavin DeGraw "I Don't Want To Be":
6b) Gavin Degraw "I Don't Want To Be":
From "The Wire": 7) Five Blind Boys of Alabama "Way Down In The Hole":
From "Cheers" 8) Gary Portnoy "Where Everybody Knows Your Name":
From Married...With Children 9) Frank Sinatra "Love and Marriage":
10) Vic Mizzy "The Addams Family" Theme
11a) Rhythm Heritage "Swat" Theme Song:
11b) Rhythm Heritage "Swat" Theme Song:
12) The Spelding's Jazz Orchestra Theme from "Mission Impossible":
12b) Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen's revamped version of Theme from "Mission Impossible":
