(Finished June 30th, 2025) Part 12 of Gen Z Loves 90s Country Classics, So Do I

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I've labeled some of these songs as best of the best, the 90s was a tremendous decade for country music. As usual I don't just post the hits, I post the best country songs of that decade.

RollingStone.com has a big article about Generation Z is loving 90s country. Here's the article : https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/nineties-country-blowing-gen-z-142735025.html

From the article:

But the Nineties country resurgence isn’t limited to Spotify. Apple Music, Amazon Music and Pandora have all realized the demand for the subgenre and curated their own Nineties country playlists. Today’s Nashville stars have taken note as well: For the past few years, artists like Luke Combs, Jon Pardi, Carly Pearce, Hailey Whitters, and Midland have been mining the sound, songwriting, and even style of the decade to great success. Blake Shelton based his entire Friends and Heroes Tour around celebrating veterans like John Anderson and Tracy Byrd. And when Joe Diffie, a Nineties icon with hits like “John Deere Greene” and “Pickup Man,” died in March 2020 from Covid-19, our remembrance of Diffie was one of Rolling Stone’s most-read stories ever.

188) Little Texas "God Blessed Texas":

189) Wade Hayes "Old Enough To Know Better":

190) Deana Carter "How Do I Get There":

Best of 90s country. 191) Alan Jackson "Here In The Real World":

Best of 90s country. 192) Brooks and Dunn "Hard Workin' Man":

193) Blackhawk "Almost A Memory Now":

194) Keith Whitley "Somebody's Doing Me Right":

195) Billy Dean "Trying To Hide A Fire In The Dark":

196) Rick Trevino "Running Out of Reasons To Run":

197) Sawyer Brown "Some Girls Do":

198) Clay Walker "Dreaming With My Eyes Open":

Best of 90s country. 199)  Travis Tritt "Anymore":

200) Sawyer Brown "Cafe On The Corner":

201) Mary Chapin Carpenter "I Take My Chances":

202) Collin Raye "Little Rock":

203) Anne Murray "Make Love To Me":

One of the best country songs ever. 204)  Shania Twain "Any Man of Mine":

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(Finished June 30th, 2025) Part 4 of My Favorite 680 Songs

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These aren't the best songs in my opinion, these are my favorite songs. There aren't a lot of differences between the two lists, but there are differences. For instance I love "We Built This City", but a lot of people don't consider that song as the best. But because the song rocks so hard it's easily one of my all-time favorite songs. 

Yes my projected number of favorite songs has doubled and will continue to rise likely. There are just so many great songs out there.

Now this is one fantastic song. 52) Benson Boone "Beautiful Things":

53) Chantal K "Miss April":

Fake band, real music. 54) Milli Vanilli "Girl I'm Going To Miss You":

55) The Wallflowers "The Difference":

This is taking a great song to the next level. 56) Philip Quast "Stars":

57) Echo and the Bunnymen "Bring On The Dancing Horses":

Mark Chesnutt's version of this song is also very good. 58) John Anderson "Down In Tennessee":

59) Waylon Jennings "Amanda":

60) The Cranberries "Zombie":

61) England Dan and John Ford Coley "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight":

62) Temple of the Dog "Hunger Strike":

63) Paramore "CrushCrushCrush":

So much hair. 64) Kansas "Carry On Wayward Son":

65) Joe Jackson "Is She Really Going Out With Him":

66) The 5th Dimension "Age of Aquarius":

67) Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street":

68) Herb Alpert "Rise":

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(Finished June 28th, 2025) Part 3 of My Favorite 680 Songs

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These aren't the best songs in my opinion, these are my favorite songs. There aren't a lot of differences between the two lists, but there are differences. For instance I love "We Built This City", but a lot of people don't consider that song as the best. But because the song rocks so hard it's easily one of my all-time favorite songs. 

Yes my projected number of favorite songs has doubled and will continue to rise likely. There are just so many great songs out there.

35) Yes "Owner Of A Lonely Heart":

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

37) Fleetwood Mac "Landslide":

38) Rick Derringer featuring the Edgar Winter Group "Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo":

"We don't have to be friends, we don't have to be enemies." 39) Miley Cyrus "Two More Lonely People":

I love this video so much paired with this classic track. 40) ELO "Don't Bring Me Down":

41) John Williams "The Imperial March":

42) Gregory Abbott "Shake You Down":

43) Boston "Peace of Mind":

44) Neneh Cherry "Buffalo Stance":

45) Hot Chocolate "You Sexy Thing":

46) Poison "Every Rose Has It's Thorn":

A newly created video for this all-time classic. 47) Talking Heads "Psycho Killer":

48) Zager and Evans "In The Year 2525":

49) Sniff N' The Tears "Driver's Seat":

50) Billy Idol "White Wedding":

51) H.E.A.T. "Rock Your Body":

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(Finished June 26th, 2025) Part 2 of My Favorite 340 Songs

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These aren't the best songs in my opinion, these are my favorite songs. There aren't a lot of differences between the two lists, but there are differences. For instance I love "We Built This City", but a lot of people don't consider that song as the best. But because the song rocks so hard it's easily one of my all-time favorite songs. 

 18) Scandal featuring Patty Smyth "The Warrior":

19) Bette Midler "From A Distance":

20) Young MC "Bust A Move":

21) Michael Penn "No Myth":

22) Arcade Fire "Sprawl 2 (Mountains Beyond Mountains)":

23) Everclear "Santa Monica":

24) Rage Against The Machine "Killing In The Name":

25) Tina Turner "What's Love Got To Do With It":

26) XTC "Dear God":

27) Muddy Waters "I'm A King Bee":

28) Boz Scaggs "Breakdown Dead Ahead":

29) Demi Lovato "29":

30) Kenny Rogers "She Believes In Me":

31) Chappelle Roan "HOT TO Go":

32) Rag N Bone Man "Human":

33) R.E.M. "It's The End of The World":

34) U2 "Until The End of The World":

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(Finished June 23rd, 2025) Part 1 of My Favorite 340 Songs

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These aren't the best songs in my opinion, these are my favorite songs. There aren't a lot of differences between the two lists, but there are differences. For instance I love "We Built This City", but a lot of people don't consider that song as the best. But because the song rocks so hard it's easily one of my all-time favorite songs. 

1) Alicia Keys "If I Ain't Got You":

2) Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson "Pancho and Lefty":

3) Big & Rich "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)":

4) Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer":

5) Sugarland "Baby Girl":

6) Bowling For Soup "1985":

7) Aretha Franklin "Respect":

8) ZZ Top "Stages":

9) Benny Mardones "Into The Night":

10) M.C. Hammer "U Can't Touch This":

11) Fleetwood Mac "The Chain":

12) Bon Jovi "Work For The Working Man":

13) Motley Crue "Girls Girls Girls":

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

15) Trombone Shorty "Here Comes The Girls":

16) Wilson Phillips "Hold On":

17) U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday":

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(Finished June 21st, 2025) Part 2 of The Most Obscure Songs On My iPod

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How many obscure songs are there out there. I don't know the answer to that but what might be obscure to you may not be obscure to me and vice versa. I picked songs that I thought would be the most obscure to the most people. I wasn't aware of how many obscure songs I had on my iPod until now. All the songs on my iPod have one trait in common they're all great. While all of these songs are obscure they're also great songs. 

18) South of Salem "The Hate In Me":

One of my all-time favorite musicians, too bad she died much too early. 19) Sinead O' Connor "Black Boys On Mopeds":

Only 14,000 views for this amazing song? That number should be much higher. 20) Broken Witt Rebels "Ok Hotel":

I was able to see her to open for Kelsea Ballerini and Miss Taylor was amazing. She already has several great songs to pack a concert setlist. This is one of those songs. 21) MaRynn Taylor "Dads and Daughters":

22) Dub Trio featuring Mike Patton "Not Alone":

Only 522 views for this amazing, rocking, buttkicking song? That's just not right!! 

23) Lisa Heller "Crushing on Straight Girls":

24) Kate Clover "Blue In June":

25) The Thompson Twins "My Funky Valentine":

26) Ben Folds "Exhausting Lover":

27) Boy Kill Boy "Back Again":

28) The Script "Paint The Town Green":

29) Ronnie Baker Brooks "I Found A Dollar Looking For A Dime":

Only 75 views? Yeah, I would say this song is obscure. Although it shouldn't be obscure at all. 30) Mieka Pauley "Stronger":

31) The Band of Heathens "Hurricane":

32) Larkin Poe "If God Is A Woman":

33) Ned's Atomic Dustbin "Grey Cell Green":

34) Ayron Jones "Baptized In Muddy Waters":

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(Finished (Again) October 1st, 2025) Part 4 of The Most MTVish Videos of The Early MTV Days: 1976ish-1986

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Let's go back to the early days of MTV and some of the most MTVish videos of those early days from 1981-1985. I loved MTV so much, especially the early days. It was so cool to see what these musicians looked like and learn more about that them. And as the kids would say these are all bangers!!

This will include videos from before MTV's debut. I had so much fun listening to all of these great songs again, it took me back to the hot summers of the 80s. I've updated this blog to include the year of 1986.

52) M "Pop Musik":

53) U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday":

54) Tracey Ullman "They Don't Know":

I spent way too much time watching MTV, because I even remember this video. 55) Thomas Dolby "Hyperactive":

56) Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody":

57) U2 "Pride (In The Name of Love)":

I know the man had his disgusting peccadillos, but no doubt about the man was a musical legend. 58) Michael Jackson "Beat It":

59) Glass Tiger "Someday":

60) Blondie "Heart of Glass":

61) Toto "Africa":

62) Culture Club "Karma Chameleon":

63) Herbie Hancock "Rock It":

64) Prince "When Doves Cry":

One of the biggest earworms of the 80s. 65) Ray Parker Jr. "Ghostbusters":

66) George Michael "Careless Whisper":

67) ZZ Top "Legs":

68) A Flock of Seagulls "I Ran (So Far Away)":

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(Finished June 17th, 2025) A Recent JJ Grey and Mofro Setlist

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My rock concert girlfriend and I will be seeing JJ Grey and Mofro in Sandy tonight. They're opening for Trombone Shorty. We've seen Trombone Shorty and his amazing band in concert before, they were great. Personally I've never seen JJ Grey and Mofro before. But as I'm getting familiar with their music I'm becoming quite a fan. This was their setlist from Germany on February 18, 2025. See you there.

1) "Olustee":

2) "WYLF":

3) "Light A Candle":

4) "Top of the World":

5) Lochloosa":

6) "Tame A Wild One":

7) "Orange Blossoms":

This is a pretty good cover of an old time classic country song. 8) "Seminole Wind":

9) "This River":

10) "Rooster":

11) "Lazy Fo Acre":

12) "On Fire":

13) "The Sun Is Shining Down":

14) "Ol' Glory":

Encore:

15) "Brighter Days":

16) "The Sweetest Thing":

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(Finished June 15th, 2025) Goodbye Brian Wilson: His Best Songs + "Kokomo"

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On Tuesday, June 11th the legendary musician, songwriter and singer Brian Wilson died. Thus ends the life and career of one of the most influential musicians in modern history. I say that without any hype whatsoever. Long live the great music of Brian Wilson.

1) "Surfin' USA":

2) "In My Room":

Not just a Christmas song, this is just an amazing song. 3) "Little Saint Nick":

4) "Help Me Rhonda":

5) Surfer Girl":

6) "Fun Fun Fun":

7) "Wouldn't It Be Nice":

8) "California Girls":

9) "I Get Around":

10) "Don't Worry Baby":

11) "God Only Knows":

12) "Little Deuce Coupe":

13) Barbara Ann":

14) "Catch A Wave":

15) "Getcha Back":

16) "409":

17) "Be True To Your School":

18) "Come Go With Me":

19) "Heroes and Villains":

Other than perhaps singing this song on reunion tours Brian Wilson had nothing else to do with this song. That's as far as I know, but it has such a Beach Boys feeli. 20) "Kokomo":

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(Finished June 14th, 2025) Part 1 of My Remaking Rankings of Ranker's Reranking Apple's Top 100 Albums of All-Time

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This is my remaking rankings of Ranker's Reranking Apple's Top 100 Albums of All-Time. Now a lot of these CDs in my opinion aren't that good. I am only going to rank the Top 50 or 60 of these CDs. Even some of these 60 CDs I don't think they're all good. Also in the meantime I'm working on a blog series of my Top 100 Greatest CDs Of All-Time. On this blog are the best songs from the CDs that won't make my Top 100 CDs Rerankings.

These two songs are from "Pet Sounds". 1) The Beach Boys "Wouldn't It Be Good":

2) The Beach Boys "God Only Knows":

These two songs are from "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust". 3) David Bowie "Ziggy Stardust":

As for this song it's easily on my greatest songs of all-time. 4) David Bowie "Suffragette City":

These two songs are from "After The Gold Rush". 5) Neil Young "Only Love Can Break Your Heart":

6) Neil Young with some of his little known buddies. "Southern Man":

This song is from "I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You". 7) Aretha Franklin "Respect":

This song is from "Paul's Boutique". 8) "Hey Ladies":

These two songs are from "It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back": 9) "Bring The Noise":

10) Public Enemy "Don't Believe The Hype":

From "Ok Computer". 11) Radiohead "Karma Police":

Another one of the greatest songs of all-time. From "Songs In The Key of Life". 12) Stevie Wonder "Sir Duke":

From "3 Feet High and Rising". 13) "Me, Myself and I":

From "Abbey Road". 14) The Beatles "Come Together":

These next three songs are from "Revolver" 15) "Taxman":

16) The Beatles "Yellow Submarine":

17) The Beatles "Eleanor Rigby":

From "Hounds of Love". 18) Kate Bush "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)":

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(Finished June 20th, 2025) Part 1 of The Most Obscure Songs On My iPod

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How many obscure songs are there out there. I don't know the answer to that but what might be obscure to you may not be obscure to me and vice versa. I picked songs that I thought would be the most obscure to the most people. I wasn't aware of how many obscure songs I had on my iPod until now. All the songs on my iPod have one trait in common they're all great. While all of these songs are obscure they're also great songs. 

1) Def Leppard "Undefeated":

One of the many amazing songs from the "Twisters" soundtrack. 2) Lanie Gardner "Chasing The Wind":

3) Oliver Future "Stranger Than The Stranger":

4) American Pearl "Underground":

5) Rooney "Sorry Sorry":

6) The Hellacopters "By The Grace of God":

7) Kate Clover "Like A Domino":

8) Playmore "Things":

9) Martika "See If I Care":

10) Bishop Briggs "River":

11) Royal Bliss "Goodbye Love Song":

12) Steve Forbert "Romeo's Tune":

13) Ryders Creed "Money":

14) Prince "Cinnamon Girl":

15) Ronnie Baker Brooks "Wham Bam Thank You Sam":

16) The Gaslight Anthem "The Spirit of Jazz":

17) The Producers "She Sheila":

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(Finished June 7th, 2025) Part 1 of Happy Heavenly Birthday Prince Rogers Nelson

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Sixty seven years ago Prince came roaring into the world. I'm sure he had a guitar in his hand, which must have made it uncomfortable for his Mom. Prince peaked with one of the greatest CDs of all-time, the timeless "Purple Rain". Although that was his peak- every song on that CD is great- his career was full of many other great songs. 

Since "Purple Rain" is so timeless I won't be including any songs from that CD here. This blog is 20 of Prince's greatest hits not on "Purple Rain". 

1) "Hard Rock Lover":

2) "New Power Generation":

3) "Little Red Corvette":

4) "Kiss":

5) "Raspberry Beret":

6) "Baltimore":

7) "Delirious":

8) "Sign of The Times":

9) "1999":

10) featuring Sheena Easton "The Arms of Orion":

11) featuring Madonna "Love Song":

12) "7":

Now this is a funk masterpiece. 13) "Gett Off":

14) "Thieves In The Temple":

15) "Money Don't Matter Tonight":

16) "Graffiti Bridge":

17) "Cream":

18) Featuring Mavis Staples "Melody Cool":

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(Finished June 6th, 2025) Part 3 of The Most MTVish Videos of The Early MTV Days: 1976ish-1985

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Let's go back to the early days of MTV and some of the most MTVish videos of those early days from 1981-1985. I loved MTV so much, especially the early days. It was so cool to see what these musicians looked like and learn more about that them. And as the kids would say these are all bangers!!

This will include videos from before MTV's debut. I had so much fun listening to all of these great songs again, it took me back to the hot summers of the 80s. 

35) Art of Noise "Close (To The Edit)":

36) Modern English "I Melt With You":

Yes, even this video. 37) Billy Crystal "You Look Marvelous":

And this one with Julie Brown 38) "Homecoming Queen Has Got A Gun":

39) Mr. Mister "Broken Wings":

40) Sammy Hagar "I Can't Drive 55":

41) King "Love and Pride":

42) Alphaville "Forever Young":

43) Missing Persons "Words":

44) Taco "Puttin' On The Ritz":

45a) Paul Hardcastle "19":

Bonus video: 45b) Paul Hardcastle "Nineteen (Destruction Mix)":

46) Nena "99 Luftballons":

47) John Lennon "Woman":

48) Kenny Loggins "Footloose":

49) Bananarama "Cruel Summer":

50) The Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams":

51) Y&T "Summertime Girls":

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(Finished June 2nd, 2025) Part 4 of The Most Memorable Videos of The Beginning Days of Music Videos Through 1989

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This is the first one of these blogs in about 10 months.

In honor of the 43rd anniversary of MTV, these are the who knows how many best videos from MTV's early days. I am also including videos from pre-MTV days. This blog has expanded from my original intent. From only 51 songs to who knows how many songs? From videos from the late 70s to 1989 now from any notable video since music videos were made. 

52) Oingo Boingo "Nothing Bad Ever Happens To Me":

Such a great song. 53) The Lightning Seeds "Pure":

54) Billy Ocean "Loverboy":

55) Alannah Myles "Black Velvet":

56) Milli Vanilli "Girl I'm Gonna To Miss You":

57) Tracey Ullman "They Don't Know":

58) Ratt "Round and Round":

59) New Order "Round and Round":

60) Van Halen "Hot For Teacher":

61) The Cutting Crew "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight":

62) Alice Cooper "Poison":

63) Poison "Every Rose Has It's Thorn":

64) Stacey Q "Two of Hearts":

65) Def Leppard "Rocket":

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

67) Gary Numan "Cars":

68) Yes "Owner of A Lonely Heart":

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(Finished June 1st, 2025) Part 2 of The Best Duets of the 1970s

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I'm surprised there are so many great duets from the 70s. I had to do a lot of work just to get enough songs for two blogs. Admittedly on some of these songs I'm stretching the definition of what a duet is. 

18) George Jones and Tammy Wynette "Golden Ring":

19) Meat Loaf and Aspen Miller "Paradise By The Dashboard Light":

20) Seals and Crofts "Diamond Girl":

21) Earth, Wind and Fire and The Emotions  "Boogie Wonderland":

22) Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway "Where Is The Love":

23) England Dan and John Ford Coley "We'll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again":

24) Seals and Crofts "We May Never Pass This Way Again":

25) The Carpenters "Rainy Days and Mondays":

26) Hall and Oates "Sara Smile":

Not technically a duet, but I'm only learning now that someone else, Carolyn Willis, sang on this song with them. 27) Seals and Crofts featuring Carolyn Willis "Get Closer":

28) Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson here with The Highwaymen. "Mama's Don't Let Their Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys":

29) England Dan and John Ford Coley "Love Is The Answer":

30) Hall and Oates "She's Gone":

31) The Kendalls "Heaven Is Just A Sin Away":

32) Peaches and Herb "I Pledge My Love To You":

33) Deniece Williams and Johnny Mathis "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late":

34) KC and Teri Desario "Yes, I'm Ready":

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