(Finished July 29th, 2025) Louder Sound's Greatest Power Ballads You've Never Heard

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The original article is found here: https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-greatest-power-ballads-youve-never-heard

Please go. to that website for more information about these songs and to support the loudersound.com website. I have no intention of usurping from their website, I just wanted to listen to the below songs. As of now I know for sure I have heard two of them. I may have heard of more of them as the songs play. It's appropriate that Journey/ Steve Perry and Survivor have multiple songs on this list. 

20) Eyes "Don't Turn Around" (1990):

19) Night Ranger "Time of Our Lives" (2011):

18) Danger Danger "I Still Think About You (1991)":

17) John Waite "Welcome To Paradise" (1985):

16) Spys "Younger Days" (1983):

15) Strangeways "Goodnight L.A." (1986):

14) Bryan Adams "Native Son" (1987):

13) FM "Everytime I Think About You" (1989):

12) Tyketto "End of The Summer Days" (1993):

11) From The Fire "Tears Cried In The Rain" (1993):

10) Dan Reed Network "The Salt of Joy" (1991):

9) Diving For Pearls "New Moon" (1989):

I love Mr. Mister, but this song deserves to be a song you've never heard. 8) Mr. Mister "The Border" (1987):

7) Dare "King of Spades" (1988):

Not to be confused with the Michael Bolton from "Office Space". 6) Michael Bolton "Call My Name" (1985):

I'm a big fan of this song, one of the greatest singers of my generation. 5) Steve Perry "Captured By The Moment" (1984):

Another great song by a great band. 4) Boston "Livin' For You" (1994):

3) Survivor "Ever Since The World Begin":

2) Journey "Loved By You":

1) Valentine "Never Said It Was Going To Be Easy":

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(Finished July 27th 2025) Part 7 of My All-Time 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.

103) George Michael "Faith":

104) Bob Marley "Iron Lion Zion":

105) Aerosmith "Walk This Way":

106) Loverboy "Working For The Weekend":

107) The Police "Synchronicity 2":

108) Rage Against The Machine "Know Your Enemy":

109) Night Ranger "Sister Christian":

110) The Cure "Just Like Heaven":

111) Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun":

112) Shania Twain and Breland  "Boots Don't":

113) Veruca Salt "Seether":

114) Fergalicious "Fergie":

115) First Aid Kit "Ghost Town":

I know this song isn't a critical favorite, but I absolutely adore this song. 116) Starship "We Built This City":

117) Blondie "Heart Of Glass":

118) Aqua "Barbie Girl":

119) The Aquabats "Martian Girl":

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(Finished July 24th, 2025) Part 1 of The Stand Out CDs From Very Popular Musicians

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Goodbye Ozzy Osbourne. Ozzy Osbourne released 13 solo CDs- no CD is really ever solo- and 9 CDs with Black Sabbath. The man who helped create "Crazy Train", "Flying High Again", "No More Tears", "Secret Loser", "Road To Nowhere", "Mama I'm Coming Home", "Iron Man", "I Don't Know" and "Patient No. 9". 

Ozzy was born on December 3rd, 1948 in England and died July 22nd, 2025. He left behind quite a lot of great music, a brief reality TV career (mentioned in Bowling For Soup's 1985) and quite a large impact on pop culture.

I was never a big Black Sabbath fan and didn't really start liking Ozzy's music until I heard "The Ultimate Sin" in my college dorm. It's been 39 years since that CD was released and it's still my favorite Ozzy CD of all-time. 

The death of Ozzy and that CD inspired this series of blogs. These are the stand out CDs from big bands. The songs in this series of blogs are from Ozzy's "The Ultimate Sin", R.E.M's "Monster", Aerosmith's "Permanent Vacation", Lady Gaga's "The Fame Monster" and many others. I'm going to have four songs from "The Ultimate Sin" on this first blog.

From Ozzy's "The Ultimate Sin":

The sound is a bit rough. 1) "The Ultimate Sin":

2) "Secret Loser":

3) "Fool Like You":

4) "Shot In The Dark":

From Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" 5) "You May Be Right":

2025 is the 40 year anniversary for the release of Sting's solo CD. For his solo debut CD, it's a very good CD. From Sting's "Dream of the Blue Turtles". This is one of the best songs from this classic CD. 6) "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free":

From Bruce Spingsteen's "The Rising" 7) "Lonesome Day":

From R.E.M's "Monster" 8) "Star 69":

From Neil Young's "Sleeps With Angels" 9) "Western Hero":

I don't know that I ever knew how good this song was. From U2's "Achtung Baby" 10) "Zoo Station":

As much as I love Weezer's second CD "Pinkerton" CD their first self-titled CD is by far their best CD. Every song on that CD is amazing, one of the best debut CDs ever. Also "Buddy Holly" is one of those songs that you remember how good it is every time you hear it. 11) "Only In Dreams":

From Cinderella's "Long Cold Winter" 12) "Take Me Back":

From Aerosmith's "Permanent Vacation" 13) "Heart's Done Time":

From RUN-DMC's "Raising Hell" 14) "Perfection":

From Journey's "Escape" 15) "Who's Cryin' Now":

From The Scorpions' "Humanity Hour 1": 16)  "Hour 1":

17) From Queen's "Play The Game":

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(FInished July 19th, 2025) Part 2 of The Best Rock, Soul and Pop Anthems of the Last 70 Years

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What is an anthem? I like this definition of an anthem, an anthem is "a song that speaks for someone". How does an anthem come about? Is it a song that is written to be an anthem, that seems like a heavy burden to pull off. I think an anthem is a song that develops into an anthem over time. 

18) Lionel Richie "Say You, Say Me';

19) Journey "Don't Stop Believing":

20) Eric Church "Springsteen":

21) Tim McGraw "Red Ragtop":

22) Toby Keith "As Good As I Once Was":

23) Quiet Riot "Cum On Feel The Noize":

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

25) U2 "With Or Without You":

26) Prince "When Doves Cry":

27) Grandmaster Flash featuring Melle Mel White Lines":

"All I want to have is peace of mind." 28) Boston "Peace of Mind":

"Immigrants we get the job done". 29) Lin Manuel-Miranda et al. "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)":

30) Vanessa Williams "Save The Best For Last":

31) Paula Cole "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone":

"God is watching us from a distance". 32) Bette Midler "From A Distance":

33) Matchbox Twenty "Queen of New York City":

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

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(Finished July 17th 2025) Part 6 of My All-Time 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.

86) The Bangles "Hazy Shade of Winter":

87) a-ha "Take On Me":

88) Abba "The Winner Takes It All":

89) Michael Jackson "Smooth Criminal":

90) Billy Joel "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant":

91) "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues":

92) Willie Nelson "Always On My Mind":

93) Sammy Johns "Chevy Van":

94) Sonny and Cher "I Got You Babe":

95) The Beach Boys "Surfin' USA":

96) Jean Knight "Mr. Big Stuff":

97) Anne Murray "A Little Good News":

98) Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit":

99) Iron Maiden "Run To The Hills":

100) Cake "Rock and Roll Lifestyle":

101) Rush "Limelight":

102) Laura Branigan "Gloria":

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(FInished July 15th, 2025) Part 1 of The Best And The, & The, + The Best Bands and Songs of All-Time

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My rock concert girlfriend and I are going to go see Fitz and the Tantrums and Ax and the Hatchetmen. I'm still getting familiar with their music. I was looking for a way I could listen to music by both bands on shuffle on iTunes. I realized that both bands have and the in their name. I now present to you Part 1 of The Best And The, & The and + The bands and songs of all-time.

1) ? And The Mysterians "96 Tears":

2) Bob Marley and the Wailers "Three Little Birds":

3) Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band "Fire Lake":

4) Bruce Hornsby and the Range "Mandolin Rain":

5) Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band "Badlands":

6) Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes "What Is and Should Never Be":

7) Catfish and the Bottlemen "Kathleen":

8) Echo and the Bunnymen "Holy Moses":

9) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "Hungry Heart":

10) Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband "Banjo Boy":

11) Ax and the Hatchetman "Grace":

12) Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch "Good Vibrations":

13) Joan Jett and the Blackhawks "Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)":

14) Tilly and the Wall "Heavy Mood":

Sometimes they're called Diana Ross & The Supremes and sometimes they're just called The Supremes. 15) Diana Ross & The Supremes "Stop! In The Name of Love":

16) Scott Weiland and The Wildabouts "Bleed Out":

17) Florence + The Machine "Long and Lost":

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(Finished July 13th, 2025) Part 3 of The 102 Best Songs of the 2000s

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Three years later I've decided to come back and finish this series of blogs. Parts 1 and 2 of these blogs had a relative high number of viewers. I have so many partial blog series hanging around, I hope I can get some of them finished.

The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 2000s 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 102 songs and have truly the 102 greatest 2000s 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 2000s songs.

As all of these artists are so much more than one of the 102 greatest songs of the 2000s. Yeah I'm going to try and do all the decades from the 1950s to now, some decades will be harder/easier than others. Again not all of these songs will still be around in the final edition of this decade's Top 102 Best Songs. Let's see how these songs compare in terms of YouTube views.

Almost 248,000 YouTube views. 35) Bruce Springsteen "My City of Ruins":

Over 3.7 million YouTube views. 36) Arcade Fire "Rebellion (Lies)":

37) Rihanna "Take A Bow":

38) Jet "Are You Going To Be My Girl":

39) Rihanna "Umbrella":

40) Linkin Park "In The End":

41) Green Day "Boulevard of Broken Dreams":

42) Christina Aguilera "Fighter":

43) Fergie "Fergalicious":

44) Depeche Mode "A Pain That I'm Used To":

45) K.T. Tunstall "Black Horse and A Cherry Tree":

46) Meiko "Boys With Girlfriends":

47) Katy Perry "California Gurls":

48) Sufjan Stevens "Casimir Pulaski Day":

49) The Fratellis "Creepin Up The Backstairs":

50) Cascada "Everytime We Touch":

51) Emeli Sande "Crazy In Love":

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(FInished July 11th, 2025) Part 1 of The Best Rock, Soul and Pop Anthems of the Last 70 Years

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What is an anthem? I like this definition of an anthem, an anthem is "a song that speaks for someone". How does an anthem come about? Is it a song that is written to be an anthem, that seems like a heavy burden to pull off. I think an anthem is a song that develops into an anthem over time. 

"Tramps like us, baby we are born to run". 1) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "Born To Run":

"Who's gonna work for the working man? Who's going to hurt for the working man." 2) Bon Jovi "Work For The Working Man":

"One likes to believe in the freedom of music/ but glittering prizes and endless compromises/ Shatters the illusion of integrity." 3) Rush "The Spirit of Radio":

"Something touched me deep inside the day the music died." 4) Don McLean "American Pie":

"I do love you.... still." 5) The Commodores "Still":

"Everybody's talking about the new sound funny, but it's still rock and roll to me.". 6) Billy Joel "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me":

"Because your mine I walk the line." 7) Johnny Cash "I Walk The Line":

"Our love is timeless." 8) Rob Thomas "Timeless":

9) The Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter":

"Papa was a rolling stone/ wherever he laid his hat was his home." 9) The Temptations "Papa Was A Rolling Stone":

One of the most iconic lyrics in all of rock music and still true today. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." 10) The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again":

11) Twisted Sister "We're Not Gonna Take It":

"But on my tombstone when I go just put death by rock and roll." 12) The Pretty Reckless "Death By Rock and Roll":

"That's 'Retha Franklin/ She don't remember the Queen of Soul". 13) Steely Dan "Hey 19":

"Conform or be cast out." 14) Rush "Subdivisions":

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

"Now I've heard there was a secret chord that David played/ And it pleased the Lord/ But you don't really care for music, do you?"16) Alexandra Burke "Hallelujah":

17) Lauren Daigle "Still Rolling Stones": 

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(Finished July 9th 2025) Part 5 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.

69) James Ingram "Just Once":

70) Kenny Loggins "Playing With The Boys":

71) Kylie Minogue "The Loco-Motion":

This is such a powerful song!! 72) Skeeter Davis "End of the World":

73) Tenacious D "Tribute":

74) Brooks and Dunn "My Next Broken Heart":

75) Arctic Monkey "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor":

76) Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears "Sugarfoot":

77) Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville":

78) David Bowie "Let's Dance":

79) Tennessee Ernie Ford "Sixteen Tons":

80) Europe "Final Countdown":

This song is not just one of the best songs ever. It's one of the best of the best songs ever. 81) Roxette "It Must Have Been Love":

82) Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive":

83) Grace featuring G-Eazy "You Don't Own Me":

84) Paula Abdul "Straight Up":

85) Journey "Stone In Love":

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(Finished July 6th, 2025) Part 1 of the Best Obscureish Songs of 1994

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Let's go back to 1994 and enjoy some of the best songs of the year. I'm going to focus on some of the more obscure songs of that year.

Let's start off with a double shot of Soundgarden, taken from "Superunknown". 1) Soundgarden "The Day I Tried To Live":

2) Soundgarden "My Wave":

3) Candlebox "Far Behind":

4) Edwyn Collins "A Girl Like You":

5) Live "Selling The Drama":

6) Blur "Girls and Boys":

I love all the songs on this blog but I really love this song. 7) Mark Chesnutt "I Just Wanted You To Know":

I think "Monster" might be my favorite R.E.M. CD. 8) R.E.M. "Crush With Eyeliner":

9) Blackhawk "Every Once In A While":

10) Veruca Salt "Seether":

This might be the most bizarre great song ever. 11) Weezer "Undone The Sweater Song":

12) Elastica "Connection":

13) The Dave Matthews Band "Ants Marching":

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

15) Collective Soul "Shine":

If you're only going to have one hit, this is the way to do it. Hey and what the heck you can have your cat in the video. 16) Lisa Loeb "Stay (I Missed You)":

17) Real McCoy "Another Night":

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(Finished July 4th, 2025) Part 13 of Gen Z Loves 90s Country Classics, So Do I

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I have 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.

205) Little Texas "My Love":

206) The Chicks "Ready To Run":

207) Randy Travis "Look Heart, No Hands":

208) Patty Loveless "Lonely Too Long":

209) Suzy Bogguss "Outbound Plane":

210) Diamond Rio "Meet In The Middle":

211) Clint Black "When My Ship Comes In":

212) Randy Travis "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart":

213) Travis Tritt "Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof":

214) Mark Chesnutt "What A Way To Live":

215) Little Texas "Kick A Little":

216) Hank Williams Jr. "Good Friends, Good Whiskey, Good Lovin'":

217) Collin Raye "My Kind of Girl":

218) Anne Murray "The Wayward Wind":

219) Terri Clark "Now That I Found You":

220) Mary Chapin-Carpenter "Shut Up and Kiss Me":

221) Sawyer Brown "All These Years":

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