Chicago was formed in 1967, originally calling themselves Chicago Transit Authority. They've released several great songs since their beginning with their last big hit coming in November 1989's "What Kind of Man Would I Be?" Their last CD was 2022's "Born For This Moment". In order to have enough songs for two blogs I've thrown in several Peter Cetera songs. Cetera left Chicago in 1985.
Now almost a year later here's part 2.
19) Chicago "Feelin' Stronger Everyday":
20) Peter Cetera "One Good Woman":
21) Chicago "Wishing You Were Here":
22) Peter Cetera "Livin' In The Limelight":
Songs 23 to 30 are all by Chicago. 23) "Old Days":
24) "Take Me Back To Chicago":
25) "No Tell Lover":
26) "We Can Last Forever":
27) "Will You Still Love Me":
28) Chicago "Dialogue Part 1 and 2":
29) "Hard Habit To Break":
30) "I've Been Searchin' For Long":
31) Peter Cetera "You Never Listen To Me":
32) Chicago "Saturday In The Park":
Such a beautiful and amazing song. 33) Peter Cetera "Glory of Love":
Belinda Carlisle has certainly had a colorful life. From the highs of The Go-Go's and her early solo career to her battle against addiction. She seems to be in a good place now and I wanted to celebrate her and her amazing music. I also wanted to include a couple of songs from Carlisle's fellow Go Go, Jane Wiedlin.
1) Belinda Carlisle "Leave A Light On":
2) The Go-Go's "Our Lips Are Sealed":
3) Belinda Carlisle "Heaven Is A Place On Earth":
4) The Go-Go's "We Got The Beat":
5) Belinda Carlisle "I Get Weak":
6) The Go-Go's "Unforgiven":
7) Belinda Carlisle "Circle In The Sand":
8) The Go-Go's "Head Over Heels":
9) Belinda Carlisle "Runaway Horses":
10) The Go-Go's "Vacation":
11) Belinda Carlisle "Mad About You":
12) The Go-Go's "The Whole World Lost Its Head":
13) Belinda Carlisle "Summer Rain":
14) The Go-Go's "Throw Me A Curve":
15) Belinda Carlisle "Sun":
16) The Go-Go's "Lust To Love":
From "Tame Yourself" 17) Belinda Carlisle "Bless The Beasts and the Children":
18) The Go-Go's "How Much More":
19) Belinda Carlisle "Big Big Love":
Finally two of my favorite Go-Go's related songs is Jane Wiedlin 20) "Rush Hour":
Okay I'm trying this again. This is the definitive, last, final blog series of themusicaddict's greatest songs of all-time. But of course I will continue to add songs as I think of songs and new songs are released. For instance a couple of Chappell Roan songs will be somewhere on this list.
Songs from nearly all genres will be represented on this list, even funk.
103) The B-52's "Love Shack":
104) Johnny Kemp "Just Got Paid":
105) Taylor Swift "Love Story";
106) The Dead Milkmen "Punk Rock Girl":
107) Deborah Allen "Baby I Lied":
108) Conway Twitty "Tight Fittin' Jeans":
109) Stone Temple Pilots "Sex Type Thing":
110) John Anderson "Swingin'":
111) Clint Black featuring Jon Pardi "Killin' Time":
112) Garth Brooks "The Thunder Rolls":
113) M "Pop Musik":
114) Neil Young "Rockin' In The Free World":
115) Michael Jackson "Smooth Criminal":
116) Janet Jackson "Nasty":
117) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "Dancing In The Dark":
118) Sinead O'Connor "Mandinka":
119) Fergie featuring Q-Tip and GoonRock "A Little Party Never Hurt No One (All We Got)":
Is there a band more associated with summer than The Beach Boys? I think not. Here is a series of blogs with the best summer songs mixed in with the best Beach Boys songs. There will be a few summer songs and then one Beach Boys song and going forward. That is until I run out of Beach Boys songs or maybe not. I don't care when the song was released if it feels like a summer song to me it is a summer song.
Thanks to this website for many of these songs: https://www.timeout.com/music/the-50-best-summer-songs-hit-the-beach-with-these-summertime-tunes
35) Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch "Good Vibrations":
36) Lindsey Buckingham "Holiday Road":
37) Donna Summer Hot Stuff":
38) The Beach Boys "I Get Around":
39) Chappel Roan "Pink Pony Club":
40) Brad Paisley "Ticks":
41) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk":
42) Michael Jackson "Billie Jean":
43) Sia "Cheap Thrills":
44) Madonna "La Isla Bonita":
45) Whitney Houston "I Wanna Dance With Somebody":
46) Jan and Dean "Dead Man's Curve":
47) The Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling":
48) The Beach Boys "Little Deuce Coupe":
49) Martha and the Vandellas "Dancing In The Street":
This is my second series of blogs about the best songs of 1991. The first is all the best songs of 1991 in alphabetical order. This second set of blogs is about the best rock songs of 1991 in random order. I'm also throwing in a few screwball songs, because why not?
Here are some of the greatest rock CDs of 1991, in no particular order. Metallica's "The Black Album", Pearl Jam "Ten", Nirvana's "Nevermind", Red Hot Chili Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex and Magik", U2 "Achtung Baby", The Smashing Pumpkins "Gish", Guns N' Roses "Use Your Illusion" 1 & 2, Ned's Atomic Dustbin "God Fodder", Sting's "The Soul Cages", Live "Mental Jewelry", Ozzy "No More Tours" and many other great CDs.
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.
18) Salt-N-Pepa "Shoop":
19) Green Day "Welcome To Paradise":
20) Alan Jackson "Who Says You Can't Have It All":
21) Enigma "Return To Innocence":
One of McGraw's first of many hits. 22) Tim McGraw "Indian Outlaw":
The Donna Summer greatest hit CD "Endless Summer" was released in 1994. Thus I'm going to include 23) "Heaven Knows" here. Why? Why not? Who doesn't enjoy a bit of nostalgia every now and then?
24) General Public "I'll Take You There":
25) Martin Page "In The House of Stone and Light":
Yes, it's a cover of the Carpenters classic. 26) Dishwalla "It's Going To Take Some Time":
27) Liz Phair "Supernova":
28) The Toadies "Possum Kingdom":
29) Urge Overkill "Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon":
30) Morrissey "The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get":
31) The Smashing Pumpkins "Disarm":
32) Pearl Jam "Last Exit":
From the Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway musical "Sunset Boulevard" 33) Glenn Close "With One Look":
34) Mary Chapin Carpenter "He Thinks He'll Keep Her":
I've been able to hear some great songs on my morning walks the last couple of days. I thought I would share some of them with you over two blogs.
18) Air Supply "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All":
This song is so good that I had to listen to it three times on today's morning walk. 19) Miranda Lambert "Over You":
20) Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway "The Closer I Get To You":
Out of all the hair metal bands Warrant was one of the best in writing quality songs. This is a great song off their great CD "D.R.F.S.R". Add it to your collection in you haven't already. 21) Warrant "Uncle Tom's Cabin":
22) Metallica "Enter Sandman":
23a) Brave Rival "Stars Up On My Scars":
Abridged version. 23b) Brave Rival "Stars Up On My Scars":
24) Renee Elise Goldsberry "Out Tonight":
25) Robbie Dupree "Hot Rod Hearts":
26) The Donnas "Revolver":
27) Fitz and the Tantrums "Good Intentions":
28) Adam Pascal and Rosario Dawson and "Light My Candle":
29) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "Long Walk Home" (Live In Manchester)":
I've been able to hear some great songs on my morning walks the last couple of days. I thought I would share some of them with you over two blogs.
1) "My Bones":
I remember when this show was coming out and I was so excited about it. This was before the big superhero movies of the last several years. Too bad the show, "The Greatest American Hero" was trash, but this is an amazing song. 2) Joey Scarbury "Believe It Or Not":
3) Culture Beat "Mr. Vain":
4) Lady Gaga "If My Friends Could See Me Now":
A song that was perfect for the new MTV. 5) M "Pop Muzik":
If you can see these guys in concert. I've seen them in both outdoor and indoor venues, they played longer at the inside venue. 6) Little Big Town "Things You Don't Think About":
A butt kicking cover of the Talking Heads classic. A song inspired by the Son of Sam. 7) Miley Cyrus "Psycho Killer":
8) Benny Mardones "Into The Night":
9) Benson Boone "There She Goes":
"One of Us" is a great song, but this may be Joan Osborne's finest song. 10) "Right Hand Man":
11) Lorrie Morgan "Something In Red":
This comes from one of the best debut CDs ever. This is a band whose music is needed more than ever in the era of MAGA. Rage Against The Machine 12) "Take The Power Back":
One of the quirkier bands that has ever been, but they are great songwriters. If you just buy one of their CDs buy "Flood". This song is from that CD. 13) They Might Be Giants "Twisting":
Exploding in 1989 with the amazing CD "Raw Like Sushi". 14) Neneh Cherry "Buffalo Stance":
The girl can sang. One of the best songs from a pretty decent soundtrack "The Great Gatsby". 15) Fergie featuring GoonRock and Q-Tip "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)":
An under appreciated rocker of recent vintage. 16) Redlight King "Underground":
Cars = freedom, mobility and a way to quickly getaway from whatever you don't want to deal with. I literally earned my driver's license as soon as I could. My first vehicle was a beat up old truck we called The Green Weenie. My current ride is a white vehicle named Caitlyn. I named her after the great Caitlin Clark of Iowa Women's basketball. Now she's the great Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever.
52) Cyndi Lauper "I Drove All Night":
53) War "Low Rider":
54 George Jones "The One I Loved Back Then":
55) John Travolta et. al "Greased Lightning":
56) The Beach Boys "409":
57) War "Low Rider" (Kyle Watson remix):
58) Kiss "Detroit Rock City":
59) Green Day "Corvette Summer":
This song took awhile for me to warm up to, but now I love it. 60) OMC "How Bizarre":
"I saw things clearer, clearer once you once you were in my rearviewmirror." 61) Pearl Jam "Rearviewmirror":
Gorgeous, but a heartbreaker of a song. 62) Tim McGraw "Red Ragtop":
63) The Doobie Brothers "Rockin Down The Highway":
64) Judas Priest "Heading Out To The Highway":
65) America "Ventura Highway":
66) Depeche Mode "Behind The Wheel":
67) Jerry Reed "Eastbound and Down":
Carrie at her sexiest and most feisty. 68) Carrie Underwood "Before He Cheats":
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.
171) John Dean "Big Bad John":
172) U2 "Until The End of The World":
173) Blink-182 "All The Small Things":
174) Patsy Cline "Crazy":
175) Pink Floyd "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2":
Is there a band more associated with summer than The Beach Boys? I think not. Here is a series of blogs with the best summer songs mixed in with the best Beach Boys songs. There will be a few summer songs and then one Beach Boys song and going forward. That is until I run out of Beach Boys songs or maybe not. I don't care when the song was released if it feels like a summer song to me it is a summer song.
Thanks to this website for many of these songs: https://www.timeout.com/music/the-50-best-summer-songs-hit-the-beach-with-these-summertime-tunes
18) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "Born To Run":
19) The Hollies "Bus Stop":
20) The Mamas and the Papas "California Dreamin":
21) Belinda Carlisle "Circle In The Sand":
22) The Beach Boys "Surfin USA":
23) Emeli Sande and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra "Crazy In Love":
It was the end of one decade and about to be the 90s. Looking back 40 years later- wow, that's hard to believe- the 80s are still my favorite decade. That's especially for culture and music. I still say the music of the 80s is the best music ever made.
Just off of the top of my head some of the amazing musicians of the 80s- in no particular order- include Madonna, ZZ Top, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Joel, Elton John, Def Leppard, Boston, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Lita Ford, the Jackson siblings, Billy Ocean, INXS, Erasure, U2, Also don't forget all the great country musicians Randy Travis, Alabama, George Strait, Reba McEntire, Conway Twitty, John Anderson and many others.
Some of the best movies of 1989 include "Batman", "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade" (In a James Earl Jones like voiceover "although it wasn't really the last crusade, now was it?"), "Dead Poets Society", "When Harry Met Sally", one of my personal favorites "The Abyss", "Lethal Weapon 2", "Field of Dreams", "Major League", the not as good as I thought it was going to be "Born on the 4th of July", "Lean On Me", "Glory" and "When Harry Met Sally".
Recently I stumbled across the show called "Hysteria!", a horror/ comedy series set in 1989. It's mostly set around a fake satanic panic that took over the more gullible areas of America. (Basically the same places where MAGA thrives now, who are more frightening than a mostly fake satanic panic.) In "Hysteria!" the three main characters pretend like they embrace satanism to grow a following of their band. As someone who lived and loved the 80s I don't remember any satanic panic of that decade. I'm going to use these blogs to explore some of the harder rock of 1989. I cannot guarantee that all these songs are amazing, this blog series is mostly exploring the harder rock music of 1989. Some of these rock songs will be scattered among the regular 1989 blogs.
35) Great White "The Angel Song":
36) Leatherwolf "Lonely Road":
37) Enuff Z'nuff "Fly High Michelle":
38) Bang Tango "Someone Like You":
39) Saraya "Healing Touch":
40) Exodus "The Toxic Waltz":
41) Danger Danger "Saturday Night":
42) Agony Column "God, Guns and Guts":
43) Blue Murder "Valley Of The Kings":
44) White Lion "Little Fighter":
45) Motley Crue "Kickstart My Heart":
46) Skid Row "Youth Gone Wild":
47) Alice Cooper "Poison":
48) Neil Young "Keep On Rockin' In The Free World":
49) The Cult "Fire Woman":
Bizarre I know, but this CD had some of the best rock songs of the year. 50) Janet Jackson "Rhythm Nation":
Black musicians such as Salt-N-Pepa, Terence Trent D'arby, Prince, Michael and Janet Jackson, Living Colour, Public Enemy, Anita Baker, Vanessa Williams, Tina Turner had many big hits between 1987 and 1989. Also there were many others and a few one or two hit wonders that joined the hit parade. All that adds up to a great 3 year run for all of music, specifically black musicians.
1987 to 1989 was an amazing three year period for black musicians, here are most of those classic songs. Get ready to listen to some classic jams you haven't heard for awhile.
These next eight songs are from Janet Jackson's excellent "Rhythm Nation 1814":
18) "State of The World":
19) "The Knowledge":
20) "Miss You Much":
21) "Love Will Never Do Without You":
22) "Alright":
23) "Escapade":
24) "Black Cat":
25) "Livin' In A World (They Didn't Make)":
26) LL Cool J "I Need Love":
27) LL Cool J "Going Back To Cali":
These next three songs are by Public Enemy. 28) "Fight The Power":
