(Finished December 28th, 2025) Part 6 of The Best of 1980: All Genres

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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.

86) The Oak Ridge Boys "Trying To Love Two Women":

87) Foreigner "Urgent":

88) Ronnie Milsap "My Heart":

89) Split Enz "I Got You":

90) "The Bellamy Brothers "Dancin' Cowboys":

91) The Alan Parsons Project "Games People Play":

92) T.G. Shepherd "I'll Be Coming Back For More":

93) Anne Murray "Broken Hearted Me":

94) Donna Summer "On The Radio":

95) Billy Joel "Don't Ask Me Why":

96) John Anderson "She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs":

97) Eddie Rabbitt "Gone Too Far":

98) The Spinners "Working My Way Back To You":

99) Merle Haggard and Clint Eastwood "Bar Room Buddies":

"Glass Houses" is one of my favorite Billy Joel CDs, nearly every song on that CD is great. This is one of the more obscure, but still great, songs. 100) Billy Joel "All For Leyna":

101) Blondie "The Tide Is High":

102) Queen "Play The Game":

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(Finished December 27th, 2025) Part 2 of Multiple Versions of The Same Song

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I started working on this blog exactly three years ago- to the day. It's about time I finished it.

Since this is part two of this blog series that means there's a part one, right? At least there should just be a part two, however I can't find it. Maybe I'll figure it out where it is someday, but for now I will just keep on working on this and future parts of this blog series. This essentially is part 1 of this blog series so all songs that have multiple versions can be included here without worrying about any duplication.

All versions included here have to be good to be included.

18) The Jackson Five "I'll Be There":

19) Mariah Carey featuring Trey Lorenz "I'll Be There":

20) Gwen McCrae "You Were Always On My Mind":

21) Brenda Lee "Always On My Mind":

22) Elvis Presley "Always On My Mind":

I'm not the biggest Willie Nelson fan ever, but this version is jaw droppingly brilliant. 23) Willie Nelson "Always On My Mind":

24) Pet Shop Boys "Always On my Mind":

I don't know who this it, but wow wow wow!! 25) I guess her name is or she calls herself Leire. "Always On My Mind":

Bonus song: Leire "Wicked Game":

26) Lynn Anderson "Rose Garden":

27) Kon Kan "I Beg Your Pardon":

28) Martina McBride "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden":

29) Fleetwood Mac "The Chain":

30) The Highwomen "The Chain":

31) Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt  "Poor Poor Pitiful Me":

31) Linda Ronstadt "Poor Poor Pitiful Me":

32) Terri Clark "Poor Poor Pitiful Me":

33) The Beatles "Across The Universe":

This song wasn't even on my radar until I started researching this blog that's when I discovered amazing version of this song. 34) Fiona Apple "Across The Universe":

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(Finished December 25th, 2025) Part 2 of The 80s: A Few of the Best Songs From Each Year

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Let's go back to the 80s, a few of the best songs from each year of the 80s. In my opinion this was by far the best decade of music. If I had to rank the decades in terms of music quality 1) The 80s 2) The 70s and 3) The 90s 4) The 60s. 

1983 (cont.):

18) The Tubes "She's A Beauty":

19) Sammy Hagar "Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy":

20) Def Leppard "Photograph": 

21) Men At Work "Overkill":

22) Michael Jackson "Human Nature":

Mike Reno still sounds pretty good, but he's got very chunky. (And that's coming from a very chunky person.) 23) Loverboy "Hot Girls In Love":

This is from 1986, they sounded so much better.

24) Naked Eyes "Always Something To Remind Me":

25) Taco "Puttin' On The Ritz":

26) Golden Earring "Twilight Zone":

1984:

27) "What's Love Got To Do With It":

28) Duran Duran "The Reflex":

29) Michael McDonald and James Ingram "Yah Mo B There":

30) The Police "Wrapped Around Your Finger":

31) John Mellencamp "Pink Houses":

32) The Pointer Sisters "I'm So Excited":

1985:

33) Paul Young "Everytime You Go Away":

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

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(Finished December 21st, 2025) Part 4 of The Super S's of the Seventies

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Rock legends from the 70s with names start with S- either last name or band name. Originally I was going to include musicians whose first name starts with s on this list. That's why Stevie Wonder is here. However once you put the great Stevie Wonder on a list you- or at least I- don't take him off. Enjoy some memories- for those of you old enough- and some nostalgia.

52) Sammi Smith "Help Me Make It Through The Night":

53) Steely Dan "Deacon Blues":

54) Sweet "Little Willy":

55) Donna Summer "Could It Be Magic":

56) Paul Simon "Still Crazy After All These Years":

57) Bob Seger "Mainstreet":

58) Shirley and Company "Shame, Shame Shame":

59) Paul Simon "Kodachrome":

60) "Donna Summer "Macarthur Park":

61) Styx "Lights Up":

62) Starz "Cherry Baby":

63) Seals and Crofts "Summer Breeze":

64) Carly Simon "You Belong To Me":

65) Samantha Sang "Emotion":

66) Styx "Crystal Ball":

67) The Statler Brothers "The Class of '57":

68) The Spinners "Rubberband Man":

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(Finished December 19th, 2025) Part 1 of The 80s: A Few of the Best Songs From Each Year

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Let's go back to the 80s, a few of the best songs from each year of the 80s. In my opinion this was by far the best decade of music. If I had to rank the decades in terms of music quality 1) The 80s 2) The 70s and 3) The 90s 4) The 60s. 

1980: 

1) Robbie Dupree "Hot Rod Hearts":

2) Lipps Inc. "Funky Town":

3) Billy Joel "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me":

4) Boz Scaggs "Breakdown Dead Ahead":

5) Benny Mardones "Into The Night":

1981:

6) Kim Carnes "Bette Davis Eyes":

7) John Lennon "(Just Like) Starting Over":

8) A Taste of Honey "Sukiyaki":

9) Stars On 45 "Stars On 45 Medley":

10) Journey "Who's Crying Now":

1982:

11) The Human League "Don't You Want Me":

12) Steve Miller Band "Abracadabra":

13) Bertie Higgins "Key Largo":

14) Kim Wilde "Kids In America":

15) Crosby, Stills and Nash "Wasted On The Way":

1983:

16) Dexy's Midnight Runners "Come On Eileen":

17) Men At Work "Overkill":

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(Finished December 18th, 2025) Part 4 of The Best Songs About or Mention Time

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The best songs about time, mention time or what happens after the passing of time.

I looked at many lists of songs about time and this was on several of them so I'm including it. 544 Million views can't be wrong. 52) Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U":

53) Tiffany "All This Time":

54) Tim McGraw "Angry All The Time":

55) Guns N' Roses "November Rain":

56) No Doubt "Sunday Morning":

57) Whitney Houston "One Moment In Time":

58) The Scorpions "Loving You Sunday Morning":

59) Neil Diamond "September Morn":

60) Old 97s "Happy Hour":

61) Alan Jackson "Someday":

62) Black Stone Cherry "Maybe Someday":

63) Stephen Kellogg "4th of July":

An update of the Shenadoah classic. 64) Shenandoah, Jason Aldean and Luke "Sunday In The South":

65) Mariah Carey "Someday":

66) The Doobie Brothers "What A Fool Believes":

67) Maroon 5 "Sunday Morning":

68) "The Pink Spiders Saturday Nite Riot":

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(Finished December 15th, 2025) Part 3 of The Super S's of the Seventies

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Rock legends from the 70s with names start with S- either last name or band name. Originally I was going to include musicians whose first name starts with s on this list. That's why Stevie Wonder is here. However once you put the great Stevie Wonder on a list you- or at least I- don't take him off. Enjoy some memories- for those of you old enough- and some nostalgia.

35) Stevie Wonder "You Haven't Done Nothin":

36) Simon and Garfunkel "Cecilia":

37) Staple Singers "I'll Take You There":

38) Seals and Crofts "Diamond Girl":

39) Boz Scaggs "Dinah Flo":

40) Donna Summer "Bad Girls":

41) The Statler Brothers "Do You Remember These":

42) Ringo Starr "It Don't Come Easy":

43) Stylistics "Rockin' Roll Baby":

44) David Shire "Manhattan Skyline":

45) Cat Stevens "Moonshadow":

46) Steely Dan "Black Friday":

47) Styx "Fooling Yourself (Angry Young Man)":

48) Carly Simon "You're So Vain":

49) Steely Dan "Reelin' In The Years":

50) Seals and Crofts "I'll Play For You":

51) Donna Summers "Last Dance":

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(Finished December 13th, 2025) Part 1 Of the Top 51 Songs of 1986 and the Best of the Rest

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Since we are only days away from 2026- gasp!- I would like to follow up on some of the greatest songs of that year. I'm going to share videos of the Top 51 songs- how the heck did Eddie Murphy's "Party All The Time" finish #7 of the year end chart? This first blog is the best of the other 49 songs from this year end countdown. There were just so many great songs in 1986. Why 51 songs, because I usually have 17 songs on each blog. Special thanks to Billboard and Wikipedia for the information. 

The best of the rest and many of these songs are more worthy of the #7 spot than "Party All The Time":

The number in parenthesis is where the sogn ranked on the 1986 Billboard year end charts. 99) Toto "I'll Be Over You":

96) Thompson Twins "King For A Day":

95) Force M.D.'s "Tender Love":

93) Starpoint "Object Of My Desire":

92) Paul McCartney "Spies Like Us":

91) Moody Blues "Your Wildest Dreams":

90) Anita Baker "Sweet Love":

89) RUN-D.M.C. featuring Aerosmith "Walk This Way":

88) Phil Collins "Take Me Home":

87) Elton John "Nikita":

85) Regina "Baby Love":

84) Genesis "Throwing It All Away":

83) Sheila E. "A Love Bizarre":

82) Rod Stewart "Love Touch":

81) The Cars "Tonight She Comes":

80) ZZ Top "Sleeping Bag":

79) Miami Sound Machine "Bad Boy":

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

77) Timex Social Club "Rumors":

76) Madonna "True Blue":

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(Finished December 12th, 2025) Part 2 of The Best of Hair Metal

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This will eventually be a twenty blog series with the best of the best of hair metal music. The first 18 blogs will be covering the entire breadth of hair metal and then the final 2 blogs will be Greatest Hits blogs. 

Obviously there's a great deal of debate about what is and isn't hair metal. I looked at Ranker's Top Three Hair Metal bands and it's 1) Van Halen 2) Guns N' Roses and 3) Def Leppard. I'd say that none of those were hair metal bands. Other bands not Hair Metal Bands include Metallica, Megadeth, The Scorpions

Obviously there will never be consensus on who is and who isn't Hair Metal bands. But I suggest the best Hair Metal bands are Warrant, Ratt, Poison, Whitesnake, Skid Row and Motley Crue. There are also some bads that I would consider Hair Metal adjacent, bands such as Bon Jovi, Cinderella and Firehouse.

Also recently I have discovered some hair metal bands that I wasn't really aware of or knew at all back in the day. Bands such as Blue Murder, Savatage, FM and Leatherwolf. Also one of my favorite new unknown, at least to me, bands is the Hair Metal adjacent Thunder.

The main timeframe I'll be using is roughly 1983 to 1991 with a few outliers thrown in. Who knows how long Hair Metal would have been around, but in 1991 Grunge steamrolled Hair Metal back to obscurity. Here are roughly the 300 best hair metal songs. As always I welcome criticisms, compliments and suggestions to make these lists better. 

18) Motley Crue "Starry Eyes":

19) Motley Crue "Kickstart My Heart":

20) Bon Jovi "Let It Rock":

21) Bon Jovi "Edge of A Broken Heart":

22) Poison "I Want Action":

23) Cinderella "Shake Me":

24) Skid Row "Sweet Little Sister":

25) Warrant "Down Boys":

A Dee Snider live version. 26) Twisted Sister "I Wanna Rock":

27) Ratt "Loving You Is A Dirty Job":

28) Ratt "Nobody Rides For Free":

Probably the saddest video in the hair metal genre. 29) Faster Pussycat "House of Pain":

30) Britny Fox "Long Way To Love":

31) Enuff Z'Nuff "New Thing":

32) Helix "Rock You":

33) Danger, Danger "Bang Bang":

34) Autograph "Blondes In Black":

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(Finished December 6th, 2025) Part 2 of Classic Rock's Albums of 2023

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These are the Top 50 CDs of 2023 as according to Classic Rock magazine. Many of these bands or albums I've never heard of, obviously that doesn't mean they aren't good. I actually own only a few of these CDs. What I'm going to do is to add the song that Classic Rock picked for each CD. If I like that song I'll add another song to the blog. I'll do that until I run out of songs I like, up to 5 songs. I like rock music so it's quite likely I will like a lot of the songs from these 50 CDs.  I have picked most of the songs to be played due to each song's ranking on iTunes.

Other than the Classic Rock rankings I would have had no clue this CD, "Another Door, even existed. 46) Ann Wilson & Tripsitter "Another Door":

"Rain of Hell":

"Ruler of The Night/ Love Alive":

From the CD "Love, Death and In Between". 45) DeWolff "Night Train":

"Rosita":

"Will O' The Wisp":

"Counterfeit Love":

Wow, I'm really loving this CD "Can't Die, Won't Die". That's just from the songs I've heard because of the Classic Rock countdown. 44) Black Spiders "Can't Die, Won't Die":

"Destroyer":

Black Spiders "Alright Alright Alright":

Black Spiders "End of the World":

"It Is What It Is":

From the Royal Thunder CD "Rebuilding The Mountain". 43) "The Knife":

"Fade":

"Nowhere- Now Here":

From the Yes CD "Mirror To The Sky". 42) All Connected":

"Cut From The Stars":

"Luminosity":

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(Finished December 5th, 2025) Part 1 of The Best of Hair Metal

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This will eventually be a twenty blog series with the best of the best of hair metal music. The first 18 blogs will be covering the entire breadth of hair metal and then the final 2 blogs will be Greatest Hits blogs. 

Obviously there's a great deal of debate about what is and isn't hair metal. I looked at Ranker's Top Three Hair Metal bands and it's 1) Van Halen 2) Guns N' Roses and 3) Def Leppard. I would say that none of those were hair metal bands. Other bands not Hair Metal Bands include Metallica, Megadeth, The Scorpions

Obviously there will never be consensus on who is and who isn't Hair Metal bands. But I suggest the best Hair Metal bands are Warrant, Ratt, Poison, Whitesnake, Skid Row and Motley Crue. There are also some bads that I would consider Hair Metal adjacent, bands such as Bon Jovi, Cinderella and Firehouse.

Also recently I have discovered some hair metal bands that I wasn't really aware of or knew at all back in the day. Bands such as Blue Murder, Savatage, FM and Leatherwolf. Also one of my favorite new unknown, at least to me, bands is the Hair Metal adjacent Thunder.

The main timeframe I'll be using is roughly 1983 to 1991 with a few outliers thrown in. Who knows how long Hair Metal would have been around, but in 1991 Grunge steamrolled Hair Metal back to obscurity. Here are roughly the 300 best hair metal songs. As always I welcome criticisms, compliments and suggestions to make these lists better. 

1) Motley Crue "Live Wire":

2) Whitesnake "Crying In The Rain":

3) Poison "Cry Tough":

4) Skid Row "Rattlesnake Shake":

5) Bon Jovi "Runaway":

6) Cinderella "Night Songs":

7) Skid Row "Big Guns":

8) Warrant "32 Pennies":

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

10) Ratt "Way Cool Jr.":

11) Faster Pussycat "Bathroom Wall":

12) Vixen "Cryin'":

13) Stryper "Honestly":

14) Britny Fox "Girlschool":

15) Enuff Z'Nuff "Fly High Michelle":

16) Kingdom Come "Get It On":

17) Danger Danger "Naughty, Naughty":

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(Finished December 5th, 2025) Part 7 of The Best of New Wave Alphabetically

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It's again about time to relive that great time of the early to mid 80s of New Wave music. New Wave is a genre that has quirky people, quairly lyrics and quirky music. It doesn't work all the time, but when it work at it's best the songs are great.

What exactly is/ was New Wave music. Well two things New Wave typically is energetic and fun. New Wave never took itself too seriously. The lyrics weren't serious. New Wave is basically just fun upbeat music to dance to. Who were some of the best New Wave musicians? The Thompson Twins, Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order, Howard Jones and many others have to be considered the best New Wave bands.

You may see this and wonder why I didn't include U2 and The Police- both of who many lumped in with the New Wave movement. However both bands, especially The Police, feel like old fashioned rock bands to me. Other bands that were lumped in with New Wave, that I don't really consider New Wave, include The Talking Heads, Men At Work, Elvis Costello, The Go-Go's, The Eurythmics  and David Bowie. Duran Duran was lumped in with the New Wave crowd and I'm not sure they are truly a New Wave band.

103) The Cure "Lovesong":

104) Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart":

105) Fun Boy Three "Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum":

106) Tears For Fears "Mad World":

107) Peter Schilling "Major Tom (Coming Home)":

108) Depeche Mode "Master and Servant":

109) Berlin "The Metro":

110) Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio":

111) The Plimsouls "A Million Miles Away":

112) The English Beat "Mirror In The Bathroom":

113) The Human League "Mirror Man":

114) Dollar "Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour)":

115) The Flying Lizards "Money (That's What I Want):

116) Roxy Music "More Than This":

117) The Smiths "Mr. Bigmouth Strikes Again":

118) INXS "Need You Tonight":

119) INXS "New Sensation":

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(Finished December 1st, 2025) Part 2 of October Birthdays for Musicians

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It only took me thirteen months to finish this blog.

I'm not sure how accurate this is, but according to Wikipedia all of these people were born on October 2nd. I looked for other musicians with birthdays in October, but these were the five best musicians.

This song is so deservedly a classic. He seems to capture every emotion and it's a shot of pure unadulterated nostalgia. Don McLean was born on October 2nd, 1945. These next four songs are all by Don McLean. 18) American Pie":

19) "Crying":

20) "American Boys":

21) "Castles In The Air":

Genesis' Mike Rutherford was born on October 2nd, 1950. He's most well known for his work with Genesis, these next ten songs are all Genesis songs. 

22) "Follow You Follow Me":

This song was after Phil Collins left the band to just Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks. This is from Genesis' last studio CD "Calling All Stations". This CD features Ray Wilson on vocals. 23) "Calling All Stations":

24) "Land of Confusion":

25) "Turn It On Again":

26) "Mama":

27) "Misunderstanding":

28) "Illegal Alien":

29) "Abacab":

30) "Invisible Touch":

31) "That's All":

32) Mike Rutherford "Halfway There":

These next three songs are all by Mike and the Mechanic 33) "Living Years":

34) "Silent Running":

35) "All I Need Is A Miracle":

Tiffany was born on October 2nd, 1971. These next five songs are by Tiffany. 36) "I Think We're Alone Now":

37) "I Saw Him Standing There":

38) "All This Time":

39) "Could've Been":

40) "Feelings of Forever":

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