(Finished April 6th, 2026) Part 14 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. 

222) Randy Travis "Before You Kill Us All":

223) Garth Brooks "The Night I Called The Old Man Out":

224) Shenandoah "I Got You":

225) Alabama "Down Home":

226) Chris Ledoux "Riding For A Fall":

227) Doug Supernaw "I Don't Call Him Daddy":

228) Randy Travis "Whisper My Name":

229) Sawyer Brown "Trouble On The Line":

230) Waylon Jennings "Wrong":

231) Suzy Bogguss "Like The Weather":

232) Randy Travis "This Is Me":

233) Terri Clark "If I Were You":

234) Sawyer Brown "Thank God For You":

235) Vern Gosdin "This Ain't My First Rodeo":

236) The Chicks "You Were Mine":

237) Tim McGraw "Refried Dreams":

238) Mary Chapin Carpenter "Almost Home":

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(Finished Sunday April 5th, 2025) Part 1 of Great Songs for Your Easter Season

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These are a bunch of great songs for your Easter Season. 

1) Keith and Kristyn Getty featuring Travis Cottrell "In Christ Alone":

2) BYU Noteworthy "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)":

3) Emma Nissen "He Lives":

4) Carrie Yost "Jesus The Christ":

5) Josh Groban The Savior Of The World Is Crucified":

6) "Gethsemane":

7) Anthem Lights "I Need Thee Every Hour":

8) Carrie Underwood "How Great Thou Art":

9) Lauren Daigle "Rescue":

10) Phil Wickham "Sunday Is Coming":

11) Lauren Daigle "You Say":

12) Lauren Daigle "Still Rolling Stones":

13) Josh Groban "You Raise Me Up":

14) Vera Lynn "We'll Meet Again":

15) Aaron Shust "Risen Today":

16) Hillsong UNITED "Scandal of Grace (I'd Be Lost)":

17) Reawaken Hymns "Christ The Lord Is Risen Today":

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(Finished April 3rd, 2026) Twentyish Great Songs From 1968 to 1970 (Mostly)

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Inspired by yet another episode of the amazing "Cold Case", it's set in 1969. As with any era there are so many great songs and here are twenty.

1) The 5th Dimension "Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine In":

2) The Cowsills "Hair":

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

4) The Zombies "Time Of The Season":

5) The Doors "Touch Me":

6) The Byrds "Lay Lady Lay":

7) Hugo Montenegro and His Orchestra "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly":

8) Classics IV "Spooky":

9) Steppenwolf "Born To Be Wild":

10) The Beatles "Revolution":

11) Cream "White Room":

12) Simon and Garfunkel "Scarborough Fair": 

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band has opened both of his recent concerts with this song. I couldn't think of a more timely song. 13) Edwin Starr "War":

14) Neil Diamond "Cracklin' Rosie":

15) Brook Benton "Rainy Night In Georgia":

16) The Hollies "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother":

17) The Brotherhood of Man "United We Stand":

18) James Taylor "Fire and Rain":

19) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Run Through The Jungle":

20) Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "Woodstock":

21) The Papas and the Mamas "Creeque Alley":

22) Scott Mckenzie "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)":

23) Ten Years After "I'd Love To Change The World":

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(Finished March 30th, 2026) Part 2 of The Best Love Songs Ever

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This blog series is inspired by the near perfect love song "The Glory of Love" by Peter Cetera. I thought it's time to do another extensive blog series about the all-time best love songs. This is the best love songs, all kinds of songs relating to love and relationships. The sappy ballad, the falling in love/ new love song, the angry/ anti-love song and any related song that fits in between those two moods. The lust, love, hate, reconciliation, tearing apart, the sublime, the waiting, the heartbreak and anything else that goes along with our most complicated emotion.

18) Skeeter Davis "The End of The World":

19) George Strait "You Know Me Better Than That":

20) Patsy Cline featuring The Jordanaires  "Crazy":

21) Gene Watson "Love In The Hot Afternoon":

22) Robert Palmer "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On":

23) Diamond Rio "Norma Jean Riley":

Still holding a probable permanent place on my iPod. 24) Shakey Graves and Esme Patterson "Dearly Departed":

See above. Also if you get a chance to see The Darkness in concert you really should go. 25) The Darkness "I Believe In A Thing Called Love":

26) Reba McEntire "What Am I Gonna Do About You":

27) The Chicks "You Were Mine":

28) Leann Rimes "How Do I Live":

Without a doubt one of the most powerful songs of all-time. 29) Celine Dion "It's All Coming Back To Me Now":

30) Meat Loaf "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad":

Still holding a probable permanent place on my iPod. 31) Paula Abdul "Straight Up":

She's definitely the perfect model for this video. 32) Boston "Amanda":

33) Waylon Jennings "Amanda":

34) Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam "All Cried Out":

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(Finished March 28th, 2026) Part 1 of the Best of Bad

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On my morning walk I heard Michael Jackson's "Bad" and I'm sure I've never done such a blog before. I tried to come up with all the songs that have "Bad" in the title while still on my walk. I thought of the songs "Bad" by U2, Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine", Cinderella's "Bad Seamstress Blues", Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and Bruce Springsteen's "Badlands". I also thought of the bands Bad English and Bad Company. Then when I got home I realized Bad Company has a song titled "Bad Company". The rest of the things on this list came after I got home and did some research.

1) Michael Jackson "Bad":

2) U2 "Bad":

3) Bon Jovi "Bad Medicine":

4) Cinderella "Bad Seamstress Blues":

5) The Arctic Monkeys "The Bad Thing":

6) Avril Lavigne featuring Marilyn Manson "Bad Girl":

7) Bad Company "Bad Company":

8) Bad English "When I See You Smile":

9) Bad Wolves "Zombie":

10) Badflower "Soap":

11) Bastille "Bad Blood":

12) Billie Eilish "bad guy":

13) The Aces "Bad Love":

14) Black Stone Cherry "Bad Luck and Hard Love":

15) Bon Jovi "You Give Love A Bad Name":

16) Boston "Used To Bad News":

17) Brave Rival "Bad Choices":

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(Finisheh March 30th, 2026) Part 1 of The Best Love Songs Ever

Hello,

This blog series is inspired by the near perfect love song "The Glory of Love" by Peter Cetera. I thought it's time to do another extensive blog series about the all-time best love songs. This is the best love songs, all kinds of songs relating to love and relationships. The sappy ballad, the falling in love/ new love song, the angry/ anti-love song and any related song that fits in between those two moods. The lust, love, hate, reconciliation, tearing apart, the sublime, the waiting, the heartbreak and anything else that goes along with our most complicated emotion.

1) Peter Cetera "The Glory of Love":

2) Barbra Streisand "The Way We Were":

3) Gladys Knight and the Pips "Midnight Train To Georgia":

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

5) The Smiths "There's A Light That Never Goes Out":

6) Rosario Dawson and Adam Pascal "Light My Candle":

7) Styx "The Best of Times":

This is one of the most joyous songs of all-time. 8) Train "Drive By":

9) Fastball "Out of My Head":

10) Beyonce featuring Jay-Z "Crazy In Love":

11) The Dead Milkmen "Punk Rock Girl":

One of this modern era's greatest love songs. I love this non-professionally made video as well. 12) "Casimir Pulaski Day":

13) Ella Langley "Choosin Texas":

14) Kenny Rogers "She Believes In Me":

15) Lady Gaga "You and I":

This video is absolutely perfect for this song. 16) Green Day "Whatsername":

17) The Beach Boys "Surfer Girl":

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(Finished March 22nd, 2026) Part 2 of She's A Country Classic: The Best Songs From "Twisters":

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These lyrics are from Kane Brown's "Country Classic". It's performed by Brown and written by Jon Capeci, Gabe Foust and Free. This was a good reminder of many great songs are in this soundtrack.

That girl, she's a sweet home Alabama
She could paint me a Birmingham
Hot damn, if I could make it to Cheyenne
Or Amarillo by morning (By morning)
Man, she feels like a woman
Like I heard her on the radio
Driving down that red dirt road (Woo-hoo)
Oh, I can't get her out of my head
Know I gotta have it
That girl, that girl is a country classic, mm yeah
Yeah, she's a country classic

The above song is from Kane Brown, it's titled "Country Classic". It's a country classic as well a song from one of the best CDs of this century. That's the soundtrack for "Twisters". Many country classics are mentioned in the above lyrics.

Kane Brown's "Country Classic":

1) Benson Boone "Death Wish Love":

2) Connor Smith featuring Tucker Wetmore "Steal My Thunder":

3) Dylan Gossett "Stronger Than A Storm":

4) Flatland Cavalry "Touchdown":

5) Jelly Roll "Dead End Road": 

6) Jelly Roll featuring Alexandra Kay "Leave The Light On":

7) Lainey Wilson "Out of Oklahoma":

8) Lanie Gardner "Chasing The Wind":

9) Luke Combs "Ain't No Love In Oklahoma":

10) Miranda Lambert "Ain't In Kansas Anymore":

11) Shania Twain featuring Breland "Boots Don't":

12) Tanner Adell "Too Easy":

13) Tanner Usrey "Blackberry Wine":

14) Thomas Rhett "Feelin' Country":

15) Tucker Wetmore "Already Had It":

16) Tyler Childers "Song While Your Away":

17) Tyler Halverson "New Loop":

18) Warren Zeiders "The Cards I've Been Dealt":

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(Finished March 21st, 2026) Part 1 of The Most Poignant and Uplifting Songs of 1979

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This blog is inspired by "Cold Case" Season 2, episode 3 "Daniela". I love "Cold Case" and how poignant so many episodes are. And this episode was especially good and poignant, here are the most fitting songs from 1979 for that blog and year.

This song is from 1977, but it fit perfectly with in this episode. 1) David Gates "Goodbye Girl":

2) Al Stewart "Time Passages":

3) Amii Stewart "Knock On Wood":

4) Bee Gees "Love You Inside Out":

5) Bee Gees "Tragedy":

6) Bad Company "Rock and Roll Fantasy":

7) Blondie "Heart of Glass":

8) The Commodores "Sail On":

9) Dionne Warwick "I'll Never Love This Way Again":

10) Dire Straits "Sultans of Swing":

11) Donna Summer "Bad Girls":

12) Electric Light Orchestra "Don't Bring Me Down":

13) Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive":

14) Herb Alpert "Rise":

15) John Stewart featuring Stevie Nicks "Gold":

16) Kenny Rogers "She Believes In Me":

17) Little River Band "Lonesome Loser":

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(Finished March 21st, 2026) Part 13 of The Best, No Matter How Obscure, Videos of The Beginning Days of Music Videos Through 1989

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In honor of the 43rd, now almost 45th anniversary, of MTV, these are hundreds of the many best videos from MTV's early days. Also videos before there was ever a MTV. I'm 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? Videos from the mid 60s to 1989.  These are the notable videos since the beginning of videos.

I'm changing these blogs to the best, no matter how obscure videos of The Beginning Days Of Music Videos From when videos started to 1989.  These may not all be great videos- although most are iconic- but nearly all the songs are great.

205) Tom Petty "Runnin Down A Dream":

206) A Flock of Seagulls "Space Age Love Song":

207) Depeche Mode "Everything Counts (Live)":

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

209) Starship "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now":

210) Nena "99 Luftballons":

211) Mike and the Mechanics "Silent Running":

212) Peter Gabriel "Big Time":

The greatest speech in 80s music to start this song. 213) Prince "Let's Go Crazy":

214) Thomas Dolby "Europa and The Pirate Twins":

215) Madonna "Into The Groove":

One of the most sublime songs ever, it starts off with such a great line. "You must understand though that the touch of your hand makes my pulse react." 216) Tina Turner "What's Love Got To Do With It": 

217) Billy Idol "White Wedding":

218) Paula Abdul "Straight Up":

219) Janet Jackson "When I Think Of You":

220) Phil Collins "Sussudio":

221) Duran Duran "Rio":

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(Finished March 16th, 2026) Part 3 of All of Boston's Original Songs

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This blog series is every original song by Boston from their six CDs across the years. Those CDs are 1976's "Boston", 1978's "Don't Look Back", 1986's "Third Stage", 1994's "Walk On", 2002's "Corporate America" and 2013's "Life, Love and Hope".

Sadly Boston's last two CDs aren't that good, but maybe we'll discover some good songs together.

"Corporate America":

R.I.P. Tommy DeCarlo. He died just a few days ago at the way too young age of 60.  41) "I Had A Good Time":

42) "Stare Out Your Window": 

43) "Corporate America":

44) "With You":

47) "Someone":

48) "Turn It Off":

49) "Cryin'":

50) "Didn't Mean To Fall In Love": 

51) "You Gave Up On Love": 

52) Livin' For You" (Live)":

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(Finished March 14th, 2026) Part 11 of The 213 Greatest Songs of 1984 And Counting

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Since I've been sharing countdowns from 1984 and listening to all those great songs again, I thought I would post a series of blogs with the greatest songs of 1984.

Notable events of 1984 include the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Steve Jobs launches the Mac in a world of primitive PCs, this commercial:

"Purple Rain"- all that incredible music and a dopey movie- Geraldine Ferraro, Tetris, "Footloose", "Sixteen Candles" (which also means the lovely Molly Ringwald, "Ghostbusters", Eddie Murphy, the first MTV Video Music Awards, "Do They Know It's Christmas" and Marvin Gaye is killed.

Best movies of 1984 include those mentioned above, "The Terminator", "Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom", "Gremlins", "Beverly Hills Cop", "The Karate Kid", "1984" (of course), "Top Secret", "The Natural" (still a great movie), "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Splash".

171) Dio "Last In Line":

172) Murray Head "One Night In Bangkok":

173) Dio "Egypt (The Chains Are On)":

174) Sheena Easton "Sugar Walls":

175) Steve Perry "Foolish Heart":

176) Klymaxx "I Miss You":

177) Survivor "The Search Is Over":

178) Rush "Red Sector A":

179) The Thompson Twins "Doctor Doctor":

180) Depeche Mode "People Are People":

181) The Thompson Twins "The Gap":

182) Iron Maiden "Powerslave":

183) Billy Idol "Catch My Fall":

184) Roger Waters "5:01A.M. The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking":

185) INXS "Original Sin":

186) David Bowie "Blue Jean":

187) Klymaxx "Meeting In The Ladies Room":

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(Finished March 13th, 2026) Part 2 of Some of The Best Songs of 1961

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What were some of the best songs of 1961, here are some of my favorites.

18) Henry Mancini "Moon River":

19) The Tokens "The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)":

20) Ricky Nelson "Travelin' Man":

21) The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman":

22) Dave Brubeck "Take Five":

23) Bobby Vee "Take Good Care Of My Baby":

24) Connie Francis "Where The Boys Are":

25) Patsy Cline "I Fall To Pieces":

26) Gary U.S. Bonds "Quarter To Three":

27) Ernie K. Doe "Mother-In-Law":

28) Ferrante and Theme From "Exodus":

Released on the last day of 1960 and thus a big hit in 1961. 29) Ben E King "Spanish Harlem":

30) Leroy Van Dyke "Walk On By":

31) Neil Sedaka "Calendar Girl":

32) The Shirelles "Dedicated To The One I Love":

33) Sam Cooke "Cupid":

34) The Dovells "Bristol Stomp":

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(Finished March 8th, 2026) Part 2 of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, March 11th, 1989

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I really love reliving these charts from back in the day. Instead of picking and choosing the subjective best of these lists I'm going to break them down into two blogs and posts videos for all the songs. So many of these songs I know and love so much, but so many of these songs I've never heard of!!

All thanks to Billboard for all the great memories and song information.

15) Thrashing Doves "Angel Visit":

14) Edie Brickell & New Bohemians "Little Miss S.":

13) Julian Cope "5 O'Clock World":

12) The Fixx "Driven Out":

11) New Order "Fine Time":

10) Easterhouse "Come Out Fighting":

9) R.E.M. "Stand":

8) Cowboy Junkies "Sweet Jane":

7) Midge Ure "Dear God":

6) Fine Young Cannibals "She Drives Me Crazy":

5) Violent Femmes "Nightmares":

4) XTC "The Mayor of Simpleton":

3) Lou Reed "Dirty Boulevard":

2) Elvis Costello "Veronica":

1) The Replacements "I'll Be You":

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(Finished March 7th, 2026) Part 4 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. Just because a song is obscure doesn't mean it's not great. I only have great songs on my iPod.

52) JD McPherson "Nite Owls":

53) Trombone Shorty "Here Come The Girls":

54) Michael Penn "No Myth":

55) The B-52's "Strobe Light":

56) Baby Bee "High Heeled Leather Boots":

57) Royal Bliss "Burn It Down":

58) Aquabats "Martian Girl":

59) Green Day "21 Guns":

60) Lindsey Stirling featuring Elle King "The Upside":

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

62) Gary Clark Jr. "This Land":

63) Switchfoot "Ammunition":

62) Echosmith "Let's Love":

63) Shakey Graves featuring Esme Patterson "Dearly Departed":

The only reason I know about this song is because she opened for Wynonna and Little Big Town last year on tour. Obviously she's not the first person to sing this song, but I think her version is fantastic. Sadly she didn't sing this song at her concert. 64) Shelby Lynne "Don't Get Around Much Anymore":

Let's hope they perform this song on their upcoming tour, it's too bad Geddy Lee has lost his voice. 65) Rush "Red Barchetta":

66) Rob Thomas "Timeless":

67) Motor Gun Hotel "Leave It All Behind":

68) Sting "Rushing Water":

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