themusicaddict: 2026

Monday, February 23, 2026

(Finished February 23rd, 2026) Part 3 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.

35) Trombone Shorty featuring the amazing Lauren Daigle "What It Takes":

36) The Knack "Oh Tara":

37) Raye "Environmental Anxiety":

38) H.E.A.T. "One By One":

39) Against Me! "White Crosses":

40) Thundermother "Original Sin":

I'm afraid this song is obscure to most people and that's a shame. This is a great song by a Blues master. 41) Muddy Waters "Hoochie Coochie Man":

42) Collateral "Mr. Big Shot":

43) AC/DC "Shot In The Dark":

44) Squeeze "Hourglass":

45) Demi Lovato "Freak":

46) The Wonder Stuff "Give, Give, Give Me More More More":

47) Redlight King "Underground":

48) Parker Millsap "Hades Pleads":

49) CSS "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex":

50) Those Damn Crows "Go Get It":

51) Men of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir "The Morning Trumpet":

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Saturday, February 21, 2026

(Finished February 21st, 2026) Part 1 of The Greatest Albums of All-Time In Alphabetical Order

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This is the first of I don't know how blogs featuring the greatest albums of all-time. These are studio CDs, Broadway and movie soundtracks and anything else in that vein. I won't be including greatest hits or live CDs except for in an unusual situation. So far the only unusual situation I can think of is Bob Marley and the Wailers "Legend".

For most CDs I'll include every song. But for some CDs I'll not included spoken word or very brief tracks.

The first AC/DC album with Brian Johnson on vocals after the death of Bon Scott. "Back In Black" was released on November 5th, 1980.

1) "Hells Bells":

2) "Shoot To Thrill":

3) "What Do You For Money Honey":

AC/DC has never been known for their subtle lyrics. 4) "Givin The Dog A Bone":

AC/DC has never been known for their subtle lyrics, part 2. 5) "Let Me Put My Love Into You":

6) "Back In Black":

7) "You Shook Me All Night Long":

8) "Have A Drink On Me":

9) "Shake A Leg":

10) "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution":

This is the fourth CD by Adams, this CD was loaded with hits. Although he had many great songs before and after this CD "Reckless" is his peak. There's no shame in that. Bryan Adams "Reckless":

11) "One Night Love Affair":

12) "She's Only Happy When She's Dancin'":

13) "Run To You":

14) "Heaven":

15) "Somebody":

16) "Summer of '69":

17) "Kids Wanna Rock":

featuring Tina Turner 18) "It's Only Love":

19) "Long Gone":

20) "Ain't Gonna Cry":

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Friday, February 20, 2026

(Finished February 20th, 2026) Part 8 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.

120) Romeo Void "Never Say Never":

121) Berlin "No More Words":

122) Howard Jones "No One Is To Blame":

123) Oingo Boingo "Not My Slave":

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

125) Animotion "Obsession":

126) Yello "Oh Yeah":

127) The Talking Heads "Once In A Lifetime":

128) Murray Head "One Night in Bangkok"

129) The Fixx "One Things Leads To Another":

130) Blondie "One Way Or Another":

131) Oingo Boingo "Only A Lad":

132) The Motels "Only The Lonely":

133) Yaz "Only You":

134) The Human League "Open Your Heart":

135) The Pet Shop Boys "Opportunities (Let's Make A Lot of Money)":

136) Madness "Our House":

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Monday, February 16, 2026

(Finished February 16th, 2026) Part 2 of Selected Best Songs of 1975

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Let's go back and check on the best songs from 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20 and 10 years. Hey and maybe some of the best songs from 2025. 1955 was a hard year for me to find 17 songs for this blog. However 1965 was a much easier year for me to find a bunch of great songs. Then 1975 was even easier, some of the greatest songs of all-time.

18) Abba "Mamma Mia":

19) Glen Campbell "Rhinestone Cowboy":

20) Frankie Valli "My Eyes Adored You":

21) Bob Marley and the Wailers "No Woman, No Cry" (Live):

22) Earth, Wind and Fire "Shining Star":

23) David Bowie "Fame":

24) Bay City Rollers "Saturday Night":

25) Crystal Gayle "Wrong Road Again":

26) Styx "Lady":

27) Grand Funk Railroad "Bad Time":

28) Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds "Fallin' In Love":

29) Head East "Never Been Any Reason":

30) Bachman-Turner Overdrive "Hey You":

31) Loretta Lynn "The Pill":

32) Aerosmith "Sweet Emotion":

33) Average White Band "Cut The Cake":

34) Billie Jo Spears "Blanket On The Ground":

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Sunday, February 15, 2026

(Finished February 15th, 2026) Part 3 of My Top 51 Most Played Songs of the 70s On My iTunes

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These are my 17 most played 70s songs. That's except for "What Is And What Should Never Be" from the "BBC Sessions". The show was recorded in the early 70s, but it wasn't released until 1997. Other than the Dolly Parton song, most of these songs are rock songs. I'm surprised my most played Disco song isn't until number 19. The 70s were such a rich amd amazing time for music.

Again these aren't my favorite 70s songs, they're the most played 70s songs on my iTunes.

17) Led Zeppelin "Fool In The Rain":

16) Foreigner "Double Vision":

From "How The West Was Won" 15) Led Zeppelin "Immigrant Song":

From "BBC Sessions" 14) Led Zeppelin "What Is And What Should Never Be":

13) ELO "Last Train To London":

12) Boston "Peace of Mind":

11) Supertramp "Breakfast In America":

10) The Temptations "Ball of Confusion":

If you've never heard this song before, prepare to have your heart broken. 9) Dolly Parton "Me and Little Andy":

8) America "Sister Golden Hair":

Guess what my all-time favorite movie is? 7) John Williams "Main Title/ Rebel Blockade Runner":

6) AC/DC "TNT":

5) Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "Ohio":

4) The Commodores "Brick House":

3) April Wine "Roller":

2) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Don't Do Me Like That":

If you haven't guessed what my all-time favorite movie is, here's another hint. 1) John Williams Main Title from "Star Wars":

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Saturday, February 14, 2026

(Finished February 14th, 2026) Part 2 of My Top 51 Most Played Songs of the 70s On My iTunes

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Again these aren't my favorite 70s songs, they're the most played 70s songs on my iTunes.

34) The Eagles "Heartache Tonight":

33) Paul Revere and The Raiders "Indian Reservation":

32) Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody":

31) Neil Diamond "Cracklin' Rosie":

30) Led Zeppelin "Over The Hills and Far Away":

29) Kenny Loggins "This Is It":

28) The Clash "Train In Vain":

27) Queen "Killer Queen":

26) The Clash "I Fought The Law":

25) Bad Company "Bad Company":

24) AC/DC "Girls Got Rhythm":

23) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Refugee":

22) The Four Seasons "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)":

21) Frankie Valli "Grease":

20) Chicago "Alive Again":

19) The Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive":

18) Waylon Jennings "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way":

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Friday, February 13, 2026

(Finished February 13th, 2026) Part 2 of The Best Pop Songs: Not Necessarily Pop But Popular (Overall Or At Least To Someone)

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Pop songs, but more popular than pop. Yeah, I don't know what means either. This blog could also be songs I really like.

18) Lou Bega "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of..)":

19) Semisonic "Closing Time":

20) Snap! "The Power":

21) Natalie Merchant "Carnival":

22) C + C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)":

23) "Good Vibrations":

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

25) Heavy D and the Boyz "Now That We Found Love":

26) Trombone Shorty "Here Come The Girls":

27) The Brian Setzer Orchestra "Jump, Jive and Wail":

28) Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians "What I Am":

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

30) Shawn Colvin "Sunny Came Home":

31) Peter Gabriel "Digging In The Dirt":

32) Scorpions "Tease Me, Please Me":

33) Poison "Unskinny Bop":

34) R.E.M. "Losing My Religion":

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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

(Finished February 11th, 2026) My Most Played R.E.M. Songs

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R.E.M. was Bill Berry, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Michael Stipe. They sold over 90 million CDs in their career, which ran from 1980-2011. R.E.M. is one of those bands that say they'll never reunite. For a lot of bands I don't believe that. However for R.E.M. I very much believe that. Thanks gentleman for many great years of music.

I'm going to put these songs in order of how they are listed on my iTunes in ranks of plays.

1) "Orange Crush" has 57 listens:

2) "Pop Song '89" has 54 listens:

Yes, two of the three most played R.E.M. songs on my iTunes is this song. Can you tell I like it. This song has 34 listens. 3) "Orange Crush":

These next two songs have 29 listens. 4) "Mine Smell Like Honey":

5) "Finest Worksong":

These next two songs have 27 listens. 6) "Drive":

7) "It's The End of The World (And I Feel Fine)":

8) "What's The Frequency Kenneth" has 23 listens:

9) "Losing My Religion" has 21 listens:

10) "King of Comedy" has 20 listens":

Both of these songs have 19 listens. 11) "Everybody Hurts":

12) "Electrolite":

These two songs have 18 listens. 13) "Don't Go Back To Rockville":

featuring Patti Smith 14) "E-Bow The Letter":

15) "Bang and Blame" has 17 listens":

16) "Stand" has 17 listens:

This song has 12 listens. 17) "Fall On Me":

Both of these have 12 listens. 18) "Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight":

19) "Fall On Me":

This song has 10 listens. 20) "Drive":

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Sunday, February 8, 2026

(Finished February 8th, 2026) Part 6 of The Best Love Songs

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These are some of the best love songs of all-time. The good, the bad, the sad, the happy, the up, the down, the fun, the brutal, the sexy and the oh my that's not sexy at all. This is inspired by a NPR story about love songs. And yes I know that this blog series could literally turn into hundreds of blogs.

86) Tiffany "All This Time":

87) The Carpenters "Superstar":

88) Steve Winwood "Valerie":

89) Material Issue "Valerie Loves Me":

A complete combination of beauty and that voice! Too bad she also had some pretty severe personal demons. 90) Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You":

91) Wilson Phillips "Next To You (Someday I'll Be)":

92) Wang Chung "Hypnotize Me":

93) The Heights "How Do You Talk To An Angel":

All I can say after watching this video is "WOW". 94) Renee Elise Goldsberry, Lin Manuel-Miranda and Phillipa Soo "It's Quiet Uptown":

95) Shaggy featuring Rayvon "Angel":

This is such a beautiful song. 96) Peter Cetera and Amy Grant "Next Time I Fall":

97) Robert Palmer "Simply Irresistible":

98) Atlantic Starr "Always":

99) Klymaxx "I Miss You":

100) Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson "Think of Me":

101) The Andrews Sisters "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree":

102) The Counting Crows "A Long December":

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Friday, February 6, 2026

(Finished February 6th, 2026) Part 6 of The Top 100ish Pop Punk Songs

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I'm posting the greatest Pop Punk songs of all-time. We'll see how that goes, it ended up not going far enough. I will make the time to post as many of the best Pop Punk songs ever. What is Pop Punk? It's a genre of music that joins both the best of pop and punk in the same song. In other words its poppy songs that rock. At least that's my definition. People are going to disagree with my definition of Pop Punk and that's perfectly fine. Either enjoy this blog, make your own blog or do both.

I'm a long time fan of Pop Punk music.

86) Meet Me @ The Altar "Wake Up":

87) Rooney "Sorry Sorry":

88) Weezer "Buddy Holly":

89) Angels and Airwaves "Some Origins of Fire":

90) SR-71 "Empty Spaces":

91) My Chemical Romance "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)":

92) Blink-182 "Dammit":

93) Fall Out Boy "Phoenix":

94) Green Day "Jesus Of Suburbia":

95) Paramore "Born For This":

96) Demi Lovato "Cool For The Summer":

97) The Rentals "Friends of P":

98) Tacocat "Spring Break Up":

A very serious song for a genre not known for serious songs. 99) Blink-182 "Adam's Song":

100) Fall Out Boy "My Songs Know What You Did (Light 'Em Up)":

101) Olivia Rodrigo "good 4 u":

102) Paramore "Miracle":

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Monday, February 2, 2026

(Finished February 2nd, 2026) Part 6 of Fun and Joyous Songs of the 80s

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When I'm just watching TV, watching a show set in space in the 23rd century I don't think I'm about to hear a song from the 80s. That would be the 1980s. Out of nowhere comes Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go". But sure enough there it was and I was reminded of the universality of 80s music. Even when I try I can't escape it. Here are some great and fun songs from the 80s.

This show was Season 3, episode 2 "Wedding Bell Blues" and I hate to say how boring that episode was. Also the end of the episode suggested what the next episode would be about. I have no desire to see that episode. I've pretty much given up on that show.

There are so few sci-fi shows that are great. So far I've been enjoying the bizarre "Pluribus". It's bizarre in a very entertaining way though. I also have been enjoying "Welcome To Derry". I need a good show to watch with about 50 episodes I can just watch without spending time looking for something to watch.

86) Yes "It Can Happen":

87) ABC "Vanity Kills":

88) Traveling Wilburys "End of The Line":

What a talented and beautiful woman. 89) Belinda Carlisle "Leave A Light On":

90) The Cars "Since You're Gone":

91) The Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls":

92) Debbie Gibson "Electric Blue":

93) Paul McCartney "Spies Like Us":

94) The Steve Miller Band "Abracadabra":

95) Q Feel "Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)":

96) Motley Crue "Live Wire":

97) Def Leppard "Excitable":

98) The Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way":

99) Billy Joel "Sleeping With The Television On":

100) Michael Jackson "Girlfriend":

101) Bon Jovi "Runaway":

102) XTC "Senses Working Overtime":

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Sunday, February 1, 2026

(Finished February 1st, 2026) Part 8 of The Best Songs About Places or Locations: Songs 120-136

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These are songs about places and locations, even if the title has nothing to do with the place mentioned. Real places, literary places and fantasy places.

If you're wondering, yes I'm still completing a lot of old blogs.

120) Live "Shit Towne":

121) The Pretenders "Middle of the Road":

122) U2 "Red Hill Mining Town":

123) U2 "Van Diemen's Land":

124) Midnight Oil "Stars of Warburton":

125) Jan and Dean "Dead Man's Curve":

126) Fergie "London Bridge (Oh Snap)":

127) Billy Joel "Vienna":

From "Hamilton" 128) "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)":

129) Creedence Clearwater Revival "Lodi":

130) Martika "I Feel The Earth Move":

131) Green Day "Last Night On Earth":

132) Simon and Garfunkel "America":

133) Midnight Oil "Kosciusko":

134) The Wallflowers "Letters From The Wasteland":

135) The Wallflowers "Here In Pleasantville":

136) Oak Ridge Boys "American Made":

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Saturday, January 31, 2026

(Started January 31st, 2026) Rage Against The Machine Is The Band We Need Now

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With the disastrous Trump regime terrorizing America the band we need right now is the angry and butt kicking Rage Against The Machine. Here are some of their best songs and other great protest songs. Resist now and until the regime is no longer. Most people would probably assume from looking at me that I'm MAGA. But my Mom taught me better than that and I'm as far from being MAGA as one can be.

I'm sending my RATM floodlight into the sky for them to write new material about these scary times we live in.

1) Rage Against The Machine "Bombtrack":

2) Rage Against The Machine "Testify":

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

"American Idiot" is truly one of the greatest CDs ever made. 4) Green Day "American Idiot":

5) Rage Against The Machine "Take The Power Back":

6) Green Day "The American Dream Is Killing Me":

7) Rage Against The Machine "Settle For Nothing":

This song played on my morning walk and I thought these lyrics were spot on for the times we live in now. 8) Creed "One":

"I feel angry, I feel helpless

Want to change the world, yeah

I feel violent, I feel alone

Don't try and change my mind, no"

9) Rage Against The Machine "Bullet In The Head":

10) Judas Priest "You've Got Another Thing Coming":

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

12) Queensryche "Empire":

With them wanting to have 1.5 trillion for the defense budget, can you imagine what the numbers are for their other government programs. None of my money should go to ICE. 13) Rage Against The Machine "Wake Up":

14) Queensryche "Spreading The Disease":

15) Rage Against The Machine "Fistful of Steel":

16) Bruce Springsteen "Death To My Hometown":

17) Rage Against The Machine "Township Rebellion":

From "Les Mis" 18) "Do You Hear The People Sing":

19) Rage Against The Machine "Freedom":

20) Queensryche "Suite Sister Mary":

21) Rage Against The Machine "Calm Like A Bomb":

22) Bruce Springsteen "Streets of Minneapolis":

I have included this song twice intentionally, this may be the most necessary song for these times. 23) Rage Against The Machine "Killing In The Name":

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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

(Finished January 28th, 2026) I Agree With The Boss!!

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I agree with the Boss 100% on this subject. Why is the DHS/ ICE surging in Minnesota when there's roughly 23 times more illegal immigrants in Texas?

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

(Finished January 27th, 2026) Part 4 of The 50s and 60s: Two, Three or More of the Best Songs From Each Year

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Let's go back to the 50s and 60s. I'll share two, three or more of the best songs from every year of every decade. That will go all the way to 2026. Billboard started keeping track of this in 1946 and that's the year I started with.

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52) Johnny Horton "The Battle of New Orleans":

53) Lloyd Price "Personality":

54) Bobby Darin "Dream Lover":

If this isn't the greatest song of all-time I don't know what would be. Thanks to the 80's movie "Always" reminding me of this song's existence. 55) The Platters "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes":