themusicaddict's Top 106 Greatest 80's Bands Addendum, Fleetwood Mac: Their Best 80's Era Songs Part 1: #36-#27 (Finished June 18th, 2017)

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Both Fleetwood Mac and myself were born 50 years ago this year. Although technically Fleetwood Mac doesn't turn 50 until July, 2017. Fleetwood Mac has sold over 100 million CDs and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

This is another band that should have made my Top 80's Era bands of all-time. But again they are one of those bands that I mostly considered a 70's band. When I get done with this blog series, I'm going to go back and rerank all these bands and I'm guessing Fleetwood Mac will be in the Top 50. But the 80's era covers from 1977 to 1993. For Fleetwood Mac that was huge as that means their classic 1977 CD is included, "Rumors". It's one of the best CDs of all-time and it's the ultimate divorce/ break up CD. It's a CD that I've specifically written about previously. Every time I listen to it I remember just how great of a CD it is. This blog comprises from 1977 "Rumors" to 1990's "Behind The Mask" plus 5 singles that were released in that time frame.

When most people think of Fleetwood Mac, this is the members they most think of. Many of the main members have stepped away from the band only to come back. The band even completely broke up from 1995 to 1997, although they continued to work together individually.

• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion (1967–1995, 1997–present)
• John McVie – bass guitar (1967–95, 1997–present)
• Christine McVie – keyboards, vocals (1970–1995, 1997–1998, 2014–present)
• Lindsey Buckingham – guitars, vocals, keyboards (1974–1987, 1993, 1997–present)
• Stevie Nicks – vocals, tambourine (1974–1991, 1993, 1997–present)

Although those are the main and longest serving members of the band, there have been some other notable members. Peter Green was one of the man people behind the start of the band, he was in the band from the beginning to 1971. Also Jeremy Spencer was in the band the same timeframe. Bob Brunning was also at the beginning, but he was mainly a placeholder until John McVie joined. When Lindsey Buckingham left the band before the making of "Behind The Mask", Billy Burnette and Rick Vito joined the Mac to help make that record. Buckingham does receive a credit on "Mask", as he played the acoustic guitar on the title track. 

Most of the members have released solo music as well, of course Miss Nicks has been the most successful of all the solo acts. She is my 69th Greatest 80's Musician of All-Time. However Lindsey Buckingham had one of the quirkier pop hits ever in "Go Insane". 

Although the band hasn't released new music since 2003's "Say You Will", the band continues to tour. On June 9th Buckingham and Christine McVie released the wordy titled "Lindsey Buckingham/ Christine McVie". It was suppose to be a Fleetwood Mac CD, but those two went ahead and released it due to Nicks' focus on her solo career. Miss Nicks recently stopped here in Salt Lake on her current tour. (Thanks to Wikipedia.org for the biographical info.)

36) "As Long As You Follow":

35) "Never Going Back Again":

34) "Love Shines":

33) "When It Comes To Love":



32) "Paper Doll":



31) "Eyes of The World":



30) "Caroline":



29) "Sisters of the Moon":



I like all the singers of Fleetwood Mac, but Stevie Nicks has one of the most amazing voices of all-time. 28) "Freedom":



27) "Not That Funny":

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themusicaddict's Top 106 Greatest 80's Bands #36 Hall & Oates: Their Best 80's Era Songs Part 3: #10-#1 (Finished June 11th, 2017)

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The Top Ten 80's Era Songs of Hall and Oates:

10) "Out of Touch":

9 ) "Say It Isn't So":

8 ) "Method of Modern Love":

A remake of the Righteous Brothers classic 7) "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling":

6 ) "Maneater":

5 ) "Kiss On My List":

 4 ) "You Make My Dreams Come True":



3) "Family Man":



2 ) "Adult Education":

1) "Private Eyes":

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The Best of Neil Diamond's Career

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I have the great opportunity to go see Jack Wright Monday night, for those of you who don't know Wright is a Neil Diamond Tribute Act. Here's a Jack Wright performance followed by the best of Neil Diamond over his long, illustrious career. This blog is a celebration of Diamond's long career. In terms of the 80's era Diamond is #86.

Jack Wright Sampler of Neil Diamond songs:

"Sweet Caroline":

"Cracklin' Rosie":

"I Am...I Said":

"Song Sung Blue":

"Shilo";

"America":

"Play Me":

"Soolaimon":

"Holly Holy":

"Hello Again":

"Cherry Cherry":

"Love On The Rocks":

"Heartlight":

"Longfellow Serenade":

"Forever In Blue Jeans":

"September Morn":

"If You Know What I Mean":

"Solitary Man":

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themusicaddict's Review of Modest Mouse in Salt Lake City, June 5th, 2017 (Finished June 11th, 2017)

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On Monday June 5th, 2017 I went with my rock concert girlfriend to see Modest Mouse and Morning Teleportation at The Complex in Salt Lake City. This is my review for the Morning Teleportation portion of the concert. Since I'm unfamiliar with with Morning Teleportation I don't know the name of the songs they played.

Morning Teleportation features two guitarists, one of the guitarists doing the singing, a drummer, a keyboardist and a beaver? The keyboardist had a beaver stuffed animal sitting on his set. They played 8 songs, which was about 5 songs too long. They had some good moments, but not enough. Forty five minutes was just two long for them to play. They also suffered one of the same things that hindered Modest Mouse, a lot of random noises in their songs and songs just ending. All the bizarre random noises were also irritating to the ear.

I would describe their music as a combination of Syd Barrett early Pink Floyd, Fiery Furnaces and some Modest Mouse flourishes thrown in. Morning Teleportation is a long way from being a headliner. No shame there, just keep on working. Keep on expanding your sound and make your music more accessible. Here's a couple of songs from Morning Teleportation, I believe this is the first song they played Monday night, "Expanding Anyway":

"Re-wiring Easily":

Following their set was some of the worst in between sets music I've ever heard. 

After about a half-hour of standing on the hard concrete in the midst of sweaty youngsters Modest Mouse finally took the stage at 9:15, taking to the stage to the sound of buzzing. Modest Mouse isn't a conventional band. At least on record this quirkiness works for them. They have a lot of good songs and I had spent a lot of time getting more familiar with their catalog. Despite that I didn't many of their songs. Looking at the list below the only songs I recognize without hearing them are 4, 7, 8, 10, 19 and 20.

1) "3rd Planet":

2) "The Tortoise and the Tourist":

3) "Never Ending Math Equation":

4) "Dashboard": (Oh good a song I've finally heard of!)

5) "Dramamine":

6) "Gravity Rides Everything":

7) "Bukowski":

8) "Satin In A Coffin" (One of the few highlights of the night.)

9) "Trailer Trash":

10) "Wicked Campaign":

11) "Lampshades On Fire":

12) "Fly Trapped In A Jar":

13) "The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box":

14) "Custom Concern":

15) "A Different City":

Encore, the encore break was at least 10 minutes- which is just unneeded. That same buzzing sound that started the show was going on through the entire encore break.

16) "Parting of The Sensory":

17) "Tiny Cities Made of Ashes":

18) "Dark Center of the Universe":

19) "Blame It On Tetons":

20) "The Good Times Are Killing Me" (I like this song, but their arrangement was terrible.)

Modest Mouse was one of the worst concerts I've ever seen. They played too many songs that I didn't know. The reason why I didn't know most of those songs is because they weren't very good. A lot of times it was two or three boring songs in a row. For the most part the arrangements weren't  good, songs just stop unpredictably, there's little coherence in the setlist. When Isaac Brock spoke he was weird and what he was saying wasn't intelligible. When a performer says "we're not done yet" and one is less than happy about that, that gives you an idea of this concert. Standing the whole concert on a hard cement floor also doesn't add to a concert.

I wish they would've closed the set by not playing those first two songs- we had enough boring, lesser known songs by that point. Then I would suggest play the good arrangements of "Tetons", "Good Times" and the song everyone was waiting for "Float On". Honestly this encore was boring, none of these songs came off particularly memorably. I probably would have left earlier if I had known they weren't going to play "Float On". And if I'd known how much of a disappointing concert it would've been, obviously I wouldn't have gone.

The die hard Modest Mouse fan was probably pretty happy at their bizarre setlist, but for the average fan it was disappointing. If you were to ask me I would let you know there's no point seeing Modest Mouse in concert. There were very, very few highlights on a night of several disappointments.

Next concert: Seeing Jack Wright, the Neil Diamond tribute act, on June 12th. Although a tribute act that should be a lot better. I'll be able to sit, I'm familiar with the songs and hope for a great evening.

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themusicaddict's Best of Avenged Sevenfold (From thetoptens.com) + Selected Songs from "The Stage" (Finished June 10th, 2017)

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1) "The Afterlife":

My personal favorite Avenged Sevenfold song!! 2) "Nightmare":

3) "A Little Piece of Heaven":

4) "Bat Country":

5) "So Far Away":

6) "Beast and the Harlot":

7) "Seize The Day":

8) "Critical Acclaim":

9) "Almost Easy":

10) "Unholy Confessions":

Selected Songs From "The Stage", their latest CD:

"The Stage":

"Paradigm":

"Angels":

"Simulation":

"Fermi Paradox":

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themusicaddict's Top 106 Greatest 80's Bands #36 Hall & Oates: Their Best 80's Era Songs Part 2: #19-#11 (Finished June 9th, 2017)

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19) "Open All Night":

18) "Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid":

17) "Everything Your Heart Desires":

16) "One On One"

15) "Mano A Mano":



14) "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)":



13) "Wait For Me":



12) "So Close":



11) "Did It In A Minute":

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themusicaddict's Top 106 Greatest 80's Bands #38 Oingo Boingo: Their Best 80's Era Songs Part 2: #19-#11 (Finished June 3rd, 2017)

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10) "Flesh N' Blood":

9) "Just Another Day":

8) "Sweat":

These are 5 of Oingo Boingo's Top 7 songs, they're all nearly equally amazing songs. The difference between 1 and 7 isn't that much thus I pondered the final rankings through the night.

7) "No Spill Blood":

6) "Wild Sex (In The Working Class)":



5) "Not My Slave"

4) "Who Do You Want To Be Today":

3) "Only A Lad":

2) "Stay":

1) "Weird Science":

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