Two different versions of the same amazing songs. 18) Frankie Valli "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You":
19) Lauryn Hill "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You":
20) The Fugees "Killing Me Softly":
21) for King and Country "God Only Knows":
22) The Beach Boys "God Only Knows":
23) John Legend "All Of Me":
24) Savage Garden "Truly Madly Deeply":
25) Jason Mraz "I Won't Give Up":
Yeah I have this song twice on these Glory of Falling In Love blogs, well falling in love is just that glorious. 26) Peter Cetera and Amy Grant "The Next Time I Fall":
27) Toto "I Won't Hold You Back":
28) Peabo Byrson "If Ever You're In My Arms Again":
29) Of Monsters and Men "Little Talks":
This is a bit of a stretch, but still a great love song. 30) Arcade Fire "Crown Of Love":
31) Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling":
32) American Authors "Best Day of My Life":
33) Norah Jones "Come Away With Me":
34) The Four Seasons "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)":
The beginnings of new love. The wonder, the feelings, the hopes, expectations and desires. The unknown, what can go wrong and what can go right. Some of the greatest songs of all-time are love songs, here's some of my favorites. I'm going to start with my favorite love song of all-time.
Does it even need an introduction? I doubt it, but I'm still going to introduce the Peter Cetera classic anyway: 1) "The Glory of Love":
2) UB40 "(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You":
3) Lord Huron "The Night We Met":
4) Christopher Cross "Arthur's Theme (The Best You Can Do)":
5) REO Speedwagon "I Can't Fight This Feeling":
6) Eric Carmen "Hungry Eyes":
7) The Revivalists "Wish I Knew You":
8) Jackson Browne "Somebody's Baby":
9) James Ingram "Just Once":
10) Jeffrey Osborne "On The Wings of Love":
11) James Ingram "One Hundred Ways":
12) George Benson's "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You":
13) Chicago "You're The Inspiration":
14) Chicago "Along Comes A Woman":
15) Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes":
16) Ed Sheeran "Galway Girl":
I've heard this song at least one million times and I still haven't become sick of it. It's just a great great song. 17) Ed Sheeran "The Shape Of You";
I saw Boz Scaggs and his very able band at Layton, Utah's Kenley Ampitheatre on September 5th, 2018. I googled around a bit, but I couldn't find any of the names of his band members. However he was accompanied by a lead guitarist, bass guitarist, a multi instrumental player, keyboards and vocals, bongos and vocals, a regular drummer and a bassist that was smiling the whole night. Also Boz Scaggs played guitar, including some great blues licks. We can't forget the guy who brought Boz his guitar between each song.
The setlist is below, he played a decent 17 song set, which lasted about 100 minutes. His set was missing some obvious gems (see below). They played some of his classics, songs he called his Hollywood songs. They also played some of his songs from his newest CD "Out of the Blues". He played a few songs from that CD, some of which are covers he played on this night.
I'm posting the best songs and live versions of his songs.
1) "Jojo":
2) "It's Over":
3) "Gone Baby Gone":
4) "Rock & Stick":
5) "Harbor Lights":
A cover of Bobby "Blue" Blands 6) "The Feeling Is Gone":
One of his better most recent songs. 7) "Radiator 110":
This song had more pizazz than expected in concert. 8) "Georgia":
This song was one of the most lethargic moments of the evening. Of all the amazing Neil Young songs, why did he cover this one? This is Young's 9) "On The Beach":
A cover of Fats Domino 10) "I'm Sick and Tired (Of Fooling Around With You":
11) I've Got Your Love (Love Love)":
12) "Look What You've Done That To Me":
I expected this song to have a bit more pizazz in concert. 13) "Lowdown":
14) "Lido Shuffle":
Encore:
15) "What Can I Say":
I loved their playing the blues, but a better songs could have been picked for that. 16) "Loan Me A Dime" was a sadly a long snooze:
A cover of Chuck Berry's 17) "You Never Can Tell":
Songs I wish Boz and his great band would have played:
A little bit less than a year ago I wrote a blog titled "A Random Blast of New Wave". I posted videos of several new wave classic songs. I thought it would be fun to revisit this blog topic. Some of you youngsters may be wondering what exactly is New Wave music? Also you might be wondering who were some of the biggest New Wave acts. New Wave music was mainly an early to mid-80's phenomena. This is a terrible generalization but new wave is essentially a combination of pop and punk. Basically it was any song outside the pop and rock mainstream.
According to Ranker.com these are the Ten Best New Wave Bands:
1) New Order
2) Talking Heads
3) Simple Minds
4) The Cure
5) Depeche Mode
6) The Police
7) The Cars
8) Duran Duran
9) Blondie
10) Echo and the Bunnymen
Wait I just realized The Smiths isn't in the top ten of the above list, that's just wrong, but one of their CDs in the #3 New Wave CD. Of course those come from two different sources. Then U2 doesn't have an entry in either Top Ten. They were one of the first big New Wave bands. And where in the heck is the Thompson Twins?
If I were to rank the above 10 bands, this is how I would rank them: 1) Duran Duran 2) The Police 3) Blondie 4) Depeche Mode 5) The Cars 6) The Talking Heads 7) Simple Minds 8) Echo & The Bunnymen 9) New Order 10) The Cure
Other listed New Wave Bands: Men At Work, The B-52's, Tears For Fears, INXS, and Pet Shop Boys. According to Paste Magazine these are the Top Ten Best New Wave CDs:
10) The Cure "Disintegration":
9) David Bowie "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps):
8) Echo & The Bunnymen "Ocean Rain":
7) XTC "Skylarking":
6) The Police "Synchronicity":
5) New Order "Power, Corruption & Lies":
4) Blondie "Parallel Lines":
3) The Smiths "The Queen Is Dead":
2) Talking Heads "Remain In Light":
1) Elvis Costello "My Aim Is True":
Those are some bands and CDs for those of you interested in doing more research.
Now here are some songs from bands not listed in the top ten New Wave bands or the top ten New Wave CDs:
Dexy's Midnight Runners "Come On Eileen":
The very first ever played on MTV, back when it was relevant, The Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star":
Fine Young Cannibals "She Drives Me Crazy":
The Human League "Don't You Want Me":
ABC "The Look of Love":
ABC "How To Be A Millionaire":
ABC "The Night You Murdered Love":
M "Pop Muzik":
Gary Numan "Cars":
The Thompson Twins "You Take Me Up":
Information Society "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)":
Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science":
Animotion "Obsession":
INXS "Need You Tonight":
Modern English "I Melt With You":
a-ha "Take On Me":
XTC
Midnight Oil
Berlin "The Metro":
Missing Persons "Words":
Nena "99 Luftballoons":
Tracey Ullman "They Don't Know About Us":
Hello, "Nobody puts Baby in the corner" is one of the most iconic lines of any movie. This is what Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) says to Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) when he pulls her away to dance with him. I thought Jerry Orbach was wasted in this movie. He's so good in "Law and Order", but it's always good to see him. I was kind of meh on the movie, but the soundtrack is amazing. I love the mix of great oldies and original songs. I hadn't really listened to it until I started working on this series of 80s countdown blogs. As I said I only post the songs I like from each of these greatest 80s soundtracks. This CD has 12 songs and I like all of them. My favorite songs are Patrick Swayze's "She's Like The Wind", Eric Carmen "Hungry Eyes" and to be honest so many other amazing songs.
The less said about the Black Eyed Peas cover, the better. This is the definitive version of that song. 1) Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life":
2) The Ronettes "Be My Baby":
3) Patrick Swayze (featuring Wendy Fraser) "She's Like The Wind":
4) Eric Carmen "Hungry Eyes":
5) Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs "Stay":
6) Merry Clayton "Yes":
7) The Blow Monkeys "You Don't Own Me":
8) Billak Massaingale "Hey! Baby". I couldn't find that version, so this is the Bruce Channel version:
9) Alfie Zappacosta "Overload":
I think these next two songs are the weakest songs on the soundtrack, but I still think they're good.
10) Mickie & Sylvia "Love Is Strange":
The next CD on my Top 16 greatest 80s soundtracks of all-time is Neil Diamond's "The Jazz Singer". I watched this movie a long time ago, but I don't remember much about it. This movie is known more for it's excellent soundtrack rather than the actual movie. "The Jazz Singer" contains 10 songs, including some of Diamonds best songs.
The film's reviews were negative, earning Diamond the first Razzie for Worst Actor at the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards, but made a modest profit at the box office, grossing almost double its budget. However, its soundtrack was a huge success and became Neil Diamond's biggest selling album in the United States, selling over 5 million copies there and reaching #3 on the pop albums chart. This would mark the second time a Neil Diamond soundtrack outperformed the movie it came from (after Jonathan Livingston Seagull). Three of the songs from the album became Top 10 pop singles, with "Love on the Rocks", "Hello Again" and "America" reaching #2, #6, and #8 respectively
I don't post all of the songs from each soundtrack, just the best songs from that soundtrack. Ten of this soundtrack's fourteen songs are worthy of the best songs designation. Enjoy.
