There's just something so great about a pop song, here's 17 selections of something so great.
1) Madonna "Like A Virgin":
2) Cyndi Lauper "True Colors":
3) Lulu "To Sir, With Love":
4) C + C Music Factory "Here We Go, Let's Rock and Roll":
5) Chicago "You're The Inspiration":
6) Carole King "I Feel The Earth Move":
7) Martika "Martika's Kitchen":
8) Madonna "Vogue":
9) The Platters "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes":
Can country be pop? You bet!! 10) Carly Pearce "You Kissed Me First":
11) Lady Gaga "Babylon":
12) Abba "Give Me A Man After Midnight":
13) Taylor Dayne "I'll Be Your Shelter":
14) Milli Vanilli "Girl You Know It's True":
One of my all-time favorite lines in a pop song is "We don't have to be friends, we don't have to be enemies." 15) Miley Cyrus "Two More Lonely People":
That voice!! 16) James Ingram "Just Once":
17) Nancy Sinatra "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'":
Yesterday were the angry songs, today are the happy, love filled, positive, beautiful songs. The first two songs that came to me were both from movies. At first I wasn't going to go with just movie love songs, but then I decided well why not? Nearly all of these songs from this website:
42) Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson"All I Ask of You":
Lady Gaga's just newly released CD "Chromatica" has some good songs on it, but it's not as good as her past CDs. Although I'll give her a pass on that as her previous CDs are absolutely amazing. "Chromatica" is well worth your money.
Do not deny the talent of the Gaga, this is also from "A Star Is Born".
43) Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper "Shallow":
From "Tootsie" 44) Stephen Bishop "It Might Be You":
From "White Nights" 45) Lionel Richie "Say You, Say Me":
These next three songs are from "Grease". 46) Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta "You're The One That I Want":
47) John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John "Summer Nights":
48) Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta "We Go Together":
From "Urban Cowboy" 49) Kenny Rogers "Love The World Away":
From "To Sir, With Love" 50) Lulu "To Sir, With Love":
From "Casablanca" 51) Dooley Wilson "As Time Goes By":
52) Olivia Newton-John "Hopelessly Devoted To You":
53) Cher "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)":
54) Stevie Wonder "I Just Called To Say I Love You":
55) Psychedelic Furs "Pretty In Pink":
56) The Thompson Twins "If You Were Here":
57) Huey Lewis and the News "The Power of Love":
One of those songs I never get sick of. 58) Jackson Browne "Somebody's Baby":
59) Mike Reno and Ann Wilson "Almost Paradise":
From "A Star Is Born" 60) Lady Gaga "Always Remember Us This Way":
Today was George Floyd's memorial service, this blog is a tribute to him. I don't know what kind of person he was, so I don't know if he was a good guy or a bad guy. Frankly I don't care and I don't think that really matters. What matters is the fact that he was killed by a cop that kept his knee on Floyd's neck for 8:46. This blog isn't anti-cop, anti-protester (although I'm very much against looting) or anti-common sense or anti-government.
This blog is about equality for all. I have a serious case of white privilege, which means there are so many things I don't understand about the black experience in America. But I'm trying to be a little more woke everyday.
From the Politico.com article about Floyd's memorial service today:
"The family and friends of George Floyd, the unarmed black man killed while in custody of Minneapolis police last week, remembered him on Thursday as an inclusive, joyful and optimistic brother, cousin and uncle, as hundreds of others gathered to pay their respects following more than a week of mass unrest over his death."
This Pink Floyd song "Sorrow" lasts one more second than Floyd had the knee on his neck that ultimately killed him. Imagine having a knee on your neck for the length of this video 1) "Sorrow":
2) Pink Floyd "Shine On You Crazy Diamond":
3) Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here":
I used to not think this kind of thing was possible in America, now after 3.5 years of Trump I'm not so sure 4) "In The Flesh":
Are there any queers in the theater tonight Get 'em up against the wall (Against the wall) There's one in the spotlight He don't look right to me Get him up against the wall (Against the wall)
That one looks Jewish And that one's a coon Who let all of this riff raff into the room There's one smoking a joint and Another with spots If I had my way I'd have all of you shot
5) Public Enemy "Fight The Power":
6) Rage Against The Machine "Killing In The Name":
7) Rage Against The Machine "Bullet In The Head":
8) RATM "Know Your Enemy":
This is my favorite version of this black anthem. 9) Greta Van Fleet "A Change Is Gonna Come":
10) U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday":
11) Bob Marley "Get Up, Stand Up":
12) Artists Against Apartheid "Sun City":
From the amazingly powerful movie "Selma", this is 13) John Legend featuring Common's "Glory":
14) Cynthia Ervio "Stand Up":
15) Michael Jackson "They Don't Care About Us":
16) Michael Jackson "Heal The World":
17) Prophets of Rage "Hail To The Chief":
Great Songs by George's:
18) George Benson "On Broadway":
19) George Benson "Turn Your Love Around":
20) George Benson "This Masquerade":
21) George Michael "They Won't Go When I Go":
22) George Michael "Praying For Time":
23) George Strait "You Know Me Better Than That":
24) George Strait "The Chair":
25) Linkin Park "Faint":
26) Linkin Park "One Step Closer":
This is Prince's song about the death of a black man, Freddie Grey, by the cops.
27) Prince "Baltimore":
This review is my rebuttal to the many negative reviews I've read about this book. Initially the reviews I had read/heard about this book were very positive. I decided to start reading so I put it on hold at the library. Covid-19 came along which prevented me from reading this book for a couple of months. In that time I started seeing negative reviews about this book. Many of the negative reviews on amazon.com for "Station Eleven" are below. Here's a few of those comments and my response.
These are excerpts from amazon.com. "No heart", "no moral", "it drifts" and "This book makes you feel like you'll get to somewhere important. But you never do."
This book is completely full of heart, feeling, love and seeking a better life. I empathized with all of these characters. We can't help but empathize with the characters as they move from one world that has it's problems to the new world. A very small percentage actually survive to the new world. Life is even less important that it was previously. At only 333 pages and a lot of short chapters it doesn't have room to drift.
Another reviewer "This is the most disjointed piece of junk I have ever read". Also "You know a book is a slog when you'd rather do anything else than reading it".
It's not disjointed, the book does bounce around from character to character and time to time. That's true, but it's not hard to follow. Not only was I not looking for something else to do rather than reading this book, I actually was making time to read this book. I also battled the desire to finish the book asap and at the same time not wanting to finish it. I wanted to savor it as long as possible. Once I was done reading it I started rereading it. But the work pays off in many ways. Mandel's worlds still held their power and some of the details filled in some of the things that I had missed previously. Will this book make you work, oh yes it will. But it's so worth it and it forces it's way into your brain and makes you ponder every aspect of it.
"Long rambling narrative with a scattered plot line that doesn't deliver".
It's not a rambling narrative at all and the plot line does absolutely deliver.
This book is a pre, during and post-apocalyptic novel in the near future. This book was written before the current Covid-19 crisis, but it also tells about a serious flu that puts the world into complete flux. Although there are no zombies or vampires to be seen, the scariest beings are the people that are making their own way in the the new world. I finished this book today and I don't know why it has received such terrible reviews as above.
It's a very well written book- great story, great characters and a very satisfying ending. When I finished reading this book I just sat for a few minutes and savored the entire book. If I would've had Mandel's 2020 novel "The Glass Hotel" I would've started reading that right then.
The main groups of people in this novel are The Traveling Symphony, a combined symphony and performers that perform the plays of Shakespeare and play music. There's also the Prophet- think David Koresh mixed with Charles Manson- he's a man that actually believes his own bs. Not only that but he's a prophet at the end of the world who thinks he's destined to be a leader. There's also a group of people at the Severn City Airport- where some people go to stay and some go and leave. It's likely the most civil place in the new world
Also the title of and at the heart of this book is the graphic novel "Station Eleven", a graphic novel that takes a circuitous route almost as much as some of the characters. This graphic novel went from one person to another person to another person on it's own long journey.
This is a great book and I highly recommend it to people that love great fiction in general, apocalyptic fiction, character driven stories, stories that are very relevant to the world we live in now or someone that just wants to get lost in a well written novel. Reading and finishing this book gave me a reading high.
