(Finished January 29th, 2021) Part 2 of The Best Exploding Eargasms, Songs 18-34

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18) Supertramp "Bloody Well Right":

19) Aerosmith "Dream On":

20) Weezer "Tired of Sex":

21) Live "Lightning Crashes":

22) Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You":

23a) Paul McCartney and Wings "Live and Let Die":

23b) Guns N' Roses "Live and Let Die":

24) Great White "Once Bitten, Twice Shy":

25) Candlebox "Far Behind":

26) Pulp "Common People":

27) Weezer "Say It Ain't So":

28) En Vogue "Hold On":

29) "Starla":

30) The Scorpions "Coming Home":

31) Evanescence "My Immortal":

32) Guns N' Roses "November Rain":

33) "The Day That Never Comes":

34) Ozzy Osborne "Diary of A Madman":

(Fiinished January 29th, 2021) The Best Exploding Eargasms

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These are the more of songs that start out slow and then explode. Some people call them eargasms. The first two songs are basically the patron saints of musical eargassms. 

1) Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight":

2) Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody":

3) The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again":

Led Zeppelin's best song, this entire song is an eargasm. 4) Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love":

5) The New Pornographers "The Bleeding Heart Show":

6) Ike and Tina Turner "Proud Mary":

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

8) Radiohead "Creep":

9) Alabama Shakes "Hold On":

10) The Foo Fighters "The Pretender":

11) Heart "Crazy On You":

12) Aztec Camera's "Jump":

13) Brandi Carlile "The Story":

14) Jethro Tull "Aqualung":

15) Pearl Jam singing the Mother Love Bone classic. "Chloe Dancer/ Crown of Thorns":

16) My Chemical Romance "Welcome To The Black Parade":

The newly revamped Fleetwood Mac 17) Fleetwood Mac "The Chain":

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(Finished January 28th, 2021) Part 1 of Exploring New Wave Obscurities Together, Songs 1-17

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I couldn't decide to focus on Greatest Duets of all-time or exploring new wave music. I've decided to go with New Wave music that I'm not familiar with (and maybe a few favorites), at least from the title. Let's see how this works out. For the foundation of these blogs I'm using songs from the "Just Can't Get Enough" 15 CD compilation of new wave classics.

Is this not the absolute definition of an obscurity, I had never heard of this song before. To be fair I don't know what radio station this would have been played on in the late 70s. In 2010 Roger Francois Jouret, aka Plastic Bertrand" was revealed to be having Milli Vanilli issues with his first 4 CDs. 

1) Plastic Bertrand "Ca plane pour moi":

2) The Normal "Warm Leatherette":

3) Flash and the Pan "Hey St. Peter":

4) D-Day "Too Young To Date":

5) Graham Parker "Local Girls":

6) Dave Edmunds "Girls Talk":

7) Tim Curry "I Do The Rock":

8) The Inmates "Dirty Water":

I was wondering if this was a cover of the classic Monkees/ Neil Diamond song. It is indeed!!

9) Tin Huey "I'm A Believer":

11) Suburban Lawns "Gidget Goes To Hell":

12) Ian Dury & The Blockheads "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick":

13) Human Sexual Response "What Does Sex Mean To Me?":

14) The Kingbees "My Mistake":

A very weird title for an offbeat song, but I like it. 15) Tonio K "The Funky Western Civilization":

16) The Beat "You Won't Be Happy":

I was fairly sure I knew this song, but I couldn't quite place the song. Then I heard the first few notes and instantly remembered it. 17) Split Enz "I Got You":

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(Finished February 15th, 2021) Part 1 of Selected Best Duets, Songs 1-17

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1) Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson "I Know Him So Well":

This is a crash course on how to sing a duet. 2) Pink and Nate Ruess "Just Give Me A Reason":

3) Peaches and Herb "Reunited":

4) Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson "Beauty and the Beast":

5) Dan Hill and Vonda Shepard "Can't We Try":

6) Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes "Up Where We Belong":

From "Les Miserables" 7) "Confrontation":

From "Evita": 8) Madonna and Jonathan Pryce "I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You":

From "Phantom of the Opera" 9) Sarah Brightman and Michael Ball "All I Ask Of You":

10) Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)":

11) Michael Jackson and Diana Ross "Ease On Down The Road":

12) Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta "You're The One I Want":

13) Prince and Sheena Easton "U Got The Look":

14) George Jones and Tammy Wynette "Golden Ring":

15) Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard "Pancho and Lefty":

16) Reba McEntire and Vince Gill "The Heart Won't Lie":

Do we really need last names for these two? 17) Waylon and Willie "Mamma's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys":

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(Finished January 26th, 2021) Part 4 of Best Songs About The Wistful Passage of Time, Part Songs 54-71

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54) Fleetwood Mac "Landslide":

55) The Outsiders "Time Won't Let Me":

56) Shenandoah "Mama Knows":

57) Sarah Brightman "Time To Say Goodbye":

You can't get too much of Mila Kunis. 58) Guns N' Roses "There Was A Time":

59) Survivor "The Search Is Over":

60) Toby Keith "How Do You Like Me Now":

61) Steely Dan "Deacon Blues":

62) Neil Young "Buffalo Springfield Again":

63) George Harrison "When We Was Fab":

64) Johnny Rivers "Memphis":

65) "Leaving On A Jet Plane":

66) Pink Floyd "When Tigers Break Free":

67) Rascal Flatts "These Days":

68) Frank Sinatra "My Way":

69) Mary Chapin Carpenter "He Thinks He'll Keep Her":

70) Little Texas "What Might Have Been":

71) Queen "Time Waits For No One":

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(Finished January 24th, 2021) The Best of 80s Ballads, Part 3: Songs 35-51

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I updated this blog and replaced a couple of expired links on September 4th, 2022.

"Cobra Kai" Season 3, episode 10 when Ali (the still beautiful Elisabeth Shue), Daniel and Johnny all get together and I had a complete surge of 80s nostalgia. Then Journey's classic "Faithfully" started playing and the feels took over. Here are a few of the likely hundreds of great 80s ballad. Long live the pop culture of the 80s.

35) Champaign "How 'Bout Us":

36) Boz Scaggs "Miss Sun":

\37) Don Williams "I Believe In You" :

38) Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "American Dream":

39) Elton John "Nikita":

40) Janet Jackson "Let's Wait Awhile":

41) Michael Jackson "Human Nature":

42) Journey "Who's Crying Now":

43) Irene Cara "Out Here On My Own":

44) John Anderson "1959":

45) Juice Newton "Angel of The Morning":

46) Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson "Friends and Lovers":

47) Kenny Rogers "Love The World Away":

48) Kool and the Gang "Cherish":

49) Little River Band "Cool Change":

50) Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard "Suddenly":

51) Cheap Trick "The Flame":

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(Finished January 23rd, 2021) The Best of 80s Ballads, Part 2: Songs 18-34

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"Cobra Kai" Season 3, episode 10 when Ali (the still beautiful Elisabeth Shue), Daniel and Johnny all get together and I had a complete surge of 80s nostalgia. Then Journey's classic "Faithfully" started playing and the feels took over. Here are a few of the likely hundreds of great 80s ballad. Long live the pop culture of the 80s.

18) Madonna "Promise To Try":

19) Madonna "Love Don't Live Here Anymore":

20) Madonna "Live To Tell":

21) Expose "Seasons Change":

22) The Jets "Make It Real":

23) Tiffany "All This Time":

24) Debbie Gibson "Foolish Beat":

25) Reba McEntire "Whoever's In New England":

26) Anita Baker "Caught Up In The Rapture":

27) Keith Whitley "When You Say Nothing At All":

28) Christopher Cross "Arthur's Theme (The Best You Can Do)":

29) Sheena Easton "For Your Eyes Only":

30) Sade "Smooth Operator":

I don't think I've ever done a duets blog, maybe I'll do some of those. Although not all duets are as great as this one. 31) Barbra Striesand and Barry Gibb "What Kind of Fool":

32) Chris Deburgh "Lady In Red":

33) Cinderella "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)":

34) Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band "Against The Wind":

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