(Finished December 5th, 2021) Part 6 of Best Country Songs 2000-2010

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In honor of last night's pretty good Diamond Rio concert, I want to do a series of blogs of the best country songs from 2000-2010. I realize that's not the usual ten year timeframe that people usually use, but I'm feeling rebellious today. I started off with five songs from Diamond Rio and then shared many other songs from those eleven years. 

I also saw Little Big Town on September 10th and they put on one hell of a show. If you get a chance to go see Little Big Town do not miss them.

86) Brooks & Dunn "Only In America":

87) Little Big Town "Boondocks":

88) Lonestar "Not A Day Goes By":

89) Brooks & Dunn "You Can't Take Honky Tonk Out of The Girl":

90) Tim McGraw "Real Good Man/ "The Ride"":

91) Tim McGraw "Wind Blows By":

92) Rascal Flatts "These Days":

93) Faith Hill "Breathe":

94) Craig Morgan "That's What I Love About Sundays":

95) Mark Wills "19 Something":

96) Toby Keith "Country Comes To Town":

97) Steve Azar "I Don't Have To Be Me ('Til Monday)":

98) Cyndi Thompson "What I Really Meant To Say":

99) Chad Brock "Yes":

100) Dierks Bentley "How Am I Doin":

101) Taylor Swift "Picture To Burn":

102) Kenny Chesney "I Lost It":

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(Finished December 5th, 2021) Part 3 of Songs About Flirting/Crushes and Seduction

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The thrill of the chase and the fun of flirting and crushes. I haven't ever heard many of these songs so I grabbed a lot of these songs from this website: https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2013/08/a-73-song-playlist-for-having-a-crush/

In addition many of these songs comes from my musically obsessive mind.

I also selected a bunch of songs from this website: https://www.flavorwire.com/476570/the-50-greatest-crushsongsever#:~:text=The%2050%20Greatest%20Crush%20Songs%20Ever%20Weezer%20%E2%80%94,Wanna%20Be%20Your%20Lover%E2%80%9D%20%281979%29%20Yeah%20Yeah%20

35) Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes":

36) Cyndi Lauper "Time After Time":

37) Heart "Straight On":

38) Rod Stewart "Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)":

39) Taylor Swift "Our Song":

40) Fountains of Wayne featuring Sharon Van Etten "Hackensack":

41) Avril Lavigne "Things I'll Never Say":

42) Bridget Mendler "Ready or Not":

43) Paul McCartney and Wings "My Love":

44) The Emotions "The Best of My Love":

45) James Author "Can I Be Him":

46) Rod Stewart "Love Touch":

47) Lady A "Just A Kiss":

48) Colbie Caillat "Bubbly":

49) The Lumineers "Ophelia":

50) Sixpence None The Richer "Kiss Me":

51) The Academy Is "... About A Girl":

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(Finished December 4th, 2021) Part 2 of Songs About Flirting/Crushes and Seduction

Hello,

The thrill of the chase and the fun of flirting and crushes. I haven't ever heard many of these songs so I grabbed a lot of these songs from this website: https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2013/08/a-73-song-playlist-for-having-a-crush/

In addition many of these songs comes from my musically obsessive mind.

I also selected a bunch of songs from this website: https://www.flavorwire.com/476570/the-50-greatest-crushsongsever#:~:text=The%2050%20Greatest%20Crush%20Songs%20Ever%20Weezer%20%E2%80%94,Wanna%20Be%20Your%20Lover%E2%80%9D%20%281979%29%20Yeah%20Yeah%20

A beauty and a literal beast. 18) Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson "Beauty and the Beast":

19) Andy Williams "Moon River":

20) Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle "A Whole New World":

21) Keane "Somewhere Only We Know":

22) The Rolling Stones "Ruby Tuesday":

23) The Chordettes "Mr. Sandman":

24) James Taylor "Fire and Rain":

25) The Chiffons "One Fine Day":

26) Andy Williams  "Stranger On The Shore":

27) Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World":

28) The Dixie Cups "Chapel of Love":

29) Fats Domino "Blueberry Hill":

30) Bobby Darin "Dream Lover":

31) The Penguins "Earth Angel":

32) Frank Sinatra "I've Got You Under My Skin":

33) Frank Sinatra "Luck Be A Lady Tonight":

34) Dean Martin "That's Amore":

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(Started December 4th, 2020) B101's Top 500 Songs of the 80s, Part 19: Songs 159-143

 Hello,

Because I haven't taken on enough projects already I decided I'd start yet one more project. I Googled The Top Songs of the 80s and found a Billboard list, but I didn't want to pay for that. I'm sure that Billboard would call that proprietary information. Next I thought I could do my Top 100 80s songs on my iTunes, but that ended up being too much work. I continued Googling and stumbled across this B101 countdown- they're an 80s and More station out of Providence. Since I found this easily and there's no financial strings attached I'm hoping this isn't proprietary information. Thanks to B101.

There's a lot of great music here in 2021, but the music of the 80s was amazing!!

159) The Fixx "One Thing Leads To Another":

158) The Jets "Crush On You":

157) Billy Joel "You May Be Right":

156) Tom Petty "Free Fallin":

155) Open Your Heart

154) Cyndi Lauper "True Colors":

153) INXS "Need You Tonight":

152) Deniece Williams "Let's Hear It For The Boy":

151) Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Relax":

150) Journey "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)":

149) Michael Sembello "Maniac":

148) Journey "Any Way You Want It":

147) Sheila E "The Glamorous Life":

146) ZZ Top "Sharp Dressed Man":

145) Eddy Grant "Electric Avenue":

144) Madonna "La Isla Bonita":

143) Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science":

(Finished December 3rd, 2021) Part 10 of themusicaddict's Actual Greatest Songs Of All-Time (GSOAT)

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Another Greatest Songs of All-Time issued from on high by Rolling Stone magazine. I love that magazine and have been a subscriber since approximately the early 80s. I understand that a lot of people have different tastes in music. That's the best way it should be, but as with all opinions I have my own opinions. Just as fervently I agree with some of their choices I also disagree with some of their choices. Currently I'm working on my Top 100 Songs of All-Time and honorable mentions. There are just some songs that I can't not include in the Greatest Songs of All-Time. I started with 100 Greatest Songs of All-Time. That has now worked up to about 205 songs and will continue to rise. For this blog I'm going to focus on the actual Greatest Songs Of All Time, not the honorable mentions. These are songs that are ranked outside of my Top 100. 

These lists are very fluid. Most of these songs could have also been in my All-Time Top 100 if only I had thought of them earlier. There are probably about 500 to 700 songs that will always be in my GSOAT. Again these are GSOAT, just outside my Top 100 GSOAT.

254) Joan Osborne "One of Us":

255) Ray Parker Jr. "Ghostbusters":

256) Men At Work "Down Under":

You knew this song would make my greatest songs list. 257) Green Day "Whatsername":

258) Jan & Dean "Dead Man's Curve":

259) Pink Floyd "Learning To Fly":

260) The Tokens "The Lion Sleeps Tonight":

261) Meiko "Boys With Girlfriends":

262) Bell X1 "Eve, Apple of My Eye":

263) Van Halen "You and Your Blues":

264) Don Henley "The End of the Innocence":

265) Def Leppard "Women":

266) Brooks and Dunn "Red Dirt Road":

267) Belinda Carlisle "Heaven Is A Place On Earth":

268) The Rolling Stones "Start Me Up":

269) James Taylor "Fire and Rain":

270) David Bowie "Space Oddity":

271) Eddie Cochran "Summertime Blues":

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(Finished December 2nd, 2021) Part 9 of themusicaddict's Actual Greatest Songs Of All-Time (GSOAT)

Hello,

Another Greatest Songs of All-Time issued from on high by Rolling Stone magazine. I love that magazine and have been a subscriber since approximately the early 80s. I understand that a lot of people have different tastes in music. That's the best way it should be, but as with all opinions I have my own opinions. Just as fervently I agree with some of their choices I also disagree with some of their choices. Currently I'm working on my Top 100 Songs of All-Time and honorable mentions. There are just some songs that I can't not include in the Greatest Songs of All-Time. I started with 100 Greatest Songs of All-Time. That has now worked up to about 205 songs and will continue to rise. For this blog I'm going to focus on the actual Greatest Songs Of All Time, not the honorable mentions. These are songs that are ranked outside of my Top 100. 

These lists are very fluid. Most of these songs could have also been in my All-Time Top 100 if only I had thought of them earlier. There are probably about 500 to 700 songs that will always be in my GSOAT. Again these are GSOAT, just outside my Top 100 GSOAT.

237) Huey Lewis and The News "The Power of Love":

What a great song, although it has some terrible language. Although I do understand the point Clark is making here. 238) Gary Clark Jr. "This Land":

239) The Papas and The Mamas "California Dreamin":

240) Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild":

241) Buffalo Springfield "For What It's Worth":

242) Mr. Mister "Broken Wings":

243) Aerosmith "Livin' On The Edge":

244) The Police "King of Pain":

245) James Blunt "You're Beautiful":

246) Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit":

247) Chicago "Along Comes A Woman";

248) Everclear "Santa Monica":

249) Cher Lloyd "Want You Back":

250) Whitney Houston "Greatest Love Of All":

251) Alanis Morissette "Ironic":

252) Bruce Hornsby and the Range "The Way It Is":

253) Alabama "Old Flame":

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(Finished December 1st, 2021) Part 8 of themusicaddict's Actual Greatest Songs Of All-Time (GSOAT)

Hello,

Another Greatest Songs of All-Time issued from on high by Rolling Stone magazine. I love that magazine and have been a subscriber since approximately the early 80s. I understand that a lot of people have different tastes in music. That's the best way it should be, but as with all opinions I have my own opinions. Just as fervently I agree with some of their choices I also disagree with some of their choices. Currently I'm working on my Top 100 Songs of All-Time and honorable mentions. There are just some songs that I can't not include in the Greatest Songs of All-Time. I started with 100 Greatest Songs of All-Time. That has now worked up to about 205 songs and will continue to rise. For this blog I'm going to focus on the actual Greatest Songs Of All Time, not the honorable mentions. These are songs that are ranked outside of my Top 100. 

These lists are very fluid. Most of these songs could have also been in my All-Time Top 100 if only I had thought of them earlier. There are probably about 500 to 700 songs that will always be in my GSOAT. Again these are GSOAT, just outside my Top 100 GSOAT.

220) Cal Smith "Country Bumpkin":

221) Jimmy Dean "Big Bad John":

222) Fall Out Boy "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)":

223) Y & T "Summertime Girls":

224) Technotronic "Pump Up The Jam":

225) Adele "Rolling In The Deep":

226) Pearl Jam "Crazy Mary":

227) Shania Twain "Any Man of Mine":

228) John Williams "Star Wars Main Title":

229) First To Eleven "Over The Rainbow":

230) Dire Straits featuring Sting reprising his original vocal. "Money For Nothing":

231) 3 Doors Down "Kryptonite":

232) Tina Turner "What's Love Got To Do With It":

233) The Police "Wrapped Around Your Finger":

234) The Bangles "In Your Room":

235) Paul Hardcastle "19":

236) ELO "Don't Bring Me Down":

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