The best of 80s British music, soon getting to the song that's sweeping the world right now. That would be Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill". Thanks again to Ranker.com for this great idea. Now these are 80s musicians but songs are from their entire career. I will post as many or as few songs as I want for each band. For the purposes of this blog I will consider any band that had a hit or great song in the 80s a 80s band. Even if that band had their first hit in the 60s or 70s.
These next six songs are by 6) Bananarama. "Robert De Niro's Waiting":
"Venus":
"I Want You Back":
"I Heard A Rumor":
"Cruel Summer":
"Love In The First Degree":
The next couple of songs are by 7) Big Country. "Fields of Fire":
Big Country "In A Big Country":
The next 7 songs are by 8) David Bowie "Blue Jean":
"The Jean Genie":
David Bowie "Let's Dance":
"Modern Love":
Space Oddity":
"Suffragette City":
"Under Pressure":
The next 3 songs are by 9) Kate Bush "Running Up That Hill":
With Peter Gabriel, another Brit, singing "Don't Give Up":
Kate Bush is covering Elton John, another Brit, with "Rocket Man":
The best of 80s British music, soon getting to the song that's sweeping the world right now. Thanks again to Ranker.com for this great idea. Now these are 80s musicians but songs are from their entire career. I will post as many or as few songs as I want for each band.
1) These next seven songs are by ABC. "Be Near Me":
"How To Be A Millionaire":
ABC "The Look of Love":
"The Night You Murdered Love":
"Poison Arrow":
"Vanity Kills":
"When Smokey Sings":
2) Adam and the Ants "Stand and Deliver":
3) These next three videos are by Adam Ant. "Desperate But Not Serious":
Adam Ant "Goody Two Shoes":
"Strip":
4) Alphaville "Forever Young":
It's not many 80s videos that have over 1 billion YouTube views. These next three songs are by Rick Astley. 5) Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up":
The above lineup is coming to the Kenley Amphitheater in Layton, Utah Summer 2022. This is a place that I have seen many great concerts. Those acts include Night Ranger, Starship featuring Mickey Thomas, Boz Scaggs, Joan Osborne and a few others. This year I would like to see .38 Special, Sara Evans, Blue Oyster Cult and Kansas. Since I first started this series of blogs I've decided to also see Jocelyn and Chris, they are the entire focus of Part 1 of this blog series.
These next several songs are by Kansas:
24) "The Song The River Sang":
I love the billowing red hair in this video. 25) "Carry On Wayward Son":
26) "Point of Know Return":
27) "Play The Game Tonight":
28) "Fight Fire With Fire":
29) "The Absence of Presence":
"Hopelessly Human":
"Sparks of the Tempest":
"Nobody's Home":
4) Starship featuring Mickey Thomas:
Jefferson Starship "Jane":
Jefferson Starship "Stranger":
Just plain Starship, no airplanes or jeffersons to be found. "It's Not Enough":
Almost 105 million YouTube views. "We Built This City":
"Find Your Way Back":
"Layin' It On The Line":
"Sister Golden Hair" is one of the most sublime songs ever. However there's no way I'll pay $90 a ticket to go see America:
"Sister Golden Hair":
"You Can Do Magic":
A little less than a month until I get to see the lovely Miss Evans in concert, I am looking forward to it. In fact you could say I could not ask for more. Sara Evans:
"I Could Not Ask For More":
"A Real Fine Place To Start":
"No Place That Far";
"Suds In The Bucket":
"Born To Fly":
"Every Little Kiss":
"I Keep On Looking":
"Perfect":
Sara Evans with REO Speedwagon and her band "Take It On The Run":
The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 2010s songs in order of the way I thought of them. Once I hit 102 songs I will go and look at the 102 listed songs and see if there are any other songs that the 101st song might be better than. If so I will replace the previously listed song. That way I can stay at 100 songs and have truly the 100 greatest 2010s songs of all-time. This isn't a ranking by best songs, that's just too much work. As best as I can these are the 102 greatest 2010s songs.
I will also post other great 2010s songs by each band listed if motivated enough. As all of these artists are so much more than one of the 100 greatest songs of the 2010s. Yeah I'm going to try and do all the decades from the 1950s to now, some decades will be harder/easier than others. It's likely not all of these songs will still be around in the final edition of this decade's Top 102 Best Songs.
1) "Alexander Hamilton":
2) Halsey "Castle":
Over 5.7 billion YouTube views. 3) Ed Sheeran "Shape of You":
4) "A Thousand Years":
Over 4.6 billion YouTube listens. 5) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk":
Almost 430 million YouTube views. 6) The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey "Closer":
7) Cher Lloyd "Want U Back":
8) The Weeknd "Blinding Lights":
9) Grace "You Don't Own Me":
10) "No Roots":
Slightly over 2 billion YouTube views. 11) Adele "Rolling In The Deep":
12) Passenger "Let Her Go":
13) Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris "We Found Love":
Over 1.9 billion YouTube views. 14) Gotye featuring Kimbra "Somebody I Used To Know":
15) Alice Merton "Lash Out":
Over 761 million YouTube views. 16) Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera "Moves Like Jagger":
The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 90s songs in order of the way I thought of them. Once I hit 102 songs I will go and look at the 102 listed songs and see if there are any other songs that the 101st song might be better than. If so I will replace the previously listed song. That way I can stay at 100 songs and have truly the 100 greatest 1990s songs of all-time. This isn't a ranking by best songs, that's just too much work. As best as I can these are the 102 greatest 1990s songs.
I will also post other great 90s songs by each band listed if motivated enough. As all of these artists are so much more than one of the 100 greatest songs of the 1990s. Yeah I'm going to try and do all the decades from the 1950s to now, some decades will be harder/easier than others. It's likely not all of these songs will still be around in the final edition of this decade's Top 102 Best Songs.
I included Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" and M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" in with the best songs of the 80s. I won't be including those songs here.
Almost 74 million YouTube views. 52) Wilson Phillips "Hold On":
Over 1 billion YouTube views. 53) Aqua "Barbie Girl":
Above 675.5 million YouTube views. 54) Radiohead "Creep":
Over 920 million YouTube views. 55) "They Don't Care About Us":
Over 416 million YouTube views. 56) Lou Bega "Mambo No. 5":
Almost 184 million YouTube views. 57) Haddaway "What Is Love":
Just slightly over 3 million YouTube views. 58) Barenaked Ladies "It's All Been Done":
This video has only been up 3 months and it already has 3 million YouTube views.
59) Cher "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)":
60) The Smashing Pumpkins "Today":
Almost 9 million YouTube views. 61) Culture Beat "Mr. Vain":
Over 152 million YouTube views. 62) Montell Jordan "This Is How We Do It":
Almost 10.5 million YouTube views. 63) Stone Temple Pilots "Sex Type Thing":
Over 64 million YouTube views. 64) Creed "Higher":
Almost 200 million YouTube views. 65) Christina Aguilera "Genie In A Bottle":
Over 211 million YouTube views. 66) Meat Loaf "I'd Do Anything For Love":
Almost 287 million YouTube views. 67) Green Day "Basket Case":
Almost 200 million YouTube views. 68) Alanis Morissette "Ironic":
The way I'm doing this is I'm going to post the Top 102 greatest 2000s songs in order of the way I thought of them. Once I hit 102 songs I will go and look at the 102 listed songs and see if there are any other songs that the 101st song might be better than. If so I will replace the previously listed song. That way I can stay at 102 songs and have truly the 102 greatest 2000s songs of all-time. This isn't a ranking by best songs, that's just too much work. As best as I can these are the 102 greatest 2000s songs.
As all of these artists are so much more than one of the 102 greatest songs of the 2000s. Yeah I'm going to try and do all the decades from the 1950s to now, some decades will be harder/easier than others. Again not all of these songs will still be around in the final edition of this decade's Top 102 Best Songs. Let's see how these songs compare in terms of YouTube views.
Slowly but surely closing in on two million YouTube views. The official music video for this song has almost 108 million YouTube views. 18) Sara Bareilles "Love Song":
Just slightly over 19 million YouTube views. 19) Lady Gaga "Bad Romance":
You knew this one would be here, didn't you? One of my all-time favorite songs. This has almost three million YouTube views. I certainly exaggerating, but it feels like half of those listens are by me. 20) Green Day "Whatsername":
This video only has 140,000 views. How are not more people aware of one of the 100 best songs of the 2000s? 21) Annie "Me Plus One":
I had planned not to include country songs in this series of blogs. I was going to create a separate blog series for country songs, which I'm still going to do. But there are just songs that break out into greater consciousness that I feel I must include here. This video has almost 514 million YouTube views.
22) Lady A "Need You Now":
Almost 17.5 million YouTube views. 23) Incubus "Nice To Know You":
Slightly over 1 billion YouTube views. 24) Lady Gaga "Poker Face":
This video has 474 million YouTube views, slightly under half of the above song. 25) The White Stripes "Seven Nation Army":
Over 224 million YouTube views. 26) Creed "My Sacrifice":
Over 165 million YouTube views. 27) Paramore "CrushCrushCrush
Over 622 million YouTube views. 28) James Blunt "You're Beautiful":
Over 696 million YouTube views. 29) Outkast "Hey Ya":
Over 49.6 million YouTube views. 30) Arctic Monkeys "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor":
Almost 242 million YouTube views. 31) Paramore "Misery Business":
Almost 345,000 YouTube views. 32) Pink "Missundaztood":
33) Britney Spears "Toxic":
5.5 million YouTube views. 34) Garbage "Androgyny":
I started watching Amazon Prime's so very good (so far) Season 1 of "Reacher". Check it out. Anyway there's a scene where Reacher was dancing with his potential lady friend, Roscoe (yes, that's her name). Patsy Cline's "Crazy" inspired Roscoe to ask Reacher to dance. They went to the dance floor and that nearly perfect song matched the romantic moment perfectly. I was inspired to work on a series of classic ballads, starting with "Crazy".
186) Amy Grant "That's What Love Is For:
187) Patty Smyth featuring Don Henley "Sometimes Love Ain't Enough":
188) Alabama "Lady Down On Love":
189) Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band "Night Moves":
190) REO Speedwagon "Keep On Loving You":
191) Tiffany "All This Time":
192) Gregory Abbott "Shake You Down":
193) Peter Cetera and Cher "After All":
194) Peter Cetera and Amy Grant "Next Time I Fall":
