In honor of seeing Strangelove: The Depeche Mode Experience and Electric Duke- a David Bowie cover band here are my 17 most played songs by Depeche Mode. If a song is in my Top 17 twice I only included it once. This list goes from the 17th most played song to the most played song.
17) "Pimpf":
16) "Barrel of A Gun":
15) "Just Can't Get Enough":
14) "Blasphemous Rumors":
13) "Behind The Wheel":
12) "Personal Jesus":
11) "Everything Counts":
10) "Never Let Me Down":
9) "A Question of Lust":
8) "Policy of Truth":
7) "Master and Servant":
6) "Enjoy The Silence":
5) "It's No Good":
4) "A Question of Time":
3) "People are People":
2) "Strangelove":
1) "A Pain That I'm Used To":
Bonus songs are other songs that Strangelove played last night, "Halo":
"Behind The Wheel":
"But Not Tonight":
It's so goooooood a second version would be acceptable:
This is the first blog of this series I've done in over two years.
I have labeled some of these songs as best of the best, the 90s was a tremendous decade for country music. As usual I don't just post the hits, I post the best country songs of that decade.
RollingStone.com has a big article about Generation Z is loving 90s country. Here's the article : https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/nineties-country-blowing-gen-z-142735025.html
From the article:
But the Nineties country resurgence isn’t limited to Spotify. Apple Music, Amazon Music and Pandora have all realized the demand for the subgenre and curated their own Nineties country playlists. Today’s Nashville stars have taken note as well: For the past few years, artists like Luke Combs, Jon Pardi, Carly Pearce, Hailey Whitters, and Midland have been mining the sound, songwriting, and even style of the decade to great success. Blake Shelton based his entire Friends and Heroes Tour around celebrating veterans like John Anderson and Tracy Byrd. And when Joe Diffie, a Nineties icon with hits like “John Deere Greene” and “Pickup Man,” died in March 2020 from Covid-19, our remembrance of Diffie was one of Rolling Stone’s most-read stories ever.
Just an amazing song. The lyrics are great, the music is great and Natalie Maines mournful vocals win the day. This could be as close as one gets to a perfect song. Easily one of the best of the best. 153) The Chicks "You Were Mine";
This is one of those songs that slips through the cracks, but every time I hear it I love it. Best of the best. 154) John Conlee "She Can't Say That Anymore":
155) Eddie Rabbit "You and I":
Best of the best. 156) Patty Loveless "I'm That Kind of Girl":
157) Toby Keith "Should've Been A Cowboy":
158) Restless Heart "Let The Heartache Ride Tonight":
159) John Michael Montgomery "I Swear":
This may or may not be my favorite Garth song, I love the lyrics so much. Best of the best. 160) Garth Brooks "Unanswered Prayers":
Best of the best. 161) Ricky Van Shelton "Somebody Lied":
162) John Michael Montgomery "I Can Love You Like That":
I'm working on a series of blogs trying to figure out which year was the best year for hair metal between 1983-1992. To complete those blogs though I want to add obscure hair metal bands that maybe should be remembered. I Googled this and came up with Rock Pasta's 10 Best Forgotten Hair Metal Bands:
I plan on posting two songs for each band, but if that band has more great songs I'll add those as well. I'm going to also add the band Heaven's Edge, which I read a very enthusiastic review for yesterday. Rock Pasta included Warrant in the those forgotten hair metal bands, I don't think they're obscure at all. Thus I will not be featuring them hear. But if you want to listen to some great Warrant music check out "Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich". For much the same reason I will not be including Ratt below.
Most hair metal fans should know this power ballad. This is a great band, but I'm not overwhelmed by much of their discography. 1) Kix "Don't Close Your Eyes":
"Cold Blood":
3) "Get It While It's Hot":
This is an interesting song for a hair metal band to cover. 2) Precious Metal "Mr. Big Stuff":
"Right Here, Right Now":
3) Enuff Z'Nuff This is another fairly well known hair metal power ballad "Fly High Michelle":
"New Thing":
"Mother's Eyes":
This band sounds like they're trying to be a band that sounds like Cinderella, if only they had a female singer. 4) Smashed Gladys "Legs Up":
This song takes over two minutes to kick in, but then it reaches the next level. Just remember not everyone has as powerful voice that Robert Plant does. "Eye of the Storm":
I like this song also. "Black Beauties & Blue Eyed Beauties":
I would like to visit Angel City someday, is it located near Paradise City? 5) Von Groove "Angel City":
"Once In A Lifetime":
"Two Nights In Tokyo":
6) Child's Play "Rat Race":
Sadly not the greatest sound for these songs. "Good Old Rock and Roll/ Long Way":
I wanted to have a blog with all the best songs from the week I graduated from high school. This is that blog, the number in the parenthesis is the number that song was June 9th, 1985. For some reason I also wanted a really long blog. I'll publish this blog periodically and then finally when every song has a video.
This is Billboard Magazines selected top 100 songs for June 9th, 1985.
97) Chicago "Along Comes A Woman":
86) Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam "I Wonder If I Take You Home":
83) Dead or Alive "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)":
82) Rick Springfield "State of The Heart":
81) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "I'm On Fire":
80) The Commodores "Nightshift":
79) Foreigner "That Was Yesterday":
77) Rick Springfield "Celebrate Youth":
73) Don Henley "All She Wants To Do Is Dance":
69) The Hooters "All You Zombies":
66) Paul Hardcastle "19":
64) Dokken "Alone Again":
62) Don Henley "Not Enough Love In The World":
61) Amy Grant "Find A Way":
60) Klymaxx "Meeting In The Ladies Room":
59) Kenny Loggins "Forever":
58) The Power Station "Get In On (Bang A Gong)":
56) Heart "What About Love":
54) DeBarge "Who's Holding Now":
53) John Fogerty "Centerfield":
51) Depeche Mode "People Are People":
48) Robert Plant "Little By Little":
46) Animotion "Obsession":
44) Sting "If You Love Someone (Set Them Free)":
42) Tom Petty "Don't Come Around Here No More":
39) Supertramp "Cannonball":
37) Bruce Springsteen "Glory Days":
35) Alison Moyet "Invisible":
34) The Beach Boys "Getcha Back":
33) Night Ranger "Sentimental Street":
32) DeBarge "Rhythm of the Night":
31) Paul Young "Everytime You Go Away":
29) USA For Africa "We Are The World":
27) Power Station "Some Like A Hot":
26) Whitney Houston "You Give Good Love":
25) Til Tuesday "Voices Carry":
24) REO Speedwagon "One Lonely Night":
23) Murray Head "One Night In Bangkok":
22) Madonna "Crazy For You":
20) The Eurythmics "Would I Lie To You":
19) David Lee Roth "Just A Gigolo/ I Ain't Got Nobody":
17) Prince "Raspberry Beret":
16) Survivor "The Search Is Over":
15) Duran Duran "A View To The Kill":
13) Sade "Smooth Operator":
12) Phil Collins "Sussudio":
11) Madonna "Angel":
10) Katrina and The Waves "Walking On Sunshine":
8) Simple Minds "Don't You Forget About Me":
7) Mary Jane Girls "In My House":
6) Howard Jones "Things Can Only Get Better":
5) Bryan Adams "Heaven":
4) Billy Ocean "Suddenly":
3) Harold Faltermeyer "Axel F":
2) Wham! "Everything She Wants":
1) Tears For Fears "Everybody Wants To Rule The World":
Nineteen songs recently played on local Salt Lake City station BOB 107.5. It's great to have such great music still being played on local radio. These songs were played in about a three hour period on Monday, November 6th, 2023.
Let's do this again, this is another random snapshot of BOB 100.7. In the first blog in this series I had called them 107.5 BOB. That was wrong and my apologies. Below are all live versions.
1) Journey "Anyway You Want It":
What's the point of performing "live" if you're going to lip synch? 2) Survivor "High On You":
3) The Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)":
4) Devo "Whip It":
5) Kim Carnes "Bette Davis Eyes":
6) Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science":
7) The Talking Heads "Once In A Lifetime":
8) Heart featuring Alison Krauss "These Dreams":
9) Escape Club "Wild Wild West":
10) New Order "True Faith":
11) Tina Turner "The Best":
12) Bananarama "Venus":
13) Baltimora "Tarzan Boy":
14) The Time "Jungle Love":
Well almost all of them live. 15) The Stray Cats "Stray Cat Strut":
One of the lesser known songs of Mr. Mellencamp's discography, but also one of his best songs. 16) John Cougar Mellencamp "Crumblin' Down":
What were some of the biggest hits of 50 years ago, 1973? Also a couple of days ago I discovered the British version of "Life on Mars", part of which is based in 1973. That got me thinking I could post a blog about the best songs of 1973, then I realized that was also 50 years ago.
I've watched the first couple episodes of "Life On Mars" and so far so good. It's a bit of a formula in that there's a case a week. But there's also the fish out of water aspect of Sam Tyler coming from 2006 to 1973. Or at least that's what his reality appears to be. In the second episode Sam says he wishes he could have been put in 1988. I agree with him on that. The only reason I would want to go to 1973 over 1988 is to be able to see Led Zeppelin in their full glory.
The song that inspired the title of the show was released in 1973. There is a second show in this series. It's also named after a David Bowie song "Ashes to Ashes".
35) Wings "My Love":
36) The Allman Brothers Band "Ramblin' Man":
37) Stories "Brother Louie":
38) Diana Ross "Touch Me In The Morning":
39) Elton John "Daniel":
40) Gilbert O'Sullivan "Get Down":
41) Aerosmith "Dream On":
42) Alice Cooper "No More Mr. Nice Guy":
43) Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band "Turn The Page":
44) ELO "Showdown":
45) Linda Ronstadt featuring The Eagles "Silver Threads and Golden Needles":
46) Three Dog Night "Shambala":
47) The O'Jays "Love Train":
48) Tony Orlando "Has Anyone Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose":
