(Finished February 10th, 2025) Part 1 of The 40s and 50s: Two or Three of the Best Songs From Each Year

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Let's go back to the 40s and 50s, two or three of the best songs from each year of that decade. Billboard started keeping track of this in 1946, I went back to that year.

I only knew two songs from this year. I put one of the songs I was familiar with and the number one song of that year. 1946) Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers "Personality":

2) Perry Como "Prisoner of Love":

1947) Francis Craig "Near You":

4) King Cole Trio "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons":

1948) Spike Jones "William Tell Overture":

6) Kay Kyser with Gloria Wood "Woody Woodpecker":

1949) Vaughn Monroe "Riders In The Sky":

8) Perry Como "Some Enchanted Evening":

9) Dinah Shore "Buttons and Bows":

So many of the 30 songs on this list were later remade by other musicians. It's the later versions of those songs that we remember. 1950) Red Foley "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy":

11) Patti Page "Tennessee Waltz":

1951) The Four Aces "It's No Sin":

13) Nat King Cole with Les Baxter "Too Young":

1952) Jo Stafford with Paul Weston "You Belong To Me":

15) Vera Lynn "Auf Wiedersehen Sweetheart":

1953) Ray Anthony "Dragnet":

17) June Valli "Crying In The Chapel":

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(Finished February 8th, 2025) The 70s: Two of the Best Songs Fom Each Year

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Let's go back to the 70s, two of the best songs from each year of the 70s.

1970)

1) The Guess Who "American Woman": 

2) Edison Lighthouse "Love Grows "Where My Rosemary Goes)":

1971) 

3) Paul Revere and The Raiders "Indian Reservation":

4) Jean Knight "Mr. Big Stuff":

1972) 

5) The Hollies "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress":

What a beautiful song. 6) Cat Stevens "Morning Has Broken":

1973) 

7) Tony Orlando and Dawn "Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Ole Oak Tree":

8) Steely Dan "Reelin' In The Years":

1974) 

9) Barbra Streisand "The Way We Were":

10) Maria Muldaur "Midnight At The Oasis":

1975) 

11) Carl Douglas "Kung Fu Fighting":

12) Sweet "Ballroom Blitz":

1976) 

13) England Dan and John Ford Coley "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight":

14) Hot Chocolate "You Sexy Thing":

1977) 

15) Jimmy Buffett "Margaritaville":

16) Barry Manilow "Weekend In New England":

1978) 

Bee Gees "Night Fever":

Paul Davis "I Go Crazy":

1979) 

19) The Knack "My Sharona":

"Remember you almost had it all". 20) Melissa Manchester "Don't Cry Out Loud":

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(Finished February 8th, 2025) Chappell Roan and Other Hot To Go Female Singers

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I have had Chapelle Roan's "Hot To Go" on my mind all day. I decided to build a blog around Miss Roan, your Grammy New Artist of the Year Winner.

1) Chappell Roan "Hot To Go":

2) "Pink Pony Club":

I couldn't find the video for her Grammy's version of this song, but that version was amazing. From "Saturday Night Live" the live version of "Pink Pony Club":

3) "After Midnight":

4) Gracie Adams "I Love You, I'm Sorry":

5) "Where do we go now?":

6) "That's So True":

7) girl in red "Serotonin":

"Too Much":

"I'm Back":

10) Renee Rapp "Too Well":

11) "Talk Too Much":

12) "Bruises":

13) charli xcx"360":

14) "365":

15) "Apple":

16) Addison Rae "Aquamarine":

17) "Obsessed":

18) "Diet Pepsi";

19) Fletcher with Kelsea Ballerini "Better Version":

20) "Sex (With My Ex)":

21) "Girl Of My Dreams":

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(Finished February 6th, 2025) Part 5 of The Top 100ish Pop Punk Songs

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I finished and update this blog on February 6th, 2026.

I have decided not to limit myself to only 100ish Pop Punk songs so I've expanded this entire blog series to as many blogs as it takes.

I was going to try and rank these into my Top 100ish Pop Punk songs of all-time. I realize I didn't have the time to do that but I want to have at least 100 of the best Pop Punk songs. What is Pop Punk, it's a genre of music that provides both the best of pop and punk in the same song. In other words its poppy songs that rock. At least that's my definition. Now people are going to disagree with my definition of Pop Punk and that's perfectly fine. Either enjoy this blog, make your own blog or do both.

69) Demi Lovato "Skin of my Teeth":

70) Green Day "Basket Case":

71) My Chemical Romance "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na)":

72) No Doubt "Just A Girl":

73) Olivia Rodrigo "Driver's License":

74) My Chemical Romance "To The End":

75) Good Charlotte "The Anthem":

Okay this isn't Pop Punk, but it has the same vibe. 76) Robert Palmer "Simply Irresistible":

77) Rooney "Daisy Duke":

78) 5 Seconds of Summer "Flatline":

79) Weezer "Tired of Sex":

80) Fall Out Boy "Dance Dance":

81) My Chemical Romance "The Sharpest Lives":

82) Paramore "Looking Up" (4.5 stars):

83) Wheatus "Teenage Dirtbag":

Oh to go back to these days when politics were only partially crazy. Now, of course, politics are completely bat shit crazy. 84) SR-71 "Politically Correct":

85) The Offspring "D.U.I.":

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(Finished February 2nd, 2025) Part 4 of The Best Love Songs

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These are some of the best songs of all-time. The good, the bad, the sad, the happy, the up, the down, the fun, the brutal, the sexy and the oh my that's not sexy at all. This is inspired by a NPR story about love songs. And yes I know that this blog series could literally turn into hundreds of blogs.

52) U2 "With Or Without You":

53) Toto "Hold The Line":

54) Lord Huron "The Night We Met":

55) Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer":

56) Katharine McPhee featuring Zachary Levi "Terrified":

57) Raye "Ice Cream Man";

58) George Michael "Careless Whisper":

59) Frank Sinatra "Fly Me To The Moon":

60) The Commodores "Still":

61) James Ingram "Just Once":

62) Vanessa Williams "Save The Best For Last":

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

64) Robert Palmer "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On":

65) The Five Satins "In The Still Of The Night":

66) The Platters "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes":

67) Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes":

68) James Taylor "Fire and Rain":

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(Finished February 2nd, 2025) Part 3 of The Best Love Songs

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These are some of the best songs of all-time. The good, the bad, the sad, the happy, the up, the down, the fun, the brutal, the sexy and the oh my that's not sexy at all. This is inspired by a NPR story about love songs. And yes I know that this blog series could literally turn into hundreds of blogs.

One of my all-time favorite Madonna songs and favorite videos. 35) Madonna "Papa Don't Preach":

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

37) Boz Scaggs "Look What You've Done To Me":

38) Barbra Streisand "The Way We Were":

39) Skeeter Davis "End Of The World":

40) Toto "Rosanna":

41) Carly Simon "Nobody Does It Better":

42) Linda Ronstadt "Long Long Time":

43) Sam Smith "Stay With Me":

44) Chicago "Hard To Say I'm Sorry":

45) Lionel Richie and Diana Ross "Endless Love":

46) Shakey Graves featuring Esme Patterson "Dearly Departed":

47) Lorrie Morgan "We Both Walk":

48) Benson Boone "Death Wish Love":

49) Led Zeppelin "Fool In The Rain":

50) Maroon 5 "Memories":

51) Genesis "Misunderstanding":

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(Finished February 6th, 2026) Part 4 of The Best Pop Punk Songs

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I've updated and finished this blog series on February 6th, 2026. I deleted a couple of previously used songs and replaced them with songs that are new to this blog series.

I have decided not to limit myself to only 100ish Pop Punk songs so I've expanded this entire blog series to as many blogs as it takes.

I was going to try and rank these into my Top 100ish Pop Punk songs of all-time. I realize I didn't have the time to do that but I want to have at least 100 of the best Pop Punk songs. What is Pop Punk, it's a genre of music that provides both the best of pop and punk in the same song. In other words its poppy songs that rock. At least that's my definition. Now people are going to disagree with my definition of Pop Punk and that's perfectly fine. Either enjoy this blog, make your own blog or do both.

52) Blink-182 "First Date":

53) Green Day "Longview":

54) Weezer "Beverly Hills":

55) Weezer "Pink Triangle":

56) The Toadies "Possum Kingdom":

57) Olivia Rodrigo "Brutal":

58) The Offspring "Keep 'Em Separated (Come Out and Play)":

59) The Killers "Imploding The Mirage":

60) Angels and Airwaves "Surrender":

61) Reel Big Fish "Take On Me":

62) Red Jumpsuit Apparatus "Face Down":

63) Tacocat "Crimson Wave":

64) Fall Out Boy "Of All The Gin Joints In The World":

65) Weezer "Why Bother":

66) MCR "House of Wolves":

67) Panic! At The Disco "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off":

68) Rancid "Ruby Soho":

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