I've been able to hear some great songs on my morning walks the last couple of days. I thought I would share some of them with you over two blogs.
18) Air Supply "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All":
This song is so good that I had to listen to it three times on today's morning walk. 19) Miranda Lambert "Over You":
20) Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway "The Closer I Get To You":
Out of all the hair metal bands Warrant was one of the best in writing quality songs. This is a great song off their great CD "D.R.F.S.R". Add it to your collection in you haven't already. 21) Warrant "Uncle Tom's Cabin":
22) Metallica "Enter Sandman":
23a) Brave Rival "Stars Up On My Scars":
Abridged version. 23b) Brave Rival "Stars Up On My Scars":
24) Renee Elise Goldsberry "Out Tonight":
25) Robbie Dupree "Hot Rod Hearts":
26) The Donnas "Revolver":
27) Fitz and the Tantrums "Good Intentions":
28) Adam Pascal and Rosario Dawson and "Light My Candle":
29) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "Long Walk Home" (Live In Manchester)":
I've been able to hear some great songs on my morning walks the last couple of days. I thought I would share some of them with you over two blogs.
1) "My Bones":
I remember when this show was coming out and I was so excited about it. This was before the big superhero movies of the last several years. Too bad the show, "The Greatest American Hero" was trash, but this is an amazing song. 2) Joey Scarbury "Believe It Or Not":
3) Culture Beat "Mr. Vain":
4) Lady Gaga "If My Friends Could See Me Now":
A song that was perfect for the new MTV. 5) M "Pop Muzik":
If you can see these guys in concert. I've seen them in both outdoor and indoor venues, they played longer at the inside venue. 6) Little Big Town "Things You Don't Think About":
A butt kicking cover of the Talking Heads classic. A song inspired by the Son of Sam. 7) Miley Cyrus "Psycho Killer":
8) Benny Mardones "Into The Night":
9) Benson Boone "There She Goes":
"One of Us" is a great song, but this may be Joan Osborne's finest song. 10) "Right Hand Man":
11) Lorrie Morgan "Something In Red":
This comes from one of the best debut CDs ever. This is a band whose music is needed more than ever in the era of MAGA. Rage Against The Machine 12) "Take The Power Back":
One of the quirkier bands that has ever been, but they are great songwriters. If you just buy one of their CDs buy "Flood". This song is from that CD. 13) They Might Be Giants "Twisting":
Exploding in 1989 with the amazing CD "Raw Like Sushi". 14) Neneh Cherry "Buffalo Stance":
The girl can sang. One of the best songs from a pretty decent soundtrack "The Great Gatsby". 15) Fergie featuring GoonRock and Q-Tip "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)":
An under appreciated rocker of recent vintage. 16) Redlight King "Underground":
Cars = freedom, mobility and a way to quickly getaway from whatever you don't want to deal with. I literally earned my driver's license as soon as I could. My first vehicle was a beat up old truck we called The Green Weenie. My current ride is a white vehicle named Caitlyn. I named her after the great Caitlin Clark of Iowa Women's basketball. Now she's the great Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever.
52) Cyndi Lauper "I Drove All Night":
53) War "Low Rider":
54 George Jones "The One I Loved Back Then":
55) John Travolta et. al "Greased Lightning":
56) The Beach Boys "409":
57) War "Low Rider" (Kyle Watson remix):
58) Kiss "Detroit Rock City":
59) Green Day "Corvette Summer":
This song took awhile for me to warm up to, but now I love it. 60) OMC "How Bizarre":
"I saw things clearer, clearer once you once you were in my rearviewmirror." 61) Pearl Jam "Rearviewmirror":
Gorgeous, but a heartbreaker of a song. 62) Tim McGraw "Red Ragtop":
63) The Doobie Brothers "Rockin Down The Highway":
64) Judas Priest "Heading Out To The Highway":
65) America "Ventura Highway":
66) Depeche Mode "Behind The Wheel":
67) Jerry Reed "Eastbound and Down":
Carrie at her sexiest and most feisty. 68) Carrie Underwood "Before He Cheats":
These aren't the best songs in my opinion, these are my favorite songs. There aren't a lot of differences between the two lists, but there are differences. For instance I love "We Built This City", but a lot of people don't consider that song as the best. But because the song rocks so hard it's easily one of my all-time favorite songs.
Yes my projected number of favorite songs has doubled and will continue to rise likely. There are just so many great songs out there.
171) John Dean "Big Bad John":
172) U2 "Until The End of The World":
173) Blink-182 "All The Small Things":
174) Patsy Cline "Crazy":
175) Pink Floyd "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2":
Is there a band more associated with summer than The Beach Boys? I think not. Here is a series of blogs with the best summer songs mixed in with the best Beach Boys songs. There will be a few summer songs and then one Beach Boys song and going forward. That is until I run out of Beach Boys songs or maybe not. I don't care when the song was released if it feels like a summer song to me it is a summer song.
Thanks to this website for many of these songs: https://www.timeout.com/music/the-50-best-summer-songs-hit-the-beach-with-these-summertime-tunes
18) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band "Born To Run":
19) The Hollies "Bus Stop":
20) The Mamas and the Papas "California Dreamin":
21) Belinda Carlisle "Circle In The Sand":
22) The Beach Boys "Surfin USA":
23) Emeli Sande and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra "Crazy In Love":
It was the end of one decade and about to be the 90s. Looking back 40 years later- wow, that's hard to believe- the 80s are still my favorite decade. That's especially for culture and music. I still say the music of the 80s is the best music ever made.
Just off of the top of my head some of the amazing musicians of the 80s- in no particular order- include Madonna, ZZ Top, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Joel, Elton John, Def Leppard, Boston, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Lita Ford, the Jackson siblings, Billy Ocean, INXS, Erasure, U2, Also don't forget all the great country musicians Randy Travis, Alabama, George Strait, Reba McEntire, Conway Twitty, John Anderson and many others.
Some of the best movies of 1989 include "Batman", "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade" (In a James Earl Jones like voiceover "although it wasn't really the last crusade, now was it?"), "Dead Poets Society", "When Harry Met Sally", one of my personal favorites "The Abyss", "Lethal Weapon 2", "Field of Dreams", "Major League", the not as good as I thought it was going to be "Born on the 4th of July", "Lean On Me", "Glory" and "When Harry Met Sally".
Recently I stumbled across the show called "Hysteria!", a horror/ comedy series set in 1989. It's mostly set around a fake satanic panic that took over the more gullible areas of America. (Basically the same places where MAGA thrives now, who are more frightening than a mostly fake satanic panic.) In "Hysteria!" the three main characters pretend like they embrace satanism to grow a following of their band. As someone who lived and loved the 80s I don't remember any satanic panic of that decade. I'm going to use these blogs to explore some of the harder rock of 1989. I cannot guarantee that all these songs are amazing, this blog series is mostly exploring the harder rock music of 1989. Some of these rock songs will be scattered among the regular 1989 blogs.
35) Great White "The Angel Song":
36) Leatherwolf "Lonely Road":
37) Enuff Z'nuff "Fly High Michelle":
38) Bang Tango "Someone Like You":
39) Saraya "Healing Touch":
40) Exodus "The Toxic Waltz":
41) Danger Danger "Saturday Night":
42) Agony Column "God, Guns and Guts":
43) Blue Murder "Valley Of The Kings":
44) White Lion "Little Fighter":
45) Motley Crue "Kickstart My Heart":
46) Skid Row "Youth Gone Wild":
47) Alice Cooper "Poison":
48) Neil Young "Keep On Rockin' In The Free World":
49) The Cult "Fire Woman":
Bizarre I know, but this CD had some of the best rock songs of the year. 50) Janet Jackson "Rhythm Nation":
Black musicians such as Salt-N-Pepa, Terence Trent D'arby, Prince, Michael and Janet Jackson, Living Colour, Public Enemy, Anita Baker, Vanessa Williams, Tina Turner had many big hits between 1987 and 1989. Also there were many others and a few one or two hit wonders that joined the hit parade. All that adds up to a great 3 year run for all of music, specifically black musicians.
1987 to 1989 was an amazing three year period for black musicians, here are most of those classic songs. Get ready to listen to some classic jams you haven't heard for awhile.
These next eight songs are from Janet Jackson's excellent "Rhythm Nation 1814":
18) "State of The World":
19) "The Knowledge":
20) "Miss You Much":
21) "Love Will Never Do Without You":
22) "Alright":
23) "Escapade":
24) "Black Cat":
25) "Livin' In A World (They Didn't Make)":
26) LL Cool J "I Need Love":
27) LL Cool J "Going Back To Cali":
These next three songs are by Public Enemy. 28) "Fight The Power":
