I started this blog series over a year ago. What are some of the best songs from 1991? I've done my best to make sure the song was released on a CD or as a single in 1991.
In February 2023 I went back and revamped these blogs. Now in January 2024 I'm again revamping these blogs, making them better and adding more songs. 1991 was truly one of the greatest years for music.
Great albums released in 1991 include two Guns N' Roses "Use Your Illusion" CDs, Metallica's so called "Black" album, Pearl Jam's "Ten", U2's "Achtung Baby", Roxette's "Joyride", Bonnie Raitt's "Luck of The Draw", Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Into The Great Wide Open", Red Hot Chili Peppers "Blood Sugar Sex Magick", Skid Row's "Slave To The Grind", R.E.M.'s "Out of Time" and many others.
Okay this one is a bit out of order, but it would be unbelievable if I didn't include this song. 103) EMF "Unbelievable":
These next three songs are all by Enya. 104) Enya "Caribbean Blue":
105) Wow, what a beautiful voice. Enya "Exile":
106) Enya "How Can I Keep From Singing":
107) Firehouse "Love of A Lifetime":
108) Firehouse "Rock On The Radio":
109) Forester Sisters "Men":
110) Genesis "No Son of Mine":
111) Genesis "I Can't Dance":
112) Amy Grant "Baby Baby":
113) Amy Grant "Good For Me":
114) Amy Grant "Every Heartbeat":
115) Amy Grant "I Will Remember You" (Rhythm Remix):
116) Amy Grant "That's What Love Is For":
These next twelve songs are from the Guns and Roses two CD masterpiece "Use Your Illusion 1 and 2". 117) Guns N' Roses "Civil War":
These are all the best songs of 1980, all genres included. I can't guarantee all of these songs are actually from 1980. I'm taking all the websites that I have stumbled across at what they say. In other words I believe that the song was released or was a hit in 1980.
35) ELO "I'm Alive":
36) Waylon Jennings "Theme From 'The Dukes of Hazzard' (Good Ol Boys)":
37) Bruce Springsteen "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)":
38) Willie Nelson "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys":
39) Olivia Newton-John "Suddenly":
40) The Oak Ridge Boys "Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight":
41) Cristy Lane "One Day At A Time":
Bonus song: Not to be confused with this Bobby Bare 1976 song "Dropkick Me Jesus":
42) Ray, Goodman and Brown "Special Lady":
43) Dan Fogelberg "Longer":
44) Foreigner "Break It Up":
45) Echo and the Bunnymen "Rescue":
46) Larsen-Feiten Band "Who'll Be The Fool Tonight":
47) The Chords "Maybe Tomorrow":
48) Rupert Holmes "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)":
These are all the best songs of 1980, all genres included. I can't guarantee all of these songs are actually from 1980. I'm taking all the websites that I have stumbled across at what they say. In other words I believe that the song was released or was a hit in 1980.
18) Robbie Dupree "Hot Rod Hearts":
19) Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band "Against The Wind":
20) Eddie Rabbitt "I Love A Rainy Night":
21) Kool and the Gang "Too Hot":
22) Pete Townshend "Let My Love Open the Door":
23) Johnny Lee "Lookin' For Love":
24) Don Williams "I Believe In You":
25) Willie Nelson "On The Road Again":
26) Kool and the Gang "Celebration":
27) Foreigner "Juke Box Hero":
28) Gary Numan "Cars":
29) Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band "Her Strut":
30) Boz Scaggs "Look What You've Done To Me":
31) Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb "Guilty":
32) The Blues Brothers "Gimme Some Lovin":
33) Stephanie Mills "Never Knew Love Like This Before":
These are all the best songs of 1980, all genres included. I can't guarantee all of these songs are actually from 1980. I'm taking all the websites that I have stumbled across at what they say. In other words I believe that the song was released or was a hit in 1980.
1) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Refugee":
2) The Bellamy Brothers "Lovers Live Longer":
3) Stevie Wonder "Master Blaster (Jammin)":
4) Joe Walsh "All Night Long":
5) The S.O.S. Band "Take Your Time (Do It Right)":
6) Mickey Gilley "True Love Ways":
The best song by a Jackson sibling not named Michael or Janet. 7) Jermaine Jackson "Let's Get Serious":
8) Dolly Parton "9 to 5":
9) The Whispers "And The Beat Goes On":
10) Mac Davis "Hard To Be Humble":
11) Air Supply "Lost In Love":
12) Peter Gabriel "Games Without Frontiers":
One of the best songs by a one hit wonder. Mardones sings this song so well and with so much passion. 13) Benny Mardones "Into The Night":
14) Billy Joel "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me":
15) Pure Prairie League "Let Me Love You Tonight":
The last blog I did in this series was several months ago, it's time to do another one. I still need to read that book mentioned below.
This blog is mostly inspired by a book I saw a couple of years ago at Target. I loved the title of the book, which is "I Heard It In A Love Song". That of course reminded me of the classic Marshall Tucker Band song. I needed to hear that song again, then I took it further and decided to build a series of blogs around it. I'm focusing on 1977, it was an amazing year for music.
I spent more time than I should have to made sure all of these songs were released in 1977. If I am wrong on any it is my fault. I was trying to keep these songs in alphabetical order and I was pretty close.
These next six songs are by Billy Joel. 86) "Just The Way You Are":
87) "She's Always A Woman To Me":
88) "Only The Good Die Young":
89 "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant":
"The Stranger" CD was released in 1977, but the single wasn't released until 1978. 90) "The Stranger":
91) "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)":
92) George Jones and Tammy Wynette "Near You":
93) Tom Jones "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow":
94) B.B. King "Never Make Your Move Too Soon":
95) Loretta Lynn "Out of My Head And Back In My Bed":
96) Loretta Lynn "She's Got You":
97) Loretta Lynn "Why Can't He Be You":
98) Mary MacGregor "Torn Between Two Lovers":
99) From "Man of La Mancha" Peter O'Toole "The Impossible Dream":
100) Bob Marley and the Wailers "Exodus":
101) Bob Marley and the Wailers "Jamming":
102) "Punky Reggae Party":
103) Bob Marley and The Wailers "Waiting In Vain":
There have been so many amazing songs that have been associated with movies, these are some of the all-time best. Sometimes the movies are good, but not always. However all of these songs in these blogs are amazing.
154) ELO "All Over The World":
155) John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and cast "Summer Nights":
156) Jack White "Love Is Blindness":
157) Nicole Kidman "Sparkling Diamonds":
158) Judy Garland "Somewhere Over The Rainbow":
My favorite version of this classic by First To Eleven:
159) Madonna "Buenos Aires":
160) Chaka Khan "Krush Groove":
161) Bananarama "I Heard A Rumor":
162) Rose Royce "Car Wash":
Just an amazing ballad. 163) Prince With Sheena Easton "Arms of Orion":
164) Tevin Campbell "Round and Round":
165) .38 Special "Teacher Teacher":
166) Survivor "Moment of Truth":
167) Emmy Rossum "Wishing You Were Here Somehow":
168) Bono and The Edge "Mission Impossible":
169) Bono and Gavin Friday "In The Name of The Father":
Another Greatest Songs of All-Time issued from on high by Rolling Stone magazine. I love that magazine and have been a subscriber since the early 80s. I accept that people have different tastes in music and that's the way it should be, but. Just as fervently as I agree with some of their choices I also disagree with some of their choices. Currently I'm working on my Actual Greatest 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 inched up to several hundred songs and will continue to rise. For this blog I'm going to focus on the actual Greatest Songs Of All Time.
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 at least 700 songs that will always be in my GSOAT.
There are the greatest songs of all-time- as determined by themusicaddict. This is locked in stone and will not change, of course I'm lying. These blogs will be constantly changing as I remember songs, discover new songs, discover old songs, fall out of love with songs, fall in love with songs etc. And the number by the song is no way my personal ranking for that song, it's just a way to help me keep this organized.
86) Madonna "Like A Virgin":
87) Aerosmith "Walk This Way":
88) The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations":
89) Celine Dion "It's All Coming Back To Me":
90) Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas":
91) John Cougar Mellencamp "Scarecrow":
92) Rage Against The Machine "Killing In The Name":
93) George Michael "Faith":
94) The Highwomen "Highwomen":
95) Halsey featuring Gigi Hadid "Gasoline":
96) Rag N' Bone Man "Human":
97) Waylon Jennings "Are You Sure Hank Did It This Way":
98) The Kinks "Come Dancing":
99) Lin Manuel-Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs and others "Alexander Hamilton":
