(Finished June 9th, 2024) The Best of Chicago

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Chicago was/ is an incredibly talented band. Appropriately they started out in the city of Chicago. Chicago was formed in 1969. They're a band who has dabbled in all sorts of genres from rock, jazz and very definitely pure pop music. Chicago had one of the best run of any band in the 80s. Their first relative hit from the 80s was a song I'm not familiar with titled "Thunder and Lightning" They closed out that prolific decade with the musical question "What Kind of Man Would I Be".

 They also had a great 70s!!

1) "Stay The Night":

2) "Along Comes A Woman":

3) "Feelin' Stronger Everyday":

4) "Alive Again":

5) "Hard Habit To Break":

6) "You're The Inspiration":

7) "Love Me Tomorrow":

8) "Baby, What A Big Surprise":

9) "25 or 6 to 4":

10) "Old Days":

11) "Hard To Say I'm Sorry":

12) "Wishing You Were Here":

13) "No Tell Lover":

14) "What Kind of Man Would I Be":

15) "If You Leave Me Now":

16) "Look Away":

17) "Questions 67 and 68": 

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(Updated June 6th, 2024) Part 5 of 80+ Songs In Honor of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day on June 6th

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Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, thanks to all who sacrificed then and now to make this country as great as it is. God Bless America!!

This blog series is inspired by the 107 year old man going back to France to partake in the 80th D-Day anniversary festivities. His name is Reynolds Tomter, he was a merchant marine during World War 2.

That got me thinking about how this year is the 80th anniversary of D-Day and that I should have a series of blogs about the best 80+ songs about war in general but specifically World War 2. (You know kinda like a Sabaton listening party.) However as I start working on this blog series I realized it might be a lot harder than I thought it would be. However once I did a lot of search and discovered Sabaton I have more than 85 songs. I'm going to share them all with you. War songs from all eras but mostly focusing on the Greatest Generation and World War 2.

From Wikipedia:

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.

Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on the day selected for D-Day was not ideal, and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks, as the planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and time of day, that meant only a few days each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an invasion. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Allied forces.

76) Doris Day "Sentimental Journey":

77) Kenny Loggins "Playing With The Boys":

These next 16 songs are by the Swedish Metal band Sabaton. 78) "Ghost Division":

79) "Resist and Bite":

80) "Aces In Exile":

81) "Coat of Arms":

82) "Soldier of Three Armies":

83) "Night Witches":

84) "Wolfpack":

85) "Midway":

86) "Stalingrad":

87) "Inmate 4859":

88) "Saboteurs":

89) "Ballad of Bull":

90) "Panzerkampf":

91) "Firestorm":

92) "No Bullets Fly":

93) "To Hell & Back":

94) "Primo Victoria":

(Finished June 4th, 2024) Part 4 of The Best Music of 1994

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My first blog in this series was from March 2023. 1994 was a pretty mediocre year for music. For some reason I started over with Part 1 in this blog series.

https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2017/09/the_15_greatest_years_in_music.html- that website rates 1994 as the 11th best year in music. I just might have to disagree. All the writing in the bigger text comes from cleveland.com.

Green Day and The Offspring kickstart pop punk. The Beastie Boys become alt-rock stars. Nine Inch Nails push industrial rock forward. Oasis and Blur become the biggest thing in England since the Beatles. Nirvana goes unplugged. 

Notable albums: Nine Inch Nails – 'The Downward Spiral;" Nas – "Illmatic;" Green Day – "Dookie;" Jeff Buckley – "Grace;" Notorious B.I.G. – "Ready to Die;" Oasis – "Definitely Maybe;" Nirvana – "MTV Unplugged in New York;" Beastie Boys – "Ill Communication;" Pearl Jam – "Vitalogy;" Weezer – Weezer;" Pavement – "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain;" Hole – "Live Through This;" Soundgarden – "Superunknown;" Johnny Cash – "American Recordings;" Portishead – "Dummy;" The Offspring – "Smash".

35) Bonnie Raitt "Love Sneakin' Up On You":

36) General Public "I'll Take You There":

37) Haddaway "What Is Love":

These are songs I found in other places.

38) Wet Wet Wet "Love Is All Around":

39) Whigfield "Saturday Night":

40) All-4-One "I Swear":

41) Corona "The Rhythm of the Night": 

42) Reel 2 Real featuring Mad Stuntman "I Like To Move It": 

43) The Grid "Swamp Thing":

44) Louis Armstrong "We Have All The Time In The World":

45) Rednex "Cotton Eye Joe"

46) Sass Jordan "High Road Easy"

47) Candlebox "You":

48) East 17 "Stay Another Day":

49) Mariah Carey "Without You":

50) Let Loose "Crazy For You":

51) Manchester United Football Squad "Come On You Reds":

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(Finished June 2nd, 2024) Part 1 of Best Songs from 1984 Soundtracks

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I watched the first Beverly Hills Cop with my son tonight. While watching that movie I realized that it came out 40 years ago this season. I told my son that this movie was when Eddie Murphy was the hottest comedian in the whole world. It still holds up pretty well, but as usual each sequel is a bit worse than the previous movie. I've seen the trailer for the fourth "Beverly Hills Cop" movie and it looks like it has some funny moments, but one of the bits was in the original "Beverly Hills Cop". It's amazing how many of these franchises are making appearances in 2024.

1984 likely was the best year for pop music of the 80s. The songs from that year's soundtracks were also pretty amazing. I'm starting with that first "Beverly Hills Cop" movie. These first five songs are from that movie.

 1) The Pointer Sisters "Neutron Dance":

2) Harold Faltermeyer "Axel F":

3) Glenn Frey "The Heat Is On":

4) Patti Labelle "New Attitude":

5) Oingo Boingo "Gratitude":

These next three songs are from "The Karate Kid". 6) Survivor "The Moment of Truth":

7) Bananarama "Cruel Summer":

8) Joe Esposito "You're The Best":

From guess which movie, yes "The Neverending Story". 9) Limahl "The Neverending Story":

These next three songs are from "Sixteen Candles" 10) The Thompson Twins "If You Were Here":

11) Billy Idol "Rebel Yell":

12) The Vapors "Turning Japanese":

This is the only song from "1984". 13) The Eurythmics "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four)":

These next two songs are from "The Natural". 14) Randy Newman "The Natural":

15) Randy Newman "Prologue":

These next two songs are from "Footloose", more on Part 2 of that blog series. 16) Kenny Loggins "Footloose":

17) Deniece Williams "Let's Hear It For The Boy":

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(Updated May 30th, 2024) Part 4 of 80+ Songs In Honor of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day on June 6th

Hello,

This blog series is inspired by the 107 year old man going back to France to partake in the 80th D-Day anniversary festivities. His name is Reynolds Tomter, he was a merchant marine during World War 2.

That got me thinking about how this year is the 80th anniversary of D-Day and that I should have a series of blogs about the best 80+ songs about war in general but specifically World War 2. (You know kinda like a Sabaton listening party.) However as I start working on this blog series I realized it might be a lot harder than I thought it would be. However once I did a lot of search and discovered Sabaton I have more than 85 songs. I'm going to share them all with you. War songs from all eras but mostly focusing on the Greatest Generation and World War 2.

From Wikipedia:

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.

Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on the day selected for D-Day was not ideal, and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks, as the planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and time of day, that meant only a few days each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an invasion. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Allied forces.

55) Vera Lynn "We'll Meet Again":

56) Stan Ridgway "Camouflage":

57) Iron Maiden "Where Eagles Dare":

58) The Andrews Sisters "I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time":

59) Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers"Accentuate The Positive":

60) Artie Shaw "Stardust":

61) Artie Shaw "Begin The Beguine":

62) "There'll Be A Hot Time In The Town of Berlin":

63) Frank Sinatra "I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night":

64) Vera Lynn "Bless 'Em All/ The Washing On The Siegfried Line/Kiss Me Goodnight Sgt. Major":

65) Bing Crosby "White Christmas":

66) Bing Crosby and The Andrew Sisters "Don't Fence Me In":

67) Bing Crosby "Bells of St. Mary":

68) Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone":

69) George Thorogood "Bad To The Bone":

70) Johnny Mercer "GI Jive":

71) Anne Shelton "Kiss The Boys Goodbye":

I found this list by Syndie Cat on Spotify, it's her list of best Sabaton World War 2 songs:

72) Sabaton "March To War":

73) Sabaton "40 to 1":

74) "Sabaton "Talvista":

75) Sabaton "White Death":

(Finished May 29th, 2024) Part 4 of The Snarliest Songs of All-Time

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I'm not sure why this blog idea came to me. I was on a early Saturday afternoon walk, perfect weather, great music on my iPod and somehow this blog idea came to me. Despite the amazing conditions I started thinking of songs. Next I started Googling more songs to fill out the blog. Not only snarling songs lyrics wise, also snarling songs music wise or a combination of both. 

53) The Charlie Daniels Band "Still In Saigon":

54) Styx "Renegade":

55) Zager and Evans "In The Year 2525":

56) Grandmaster Flash "White Lines":

57) Nena "99 Luftballons":

58) The Fixx "Red Skies At Night":

59) Wolfmother "The Joker and The Thief":

60) Red Hot Chili Peppers "Taste The Pain":

61) The Animals "House of The Rising Sun":

62) Evanescence "Bring Me To Life":

63) Aerosmith "Janie's Got A Gun":

64) Warrant "Uncle Tom's Cabin":

65) Aerosmith "Hangman's Jury":

He almost snarls that song as much as he sings it. 66) Air Supply "Making Love Out of Nothing At All":

67) AC/DC "Money Talks":

68) My Chemical Romance "Cancer":

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(Finished May 26th, 2024) Part 3 of 80+ Songs In Honor of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day on June 6th

Hello,

This blog series is inspired by the 107 year old man going back to France to partake in the 80th D-Day anniversary festivities. His name is Reynolds Tomter, he was a merchant marine during World War 2.

That got me thinking about how this year is the 80th anniversary of D-Day and that I should have a series of blogs about the best 80+ songs about war in general but specifically World War 2. (You know kinda like a Sabaton listening party.) However as I start working on this blog series I realized it might be a lot harder than I thought it would be. However once I did a lot of search and discovered Sabaton I have more than 85 songs. I'm going to share them all with you. War songs from all eras but mostly focusing on the Greatest Generation and World War 2.

From Wikipedia:

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.

Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on the day selected for D-Day was not ideal, and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks, as the planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and time of day, that meant only a few days each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an invasion. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Allied forces.

35) The Glenn Miller Orchestra "In The Mood":

36) Jo Stafford "I'll Be Seeing You":

37) Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters "Don't Fence Me In":

38) The Andrew Sisters "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company C":

This song is about the Vietnam War and it points out some interesting contrasts with World War 2. 39) Paul Hardcastle "19 (Destruction Mix)":

A different kind, and ongoing war, is occurring in this song. 40) Bruce Springsteen "Death To My Hometown":

This song is about D-Day, the day many people call the longest day. 41) Iron Maiden "The Longest Day":

From "Hamilton" 42) Lin Manuel-Miranda, et. al "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)":

43) T.G. Sheppard "War Is Hell On The Homefront Too":

44) Ben Folds "Army":

45) Plastic Ono Band "Give Peace A Chance":

46) Johnny Horton "The Battle of New Orleans":

From World War 1. 47) "Long Long Way To Tipperary":

Wow, this is such a powerful version of this song. 48) U2 "Bullet The Blue Sky":

49) Pink Floyd "The Dogs of War":

50) "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down":

51) Jimmy Dorsey "Blueberry Hill":

I have 33 Sabaton World War 2 songs to share with you, I will start here with three. All of these World War 2 related songs are by Sabaton. 

52) "Rise of Evil":

 53) "The Final Solution":

54) "Wehrmacht":

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