Tag: music

(Finished February 12th, 2024) Part 4 of The Top 200 Rock Songs of the 70s: 148-132

Hello, I’m using the website ultimateclassicrock.com/70s-songs/ as the foundation for this series of blogs. This is a very rough ranking of the Top 200 70s rock songs from this Ultimate Classic Rock countdown. I won’t be able to get all the rankings done tonight. I will do the best I can. From Ultimate Classic Rock’s…

February 12, 2024
(Finished February 11th, 2024) Part 8 of The Continued Greatest Rock, Pop and Soul Songs of 1982

Hello, In 1982 Disco music had almost all but died out. It was being replaced by New Wave music, you can feel that influence on this list. You can also feel the influence of MTV, yes MTV used to have music and influence. New Wave music took full advantage of the visual medium and that’s…

February 11, 2024
(Finished February 9th, 2024) Part 1 of Great Goosebump Songs

Hello, Are you looking to give yourself goosebumps? Then this is the blog series for you!!. Be careful goosebumps ahead. 1) Keane “Somewhere Only We Know”: 2) Sufjan Stevens “Casimir Pulaski Day”: 3) Rush “Red Barchetta”: In the YouTube search bar I typed in the best version of “Hallelujah” ever and this is the video…

February 9, 2024
(Finished February 6th, 2024) R.I.P. Toby Keith, His 19 Most Played Songs

Hello, I woke up to the news of Toby Keith dying from stomach cancer. That was quite shocking as I wasn’t even aware that he was sick. Toby was born July 8th, 1961 and passed away in his sleep on February 5th. I didn’t like most of Keith’s politics, but I loved a lot of…

February 6, 2024
(Finished February 4th, 2024) Part 1 of Songs You Haven’t Thought About In Awhile, If Ever (New Blog Series)

Hello, I take notes for most of my blogs so that I can keep things organized. I had originally started on this blog series in September of 2023. However I can’t find those notes, so I’m just going to start over. There are some songs that shouldn’t be forgotten and there are some songs that…

February 4, 2024
(Started February 3rd, 2024) Part 1 of The Best Songs of 1993 to 1996

Hello, For this series of blogs I decided to make rock, soul and country music the highlight and not emphasize the pop songs so much. But of course I’ll get to the pop songs eventually. This first song is more rock oriented though, although I’m not afraid to mix and match genres. 1) The Fugees…

February 3, 2024
(Finished February 1st, 2024) Happy Belated B-day Marcus Mumford/ Mumford and Sons 17 Most Played Songs

Hello, Mumford and Sons are made up of Marcus Mumford (who luckily is married to the lovely Carey Mulligan), Ted Dwane and Ben Lovett. Winston Marshall announced he was leaving the band in 2021 because of disagreements about politics. Mumford turned 37 years old yesterday, I so remember when I was that young. The band…

February 1, 2024
(Finished January 31st, 2024) Part 7 of The Continued Greatest Rock, Pop and Soul Songs of 1982

Hello, In 1982 Disco music had almost all but died out. It was being replaced by New Wave music, you can feel that influence on this list. You can also feel the influence of MTV, yes MTV used to have music and influence. New Wave music took full advantage of the visual medium and that’s…

January 31, 2024
(Finished January 30th, 2024) Happy B-day Phil Collins/ His 18 Most Played Songs

Hello, Phil Collins was born this day 73 years ago. Happy birthday Phil!! Collins is known most for his work with Genesis, a solo artist and working on film soundtracks. Collins was in Genesis from from 1970 to 1996, 2000, 2006- 2007 and 2020- 2022. Collins helped with the soundtracks for “Tarzan”, “Buster” and “Brother…

January 30, 2024
(Finished January 28th, 2024) Part 7 of Rolling Stone’s 200 Best Songs of the 80s: Songs 121-105

Hello, Rolling Stone has released another Top 200 Best 80s songs list. I’m going to post the songs from 200 to 1 and review each song. Is it worthy of it’s ranking, is it too high and is it too low. I’m not a big fan of Rolling Stone’s rankings as they include songs that…

January 28, 2024