Tag: music
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(Finished August 24th, 2025) Part 1 of Getting to Know King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Hello, For some reason I have been hearing so much about King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard of late. I thought I’d create a blog around their music to figure why they have received so much love of late. I get the hype to a certain extent, some of their songs are great. But some…
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(Finished August 21st, 2025) Part 2 of Songs About Concerts and the Music Industry
Hello, These are the best songs about touring, concerts and any other aspect of the music business. According to my research this isn’t about what you thought it was about for most of your life. However I know a song can be about two things at once. 18) Billy Squier “The Stroke”: 19) Alan Jackson…
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(Finished August 18th, 2025) Part 1 of Songs About Concerts and the Music Industry
Hello, These are the best songs about touring, concerts and any other aspect of the music business. Thanks to Petty Theft, a Tom Petty tribute band, for reminding me of this song. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 1) “Into The Great Wide Open”: 2) Def Leppard “Stage Fright”: 3) Band of Skulls “Hollywood Bowl”: 4)…
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(Finished, August 9th, 2025) Part 1 of The Best Songs From 2015
Hello, When I work on blogs from the 80s I have no problem coming up with enough songs to fill up several blogs in a blog series. However when I was trying to come up with a lot of great songs for 2015 I had a hard time coming up with more than about 40…
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(Finished August 7th, 2025) Part 4 of The Best Songs About Women
Hello, These are great songs about women. I’m putting these songs in alphabetical order. These songs feature women’s names or are about women. I’ll go in alphabetical order, by the the first letter in the song title. For instance “My Sharona” will be under M. When I think of a new song I will update…
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(Finished July 31st, 2025) Part 11 of Rolling Stone’s 200 Best Songs of the 80s: Songs 54-42
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…
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(Finished July 26th, 2025) Part 1 of My Top 50 New Wave Songs Of All-Time Based On Charlie’s 80s Attic Radio Station’s Top 50
Hello, This is my reworked rankings of the Top 50 New Wave Songs Of All-Time. It was created by Charlie’s 80s Attic Radio Station. I’ll refer to it as the original list on my blog below. I’m keeping most of the songs where they are from the original list, however there are a few songs…
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(Finished July 20th, 2025) Part 6 of The Best Songs From 80s Movies, Soundtracks & Broadway Plays
Hello, This is the next of many of the greatest songs from 80s movies or Broadway plays. Coincidentally these are also many of the greatest songs of the 80s. I’m going to mostly focus on the songs that were current with the movies, but I will include a few of the classics that came many…
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(Finished July 19th, 2025) Part 6 of Best Country Songs That Give You The Feels
Hello, This series of blogs is inspired by TIm McGraw’s “Red Ragtop”, a song I heard on a recent morning walk. I won’t be adding Dolly Parton’s “Little Andy”- that song is just too damn sad for me. Feels come in both happy and sad varieties. But songs with sad feels seem to be more…