Tag: rock
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(Finished January 18th, 2026) Part 1 of Getting To Know Fontaines D.C.
Hello, This blog is inspired by seeing an Olivia Rodrigo video on YouTube- she talked about this band. I had heard of them, but that’s all. However in a search of always the best music I have been doing a deep dive into their music. Today is only Day 1 of that deep dive, thus…
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(Finished January 4th, 2026) Part 1 of The Superb 6’s Over The Years
Hello, In an attempt to start blogging about songs that are of a much recent vintage I’m going to include songs from this year- yes, 2026- in this blog series. I realized how much I write about older music when I started working on the 2000 best songs of 2000-2009. I realized that some of…
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(Finished December 26th, 2025) Part 3 of November 2023 Guitar World: The 90s Issue
Hello, I’m still one of those few magazine readers, I read a mix of music, sports, news and general topic magazines. Since one of my biggest loves is music I’m subscribed to multiple music magazines. Amongst those is Guitar World, a magazine I like despite the fact I have no ability whatsoever with a guitar.…
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(Finished September 24th, 2025) Part 2 of the Top 30 Rock Songs On September 5th, 1981
Hello, Once again lets take a brave path back to the best decade for music ever, the 80s. This chart was only based only on rock radio airplay. It’s not based on record or singles sales. As always thanks to Billboard and Charlie’s 80s Attic Radio Station. I encourage all to follow Charlie’s 80s Attic…
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(Finished September 6th, 2025) Part 2 of The Top 30 Rock Songs From August 1st, 1981
Hello, Let’s see what rock songs for firing up teenagers back at this time of year in 1981. There are a few obscure songs on this list, but overall this is a great list. There are a lot of classic songs on this countdown. Special thanks to the always reliable Billboard and the always interesting…
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(Finished August 14th, 2025) Part 5 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 August 2nd, 2025) Part 1 of The Top 30 Rock Songs From August 1st, 1981
Hello, Let’s see what rock songs for firing up teenagers back at this time of year in 1981. There are a few obscure songs on this list, but overall this is a great list. There are a lot of classic songs on this countdown. Special thanks to the always reliable Billboard and the always interesting…
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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 June 12th, 2025) Part 5 of Those 80s Hot Summer Nights
Hello, I remember those good old days of the 80s when I was driving around in a green old beater truck or later a blue Corolla. As I still do now I had the music playing at a loud volume. Loud music is better than just music. Music in the 80s was some of the…
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(Finished May 17th, 2025) Part 3 of Those 80s Hot Summer Nights
Hello, I remember those good old days of the 80s when I was driving around in a green old beater truck or later a blue Corolla. As I still do now I had the music playing at a loud volume. Loud music is better than just music. Music in the 80s was some of the…