Tag: songs
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(Finished July 31st, 2026) Part 1 of The Best of Album Oriented Rock: 1976 to 1986
Hello, Paul Rees’ music history book “Power Ballads, Cocaine, and Payola Raised On Radio 1976-1986 The AOR Glory Years” was released a few months ago. AOR stands for album oriented rock. What bands would be included in this genre? Musicians included in AOR include- in almost alphabetical order- Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Asia, Pat Benatar, Berlin,…
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(Finished July 10th, 2026) Part 4 of The Most Powerful Songs Of All-Time
Hello, What makes a song powerful. A few reasons why, but not all, obviously the music is powerful- see the “Phantom of the Opera” “Overture”. The message is powerful- see Bruce Springsteen’s “The Rising”, Lauren Daigle’s “Still Rolling Stones”, or Terry Jacks “Seasons In The Sun”. Or a song can be powerful in it’s message…
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(Finished July 1st, 2026) Part 8 of Those Amazing and Poignant Songs That Touch Your Soul
Hello, I always say the “Twisters” soundtrack is the best CD of 2024. At least 20 of the 29 songs are near classics. Country music isn’t even close to being my favorite genre, but I’m not a hater. But I can’t believe how many great country songs are on “Twisters”. Listening to my iPod on…
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(Finished May 10th, 2026) Part 3 of The Best Songs About Breaking Up/ Catharsis Songs
Hello, I have a friend who’s going through trauma over a relationship and she asked me help her to make a playlist. Some of these are angry or sad break up songs and some are just cathartic. 35) Rihanna “Breakin’ Dishes”: 36) Kelis “Caught Out There”: 37) Cinderella “Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s…
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(Finished April 27th, 2026) Part 1 of Songs Rocking My iPod and Why Are They There?
Hello, I haven’t done one of these for awhile. These are the songs that are rocking my iPod as of today. Why the song is on my iPod is the main point of this blog. Obviously I like/ love each one of these songs. Obviously that’s one of the main reasons each song is on…
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(Finished March 6th, 2026) Part 6 of themusicaddict’s Ever Changing Top 1,000 Songs of All-Time By Musician: The A’s
Hello, I’m putting these songs in alphabetical order. For the early days of the blog I’m not going to number the songs. I’ll do that when things becomes a bit more concrete, solidified and actually closer to 1,000 songs. And yes I realize this series of blogs is probably going to have a lot more…
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(Finished November 2nd, 2025) Part 3 of The Last Great Billboard Hot 100 Year End Chart: 1991: 69-54
I’m an old man and I still think the decade of the 80s was the best decade of music in this modern era of music. I looked at the year end chart for 2000. Sure there were some great songs. But oh my goodness there were some crappy songs. I also looked at 2008’s Billboard…
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(Finished September 21st, 2025) Part 3 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…
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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 10th, 2025) Part 5 of The Best Songs of 1985-1986
Hello, The years 1985 and 1986 were some of the most monumental days in my life. I was working my first job at Safeways grocery stores and boy I learned at that job. Some of the stuff was actually good for me. I graduated high school-our 40th graduation anniversary is this year. After that I…
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