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Over the past couple of years I've scribbled down the artist and name of some songs I've greatly enjoyed. Even though the list is significant, it is selective and diverse (with a center of classic rock - because that's where music became popular entertainment - but informed by blues, metal, electronic, reggae, easy listening, country, UK rock, pop, rap, progressive shredding, and others - in no particular order). What's important is that there is something excellent about each song (instrumentation, timing, lyrical skill, unique sound, etc.) or it is truly feel-good. Props to RadioIO History and the Atlantic Sound Factory, where I've honed my taste. If you've ever wondered what songs to put on your IPod or other music player - don't anymore - regardless of your age. I'll stand behind the following list. Print it out or forward it to your friends. |
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10,000 Maniacs – Peace Train
2 Pac – I Get Around
311 – Amber
Ace Frehley – Rock Soldiers
AD DC – Kicked in the Teeth
Adam Ant – Antmusic
Albert King – I Get Evil
Albert King – I’ll Play the Blues for You
Ali – Wiggle Wiggle
Ali & Murphy Lee – Boughetto
Amy Winehouse – Cupid
Andrew Gold – Lonely Boy
Andrew WK – She is Beautiful
Angels and Airwaves – The Adventure
Annie Lenox – Cold
ARP – Drummer Boy
Artie White – High Stepping Mama
Ash – Lost in You
Asia – My Own Time
Asia – Time Again
B-52’s – Channel Z
Bad Company – Electric Land
Band – King Harvest (has surely come)
Bangles – Hero Takes a Fall
BB King – The Thrill is Gone
Beenie Man – Pride and Joy
Bettye Lavette – Right Next Door
Big Al Carson – Dig my Dipper Take your Drunken Ass Home
Big Bill Morganfield – Boogie Child
Big Country – In a Big Country
Billy Idol – Eyes Without a Face
Billy Joel – Captain Jack
Billy Joel – The Downeaster “Alexa”
Bjork – Human Behavior
Black Label Society – Stillborn
Black Uhuru – Prophecy
Blind Boy Fuller – Rag Mama Rag
Blue Man Group – I feel Love
Blue October – Into the Ocean
Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t fear the Reaper
Blues Masters – Let’s Straighten it Out
Blues Traveler – Dropping Some NYC
Blues Traveler – Mulling it Over
Bo Diddly - Down Again
Bo Diddly – I’ve Had it Hard
Bob Dylan – One More Weekend
Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue
Bob Marley – Could you be Loved
Bob Marley – Is this Love
Bob Marley – Lively up Yourself
Bob Welch – Outskirts
Bonnie Raitt – Runaway
Bonnie Raitt – You’ve Been in Love Too Long
Bread – The Guitar Man
Brian Setzer - Don’t Trust a Woman
Brian Setzer – Drink Whiskey and Shut Up
Bruce Springsteen – I’m Going Down
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love
BTO – Blue Collar
BTO – Welcome Home
Buckwheat Zydeco – Trouble
Buddy Guy – I Smell a Rat
Bunny Wailer – Here in Jamaica
Burning Spear – Rocking Time
Capital Punishment – Still not a Player
Chambers Brothers – Uptown
Charlie Mussel White – Trail of Tears
Chicago – Dialogue
Chicane – No Ordinary Morning
Chick Willis – Stoop Down Baby
Chris Issak – Baby Did a Bad Thing
Chris Rea – Texas
Chuck Berry – You Never Can Tell
Chumbawamba – Add Me
Chumbawamba – If it is to be it is up to Me
Chumbawamba – When I’m Bad
Circular – Pinpoint
Clarence Gatemouth Brown – One More Mile
Clash – Magnificent Seven
Clash – This Radio Clash
Coco Montoyo – Trip, Stumble and Fall
Collin Hay – Overkill
Commander Cody – Smoke Smoke Smoke
Concrete Blonde – Joey
Cottonbelly – Tempest Dub
Crash Test Dummies – How Does a Duck Know
Cream – I’m So Glad
Credence Clearwater Revival – Tomorrow Never Comes
Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over
Cure – Fascination Street
Danko Jones – Lover Call (Radio Edit)
Danzig – Dirty Black Summer
Dave Matthews Band – Two Step
David Bowie – Under Pressure
David Gilmour – Raise my Rent
Deborah Coleman – Don’t lie to Me
Deep Purple – Junkyard Blues
Deep Purple – Nobody’s Home
Def Leppard – Hysteria
Derek & the Dominoes – Why Does Love Got to be so Sad
Dire Straits – Single Handed Sailor
DJ Jazzy Jeff – Brand New Funk
Don Carlos – Aqua
Donovan – Mellow Yellow
Donovan – Season of the Witch
Doobie Brothers – Black Water
Doors – The Soft Parade
Doors – The Wasp
Dub Station – Mama
E.G. Knight – South Bound
Echo and the Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar
Eddie Clearwater – Back Down to Earth
Eddie Grant – Electric Avenue
Electric Light Orchestra – Four Little Diamonds
Elton John – High Flying Bird
Elton John – Sacrifice
Elton John – This Train Don’t Stop
Elvis Costello – The Only Flame in Town
Elvis Presley – A Little Less Conversation
Emerson Lake & Palmer – Fanfare for the Common Man
Eric Burdon and War – Magic Mountain
Eric Clapton – I Shot the Sheriff
Eric Clapton – I’m Tore Down
Eric Clapton – Pretending
Eric Clapton – Reconsider Baby
Eric Clapton and Traci Chapman – Give me One Reason
Eric Johnson – Dazed and Confused
Ernest Ranglin – In Search of the Lost Riddem
Etta James – Blowin in the Wind
Etta James – Come to Mama
Etta James – Lovin Arms
Fiona Apple – Sleep to Dream
Firefall – No Way Out
Focus – Hamburger Concerto
Four Seasons – Who Loves You
Frank Zappa – Dirty Love
Frank Zappa – My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Momma
Freddie McGregor – Anything for You
Frente – Dangerous
Gary Hoey – Low Rider Guitar
Grand Funk Railroad – We’re an American Band
The Commodores - Night Shift
Greatful Dead – Viola Lee Blues
Guess Who – Bus Rider
Guess Who – No Sugar Tonight
Hank William Jr. – Hank Why Do you Drink
Happy Mondays – Step On
Heart – Sing Child
Hollies – Long Cool Woman (in a black dress)
Howard Tate – 8 Days on the Road
Iggy Pop – Candy
Indigenous – Shame Shame Shame
Information Society – What’s on your Mind
Inner Circle – Tell Me
INXS – Shine like it Does
Iron Maiden – Can I Play with Madness
Isley Brothers – It’s Your Thing
J Giel Band – Give It to Me
Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
Jackson Browne – Stay
Jackson Browne – The Load Out
James Brown – Get on the Good Foot
James Brown – The Payback
Jason Raz – I won’t worry my life away.
Jay Z – All Round the World
JB Hutto – Pretty Baby
Jeff Beck – Blow by Blow
Jeff Beck – People Get Ready
Jeff Beck/Rod Stewart – People Get Ready
Jefferson Airplane – Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now
Jefferson Airplane – Plastic Fantastic Lover
Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers
Jefferson Starship – Black Widow
Jigga – Party People
Jim Croce – Bad
Jim Croce – You Don’t Mess Around with Jim
Jimmy Buffet – Banana Wind Instrumental
Jimmy Cliff – The Harder they Come
Jimmy Cliff – Treated the Youths Right (extended mix)
Jimmy Dawkins – Everybody’s Jumping
Jimmy Hendrix – Bold as Love
Jimmy Nelson – Think Again
Jimmy Thanckery – Putting Up the Fires
Jimmy Vaughan – In the Middle of the Night
Joe Bonamassa – If Heartaches were Nickels
Joe Cocker – You Can Leave Your Hat On
Joe Satriani – One Big Rush
Joe Satriani – The Mystical Potatohead Groove
John Lee Hooker – I’m in the Mood
John Lee Hooker (with Santana) – The Healer
John Mellencamp – Hand to Hold on to
Johnny Cash – Cocaine Blues
Johnny Clyde Copeland – Black Cat Bone
Johnny Lang – Red House
Johnny Lang – Stray Cat Blues
Johnny Lang – The Way it makes you Feel
Johnny Rivers – Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie
Jonny Lang – Rack em up
Joss Stone – Sonic
Journey – La Doda
Judas Priest – Screaming for Vengence
Julian Lennon – OK for You
Juvenile - Bling Bling
Kenny Neal – Blues ain’t nothing but a Good Man Feeling Bad
Kevin Lyttle/Mr Easy – Drive Me Crazy
Killers – Somebody Told Me
Kiss – Calling Dr. Love
Led Zepplin – The Crunge
Lemurs – Berlin
Lemurs – Berline
Lenny Kravitz – Rock & Roll is Dead
Lenny Kravitz – Use Me Up
Leon Redbone – My Walking Stick
Little Milton – That what love will Make You Do
Loggins & Messina – Changes
Loggins & Messina – Pathway to Glory
Loudon Wainwright Iii – Talking New Bob Dylan
Lucky Peterson – When My Blood Runs Cold
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Earth
Manfred Manns Earth Band – Stranded in Iowa
Mark Knopfler – Telegraph Road
Maroon 5 – Sweetest Goodbye
Meme Shannon – Why I Sing the Blues
Men at Work – Overkill
Men Without Hats – Messiahs Die Young
Michael Burks – One More Chance
Michelle Willison – Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Michelle Willison – Wake Up Call
Mike Bloomfield; Al Kooper – Mary Ann
Millie Small – My Boy Lollipop
Mr Mister – Kyrie
Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy
Natalie Cole – Sophisticated Lady
Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
North Mississippi Allstars – Shimmy She Wobble II
Ocean – Put Your Hand in the Hand
Omar & the Howlers – Snake Oil Doctor
Pantera – Ends at Heresy
Pat Benetar – I believe There Comes a Time
Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Screaming
Paul Gilbert – Alligator Farm
Paul Gilbert- Amy is Amazing
Paul McCartney & Wings – Silly Love Songs
Paul Simon – Kodachrome
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
Pete Townsend – Face Dances
Petula Clark – Downtown
Pink Floyd – Biding My Time
Pink Floyd – Goodbye Blue Sky
Pink Floyd – Poles Apart
Pink Floyd – Sorrow
Pleymo – Frakasse Smala
Poco – Crazy Love
Police – Voices Inside My Head
Porcupine Tree – Halo
Pretenders – Middle of the Road
Pretenders – My City was Gone
Primal Scream – Star
Procol Harum – Simple Sister
Queen – Radio GaGa
Queen – You Don’t Fool Me
Ray Charles – I Got a Woman
Ray Coniff Singers – Zippity Do Dah
REM – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Rickie Lee Jones – Danny’s All-star Joint
Robbie Peterson – Somewhere Down the Crazy River
Robert John – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Robert Plant – Big Log
Robert Plant – Shine it all Around
Robert Plant – Ship of Fools
Robert Randolph – Why Should I Feel Lonely
Robert Randolph & the Family Band – Good Times
Robin Trower – Day of the Eagle
Robin Trower – Lady Love
Robin Trower – Little Bit of Sympathy
Robin Trower – The Fool and Me
Roger Hodgson – Along Came Mary
Roger Waters – Late Home Tonight
Rolling Stone – Time is on my Side
Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
Rolling Stones – Honkey Tonk Women
Rolling Stones – Shattered
Rory Gallagher – Hands Off
Rory Gallagher – Walk on Hot Coals
Rose Royce – Oh Boy I love you so
Roy Buchanan – Fly Night Bird
Roy Orbinson – Oh
Russ Ballard – Voices
Sandy Brown – I’m Tired / Where Am I
Sanford Townsend Band – Smoke from a Distant Fire
Scorpions – Crazy World
Scorpions – Don’t believe Her
Scorpions – Money & Fame
Shadows Fall – Stepping Outside the Circle
Shawn Colvin – Crazy
Shawn Mullins – Everywhere I Go
Shawn Pittman – Hell or High Water
Shriekback – Shark Wack
Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Simon & Garfunkel – Keep the Customer Satisfied
Simple Minds – Alive & Kicking
Slayer – South of Heaven
Slick Rick – Unify
Sly and the Family Stone – You can Make It if you Try
Smashing Pumpkins – Zero
Smokin Joe Kubek – Cryin Shame
Solange with Murphy Lee – Scooby Doo
Sonny Lancreth – Juke Box Mama
Spin Doctors – Refrigerator Car
Starship – We Built This City on Rock n Roll
Start Again - July for Kings
Stephen Stills – Change Partners
Stephen Stills – Ole Man Trouble
Steppenwolf – Sookie, Sookie
Steve Miller – Mary Lou
Steve Miller Band – All your Love (I Miss Loving)
Steve Vai – I’m The Hell Out of Here
Steve Winwood – Valerie
Steven Stills – Tree Top Flyer
Stevie Ray Vaughn – Little Wing
Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble – Couldn’t Stand the Weather
Stone Roses – This is the One
Stratovarius – The Kiss of Judas
Stratus – Uplink
Stray Cats – Rumble in Brighton
Supertramp – Bloody Well Right
Supertramp – Take the Long Way Home
System of a Down – Prison Song
T Pain – I’m Sprung
Tab Benoit – Feels Like Rain
Tanya Stephens – It’s a Pity
T-Bone Walker – Why Me Baby (Keep on Bothering)
Tears for Fears – Break It Down Again
The 13th Sign – Bring Out Your Head
The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot
The Band – Rag Mama Rag
The Black Crows – Popa Chubby
The Cure – Pictures of You
The Guess Who – No Sugar Tonight
The Higher Intelligence Agency – Bring out your Head
The Killers – Human
The Pretenders – Tattooed Love Boys
The Specials – Ghost Town
The Who – Eminence Front
They May be Giants – Istanbul (not Constantinople)
They Must Be Giants – Don’t Lets Start
Thin Lizzy – Bad Reputation
Thin Lizzy – Dedication
Thin Lizzy – Still in Love With You (live)
Three Dog Night – Mama Told Me
Tom Petty – Saving Grace
Tommy Bolin – Homeward Strut
Tool – The Pot
Toto – Rosanna
Tracy Chapman – Give me One Reason
Traffic – You can all Join In.
Tragically Hip – At the Hundreth Meridian
Tragically Hip – The Bear
Twista – Tattoo
U2 – Mysterious Ways
U2 – The Fly
Van Halen – The Dream Is Over
Victor Wooten – Classic Thump
Wall of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
Walter Washington – You Got Me Worried
WC Clark – Blues
Willie King – Crawlin Blues
Wishbone Ash – Jail Bait
Wishbone Ash – The King Will Come
XTC – General and Majors
XTC – Making Plans for Nigel
Yellowman - Zungguzunggu
Yes – Siberian Kahtu
ZZ Top – Sure Got Cold After the Rain |
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