MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SONGS ...REVISED with TWO MORE!!!

As most of you have already noticed, I love music.   All kinds but mostly my heart falls in pure ROCK AND FUCKING ROLL.  Mostly classics from 70s and 80s but over the years I have run across a few songs that I cannot stop listening to....THEY NEVER GET OLD.  I am writing this as there is a song by the Bee Gees my dad used to love and I can listen to it 5 times in a row and it never gets old....to this day.  With that said here is a list of some of the songs I listen to and for some reason they just never tire me out. You will also notice its NOT songs from my all time favorite bands as I like almost everything by my favorites so picking one is ridiculous.   These are also songs that the FIRST time I heard them I was hooked and never looked back.   These select songs are perfect at painting a picture and not many songs can do that.  The CLASSICS always do......ENJOY playing in my mind for a while.
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FIRST is my ALL TIME FAVORITE....I decided this was it as I was driving with my son the other day and it came on and I was like "This is it" spanning my entire music library in my head this is the one song I can always go to if I need to sing loud or smile or whatever.  Its  absolutely perfect.  And because the ORIGINAL is the ORIGINAL its the post....every version of this song is amazing.

The Police "Message In A Bottle" (from the album Reggatta De Blanc - 1979)

The next song is arguably my SECOND favorite song of all time as we were driving through San Diego the first time I heard it and was floored.  STILL today!!!!!!

Foo Fighters "The Pretender" (from the album Echoes Silence Patience Grace - 2007)

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I had to add these THREE as they are FUCKING AWESOME!!!!

Blue Oyster Cult "Burnin' For You" (from the album Fire Of Unknown Origin -1981)

The Tubes "Talk To Ya Later" (from the album Complete Backwards Principle - 1981)

Metallica "Sabbra Cadabra" (from the album Garage Inc - 1998)

For the next TWO I had to include both of these song as they are both so powerful and fall into the "every time" category....Frusciante is the man for backing vocals and guitar


Red Hot Chili Peppers "Otherside" (from the album Californication - 1999)

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Californication"  (from the album Californication - 1999)



Toad The Wet Sprocket "Nightingale Song" (from the album Fear - 1991)

R.E.M. "World Leader Pretend" (video from the movie Tourfilm) (from the album Green 1988)

The House Of Love "You Don't Understand" (from the album Babe Rainbow - 1992)

The Replacements - "Alex Chilton" (from the album Pleased To Meet Me - 1987)

Seven Mary Three "My My" (from the album American Standard - 1995)

OK so here we go again with TWO songs by Peter Murphy but I could not post one without the other.....both phenomenal and deep in so many ways....JUST LISTEN

Peter Murphy "Cuts You Up" (from the album Deep - 1990)


Peter Murphy "A Strange Kind Of Love" (from the album Deep - 1990)


Freedy Johnston "Bad Reputation" (from the album This Perfect World -1994)

Oasis "Don't Go Away" LIVE (from the album Be Here Now -1997) 

Just fucking PERFECT!!!!!  came to me at a time in my life when I needed this....





Breaking Benjamin "Diary of Jane" (from the album Phobia - 2006)

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THE ALL-TIME CLASSICS!!!!

Journey "Wheel In The Sky" (from the album Inifinity - 1978)

Heart "Crazy On You" (from the album Dreamboat Annie - 1976)





Bee Gees - "New York Mining Disaster" (from the album Bee Gees 1st - 1967)

.38 Special "Hold On Loosely" (from the album Wild Eyed Southern Boys - 1981)

Scorpions "No One Like You" (from the album Blackout - 1982)

REO Speedwagon "Take It On The Run" (from the album High Infidelity - 1980)





Jim Croce "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" (from the album Life and Times - 1973)

Guns N' Roses "Civil War" (from the compilation album Nobody's Child - 1990)

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OK I could do at least 10 more but you get it.....BONUS below

Warrant "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (from the album Cherry Pie - 1990)

Skid Row "Monkey Business" (from the album Slave To The Grind - 1991)

BONUS 2:   Doobie Brothers "Takin' It To The Streets/Jesus Is Just Alright"  


NOW WATCH THIS......part of the Foo Fighters movie "Back and Forth" and just the best part showing so many live cuts and just amazing.....ENJOY




HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!!!!

GO SAINTS!!!

Smile 2....You Can't Stop Rock And Roll

This blog is dedicated to good taste…..in music
Due to overwhelming response from all of 2 people….Dre and Mike C, I have added some more….and yes this is fucking incredibly awesome.  Put on your helmet and again add more if you want as I know I am missing some but too much is too much and too little just gets you started but doesn’t finish the job.  This is just right…to me at least.
This is the COOL album cover version of this SMILE edition.  FRAME EM if you got em.
And basically its all ROCK since they had all of the legendary covers……and notice the lyrics how deep on most of them….and as far as music…..and yes Journey, STYX and REO qualify.  The REO song is just a classic that never gets old.
…and it begins with one of my favorite rock songs ever…..and the intro the video with kids rocking captures the essence of 80s rock and dedication of metal fans even to this day…..CHEERS
SCORPIONS 
“My head explodes, my ears ring
I can’t remember just where I’ve been”

WHITE LION

“I’ve been drivin’ all night, my hand’s wet on the wheel
There’s a voice in my head, that drives my heel
It’s my baby callin’, says, ‘I need you here’
Ans it’s half past four, and I’m shifting gear”
WARRANT

“They didn’t see me and Tom in the trees.
Neither one believing what the other could see.
Tossed in the bodies, let ‘em sink on down.
To the bottom of the well where they’d never be found”



RAINBOW

“Your words like ice fall on the ground
Breaking the silence without a sound”



TRIUMPH

“I’m tired of playin foolish games
I’m tired of all your lies makin me insane
I don’t ask for much the truth will do just fine
Won’t you lay it on the line”
JOURNEY

“When the summer’s gone she’ll be there standing by the light
Once she’s been to where she’s gone to she should know wrong from right
Is she feeling
Are you feeling
You feeling that way too?
Or am I just
Am I just a fool”

AC/DC    ….there is Bon Scott AC/DC and there is the other guy
“It’s criminal
There ought to be a law
Criminal
There ought to be a whole lot more
You get nothing for nothing
Tell me who can you trust
We got what you want
And you got the lust”
FASTWAY 
“Nowhere To Run
Nowhere To Hide
What You Doin’ To Me
All This Jive”


APRIL WINE……and a killer jam for the last bit of the song

“Get my saddle and tie it on
Western wind who is fast and strong
Jump on back, he’s good and long
We’ll resist till we reach the dawn
Running seems like the best offense
Staying just don’t make any sense”




SKID ROW
“The vaseline gypsies and silicone souls
Dressed to the society
Hypocrite heartbeat and cheap alibis
Can´t get you by that monkey”


DIO
“If we’re evil or divine
we’re the last in line”



JUDAS PRIEST  ….I put the pic of the 45 on here because it rocked

“Making a curve or taking the strain
On the decline, or out on the wain
Oh everybody breaks down sooner or later”


VAN HALEN
“Goin’ outta my way, know my way around
The grass is never greener an’ there plenty around
All the other girls, they be put to shame
Over the edge and here I stay”



REO SPEEDWAGON …..Ok so I put two on here 

“Ridin’ the storm out, waitin’ for the thaw out
On a full moon night in the rocky mountain winter.
My wine bottle’s low, watching for the snow
I’ve been thinking lately of what I’m missing in the city.”




“You’re thinking up your white lies
You’re putting on your bedroom eyes
You say you’re coming home but you won’t say when
But I can feel it coming
If you leave tonight keep running
And you need never look back again”



DOOBIE BROTHERS ….One of my all time favorite jams…….listen to all of it….ENJOY
“Take this message to my brother
You will find him…everywhere
Wherever people live together
Tied in poverty’s despair
Are you…telling me the things you’re gonna do for me
I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see”


LETS GO BONUS…..and yes I saw this tour in 82, 83 and 84…..ENJOY

….and as always…..YOU CAN’T STOP ROCK & ROLL…..


TWISTED SISTER
“Like a charging bull, It’s a juggernaut
With steam at full, never to be caught
Incarnate power, roaring from the sky
While others cower,  ROCK AIN’T GONNA DIE”



COMING SOON…..the sing along version and the alternative college rock versions….stay tuned…..
and no clue why this pic but its awesome on many levels…CHEERS