As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, November 8, 2024

Shuffle #178 (November 8, 2024)

Caught Up In The Rapture – Anita Baker

Move On Up – Curtis Mayfield

Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2

When The World Is Running Down – The Police*

If I Were Your Woman – Gladys Knight & The Pips

Love On The Wrong Side Of Town – Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes

I Heard It Thru The Grapevine [Live from Summer of Soul] – Gladys Knight & The Pips

Nobody Knows Me – Lyle Lovett

 

* - seemed like an apt choice for this week

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Shuffle #177 (October 27, 2024)

Smiling Faces Sometimes – The Undisputed Truth

Plastic Flowers – Don McMinn

Magic Carpet Ride – Steppenwolf

Hip Hug-Her – Booker T. & The MG’s

He – The Righteous Brothers

I Wonder What Went Wrong – Clive Gregson & Christine Collister

Calling My Children Home – Emmylou Harris

Fourteen Gears – Midland

Run Rudolph Run – Chuck Berry

Dallas – Joe Ely

Lonesome Day – Bruce Springsteen

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Shuffle #176 (October 20, 2024)

Sugar Mountain – Neil Young

Bad Girls – Donna Summer

Soul Searching – Average White Band

Take My Love With You – Bonnie Raitt

Pedal Pushin’ Papa – Billy Ward & His Dominoes

Going Mobile – The Who

The Work Song – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

Hypnotized – Linda Jones

The Worst Is Yet To Come – Keb’ Mo’