Here goes
A LIST OF MY FAVORITE SONGS (you may notice several from the same artist. what can I say? I know what I like!)
1. A Night to Remember - Cyndi Lauper
2. Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
3. Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
4. You Don't Know - Cyndi Lauper
5. Hot Gets a Little Cold - Cyndi Lauper
6. Caribbean Blue - Enya
7. Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics
8. Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
9. Beethoven (I love to listen to) - Eurythmics
10. Invincible - Pat Benatar
11. Land of Dreaming - Masterboy
12. Push - Matchbox 20
13. Change of Heart - Cyndi Lauper
14. Return to Me - October Project
15. Bury my Lovely - October Project
16. Wishing - Flock of Seagulls
17. One Dream - October Project
18. When I Come Around - GreenDay
19. Doctor Doctor - Thompson Twins
20. Major Tom - Peter Schilling
21. Set You Free - N'Trance
22. TienShan - Kitaro
23. Where Do You Go - LaBouche
24. Stay - Shakespeare's Sister
25. Agenais - Donna Lewis
26. Never Fade Away - Air Supply
27. Mother of All Things - Lisa Thiel
28. Book of Days - Enya
29. Hourglass - Clannad
30. Call it Love - Poco
32. True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
33. Words - Missing Persons
34. Will Love Grow - Donna Lewis
35. Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
36. 3 AM - Matchbox20
37. Hero of the Day - Metallica
38. Mystic Rhythms - Rush
39. Secret Ambition - Michael W Smith
40. Hey Now (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun) - Cyndi Lauper
41. Monsters and Angels - Voice of the Beehive
42. Calling You - Aqua
43. Whatever It Takes - Sinead Lohan
44. Estabas Ahi - Moenia
45. The Power of Goodbye - Madonna
46. Send Her My Love - Journey
47. Nothing At All - Heart
48. Allies - Heart
49. All Through the Night - Cyndi Lauper
50. December Child - Cyndi Lauper
51. The Promise - When In Rome
52. Send Me an Angel - Real Life
53. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad - Deff Leppard
54. Leave Me Alone - the Corrs
55. We Live for Love - Pat Benatar
56. Father of Mine -Everclear
57. Thin Line - Queensryche
58. Another Rainy Night - Queensryche
59. Gonna Get Close to you - Queensryche
60. At The Beginning - Donna Lewis and Richard Marx
61. Spirit of Radio - Rush
62. There She goes - Sixpence None the Richer
63. Stahorn's Passage - Barleyshakes
64. Maria - Blondie
65. What's My Age Again? - Blink 182
66. Never Surrender - Corey Hart
67. Heart - All Eyes
68. Holy Man - Lita Ford
69. Beautiful - Joydrop
70. Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon
71. Crash and Burn - Savage Garden
72. So Young - the Corrs
73. Cowboy Take me Away - Dixie Chicks
74. Spaceship - Angie Aparo
75. The Corrs - Breathless
76. Nina Gordon - Tonight and the Rest of my Life
77. If I Am - 9 Days
78. Southside - Moby with Gwen Stefani (of No Doubt)
79. Waters Edge - by Cyndi Lauper
80. Higher Plane - Cyndi Lauper (forthcoming album)
81. Burn - JoDee Messina )
82. Unforgiven - the Go Gos
83. Hanging by a Moment - Lifehouse
84. Here's to the Night - Eve 6 >P>
85. Every Day - Stevie Nicks
86. Simone - Donna Lewis
87. Heading for the Moon - Cyndi Lauper
and more, which I'll get around to listing someday. Numerical listing does not indicate order of preference, except number one.
What can I say? That song just really gets to me, ok?
To see what's hot on the music charts right now, go to the following site, use the animated graphic below as your passport to this musical website:
To check out the "official" Billboard charts, go to The BillBoard Charts
If you want to order music on-line, you can always shop at CD Now On-line music store But I still love going to PDQ, our local independent used music store, which always has TONS of out of print 45's, record albums, CD's, tapes, 12 inch singles, and movies. If you have local, independent music stores, support them. Don't let the corporate megastores like Borders Books and Music edge the little guys out of business. Borders does have a nice collection of books and some music, but sometimes, the local guys and the used shops have the rare, hard to find stuff like that old eighties tune or seventies song, or rare foreign Scottish marching band music you are looking for. Take the time to shop at one of them. It is amazing what they have. Not all the good music is what's on the top 40 right now. There are so many artists like Aimee Mann, Anne and Nancy Wilson, Mary Fahl, Annie Lennox, and others that are out there making wonderful music that isn't being pushed by megacorporate record labels to the top of the charts.
You need to realize that a song is often forced up the charts by record labels who pay radio stations across America to play the song in heavy rotation, and that makes us run like lemmings to the music stores to buy the latest single or album. Then we think, wow, that artist is so popular. They might be talented, but like the vapid Boy Bands out there who are clones of each other, whose CD's wind up for sale in Burger King (!), they are marketed, designed, and sold to a teen audience, and pushed at us all the time. Of course they are going to top the charts. But a lot of really decent artists like my perennial favorite Cyndi Lauper and so many others are still making excellent music, but they aren't willing to sell out to the corporate moneymakers who try to change their music and image to sell, sell, sell more records and make millions for the label.
Once upon a time, music was about heart and soul and making a song that meant something, not just making millions and dazzling the easily bored American public who move on to a new artist as soon as they are pushed into the spotlight. Think about that!
