IdRatherBeSkiing's Top 20 (Sunday, June 21st, 2020 version)

The last cassette without a file directory created on my computer.

Cassette X
Side 1
The Road to Hell - Chris Rea
Fool (If You Think It's Over) - Chris Rea
(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Runnin' Down a Dream - Tom Petty
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad - Meat Loaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf
Aint Even Done With the Night - John Mellencamp
Jack & Diane - John Mellencamp
Hand To Hold On To - John Mellencamp
The Old Sod - Spirit of the West

Side 2
Chinatown Calculation - Doug and the Slugs
Real Enough - Doug and the Slugs
Who Knows How (To Make Love Stay) - Doug and the Slugs
If You Don't Come - Doug and the Slugs
No No No (Nobody But Me) - Doug and the Slugs
Making It Work - Doug and the Slugs
Rosanna - Toto
Africa - Toto
Diamond Sun - Glass Tiger
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Carry on Wayward Son - Kansas
Dust in the Wind - Kansas

Extras:
Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp
Too Bad - Doug and the Slugs
Day by Day - Doug and the Slugs
 
In another cross thread inspired top 10: INXS

10. Listen Like Thieves
9. The One Thing
8. Meditate
7. Never Tear Us Apart
6. What You Need
5. I'm Just a Man
4. Need You Tonight
3. New Sensation
2. Elegantly Wasted
1. Devil Inside
 
Today another cassette. According to my index file on my PC it was recorded on 1990/12/17&18. Mostly current (at the time) stuff with a few throwbacks. Still very much rock and roll.

Cassette Y
Side 1
Thunderstruck - AC/DC
Once Bitten Twice Shy - Great White
Unskinny Bob - Poison
Something to Believe In - Poison
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Real Wild Child (Wild One) - Christopher Otcasek
The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
The Doctor - The Doobie Brothers
The Other Kind - Steve Earle
F.I.N.E. - Aerosmith
( "Fucked Up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional" )
Janie's Got a Gun - Aerosmith
License To Love - Andy Curran

Side 2
Blaze of Glory - Bon Jovi
Peace in Our Time - Eddie Money
Walk on Water - Eddie Money
Hold on Loosely - .38 Special
Caught Up in You - .38 Special
Love Shack - The B-52's
Channel Z - The B-52's
She Ain't Pretty - The Northern Pikes


(best lines:
She said "Take me home, there won't be no fuss"
I said "Sure you got some change for the bus"
Watching her leave I heard the bartender say
"She ain't pretty she just looks that way"
)
Girl With A Problem - The Northern Pikes
All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You - Heart
(local rock station made version: All I Wanna Do Is Make Cheese Fondue When I hear the song I can still hear those lyrics)
Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy

Extras:
Love in an Elevator - Aerosmith
Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi
Teacher, Teacher - .38 Special
Roam - The B-52's
 
I have decided I will start another countdown thread. And I will do the countdown like sadchild and Jon. They are having too much fun. I will take all my 5 * rated songs on iTunes and order them. It will be my top NNN as of whatever date I complete the ordering. I already anticipate some changes in the top 20 as it has never been completely static.
 
Today a top 10. Supertramp. There is no doubt that Breakfast In America is there be all end all album for me. Almost perfect. All 4 hits made my top 10 (I wil mark with a * in case some of you don't already know) although I am not sure the 4th (the title track) was ever released as a single. I heard it mainly on SatRad and now retro-FM stations well after the fact. It is a cool tune though. Interesting side note, the Fool's Oveture was used as a theme for a Canadian news program W5 for several years. That is how I came to know about the piece of music.

10. Cannonball
9. Bloody Well Right
8. Dreamer
7. * Breakfast in America
6. It's Raining Again
5. Fool's Overture
4. Give a Little Bit
3. * Take the Long Way Home
2. * Goodbye Stranger
1. * Logical Song
 
Today a cassette. Recorded 1991/09/01. Lots of stuff from Thelma & Louise which had a great soundtrack for a mediocre film. I have marked them with a *.

Cassette Z
Side 1
1984/Jump - Van Halen
I Am Here - The Grapes of Wrath
Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead
* Part of Me, Part of You - Thelma & Louise
* Better Not Look Down - B.B. King
* The Ballad of Lucy Jordon - Marianne Faithfull
* LIttle Honey - Kelly WIllis
Something to Talk About - Bonnie Raitt
The Time Of Day - Gino Vannelli
Cruel to Be Kind - Nick Lowe

Side 2
Radio Song - R.E.M.
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Concrete Blonde
Caroline - Concrete Blonde
Joey - Concrete Blonde
Tomorrow, Wendy - Concrete Blonde
Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Guns N' Roses
Wilbury Twist - The Travelling Wilburys

Extras:
Shiny Happy People - R.E.M.
Would I Lie to You - Eurythmics
Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves - Eurythmics
 
Buncha great songs on that one. I know them all except for the Thelma songs, that Gino song, and Grapes Of Wrath.

BTW that Dead song is the only song I like from them, can't stand 'em otherwise personally.
 
sadchild said:
Buncha great songs on that one. I know them all except for the Thelma songs, that Gino song, and Grapes Of Wrath.

BTW that Dead song is the only song I like from them, can't stand 'em otherwise personally.
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I like that Dead album. Only one I got. I'm not a dead head. That song was their only charting hit. They are a one hit wonder (a truer one that most of the other ones they call one hit wonders). Sort of like Rush -- another one hit wonder.

Grapes of Wrath and Gino are both Canadian. Those songs likely didn't cross the border.

The other song from the Dead on the album I like is this one:
 
sadchild said:
Buncha great songs on that one. I know them all except for the Thelma songs, that Gino song, and Grapes Of Wrath.

BTW that Dead song is the only song I like from them, can't stand 'em otherwise personally.
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Not really the band themselves (a lot of their songs are pretty good) but the fanbase.
 
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