Counting Down my iTunes Play Count (VANITY) -- Day #13

AC’s iTunes Directory | 9/2/2024 | Alberta's Child

[Alberta's Child]

Day #13 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I'm posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the next couple of months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so it will take at least ten weeks to do this.

And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity threads like this, I'll be making a contribution for the current quarterly fundraiser. I would encourage everyone on these threads to do the same! :-)

Have fun with this, folks!

[Alberta's Child]

TODAY'S ADDITION TO THE LIST:

#39 -- "Stand Or Fall" by The Fixx ... Click Here (YouTube version)

[Alberta's Child]

List to Date:

#50T -- "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel
#50T -- "Fly Over States" by Jason Aldean
#49 -- "Sara" by Fleetwood Mac
#48 -- Bagpipe Medley by the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (2009 World Pipe Band Championships)
#47 -- "How I'll Always Be" by Tim McGraw
#46 -- "Midnight On The Interstate" by Trampled By Turtles
#45 -- "Your Love" by The Outfield
#44 -- "Ventura Highway" by America
#43 -- "Like A Rock" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
#42 -- "The World I Know" by Collective Soul
#41 -- "Dance the Night Away" by Van Halen
#40 -- "The Gael" from The Last of the Mohicans
#39 -- "Stand Or Fall" by The Fixx

[dfwgator]

Ahhh yes, one of many songs from that period that proclaimed that Reagan would get us all nuked.

[Alberta's Child]

Pinging to those from the previous threads. Kind of interesting how this 80s hit ended up so high on the list. It's probably because it has been in my MP3 collection almost from the very start.

Let me know if you’d like to be added or removed from the ping list!

[Alberta's Child]

Exactly. LOL.

This song sticks in my head from my high school days. One year my locker was in a remote area of hallway right outside the computer lab. That lab was the only place in the school where anyone was allowed to play a radio during school hours, and for some reason I can still hear this echoing through the hallway from one of the local FM stations while upper classmen were working on their computer assignments during school hours.

[dfwgator]

I prefer Red Skies At Night, myself.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Lots of great choices. Being a fan of the 80’s/90’s, I especially like “The World I Know” and “Stand or Fall”.

[Alberta's Child]

Another 1980s-vintage classic!

[Alberta's Child]

I hear ya. You might enjoy many more as we work our way through the list!

[who_would_fardels_bear]

One of the few benefits of growing up in the Los Angeles area is that we had KROQ and KXLU to listen to. Lots of New Wave and Punk, especially with Rodney on the ROQ.

KROQ is useless now, but where else would someone get to hear obscure but listenable bands like "Maurice and the Cliches", "Burning Sensations", "Oingo Boingo" (before Dead Man's Party), and "Martini Ranch"?

How Can the Laboring Man Find Time for Self Culture?"

[ponygirl]

Oh wow… memories of riding to the beach in a friend’s 66 Mustang convertible, all of us screaming the words to “Your Love” by the Outfield. What a summer, right before starting freshman year in college!..

[ponygirl]

The song I remember most for that was Escape Club’s “Wild Wild West.” Gotta live it up, live it up, Ronnie’s got a new gun…

[Fiji Hill]

My personal Top 10 is a tiny bit different from yours.

1. I Promise You--Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys

2. Dream a Little Dream of Me--Wayne King

3. The Song of the Dawn--Paul Whiteman, with the King of Jazz Chorus

4. Wasn't It Beautiful While It Lasted?--Waring's Pennsylvanians, with the Three Girl Friends & Stewart Churchill

5. Tomorrow Is Another Day--Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys

6. Lullaby of the Leaves--George Olsen & His Music

7. Sharing-Kate Smith & the Harmonians

8. I Want to Go Home--The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks

9. Lazy Day--Adrian Schubert

10. Alone & Afraid--Elsie Carlisle

[dfwgator]

Or Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s “Two Tribes” with Reagan and Chernenko wrestling each other.

[MtnClimber]

This is one that I never paid attention to. But, keep it up, I enjoy this thread.

[Fester Chugabrew]

So far I recognize 4 out of 13. Methinks I am older. I branched into jazz listening as college commenced, so the pop songs faded. That is not to say I never listened to some of it, but top 40 material has been largely out of my audio purview especially from 1980 to date.

I hope to explore your selections as time and opportunity allow.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Good mix there, AC. No comment on Aldean and McGraw - wouldn't' recognize any of their songs and not really into new nashville sound.

Gabriel could be higher - awesome musician. I was going to see him in concert, but some of his new stuff is very different than my all time favorites like Solsbury, In Your Eyes, Mercy Street, San Jacinto, Red Rain, Biko, etc. I sold my tix and don't regret it, new stuff seems dark.

PS: The Reagan comment reminds me of Land of Confusion - I think that was before Gabriel left Genesis.

[dfwgator]

Gabriel left Genesis in 1975, that song came out in 1985.

[HonkyTonkMan]

ha! off my 10 years....time flies

[military cop]

I’m in.