Replies

TODAY'S ADDITION TO THE LIST:

#8 -- "Hysteria" by Def Leppard ... Click Here (remastered 2017 YouTube version)

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
#38 -- "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
#37 -- "Midnight Rider" by The Allman Brothers Band
#36 -- "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" by Procul Harum
#35 -- "Gathering Crowds" from This Week in Baseball
#34 -- "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle
#33 -- "Suddenly Last Summer" by The Motels
#32 -- "Time Stand Still" by Rush
#31 -- "Nothing Left To Lose" by Mat Kearney
#30 -- "In a Big Country" by Big Country
#29 -- "New York City Serenade" by Bruce Springsteen
#28 -- "Who'll Stop the Rain?" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
#27 -- "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)" by John Mellencamp
#26 -- "It's All I Can Do" by The Cars
#25 -- "Talk Of The Town" by The Pretenders
#24 -- "Going To California" by Led Zeppelin
#23 -- "Into The Mystic" by Van Morrison
#22 -- "The Fire Inside" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
#21 -- "Heard It In A Love Song" by The Marshall Tucker Band
#20 -- "Find Your Way Back" by Jefferson Starship
#19 -- "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" by Grand Funk Railroad
#18 -- "Take It Back" by Pink Floyd
#17 -- "Mandolin Rain" by Bruce Hornsby & The Range
#16 -- "More Than A Feeling" by Boston
#15 -- "Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
#14 -- "Sullivan Street" by the Counting Crows
#13 -- "Take It To The Limit" by The Eagles
#12 -- "Waiting On A Friend" by the Rolling Stones
#11 -- "A Pirate Looks At Forty" by Jimmy Buffett
#10 -- "Never Surrender" by Corey Hart
#9 -- "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses" by Kathy Mattea
#8 -- "Hysteria" by Def Leppard

Pinging to those from the previous threads. Back in 1990, this one wouldn't have even been among my Top 250. Something clicked in my mind over it when I heard it once while traveling in Alberta, and it's been a favorite of mine ever since. The guitar tracks on this one are exceptional. This may be the most overrated song from the 1980s.

To this day, I can't hear it without instantly being brought back to a trip south out of downtown Calgary on Macleod Trail late on a November Friday night. A light snow fell and the lights and sounds of the legendary Ranchman's Saloon were saying a fond farewell as I drove past it for the last time until my next trip out there.

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

My Countdown

3: Rock 'N Roll by Great White

2: Ready Teddy by Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets

1: Money (That's what I want) by The Babys

I dug around in the laundry room and under the couch cushions and found $20 bucks to throw in to this one. I like pleasing the boss.😎

Def Leppard is a recently acquired taste for me. During the time they were popular, I was more into New Wave/Alternative and so it was easy to dismiss the "hair bands" of that era but I am definitely appreciating a lot of their songs now.

My #8 song is "Big Log" by Robert Plant. When this song was popular, I was stationed in the Mojave Desert with the Marine Corps. There was a dive bar in Niland, CA, I believe, or it could have been Brawley or El Centro, where I first heard this song. By the way, that truly is a wonderfully desolate area populated with a lot of hippie girls that I could write threads about!

Anyway, the video for this song, filmed not too far from that area, always takes me back to those days.

Robert Plant - Big Log (1983)

This song is off Plant's "The Principle Of Moments" album and I believe this was the musical direction Led Zeppelin was headed towards if John Bonham had not died, breaking up the band. If so, we missed out on a lot of great Led Zeppelin music.

Here is my list so far...

#50 - Jack's Mannequin - The Lights And Buzz (2005)
#49 - The Cars - It's All I Can Do (1979)
#48 - Lobo - Me And You And A Dog Named Boo (1971)
#47 - Zach Bryan - Oklahoma Smokeshow (2022)
#46 - Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky (1970)
#45 - Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (1989)
#44 - Night - Hot Summer Nights (1979)
#43 - Rocky Burnette - Tired Of Toein' The Line (1980)
#42 - Emmylou Harris - Pancho And Lefty (1976)
#41 - Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me (1985)
#40 - Tom Petty - Refugee (1979)
#39 - Coldplay - Clocks (2002)
#38 - The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies (1991)
#37 - Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down (1970)
#36 - Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (1978)
#35 - Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling (1975)
#34 - The Doors - Riders On A Storm (1971)
#33 - Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You (1981)
#32 - Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning (1973)
#31 - Opus - Live Is Life (1985)
#30 - Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (1973)
#29 - Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat (1976)
#28 - America - Sister Golden Hair (1975)
#27 - The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (1981)
#26 - Gary Numan & The Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric (1979)
#25 - David Bowie - Width Of A Circle (1970)
#24 - Haircut 100 - Love Plus One (1982)
#23 - Outlaws - Ghost Riders In The Sky (1980)
#22 - Renaissance - Carpet Of The Sun (1973)
#21 - Tom Petty - Here Comes My Girl (1979)
#20 - Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way (1977)
#19 - Nillson - Everybody's Talkin' (1969)
#18 - Jason Aldean - Fly Over States (2010)
#17 - The Fifth Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (1969)
#16 - Weezer - Buddy Holly (1994)
#15 - Juice Newton - Angel Of The Morning (1981)
#14 - Sting - Soul Cake (2009)
#13 - Sniff 'n' The Tears - Driver's Seat (1979)
#12 - U2 & Pavarotti - Miss Sarajevo (1995)
#11 - Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying (2004)
#10 - Asia - Heat Of The Moment (1982)
#9 - Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (1978)
#8 - Robert Plant - Big Log (1983)

I know I am of the minority opinion here, but I never cared for Mutt Lange as a producer.

AC/DC was much better when Vanda and Young produced them.