1. Doja Cat – Paint The Town Red

I’m really loving the way “Walk on By” by Dionne Warwick is incorporated right at the start. Doja Cat brings such a strong attitude to this track. The inclusion of “Walk on By” creates a wonderfully relaxed vibe throughout. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying everything I’ve heard from Doja Cat up to this point.

2. Shelby Lynne – Miss You Sissy

Ms. Lynne started out country but went down to the Sheryl Crow road later in 1999. I love this entire album, I Am Shelby Lynne and listened to it frequently back in the day. I urge you to check it out if you are fan of Sheryl Crow and similar artists. This song I was not familiar with but enjoyed it’s Sunday music kind of vibe.

3. DNCE – Can You Feel It

I shouldn’t like this track but it’s a bit irresistible probably because I think Joe Jonas is cute lol! Yes, this was a dance pop band he was the lead singer for before he got back with his brothers. I didn’t see this movie, My Little Pony The Movie, either and probably won’t lol. It wasn’t my thing back in the eighties. It’s your typical dance pop song but hey, anything to put a smile on your face and make your feet move right?

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Here is the list at least:

Songs to Remember:

1. Fruit – Oliver Sim
2. I Started a Joke – Low
3. The Bandit – Kings of Leon
4. Shotgun – Soccer Mommy
5. Come Back – Trombone Shorty
6. Ain’t No Man – The Avett Brothers
7. Not Your Lover – Blitzen Trapper
8. First few Sheryl Crow albums
9. Die Hard – Kendrick Lamar
10. Purple Hearts – Kendrick Lamar
11. Auntie Diaries – Kendrick Lamar
12. Mirror – Kendrick Lamar
13. The Heart Part 5 – Kendrick Lamar
14. Wet Leg – Entire album
15. Anything But Me – MUNA
16. Stop Making This Hurt – Bleachers
17. New To You – Calvin Harris w/Normani, Tinashe & Offset
18. Bad Love – DEHD
19. Down With Me – Eleganza!
20. Break My Soul – Beyonce
21. Jiggle Jiggle – Duke & Jones
22. As It Was – Harry Styles
23. About Damn Time – Lizzo
24. Bad Habit – Steve Lacy
25. Sunroof – Nicky Youre & Dazy
26. First Class – Jack Harlow
27. Bad Decisions – Benny Blanco, BTS & Snoop Dogg
28. Late Night Talking – Harry Styles
29. I Like You (A Happier Song) – Post Malone feat Doja Cat
30. Heat Waves – Glass Animals
31. Titi Me Pregunto – Bad Bunny
32. I Ain’t Worried – One Republic
33. Something He Can Feel – Aretha Franklin
34. All of Maggie Rogers
35. Changes – Sugar
36. Tegan and Sara
37. Going Through the Motions – Aimee Mann
38. Telegram Sam – T Rex
39. Change – Djo
40. Make Me Feel – Janelle Monae
41. Stabilise – Niufer Yanya
42. Motor Away – Guided By Voices
43. Anything But Me – MUNA
44. Take A Minute – Why Not
45. All Pretenders Songs (Research)
46. Booty City – Black Joe Lewis and The Honeybears
47. All of Florence and the Machine (research)
48. All of Spoon (research)
49. Big Time – Angel Olsen
50. All of REM (research)
51. All of Bruce Springsteen (research)
52. All of Wet Leg (research)
53. All of Weezer (research)
54. Miles and Miles – The Heavy Heavy
55. Old Billy Idol
56. Pearl Cadillac – Gary Clark Jr
57. All of Chvrches (research)
58. All of Death Cab for Cutie (research)
59. Windows Are Rolled Down – Amos Lee
60. All of LCD Soundsystem (research)
61. All of Lizzo (research)
62. All of The Rolling Stones (research)
63. All of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (research)
64. All of Dinosaur Jr (research)
65. Making Me Crazy – Colin Bracewell
66. All of Belle and Sebastian (research)
67. All of White Stripes
68. All of Jack White and Raconteers
69. All of Tame Impala
70. Echo Party – Sylvan Esso
71. All of Beastie Boys
72. Please Remain Calm – Cloud Cult
73. Mystery – Turnstile
74. So Typically Now – U.S. Girls
75. All of Bob Mould
76. All of Husker Du
77. All of Sugar (1990s)
78. Political Song For Michael Jackson to Sing – Minutemen
79. All of The Black Keys
80. All of Queens of the Stone Age
81. All of Mitski
82. All of Bill Withers
83. “Singles” soundtrack
84. All of Paul Westerberg
85. All of The Replacements
86. Make a Picture – Andrew Bird
87. All of The National
88. Russian Doll – Gully Boys
89. All of Sam Fender
90. All of My Morning Jacket
91. Early Kings of Leon
92. All of The Animals
93. All of Adele
94. Lazy Eye – Silversun Pickups
95. All of Yaz
96. Jeans On – David Dundas
97. All of the Lemonheads
98. All of the Screaming Trees
99. All of Staind
100. All of Van Halen
101. All I Ever Wanted – Basshunter
102. Sweet Soul Music – Arthur Conley
103. All of Brian Knight
104. All of Stone Temple Pilots
105. Starry Eyes – The Records (all of them)
106. All of Steve Miller
107. Jam On It – Newcleus
108. All of Matthew Sweet
109. All of Kendrick Lamar
110. All of Hot Chip
111. The Otter – Caamp
112. All of L7
113. Fascinated – Company B
114. All of Foo Fighters
115. All of Jackson 5
116. All of John Mellencamp (Cougar)
117. All of Janelle Monae
118. Sean Paul Hits
119. All of Christina Aguilera
120. All of Joe Cocker
121. Paula Abdul hits
122. All of Blink 182
123. I’m Free – Soup Dragons
124. I’ve Seen All Good People – Yes
125. Some of Phil Collins hits
126. Some of Genesis Hits
127. All of Veruca Salt
128. Some of Roxy Music
129. All of The Standells
130. All of Cracker
131. Some of Hall & Oates
132. All of Morphine
133. All of Joe Walsh
134. All of Maximo Park
135. All of The Outfield
136. All of Violent Femmes
137. All of Radiohead
138. All of Puddle of Mudd
139. All of Hot Hot Heat
140. All of Beck
141. Fooled Around and Fell in Love – Elvin Bishop
142. All of Rufus & Chaka Khan
143. All of Chaka Khan
144. All of Sarah McLachlan
145. Some of Savage Garden
146. All of Judas Priest
147. All of Vertical Horizon
148. Some of The Grateful Dead
149. 80’s Chicago
150. All of Faith No More
151. All of Howard Jones
152. All of Fats Domino
153. All of The Doors
154. Some of Hootie & The Blowfish
155. All of Shelia E
156. Some of The Cars
157. I Got A Man – Positive K
158. All of Sublime
159. Some of The Temptations
160. All of Phantom Planet
161. All of Spacehog
162. All of Peter Murphy
163. All of Heart
164. All of 311
165. All of George Jones
166. All of Tammy Wynette
167. All of George and Tammy Duets
168. All of Loretta Lynn
169. All of Dolly Parton
170. All of Garth Brooks
171. Some of Kenny Rogers
172. All of Dwight Yoakum
173. Some of Bob Seger
174. All of Altered Images
175. Some of Taylor Swift
176. All of The Motels
177. Friendly Fires – Paris
178. Lido Shuffle – Boz Scaggs
179. All of The Move
180. Some of Korn
181. Some of U2
182. The Boy From NYC – The Ad Libs
183. Let It Rock – Kevin Rudolf ft Lil Wayne
184. All of Chuck Berry
185. All of Fleetwood Mac
186. All of The Plimsouls
187. All of Toad the Wet Sprocket
188. My People – The Presets
189. All of The Flaming Lips
190. All of Peter Gabriel
191. All of The Grass Roots
192. All of Nirvana
193. Some of Boston
194. Devil in A Blue Dress – Mitch Ryder
195. All of Kaiser Chiefs
196. Some of DJ Jazzy Jeff
197. All of The Stranglers
198. Some of Huey Lewis
199. All of Talk Talk
200. All of Ray Charles
201. All of Echo & The Bunnymen
202. Some of Solomon Burke
203. All of Tom Petty
204. All of Stevie Nicks
205. All of The Who
206. Some of Brenda Lee
207. All of The Talking Heads
208. Some of John Lennon solo
209. Most of the Beatles
210. All of Iggy Pop
211. Some of James Taylor
212. All of Incubus
213. All of Traffic
214. All of Wolfmother
215. All of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
216. All of The White Stripes, Jack White, etc
217. All of The Police
218. Some of Sting
219. All of Janet Jackson
220. Some of Earth, Wind and Fire
221. Some of Rancid
222. Some of Bruno Mars
223. Some of Merle Haggard
224. Some of Journey
225. All of Destiny’s Child
226. Some of Beyonce
227. Some of Kelly Rowland
228. Do What You Wanna Do – T-Connection
229. All of The Ramones
230. Most of Michael Jackson
231. Some of Rebbie Jackson
232. Some of Jermaine Jackson
233. Most of Whitney Houston
234. Most of Celine
235. Most of Laura Branigan
236. One hit of Narada
237. Most of ONJ
238. All of Prince
239. All of Weeknd
240. All of Nada Surf
241. She May Call You Up Tonight – The Left Banke
242. All of Metric
243. Not An Addict – K’s Choice
244. Faith Evans
245. Depeche Mode
246. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
247. Neil Young
248. The Damned
249. America
250. Massive Attack
251. Listen To Your Heart – D.H.T
252. Roy Head
253. Shirley Ellis
254. Motley Crue
255. Gang of Four
256. Jefferson Airplane
257. Mockingbird – Inez & Charlie Fox
258. Foreigner
259. Everlast
260. Shirley Bassey
261. Lucky Man – Emerson, Lake and Palmer
262. Counting Blue Cars – Dishwalla
263. Country Joe & The Fish
264. Blues Traveler
265. Sade
266. Ben Folds and Ben Folds Five
267. Britney Spears
268. The James Gang
269. Slick Rick
270. Smack That – Akon ft Eminem
271. Oingo Boingo
272. Blame It – Jamie Foxx ft T-Pain
273. 80’s Billy Idol
274. Two of Hearts – Stacey Q
275. Shania Twain
276. Sex Pistols
277. Jumper – Third Eye Blind
278. Sean Kingston
279. Never Say Never – Romeo Void
280. The Smiths
281. Kool & The Gang
282. Usher
283. The Moody Blues
284. Aerosmith
285. Stereophonics
286. Wham!
287. George Michael
288. Hank Williams
289. The Streets
290. N.E.R.D
291. Marvin Gaye
292. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
293. Kiss
294. Mariah Carey
295. Blur
296. Cake
297. Elton John
298. Bush
299. Finger Eleven
300. Pearl Jam
301. Nirvana
302. Justin Bieber
303. Alanis Morrissette
304. Metallica
305. Morrissey
306. M.I.A
307. Missy Eliot
308. Monkees
309. A few of Lynard Skynard
310. Crowded House
311. St.Vincent
312. Pink
313. Johnny Cash
314. Fats Domino
315. Donovan
316. George Clinton
317. Art Brut
318. Some Village People
319. Some Frank Sinatra
320. Some of The Association
321. Double Dutch Bus – Frankie Smith
322. Pussycat Dolls
323. Eden Kane
324. I Wish – Skee Lo
325. Kesha
326. Jewel
327. Bad Boys – Alexandra Burke
328. James Brown
329. Rod Stewart
330. The Monks
331. Nick Lowe
332. Coco Jamboo – Mr President
333. Clarence Carter
334. Alley Oop – The Hollywood Argyles
335. Fergie
336. Status Quo
337. Nick Glider
338. Katy Perry
339. TLC
340. Some Spin Doctors
341. I Wanna Be a Hippy – Technohead
342. Some Everclear
343. Manfred Mann
344. Queensryche
345. Ooo Child – The Five Stairsteps
346. B-Witched
347. Kiesza
348. Muse
349. Some Faith Hill
350. Nelly Fertado
351. Mandolay – La Flavour
352. Speeding 72 – Momma
353. Holiday – Turnstile
354. Is There A Ghost – Band of Horses
355. Collide – Nur-D
356. Sonic Youth
357. ELO
358. SNAP – Rosa Linn
359. White Horse – Laid Back
360. Rilo Kiley
361. The Style Council
362. Ministry
363. Bette Midler
364. Tiffany
365. Debbie Gibson
366. System of A Down
367. The Velvet Underground
368. Lou Reed
369. Shakespears Sister
370. The Go Go’s
371. The Bomb! – The Bucketheads
372. The Runaways
373. The Kinks
374. 2 Unlimited
375. Joy Division
376. Talk Dirty to Me – Jason Derulo ft 2 Chainz
377. Poison
378. Bon Jovi
379. White Lion
380. Whitesnake
381. Hair Metal research
382. The Byrds
383. The Dandy Warhols
384. Salt N Pepa
385. Sister Sledge
386. Kylie Minogue
387. Silence is Golden – The Beths
388. All of Phoenix
389. All of Stevie Wonder
390. The Raconteurs
391. Smashing Pumpkins
392. Pink Venom – Blackpink
393. Big Energy – Latto
394. Bailey Zimmerman
395. Ed Sheeran
396. Last Night Lonely – Jon Pardi
397. Like I Love Country Music – Kane Brown
398. Yung Gravy
399. Jelly Roll
400. Numb Little Bug – Em Beihold
401. Zach Bryan
402. Charlie Puth
403. Numb – Marshmello, Khalid
404. Victoria’s Secret – Jax
405. Halsey
406. Sia
407. Free Mind – Tems
408. Elliot Smith
409. Clarence “Frogman” Henry
410. The KLF
411. Robbie Williams
412. INXS
413. Coldplay
414. Franz Ferdinand
415. Spice Girls
416. New Order
417. Simon Says – 1910 Fruitgum Company
418. Calvin Harris
419. Rihanna
420. J. Geils Band
421. Pulp
422. Alien Ant Farm
423. The Hollies
424. Roxette
425. Taylor Dayne
426. Paul Simon
427. Ooh Ahh…Just A Little Bit – Gina G
428. Nicki Minaj
429. John Denver
430. Sugababes
431. Fun Lovin Criminals
432. The Lemonheads
433. The Exciters
434. Elvis Presley
435. Loverboy
436. Gotta Tell You – Samantha Mumba
437. Boot Scoot and Boogie – Brooks and Dunn
438. Erasure
439. Janet Jackson
440. John Cale
441. The New Pornographers
442. The Libertines
443. Rapture – iiO
444. Petula Clark
445. Bonnie Raitt
446. Avril Lavigne
447. Rude – Magic
448. Charlie Brown – The Coasters
449. The Black Crowes
450. Just What I Always Wanted – Mari Wilson
451. Madonna
452. Public Image Limited
453. Guns N Roses
454. Robyn
455. Demi Lavato
456. Led Zepplin
457. Boys 2 Men
458. Natasha Bedingfield
459. Mitski
460. Breathless – The Corrs
461. Everything But the Girl
462. Bob Segar
463. The Beach Boys
464. Eryka Badu
465. Interpol
466. Right Said Fred
467. Wings
468. Iggy Pop
469. Arctic Monkeys
470. Bebe Rexha
471. Hole
472. Bob Marley
473. Al Green
474. Lesley Gore
475. Jann Arden
476. Cheryl Cole
477. Lulu
478. Personality – Lloyd Price
479. Colbie Caillat
480. The English Beat
481. Duran Duran
482. Tracy Chapman
483. Anastacia
484. REM
485. The Stone Roses
486. Warm Leatherette – The Normal
487. Elastica
488. Matthew Sweet
489. Tori Amos
490. DEHD (research)
491. Billy Bragg
492. Lissie
493. The Smithereens
494. Tears for Fears
495. The Postal Service
496. The Breeders
497. Fitz and the Tantrums
498. The Walkmen
499. Run DMC
500. Garbage
501. Concrete Blond
502. Melissa Etheridge
503. KD Lang
504. Indigo Girls
505. Hedwig
506. Rufus Wainwright
507. California Love – Tupac
508. I Hate U – SZA
509. Red Hot Chili Peppers
510. Lorde
511. Lenny Kravitz
512. My Chemical Romance
513. Washed Out (Portlandia)
514. Elvis Costello
515. Outkast
516. Gorillaz
517. Sufjan Stevens
518. Joe Jackson
519. Lana Del Rey
520. Billie Holiday
521. The 1975
522. Hippo Campus
523. Modest Mouse
524. Chastity Brown
525. Da Butt – E.U.
526. Vampire Weekend
527. Suzi Quatro
528. Joan Jett
529. JD McPherson
530. PLAINS
531. The Killers
532. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
533. Sly and the Family Stone
534. Sudan Archives
535. Jimi Hendrix
536. Julia Jacklin
537. The Clash
538. Amanda Shires
539. Billie Eilish
540. Sinead O’Connor
541. Nilufer Yanya
542. Jet (Are you Gonna Be My Girl)
543. The Darkness
544. Nilsson
545. Monica LaPlante

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I’m going to start with Paul Simon’s “Kodochrome” 1973. Not only does this song speak in colors, it evokes specific colors that Kodachrome cameras produced at the time of their invention. Here are the colors and images mentioned directly in the song:

“They give us those nice bright colors” (Bright colors from 1973):

“Give us the greens of summers“:

“Sunny Day”:

“Everything looks worse in black and white“:

“Kodachrome”:

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June 1972-1979

1. “Song Sung Blues” – Neil Diamond I do love Neil even though he can be very cheesy at times. He is part of my childhood especially the album and movie “The Jazz Singer”. This is just one of those nice tunes to chill with, move your head a little bit. A good humming song when taking a walk.

2. “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” – Roberta Flack A timeless classic that just evokes deep love and connection between two people.

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“Something Real” – Alison Wonderland

“Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)” – Arcade Fire

“Nothing’s All The Time” – Ashley Kutcher

“Western Wind” – Carly Rae Jepsen

“Manny” – Ball Park Music

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“Skyline” – Khalid

“It’s Only Love, Nobody Dies” – Sofia Carson

“That That” – Psy (prod & feat. SUGA of BTS)

“Sleeping With My Friends” – Gayle

“Tell Me the Truth” – Two Feet

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As with most of my posts, this will be an ongoing post as I try to highlight albums that I find interesting from 1972. Since I was just a baby, of course these didn’t affect me at that time. But I do feel it’s the blueprint that will become the music I like and loathe in the future. Many of these artists will still have strong careers in my youth music listening years of the eighties and nineties. I will also include country music along my main interests in pop and rock. My mother kept a small transistor radio on 24/7 that had country music playing around the clock. What is now considered “classic country” is a huge influence in my musical upbringing. Let’s get started! My source is from Wikipedia. Click here for the link!

1. Jamming With Edward – is a 1972 album by three Rolling Stones band members (Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman) accompanied by Nicky Hopkins and Ry Cooder. Released on January 7, 1972. The title does not lie, this is definitely jam music and of course very good jam music from some of rock’s best. Out of the six tracks, these are the ones I like best:

“Edward’s Thrump Up”

“Highland Fling”

2. Home Is Where the Music Is – Hugh Masekela Home Is Where the Music Is is a 1972 jazz and Afrobeat double LP by Hugh Masekela issued by the joint American label Chisa/Blue Thumb Records. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It was release on January 15, 1972. I have never heard of this album or artist but then again I can’t say that I am very familiar with jazz and Afrobeat BUT upon the first minute into song one, I’m friggin’ hooked! I am not a huge fan of jazz (I’ve said it’s too “busy” for me) but this is some really amazing music that I highly recommend if you are open to it. Here are some of the tracks I really dig:

“Part of A Whole”

“Minawa” – This track is so nice, easy, delicate sounding. Reminds me of the beginning of spring. Or a day filled with good memories to cherish for the future.

“Maseru” – Simply wonderful and magical!

“Inner Crisis” – There is not a weak track on this album!!

3. Blue Oyster Cult (Self Titled Album) – “is the eponymous self-titled debut studio album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on January 16, 1972 by Columbia Records. The album featured songs such as “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll“, “Stairway to the Stars”, and “Then Came the Last Days of May”, all of which the band still plays regularly during its concerts. Despite positive reviews, the album failed to chart for some time before finally cracking the Billboard 200 chart on May 20, 1972, peaking at No. 172. Blue Öyster Cult toured with artists such as The Byrds, Alice Cooper and the Mahavishnu Orchestra to support the album.” I have generally liked all the hits of BOC but I’m not such a fan that I know their whole catalog. But into track one, I’m feeling that heavy metal and psychedelic rock. Here are the tracks I like:

“Then Came the Last Days of May” – a very chill, groovy track. If you aren’t feeling this vibe, you never will.

“Before the Kiss, a Redcap”

“Cities On Flame with Rock and Roll” – classic rock at it’s finest and their debut single!

“Redeemed” – A folksy rock song as a last track to a decent album. Toke up for this one!

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1967 – Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.

Aretha Franklin – “Respect” This debut on the Hot 100 Billboard chart at #50 the week of April 28, 1967.

1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.

Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon (Full Album):

1986 – High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.

David Bowie – “Time Will Crawl” This song was inspired by the events of Chernobyl.

1988 – Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle “C.B.” Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane’s fuselage rips open in mid-flight.

The Verve – “Blue Pacific Ocean” Decided to try and find a song that connects with this horrible event and felt this one lyrically and mood wise captures this tragedy perfectly. R.I.P Ms. Clarabelle “C.B.” Lansing. She was described as a very sweet and dear person and co-worker.

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1978 – John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

Music Backdrop: (Which one pairs best with this event?)

#1 Song on Pop Chart that week:

Bee Gees – “Night Fever”

#1 Country Song that week:

Kenny Rogers & Dottie West – “Every Time Two Fools Collide”

#1 R&B song that week:

Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams – “Too Much Too Little Too Late”

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Charlie Puth – “Light Switch“

Aurora – “A Temporary High“

Griff X Sigrid – “Head on Fire“

Purple Disco Machine, Sophie and the Giants – “In The Dark“

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