My Top 5 New Order Songs

New Order was created in 1980 by the remaining members of Joy Division after the death of lead singer and songwriter, Ian Curtis. Starting as a goth sounding guitar oriented band, they gradually evolved to a mainly electronic sound. Although they never achieved the superstar status of other 80's bands like The Cure and Depeche Mode, they were very successful. I seemed to like their guitar based songs the most.
Here is my top 5.

My Top 5 INXS Songs

INXS is one of my all time favorite bands. I think they would still be making good music today if Michael Hutchence hadn't died so young. The rest of the band were just as much a part of their success as Michael but there is no way they can do anything that comes close to their first 10 albums with another lead singer. Here is my top 5.

My Top 5 REM Songs

 Wow, the last post, of U2 songs has taken off but not for the reasons I expected. It seems that people are very passionate about U2,  some for their love of the band but also for their hatred of the band. Either way, it started some great conversation on Facebook. I will now move on to the next band, REM.
REM is another band that had their "cool unknown" faze, their "move to super stardom" faze and then their "no one seems to care and bored with them" faze. Here is my top 5. Jeff Walter, get ready.

My Top 5 U2 Songs

My Duran Duran post was my most viewed post to date. Not bad for a "Boy Band". Let's see how U2 does. U2 has sold 150 million album since 1980. They went from obscure bar band to one of the biggest selling bands of all time. Every tour gets bigger and bigger. Here's my top 5.

My Top 5 Duran Duran Songs

I thought The Cure would have been the biggest one of these posts, then I did Depeche Mode and it was bigger. Now let's see how Duran Duran does. They've been around for a long time and since they started so young, are still young dudes. They have put out some really good CD's in the last few years (Red Carpet Massacre is one of them). Here is my list.

My Top 5 Depeche Mode Songs

In keeping with my "Top Songs From a Band or an Artist", I decided to go with Depeche Mode. This is another band that went from obscure band to one of the biggest bands of the 80's and 90's. Their early stuff sounded like guys messing around on a Casio keyboard and within a few years they were a huge synth rock band. Here is my list.

My Top 5 Cure Songs

So my last post was so popular, I figured I would keep it going with "The Cure" this time. This one was really hard. I am a huge fan of The Cure and they had so many great songs that I can easily see people not including any of these in their top 5.

My Top 5 Smiths Songs

My good friend Bob "The Wheel" Popik has been getting on me for not including any Smiths Songs on my blog. He's the DJ at Camden Yards so if you ever hear The Smiths or Morrisey while taking in an Oriole Game, that is why. He's obsessed with them.
Back to my blog. I love the Smiths so I'm not sure how they haven't appeared in any of my lists. That being said, I also have not had any Depeche Mode or Led Zeppelin and they are both 2 of my favorite bands. Here are my favorite Smiths songs.

6 Great Songs From the 80's Volume 10

The 80's always are looked upon as one big group of songs but when you look closer you see that it is a much more diverse collection of music. There were the new wave songs, r and b and rock to name a few types. Here are 6 that were in the latter.

5 Great New Songs Volume 8

As I head towards 10,000 page views, some really good music has been released lately, including my early favorite for song of the year. All of these songs have a summer feel to them. Enjoy

5 Most Played Songs In My Music Library

With the advent of digital music, you can find out so much more about your listening habits than would have ever known back in the days of cassette tapes. I have over 98,000 songs and manage them with a program called Media Monkey. One of the great things it does is keep track of the the number of times a song is played, either within the program or in any device I connect to it such as my iPod or Katie or Tina's.
Here are the most played songs in my collection since 2005.

5 Songs On My iPod Volume 17

I'm going crazy. I don't do a post in over a week and tonight I do two. Enjoy

5 Great New Songs Volume 7

It's been a week since my last post. Softball was a common theme keeping me a away. Katie had 3 games, I had 4. Throw in a trip to the beach and a marathon Orioles Weekend and there's not much time for music but here are 5 great new songs. Check them out.