List My Twenty Favorite Live Albums

My Twitter profile even says going to concerts is one of my favorite things to do. I am at a point in my life where I don’t care how much I have to pay for tickets, if there is a show I want to see I’m going. Live music is an exhilarating experience, a chance for a few hours to give the middle finger to work and all of the problems in the world and truly enjoy myself. Here are 20 albums I own that perfectly capture that experience, that feeling of euphoria!

List Twenty Artists To Play At My Dream Music Festival

Oh, another one of those unfair but fun to write dream posts! For a while I was doing a theme called “I just saved Brooke Shields from drowning so I want __________ to play my birthday party” which was a play on the credits from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”. This post will be that theme on steroids, 20 artists to play my dream festival, Tfronkypalooza! Plus of course one song from each artist!

List My Twenty Favorite Songs From The Sixties

This post was ultra rad to do. In my opinion a lot of cool music not only came out of the sixties but influenced a lot of the bands I ended up loving when I was in junior high and started to really appreciate music. This playlist, in my opinion, rivals what I put out there for the seventies, eighties and nineties. Check these out, hope you like some of them and once again, thank you Lisa Nola and Music Listography for the inspiration!

List My Twenty Favorite Songs From The Seventies

I was kind of dreading this post because when I think of seventies music I think of arena rock and disco. Glad I was wrong, I easily thought of twenty tunes that I love so here we go with another decade of my favorite songs. Here they are in no order, just typed this up as I thought of tunes. Thank you once again to Lisa Nola and Music Listography for a great topic!

List My Twenty Favorite Songs From The Nineties

The best thing about the nineties in my opinion was it effectively killed off hair metal. That was a dark way to end my favorite decade of the eighties. Punk rock hit the mainstream, Britpop became popular in the States and of course, grunge became the rage for a spell. A lot of good music came out this decade so let’s get to it!

List My Twenty Favorite Soundtracks

Back in the day soundtracks were a massive thing and a lot of artists got the mainstream success they deserved from being featured on the collection of music from a movie. For me one of the big reasons I love soundtracks is it is a great way to remember various scenes from a movie I like, plus many times soundtrack tunes were not featured on a full-length album from the artist. Thank you Lisa Nola for another great “Music Listography” topic! Let’s see how many of these you remember and rather than bore you with my thoughts I will simply give you the title and one song from it. Hard to pick just one song!

List The First Albums I Ever Owned

I miss those days of walking into the Wherehouse, Tower Records, Roads to Moscow and Musicland to buy albums, those were the main record stores I shopped at in grade school when I had a paper route and could buy my own records. Grateful for Christmas and birthdays to get albums as gifts too! Once I hit high school Columbia House (and I fulfilled my obligation after the 1 cent deal!), Zia Records and Tower, plus Bill’s Records and Audio and Van’s at Metrocenter became my record shopping go-tos. A lot of my Organ Stop Pizza and My Yogurt Place money went to those stores! Great memories and a great topic courtesy of “Listography” from Lisa Nola! BTW It is truly amazing what you can find on YouTube LOL!

List My Twenty Favorite Guilty Pleasures

F you if you think any of these songs are lame LOL. I should not even call these guilty pleasures anymore, at the age of 54 I take great pleasure of listening to any music I think is great, even if the band does not fall into the Britpop, punk rock, indie rock, shoegaze and new wave categories I typically listen to. I won’t even waste your time talking about each track, just know I like them all, love this new playlist and most important, love the fact I got to stretch my musical tastes a bit. FYI – some of these artists have songs I DON’T consider to be guilty pleasures so I tried to pick songs that for me fit the bill. Thank you Lisa Nola and “Music Listography” for a great topic!

List My Twenty Favorite Cover Songs

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Cover songs. I love them, I think it is a wonderful way for an artist to pay tribute to another artist they respect. Sometimes it is better in my opinion for a cover to stay true to the original, other times perfect to do something completely unique and different. Let us take a look at twenty I can listen to over and over, once again inspired by “Music Listography” from Lisa Nola:

List My Twenty Favorite Female Vocalists

Hey everyone. A few weeks ago I posted a list of my twenty favorite make vocalists so let us now discuss the females who have the same effect on me with vocal deliveries that are sweet, powerful, sublime and at times even move me to tears. Disclaimer – artists such as Poison Ivy and Pat Bag are definite favorites but not included since they are not primary vocalists, which is too bad, so without further adieu: