What are you listening to now? V5 (Part 1)

Mental As Anything - The Nips Are Getting Bigger (1979)

Mental As Anything - If You Leave Me ( 1981)

Mental As Anything - Live It Up (1985)

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Last songs of the Holidays…

Taylor Swift - Christmas Tree Farm (youtube.com)

Here It Is Christmastime (From “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special”) (youtube.com)

John Lennon -So This Is Christmas, War Is Over (Lyrics) (youtube.com)

Oh what the hell, and one for Cyndi, Merry Christmas!

The Night Santa Went Crazy (youtube.com)

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Not music, but…

Honest Action - Home Alone (youtube.com)

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Okay, I know I said that was the last of the Christmas toons, but this one was too good to wait for next year.

Santa, When The Claus Fell (youtube.com)

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Postmodern Jukebox - What Are You Doing New Years Eve?

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A classic forgotten Paul Mccartney tune. The middle of the song drags on a bit, but the intro and outro are good.

Paul McCartney “1985” from One Hand Clapping 1974- Stereo (youtube.com)

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Happy new year!

Time for another look back at years past.

10 years ago:

Juliana Hatfield - Mountains of Love

Koan Sound - Lost In Thought

Nickel Creek - Destination

Pink Floyd - Louder Than Words

Sarah McLachlan - Broken Heart

Tensnake - No Colour

Tycho - Awake

Weird Al - Word Crimes

20 years ago:
AKUS - Wouldn’t Be So Bad

Delays - Wanderlust

Juliana Hatfield - Because We Love You

Mark Knopfler - Boom, Like That

World of Warcraft - Teldrassil
My first WOW character was a night elf (the one I’m posting from, in fact) so this was some of the first WOW music I ever heard & is still one of my favorites out of all the music they’ve done over the years.

Viktor Krauss - For A Good Time

The Wailin’ Jennys - Something To Hold Onto

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I had a real hard time narrowing down the lists for 30 & 40 years ago to something reasonable, so I added a bunch of Honorable Mentions for each.

30 years ago:
Alice In Chains - No Excuses

The Golden Paliminos - Pure
(managed to find one that didn’t have the album cover)

Joni Mitchell - Sex Kills

Loreena McKennitt - Full Circle

Love Spirals Downward - Will You Fade

Madonna - Bedtime Story

Maire Brennan - Dream On

The Pretenders - Night In My Veins

Sarah McLachlan - Elsewhere

Honorable Mentions:
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
Eric Clapton - I'm Tore Down
Happy Rhodes- Collective Heart
Low - Lullaby
Luscious Jackson - Citysong
Lush - Lovelife
MC 900 Ft Jesus - If I Only Had A Brain
Michel Petrucciani - Looking Up (Live)
Pink Floyd - What Do You Want From Me
Seal - Prayer For The Dying

40 years ago:

Art of Noise - Close (To The Edit)

Ebn Ozn - AEIOU Sometimes Y

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome

Howard Jones - New Song

The Human League - The Lebanon

The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang

Ricky Lee Jones - Jukebox Fury

Rush - Red Sector A

Sade - Hang On To Your Love

Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

Honorable Mentions:
ABC - Be Near Me
Andreas Vollenweider - Phases of the Three Moons
The Bangles - Hero Takes A Fall
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Bruce Springsteen - My Hometown
Bryan Adams - Run To You
Christine McVie - Got a Hold on Me
David Bowie - Loving The Alien
Devo - R U Experienced
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
General Public - Tenderness
Huey Lewis & The News - The Heart of Rock & Roll
Prince & The Revolution - Take Me With U
The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost In You
Public Image Limited - The Order Of Death
Queen - Hammer To Fall
Romeo Void - Never Say Never
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime (from Stop Making Sense)
The Time - Jungle Love
Van Halen - Panama
Weird Al - Eat It
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50 years ago:

Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces

The Doobie Brothers - Black Water

The Eagles - Already Gone

Frank Zappa - I’m The Slime
(I learned just a few days ago that Tina Turner & The Ikettes are doing the background vocals on this)

Gordon Lightfoot - Carefree Highway

Jethro Tull - Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day

Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark (the whole album)
(sorry, couldn’t single out one song off this album, it’s that good)

Ohio Players - Fire

Robert Palmer - Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley

Steely Dan - Rikki Don’t Lose That Number

Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman

60 years ago:

Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto ft. Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Girl From Ipanema

Martha Reeves - Dancing In The Streets

The Who - I Can’t Explain

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psytrance is a great genre and this is one of my favorite albums

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Great song when you are about to quit wow!

Time for Me to Fly (youtube.com)

Having made that lame joke, I remember long ago one of the band members saying this song was originally titled “Time For Me To Die.” It was supposed to be a suicide song but the corporates thought that was too dark and depressing.

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Foggy Mountain Spaceship - Linus & Lucy

and Mark Kroos:

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And if those were too laid back for you, here’s a version that’s a bit more metal from Gary Hoey:

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never mind one of you all already link that one
Frank Zappa - I’m The Slime lol love that one

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Something from the current list.

Lauren Daigle – Turbulent Skies (youtube.com)

Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (Music Video) (youtube.com)

Pitbull, Nile Rodgers - Freak 54 (Freak Out) (Official Video) (youtube.com)

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Creekside Sessions: Twin Tribes

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Soulshine | Warren Haynes | Song Around The World | Playing For Change (youtube.com)

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It’s a song for Diablo, but I really feel like it works for the Forsaken too.

Between Heaven and Hell by Miracle of Sound

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