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LOL! (Reply to this comment)
by three_ster
That was a mean thing to do to wait to give us the #1 AND THEN tease us with Deep Blue Something....LOL
Great list man.
--Ryan (three_ster)
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Aug 11 '05
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NO AL GREEN!!!!! (Reply to this comment)
by ChrisJarmick
Oh there's lots of omissions and there's plenty of tacky overwrought songs in your list-- AND COUGH COUGH swayze is there...but we are entitled to our guilty pleasures.
However... no Al Green in your top 10?
In your top 20?
WHAT?!?
(You did slip in Marvin Gaye which is good and maybe you don't listen to enough MoTown or R&B and that's okay, you also don't include some great classics like Ella's Someone to Watch Ove Me, or any versions of things like Easy to Love or They Can't Take that Away From Me or.... oops.. your list not mine)
No AL GREEN?
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Feb 10 '04
7:01 pm PST
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Tim Babe (Reply to this comment)
by kristinafh
Your psychotic...Air Supply and Patrick S.???!?!?
Now I'm gonna have to compile my own list.
Grrrr...as IF I don't have 3000 other reviews to write ;). Kristina
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Dec 06 '03
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Wonderful Trip!!! (Reply to this comment)
by AinsleyJo
This is a wonderful trip through love songs both old and new!
I can see that you're a lot like I always was--both in-tune with my own music and that which my folks listened to as young people (only the "old fogie" music is what your mom, myself, and other members of our version of "the older generation" refer to as "the oldies").
My mom hasn't yet gotten the courage to drive my minivan, but, back when I was driving a regular car, she would sometimes drive it when hers was on the blink, and she told me that she really thought I had a beautiful radio station on and wondered what it was--said that it played music back when music was really music.
She'll be 82 this coming April--and what she was referring to was Gold 104.5 (a.k.a. the oldies station out of Indianapolis)--so there has been very little generation gap around our place when it came to the songs of my times, as well.
She likes the music of performers such as The Beatles, The Carpenters, Simon & Garfunkel, etc.--while I couldn't believe, as I was growing up, how many of my peers hated The Lawrence Welk Show while I was tuning it in and swooning over Myron Floren!!!
Musically Yours!
AJ :o)
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Dec 06 '03
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Okay, so this is the part... (Reply to this comment)
by plorentz
... where we reassess your work and tell you all the things you screwed up, right?
Here goes:
1. I would have switched "Lost and Love" and "Even the Nights are Better" and probably replaced the latter with "Making Love Out of Nothing At All". Just my preference.
2. What? Nothing by the Association? "Never My Love" needs to be somewhere in the Top 20.
3. "Take on Me"! Awesome, ya dun good.
4. I would've replaced "Hard Habit to Break" with "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" by Chicago. But I love both of 'em to bits, so that's okay.
5. Thank you thank you thank you for Erasure at Number One! That made my day. Although, I think my personal favorite love song (aren't they all love songs) by Erasure is "Rock Me Gently" from their underappreciated 1995 self-titled disc (which they affectionately call their Pink Floyd album).
Terrific list!
-Paul
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Dec 03 '03
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this was one heck (Reply to this comment)
by jo.com
of an amazing piece of work. Good for you. I applaud your work. jo
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Dec 03 '03
2:37 pm PST
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Take On Me (Reply to this comment)
by MattBjorke
is a ringtone on my cell phone and there ARE times when I can Almost hit THAT note :eek:
nice list.
Matt
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Dec 02 '03
11:27 pm PST
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Congratulations, sweetie... (Reply to this comment)
by katmar
You put together an awesome list. Thank you.
I didn't know a lot of these songs. "Time In A Bottle" and "Alone" are favorites, though. But I was very sad that I didn't know the top song. :(
That's not your fault, though!
Anyway, great job, and I hope you're feeling better.
Love you!
Marsha
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Dec 02 '03
7:31 pm PST
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hey! (Reply to this comment)
by drdevience
Am I the only one in the world who loves Breakfast at Tiffany's??
I need to school you people. yeesh.
Great job Tim, as always.
Doc, grinning
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Dec 02 '03
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Re: Excellent choices, Tim! (Reply to this comment)
by flamepillar
Mike: Yeah, I didn't know whether to say I freeze or I melt when that song comes on!
Jenn: Next list? Probably the one where I check to see who's been naughty and who's been nice :)
Sheila: Oh MAN! That is a good one. Probably in another few months or years, I'll "evolve" into really liking that one; for now it just kind of goes "over my head", but it's still an excellent tune, no doubt about that.
yak: I totally appreciate all your comments, dude. You're far ahead of your age bracket to be able to admit to even remotely liking that song! Way to go I say! And I'll have to check out "Ride of the Valkyrie", I know I've heard of it but I'm not sure if it's the song I think it is.
Mom: Stad digs Todd Rundgren, who would've thunk it? That's just too cool. It's all your fault that the Carpenters are on this list! Ever since the first time I heard you play that after who knows how many years of not hearing it, it was like feeling something I hadn't felt since I was three years old, and I'm not talking about sub-zero temperatures either! Love you to pieces!
openroad: You're way too kind :) I'm sure if you heard "I Saw The Light" you would recognize it, they still play it just about everywhere! I'm still digging "Time in a Bottle" more and more even in this last week...
clark: Yeowzah, another one! Truth be told, as much as I love the song, the overplay has really messed it up for me. But still if I had been thinking I'm sure I could've found a place for it. I suppose it's never too late... hmm, I'll think about it!
iltas: I've heard a few of Terence's songs and liked them, so this'll definitely be on my "to do" list. Thanks!
Blobaroni: I guess I gotta see that Master and Commander now, that HUZZAH is kind of addictive...
Oleg: I think it's so cool how much knowledge you have of our music.. I didn't figure anyone would even know what song "Stars" was! I sure didn't until I read a review here. The more of Sting's music I hear, the more I understand just how much variety there is to his music... and "Fortress" threatens to crumble, especially with some of this "Sacred Love" stuff chipping away at its top spot in my head! Elevation DVD, 'eh? Check. Dear Santa...
:)
Gael: Glad you liked it :) I stole the idea from at least two other people around here who did the same thing, foxy_shy being one and I think Stairway2Drew was the other, I'm not sure. What makes matters even worse, I probably wouldn't have thought of "Love Songs 101" if it weren't for madtheory's "Hip Hop 101".
TTFN and thanks a million to everyone! I'd shoot fireworks from the highest mountain for all of yas if I could!
Tim
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Dec 02 '03
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Excellent choices, Tim! (Reply to this comment)
by gaelkm,  in Music
...and I loved the suspense! :))
~gael
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Dec 02 '03
9:10 am PST
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Well, (Reply to this comment)
by foxy_shy
First off - congrats on feeling better. Secondly, this was a superb closer to what really is a great Top 101.
Thanks for this one, man.
Hooray to Chicago (although I like some other their songs more, but still), and the balls to place it one step behind U2. Well done :D !! I too have always thought of Beautiful Day as a love song..
Get the Elevation DVD, you won't regret it.
Stars has never been one of my favorite songs, but it is a beautiful song nonetheless, I absolutely agree. So Fortress be the key cut from Sting, eh? A great pick.. I guess thanks to you I'm beginning to notice there's more too this song than I ever did see before.
Backstreet Boys? Hell, I used to love this song, and the band too. Check my latest review to read more about my cheesy loves, heh heh. I think the first BB cd was their best - well, but there was some creativity goin', right?
I haven't heard the No. 1 song. I really ain't. Sorry :) Can't comment on that. Or maybe I have but I can't remember it now.
Wow, but that was something. Let's do it all again someday?
~O~
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Dec 02 '03
5:23 am PST
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Huzzah! (Reply to this comment)
by bob_tomato
Fab list, wonderfully fab!
"Jealous Guy" - most excellent!
"Fortress Round Your Heart" - doubly most excellent!
glad you're feeling better...
BTK
Andrew
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Dec 02 '03
4:10 am PST
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Excellent list! (Reply to this comment)
by iltas
Wonderfully composed list, although there were a few surprises here or there.
One of my favourites, which unfortunately wasn't on your list, is Terence Trent D'arby's Holding on to you. I thoroughly recommend you listen to it, if you haven't already. Here's just a little sample of the lyrics.
Fat painted lips on a live wire beauty
A tangerine girl with tambourine eyes
Her face was my favourite magazine
Her body was my favourite book to read
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Dec 02 '03
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by clarkparker
Come on...where was Foreigner - I wanna know what love is? Great list...but missing an essential. (unless it was there and I just missed it.)
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Dec 02 '03
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Great job (Reply to this comment)
by foxy_shy
I mean Man it rocked..
I'll comment thoroughly later :) See ya soon!
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Dec 01 '03
11:40 pm PST
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5 huzzahs for Tim! (Reply to this comment)
by openroad
I didn't say hurrah because I'm still stuck on the HMS Surprise after seeing Master & Commander. Of course no one on His Majesty's ship would ever say hurrah, so here we go!
Huzzah!
Huzzah!!
Huzzah!!!
Huzzah!!!!
HUZZAH!!!!!
You've put a lot of work into this list, and given us a look at what songs you enjoy most.
#18 Beautiful Day is a great song, I guess I feel the same way you do about it... only you said it better. " flying across the sky at Mach 10 and absorbing oodles of energy" :)
#11 Time In A Bottle A classic, and one I always enjoy hearing on the radio. Ol' Jim has a few great ones up his sleeve, but this is still my favorite song of his.
#8 Quit Playing Games With My Heart Come on, what were you thinking! Jeez, I mean a boy band song? Okay, no one is paying attention now... Tim, I kinda liked this song too. :) I don't like it anymore because I've heard it at least 54,288 times on the radio, but if it's not overplayed to death it's a very well sung song. I still say it's too "written for success" and polished to be a great song, but I can see why it's popular to some people.
#3 I Saw The Light WAIT, you mean Todd Rundgren sang something besides I Don't Want To Work? I swear, I've never heard another song by this guy, and I don't think I've heard this one. I'll trust you on this one Tim, but for me Todd will always mean IT'S FRIIIIIIIIIDAY! :)
Nice try with the fake #1, I didn't think you would do that to us.
Great work Tim, it's been a fun few days. Glad you're feeling better and hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
Openroad
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Dec 01 '03
9:14 pm PST
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So glad.... (Reply to this comment)
by nedipooh
you're feeling better. Been worried 'boutcha all day.
The Spinners, Climax Blues Band and the Carpenters....man, I love it. You did a fantastic job with your mix between the old and the new. And Bobby thanks you so much for including Todd Rundgren in there...that's his favorite. Great job, Tim!!! Love Ya!
8-)
~~Mom~~
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Dec 01 '03
3:49 pm PST
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Love Songs (Reply to this comment)
by skbreese
Oh no, unless I missed it, you left out one of my favorites- Billy Joel's I Love You Just The Way You Are. It's an understated masterpiece, and I love the jazzy melody. Interesting list. Sheila
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Dec 01 '03
11:21 am PST
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Tim. (Reply to this comment)
by shilmafone
You're my hero.
Just thought I'd say.
I (heart) "Jealous Guy".
--Mike
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