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Honoring 5 Years on Epinions - JAGUARDOG's Fave Musicians A-Z W/OJun 6, 2005 Write an essay on this topic.
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Music is one of my favorite pastimes. If you were to look in my CD collection, you’d realize that my taste varies on many different levels when it comes to music. I think when you have wide range of preferences in each genre; it makes you a whole person. So, when I got an invitation to join JAGUARDOG’s first ever write-off to list my favorite artists from A-Z, I immediately jumped at the opportunity. While working on this list, I realized that I really enjoy music and I hope never to lose that passion. I also realized it wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be. But, I love a challenge, and this was a great exercise for my brain. Congrats to Ron on 5 years plus on Epinions and on his first ever write-off. I know it’s going to be a success. The rules are however you interpret them, but for argument's sake, the basic premise is to list at least 3 artists representing each letter (male, female, group), but it’s whatever floats your boat. Looking over my list, I’ve got so many, you might stop after B, but like I said, music is a big part of my life. So, without further adieu, here’s my list of Favorite Musical Artists of All Time A-Z: A Al B. Sure! – Night and Day Paul Anka – Put Your Head on My Shoulder Paula Abdul – Forever Your Girl, Cold Hearted, Rush Rush Christina Aguilera – I Turn to You, Beautiful ABBA – Dancing Queen, Chiquitita, Angeleyes Ace of Base – All That She Wants, It’s a Beautiful Life Aerosmith – Cryin, Walk this Way, Angel, Love in an Elevator Air Supply – All Out of Love Atlantic Starr – Secret Lovers, Always Az Yet – Last Night B Babyface – Whip Appeal, When Can I See You Chuck Berry – My Ding-a-Ling, Johnny B Goode Beck – Loser, Where It’s At Harry Belafonte – Day-O, Shake, Shake, Shake Senora, Mamma Look a Boo-Boo James Brown – I Feel Good, I Got the Feeling, Please, Please, Please, Try Me, Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag Solomon Burke – Cry to Me Toni Basil – Mickey Pat Benetar – We Belong, Love is a Battlefield Beyonce – Crazy in Love Mary J. Blige – Real Love, My Life Brandy – I Wanna Be Down Toni Braxton – Breathe Again Backstreet Boys – Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely, I Want it That Way Bangles, The – Walk Like an Egyptian, Eternal Flame Barenaked Ladies – One Week, Pinch Me Beach Boys, The – Kokomo, Surfin' USA, California Girls Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right to Party, Girls, Sabotage Beatles, The – Drive My Car, When I'm 64, Yellow Submarine Bee Gees – How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Shadow Dancing, Staying Alive Bell Biv DeVoe – Poison, Do Me Berlin – Take My Breath Away Blackstreet – No Diggity, Don't Leave Blondie – Heart of Glass, The Tide is High Bon Jovi – Living in Sin, Bad Medicine, Living on a Prayer Boyz II Men – On Bended Knee, It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday Brandy & Monica – The Boy is Mine Breathe – Hands to Heaven C Eric Carmen – Hungry Eyes Johnny Cash – If I Were a Carpenter, A Boy Named Sue Ray Charles – Georgia on My Mind, What’d You Say Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven, Layla (unplugged version) Nat King Cole – Unforgettable Phil Collins – Against All Odds, Easy Lover Sam Cooke – Cupid, Chain Gang, Wonderful World, Bring it on Home to Me Coolio – Gangsta’s Paradise Alston Beckett Cyrus – Teaser Mariah Carey – Vision of Love, So Blessed, Music Box, Hero, Butterfly Cher – I Found Someone, Believe, Strong Enough Patsy Cline – Crazy, She’s Got You Sheryl Crow – Strong Enough, Every Day is a Winding Road Captain and Tennille – Love Will Keep Us Together Chicago – Hard for Me to Say I’m Sorry Color Me Badd – I Wanna Sex You Up Contours, The – Do You Love Me Commodores, The – Brick House, Three Times a Lady Culture Club – Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me Crests, The – 16 Candles Crystals, The – (And then) He Kissed Me D Terrence Trent D’Arby – Wishing Well, Sign Your Name Sammy Davis, Jr. – The Candy Man Chris DeBurgh – Lady in Red Chaka Demus – Chaka Demus on De Move, Murder She Wrote Skeeter Davis – Gonna Get Along Without You Now Taylor Dayne – I’ll Always Love You, Love Will Lead You Back, With Every Beat of My Heart Dido – Thank You, Here With Me Celine Dion – The Power of Love, To Love You More, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now Dee-Lite – Groove is in the Heart Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me, Love Bites Destiny’s Child – Bills, Bills, Bills, Independent Women, Say My Name, Survivor Devo – Whip It Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come on Eileen Dixie Chicks, The – Sin Wagon DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince – Parents Just Don’t Understand, Summertime Doobie Brothers, The – What a Fool Believes Drifters, The – Save the Last Dance for Me, Sand in My Shoes, Under the Boardwalk Duran Duran – Hungry Like the Wolf E Duane Eddy – Rebel Rouser Eminem – Slim Shady, Lose Yourself, Cleaning out my Closet Yvonne Ellman – If I Can’t Have You Enya – Only Time Gloria Estefan – Mi Tierra, Coming Out of the Dark, Reach Melissa Etheridge – Come to My Window, I'm the Only One Eagles, The – Hotel California Earth, Wind & Fire – Fantasy, Serpentine Fire, September Enigma – Return to Innocence En Vogue – (My Lovin’) You’re Never Gonna Get it, (Giving Him) Something He Can Feel, Hold On Eurythmics, The – (Sweet Dreams) Are Made of This Everything But the Girl – Missing Extreme – More Than Words F Kirk Franklin – Stomp, My Life is In Your Hands Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly, I Feel Like Making Love to You Aretha Franklin – Respect, Natural Woman Fifth Dimention, The – Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, (Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All Four Tops, The – (Reach Out) I’ll Be There Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers – Why Do Fools Fall in Love Fugees, The – Killing Me Softly, Ready or Not G Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes, Sledgehammer, Shock the Monkey Marvin Gaye – Got to Give it Up, Piece of Clay, Ain’t no Mountain High Enough, Let’s Get it On, I Heard it Through the Grapevine, Stubborn Kinda Fellow, (How Sweet it Is) To Be Loved by You Johnny Gill – My My My, Wrap My Body Tight Al Green – Let’s Stay Together Gladys Knight & The Pips – Midnight Train to Georgia, If I Were Your Woman Guns ‘n Roses – November Rain, Sweet Child o’ Mine, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City H MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This Jimmy Hendrix – Foxy Lady Buddy Holly – That’ll Be the Day, Peggy Sue Lauryn Hill – (Doo Wop) That Thing Whitney Houston – Greatest Love of All, How Will I Know, I'm Your Baby Tonight, It's Not Right (But It's Okay), My Love is Your Love, Heartbreak Hotel Hall & Oats – I Can’t go for That, One on One, Private Eyes, Maneater Heart – Barracuda, These Dreams, Alone I INXS – Need You Tonight, Devil Inside, Never Tear Us Apart, New Sensation Isley Brothers – Between the Sheets J Michael Jackson – Working Day and Night, She’s Outta My Life, Thriller, Beat It, and all his albums Rick James – Superfreak, Give it to Me Baby Billy Joel – Piano Man, River of Dreams, Uptown Girl, And So it Goes, Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel), Baby Grand Quincy Jones – Just Once, Secret Garden Elton John – Candle in the Wind, Daniel, Sad Songs (Say So Much) Etta James – At Last Janet Jackson – Control, If, Let’s Wait a While, That’s The Way Love Goes and all her albums Journey – Open Arms K Ben E. King – Stand By Me Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away, Are You Gonna go My Way, Thinking of You Alicia Keys – Fallin’, You Don’t Know My Name, Heartburn, If I Ain’t Got You Chaka Khan – I’m Every Woman, I Feel for You, Through the Fire Carol King – I Feel the Earth Move, Now and Forever L John Lennon – Imagine Little Richard – Rip it Up, good Golly Miss Molly LL Cool J – Around the Way Girl, Hey Lover, Mama Said Knock You Out, Doin’ It, Loungin’ Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Time After Time, She-Bop Little Eva – The Loco-Motion M Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting, Angelia, Endless Summer Nights, Now and Forever, Touch of Heaven, and all of his albums Clyde McPhatter – Treasure of Love Sergio Mendes – Never Gonna Let You Go George Michael – Father Figure, Faith, I Want Your Sex, Freedom 㣾 Madonna – Crazy for You, I’ll Remember, Like a Virgin, Take A Bow, and all her work Bette Midler – The Rose, Wind Beneath My Wings Bob Marley and the Wailers – Stir it Up, Buffalo Soldier, Redemption Song, Duppy Conqueror, and all his music Miami Sound Machine – Cuts Both Ways, Anything for You, Here We Are, Conga, Rhythm is Gonna Get You Mickey & Sylvia – Love is Strange Milli Vanilli – Girl You Know it’s True, Girl I’m Gonna Miss You (Yeah, I know they were fake, but so what?!?!?!) Mr. Mister – Broken Wings N Ricky Nelson – Traveling Man Notorious BIG – Hypnotize Olivia Newton-John – Have You Ever Been Mellow New Edition – Boys to Men, Is This The End, Jealous Girl, Popcorn Love Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit *NSYNC – Girlfriend, Pop, This I Promise You, Up Against the Wall O Billy Ocean – Suddenly, Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) Joan Osbourne – One of Us, St. Theresa Oasis – Wonderwall Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy), Why Don't You Get a Job O'Jays, The – Love Train P Prince – When Doves Cry, Purple Rain, and all his work Penguins, The – Earth Angel Platters, The – Twilight Time, Great Pretender Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn Police, The – Every Breath You Take, Roxanne Q Queen Latifah – Ladies First, U-N-I-T-Y Queen – Another One Bites the Dust, Bohemian Rhapsody R Shabba Ranks – Twice My Age, Trailer Load ‘a Girls, Ting-a-Ling Otis Redding – (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay Lionel Ritchie – Endless Love, Hello, Penny Lover, Stuck On You, All Night Long REO Speedwagon – Keep on Loving You Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody, You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling S Neil Sedaka – Oh Carol, Breaking up is Hard to Do Shaggy – Boombastic, It Wasn’t Me Will Smith – Just the Two of Us, Men in Black, Wild, Wild West, Miami, Gettin' Jiggy Wit It Cat Stevens – Peace Train, Wild World Rod Stewart – Forever Young, Do You Think I’m Sexy Sting – Fields of Gold, When We Dance, Fragile Salt ‘n Pepa – Push It, Let’s Talk About Sex, Shoop Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You (Before I Met You), Truly, Madly, Deeply Shirelles, The – Will You Love Me Tomorrow Supremes, The – Where Did Our Love Go, Someday We’ll Be Together T James Taylor – You’ve Got a Friend Tina Turner – Private Dancer, What’s Love Got To Do With It, Let’s Stay Together Shania Twain – You’re Still the One, From This Moment, Any Man of Mine, Man, I Feel Like a Woman Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart Temptations, The – Ain't too Proud to Beg, My Girl, Just My Imagination, Papa Was a Rolling Stone U UB40 – Red Red Wine U2 – I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, With or Without You, One USA for Africa – We Are the World V Luther Vandross – Here and Now, Never Too Much, Dance with My Father Billy Vera – At This Moment Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby W Andrew Lloyd Webber – Music of the Night, Don’t Cry for Me Argentina Dionne Warrick – Walk on By, I’ll Never Love this Way Again, I'll Say a Little Prayer for You, That's What Friends are For Vanessa Williams – Save the Best for Last, Love Is LeAnn Womack - I Hope You Dance WAR – Low Rider, Spill the Wine Wham – Careless Whisper, A Different Corner, I’m Your Man X Xscape – Who Can I Run To? Y "Weird Al" Yankovic – Fat, Like a Surgeon, Eat It Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart Z ZZ Top – Legs I figured I'd better stop now, otherwise I'd have to consult Billboard for more references. There are still plenty of other artists and songs that I absolutely love, but to list them all would really take forever (and this has already taken a couple of days) but I think you get the point. I love music, music is a big part of my life and it will continue to be a big part of my life until my dying days. Whew, this was a challenge and lots of fun. Thanks again to Ron for the invitation and much success on your very first write-off. Be sure to check out all the other participants as well. Wow, 4 write-off's in a row...I think this is a first for me. Take care and thanks for reading.  |
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