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"Kentucky Rain". I wish the Pet Shop Boys had remade it the same time they remade "Always On My Mind".

( And This Is A Vid To Watch FRAME-BY-FRAME! )

I think this was my favorite song of the whole 1970s decade. Nothing else seems to come close.

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I doubt they have ever had a "major role", but I have a number of favorites:

Diesel "Sausalito Summer Night"
Ace "How Long (Has This Been Going On)"

(The more research I do, the more I see that acts I thought of as One-Hit Wonders actually...weren't. And in the other responses I see some people are counting bands that weren't One-Hit Wonders either. A great many had long careers overseas and then only crossed over to America for one or two songs. Do they count or not? *shrug*)

"#1: List the first lyrics of the first fifteen songs that you hear on your music player of choice, throwing out the ones where the title is in the first line, that don't have lyrics, that no one has a chance in hell of getting, or that are in languages you don’t speak.

#2: See who gets it. Particularly difficult (IMO) songs are marked with asterisks."

(I had to modify this, as I don't have a "player"...and I was fretting that I might not have enough music CDs. Okay, here goes:)

1) Gotta catch up, that's okay, but they got me workin' night and day
2) Move yourself, you always live your life, never thinking of the future--"Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes (PWNED by thegameiam)
* 3) Little Boy Blue come blow your horn, the beds are made but the sheets are torn
4) Her hair is hollow gold, lips a sweet surprise--"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes (Spied by mravac_kid)
* 5) Life is so strange, when you don't know
6) If I had a mind to, I wouldn't wanna think like you
7) There is freedom within, there is freedom without, try to catch the deluge in a paper cup--"Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House ("Hey Now"-ed by cygnia)
8) I used to think maybe you loved me, now baby, I'm sure--"Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina and the Wave (brightly stepped by vsprtn)
9) I hear the drums echoing tonight, cheers only whispers of some quiet conversation--"Africa" by Toto (Brought Back Alive by thegameiam)
* 10) Why are you in such a hurry? Is it really worth the worry?
11) Looking in your eyes I see a paradise, this world that I found is too good to be true
12) You gave me love, you did me wrong, I didn't know what to do
* 13) You are the love of my life, you are my inspiration
* 14) The deception with tact, just what are you trying to say?
15) Hey, don’t worry, I’ve been lied to, I’ve been here many times before

I don't think any of these songs are more recent than 1990.

Hey.

This virus refuses to go quietly. So instead of attempting to occupy your fervent minds directly, I'll just grab something out of my hard drive and see if you readers (I think there's more than one, but I can't be sure) can help me.

I have space in my compact disk travel case for 14 CDs. Below is my very long list of favorite songs. Now I know that I can't fit all of them onto 14 CDs, but I'd like to know which 14 would include the best combination of these songs. So here we go:

FAVORITE SONGS (Alphabetized by Artist)

* Blowing Kisses In the Wind (Paula Abdul)( Read more... )
* Velcro Fly (ZZ Top)