Next chunk of Forever Favorites.

 I think it's been six months or so since I posted a batch of this here, I've been trying to be more discerning on Spotify, so here, have the best of the best of the last six months.

 

1.)    Head of the Table-WWE

2.)    Deliverance-WWE

3.)    Drift Away-Rod Stewart

4.)    Teatime Joy (FE3H)-PurpleSchala

5.)    Rose of Jericho-Eddie Vedder

6.)    Try-Eddie Vedder

7.)    Mrs. Mills-Eddie Vedder

8.)    The Dark-Eddie Vedder

9.)    The Muck-K.Flay

10.) April Fool-Slash, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators

11.) Baby, That’s Rock N Roll-Grace McKagan

12.) Liar-Envy of None

13.) Bustle and Flow (Live)-The Dead Daisies

14.) Look Inside-Envy of None

15.) When You Know (Where You Come From) [Acoustic]-Scorpions

16.) Freewill (Live)-Rush

17.) Working Man-Rush

18.) Anthem-Rush

19.) Limelight-Rush

20.) The Spirit of Radio (Live)-Rush

21.) Closer to the Heart (Live)-Rush

22.) Wrecking Ball x Nothing Compares 2 U (Live)-Miley Cyrus

23.) Nothing Breaks Like a Heart (Live)-Miley Cyrus

24.) Burn (Live)-The Dead Daisies

25.) A Hard Working Man-Avila Brothers, Billy Ray Cyrus, Snoop Dogg

26.) Fly on the Wall (Live)-Miley Cyrus

27.) I’m Coming Out-Diana Ross

28.) I’m Every Woman-Chaka Khan

29.) We’ve Got Tonight (Live)-Idina Menzel, Charles Kelley

30.) I Will Always Love You (Live)-Dolly Parton

31.) Hate My Heart-Carrie Underwood

32.) Poor Everybody Else-Carrie Underwood

33.) Broken Horses-Brandi Carlile

34.) Mainstream Kid-Brandi Carlile

35.) You and Me On The Rock-Brandi Carlile, Lucius

36.) Raise Hell-Brandi Carlile

37.) Stay Gentle-Brandi Carlile

38.) Crushcrushcrush-Paramore

39.) Mississippi Queen-Mountain

40.) Mississippi Queen-Ozzy Osbourne

41.) Mississippi Queen-Slash and Marc LaBelle

42.) Why Dontcha-Steve Morse and Ronnie Romero

43.) The Doctor-Robby Krieger and Ronnie Romero

44.) Jolene (Live)-Miley Cyrus

45.) Mother’s Daughter x Boys Don’t Cry-Miley Cyrus, Anitta

46.) Denim & Rhinestones-Carrie Underwood

47.) Crazy Angels-Carrie Underwood

48.) Imagine-Julian Lennon, Nuno Bettencourt

49.) Livin’ the Life-Steel Dragon (Jeff Scott Soto-vocals, Zakk Wylde-guitar, Jeff Pilson-bass, Jason Bonham-drums)

50.) Faith-Stevie Wonder, Ariana Grande

51.) Her Body is Bible-FLETCHER

52.) Red Tide-Rush

53.) Hopelessly Devoted to You-Olivia Newton-John

54.) Since I’ve Been Lovin’ You (Live 1972)-Led Zeppelin

55.) Every Beginning Ends-Noah Cyrus, Ben Gibbard

56.) Fans-Big Lugg, Yuri Lowenthal, Tara Platt

57.) Dub Love-Big Lugg, Yuri Lowenthal, Tara Platt

Music Update 8/25/2022 and 8/26/2022 releases

                Well, another Thursday has come and it’s time for musical updates.  Last week had great albums from Big Lugg and Yuri Lowenthal with Tara Platt and Cissy Jones contributing the best tracks and a great hard rock album from Demi Lovato that reminded me of the work of Lzzy Hale and Halestorm.  Sammy Hagar and the Circle released a good single, as did a new supergroup called Killer Kings, though the credit for that belongs to Joel Hoekstra of Whitesnake, who played the guitar solo.  Allison Russell also teamed up with Brandi Carlile for a good single, and an old live version of Creedence’s “Fortunate Son” was also released.

 

               Today, August 25^th, is also a special day for me in music.  It is Billy Ray Cyrus, Rob Halford (lead singer of Judas Priest) and Vivian Campbell’s (former Dio, current Def Leppard and Last in Line guitarist) birthday all at once.  All three have contributed heavily to my favorite music since I began listening to it more seriously, creating many songs and albums I’d rather not live without.  So, Happy Birthday, you three and enjoy your amazing lives.

 

               Another thing of note is I mentioned Tara Platt has three MP3s, if you’ve been paying attention, she has two songs on the album last week.  That’s because almost a decade ago, she sang a song for the web series “Shelf Life” she made with Yuri Lowenthal and Travis Willingham (yes, THAT Travis Willingham).  It’s called “Famous in my Heart” and it’s a cutesy pop song sung in her Elizabeth voice from Persona.  She raps on the album last week in her Temari/Mitsuru/Edelgard voice (since it’s supposed to be from Temari’s perspective), but having spent so much time with Edelgard, I told her it was a little strange to me to hear that voice rap because Edelgard is a character who you assume listens to arias and choral music, but other than that, it was great work.  She liked and retweeted.

 

               This week we have a boxset of archives from Blondie, a live recording from 1974 by the Charlie Daniels Band and a Deluxe Edition of the soundtrack to “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!”  There were also singles earlier this week from Larkin Poe, Rina Sawayama and Tegan and Sara for their upcoming albums, Rina’s releases September 16^th, Tegan and Sara’s drops October 21^st and Larkin Poe’s is scheduled to be released on Veteran’s Day.