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100 favorite artists and the songs you like them for


Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, Dream On, Ragdoll, etc.

The Beatles - The Long and Winding Road, Come Together, etc.

Chvrches - The Mother We Share, Lies, Recover, etc.

The Cure - Lullaby, Why Can't I Be You, etc.

Def Leppard - Hysteria, Photograph, etc.

Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours, A Question of Lust, Personal Jesus, I Feel You, Enjoy the Silence, etc.

Duran Duran - Ordinary World, A View to a Kill, New Moon On Monday, etc.

Elvis - Suspicious Minds, I Can't Help Falling In Love With You, etc.

Madonna - Live to Tell, Cherish, Frozen, Open Your Heart to Me, etc.

The Miracles - You Really Got a Hold On Me, Ooh Baby Baby, Tracks of My Tears, etc.

Morphine - Candy, You Speak My Language, Cure For Pain, Buena, etc.

Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay, Dreams to Remember, Try a Little Tenderness, etc.

Phil Collins - Take Me Home, Against All Odds, Don't Lose My Number, I Wish It Would Rain Down, etc.

The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Twilight Time, Only You, etc.

Prince - I Would Die 4 U, Diamonds and Pearls, The Beautiful Ones, etc.

The Rolling Stones - Satisfaction, Under My Thumb, She Was Hot, Gimme Shelter, etc.

Roxette - Dangerous, It Must Have Been Love, etc.

The Sex Pistols - Bodies, Holidays In the Sun, Anarchy In the U.K., etc.

The Tubes - She's a Beauty, Talk to Ya Later, Dancin

Van Halen - 5150 (Live), Dreams, Why Can't This Be Love?, Humans Being, etc.

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Like how you put etc after Van Halen. Literally every song they made had the potential to be hits. My favorites are Dance the Night Away, Feel Your Love Tonight and of course Jump

Def Leppard - Lets Get Rocked/Pour Some Sugar On Me/Rock of Ages/Photograph

Poison - Nothin But a Good Time

Prince - Raspberry Beret

Aerosmith - Angel/Sweet Emotion

Journey - Dont Stop Believin

Phil Collins - Take Me Home/In the Air Tonight

Guns N Roses - Paradise City

Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is/Jukebox Hero/Double Vision

Autograph - Turn Up the Radio

Motley Crue - Same ol Situation/Kickstart My Heart/Dr Feelgood/Girls Girls Girls

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Whitesnake - Here I Go Again

Billy Joel - My Life/Tell Her About It/You May Be Right/Piano Man...and many more

*technically Prince isn't rock but I made an exception because thats the only song of his I like (never got into MJ either...rock and roll all the way!)

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100 favorite artists and the songs you like them for
Holy crap. That's a tall order.

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"Meretricious persiflage!" -- D.H. Lawrence

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Only if attempted all at once.

These lists can be works in progress over a year or more.

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Only if attempted all at once.
That's funny! And quite daunting at the same time.

So, as they say, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Frank Zappa:

Mid-1960s: "Trouble Every Day," "Who Are the Brain Police?," "Any Way the Wind Blows," "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here," "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet," "Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin," "Status Back Baby," "Son of Suzy Creamcheese," "Brown Shoes Don't Make It," all of We're Only in It for the Money, "Stuff Up the Cracks"

Late 1960s-Early 1970s: "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague," "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus," "Project X," "King Kong," "Peaches en Regalia," "Son of Green Genes," "The Gumbo Variations," "Little House I Used to Live In," "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue," "Oh No," "The Orange County Lumber Truck"

Mid-1970s: "Transylvania Boogie," "Chunga's Revenge," "Wake/Jawaka," "The Grand Wazoo," "Eat That Question," "Blessed Relief," "Been to Kansas City in A Minor," "D.C. Boogie," "Cheepnis," "Village of the Sun," "Pygmy Twylyte"/"Dummy Up," "St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast"/"Father O'Blivion," "Apostrophe," "Muffin Man," "Inca Roads," "Po-Jama People," "Florentine Pogen," "San Ber'dino," "Andy," "Titties and Beer," "The Illinois Enema Bandit," "The Purple Lagoon," "RDNZL," "The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution," "Filthy Habits"

Late 1970s-Early 1980s: "City of Tiny Lites," "Flakes," "Jones Crusher," "Baby Snakes," "Rat Tomago," "Yo Mama," "Joe's Garage," "Crew Slut," "Catholic Girls," "Wet T-Shirt Nite"/"On the Bus," "Keep It Greasey," "Packard Goose," "Watermelon in Easter Hay," "Variations on the Secret Carlos Santana Chord Progression," "Heavy Duty Judy," "Canard du Jour," "Easy Meat," "Pick Me, I'm Clean," "The Blue Light," "Tinsel Town Rebellion," "You Are What You Is," "Dumb All Over," "Heavenly Bank Account," "Doreen," "Conehead," "Society Pages," "Harder Than Your Husband," "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted"

1980s: "I Come from Nowhere," "Marqueson's Chicken," "Sinister Footwear II," "Be in My Video," "Porn Wars," "What's New in Baltimore?," "Promiscuous," "Jim and Tammy's Upper Room"

You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore series: "Big Swifty," "The Mammy Anthem," "Zomby Woof," "Montana," "Drowning Witch," "Zoot Allures," "Let's Move to Cleveland (Solos)," "A Pound for a Brown (Solos)," "Stevie's Spanking," "Smell My Beard"/"The Booger Man," the doo-wop medley that closes Vol. IV, "Downtown Talent Scout," "No Waiting for the Peanuts to Dissolve," "Advance Romance," "Dirty Love," "Magic Fingers," "Black Napkins," "Thirteen," "Strictly Genteel"

Posthumous releases: most of The Yellow Shark, a lot of Civilization Phaze III





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"Meretricious persiflage!" -- D.H. Lawrence

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Metallica - Master of Puppets, Creeping Death, One

Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills, Number of the Beast, Can I Play With Madness, Wasted Years

Judas Priest - Painkiller, Living After Midnight, You Got Another Thing Coming

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell, Walk, 5 Minutes Alone

Kiss - Rock and Roll All Night, Detroit Rock City, Lick It Up, Creatures of the Night

Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator, Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Part 2, Learning to Fly, Money

Guns N Roses - Welcome To The Jungle, Paradise City, Mr. Brownstone

"Scream for me, Ponyville!"-Iron Maiden

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