Playlist for 9/17

Bruce Springsteen - Lost Albums (box set) 

Barbra Streisand - Partners Vol. 2

Sheila Jordan - Portrait of Sheila

Willi Carlisle - Winged Victory

Lorde - Virgin

Charley Pride - Cover Story

Buddy Guy - Ain't Done With the Blues

Bob Stanley presents Chip Shop Pop - Various (Ace)

Billy Joel And So It Goes (2025 Documentary)

Ranking: Songs from Beatles - Rubber Soul (65)

   Released at the end of 1965, Rubber Soul just might be my favorite Beatles album.  It's hard to pick just one, but this album has stuck with me throughout my life. This is the album the group moved forward with different sounds and some lyrical twists.  

  I'm ranking the UK version which has 14 tracks.  The US version had 12 songs.  But the UK version is stronger all around. 

1.  In My Life

2.  Norwegian Wood

3.  Drive My Car

4.  If I Needed Someone

5.  You Won't See Me

6.  Nowhere Man

7.  Michelle

8.  I'm Looking Through You

9.  Run For Your Life

10.  Think For Yourself

11.  The Word

12.  Girl

13.  Wait

14.  What Goes On 

Poll: July 1971 Songs

  The latest poll I voted on was for songs from July 1971.  A month earlier we moved to Mannheim, Germany from North Carolina.  My Army Dad got stationed in Germany.  Even at 7 years old I was starting to hear songs that would stay with me for a lifetime.  AT40, which was on in Germany, helped.  

"It's Too Late", Carole King : 1
"Rainy Days And Mondays", Carpenters : 2
"It Don't Come Easy", Ringo Starr : 3
"Take Me Home, Country Roads", John Denver (with Fat City) : 4
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)", Marvin Gaye : 5
"Wild Horses", Rolling Stones : 6
"I Feel The Earth Move", Carole King : 7
"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again", Fortunes : 8
"How Can You Mend A Broken Heart", Bee Gees : 9
"Brown Sugar", Rolling Stones : 10
"Want Ads", Honey Cone : 11
"Treat Her Like A Lady", Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose : 12
"That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", Carly Simon : 13
"When You're Hot, You're Hot", Jerry Reed : 14
"Mr. Big Stuff", Jean Knight : 15
"Beginnings", Chicago : 16
"Funky Nassau", Beginning Of The End : 17
"Never Ending Song Of Love", Delaney & Bonnie & Friends : 18
"Sooner Or Later", Grass Roots : 19
"Hot Pants (She Got To Use...)", James Brown : 20
"Don't Pull Your Love", Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds : 21
"You've Got A Friend", James Taylor : 22
"She's Not Just Another Woman", 8th Day : 23
"Don't Knock My Love", Wilson Pickett : 24
"Draggin' The Line", Tommy James : 25
"I'll Meet You Halfway", Partridge Family : 26
"Signs", Five Man Electrical Band : 27
"Colour My World", Chicago : 28
"Bring The Boys Home", Freda Payne : 29
"You've Got A Friend", Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway : 30
"Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)", Raiders : 31
"Sweet And Innocent", Donny Osmond : 32
"Double Lovin'", Osmonds : 33
"Nathan Jones", Supremes : 34
"K-Jee", Nite-Liters : 35
"Spanish Harlem", Aretha Franklin : 36
"Love The One You're With", Isley Brothers : 37
"I Don't Want To Do Wrong", Gladys Knight & the Pips : 38
"Sweet Hitch-hiker", Creedence Clearwater Revival : 39
"Summer Sand", Dawn : 40
"Puppet Man", Tom Jones : 41
"What The World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin & John", Tom Clay (with the Blackberries) : 42

Pop Radio Gold

Tom’s Top Albums of 1995

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

Beatles - Anthology 1 

Bjork - Post

Bonnie Raitt - Road Tested

Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter 

D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

Dwight Yoakam - Gone

Elastica - s/t

Elliott Smith - s/t

Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball

Elton John - Made In England

Foo Fighters - s/t

Garbage  - s/t

Garth Brooks - Fresh Horses

Green Day - Insomniac

Guy Clark - Dublin Blues 

Highwaymen - Road Goes On Forever

Joan Osborne - Relish

John Prine - Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings 

Kirsty MacColl - Galore

Mariah Carey - Daydream 

Martina McBride - Wild Angels

Mavericks - Music For All Occasions

Michael Jackson -  History

Moby - Everything Is Wrong 

Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory

Pavement - Wowee Zowee

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

PM Dawn - Jesus Wept

Prince - Gold Experience 

Pulp - Different Class

Radiohead - The Bends

Ramones - It’s Alive

Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves

Randy Newman - Faust

Selena - Dreaming of You

Shania Twain - Woman In Me

Simply Red - Life

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Son Volt - Trace 

Sonny Landreth- South of I-10

Steve Earle - Train A Comin’

Stevie Wonder - Conversation Peace

Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix 

Tricky - Maxinquaye

Trisha Yearwood - Thinkin' About You

Waiting to Exhale - Various (Soundtrack)

Playlist for 9/1

Doobie Brothers - Walk This Road

Van Morrison - Remembering Now

Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Sings Walkin' and Talkin'

S.G. Goodman - Planting By the Signs

Wet Leg - Moisturizer 

Haim - I Quit

Grace Potter - Medicine

Neil Young - Talkin To The Trees

James McMurtry - Black Dog and the Wandering Boy

Lukas Nelson - American Romance

Kelsey Waldon - Every Ghost