Saturday, July 30, 2022

Lizzo “About Damn Time” hit #1

About Damn Time

Lizzo

Writer(s): Blake Slatkin, Eric Frederic, Larry Price, Malcolm McLaren, Melissa Jefferson, Ronald Larkins, Stephen Hague, Theron Makiel Thomas (see lyrics here)


Released: April 14, 2022


First Charted: April 23, 2022


Peak: 12 US, 13 AC, 12 A40, 40 AA, 15 RB, 3 UK, 2 CN, 3 AU, 12 DF (Click for codes to charts.)


Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, 0.6 UK, 375 world (includes US + UK)


Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 196.0 video, 836.20 streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

R&B singer, rapper, and flutist Lizzo was born Melissa Viviane Jefferson in Detroit, Michigan, in 1988. In 2019, her two-year-old song “Truth Hurts” became a viral sleeper hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100. Then her song “Good As Hell” from 2016 also became a delayed success, peaking at #3. Both songs were added to deluxe editions of her third studio album, Cuz I Love You.

Three years later, her fourth album, Special, was released. The lead single, “About Damn Time,” became Lizzo’s second chart topper. Billboard’s Rania Aniftos praised it for its “feel-good” chorus while Nardine Saad of the Los Angeles Times had an “affirmative, instantly, uplifting disco beat.” WK NME’s Alex Gallagher called it “a funk-tingled, classically Lizzo cut that comes replete with a groove-heavy bassline, an instantly memorable flute melody and lyrical gems.” WK

The “funk-inspired disco number” SF was the last song written for the album. WK Lizzo didn’t feel like the album was complete; she wanted another song with the same kind of uplifting emotional impact as “Good As Hell.” WK She wrote it “as music therapy for when she’s down about herself and wants to feel better.” SF It was her “melodic medicine for her blues.” SF

As she said, “Life had thrown some major traumas and hard experiences at us, especially globally these last few years. And I wanted to write a song that allowed us to take a moment and celebrate our survival, and celebrate how far we’ve come.” WK She didn’t fully embrace the song and the idea of it being a single until it was completed and she realized “its message was something the world needed to hear.” SF

“About Damn Time” won the Grammy for Record of the Year and the People’s Choice Award for Song of the Year. It also received a nomination for the MTV Song of the Year.


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First posted 1/15/2023; last updated 5/4/2024.

Friday, July 29, 2022

Beyoncé: Top 50 Songs

Beyoncé

Top 50 Songs

Pop/R&B singer born Beyoncé Giselle Knowles on 9/4/1981 in Houston, TX. With the girl group Destiny’s Child before going solo. Married rap singer and record executive Jay-Z.

For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists.


Spotify Podcast:

Check out the Dave’s Music Database podcast The Best of Beyoncé, 1997-2022 based on this list. Debut: Aug. 2, 2022, at 7pm CST. New episodes based on Dave’s Music Database lists are posted every Tuesday at 7pm CST.

Awards:


Top 50 Songs


Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Crazy in Love (with Jay-Z, 2003)
2. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (2008)
3. Perfect (with Ed Sheeran, 2017)
4. Irreplaceable (2006)
5. Independent Women (Destiy’s Child, 2000)
6. Say My Name (Destiny’s Child, 1999)

DMDB Top 2%:

7. Halo (2008)
8. Formation (2016)

DMDB Top 5%:

9. Baby Boy (with Sean Paul, 2003)
10. Telephone (with Lady Gaga, 2009)

11. Survivor (Destiny’s Child, 2001)
12. Check on It (with Slim Thug & Bun B, 2005)
13. Drunk in Love (with Jay-Z, 2013)
14. If I Were a Boy (2008)
15. Bootylicious (Destiny’s Child, 2001)
16. Savage (with Megan Thee Stallion, 2020)
17. Jumpin’ Jumpin’ (Destiy’s Child, 1999)
18. Beautiful Liar (with Shakira, 2007)

DMDB Top 10%:

19. Hymn for the Weekend (with Coldplay, 2015)
20. Lose My Breath (Destiy’s Child, 2004)

21. Black Parade (2020)
22. Bills, Bills, Bills (Destiny’s Child, 1999)
23. Mi Gente (with J. Balvin & Willy William, 2017)
24. Countdown (2011)
25. Sweet Dreams (2008)
26. Love on Top (2011)
27. ’03 Bonnie & Clyde (with Jay-Z, 2002)

DMDB Top 20%:

28. Déjà Vu (with Jay-Z, 2006)
29. Naughty Girl (2003)
30. Soldier (Destiny’s Child with T.I. & Lil Wayne, 2004)

31. Run the World (Girls) (2011)
32. 7/11 (2014)
33. No, No, No Part 2 (Destiny’s Child with Wyclef Jean, 1997)
34. Sorry (2016)
35. XO (2013)
36. Me, Myself and I (2003)
37. Emotion (Destiny’s Child, 2001)
38. Best Thing I Never Had (2011)
39. Hold Up (2016)
40. Partition (2013)

41. At Last (2008)
42. Cater 2 U (Destiny’s Child, 2004)
43. Break My Soul (2022)
44. All Night (2016)
45. Girl (Destiny’s Child, 2004)
46. Flawless (with Nicki Minaj or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2013)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

47. Apeshit (with Jay-Z, 2018)
48. Listen (2006)
49. Diva (2008)
50. Bug a Boo (Destiny’s Child, 1999)


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First posted 7/29/2022; last updated 8/2/2022.

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Jack White: Top 50 Songs

Jack White

Top 50 Songs

Rock singer and guitarist Jack White was born John Anthony Gillis on 7/9/1975 in Detroit, Michigan. He first made his name with ex-wife Meg White in the White Stripes, one of the prominent garage rock revival bands of the early 21st century. He went on to form the Raconteurs and the The Dead Weather before starting his solo career.

Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists.


Spotify Podcast:

Check out the Dave’s Music Database podcast The Best of Jack White, 1997-2022 based on this list. Debut: July 26, 2022, at 7pm CST. New episodes based on Dave’s Music Database lists are posted every Tuesday at 7pm CST.

Awards:


Top 50 Songs


Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists as well as chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. Songs which hit #1 on various charts are noted. (Click for codes to singles charts.)

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes, 2003)

DMDB Top 5%:

2. Fell in Love with a Girl (The White Stripes, 2001)

DMDB Top 10%:

3. Steady, As She Goes (The Raconteurs, 2006)
4. Icky Thump (The White Stripes, 2007)
5. Blue Orchid (The White Stripes, 2005)
6. Hotel Yorba (The White Stripes, 2001)
7. My Doorbell (The White Stripes, 2005)
8. Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground (The White Stripes, 2001)
9. Hardest Button to Button (The White Stripes, 2003)
10. Sixteen Saltines (Jack White, 2012)

DMDB Top 20%:

11. Lazaretto (Jack White, 2014)
12. Love Interruption (Jack White, 2012)
13. Portland, Oregon (Loretta Lynn with Jack White, 2004)
14. I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself (The White Stripes, 2003)
15. We’re Going to Be Friends (The White Stripes, 2001)
16. You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told) (The White Stripes, 2007)
17. Conquest (The White Stripes, 2007)
18. Ball and Biscuit (The White Stripes, 2003)
19. The Denial Twist (The White Stripes, 2005)
20. I’m Shakin’ (Jack White, 2012)

21. Jolene (The White Stripes, 2000)
22. Level (The Raconteurs, 2006)
23. Salute Your Salution (The Raconteurs, 2008)
24. Two Against One (Danger Mouse with Jack White, 2011)
25. Another Way to Die (Jack White with Alicia Keys, 2008)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

26. Connected by Love (Jack White, 2018)
27. Hello Operator (The White Stripes, 2000)
28. Help Me Stranger (The Raconteurs, 2019)
29. The Big Three Killed My Baby (The White Stripes, 1999)
30. Over and Over and Over (Jack White, 2018)

31. Many Shades of Black (The Raconteurs, 2008)
32. I Cut Like a Buffalo (The Dead Weather, 2009)
33. Die by the Drop (The Dead Weather, 2010)
34. Hands (The Raconteurs, 2006)
35. Freedom at 21 (Jack White, 2012)
36. Love Is Selfish (Jack White, 2022)
37. Now That You’re Gone (The Raconteurs, 2018)
38. Would You Fight for My Love? (Jack White, 2014)
39. Treat Me Like Your Mother (The Dead Weather, 2009)
40. Old Enough (The Raconteurs, 2008)

41. I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) (The Dead Weather, 2015)
42. Love Is Blindness (Jack White, 2011)
43. Taking Me Back (Jack White, 2021)
44. I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman (The White Stripes, 2001)
45. There’s No Home for You Here (The White Stripes, 2003)
46. Let’s Shake Hands (The White Stripes, 1998)
47. Black Math (The White Stripes, 2003)
48. Hypocritical Kiss (Jack White, 2012)
49. You Are the Sunshine of My Life (Jack White & the Electric Mayhem, 2016)
50. One More Cup of Coffee (The White Stripes, 1999)


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First posted 4/8/2022; last updated 7/26/2022.

Saturday, July 23, 2022

Glam Rock: Top 50 Songs

Glam Rock:

Top 50 Songs

Glam rock was a genre which emerged in the early 1970s which was characterized as much by fashion as the music itself. Performers wore flamboyant costumes (which often included glitter and platform shoes), makeup, and hairstyles. The look often flirted with andryogyny and fluid gender roles and a camp style. Musically, the genre drew largely from rock and roll, but incorporated cabaret, bubblegum pop, and throwaway pop culture.

The movement was largely British. David Bowie, T-Rex, Mott the Hoople, Sweet, and Slade were among the genre’s most popular artists. Some American artists such as Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, and the New York Dolls also incorporated glam into their music in the 1970s. There were also British artists such as Elton John and Queen who adopted some elements of glam in their ‘70s music. The genre influenced punk rock, goth, new wave, and hair bands.

This list was created by aggregating 18 lists (see sources at bottom of page) focused on the best glam rock songs of all time. Those songs appearing on 3 or more lists were then ranked based on overall Dave’s Music Database status. Then the top 50 of those songs were reranked based on their status specifically on the glam-rock lists.

Click here to see other genre-specific song lists.

1. Mott the Hoople “All the Young Dudes” (1972)
2. T-Rex “Get It On (Bang a Gong)” (1971)
3. Sweet “Ballroom Blitz” (1973)
4. Roxy Music “Virginia Plain” (1972)
5. New York Dolls “Personality Crisis” (1973)
6. Slade “Cum on Feel the Noize” (1973)
7. Alice Cooper “School’s Out” (1972)
8. Slade “Mama, Weer All Crazee Now” (1972)
9. T-Rex “20th Century Boy” (1973)
10. Sweet “Blockbuster” (1973)

11. David Bowie “Starman” (1972)
12. Sparks “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us” (1974)
13. David Bowie “Ziggy Stardust” (1972)
14. David Essex “Rock On” (1973)
15. Lou Reed “Vicious” (1972)
16. David Bowie “The Jean Genie” (1972)
17. Queen “Killer Queen” (1974)
18. T-Rex “Children of the Revolution” (1972)
19. Gary Glitter “Rock and Roll Part 2” (1972)
20. David Bowie “Rebel Rebel” (1974)

21. T-Rex “Hot Love” (1971)
22. Roxy Music “Do the Strand” (1973)
23. Pilot “January” (1975)
24. T-Rex “Telegram Sam” (1972)
25. David Bowie “Queen Bitch” (1971)
26. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
27. Sweet “Action” (1975)
28. David Bowie “Suffragette City” (1972)
29. Roxy Music “Love Is the Drug” (1975)
30. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)

31. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)” (1975)
32. T-Rex “Metal Guru” (1972)
33. T-Rex “Ride a White Swan” (1970)
34. Sweet “Fox on the Run” (1975)
35. Sweet “Love Is Like Oxygen” (1978)
36. Sweet “Little Willy” (1972)
37. Suzi Quatro “Can the Can” (1973)
38. The Stooges “Search and Destroy” (1973)
39. Elton John “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” (1973)
40. Elton John “Bennie and the Jets” (1973)

41. Elton John “Rocket Man (I Think It’s Gonna Be a Long Time)” (1972)
42. Alice Cooper “Elected” (1972)
43. Lou Reed “Satellite of Love” (1972)
44. Lou Reed “Perfect Day” (1972)
45. Slade “Merry Xmas Everybody” (1973)
46. David Bowie “Space Oddity” (1969)
47. T-Rex “Jeepster” (1971)
48. David Bowie “John, I’m Only Dancing” (1972)
49. Bryan Ferry “Let’s Stick Together” (1976)
50. The Darkness “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” (2003)


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First posted 7/22/2022; last updated 7/23/2022.

Friday, July 22, 2022

Dave's Music Database Hall of Fame: Song Inductees

Dave’s Music Database


Hall of Fame

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Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame was established January 22, 2019 in honor of the 10th anniversary of the DMDB blog. Every month, a class of music makers, albums, or songs are inducted. Here are the act inductee classes for songs so far:

All the songs which have been inducted are listed below, alphabetized by acts. Click on the song title to go to a detailed DMDB entry about it. Click on the highlighted month/year to see the song’s induction entry.


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Originally posted 1/22/2019; last updated 7/22/2022.

Dave's Music Database Hall of Fame: Song Inductees (July 2022)

Originally posted July 22, 2022.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the DMDB blog on January 22, 2019, Dave’s Music Database launched its own Hall of Fame. This is the 15th set of song inductees. These songs all appear in the Dave’s Music Database list of the Top 100 Blues Songs and have been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen’” (1949)

Inducted July 2022 as “Blues Songs”

John Lee Hooker “was born in 1917 at ground zero of the blues, Clarksdale, Mississippi.” TC He learned his playing style from his stepfather, Will Moore. He said of his first release, “Boogie Chillen,” that it was a guitar boogie like what his father played down south. BH It was the first “down-home electric blues record” to top the R&B charts. BH Read more.

John Lee Hooker “Boom Boom” (1962)

Inducted July 2022 as “Blues Songs”

Blues great John Lee Hooker first found success with 1949’s “Boogie Chillen,” a #1 R&B hit recorded at his first recording session. However, it wasn’t until 1962’s “Boom Boom” – a song on which he was accompanied by the famed Motown session men known as the Funk Brothers – that Hooker had his sole entry on the pop charts. It would also be his final appearance on the R&B charts. It was inspired by Luilla, a bartender at the Apex Bar in Detroit where Hooker used to play. She’d say, “Boom Boom, you’re late again” when he arrived. As he said, “She gave me a song but she didn’t know it.” SF Read more.

Howlin Wolf “Smokestack Lightnin’” (1956)

Inducted July 2022 as “Blues Songs”

Chester Arthur Burnett was nicknamed “Wolf” by his maternal grandmother; a title he would more than grow into with his menacing adult frame of 6’ 3” and 300 pounds and a voice which made it sound “like he subsisted on a diet of broken glass…washed down…with kerosene.” SS He first recorded “Smokestack Lightning” as “Crying at Daybreak” in 1951, but it was a song he’d performed since the early 1930s. Lightning finally struck for him when the re-recorded version hit the top 10 on the R&B charts in 1956. Read more.

Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues” (1936)

Inducted July 2022 as “Blues Songs”

Robert Johnson has often been called “The Father of the Blues.” His most important song may well be “Cross Road Blues,” not just because it became a staple for Eric Clapton but it promotes one of the greatest legends in rock and roll. According to the legend, Johnson acquired masterful guitar playing skills overnight, supposedly because he went to the crossroads (an intersection of rural roads) and sold his soul to the Devil. However, Johnson “sings nary a word about devil-dealing” BH in “Cross Road Blues;” rather he is trying unsuccessfully to hitch a ride at the crossroads. Read more.

Robert Johnson “Hell Hound on My Trail” (1937)

Inducted July 2022 as “Blues Songs”

Blues historian Ted Gioia said “Hell Hound on My Trail” might be Johnson’s greatest work. WK This is a showcase for “a disturbing vision of a blues poet haunted by spirits, doomed to die before he would ever see the fruits of an alleged deal with the devil.” BH Johnson proved to be “a master synthesizer, pulling together bits and pieces of existing material and infusing them with something entirely his own.” SS Read more.

B.B. King “The Thrill Is Gone” (1969)

Inducted July 2022 as “Blues Songs”

Legendary blues singer and guitarist B.B. King reached the R&B charts 76 times from 1951 to 1992, including four chart-toppers early in his career. While he had a half dozen more successful R&B chart entries than “The Thrill Is Gone” it was his biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 10. The song is a cover of a 1951 slow, blues ballad by Roy Hawkins but in King’s hands it became “a modern blues epic.” SS Rock critic Dave Marsh speculated that it might be “the last great blues record.” DM Read more.

Clarence “Pine Top” Smith “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie” (1929)

Inducted July 2022 as “Blues Songs”

This “rhythmical, driving piano tune” SS is credited “with laying the foundation for the boogie woogie craze.” BH The form is marked by “a bass melody…repeated over and over while the upper voice melody and chord structure change above it.” TY2 Clarence “Pine Top” Smith started playing “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie” at rent-parties in the black ghettos of Chicago. TY2 He took the term “boogie woogie” from his background in dance. SS Read more.

T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday” (1947)

Inducted July 2022 as “Blues Songs”

Aaron Thibeaux “T-Bone” Walker is often called “the father of electric blues.” SS He “deeply influenced virtually every guitarist during the decade following World War II” SS with his blend of blues and jazz guitar. UP It was “Call It Stormy Monday” “that made him a legend.” SS It is “one of the most influential records not only in blues history, but in guitar history.” BH “It became a song that virtually every blues band had to know; in fact, it was also required learning for countless jazz, soul, pop, and rock performers who may have had no other blues songs in their entire repertoires.” BH Read more.

Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man” (1954)

Inducted July 2022 as “Blues Songs”

Music historian Steve Sullivan called Muddy Waters “the mighty rock upon which the foundation of postwar Chicago blues was constructed” SS and “Hoochie Coochie Man” was his “defining song.” SS It was the first of many Willie Dixon songs recorded by Waters. It was the biggest hit of Waters’ career, reaching #3 on the R&B chart, but “its influence on rock music in general is incalculable.” LW Read more.

Bo Diddley “I’m a Man” / Muddy Waters “Mannish Boy” (1955)

Inducted July 2022 as “Blues Songs”

“I’m a Man” was the first song recorded by Bo Diddley and it became the B-side of his debut single, the eponymous “Bo Diddley” which topped the R&B chart. The song was inspired by “Hoochie Coochie Man” by Muddy Waters, who then recorded “Mannish Boy” as a remake/answer song, mocking Diddley’s younger age. “Coming from Waters, a mature adult figure with a voice that booms like God’s, virtually the same words are far more leering and imposing. Waters isn’t kidding around; he is a man and his sexual boasts and demands aren’t fantasies, they’re real.” DM Read more.

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Dave’s Faves: #1 Albums in the 2020s

Dave’s Faves:

#1’s: 2020-2029

These are my personal #1 albums during the 2020s. Check out my #1 albums from other decades here.


2020:
  • Jan. 4: Beck Hyperspace (2 wks)
  • Jan. 18: The Who Who (4 wks)
  • Feb. 15: David Bowie Is It Any Wonder? (2 wks)
  • Feb. 29: Huey Lewis & the News Weather (4 wks)
  • Mar. 28: Pearl Jam Gigaton (3 wks)
  • Apr. 18: The Strokes The New Abnormal (2 wks)
  • May 2: Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters (1 wk)
  • May 9: David Bowie Changes Now Bowie (1 wk)
  • May 16: Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit Reunions (1 wk)
  • May 23: Indigo Girls Look Long (2 wks)
  • June 6: Dennis DeYoung 26 East Vol. 1 (5 wks)
  • July 11: Michael Franti & Spearhead Work Hard and Be Nice (5 wks)
  • Aug. 15: Alanis Morissette Such Pretty Forks in the Road (4 wks)
  • Sept. 12: The Killers Imploding the Mirage (2 wks)
  • Sept. 26: Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times: Super Deluxe Edition (3 wks)
  • Oct. 17: Fish Weltschmerz (6 wks)
  • Nov. 28: Bruce Springsteen Letter to You (4 wks)
  • Dec. 26: The Struts Strange Days (2 wks)

2021:

2022:

First posted 5/19/2022; last updated 7/20/2022.

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Alan Parsons: Top 100 Songs

Alan Parsons (right) & Eric Woolfson (left)

Top 100 Songs

Alan Parsons was born December 20, 1948, in London, England. Early in his career, he worked as an engineer on classic albums such as the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. He also worked with Ambrosia, the Hollies, Pilot, and Al Stewart. He has received 13 Grammy nominations.

In 1976, he launched the Alan Parsons Project with Eric Woolfson (born 3/18/1945 in Scotland). While the group had an ever-changing lineup, Parsons and Woolfson remained constants until 1987. The pair then worked together on Woolfson’s Freudiana project before going their separate ways. Woolfson then focused on musical theater, bringing some of the Alan Parsons Project’s work to the stage. Parsons recorded as a solo artist. Woolfson died on December 2, 2009.

This list also includes the short-lived group Keats which featured neither Parsons nor Woolfson, but was comprised of members who’d worked with the Alan Parsons Project.

Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists.

Awards (Alan Parsons/Alan Parsons Project):


Top 100 Songs


Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards.

DMDB Top 5%:

1. Eye in the Sky (1982)

DMDB Top 10%:

2. Old and Wise (1982)
3. Don’t Answer Me (1984)
4. Games People Play (1980)
5. Time (1980)
6. Damned if I Do (1979)
7. I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You (1977)

DMDB Top 20%:

8. Let’s Talk About Me (1985)
9. The System of Dr. Tarr & Professor Fether (1976)
10. Prime Time (1984)

11. Stereotomy (1986)
12. Standing on Higher Ground (1987)
13. Don’t Let It Show (1977)
14. You Don’t Believe (1983)
15. Days Are Numbers (The Traveller) (1985)
16. What Goes Up… (1978)
17. The Turn of a Friendly Card Part II (1980)
18. Breakdown (1977)
19. Psychobabble (1982)
20. Snake Eyes (1980)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

21. The Raven (1976)
22. Pyramania (1978)
23. The Never Ending Show (2021)
24. I Robot (1977)
25. Some Other Time (1977)
26. Oh Life (There Must Be More) (1993)
27. Limelight (1986)
28. You’re Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned (1982)
29. Turn It Up (1993)
30. As Lights Fall (2019)

31. La Sagrada Familia (1987)
32. In the Real World (1986)
33. Ammonia Avenue (1984)
34. Can’t Take It with You (1978)
35. Silence and I (1982)
36. I’m Talkin’ to You (1993)
37. Nothing Left to Lose (1980)
38. Freudiana (Eric Wooflson, 1990)
39. Vulture Culture (1985)
40. Siren Song (1993)

41. Light of the World (1986)
42. Sirius (1982)
43. There But for the Grace of God (Eric Wooflson, 1990)
44. May Be a Price to Pay (1980)
45. So Far Away (Alan Parsons with Christoper Cross, 1996)
46. Little Hans (Eric Woofson, 1990)
47. The Same Old Sun (1985)
48. I Don’t Wanna Go Home (1980)
49. Lucifer (1979)
50. Out of the Blue (1999)

51. Heaven Knows (Keats, 1984)
52. You’re on Your Own (Eric Woolfson with Kiki Dee, 1990)
53. The Call of the Wild (1999)
54. Back Against the Wall (1993)
55. Miracle (Alan Parsons with Jason Mraz, 2019)
56. Sooner or Later (1985)
57. Since the Last Goodbye (1984)
58. Day After Day (The Show Must Go On) (1977)
59. Let Me Go Home (1984)
60. Call Up (1999)

61. Dancing on a High Wire (1984)
62. The Three of Me (1993)
63. Brother Up in Heaven (1996)
64. Blue Blue Sky (1996)
65. Money Talks (1987)
66. Uroboros (with Tommy Shaw, 2022)
67. To One in Paradise (1976)
68. Wine from the Water (1993)
69. Hyper Gamma Spaces (1978)
70. You Won’t Be There (1979)

71. You Lie Down with Dogs (1979)
72. I Am a Mirror (Eric Woofson with Leo Sayer, 1990)
73. More Lost Without You (2004)
74. Too Close to the Sun (1996)
75. Beaujolais (1986)
76. Funny You Should Say That (1990)
77. No One Can Love You Better Than Me (Eric Woolfson with Kiki Dee et al, 1990)
78. Separate Lives (1985)
79. Mammagamma (1982)
80. Tragedy (Keats, 1984)

81. Sometimes (Alan Parsons with Lou Gramm, 2019)
82. The Cask of Amontillado (1976)
83. You’re the Voice (1995)
84. Pipeline (1984)
85. The Time Machine (1999)
86. Press Rewind (1999)
87. Children of the Moon (1982)
88. All Our Yesterdays (2010)
89. Fragile (2013)
90. Do You Live at All? (2015)

91. One Good Reason (1984)
92. Somebody Out There (1985)
93. The Tell-Tale Heart (1976)
94. Inside Looking Out (1987)
95. I Can’t Get There from Here (Alan Parsons with Jared Mahone, 2019)
96. Where’s the Walrus? (1986)
97. I’d Rather Be a Man (1979)
98. Closer to Heaven (1987)
99. Fall Free (1996)
100. Too Late (1987)


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First posted 12/20/2019; updated 7/19/2022.