Here’s a list of my favorite songs. They come from different styles, but I haven’t included classical or jazz numbers, for the most part. This is the kind of list I’d put on my iPod, if I had one.
(This list was last updated 16 July 2011.)
Alphabetized by Song Title:
| 1985 | Bowling for Soup |
| Accidentally in Love | Counting Crows |
| Addicted to Love | Robert Palmer |
| Addicted to You | Simple Plan |
| Africa | Toto |
| After the Innocence | Don Henley |
| After You’ve Gone | Kelly Clarkson |
| Ain’t No Other Man | Christina Aguilera |
| Ain’t that Lonely Yet | Dwight Yoakum |
| Airplanes | B.o.B. |
| Alejandro | Lady Gaga |
| All In | Lifehouse |
| All She Wants To Do Is Dance | Don Henley |
| All Souls’ Night | Loreena McKennitt |
| All the Right Moves | OneRepublic |
| Alone | Heart |
| Always Something There to Remind Me | Naked Eyes |
| And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going | Glee Cast |
| And We Danced | Hooters, The |
| Angel Is the Centerfold | J. Geil’s Band |
| Angel of Harlem | U2 |
| Animal | Def Leppard |
| Animals | Neon Trees |
| Another One Bites the Dust | Queen |
| Anticipation | Carly Simon |
| Any Way You Want It | Journey |
| Armageddon It | Def Leppard |
| Baby Boy | Beyoncé |
| Bad Day | Daniel Powter |
| Bad Girls | Donna Summer |
| Bad Romance | Lady Gaga |
| Bad to the Bone | George Thoroughgood |
| Bad, Bad Leroy Brown | Jim Croce |
| Bang a Gong | T Rex |
| Beautiful | Glee Cast |
| Beautiful Soul | Jesse McCartney |
| Beautiful Stranger | Madonna |
| Behind These Hazel Eyes | Kelly Clarkson |
| Beth | Glee Cast |
| Billie Jean | Michael Jackson |
| Bird and the Worm, The | Owl City |
| Black in Black | AC/DC |
| Blow | Ke$ha |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Queen |
| Bonny Swans, The | Loreena McKennitt |
| Boom Boom Pow | Black Eyed Peas, The |
| Bootylicious | Destiny’s Child |
| Born This Way | Lady Gaga |
| Bottoms Up | Trey Songz (feat. Nicki Minaj) |
| Boys of Fall, The | Kenny Chesney |
| Break My Stride | Matthew Wilder |
| Break Your Heart | Taio Cruz |
| Breakeven | Script, The |
| Breathe (2AM) | Anna Nalick |
| Building a Mystery | Sarah McLaughlin |
| Bust a Move | Glee Cast |
| Bust Your Windows | Glee Cast |
| California Dreamin’ | Mamas and the Papas, The |
| California Gurls | Katy Perry |
| Can’t Fight This Feeling | R.E.O. Speedwagon |
| Candle in the Wind | Elton John |
| Change the World | Eric Clapton |
| Cherry Bomb | John Cougar Mellencamp |
| City of New Orleans | Arlo Guthrie |
| City On Our Knees | TobyMac |
| Closer to Free | BoDeans |
| Collide | Howie Day |
| Come Dancing | Kinks, The |
| Come On Get Higher | Matt Davidson |
| Consider Me Gone | Reba McIntyre |
| Corcovado | Astrud Gilberto |
| Could I Be Your Girl? | Jann Arden |
| Crash Into You | Dave Matthew’s Band, The |
| Crazy | Ice House |
| Crazy Train | Ozzy Osbourne |
| Crocodile Rock | Elton John |
| Crush | Glee Cast |
| Cry, Cry, Cry | Highway 101 |
| Dance the Night Away | Van Halen |
| Dance with Me | Orleans |
| Dancing Queen | Abba |
| Dancing With Myself | Glee Cast |
| Dark Night of the Soul, The | Loreena McKennitt |
| Daughters | John Mayer |
| Defying Gravity | Wicked Cast |
| Demolition Love | Jann Arden |
| Desert Rose | Sting |
| Dip It Low | Christian Milian |
| Dirty Laundry | Don Henley |
| DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love | Usher (feat. Pitbull) |
| Do It Again | Steely Dan |
| Dog Days Are Over, The | Florence and the Machine |
| Don’t Blink | Kenny Chesney |
| Don’t Dream It’s Over | Crowded House |
| Don’t Fear the Reaper | Blue Oyster Cult |
| Don’t Go Breaking My Heart | Elton John & Kiki Dee |
| Don’t Make Me Over | Glee Cast |
| Don’t Rain on My Parade | Glee Cast |
| Don’t Stand So Close To Me | Police, The |
| Don’t Stand So Close To Me / Young Girl | Glee Cast |
| Don’t Stop Believin’ | Glee Cast |
| Don’t You Want Me | Human League, The |
| Don’t You Want Me | Jodie Watley |
| Don’t Cha | Pussycat Dolls, The (feat. Busta Rhymes) |
| Down | Jay Sean (w/ Lil Wayne) |
| Down on Main Street | Bob Seger |
| Down Under | Men At Work |
| Dream | Cranberries |
| Dream | Priscilla Ahn |
| Dream On | Glee Cast |
| Drowned World / Substitute for Love | Madonna |
| Dude Looks Like a Lady | Aerosmith |
| Dust in the Wind | Kansas |
| Dynamite | Taio Cruz |
| E.T. | Katy Perry |
| Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) | Lady Gaga |
| Eleanor Rigby | Beatles, The |
| Endless Love | Glee Cast |
| Every Time We Touch | Cascada |
| Everybody Wants To Rule the World | Tears for Fears |
| Eye of the Tiger | Survivor |
| F**k You (Forget You) | Cee-Lo Green |
| Face Down | Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The |
| Faith | George Michael |
| Falling In | Lifehouse |
| Fancy | Reba McIntyre |
| Far Away | Nickleback |
| Fast As You | Dwight Yoakum |
| Fire Burning on the Dance Floor | Sean Kingston |
| Fireflies | Owl City |
| Firework | Katy Perry |
| Flashdance … What a Feeling | Irene Cara |
| For Everything There Is a Season | Byrds, The |
| For the First Time | Script, The |
| Forget You | Glee Cast (feat. Gwyneth Paltrow) |
| Freeze Frame | J. Geils Band, The |
| Friday I’m in Love | Cure, The |
| From a Distance | Nanci Griffith |
| Frozen | Madonna |
| Funky Town | Lips Inc. |
| Gemini Dream | Moody Blues, The |
| Genie in a Bottle | Christina Aguilera |
| Georgie Girl | New Seekers, The |
| Girl from Ipanema, The | Astrud Gilberto |
| Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | Cyndi Lauper |
| Girls, Girls, Girls | Motley Crue |
| Give a Little More | Maroon 5 |
| Gives You Hell | Glee Cast |
| Glamorous Life | Sheila E |
| Glitter in the Air | Pink |
| God Must’ve Spent a Little More Time On You | N’Sync |
| Gold Digger | Glee Cast |
| Good Life | One Republic |
| Goodbye Sadness (Tristeza) | Astrud Gilberto |
| Goody Two Shoes | Adam Ant |
| Government Hooker | Lady Gaga |
| Gravity | John Mayer |
| Gypsy | Fleetwood Mac |
| Hate On Me | Glee Cast |
| Having My Baby | Glee Cast |
| Hazy Shade of Winter (Time, Time, Time) | Bangles, The |
| Heart and Soul | T’pau |
| Heart that You Own, The | Dwight Yoakum |
| Heart Will Go On, The | Celine Dion |
| Heaven Is a Place On Earth | Belinda Carlisle |
| Hell’s Bells | AC/DC |
| Hello | Glee Cast |
| Hello, Goodbye | Glee Cast |
| Hey, Soul Sister | Train |
| Hey Ya! | OutKast |
| Higher | Taio Cruz (feat. Travie McCoy) |
| Highwayman, The | Loreena McKennitt |
| Hips Don’t Lie | Shakira |
| Hold It Against Me | Britney Spears |
| Hold On | Wilson Phillips |
| Holiday | Madonna |
| Hollywood | Michael Bublé |
| Home | Glee Cast |
| Home Again, Home Again | Hem |
| Hot for Teacher | Van Halen |
| Hot, Hot, Hot | Buster Poindexter |
| Hot n Cold | Katy Perry |
| Hot Stuff | Donna Summer |
| Hot, Hot, Hot | Poindexter, David Johansen |
| Hotel California | Eagles, The |
| House Is Not a Home, A | Glee Cast |
| How Far Is Heaven | Los Lonely Boys |
| How To Save a Life | Fray, The |
| How You Remind Me | Creed |
| How’s It Gonna Be? | Third Eye Blind |
| Hungry Eyes | Eric Carmen |
| I Can’t Drive 55 | Sammy Hagar |
| I Can’tWait | Nu Shooz |
| I Do | Colbie Caillat |
| I Dreamed a Dream | Glee Cast |
| I Feel Like a Woman | Shania Twain |
| I Get So Emotional | Whitney Houston |
| I Gotta Feeling | Black Eyed Peas, The |
| I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues | Elton John |
| I Just Haven’t Met You Yet | Michael Bublé |
| I Like It | Enrique Iglesias (feat. Pitbull) |
| I Love You | Michael Franti |
| I Never Told You | Colbie Caillat |
| I Only Want To Be with You | Hootie and the Blowfish |
| I Said Hey What’s Going On | 4 Non Blondes (originally recorded by Linda Perry) |
| I Should’ve Been a Cowboy | Toby Keith |
| I Wanna Be with You Everywhere | Christine McVee |
| I Wanna Hold Your Hand | Beatles, The |
| I Wanna Know What Love Is | Foreigner |
| I Want It That Way | Backstreet Boys |
| I Want You | Savage Garden |
| I’ll Never Fall in Love Again | Burt Bacharach |
| I’ll Stand by You | Glee Cast |
| I’m a Believer | Smash Mouth |
| I’m a Slave for You | Britney Spears |
| I’m Beautiful | Bette Midler |
| I’m Like a Bird | Nelly Furtado |
| I’m Yours | Jason Mraz |
| I’ve Had the Time of My Life | Bill Medley / Jennifer Warnes |
| Ice Ice Baby | Vanilla Ice |
| If I Were a Boy | Beyoncé |
| If This Is It | Huey Lewis + The News |
| If Today Were Your Last Day | Nickleback |
| If You Steal My Sunshine | Len |
| Imagine | Glee Cast |
| Imagine | John Lennon |
| Impossible | Anberlin |
| In My Head | Jason Derulo |
| In This Life | Chantal Kreviazuk |
| Insensitive | Jann Arden |
| Iris | Goo Goo Dolls, The |
| Irreplaceable | Beyoncé |
| Is This Love | Whitesnake |
| It Must Have Been Love | Roxette |
| It’s a Hard Life Wherever You Go | Nanci Griffith |
| It’s a Sin | Pet Shop Boys, The |
| It’s a Wonderful World | Louis Armstrong |
| It’s Raining Men | Weathergirls, The |
| It’s the End of the World | R.E.M. |
| It’s the Time of the Season | Zombies, The |
| Jackie Blue | Ozark Mountain Daredevils |
| Jesus Saves | Jeremy Camp |
| Judas | Lady Gaga |
| Jump | Glee Cast |
| Jump Jive An’ Wail | Brian Setzer Orchestra, The |
| Just Can’t Get Enough | Black Eyed Peas, The |
| Just Dance | Lady Gaga (w/ Colby O’Donis + Akon) |
| Just Like a Tattoo | Jordin Sparks |
| Just Like Heaven | Katie Melua |
| Just the Way You Are | Bruno Mars |
| Keep Holding On | Glee Cast |
| Keep On Lovin’ You | R.E.O Speedwagon |
| Keep Your Hands to Yourself | Georgia Satellites, The |
| Keep Your Head Up | Andy Grammar |
| King of Wishful Thinking | Go West |
| Kiss Me | Sixpence None the Richer |
| Kryptonite | 3 Doors Down |
| La Vida Loca | Ricky Martin |
| Lady Is a Tramp | Glee Cast |
| Lady Madonna | Beatles, The |
| Lady of Shalott, The | Loreena McKennitt |
| Late Night Grande Hotel | Nanci Griffith |
| Layla (both versions) | Eric Clapton |
| Le Freak | Chic |
| Lean On Me | Glee Cast |
| Let It Be (album title) | Voice of the Beehive |
| Let It Rock | Kevin Rudolf |
| Let My Love Open the Door | Pete Townshend |
| Letting Go | Shawn Kingston |
| Like a G6 | Far*East Movement (feat. Cataracs and Dev) |
| Like a Prayer | Madonna |
| Like a Virgin | Madonna |
| Like It’s Her Birthday | Good Charlotte |
| Lips of an Angel | Hinder |
| Little Lion Man | Mumford & Friends |
| Little Red Corvette | Prince |
| Little Runaway | Bon Jovi |
| Little Wonders | Rob Thomas |
| Live Like We’re Dying | Kris Allen |
| Long Black Train | Josh Turner |
| Loser | Glee Cast |
| Losing My Religion | R.E.M. |
| Love at the Five and Dime | Nanci Griffith |
| Love Drunk | Boys Like Girls |
| Love Game | Lady Gaga |
| Love Is a Battlefield | Pat Benetar |
| Love Is All Around | Wet, Wet, Wet |
| Love in an Elevator | Aerosmith |
| Love Isn’t Always On Time | Toto |
| Love Like Woe | Ready Set, The |
| Love Shack | B-52s, The |
| Love the One You’re With | Steven Stills |
| Love the Way You Lie | Eminem |
| Lovergirl | Teena Marie |
| Lyin’ Eyes | Eagles, The |
| Major Tom (Coming Home) | Peter Schilling |
| Mandolin Rain | Bruce Hornsby & The Range |
| Marry Me | Train |
| Material Girl | Madonna |
| Maybe It’s Time to Change | Sick Puppies |
| Maybe This Time | Kristen Chenowith |
| Meet Virginia | Train |
| Mexican Radio | Wall of Voodoo |
| Milkshake | Kelis |
| Misery | Maroon 5 |
| Miss Independent | Kelly Clarkson |
| Mockingbird | Rob Thomas |
| Monday, Monday | Mamas and the Papas, The |
| Mony, Mony | Billy Idol |
| More Than a Feeling | Boston |
| Move It On Over | George Thoroughgood |
| Mummer’s Dance, The | Loreena McKennitt |
| Music | Madonna |
| My Back Pages | Byrds, The |
| My Favorite Mistake | Sheryl Crow |
| My Generation | Who, The |
| My Life Would Suck Without You | Kelly Clarkson |
| My Sharona | Knack, The |
| Nasty Boys | Janet Jackson |
| Never Gonna Leave This Bed | Maroon 5 |
| New Soul | Yael Naim |
| No Air | Glee Cast |
| Not Afraid | Eminem |
| Not Meant To Be | Theory of a Deadman |
| No One | Alicia Keys |
| On the Floor | Jennifer Lopez |
| Once in a Lifetime | Talking Heads, The |
| Once In a Very Blue Moon | Nanci Griffith |
| One | Glee Cast |
| One I Love, The | R.E.M. |
| One Less Bell to Answer / A House Is Not a Home | Glee Cast |
| One Love / People Get Ready | Bob Marley and the Wailers |
| Only Exception, The | Paramore |
| Only Girl | Rihanna |
| Only Just a Dream | Nelly |
| Opposites Attract | Paula Abdul |
| Orinoco Flow | Enya |
| Our House | Madness |
| Outbound Plane | Nanci Griffith |
| Over My Head (Cable Car) | Fray, The |
| Paparazzi | Lady Gaga |
| Paperlate | Genesis |
| Paradise by the Dashboard Light | Meatloaf |
| Paralyzer | Finger Eleven |
| Perfect Time | Máire Brennan |
| Photograph | Def Leppard |
| Physical | Glee Cast |
| Piano Man | Billy Joel |
| Pocketful of Sunshine | Natasha Bedingfield |
| Poker Face | Lady Gaga |
| Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) | Offspring |
| Pretty Fly for a Rabbi | Weird Al Yankovic |
| Price Tag | Jessie J |
| Proud Mary | Glee Cast |
| Pump Up the Jam | Technotronic |
| Pump Up the Volume | M/A/R/R/S |
| PYT | Michael Jackson |
| Raise Your Glass | Pink |
| Ramblin’ Man | Allman Brothers Band, The |
| Raspberry Beret | Prince |
| Ray of Light | Madonna |
| Rebel Yell | Billy Idol |
| Replay | Iyaz |
| Rhythm of Love, The | Plain White T’s, The |
| Rhythm of the Night | DeBarge |
| Rock the Casbah | Clash, The |
| Rock On | David Essex |
| Rolling in the Deep | Adele |
| Rose’s Turn | Glee Cast |
| Roxanne | Police, The |
| Runaway | Corrs, The |
| S &M | Rihanna |
| Safety Dance | Men Without Hats |
| Sail Away | Styx |
| Saturday Night | Bay City Rollers |
| Say a Little Prayer | Dionne Warwick |
| Say Hey | Michael Franti |
| Scarborough Fair | Simon & Garfunkel |
| See You Again | Miley Cyrus |
| September | Daughtry |
| Shake It Up | Cars, The |
| Shanti / Ashtangi | Madonna |
| Sharp Dressed Man | ZZ Top |
| Shawty’s Like a Melody in My Head | Sean Kingston |
| She Blinded Me with Science | Thomas Dolby |
| She Bop | Cyndi Lauper |
| She Moves in Mysterious Ways | U2 |
| She’s Got Legs | ZZ Top |
| Shout | Tears for Fears |
| Sing! | My Chemical Romance |
| Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | Beyoncé |
| Skin | Madonna |
| Slice | Five for Fighting |
| Slide | Goo Goo Dolls |
| Smile (Cover of Lily Allen Song) | Glee Cast |
| Smooth Operator | Sade |
| So Long, Self | Mercy Me |
| So Nice (Samba de Verano) | Astrud Gilberto |
| Somebody to Love | Glee Cast |
| Somebody Told Me | Killers, The |
| Someday | Nickleback |
| Somewhere Only We Know | Keane |
| Sorry | Buckcherry |
| Sorry You Asked | Dwight Yoakum |
| SOS | Rihanna |
| Sound of Silence | Simon & Garfunkel |
| Spark | Ten Shekel Shirt |
| Squeezebox | Who, The |
| Stacey’s Mom | Fountains of Wayne |
| Stand and Deliver | Adam Ant |
| Start a Fire | Ryan Star |
| Steppin’ Out | Joe Jackson |
| Stereo Love | Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina |
| Strip Me | Natasha Bedingfield |
| Stuck Like Glue | Sugarland |
| Summer of ’69 | Bryan Adams |
| Sunday, Bloody Sunday | U2 |
| Suds in the Bucket | Sara Evans |
| Sunglasses at Night | Cory Hart |
| Sunny Came Home | Shawn Colvin |
| Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond |
| Sweet Child of Mine | Guns n Roses |
| Sweet Dreams Are Made of This | Eurhythmics |
| Sweet Serendipity | Lee Dwyze |
| Sweetest Illusion, The | Basia |
| Synchronicity | Police, The |
| Take a Bow | Glee Cast |
| Take It Easy | Eagles, The |
| Take It Off | Ke$ha |
| Take My Breath Away | Berlin |
| Takin’ My Time | Boston |
| Taking Chances | Glee Cast |
| Teach Your Children Well | Crosby Stills Nash & Young |
| Tears in Heaven | Eric Clapton |
| Teenage Dream | Katy Perry |
| Telephone | Glee Cast |
| Temperature | Sean Paul |
| Tempted | Squeeze |
| That Don’t Impress Me | Shania Twain |
| That’s Just the Way It Is | Bruce Hornsby & The Range |
| These Dreams | Heart |
| Think I’m in Love | Eddie Money |
| This Is How a Heart Breaks | Rob Thomas |
| This Is the Stuff | Francesca Battistelli |
| This Kiss | Faith Hill |
| This One Goes Out to the One I Love | R.E.M. |
| Thnks fr th Mmrs | Fall Out Boy |
| Thousand Miles, A | Vanessa Carlton |
| Thriller | Michael Jackson |
| Tik Tok | Ke$ha |
| Til I Hear It from You | Gin Blossoms |
| Time in a Bottle | Jim Croce |
| Time of the Season | Big Blue Missile |
| Time Warp | Glee Clap |
| Time, The / Dirty Bit | Black Eyed Peas, The |
| Tom’s Diner | Suzanne Vega |
| Tonight I’m Lovin’ You | Enrique Iglesias |
| Too Shy | Kajagoogoo |
| Torn | Natalie Imbruglia |
| Total Eclipse of the Heart | Glee Cast |
| Touch a Touch a Touch Me | Glee Cast |
| Trouble in the Fields | Nanci Griffith |
| True | Spandau Ballet |
| True Colors | Cyndi Lauper |
| Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose | Dwight Yoakum |
| Turn, Turn, Turn | Byrds, The |
| Twilight Zone | Golden Earring |
| Ukulele Lady | Bette Midler |
| Umbrella | Rihanna |
| Unpretty | TLC |
| Untouched | Veronicas, The |
| Unwritten | Natasha Bedingfield |
| Up, Up and Away | 5th Dimension, The |
| Uptown Girl | Billy Joel |
| Valerie | Steven Winwood |
| Viva La Vida | Coldplay |
| Vogue | Madonna |
| Voice, The | Moody Blues, the |
| Voices | Chris Young |
| Voices Carry | Til Tuesday |
| Volver | Julio Iglesias |
| Waiting for a Star to Fall | Boy Meets Girl |
| Waiting for the End | Linkin Park |
| Walk Like an Egyptian | Bangles, The |
| Walk of Life | Dire Straits |
| Walk This Way | Aerosmith |
| Walkin’ in Memphis | Mark Cohn |
| We Are Family | Sister Sledge |
| We R Who We R | Ke$ha |
| We Will Rock You | Queen |
| Welcome to the Jungle | Guns N’ Roses |
| West End Girls | Pet Shop Boys |
| What About Love? | Heart |
| What Do You Want from Me? | Adam Lambert |
| What Goes Around…Comes Around | Justin Timberlake |
| What Have You Got | Bon Jovi |
| What the Hell | Avril Lavigne |
| What You Say | Jason Derulo |
| What’s My Name | Rihanna (feat. Drake) |
| What’s New, Pussycat | Tom Jones |
| When Doves Cry | Prince + The Revolution |
| Whip It | Devo |
| White Flag | Dido |
| Wild, Wild West | Escape Club, the |
| Witchy Woman | Eagles, the |
| With Arms Wide Open | Creed |
| Wonderful Tonight | Eric Clapton |
| Workin’ for the Weekend | Loverboy |
| Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | Gordon Lightfoot |
| You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet | Bachman Turner Overdrive |
| You Can’t Always Get What You Want | Glee Cast |
| You Found Me | Fray, The |
| You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me | Cher |
| You Keep Me Hangin’ On | Glee Cast |
| You Make My Dreams Come True | Hall & Oates |
| You Shook Me All Night Long | AC/DC |
| You Spin Me Round | Dead or Alive |
| You’re Everywhere to Me | Avril Lavigne |
| You’re So Vain | Carly Simon |
| You’re the One | Dwight Yoakum |
| Your Body Is a Wonderland | John Mayer |
| Your Love Is My Drug | Ke$ha |
| Your Wildest Dreams | Moody Blues, The |
Have you listened to anything by Susan Werner? Her disc “Last of the Good Straight Girls” is one of my favorites.
By: The Deuce on 10 August 2011
at 12:21 pm