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 |
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry . . . 
Have you listened to anything by Susan Werner? Her disc “Last of the Good Straight Girls” is one of my favorites.
Oh. Mah. Gah. “Lovergirl,” “You Spin Me Round,” “All Souls’ Night,” “Paralyzer,” “Saturday Night,” and “Stacey’s Mom,” all on the same list! I think I love you! (So what am I so afraid of?)
Though the conspicuous lack of Duran Duran, when you’ve got Spandau Ballet and Kajagoogoo here, concerns me. 😉
Been making my way down the A to Z linky-list and just wanted to stop by to say howdy. So…”Howdy.”