Walk of Life by Dire Straits

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies

Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say

Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman

Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay

He got the action, he got the motion

Yeah, the boy can play

Dedication, devotion

Turning all the night time into the day

He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman

He do the song about the knife

He do the walk, he do the walk of life

Yeah, he do the walk of life

Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story

Hand me down my walkin' shoes

Here comes Johnny with the power and the glory

Backbeat the talkin' blues

He got the action, he got the motion

Yeah, the boy can play

Dedication, devotion

Turning all the night time into the day

He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman

He do the song about the knife

He do the walk, he do the walk of life

Yeah, he do the walk of life

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies

Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say

Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman

Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay

He got the action, he got the motion

Yeah, the boy can play

Dedication, devotion

Turning all the night time into the day

And after all the violence and double talk

There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife

You do the walk, yeah, you do the walk of life

Mmm, you do the walk of life

Allison Road by Gin Blossoms

I've lost my mind on what I'd find

And all of the pressure that I left behind

On Allison Road

Fools in the rain if the sun gets through

Fire's in the heaven of the eyes I knew

On Allison Road

Dark clouds file in when the moon is near

Birds fly by A.M. in her bedroom stare

There was no tellin' what I might find

I couldn't see I was lost at the time...

Yeah I didn't know I was lost at the time

On Allison Road

So she fills up her sails with my wasted breath

And each one's more wasted than the other you can bet

On Allison Road

Now I can't hide so why not drive

I know I want to love her but I can't decide

On Allison Road

I didn't know I was lost at the time

So I went looking for an exit sign

All I wanted to find tonight...

Random Artist #2 - Creed

I have a list of all the artists on my playlists on a spreadsheet that have numbers next to them. I'll put the highest number in the Google Random Number Generator, click random 3 times and take that number that comes up and see the artist that is listed and do a post.

One of the reasons for these posts is when the artist comes up, I'm going to go and look at some of their other hits and see if I already know them or like them in order to add them to my playlists. Hopefully along with that, you all could make some suggestions in the comments from the artist that I might be missing out on.

Creed

What I remember about Creed is cranking the album Human Clay up with the windows down. It came out about the same time I was just getting into rock and I loved their sound. I loved the passion that they sang with, My favorite was What If off that album. I remember having that CD as well as My Own Prison and Weathered.

Any song off the Human Clay soundtrack triggers the memory of sitting outside my (now ex) wife's work to pick her up in her red Ford Ranger, with the windows down and the stereo up.

I've listened to 273 tracks from Creed since 2018. They are ranked #55 in tracks listened to since 2018 as well.

Studio Albums:

1. My Own Prison (1997)
2. Human Clay (1999)
3. Weathered (2001)
4. Full Circle (2009)

As I stated above, I had the first 3 albums on CD. I'm not sure I've ever heard anything off of Full Circle so I guess my homework is to listen to that album.

Songs on my playlist:

1. Higher
2. My Own Prison
3. My Sacrifice
4. One
5. One Last Breath
6. Overcome
7. Rain
8. Torn
9. Weathered
10. What If
11. What's This Life For
12. With Arms Wide Open
13. Young Grow Old

That last song, Young Grow Old, was on a WWF (WWE) compilation CD. It was the theme song to one of their pay-per-views.

I added 3 other songs after listening to more of their stuff. 2 of those were from Full Circle.

If you have any suggestions of other Creed songs, feel free to leave them in the comments.

18 and Life by Skid Row

Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone

Lived nine to five and worked his fingers to the bone

Just barely out of school, came from the edge of town

Fought like a switchblade so no one could take him down

He had no money, no no good at home

Walked the streets a soldier and he fought the world alone

And now it's

Eighteen and life you got it

Eighteen and life you know

Your crime is time and it's

Eighteen and life to go

Eighteen and life you got it

Eighteen and life you know

Your crime is time and it's

Eighteen and life to go

Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline

It kept his motor running but it never kept him clean

They say he loved adventure, "Ricky's the wild one"

He married trouble and had a courtship with a gun

Bang Bang shoot 'em up, the party never ends

You can't think of dying when the bottle's your best friend

And now it's

Eighteen and life you got it

Eighteen and life you know

Your crime is time and it's

Eighteen and life to go

Eighteen and life you got it

Eighteen and life you know

Your crime is time and it's

Eighteen and life to go

"Accidents will happen" they all heard Ricky say

He fired his six-shot to the wind - that child blew a child away

Eighteen and life you got it

Eighteen and life you know

Your crime is time and it's

Eighteen and life to go

Eighteen and life you got it

Eighteen and life you know

Your crime is time and it's

Eighteen and life to go

Hello, It's Me by Todd Rundgren

Hello, it's me

I've thought about us for a long, long time

Maybe I think too much but something's wrong

There's something here that doesn't last too long

Maybe I shouldn't think of you as mine

Seeing you

Or seeing anything as much as I do you

I take for granted that you're always there

I take for granted that you just don't care

Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through

It's important to me

That you know you are free

'Cause I never want to make you change for me

Think of me

You know that I'd be with you if I could

I'll come around to see you once in a while

Or if I ever need a reason to smile

And spend the night if you think I should

It's important to me

That you know you are free

'Cause I never want to make you change for me

Think of me

You know that I'd be with you if I could

I'll come around to see you once in a while

Or if I ever need a reason to smile

And spend the night if you think I should

Think of me

Think of me

Think of me

Tuesday's Gone by Lynyrd Skynner

When I hear this song, the first thing that comes to mind is Happy Gilmore. I'm sure that's not what Lynyrd Skynyrd was thinking when they wrote it but there you go.

Train roll on, on down the line

Won't you please take me far away?

Now I feel the wind blow outside my door

Means I'm, I'm leaving my woman at home

Tuesday's gone with the wind

My baby's gone with the wind again

And I don't know where I'm going

I just want to be left alone

Well, when this train ends I'll try again

But I'm leaving my woman at home

Tuesday's gone with the wind

Tuesday's gone with the wind

Tuesday's gone with the wind

My baby's gone with the wind

Train roll on

Tuesday's gone

Train roll on many miles from my home

See, I'm riding my blues away

Tuesday, you see, she had to be free

But somehow I've got to carry on

Tuesday's gone with the wind

Tuesday's gone with the wind

Tuesday's gone with the wind

My baby's gone with the wind

Train roll on

Ahh on

'Cause my baby's gone

I'm riding my blues babe

Trying to ride my blues

Ride on train

Ride on train

Ride my blues babe

Goodbye Tuesday

Goodbye Tuesday

Forever by Papa Roach

In the brightest hour of my darkest day

I realized what is wrong with me

Can't get over you, can't get through to you

It's been a helter-skelter romance from the start

Take these memories that are haunting me

Of a paper man cut into shreds by his own pair of scissors

He'll never forgive her... He'll never forgive her

Because days come and go but my feelings for you are forever

Because days come and go but my feelings for you are forever

Sitting by a fire on a lonely night

Hanging over from another good time

With another girl... little dirty girl

You should listen to this story of a life

You're my heroine

In this moment I'm lonely fulfilling my darkest dreams

All these drugs all these women

I'm never forgiven... this broken heart of mine

Because days come and go but my feelings for you are forever

Because days come and go but my feelings for you are forever

One last kiss

Before I go

Dry your tears

It is time to let you go

One last kiss (one last kiss)

Before I go (before I go)

Dry your tears (dry your tears)

It is time to let you go

Because days come and go, but my feelings for you are forever

Because days come and go, but my feelings for you are forever

One last kiss (one last kiss)

Before I go (before I go)

Dry your tears (dry your tears)

It is time to let you go

One last kiss

Before I go

Dry your tears

It is time to let you go

One last kiss

Slide Away by Miley Cyrus

I'm not a huge fan of Miley Cyrus but I do enjoy a few of her songs. I listen to her new releases as they pop up. I don't generally add a lot of her but I do some. Like this one.

Once upon a time it was paradise

Once upon a time I was paralyzed

Think I'm gonna miss these harbour lights

But it's time to let it go

Once upon a time, it was made for us

Woke up one day, it had turned to dust

Baby we were found but now we're lost

So it's time to let it go

I want my house in the hills

Don't want the whiskey and pills

I don't give up easily

But I don't think I'm down

So won't you slide away

Back to the ocean

I'll go back to the city lights

So won't you slide away

Back to the ocean

Nahh nah nah you'll slide away

So won't you slide away

Back to the ocean

I'll go back to the city lights

So won't you slide away

Back to the ocean

Nahh nah nah you’ll slide away

Once upon a time it was paradise

Once upon a time I was paralyzed

Think I'm gonna miss these harbour lights

But it's time to let it go

Once upon a time it was made for us

Woke up one day it had turned to dust

Baby we were found but now we're lost

So it's time to let it go

Move on, we're not seventeen

I'm not who I used to be

You say that everything's changed

You're right, we're grown now

So won't you slide away

Back to the ocean

I'll go back to the city lights

So won't you slide away

Back to the ocean

Nahh nah nah you'll slide away

So won't you slide away

Back to the ocean

I'll go back to the city lights

So won't you slide away

Back to the ocean

Nahh nah nah you'll slide away

Move on we're not seventeen

I'm not who I used to be

You say that everything's changed

You're right, we're grown now

Random Artist - Culture Club

I'm going to start these Random Artists posts occasionally. Basically, I have a list of all the artists on my playlists on a spreadsheet that have numbers next to them. I'll put the highest number in the Google Random Number Generator, click random 3 times and take that number that comes up and see the artist that is listed and do a post.

One of the reasons for these posts is when the artist comes up, I'm going to go and look at some of their other hits and see if I already know them or like them in order to add them to my playlists. Hopefully along with that, you all could make some suggestions in the comments from the artist that I might be missing out on.

Culture Club

Culture Club were pretty big in the early 80's. They were an English band who had a number of crossover hits in the US. Obviously I first came across them on the local radio stations which back in the 80's was really the only way to come across music other than buying a random album at the store. When I was compiling the album list, the last 2 surprised me as I didn't know they got back together but I wasn't really into music into the last few years so it shouldn't surprise me that I didn't know that.

Studio Albums

1. Kissing to Be Clever (1982)
2. Colour by Numbers (1983)
3. Waking Up With the House on Fire (1984)
4. From Luxury to Heartache (1986)
5. Don't Mind if I Do (1999)
6. Life (2018)

I put one of Boy George's singles on this list as well because I only had one and most people think of him when you talk about Culture Club anyways.

Songs on my playlists

1. Church of the Poison Mind
2. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
3. I'll Tumble 4 Ya
4. Karma Chameleon
5. Miss Me Blind
6. the Crying Game (Boy George)
7. Time (Clock of the Heart)

I just added Miss Me Blind and Time to the playlist while listening to some top tracks on their Spotify page so I only have a couple of listens between those 2 tracks but between the other 5, I have 80 listens since 2018.

Let me know if there are any other tracks from Culture Club or Boy George that I should give a listen to.

Mind Reader by Dustin Lynch

How'd you know to wear your hair like that?

How'd you know to turn up that song?

How'd you know them little tore up jeans

Was gonna tear me up and turn me on?

Girl, it's like you know me too good

But you barely know me at all

Yeah, the way it's going tonight

You probably know I'm ready to fall cause

Baby, you're a little mind, baby, you're a little mind reader

Yeah, that's what you are

You play it off a little shy but baby, you're a heart stealer

And right here in this car

It's like you know that smile was gonna melt me down

Like you know those lips are what I'm needing right now

And girl when you lay 'em on mine

Yeah, it's like you're reading my mind

(Baby, you're a little mind, baby, you're a little mind reader)

Girl it's like you got a crystal ball

Like you got a little gypsy side

It's like you knew that sweet perfume

That you got on was gonna get me high

Well how'd you know what I'm thinking right now?

How'd you know what I was about to say?

How'd you know to whisper in my ear

Let's take this party back to my place

Baby, you're a little mind, baby, you're a little mind reader

Yeah, that's what you are

You play it off a little shy but baby, you're a heart stealer

And right here in this car

It's like you knew that smile was gonna melt me down

Like you know those lips are what I'm needing right now

And girl when you lay 'em on mine

Yeah, it's like you're reading my mind

Yeah, that's what you are

It's like you knew just when to lean on in

And take my hand like you had it all planned

And girl you've got me figured out, don't ya now?

Baby, you're a little mind, baby, you're a little mind reader

Yeah, that's what you are

You play it off a little shy but baby, you're a heart stealer

And right here in this car

It's like you knew that smile was gonna melt me down

Like you know those lips are what I'm needing right now

And girl when you lay 'em on mine

Yeah, it's like you're reading my mind

(Baby, you're a little mind, baby, you're a little mind reader)

Yeah, that's what you are

(Baby, you're a little mind, baby, you're a little mind reader)

Dangerous by Shinedown

I could stand behind my barricade

Do what I'm told and be afraid to change

While isolated by the mainstream

With the current up against me

Well maybe if my arms were ten feet tall

I could finally reach that crystal ball

‘Cause I still find inside

There's something braver

And I, I won't be, I won't be

The silent damnation

I will never be voiceless

My weapon of choice is

I'd rather be dangerous

I won't be left defenseless

As God as my witness

I'd rather be dangerous

Dangerous

I'm not making conversation

But I'll state my observations

Well I could buy my faith like a plot in the ground

But I was never lost and I never had a doubt

‘Cause I still find

It's not my imagination

And I, I won't be, I won't be

The silent damnation

I will never be voiceless

My weapon of choice is

I'd rather be dangerous

I won't be left defenseless

As God as my witness

I'd rather be dangerous

Dangerous

Everybody

Is somebody

And anybody is you

I own my story

I won't say sorry

And neither should you

I will never be

I will never be voiceless

My weapon of choice is

I'd rather be dangerous

I won't be left defenseless

As God as my witness

I'd rather be dangerous

Everybody

Is somebody

And anybody is you

I will never be voiceless

As God as my witness

I won't be left defenseless

As God as my witness

I'd rather be dangerous

Dangerous

Pain by Three Days Grace

Pain, without love

Pain, I can't get enough

Pain, I like it rough

'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

You're sick of feeling numb

You're not the only one

I'll take you by the hand

And I'll show you a world that you can understand

This life is filled with hurt

When happiness doesn't work

Trust me and take my hand

When the lights go out you will understand

Pain, without love

Pain, I can't get enough

Pain, I like it rough

'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

Pain, without love

Pain, I can't get enough

Pain, I like it rough

'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

Anger and agony

Are better than misery

Trust me I've got a plan

When the lights go off you'll understand

Pain, without love

Pain, I can't get enough

Pain, I like it rough

'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

Pain, without love

Pain, I can't get enough

Pain, I like it rough

'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing

Rather feel pain

I know (I know I know I know)

I know that you're wounded

You know (You know you know you know)

That I'm here to save you

You know (You know you know you know)

I'm always here for you

I know (I know I know I know)

That you'll thank me later

Pain, without love

Pain, can't get enough

Pain, I like it rough

'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

Pain, without love

Pain, I can't get enough

Pain, I like it rough

'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

Pain, without love

Pain, I can't get enough

Pain, I like it rough

'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

Rather feel pain than nothing at all

Rather feel pain