Update coming tonight after dinner and a shower. Currently have up to song #247 documented.

269) Steely Dan - Aja...

“Aja” was released in 1977 at a time when Fagen and Becker had ceased touring to focus on studio recordings. Master musicians were flown in to play solos, and the tandem developed a reputation for unrivaled precision and finesse. In an era when jazz-fusion albums by the likes of Weather Report and the Headhunters were selling nearly as well as rock releases, the jazz-like leanings of Steely Dan found an audience that bought “Aja” by the millions.

For Steely Dan, the songs on “Aja” in particular put the solo on a pedestal, with glorious moments by virtuosos such as guitarist Larry Carlton (who will join the band’s tour later in the week), pianist Victor Feldman and tenor saxophonist Tom Scott. The ultimate geek-out moment occurs in the middle of the title song, with saxophonist Wayne Shorter and drummer Steve Gadd counterpunching like Greek deities.

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theAudience said:

269) Steely Dan - Aja...

“Aja” was released in 1977 at a time when Fagen and Becker had ceased touring to focus on studio recordings. Master musicians were flown in to play solos, and the tandem developed a reputation for unrivaled precision and finesse. In an era when jazz-fusion albums by the likes of Weather Report and the Headhunters were selling nearly as well as rock releases, the jazz-like leanings of Steely Dan found an audience that bought “Aja” by the millions.

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For Steely Dan, the songs on “Aja” in particular put the solo on a pedestal, with glorious moments by virtuosos such as guitarist Larry Carlton (who will join the band’s tour later in the week), pianist Victor Feldman and tenor saxophonist Tom Scott. The ultimate geek-out moment occurs in the middle of the title song, with saxophonist Wayne Shorter and drummer Steve Gadd counterpunching like Greek deities.

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270. When Your Life Was Low - Joe Sample and Lalah Hathaway

271 Choose Me Loose Ends

The List so far:

1) Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group listen Byron

2) Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan listen Empress

3) Deja Vu (I've Been Here Before) - Teena Marie listen paisleypark4

4) Let's Love - The Ohio Players listen Stymie

5) Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin listen Azz

6) Magic in Your Eyes - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan listen SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy
7) Superwoman - Stevie Wonder listen nd33

8) Green Eyes - Erykah Badu listen donnyenglish

9) Jitterbug Waltz - Fats Waller listen Harlepolis

10) Aladdin Sane - David Bowie listen purplethunder3121
11) Maggot Brain - Funkadelic listen smoothcriminal12
12) Amoreena - Elton John listen Azz

13) Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics listen Moonbeam

14) Open Up - Chic listen Byron

15) I Am the Black Gold of the Sun - Rotary Connection listen paligap

16) Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin listen purplethunder3121
17) The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen listen Toofunkyinhere

18) Imagine - John Lennon listen CrabalockerFishwife

19) It Be's That Way Sometimes - Joe Simon listen MickyDolenz

20) La Vie en rose - Grace Jones listen banks

21) Lil' Girl - Shafiq Husayn featuring Fatima - listen Mindbells9

22) The Message - Grandmaster Flash listen SuperFurryAnimal

23) The Groove Line - Heatwave listen Byron

24) At Last - Etta James listen morningsong

25) Bring It On Home to Me - Sam Cooke listen CrabalockerFishwife

26) Mistral Wind - Heart listen purplethunder3121

27) Stop The World - Teena Marie listen banks

28) The World Is a Ghetto - War listen babynoz

29) Sorrow, Tears and Blood - Fela Kuti listen AsherFierce

30) Party at Ground Zero - Fishbone listen Gunsnhalen

31) Lovesong - The Cure listen Moonbeam

32) Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil listen Byron

33) They Don't Care About Us - Michael Jackson listen CrabalockerFishwife

34) Que Te Pedi - Tito Puente & La Lupe listen lezama

35) Rocket Love - Stevie Wonder listen banks

36) Hejira - Joni Mitchell listen Brendan

37) My Heartbeat - Annie listen Moonbeam

38) Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy listen itsjustaroundthecorner

39) Tapioca Tundra - The Monkees listen MickeyDolenz

40) Jabril - Me'shell NdegeOcello listen SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy

41) West End Blues - Louis Armstrong listen theAudience

42) Dreaming of the Queen - Pet Shop Boys listen Rayan

43) Never Stop (Discotheque) - Echo & The Bunnymen listen Moonbeam

44) Underground - David Bowie listen LiveToTell86

45) The End - The Doors listen CrabalockerFishwife

46) Racing in the Street - Bruce Springsteen listen xLiberiangirl

47) I Will Move On Up A Little Higher - Mahalia Jackson listen theAudience

48) Billie Jean - Michael Jackson listen mjscarousal

49) Cousin of Mine - Sam Cooke listen MickeyDolenz

50) Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys listen Gunsnhalen

51) Dixie Storms - Lone Justice featuring Maria McKee listen SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy

52) Love Me Still - Chaka Khan listen Empress

53) Bodhisattva - Steely Dan listen Byron

54) Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley listen Bree8016

55) Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday listen GoldDolphin

56) Lazy Afternoon - Barbra Streisand listen Hudson

57) Stranger in Moscow - Michael Jackson listen smoothcriminal12

58) The Christmas Song - Nat "King Cole listen theAudience

59) Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen listen mjscarousal

60) Silent All These Years - Tori Amos listen benjaminira

61) Closer - Nine Inch Nails listen SpaceInBetween

62) Freddie Freeloader - Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, Jon Hendricks & George Benson listen MickeyDolenz

63) Kraftwerk - The Robots listen xLiberiangirl

64) Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby listen smoothcriminal12

65) Baby, Let's Play House - Elvis Presley listen CrabalockerFishwife

66) Belinda - Ben Folds & Nick Hornby listen Rayan

67) Ain't That Just Like a Woman - Louis Jordan listen theAudience

68) Superstar - Bette Midler listen Hudson

69) We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters listen SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy

70) Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James & The Shondells listen funkyslsistah

71) Your Ways - The Jacksons listen Mya

72) I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye listen Azz

73) If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go - Curtis Mayfield listen Gunsnhalen

74) Hyperballad - Björk listen - CrabalockerFishwife

75) Little Wonders - Rob Thomas listen Byron

76) Lucky - Lewis Taylor listen Bree8016

77) I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters listen theAudience

78) Pastime Paradise - Stevie Wonder listen Azz

79) Dreams - Fleetwood Mac listen xLiberiangirl

80) Dream On - Aerosmith listen Mya

81) I Feel Love - Donna Summer listen benjaminira

82) Love T.K.O - Teddy Pendergrass listen CrabalockerFishwife

83) Black, Brown and Beige - Duke Ellington listen theAudience

84) Smooth Operator - Sade listen mjscarousal

85) Fool for the City - Foghat listen MickeyDolenz

86) Long, Long Time - Linda Ronstadt listen Hudson

87) Don't Believe the Hype - Public Enemy listen Gunsnhalen

88) Melodies of Love - Joe Sample listen Byron

89) In Time - Sly & The Family Stone listen nd33

90) What Is Truth? - Johnny Cash listen Brendan

91) Since I've Been Loving You - Lez Zeppelin listen Mya

92) Estranged - Guns N' Roses listen MattyJam

93) I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston listen CrabalockerFishwife

94) Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff listen MoaAnbessa

95) Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order listen naffi

96) Editions of You - Roxy Music listen Moonbeam

97) Ready or Not - Fugees listen Azz

98) This Woman's Work - Kate Bush listen Hudson

99) Breakdown - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers listen xLiberiangirl

100) Paid in Full - Eric B. & Rakim listen funkyslsistah

101) Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson listen ChickenMcNuggets

102) Casanova Brown - Teena Marie listen Bree8016

103) Die Kunst der Fuge - Johann Sebastian Bach listen theAudience

104) Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack listen Brendan

105) Leck mich im Arsch - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart listen smoothcriminal12

106) Reminiscing - Little River Band listen MickeyDolenz

107) Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis listen Gunsnhalen

108) 18 & Life - Skid Row listen MattyJam

109) Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers listen Azz

110) You Needed Me - Anne Murray listen Hudson

111) Swing to Bop - Charlie Christian listen theAudience

112) Horses in My Dreams - PJ Harvey listen SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy

113) A Day in the Life - The Beatles (LOVE) listen CrabalockerFishwife

114) Last Dance - Donna Summer listen mjscarousal

115) Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees listen Azz

116) Flashlight - Parliament listen xLiberiangirl

117) Ancient Aethiopia - Sun Ra listen MickeyDolenz

118) You Sent Me Flying/Cherry - Amy Winehouse listen Mya

119) Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang listen benjaminira

120) More Bounce to the Ounce - Zapp & Roger listen Paris9748430

121) Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House listen Byron

122) Boxing - Ben Folds Five listen UncleGrandpa

123) You Dropped a Bomb on Me - Gap Band listen Moonbeam

124) Maybellene - Chuck Berry listen CrabalockerFishwife

125) One Nation Under a Groove - Funkadelic listen aardvark15

126) Brazilian Rhyme (Interlude) - Earth, Wind & Fire listen Mya

127) Regiment - Brian Eno & David Byrne listen Rayan

128) Koko - Charlie Parker listen theAudience

129) I Want You - Marvin Gaye listen Bree8016

130) The Chauffer - Duran Duran listen funkyslsistah

131) Hard Times in El Barrio - Jose Feliciano listen MickeyDolenz

132) Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) - The Temptations listen mjscarousal

133) I Wanna Be Where You Are - Marvin Gaye listen UncleGrandpa

134) Prayer for the Dying - Seal listen nd33

135) The Flipside - Moloko listen benjaminira

136) War Pigs - Black Sabbath listen MattyJam

137) Spark - Tori Amos listen Fiona01

138) Drown in My Own Tears - Ray Charles listen theAudience

139) The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles listen mjscarousal

140) O Trem Azul - Lô Borges listen CrabalockerFishwife

141) A Case of You - Joni Mitchell listen Paris9748430

142) Down in Mexico - The Coasters listen Mya

143) Fade to Black - Metallica listen MattyJam

144) The Hills of Katmandu - Tantra listen Moonbeam

145) I Can't Help It - Michael Jackson listen smoothcriminal12

146) Electric Feel - MGMT listen xLiberiangirl

147) West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys listen aardvark15

148) Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine - James Brown listen mjscarousal

149) Cowgirl in the Sand - Neil Young listen MattyJam

150) The Church - Ijahman Levi listen MoaAnbessa

151) Boplicity - Miles Davis listen theAudience

152) it. - Genesis listen MickeyDolenz

153) Your Cloud - Tori Amos listen dreamfactory313

154) I'd Rather Be Your Lover - Madonna listen LiveToTell86

155) Foreign Fields - Elton John vs Pnau listen Rayan

156) Champagne & Reefer - Muddy Waters listen Paris9748430

157) Very Special - Debra Laws & Ronnie Laws listen mjscarousal

158) Israel - Siouxsie & The Banshees listen Moonbeam

159) I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos listen theAudience

160) Is It a Crime - Sade listen Bree8016

161) Dance Wit' Me - Rick James listen aardvark15

162) It's a Long Way - Caetano Veloso listen CrabalockerFishwife

163) The Chain - Fleetwood Mac listen thekidsgirl

164) Skin - Madonna listen xLiberiangirl

165) What Is Hip - Tower of Power listen Paris9748430

166) Stop! In The Name of Love - The Supremes listen theAudience

167) Isobel - Björk listen Moonbeam

168) High Tension Line - The Fall listen UncleGrandpa

169) Flowers - The Emotions listen funkyslsistah

170) You Give Good Love - Whitney Houston listen aardvark15

171) You - Yoko Ono listen CrabalockerFishwife

172) In My Life - The Beatles listen theAudience

173) Lateralus - Tool listen rmartin70

174) These Are the Days of Our Lives - Queen listen nd33

175) And I Am Telling You (I'm Not Going) - Jennifer Holliday listen Brendan

176) Go All the Way - The Raspberries listen Byron

177) Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N' Roses listen MattyJam

178) Emily - Joanna Newsom listen CrabalockerFishwife

179) Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix listen theAudience

180) An Innocent Man - Billy Joel listen LiveToTell86

181) Uhuru Sasa - Gary Bartz listen UncleGrandpa

182) Hand to Mouth - George Michael listen aardvark15

183) Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins listen lezama

184) Magic - Olivia Newton-John listen SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy

185) Open My Eyes - Nazz listen theAudience

186) Fire & Desire - Rick James and Teena Marie listen benjaminira

187) Red Light Special - TLC listen LiveToTell86

188) Cop Shoot Cop - Spiritualized listen Brendan

189) Old Friend - Phyllis Hyman listen UncleGrandpa

190) Sweetback - Gaze feat. Amel Larrieux listen funkyslsistah

191) The Black Page - Frank Zappa listen theAudience

192) I Want You - Erykah Badu listen Bree8016

193) Yoo Doo Right - Can listen Moonbeam

194) Mother - John Lennon listen CrabalockerFishwife

195) I Had My Fun - Pink Anderson listen MickeyDolenz

196) Moonlight Sonata - Ludwig Von Beethoven listen UncleGrandpa

197) The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron listen theAudience

198) Still the Storms - Ziggy Marley listen MoaAnbessa

199) Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson listen mjscarousal

200) Temptasyon - Mediæval Bæbes listen MickyDolenz

201) Love Is a Losing Game - Amy Winehouse listen benjaminira

202) Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen listen LiveToTell86

203) Dash - Bumblefoot listen MattyJam

204) A Forest - The Cure listen xLiberiangirl

205) Insensatez (How Insensitive) - Antonio Carlos Jobim listen theAudience

206) Alberto Basalm - Aphex Twin listen Cerebus

207) I Gotta Be Me - Sammy Davis Jr. listen morningsong

208) Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) - Aretha Franklin listen banks

209) Other Side of the Game - Erykah Badu listen dreamfactory313

210) Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & the Family Stone listen mjscarousal

211) Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Vince Guaraldi listen theAudience

212) Happy Cycling - Boards of Canada listen Cerebus

213) Choice of Colors - The Impressions listen Brendan

214) Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper listen estelle81

215) The Makings of You - Curtis Mayfield listen Bree8016

216) Kashmir - Led Zeppelin listen rmartin70

217) X-French Tee Shirt - Shudder To Think listen Cerebus

218) Waltz #2 (XO) – Elliott Smith listen CrabalockerFishwife

219) Riviera Paradise - Stevie Ray Vaughn listen funkyslsistah

220) What About - Janet Jackson listen Mya

221) Surf's Up - The Beach Boys listen theAudience

222) Miracle - Whitney Houston listen LiveToTell86

223) Rapture - Blondie listen Moonbeam

224) Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd listen xLiberiangirl

225) I Left My Heart in Syntax Error - Cylob listen Cerebus

226) Pillow Talk - Sylvia listen morningsong

227) Love Is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar listen benjaminira

228) Africa - Toto listen LiveToTell86

229) Tales of Men - Akua Naru listen MoaAnbessa

230) Sunset - Kate Bush listen MattyJam

231) Keep On Movin' - Soul II Soul listen SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy

232) Looking with My Eyes - Dionne Warwick listen theAudience

233) Dreamer - Toni Childs listen benjaminira

234) You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon listen LiveToTell86

235) Janie's Got a Gun - Aerosmith listen Fiona01

236) I'd Rather Be With You - Bootsy's Rubber Band listen Moonbeam

237) Fall - Cree Summer listen SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy

238) Station to Station - David Bowie listen xLiberiangirl

239) New Horizons - The Sylvers listen banks

240) 7 & 7 Is - Love listen theAudience

241) There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths listen Cerebus

242) Anthonio - Annie listen Moonbeam

243) Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield listen Bree8016

244) Dilate - Ani DiFranco listen Brendan

245) I'll Take You There - Staple Singers listen mjscarousal

246) Symphony No.3 (Third Movement) - Johannes Brahms listen theAudience

247) Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow listen Cerebus

248) Night Suite - George Winston listen Moonbeam

249) (I Know) I'm Losing You - The Temptations listen Paris9748430

250) All Matter - Bilal listen SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy

251) Forbidden Love ('94) - Madonna listen Mya

252) Porque Me Haces Llorar? - Juan Gabriel listen Revolution

253) Anytime, Anyplace - Janet Jackson listen purplepassion70

254) How Blue Can You Get - B.B. King listen theAudience

255) Enganjyani - Somi feat. Hugh Masekela listen MoaAnbessa

256) Metal Gods - Judas Priest listen MattyJam

257) Rock With You - Michael Jackson listen estelle81

258) I'm The One - Van Halen listen Fiona01

259) Ruby Baby - Donald Fagen listen LiveToTell86

260) Blue Room - The Orb listen Cerebus

261) Thinking of You - Sister Sledge listen banks

262) I'm Not the Best - Buddy Guy listen theAudience

263) Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue listen Moonbeam

264) The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - The Walker Brothers listen damosuzuki

265) Open Arms - Journey listen estelle81

266) My Favorite Things (Live) - John Coltrane listen Cerebus

267) Georgy Porgy - Toto listen Bree8016

268) Aja - Steely Dan listen theAudience

269) When Your Life Was Low - Joe Sample and Lalah Hathaway listen Stymie

270) Choose Me - Loose Ends listen banks

Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine by James Brown was already on the list, so everbody's song after #215 got moved up the list one position. Some songs had to be moved a couple positions to follow the rule of waiting til five other posters have contributed a song.

Orgers with 3 or more contributions to the list (first 270 songs):

27 - theAudience

16 - CrabalockerFishwife

14 - Moonbeam

11 - Mickey Dolenz, mjscarousal

10 - xLiberiangirl

09 - Bree8016, Byron, LiveToTell86, MattyJam, SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy

08 - benjaminira, Cerebus, Mya

07 - Azz, banks, Brendan

06 - funkyslsistah, UncleGrandpa

05 - aardvark15, Gunsnhalen, Hudson, MoaAnbessa, Paris9748430, smoothcriminal12

04 - nd33, Rayan

03 - estelle81, Fiona01, morningsong, purplethunder3121

MOST LISTED ARTISTS

Michael Jackson 6 [CrabalockerFishwife, mjscarousal(2), smoothcriminal12(2), estelle81]

Teena Marie 4 [paisleypark4, banks, Bree8016, benjaminira]

Tori Amos 3 [benjaminira, Fiona01, dreamfactory313]

Pet Shop Boys 3 [Rayan, Gunsnhalen, aardvark15]

Marvin Gaye 3 [Azz, Bree8016, UncleGrandpa]

Erykah Badu 3 [donnyenglish, Bree8016, dreamfactory313]

Led Zeppelin 3 [Azz, Mya, rmartin70]

Stevie Wonder 3 [nd33, banks, Azz]

Madonna 3 [LiveToTell86, xLiberiangirl, Mya]

David Bowie 3 [purplethunder3121, LiveToTell86, xLiberiangirl]

Whitney Houston 3 [CrabalockerFishwife, aardvark15, LiveToTell86]

Miles Davis 2 [Gunsnhalen, theAudience]

John Lennon 2 [CrabalockerFishwife(2)

Joni Mitchell 2 [Brendan, Paris9748430]

The Beatles 2 [CrabalockerFishwife, theAudience]

Curtis Mayfield 2 [Gunsnhalen, Bree8016]

Joe Sample 2 [Byron, Stymie]

Björk 2 [CrabalockerFishwife, Moonbeam]

Toto 2 [LiveToTell86, Bree8016]

Guns N' Roses 2 [MattyJam(2)]

Funkadelic 2 [smoothcriminal12, aardvark15]

The Temptations 2 [mjscarousal, Paris9748430]

Amy Winehouse 2 [Mya, benjaminira]

Annie 2 [Moonbeam(2)]

Janet Jackson 2 [Mya, purplepassion70]

Bruce Springsteen 2 [xLiberiangirl, LiveToTell86]

Muddy Waters 2 [theAudience, Paris9748430]

Queen 2 [mjscarousal, nd33]

Kate Bush 2 [Hudson, MattyJam]

Steely Dan 2 [Byron,theAudience]

Sade 2 [mjscarousal, Bree8016]

Rick James 2 [aardvark15, benjaminira]

Aerosmith 2 [Mya, Fiona01]

Echo & The Bunnymen 2 [Toofunkyinhere, Moonbeam]

Sly & The Family Stone 2 [nd33, mjscarousal]

Elton John 2 [Azz, Rayan]

The Cure 2 [Moonbeam, xLiberiangirl]

Aretha Franklin 2 [purplethunder3121, banks]

Donna Summer 2 [benjaminira, mjscarousal]

Sam Cooke 2 [CrabalockerFishwife, MickeyDolenz]

Fleetwood Mac 2 [xLiberiangirl, thekidsgirl]

[Edited 8/31/12 2:06am]

271) ""Heartbeat" - Madonna

272. Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil

273. The Isley Brothers - Voyage to Atlantis

274. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

[Edited 8/31/12 11:25am]

275) Dream Come True - Brand New Heavies

276. Around The World- Lisa Stansfield

278.) Marvin Gaye- Got To Give It Up

279. Lost Ones Lauryn Hill

280) Wes Montgomery - Unit 7...

And, there can't be a much better way to commence the new year than with one of Wes Montgomery's most well-known solos. It appeared on his 'live' recording, "SMOKIN' AT THE HALF NOTE"(Verve), with the Wynton Kelly Trio, which included jazz legends: Paul Chambers(Ac. Bass) and Jimmy Cobb(Drums). Many consider this to be Wes' finest recording during the later years of his incredible career.

As a composition, "Unit 7" is really interesting, because it is essentially a 'blues with a bridge.' But, more than this, it is presented in an A-A-B-A format. So, with each chorus, you have actually played 3 choruses of blues, and a bridge. As I listened to this tune with greater care than I had ever done as a youngster, I was struck by the fact that Wes' harmonic accompaniment of Wynton Kelly's solo reveals a different set of changes than those he actually employs with his lines during his own solo.

http://www.stevekhan.com/unit7a.htm

http://www.wesmontgomery.com/

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[Edited 8/31/12 14:19pm]

281. Scorpions - Wind Of Change

282) Bad Brains - Sailin' On

283. "Going Down Makes Me Shiver" - Labelle

284) "Faith" - George Michael

285. George Michael - Careless Whisper

286) Milton Nascimento - Vera Cruz...

Milton Nascimento rose to fame a few months after “The Girl from Ipanema” earned its Grammy as “record of the year.” Was Nascimento’s arrival on the scene the signal that the age of bossa nova had come to an end? Certainly no other individual did more to bring Brazilian popular music into the modern age. In time his influence would expand beyond the borders of his home country, inspiring jazz artists, world music performers, and singer-songwriters. You can hear his impact on artists as diverse as Pat Metheny, Bobby McFerrin and Esperanza Spalding.

From the start, Nascimento was an outsider. Although he was born in Rio on October 26, 1942, he was raised in Minas Gerais, where mining, industry, coffee cultivation and dairy farming dominate the economy. When he moved back to Rio at the peak of the bossa frenzy, his sound was so different from what others were doing that few knew what to make of this impassioned, idiosyncratic performer, who played bossa songs with the “wrong” chord changes, and whose work ran counter to the prevailing tastes of the day. Yet his success with his song “Travessia” at a high profile music competition brought him a wider audience, and—in short order—a recording contract with a US label.

Even after he became a star, Nascimento continued to defy expectations and maintain his outsider status. The music industry wanted to make him into a slick pop star, the jazz world was ready to embrace him as a fusion star, he might even have crossed over into politics as other world music performers (including his Brazilian contemporary Gilberto Gil) have done—but Nascimento’s own vision was harder to categorize. In a series of landmark recordings, he created a body of work that was both radical and traditional, expansive but minimalist, Brazilian yet global. His works are maddeningly difficult to categorize, and for all the influence they have had on others, Milton Nascimento still sounds like no one else.

http://www.jazz.com/dozen...nascimento

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287) Rolling Stones- Brown Sugar

288)

Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman

[Edited 8/31/12 16:30pm]

289) Gillian Welch - I Dream A Highway

Lyrics:

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and rest my soul
I dream a highway back to you

John he's kicking out the footlights
The Grand Ole Opry's got a brand new band
Lord, let me die with a hammer in my hand
I dream a highway back to you.

I think I'll move down into Memphis
And thank the hatchet man who forked my tongue
I lie and wait until the wagons come
And dream a highway back to you.

The getaway kicking up cinders
An empty wagon full of rattling bones
Moon in the mirror on a three-hour jones,
I dream a highway back to you.

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vison come arrest my soul
I dream a highway back to you.

Which lover are you, Jack of Diamonds?
Now you be Emmylou and I'll be Gram
I send a letter, don't know who I am
I dream a highway back to you.

I'm an indisguisable shade of twilight
Any second now I'm gonna turn myself on
In the blue display of the cool cathode ray
I dream a highway back to you.

I wish you knew me, Jack of Diamonds
Fire-riding, wheeling when I lead em up
Drank whisky with my water, sugar in my tea
My sails in rags with the staggers and the jags
I dream a highway back to you.

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come molest my soul
I dream a highway back to you.

Now give me some of what you're having
I'll take you as a viper into my head
A knife into my bed, arsenic when I'm fed
I dream a highway back to you.

Hang overhead from all directions
Radiation from the porcelain light
Blind and blistered by the morning white
I dream a highway back to you.

Sunday morning at the diner
Hollywood trembles on the verge of tears
I watched the waitress for a thousand years
Saw a wheel inside a wheel, heard a call within a call
I dreamed a highway back to you.

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come molest my soul
I dream a highway back to you.

Step into the light, poor Lazarus
Don't lie alone behind the window shade
Let me see the mark death made
I dream a highway back to you.
I dream a highway back to you.

What will sustain us through the winter?
Where did last years lessons go?
Walk me out into the rain and snow
I dream a highway back to you.

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and bless my soul
I dream a highway back to you

I dream a highway back to you
Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with a band of gold
A silver vision come and bless my sould
I dream a highway back to you.

290. Walter Hawkins & The Love Center Choir ( Tramaine Hawkins - Vocals ) - Going Up Yonder

Don't get upset if you are not of a faith as this is a wonderful song that can move your spirit.

291. George Harrison- Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)

292. Sailing - Christopher Cross

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Someone put "Miracle" by Whitney Houston, I'm surprised. I LOVE that song, but don't necessarily agree with the subject matter.

Carry on..

293. Michael Jackson - Earth Song

MJ, as expected, already has the widest representation here, and I didnt want to post his songs, but I have to do it.

This is his best "save the world" song, and I know that it will ignore here .... I love it.

294) "Soul Love" - David Bowie