The Greatest Music Ever Heard (220).

(or, so I hear)

Yes, these are the ones I carry with me wherever I go, until I say my final good night.

"Hey There Delilah", Plain White T's

"Angel in Blue Jeans", Train

"Ho Hey", The Lumineers

"Home", Phillip Phillips

"Holiday", Scorpions

"When The Smoke Is Going Down", Scorpions

"Amanda", Boston

"If I Can Just Get Off That LA Freeway", Jerry Jeff Walker

"The Boxer", Simon and Garfunkel

"Galveston", Glen Campbell

"Hey You", Pink Floyd

"Crash Into Me", Dave Matthews Band

"One Headlight", The Wallflowers

"Baby, I Love Your Way", Peter Frampton
Memory and appreciation of a soft, understanding soul who saved mine.

"Easy Living", Uriah Heep

"I am, I said", Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond's lyrics here speak of being torn between California and New York. I love Texas, but these other homes of mine, California, Oregon, Colorado, and Georgia, and and places I've visited/frequented, have been tugging at my heart-strings for a number of years now. I cannot lose the nagging desire to return home and the delima is climbing higher and higher on my list of priorities, soon I'll not be able to ignore. Soon it will be time to go home, before it is time to go home for good.

"Budapest", George Ezra

"Moonrise Kingdom, The Heroic Weather-Conditions", Alexandre Desplat

A demonstration of the orchestration of Mr. Desplat's musical suite

"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", The First Edition

"I'm Your Man", Leonard Cohen

"Need You Now", Lady Antebellum

"Feels So Right", Alabama

"Forever Autum", Jeff Wayne and Justin Haywood

"The Procession" and "The Story in Your Eyes"", Moody Blues

"The Cowboy Song", Thin Lizzy

"Classical Gas", Mason Williams (this piece has no lyrics, but it will still make you feel good.)

"Texas", Chris Rea

"Like a Rock", Mr. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
(Although small parts of this tune has been used much for advertising Chevy trucks, the song remarkably cannot be worn out.)

"Deep in the West" (sound), Shake Russell
(Anyone that really knows me, knows that this song is my all time favorite tune. It's sort of the best of the greatest. Thanks go to my good friend Phil for the MP3, and for the times when we saw Shake and Dana Cooper perform live in Clear Lake City this and other old folk songs. I can't tell you here everything that this tune means to me or why, too much information that does no one any good anyway. But the message is this, just learn to give before you take, hang on to one another, and listen when you talk to each other, and you'll all be alright. And when you finally get the chance to go home, be sure it's somewhere in the west.)

"Thunder Child", Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds', with Justin Haywood and narration by Richard Burton

"Eyes Without a Face", Billy Idol

"Relax! Don't Do It", Frankie Goes to Hollywood

"Relax! Don't Do It" (New York Mix), Frankie Goes to Hollywood

"Sounds of Silence", Simon and Garfunkel

"Just Give Me a Reason", Pink Feat and Nate Ruess

"Bridge Over Troubled Water", Simon and Garfunkel

"In the Driver's Seat", Sniff-and-the-Tears

"It's All Mixed Up", The Cars

"Isn't Life Strange" (Wished I could be in your eyes), Moody Blues

"Never Tear Us Apart", INXS

"Jessie's Girl", Rick Springfield

"Taxi", Harry Chapin
(Perhaps one of the saddest loses in the music industry was that of Harry Chapin in 1981, due to an auto accident in New Jersey. Who knows of the stories that might have been told by this great song/story writer in the many years since his death. Just imagine!)

"Sequel" (to Taxi), Harry Chapin

"That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", Carly Simon

"Leah", Donnie Iris

"Turn Me Loose (I gotta do it my way)", Lover Boy

"All I Need is a Miracle", Mike and the Mechanics

"Only the Lonely (can play)", The Motels

"Total Eclipse of the Heart", Bonnie Tyler

"Joey (I'm not angry anymore)", Concrete Blonde

"Roll Me Away", Bob Seger
(As I was driving to work, this song by Bob Seger played. The words struck a chord as I realized that I too find myself 'lost and double-crossed' in my current position in life. How I long to relive a time in my life when I momentarily stopped my journey, parked at an east-west crossroad at the great divide and pondered which way to go. And nobody knew or cared where I was or that I was at a crossroad in my life. As each day passes, the need to get away and stand alone on a mountain top is increasing exponentially. Maybe next time I'll get it right.)

"California Dreamin'", Mamas and the Papas

"Is She Really Going Out With Him?", Joe Jackson

"Signs", Five Man Electrical Band

"Alice's Restaurant Masacre", Arlo Guthrie

"Everyone Needs a Hand to Hold On To", John Cougar

"Jane's Getting Serious", John Astley

"Everybody Hurts", R.E.M.

"Baby, I'd Love You to Want Me", Lobo

"Time After Time", Cindy Lauper

"Oh Holy Night", words by Chappeau de Roquemaure, translated by John S. Dwight, music by Adolphe Adam
(My most favorite Christmas carol.)

"Peaceful, Easy Feeling", The Eagles

"Rollin' With the Flow", Charlie Rich
(Years ago my best friend Jerry once told me he felt like he was just rollin' with the flow. At the time, I only thought I knew what he was talking about. As each year passes, I think I know more and more what he meant.)

"In the Ghetto", Elvis Presley

"Heard it in a Love Song", the Marshall Tucker Band

"Kentucky Rain", Elvis Presley

"What's Up", 4 Non Blondes

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", Starship (formerly Jefferson Starship, formerly Jefferson Airplane)

"No Time (left for you)", The Guess Who

"Spirit in the Sky", Norman Greenbaum

"It's All Comming Back To Me Now", Celine Dion

"Strange Weather", Glenn Frey

"Voices Carry", 'Til Tuesday

"Runaway Train", Soul Asylem
(Sometimes we get lost in life, and get on a runaway train, on a one-way track going the wrong way. This song most closely represents my journey through life during those times.)

"Forever in Blue Jeans", Neil Diamond

"Sentimental Lady", Bob Welch

"Kiss You All Over", Exile

"Making Love Out of Nothing At All", Air Supply

"Beth", Kiss

"As the Deer", Martin Nystrom
(I have never been able to convey in words my thoughts and feelings about how thankful I am for what my Lord and Savior has done for me. During my worst of times, in dark corners of my unrelenting depression, loneliness, He has been there with me as no one else has. Consider the Father who gave up his only child, or the Son who sacrificed his own life, as payment for a debt that I, a stranger, undeserving, owed. These lyrics most closely represent my feelings of appreciation for this act of love, the greatest gift that can be given.)

"Angie", The Rolling Stones

"Center Field", John Fogerty

"All of my Heart", ABC

"Lucky Man", Emerson, Lake and Palmer

"The End", The Doors

"Two Out of Three Aint Bad", Meatloaf

"You Can't Hide Your Lying Eyes", The Eagles

"Nothing Compares 2 U", Sinead Oconnor

"Betty Davis Eyes", Kim Carnes

"Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show", Neil Diamond

"Uncle Albert and Admiral Halsey", Paul and Linda McCartney

"You're So Vain", Carly Simon