If you hadn't noticed by now...I LOVE music. It's an addiction, and one i will never ever give up...I'm in too deep now. But for me, my obsession with music started not with classical music, but is firmly rooted in the land of pop music. Growing up, there wouldn't be too many weeks where I would miss Casey Casem or Rick Dees as they counted down the top 40 songs in the US. But it wasn't the early 90s pop I was so interested in...I grew up in the world of the Beatles, Billy Joel, Elton John and other amazing singers and songwriters that I just happened to almost miss completely on account of my being born about 20 years too late. But I'm lucky I've learned to appreciate music from the last 60 years and it holds a special place close to my heart. I do have some stuff from the last 10 years, because I believe it to be really amazing songwriting. But I've tried to compile a list of my favorite, absolutely perfect pop songs (only one from each artist...so I didn't have like 20 Beatles songs in here), I went with 20 in no particular order...
"God Only Knows" - The Beach Boys
"In My Life" - The Beatles
"Just the Way You Are" - Billy Joel
"I Know You by Heart" - Eva Cassidy
"What Sarah Said" - Death Cab for Cutie
"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
"Something in the Way She Moves" - James Taylor
"Samson" - Regina Spektor
"In the Air Tonight" - Phil Collins
"Madman Across the Water" - Elton John
"Tears in Heaven" - Eric Clapton
"Out of My Head" - Fastball
"The Luckiest" - Ben Folds
"The Only Living Boy in New York" Simon & Garfunkel
"Cannonball" - Damian Rice
"Crazy Love" - Van Morrison
"You Get What You Give" - New Radicals
"Seek Up" - Dave Matthews
"Baba O'Reilly" - The Who
"One" - U2
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