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1986 Songs: I Held Her in My Arms

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 11 Mar

it’s quite interesting how “six degrees” things can be. If you watched yesterday’s 1986 video for “Guitars, Cadillacs” by Dwight Yoakam, you might have seen a marquee with today’s featured act on it. A weird combination,...

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Sunny Songs: Blister in the Sun

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 3 Jul

Happy independence eve! I hope everyone has a good Fourth of July…even the countries that just have a “fourth of July” without any celebration behind it. Here’s today’s song that presents a weird thing: usually...

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Gonna Be a Countdown: It’s Gonna Rain

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 12 Nov 23

Alphabetizing note: this should have been yesterday’s song. That’s what happens when you look at the list without glasses on. You’ll probably just be happy to get past this one. Here’s today’s song with “gonna” in...

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1983 Songs: Blister in the Sun

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 2 Jun 23

Hmm…let’s see. The teaser was an anti-war synth-rock song, and the first day was a neotraditional country classic. It’s times like this that I have to tell newer readers that I’m not schizophrenic. Here’s today’s...

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Valentine Kisses: Kiss Off

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 24 Jan 22

Ah, this song is right up @Crossbones27 ‘s alley. The rest of you will probably be nauseated, so I’ll give you a more “commercially appealing” bonus song today. Meanwhile, here’s today’s song with “kiss” in the...

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Music Trip!

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 28 Oct 19

After all the traveling, John asked if I'd ever done a road music countdown. No. I'm always open to suggestions, too. Well, there's a lot of ways to look at this. There's songs with "road" in the title, songs about traveling,...

road trip countdowns

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Favorite "Country" Songs #2 - "Country Death Song"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43575) • Denver, Colorado 17 Feb 19

Time now for a short trip to Hell. I am counting down my favorite songs with "Town," "City," "State," and "Country" in the title, and we wrap up today's discussion with the "Country" portion. We are at #2: "Country Death Song" by...

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80s alternative

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Ten Cover Songs I Love: Children of the Revolution (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 26 Nov 18

Cyber Monday time! That's right, it's Cyber Monday, the day that you go back to work after four days of turkey but you can't force yourself to think about actually "working" yet, so you're shopping for what you didn't buy on...

favorite cover versions

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Ten Favorite Songs in Commercials: Blister in the Sun (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 15 Jul 17

Here we go with some commercial music! No, not "mainstream" music, per se (it's quite interesting how many of these songs aren't), but songs that have been used in commercials. As I said in my preface discussion earlier...

songs in commercials

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Water Water Everywhere Top Ten: Jesus Walking on the Water (#8)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86604) • United States 24 Jun 17

It's time for another one of those "water" songs. After all the water we had falling from the sky yesterday it doesn't seem that I need to discuss water at all, but I started this series and I'll keep swimming in it. Here's the...

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Favorite "Sun" Songs #8 - "Blister in the Sun"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43575) • Denver, Colorado 15 May 17

Don't worry, the moon will get it's turn, but right now, it's time for #8 in my Favorite "Sun" Songs series, and it's a fun one: "Blister in the Sun" by Violent Femmes. Every decade had bands that were fun to listen to, and for...

80s alternative

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