I finally got around to making a list of my top 100…well, it ended up to be 127 favorite songs of my 29 years of life. It was super fun to go through them and remember why I loved these songs in the first place. So randomly I will post ten at a time and give a little explanation. They are in alphabetic order backwards (Z-A by band name), don’t ask me why i did it this way.

127
Age of Aquarius | 5th Dimension
This song takes me back to when I rode in the semi with my dad across the county and he popped in this cassette tape and I remember thinking WTF is this and then when the song shifted to the awesome disco part he started belting out “Let the Sunshine in” and from that moment on I loved this song.

126
Time of the Season | The Zombies
This mellow, chill vibe of a song has been a favorite for years. Who can resist the lyric “Who’s your daddy”. Fabulous.

125
Bust A Move | Young MC
This is a classic. “This is a jam for all the fellows, trying to do what those ladies tell us”. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love this song. Nick and I have been known to battle rap to this jam. “You want it, you got it”

124
Island in the Sun | Weezer
I love Weezer and I love their originality. This song is just relaxed and hip :).

123
Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison
Oh c’mon I had to do this. Us brown-eyed people get no love, this is our anthem if you will. Not only is this an awesome song, it also reminds me of my Aunt Dee. “Hey where did we go, days when the rains came, down in the hallow, playing the new game, laughing and a running, hey, hey…”

122
Into the Mystic | Van Morrison
Yes, Van Morrison, one of only a few who got on this list twice. I fell in love with this song when I was nine. It was on a soundtrack to an awful movie (Dream a Little Dream). I listened to that tape over and over again. This song is so hauntingly beautiful. I always imagined it playing at my funeral. I was extremely pissed when they used this song at the end of American Wedding and that they had The Wallflowers cover it. Yuk. Glen Hasnard’s version isn’t too bad, but the original is amazing.

121
With or Without You | U2
I think I got the Joshua Tree tape from my step-dad a long time ago, but I don’t know that for sure. I remember someone gave it to me and let’s just say this song was played over and over again. Painful, tragic and beautiful. Oh, I love U2. “On a bed of nails she makes me wait”

120
One | U2
Another U2 song, with good reason. One’s lyrics are incredible, it is poetry. “Did I ask too much? More than a lot. You gave me nothing, Now it’s all I got. We’re one, but we’re not the same.”