Welcome to Wayne’s Top 500 Songs You Don’t Listen to Enough. Give these tunes a shot, I’m sure you find some you really like that you don’t remember.

  • Song 373: Death Valley Nights
    Death Valley Nights, off of the Spectres album, is one of my favorites by BOC. It’s an eerie melody that meanders until it hits full stride, then chooses to slowly slither on until ending in a full run.
  • Song 374: Powderfinger
    Neil Young’s Powderfinger has everything I want in a song. Rust Never Sleeps is a rich album to consume with so many great tracks but this may be my favorite.
  • Song 371: What Is Hip?
    So I was a kid in California when Tower of Power came out with the album that gave us “What is Hip”.  Tower of Power was from Oakland, and back in those days I’d listen to AM radio from San Francisco and they played this song quite a bit. 
  • Song 372: Other Side
    “Other Side” should be a hit at any time.  This version has so many enjoyable artists participating (Illenium & Said The Sky & Vera Blue).
  • Song 375: Joan of Arc
    In 1987, Jennifer Warnes released an album of Leonard Cohen songs entitled Famous Blue Raincoat.  At the time, I remembered Warnes from a 1977 hit, but I was just starting to get into Leonard Cohen.
  • Song 376: Cissy Strut
    You can find music all sorts of different ways.  Sometimes you find them as background music of commercials.  I *think* that’s how I tuned into “Cissy Strut” by The Meters.