Mindreader and Parasite by Electric Callboy. Also check out Crystals from them with their original lead singer.

Master Passion Greed by Nightwish

Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney. It just makes me happy.

Blinding Lights - The Weeknd

Timothy - The Buoys

Lights - Ellie Goulding

Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin

Where Have All the Cowboys Gone - Paula Cole

Good Ones - Charli XCX

Working My Way Back To You Babe - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons and also The Spinners

Confessions Part II - Usher

And Robin Thicke's Paula album

Fleetwood Mac while Lindsey was still in the band

Michael Jackson

Madonna (in her 80s heyday)

I am seeing Billy Joel in October. He's been on my bucket list. He's touring with Stevie Nicks, who I saw live back in the 90s.

Nightwish (they were in NY last May but I didn't have the money to travel). They're making a new album so I hope to catch that tour when and if they do it.

Almost saw Elton John, but my mom (who was going to spring for tickets) would only pay for lawn seats, and those were over $70 a ticket so I said no. I told her I'd rather pay more and be able to sit in an actual seat.

Phil Collins

If Loving You Is Wrong (originally sung by Luther Ingram) but it was covered by both Millie Jackson and Barbara Mandrell.

Stay - Sugarland

You'd probably enjoy Beast in Black (old school metal combined with synthwave/outrun elements), Sabaton (power metal whose songs are about certain moments in history), and Blind Guardian (fantasy/medieval power metal).

Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club

I Can't Go For That - Hall and Oates

Space Age Love Song - A Flock of Seagulls

Stevie Nicks singing backup on John Stewart's Gold and Midnight Wind, and Miley Cyrus' Midnight Sky

Phil Collins playing drums and singing backup on Frieda's I Know Something's Going On

James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt singing backup at the end of Neil Young's Heart of Gold

Michael Jackson's chorus on Somebody's Watching Me

Michael McDonald in anything. Such a distinctive voice.

Many of us who support abortion rights said this scenario would happen. Pro-birthers want all these babies born, yet rant about them when they and the parents end up on welfare or using other social programs seen as "entitlement." While completely ignoring the broken foster care system and the babies, children, and teens part of it. Now more babies will end up in foster care or run the risk of being abandoned because of Republicans and their need to control and oppress women through their warped religious beliefs.

I knew of Nightwish back in the early 2000s when they had their original lead singer but really didn't listen to them. I rediscovered them during Covid with their third singer Floor and heard the supposed stories of why the band fired the first singer, Tarja, due to conflicts with her husband/manager who allegedly tried to get her to leave to be a solo act. The second singer Anette was radically different and while they had the most success with her (Imaginareum is my favorite album from them), she was also fired for what exactly I don't know why, but I do know she wasn't the best live singer. (She still sounds miles better than me on a good day). They hit gold with Floor though. If she ever left the band would probably be done.

I assumed it would be a MAGAlite regular lone wolf citizen, not a politician. But considering how many Republicans who lost their elections are such sore losers and are blaming everyone but themselves for why they lost, I shouldn't be surprised.

Both songs fall under smooth jazz since I've heard both songs on smooth jazz stations, but they could also be labeled soft rock, adult contemporary, or as Japanese call it, city pop.

Check out Chuck Mangione, Spyro Gyra, and George Benson, as well as Herb Alpert's albums from the 70s and 80s.

Tekkno by Electric Callboy.

Bummed Out Christmas, The Salsoul Orchestra Disco Christmas, Disco Noel, and the Bob Rivers Twisted Christmas albums.

I love this song. Better than Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas that gets played twice an hour on every station.

Santa Got a DWI - Sherwin Linton

Santa Came Home Drunk - Clyde Lasely & The Cadillac Baby Specials

Christmas in Hollis - RUN DMC

It Doesn't Have To Be That Way - Jim Croce

All I Want For Christmas Is You - Vince Vance & The Valiants (not a cover of Mariah's song, but an original rock ballad)

Crabs For Christmas - David DeBoy

Call Me - Skyy

Maybe not life changing, but Shoemaker by Nightwish really got me in the feels the first time I heard it and it still makes me emotional.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper is definitely up there.

Elton John teaming up with Britney Spears for Hold Me Closer. I know he was trying to get her back into recording music, but the song is horribly mixed and there's so many effects over his and Britney's voices it's unrecognizable. The song he did with Dua Lipa, Cold Heart, is much better.

I'm in Maryland, and Democrat Wes Moore overwhelmingly beat his challenger Dan Cox for governor. Cox is a Trump supporter endorsed by Agent Orange. Even though we are considered a blue state, there's pockets of conservatives, and the county I live in is one of those pockets. Also, the outgoing Republican governor, Larry Hogan, was a moderate who couldn't stand Trump.

For me, any of R. Kelly's or Chris Brown's songs. Instant turnoff.