Here goes A LIST OF MY FAVORITE SONGS (you may notice several from the same artist. what can I say? I know what I like!)

1. A Night to Remember - Cyndi Lauper

2. Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

3. Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper

4. You Don't Know - Cyndi Lauper

5. Hot Gets a Little Cold - Cyndi Lauper

6. Caribbean Blue - Enya

7. Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics

8. Tarzan Boy - Baltimora

9. Beethoven (I love to listen to) - Eurythmics

10. Invincible - Pat Benatar

11. Land of Dreaming - Masterboy

12. Push - Matchbox 20

13. Change of Heart - Cyndi Lauper

14. Return to Me - October Project

15. Bury my Lovely - October Project

16. Wishing - Flock of Seagulls

17. One Dream - October Project

18. When I Come Around - GreenDay

19. Doctor Doctor - Thompson Twins

20. Major Tom - Peter Schilling

21. Set You Free - N'Trance

22. TienShan - Kitaro

23. Where Do You Go - LaBouche

24. Stay - Shakespeare's Sister

25. Agenais - Donna Lewis

26. Never Fade Away - Air Supply

27. Mother of All Things - Lisa Thiel

28. Book of Days - Enya

29. Hourglass - Clannad

30. Call it Love - Poco

32. True Colors - Cyndi Lauper

33. Words - Missing Persons

34. Will Love Grow - Donna Lewis

35. Red Rain - Peter Gabriel

36. 3 AM - Matchbox20

37. Hero of the Day - Metallica

38. Mystic Rhythms - Rush

39. Secret Ambition - Michael W Smith

40. Hey Now (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun) - Cyndi Lauper

41. Monsters and Angels - Voice of the Beehive

42. Calling You - Aqua

43. Whatever It Takes - Sinead Lohan

44. Estabas Ahi - Moenia

45. The Power of Goodbye - Madonna

46. Send Her My Love - Journey

47. Nothing At All - Heart

48. Allies - Heart

49. All Through the Night - Cyndi Lauper

50. December Child - Cyndi Lauper

51. The Promise - When In Rome

52. Send Me an Angel - Real Life

53. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad - Deff Leppard

54. Leave Me Alone - the Corrs

55. We Live for Love - Pat Benatar

56. Father of Mine -Everclear

57. Thin Line - Queensryche

58. Another Rainy Night - Queensryche

59. Gonna Get Close to you - Queensryche

60. At The Beginning - Donna Lewis and Richard Marx

61. Spirit of Radio - Rush

62. There She goes - Sixpence None the Richer

63. Stahorn's Passage - Barleyshakes

64. Maria - Blondie

65. What's My Age Again? - Blink 182

66. Never Surrender - Corey Hart

67. Heart - All Eyes

68. Holy Man - Lita Ford

69. Beautiful - Joydrop

70. Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon

71. Crash and Burn - Savage Garden

72. So Young - the Corrs

73. Cowboy Take me Away - Dixie Chicks

74. Spaceship - Angie Aparo

75. The Corrs - Breathless

76. Nina Gordon - Tonight and the Rest of my Life

77. If I Am - 9 Days

78. Southside - Moby with Gwen Stefani (of No Doubt)

79. Waters Edge - by Cyndi Lauper

80. Higher Plane - Cyndi Lauper (forthcoming album)

81. Burn - JoDee Messina )

82. Unforgiven - the Go Gos

83. Hanging by a Moment - Lifehouse

84. Here's to the Night - Eve 6 >P> 85. Every Day - Stevie Nicks

86. Simone - Donna Lewis

87. Heading for the Moon - Cyndi Lauper

and more, which I'll get around to listing someday. Numerical listing does not indicate order of preference, except number one. What can I say? That song just really gets to me, ok?

To see what's hot on the music charts right now, go to the following site, use the animated graphic below as your passport to this musical website: Rock On The Net

To check out the "official" Billboard charts, go to The BillBoard Charts If you want to order music on-line, you can always shop at CD Now On-line music store But I still love going to PDQ, our local independent used music store, which always has TONS of out of print 45's, record albums, CD's, tapes, 12 inch singles, and movies. If you have local, independent music stores, support them. Don't let the corporate megastores like Borders Books and Music edge the little guys out of business. Borders does have a nice collection of books and some music, but sometimes, the local guys and the used shops have the rare, hard to find stuff like that old eighties tune or seventies song, or rare foreign Scottish marching band music you are looking for. Take the time to shop at one of them. It is amazing what they have. Not all the good music is what's on the top 40 right now. There are so many artists like Aimee Mann, Anne and Nancy Wilson, Mary Fahl, Annie Lennox, and others that are out there making wonderful music that isn't being pushed by megacorporate record labels to the top of the charts.

You need to realize that a song is often forced up the charts by record labels who pay radio stations across America to play the song in heavy rotation, and that makes us run like lemmings to the music stores to buy the latest single or album. Then we think, wow, that artist is so popular. They might be talented, but like the vapid Boy Bands out there who are clones of each other, whose CD's wind up for sale in Burger King (!), they are marketed, designed, and sold to a teen audience, and pushed at us all the time. Of course they are going to top the charts. But a lot of really decent artists like my perennial favorite Cyndi Lauper and so many others are still making excellent music, but they aren't willing to sell out to the corporate moneymakers who try to change their music and image to sell, sell, sell more records and make millions for the label.

Once upon a time, music was about heart and soul and making a song that meant something, not just making millions and dazzling the easily bored American public who move on to a new artist as soon as they are pushed into the spotlight. Think about that!