260. Paula Cole – “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?” (1997)Hey look! More childhood nostalgia! Absolutely loved this song back in the day and still do today. Excellent song.
259. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – “Blinded By The Light” (1977)One of the most kick ass rock songs of the 70's! Love it.
258. Carly Simon & James Taylor – “Mockingbird” (1974)Although "You're So Vain" is my favorite from her,
this was the song that made me want to check out more of her stuff. I remember hearing this for the first time in the spring of 2014 during a 1974 AT40 episode, it was like a week before
Unkie and I left for San Francisco, and I remember thinking to myself, "Wow this is super catchy!" I even played it like once or twice at the airport while waiting for our plane to arrive - although let's be real here, we all know the majority of that playlist was Grace.
257. Fuel – “Hemmorage (In My Hands)” (2000)Although I did like this when it was out, I definitely like it more today. Excellent song - although there's one other song from them I like more.
256. Toni Braxton – “Un-Break My Heart” (1997)If this wasn't your bop in 1997, then you, my friend, are lying to yourself. I loved Toni Braxton growing up and this was always a HUGE favorite of mine. Every time I hear this song I'm reminded of what a force she was in the 90's - and how terrible Weezer's cover of this was.
255. Mark Morrison – “Return Of The Mack” (1997)Dude, the nostalgia is REAL in this set. The local pop station in Long Island played the hell out of this. One of the best R&B songs ever!
254. Eagle-Eye Cherry – “Save Tonight” (1998)I don't really have much to say about this one since, you know, this is the most obscure song of all time.
In all seriousness, contrary to what @wife says, I heard this song all the time when it was out and I remember it being huge on the VH1 Top 10 Countdown. The song and video for this totally take me back and I still love it as much as I did back in 1998. Also, the last time I saw
Courage which was back in October, after dinner we were in his car flipping through stations and we got SO excited when this came on. But maybe that was just a figment of my imagination since - again, this IS the most obscure song of all time we're talking about.
253. Christina Aguilera – “Reflection” (1998)For most people, their introduction to Christina was "Genie In A Bottle", but for me it was this song. I very rarely watched the Disney Channel or Cartoon Network growing up because we only got it through a cable box and I never knew how to use that damn thing, so a lot of the time whenever we went over to my Uncle and Aunt's house, I would watch those channels if they had anything good on. I remember seeing the video for this on the Disney Channel as it was right around the time
Mulan came out, and I absolutely loved it, but I never got the artist's name and then it flopped and I never heard from her again until the following year when "Genie" came out. When my Dad got me her album and I saw "Reflection" in the tracklisting I was like THAT WAS HER?!?! This is just such an underrated song and honestly one of her best vocal performances, ever.
252. The Cranberries – “New New York” (2002)When I first bought
Stars in 2006, this was an instant highlight for me. Such a kick ass song!
251. Monica – “The First Night” (1998)I loved this song and video growing up and had no idea until about five years ago that this heavily sampled Diana Ross's #1 hit from 1976, "Love Hangover". So now when I hear "Love Hangover" I think of this.
250. This is this 90's alternative band's most well known song; however, they had another single from this album whose music video featured a cameo appearance from Dee Snider parodying the Twisted Sister videos from the 80's.
249. Although Grace Slick appeared in the music video for this, she actually wasn't on this song.
248. The first of a whopping FIVE songs from this decade to appear on the list. In fact, out of those five songs, only two albums/artists are represented. This was an album track from this artist's 2012 comeback album.
247. Although her biggest hit was released in 1996, this one, from 1988, is easily my favorite of hers.
246. A cover of a Rolling Stones song that was inspired by Mick Jagger telling this artist that she needed to rock out more.
245. The intro to this song sounds VERY similar to the intro to Judas Priest's "You've Got Another Thing Coming" (which also just so happened to come out the same year as this one).
244. The closing song on the very first episode of The Yearbook.
243. 1993 hit for a band from Tempe, Arizona.
242. A more obscure single from one of my favorite artists that
Doctor Blind introduced me to at the height of my obsession with her.
241. Harry Chapin released a song the same year as this one called "She Is Always Seventeen", that I frequently compare to this song.