Dr. L's "Top 10+" Lists

When creating the lists below, I relied solely on my musical preferences. I did not consider what tracks others might have selected or how they would arrange them into a hierarchical order of preference. I was not out to impress anyone with these lists ... they simply represent my musical preferences (at least the last time I had a chance to consider them!) as honestly and transparently as I can present them.

Assembling these lists provided an opportunity for me to get to know myself better. As you will likely pick up, I really enjoy a great variety in my musical listening. While this holds true across the many genres of music I listen to, it is also true within tracks ... I tend to prefer music that contains a lot of changes and even surprises, and those surprises can be a creative turn in the lyrics for an unexpected musical sound or chord change. I just love it when something "tickles my ear." This is where understanding musical elements like meter, beat subdivision, texture, form, and other musical vocabulary you may be learning come in very handy as a means of allowing you to accurately and reliablly communicate with others about your musical preferences. Oh, another thing I learned ... in addition to variety, changes, and surprises, a bit of humor goes a long way to enhance my enjoyment. Some of the artists I enjoy most use language that some consider offensive ... including me, at times. [I'm a little embarrassed to admit that it appears that having the word "f**k" appear in the lyrics to a song increases the likelihood it will be included in my lists. (I'm going to have to reflect on that one a bit ...)]

I present here uncensored versions of their art but with appropriate warning,
as represented by the Parental Advisory Stickers!

I hope you enjoy this journey through my musical mind!
Dr. Scott D. Lipscomb
Professor, School of Music and Dance, San Diego State University
author, Rock and Roll: Its History and Stylistic Development
(Pearson Education, 2020, 8th ed.)

Top 10+ Tracks [View on Spotify]

1. A Day in the Life, Beatles
2. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
3. Kid Charlemagne, Steely Dan [near tie: Deacon Blues]
4. Come Together, Beatles
5. God Only Knows, Beach Boys
6. Starship Trooper, Yes [near tie: Close to the Edge]
7. Imagine, John Lennon
8.  Serpentine Fire, Earth, Wind & Fire [near tie: Jupiter]
9. Yesterday, Beatles
10. Fire, Jimi Hendrix [near tie: Purple Haze]
11. Tom Sawyer, Rush
12. David Bowie, Changes [near tie: Saffragette City]
13. Spinning Wheel, Blood, Sweat & Tears [near tie: 25 or 6 to 4, Chicago]
14. Under My Wheels, Alice Cooper [near tie: School's Out]
15. I Want to Take You Higher, Sly & the Family Stone  [near tie: Dance to the Music]
16. Iron Man, Black Sabbath [near tie: Paranoid]
17. The Decline, NoFX [almost 20 minutes long, but worth every second ... fasten your seatbelts!!]
18. Hotel California, Eagles [near tie: I Can't Tell You Why]
19. Biggest Part of Me, Ambrosia [near tie: You're the Only Woman]
20. The Luckiest, Ben Folds [near tie: Rockin' the Suburbs]
21. Scene 4: Beyond This Life, Dream Theater
22. American Idiot, Green Day [near tie: Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams]
23. Reapers, Muse [near tie: Uprising]
24. Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part 2), Emerson, Lake & Palmer
25. Feel Like Making Love, Bad Company
26. Alison, Elvis Costello [near tie: Everyday I Write the Book]
27. Chocolate Cake, Crowded House
28. Play That Funky Music White Boy, Wild Cherry [near tie: Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker), Parliament Funkadelics]
29. East River, Brecker Brothers [near tie: Some Skunk Funk]
30. Paranoid Android, Radiohead
31. Ballroom Blitz, The Sweet [near tie: Fox on the Run]
32. Baseball, Michael Franks [near tie: Popsicle Toes]
33. Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
34. Enter Sandman, Metallica 
35. Burning Down the House, Talking Heads [near tie: Once in a Lifetime]
36. My Generation, The Who
37. White America, Eminem [near tie: Without Me]
38. Sweet Child o' Mine, Guns 'n' Roses [near tie: Welcome to the Jungle]
39. He's My Best Friend, Jellyfish [near tie: Sebrena, Paste & Plato]
40. Let It Roll, Little Feat [near tie: Dixie Chicken]
41. Desperado, the Eagles [near tie: You Are So Beautiful, Joe Cocker]
42. Rehab, Amy Winehouse
43. Lady, Little River Band
44. It's Oh So Quiet, Björk
45. Black/White, Mr. Mister [near tie: Kyrie]
46. Ice Cakes, Dixie Dregs [near tie: Cruise Control]

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Top 10+ Beatles Tracks [View on Spotify]

1. A Day in the Life
2. Come Together
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
4. Something
5. You Won't See Me
6. Imagine [solo John Lennon]
7. Penny Lane
8. Paperback Writer
9. Rain
10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
11. Get Back
12. Hey Jude
13. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
14. Nowhere Man
15. The Long and Winding Road (despite Phil Spector's schmaltzy "Wall of Sound" production!)
16. Help!
17. Let It Be
18. I Want to Hold Your Hand
19. The Fool on the Hill
20. I'm So Tired
21. Got to Get You Into My Life
22. Here, There, and Everywhere
23. Revolution (single version)
24. Lady Madonna
25. A Hard Day's Night
26. I'm Only Sleeping
27. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Medley [Wings (Paul McCartney)]
28. I've Got a Feeling
29. Ticket to Ride
30. Here Comes the Sun
31. I Saw Her Standing There
32. Helter Skelter
33. Two of Us
34. Back in the U.S.S.R.
35. Oh! Darling
36. From Me to You
37. Can't Buy Me Love
38. She Loves You
39. When I'm Sixty-Four
40. Julia
41. Her Majesty
42. Sexy Sadie (working title: "Maharishi")
43. Savoy Truffle

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Top 10+ Albums [View on Spotify]

1. Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin IV (Zoso), Led Zeppelin 
3. Aja, Steely Dan
4. Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie
5. Abbey Road, Beatles
6. A Night at the Opera, Queen [near tie: Sheer Heart Attack]
7. Purple Rain, Prince [near tie: 1999]
8. Jaco Pastorus, Jaco Pastorius
• remember, I'm a bass player; this album rocked my world & opened my eyes to new possibilities for the instrument (e.g., speed, dexterity, and harmonics)!! Before Jaco, I didn't know I could do that!! :)
9. Spilt Milk, Jellyfish
10. Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra, Tim Minchin
• an even better performance — if you can find it! — the video recorded at Royal Albert Hall, where he performed to two sold-out houses during the weekend of the Royal Wedding (Will & Kate)
11. Metropolis, Part 2, Dream Theater
12. Netherlands, Dan Fogelberg
13. The Stranger, Billy Joel
14. Are You Experienced?, Jimi Hendrix
15. Drones, Muse [near tie: The Resistance]
16. Overnight Sensation, Frank Zappa
17. Sleeper Catcher, Little River Band
18. Rockin’ the Suburbs, Ben Folds
19. Nilsson Schmilsson, Harry Nilsson
20. Toto IV, Toto [near tie: Toto [debut album]]
21. The Nightfly, Donald Fagen (vocalist, Steely Dan)
22. Armed Forces, Elvis Costello
23. Boston, Boston (debut)
24. All in All, Earth, Wind & Fire 
25. Dream of the Blue Turtles, Sting [near tie: Ten Summoners Tales]
26. Moving Pictures, Rush [near tie: 2112]
27. Human' Lib, Howard Jones [near tie: Dream Into Action]
28. Tales of Mystery and Imagination (based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe), the Alan Parsons Project
29. Desolation Boulevard, The Sweet

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Top 10+ Vocalists (Male) [View on Spotify]

(formerly, "Singers I Wish I Could Sound Like")

1. Steve Walsh (keyboards): Carry On Wayward Son, Kansas
2. Marty Balin: Jane, Jefferson Starship
3. David Pack (bass): Biggest Part of Me, Ambrosia
4. Bobby Kimball: Hold the Line, Toto
5. Tommy Shaw (guitar): Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man), Styx
6. Brad Delp: More Than a Feeling, Boston
7. Dan Fogelberg (multi-instrumentalist): To the Morning
8. Prince (multi-instrumentalist): Darling Nikki [near tie: Let's Go Crazy]
9. Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar): Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams
10. Geddy Lee (bass): Tom Sawyer, Rush
11. Wayne Nelson (bass): The Night Owls, Little River Band
12. Steve Perry: Faithfully, Journey
13. Daryl Hall: One on One, Hall & Oates
14. Kurt Cobain (guitar): Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
15. Donald Fagen (keyboards): Kid Charlamagne, Steely Dan
16. Stevie Wonder (multi-instrumentalist): All in Love is Fair
17. Sting (bass), Roxanne, Police [near tie: Fortress Around Your Heart]
18. Gino Vanelli: I Just Wanna Stop
19. Richard Page (bass): Broken Wings, Mr. Mister
20. Ian Gillan (vocalist, Deep Purple): Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say), from Jesus Christ Superstar, especially the screams (2:25)
21. Mark Farmer (guitar): Feelin' Alright, Grand Funk Railroad
22. Billy Joel (keyboards): Only the Good Die Young [near tie: New York State of Mind]
23. Peter Cetera (bass): If You Leave Me Now [near tie: Just You and Me]
24. Elvis Costello (guitar): Green Shirt [near tie: Every Day I Write the Book]
25. Kenny Loggins: Now and Then
26. Paul Rodgers: All Right Now, Free (also lead vocalist for Bad Company)
27. Don Henley (drums): The End of the Innocence, Eagles
28. Andy Sturmer: Joining a Fan Club, Jellyfish
29. Elvin Bishop (guitar): Fooled Around and Fell in Love
30. Harry Nilsson: Without You
31. Michael Franks: One Bad Habit
32. Michael McDonald (keyboards), Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)

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Top 10+ Vocalists (Female) [View on Spotify]

1. Ann Wilson, Barracuda (Heart) [near tie: Straight On]
2. Tina Turner, What's Love Got to Do With It? [near tie: Proud Mary]
3. Mariah Carey, Vision of Love ... her high "whistletones" (2:45) are amazing!
4. Pat Benatar, Heartbreaker
5. Patti LaBelle, Lady Marmalade (LaBelle); one of the best "hooks" ever ... and in French!!
6. Joni Mitchell (guitar), Dry Cleaner from Des Moines (that's Jaco on bass!) [near tie: Twisted]
7. Aretha Franklin, Respect
8. Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) [near tie: Greatest Love of All]
9. Grace Slick, Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane) [near tie: White Rabbit]
10. Alanis Morissette, You Oughta Know [near tie: Ironic]
11. Janis Joplin, Piece of My Heart [near tie: Summertime]
12. Amy Winehouse, You Know I'm No Good
13. Kiki Dee, I've Got the Music in Me
14. Sinead O'Connor, Nothing Compares 2 U
15. Bjork, Army of Me
16. Stevie Nicks, Edge of Seventeen (also vocalist for Fleetwood Mac) [near tie: Landslide]
17. Linda Ronstadt, You're No Good
18. Natalie Maines, Not Ready to Make Nice (The Chicks; formerly, Dixie Chicks)
19. Madonna, Like a Prayer
20. Olivia Newton-John, I Honestly Love You 
21. Courtney Love, Celebrity Skin (Hole)
22. Chrissie Hynde, Middle of the Road (The Pretenders)
23. Dolly Parton, 9 to 5
24. Dale Bozzio: Noticable One, Missing Persons

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Top 10+ Songs With a Message [View on Spotify]

1. Imagine, John Lennon [topic: anti-war, anti-religion] [near tie: Give Peace a Chance]
2. War, Edwin Starr [topic: anti-war]
3. Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday [topic: racism]; perhaps the most disturbing use of "fruit" as a metaphor in the history of literature!
4. American Idiot, Green Day [topic: politics & media]
5. Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan [topic: inequality/racism]
6. Mississippi Goddam, Nina Simone [topic: inequality/racism]
7. Fight the Power, Public Enemy [topic: political powe & inequality/racism]
8. Freedom, Beyonce (feat. Kendrick Lamar) [topic: political power/inequality][near tie: Formation]
9. For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield [topic: anti-war protest]
10. Ohio, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young [topic: National Guard killing four students at Kent State University; May 4, 1970]
11. Self-Evident, Ani DiFranco [topic: 9/11 as an excuse to go to war]
12. Body Count, Body Count (feat. Ice-T) [topic: police violence, racism, & social inequality]
13. One Tin Soldier (Theme Song for The Legend of Billy Jack), Coven [topic: anti-violence & political protest]
14. Masters of War, Bob Dylan [topic: anti-war]
15. The Message,  Grand Master Flash & the Furious Five (feat. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee) [topic: inequality]
16. A Change is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke [topic: racism/inequality]
17. American Skin (41 Shots), Bruce Springsteen [topic: anti-violence & inequality]
18. Fuck tha Police, N.W.A. (topic: police violence)
19. The Blacker Berry, Kendrick Lamar [topic: racial violence & inequality]
20. This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie [topic: national pride]
21. What's Going On?, Marvin Gaye [topic: racism/inequality]
22. Sunday Bloody Sunday, U2 [topic: anti-violence & media; 1972 massacre of protestors in Derry (northern Ireland)] [near tie: Pride (In the Name of Love) [topic: non-violence & equality (in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
23. Black & White, Three Dog Night [topic: racial harmony & equality; though released in 1972, inspired by the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that outlawed racial segregation in schools]
24. Thank You God, Tim Minchin [topic: religion]
25. We Shall Overcome, Pete Seeger [topic: civil rights & equality]
26. A Church is Burning, Simon & Garfunkel [topic: racial violence & media][near tie: 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night]
27. I Ain't Marching Anymore, Phil Ochs [topic: anti-war]
28. Not Ready to Make Nice, The Chicks (formerly, The Dixie Chicks)[topic: a direct, passionate response to fans turning on them after Natalie Maines commented about President George W. Bush from stage]
29. Cat's in the Cradle, Harry Chapin [near tie: When I Was a Child, Loggins & Messina][topic: parents & their children growing up]
30. Fortunate Son, Creedence Clearwater Revival [topic: anti-war & social/racial inequality]
31. Killing in the Name, Rage Against the Machine [topic: police brutality, systemic racism, & abuse of power]
32. Biko, Peter Gabriel [topic: police violence; honors anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who was killed in police custody in 1977 in South Africa]
33. Clampdown, the Clash [topic: suppression of youthful idealism, individuality, and rebellion by a conformist capitalist system, fascism, and monotonous work][near tie: Washington Bullets]
34. Birmingham Sunday, Joan Baez [topic: racial violence; a protest song about the September 15, 1963, 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, when the KKK killed four young African-American girls, naming them explicitly in the lyrics: Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley]
35. God Save the Queen, Sex Pistols [topic: a satirical, anti-authoritarian punk anthem attacking the British monarchy and social stagnation; release of this track was timely, coinciding with Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee]

Global Voices on America (more recent recordings):

36. This is America, Childish Gambino [topic: U.S. gun violence, systemic racism, and the entertainment industry's role in distracting from these issues]
37. El Apagon, Bad Bunny [topic: government corruption, gentrification, & frequent power outages; an anthem celebrating local culture in Puerto Rico]
38. This is Not America, Residente [topic: cultural identity; challenges the U.S.-centric definition of "America"]
    
    Using the "protest song" format for tongue-in-cheek, humorous presentations:
39. Almost Cut My Hair, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young [topic: defiance against societal conformity and police harassment]
40. M.T.A., the Kingston Trio [topic: protests a 5-cent fare increase that forced Boston passengers to pay to exit the train!!]
41. Rockin' the Suburbs, Ben Folds [topic: tongue-in-cheek "protest" about the challenges of "being male, middle class, and white"]

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Top 10+ Unique Tracks [View on Spotify]

1. Revolution 9, Beatles
2. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
3. Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin
4. Good Vibrations, Beach Boys [near tie: Heroes and Villains]
5. It Can't Happen Here, Frank Zappa
6. The Trial (from The Wall), Pink Floyd
7. The Decline, NoFX
• if you believed that punk and musical virtuosity were mutually exclusive, this track provides compelling evidence to the contrary!
8. God Shuffled His Feet, Crash Test Dummies [near tie: Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm]
9. White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane [based on the "Bolero rhythm" as heard in  Ravel's "Bolero"]
10. Symphony for the Devil/Sympathy for the Devil, Blood, Sweat & Tears
11. Stephen Hawking Sings ... Galaxy Song, Monty Python  
12. It's the End of the World As We Know It, R.E.M.
13. You're Breaking My Heart, Harry Nilsson
• I'd Rather Be Dead ... for this one you gotta check out the video
14. O Superman, Laurie Anderson
15. Killer, Alice Cooper
16. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Napoleon XIV [near tie: Witch Doctor, David Seville & the Chipmunks]
17. Word Crimes, "Weird Al" Yankovic
• like many comedians, I consider Weird Al quite brilliant [Beware: if you listen carefully, you may learn something from this track!]
18. Yellow Submarine, Beatles
19. It's Oh So Quiet, Björk [near tie: Cvalda from the soundtrack for Dancer in the Dark (I love the way this track grows out of the industrial sounds [drills & other mechanicals], which then serve as the rhythmic foundation for Bjork's vocal excursions)]
20. A Quick One, While He's Away, the Who
21. F Sharp, Tim Minchin [near tie: If I Can't Have You (Tim's version of a love song)]
22. One Tin Soldier, Coven
23. Principles of Lust: Sadeness / Find Love / Sadeness (reprise), Enigma
24. BOOM BAP, Doechii
25. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow, Frank Zappa [near tie: The Central Scrutinizer]
26. Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenocerous, Flight of the Conchords [near tie: Robots]
27. Jesus of Suburbia, Green Day
28. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Medley, Paul McCartney & Wings
29. The Magician's Birthday, Uriah Heep (check out the kazoo virtuosity; beginning @ 1:35)
30. We Didn't Start the Fire, Billy Joel; a history lesson in song form, decade by decade  [near two-way tie: Scandanavian Skies & Scenes from an Italian Restaurant]
31. If You Wanna Boogie, Brecker Brothers
32. Tall Trees, Crowded House
33. Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads
34. Dreadlock Holiday, 10cc
35. Veronica, Elvis Costello [topic: cognitive decline]
36. Now Do You Wannta Dance, Graham Central Station [near tie: Happ-E-2C-U-A-Ginn]
37. Rap God, Eminem [rap flow speed; 4:25]
38. Opera Singer, Cake [near tie: Comfort Eagle]
39. Mother, the Police
40. Walking in L.A., Missing Persons
41. Over the Rainbow, Sam Harris
• check out Sam's impressive vocal technique (Can you hear Patti Labelle's influence?)
• tenuous connection: I performed in the orchestra for "Showboat" during the Summer of 1978 at Opryland, back when it was a music-oriented theme park. That same summer, Sam Harris performed in "I Hear America Singing." He's a very talented guy!
42. The Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag, Country Joe & the Fish
43. Vegetables, Beach Boys (sounds of munching vegetables!)
44. Pilentze Pee, Bulgarian State Television Female Choir
45. River Why, Manu Chao
46. Flies, Cheekface

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Top 10+ Albums You May Not Have Heard ... But Definitely Worth a Listen! [View on Spotify]

Now, on to my list of 10+ ... without any potential family-related bias. ;)

1. Spilt Milk, Jellyfish
2. Metropolis, Part 2, Dream Theater
3. Sheer Heart Attack, Queen
4. Desolation Boulevard, The Sweet
5. Rockin' the Suburbs, Ben Folds
6. Closer to Home, Grand Funk Railroad 
7. Nilsson Schmilsson, Harry Nilsson
8. Woodface, Crowded House
9. Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe, The Alan Parsons Project
10. Comfort Eagle, Cake
11. One Bad Habit, Michael Franks 
12. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Rick Wakeman
13. All in All, Earth, Wind & Fire 
14. Over-Night Sensation, Frank Zappa
15. Boston, Boston
16. Outside Inside, The Tubes
17. Human's Lib, Howard Jones [this album showed me what was possible with a sequencer, drum machine, and several synths; the birth of DoubleTake!!    ] 
18. God Shuffled His Feet, Crash Test Dummies
19. Welcome to the Real World, Mr. Mister
20. Spring Session M, Missing Persons
21. Mandatory Fun, "Weird Al" Yankovic
22. Last of the Runaways, Giant
23. Eye to Eye, Eye to Eye
24. MCMXC a.D., Enigma
    
    Even with my broad definition of "rock music," the recording below doesn't fit, but the sounds of this recording really "tickled my ears" ... I hope you enjoy it!
25. Les Mystere Des Voix Bulgares (translation: The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices), Bulgarian State Television Female Choir

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Top 10+ Tim Minchin Tracks [View on Spotify]

Why Tim Minchin? That's a reasonable question. During a sabbatical from my position at the University of Minnesota (January 2011), my family & I were living in New York City. My wife stumbled upon Tim Minchin's musical performance on a Showtime special ... it was a one-and-a-half-hour version of his two-and-a-half-hour concert at the Royal Albert Hall (2010), which you can rent or buy via YouTube. To this day, it remains one of my all-time favorite musical performances ever, and he performed for two sold-out nights at the Royal Albert Hall during the Royal Wedding (Will & Kate). I identified Tim Minchin as my "musical discovery" for 2011 ... wondering why I hadn't heard of him earlier. I consider his comedy performances the pinnacle of his success. In my opinion, he is not only a highly creative, gifted creative talent, he is also a truly phenomenal performer, composer, and comedian. [Side note: I consider comedians among the most highly intelligent communicators in our culture.] Tim brings together his musical brilliance (not a word I use often) with what I consider to be hilariously comedic narratives between the songs. Many of his lyrics are either outright hilarious or cause you to think ... a LOT! He then went on to portray Judas in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "arena tour" of Jesus Christ Superstar (DVD released 2012); as you may be aware, that story is told through the eyes of Judas. Then, he went on to create the music and lyrics for Broadway musicals: Matilda (2011) and Groundhog Day (2017).

I hope you enjoy the songs below. Like any decent comedian these days, I guarantee that just about everyone will be offended by at least something he says, sings, or does. I encourage you to take it as a challenge ... and think!!

1. F Sharp
2. Storm
3. If I Didn't Have You (an "interesting" approach to a love song)
4. Thank You God
5. White Wine in the Sun
6. Prejudice
7. School Song [from Matilda]
   • listen carefully and you will hear the alphabet integrated into the lyrics (warning: in Australia & Britain, the letter "z" is represented as "zed")
8. Cont
• YOU MUST COMMIT!! ... if you begin this song, you HAVE TO commit to finishing the track. [Otherwise, in Tim's words, he "might be misconstrued."]
9. Lullaby
10. The Song for Phil Daoust [a warning: should you dare write a bad review of Tim's performance! Kinda the song ALL artists would have liked to composed in such a circumstance!]
11. If This Plane Goes Down
12. Mitsubishi Colt
13. Not Perfect [a pretty awesome life philosophy, if you ask me ...]
14. I'm in a Cage/Rock n Roll Nerd [the opening of his Royal Albert Hall show (2010)]
15. Leaving L.A.
16. Talked Too Much, Stayed Too Long
17. You Grew On Me 

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Top 10+ List of Hit Single Perfection [View on Spotify]

1. Come and Get It, Badfinger (composed & arranged by Paul McCartney)
2. Imagine, John Lennon
3. Hip to Be Square, Huey Lewis & the News
4. I've Got the Music in Me, Kiki Dee
5. Yesterday, Beatles
6.  

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