Recently, I decided to get back to me and to create a 500-song playlist that my wife and I could listen to in our journeys. In keeping it with what my wife generally listens to on the radio, I set the bar between late 1970s and now, roughly 40 years, where the main requirement is adult radio friendly, though I did make a few exceptions based on our age and having moved through the period that is 1989-1994. If you’re interested, it’s very 80s and 90s heavy, though it does feature all years.
2.
The Police “Every Breath You Take”
3.
Prince “When Doves Cry”
4.
Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime”
5.
R.E.M. “Losing My Religion”
6.
The Script “Nothing”
7.
Goo Goo Dolls “Iris”
8.
Gin Blossoms “Hey Jealousy”
9.
Gavin Degraw “I Don’t Wanna Be”
10.
Sugar Ray “When It’s Over”
11.
Verve Pipe “The Freshman”
12.
Men at Work “Overkill”
13.
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Breaking the Girl”
14.
Temple of the Dog “Hunger Strike”
15.
INXS “Need You Tonight”
16.
Robert Palmer “Bad Case of Loving You”
17.
Georgia Satellites “Hippy Hippy Shake”
18.
Gavin Degraw “In Love with a Girl”
19.
Jack Johnson “People Watching”
20.
Sting “Englishman in New York”
21.
Sheryl Crow “Soak up the Sun”
22.
Foo Fighters “Big Me”
23.
Presidents of the USA “Peaches”
24.
Traveling Wilburies “Handle with Care”
25.
Tom Petty “Free Fallin”
26.
Santana and Michelle Branch “Game of Love”
27.
Santana with Rob Thomas “Smooth”
28.
Matchbox 20 “Real World”
29.
Counting Crows “Mr. Jones”
30.
Hall and Oates “Private Eyes”
31.
Gotye “Somebody that I Used to Know”
32.
Aerosmith “Crazy”
33.
Plain White T’s “1,2,3,4”
34.
Sheryl Crow “Every day is a Winding Road”
35.
Coldplay “A Sky Full of Stars”
36.
Jack Johnson “To the Sea”
37.
Gavin Degraw
“Follow Through”
38.
Plain White T’s “Rhythm of Love:
39.
Lorde “Team”
40.
George Michael “Faith”
41.
Queen “Fat Bottomed Girls”
42.
Blondie “Rapture”
43.
Prince “Let’s Go Crazy (extended)”
44.
Hall and Oates “Rich Girl”
45.
The Police “Don’t Stand so Close to Me”
46.
Gavin Degraw
“Not Over You”
47.
Asia “Only Time Will Tell”
48.
Shinedown “Get Up”’
49.
Oasis “Don’t Look Back in Anger”
50.
Train “Meet Virginia”
51.
Bryan Adams “Run to You”
52.
Poison “Talk Dirty to Me”
53.
Lady Gaga “Bad Romance”
54.
Adele “Set Fire to the Rain”
55.
Human League “Don’t You Want Me”
56.
Def Leppard “Pour Some Sugar on Me”
57.
The Power Station “Get It on (Bang a Gong)”
58.
Robert Palmer “Some Like It Hot”
59.
The Romantics “Talking in Your Sleep”
60.
Hall and Oates “You Make My Dreams”
61.
Billy Joel “You May Be Right”
62.
Tom Petty “Running Down a Dream”
63.
Matchbox 20 “How Far We’ve Come”
64.
Third Eye Blind “Graduate”
65.
Pearl Jam “Alive”
66.
Foreigner “Urgent”
67.
Van Halen “Jump”
68.
Bruce Springsteen “Born in the USA”
69.
David Bowie “Let’s Dance”
70.
Panic at the Disco “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”
71.
Katy Perry + Kanye West “ET”
72.
Blondie “Call Me”
73.
Prince “1999”
74.
John Mayer “Waiting on the World to Change”
75.
Taylor Swift “Love Story”
76.
John Cougar Mellencamp “Jack and Diane”
77.
Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way”
78.
Aerosmith “Cryin”
79.
Def Leppard “Photograph”
80.
INXS “What You Need”
81.
Journey “Only the Young”
82.
Bon Jovi “Living on a Prayer”
83.
INXS “New Senstation”
84.
Pet Shop Boys “Opportunities”
85.
Men at Work “It’s a Mistake”
86.
Bon Jovi “Wanted Dead or Alive”
87.
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Scar Tissue”
88.
David Bowie “China Girl”
89.
John Cougar Mellencamp “Pink Houses”
90.
Soul Asylum “Runaway Train”
91.
Coldplay “Clocks”
92.
Styx “Mr. Roboto”
93.
Imagine Dragons “Radioactive”
94.
Lady Gaga “Just Dance”
95.
Taylor Swift
“Shake it Off”
96.
Stevie Nicks “Edge of Seventeen”
97.
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty “Stop Dragging My
Heart Around”
98.
Elle King “Ex’s and Oh’s”
99.
Katy Perry “I Do Not Hook Up”
100.
Matchbox 20 “Push”
101.
Goo Goo Dolls “Slide”
102.
The Script “For the First Time
103.
Phil Phillips “Home”
104.
Fun “Some Nights”
105.
Foster the People “Pumped-up Kicks”
106.
Jack Johnson “Better Together
107.
Goo Goo Dolls “Name”
108.
Wilson Phillips “Hold on”
109.
Taylor Swift “Everything Has Changed”
110.
Prince “Raspberry Beret”
111.
Michael Penn “No Myth”
112.
Jack Johnson “You and Your Heart”
113.
Sugar Ray “Someday”
114.
Coldplay “Yellow”
115.
Katy Perry “The One That Got Away”
116.
Evanescence “Bring Me to Life”
117.
Linkin Park “In the End”
118.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and
Roll”
119.
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge”
120.
Tom Petty “Into the Great Wide Open”
121.
Katy Perry “Firework”
122.
Journey “Any Way You Want It”
123.
Backstreet Boys “We’ve Got It Going On”
124.
Jack Johnson “Upside Down”
125.
Maroon 5 “This Love”
126.
Sugar Ray “Every Morning”
127.
Jon Legend “All of Me”
128.
Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls”
129.
Murray Head “One Night in Bangkok”
130.
Eagle Eye Cherry “Save Tonight”
131.
Eric Hutchinson “Rock and Roll”
132.
Matchbox 20 “Unwell”
133.
Imagine Dragons “Whatever It Takes”
134.
One Republic “All the Right Moves”
135.
Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera “Moves Like
Jagger”
136.
Michael Jackson “Smooth Criminal”
137.
The Kinks “Come Dancing”
138.
Train “Drive By”
139.
Allanah Myles” 32 Flavors”
140.
No Doubt “Underneath It All”
141.
Natalie Merchant “Wonder”
142.
Ke$ha “Praying”
143.
Meredith Brooks “Bitch”
144.
Paula Cole “I Don’t Want to Wait”
145.
Cyndi Lauper “Time after Time”
146.
Poison “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
147.
INXS “Never Tear Us Apart”
148.
Primitive Radio Gods “Standing Outside a Broken
Phone Booth”
149.
Paul Young “Every Time You Go Away”
150.
Counting Crows “A Long December”
151.
Semisonic “Closing Time”
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