CJ’s iPhone Playlist – March 2013 (The Best 40)

I know it’s late…but hopefully you’ll like and understand why.

After years of ducking the challenge of listing my favorite songs of all-time, I have taken a first crack at a Top 40! This list was painstakingly difficult to come up with because I always knew this would be an impossible task for me…and it was! Without question, my favorite song of all-time is Erasure’s “A Little Respect” followed very closely by Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy the Silence,” but like those songs, there are many other that sir up the same type of euphoria when I hear them. How does one choose?? That has always been my dilemma…until now.

Listed below are the songs that cause me to pause when I hear them on the radio and/or press repeat when they pop up on my iPhone. Each song has a memory linked to it that instantly comes to mind the second I hear the first few bars. These memories run the gamut from my Mom and family, to my friends, past loves, high school, college, “firsts,” movies, TV show, vacations…you name it there’s a memory for it.

This list could easily have 100 more songs on it because for those who know me — they will be surprised at the ones that are missing. Somewhere down the line, I will make the effort to do a Top 100 songs, so I can detail them all, but in the meanwhile, I hope you enjoy my personal Top 40 songs of all times.

Thanks as always for reading and for your messages. I can’t wait to hear what you have to say about my selections.

A Little Respect – Erasure

 Enjoy the Silence – Depeche Mode

Could You Be Loved – Bob Marley & The Wailers

It’s My Life – Talk Talk

True Faith  – New Order

Pictures of You – The Cure

Fortress Around Your Heart – Sting

Only You – Yaz

If You Could Read My Mind – Stars On 54

You Mean The World To Me – Toni Braxton

Sign Your Name – Terence Trent D’Arby 

Gloria – Laura Branigan

Brand New Lover – Dead Or Alive

Come On Eileen – Dexys Midnight Runners

Pulling Muscles From a Shell – Squeeze

Spiderwebs – No Doubt

Because You Loved Me – Céline Dion

Hands To Heaven – Breathe

Search For The Hero – M People

By Your Side -Sade

How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths

Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots

The Man Who Sold The World – Nirvana

Creep – Radiohead

People Are People – Depeche Mode

Black Cat – Janet Jackson

We Didn’t Start The Fire – Billy Joel

Losing My Religion – R.E.M.

Michael Jackson – Thriller

Waterfalls – TLC 

it Me Baby One More Time – Britney Spears 

Chains Of Love – Erasure

Borderline – Madonna

Freedom! ’90 – George Michael

Modern Love – David Bowie

Wonderful World, Beautiful People – Jimmy Cliff

I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) – Whitney Houston

Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here (Hex Hector Club Mix) – Deborah Cox

The Show Must Go On – Queen

Vogue – Madonna