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Noteworthy Songs

These are not my favorite songs. They are songs that I have added to this list, mainly as a note to myself. For example, if I like a song but am unfamiliar with the artist, I might track down that info and record it here. Or if a song is not in my music collection and I find an audio clip on the web (or wish I would), I might put a link here.

The sorting order of the artists is straightforward: Initial A/An/The is ignored, no words are reordered, non-alphanumeric characters are ignored, case is ignored. So “Howard Jones” comes before “Jane's Addiction” because howardjones comes before janesaddiction. Digits preceed letters, as in ASCII.

The matter is unfortunately complicated by the fact that Japanese names, while traditionally written family-name-first, are sometimes reversed when rendered in Roman letters, but there's no consistency. For example, there are many references to “Yumi Yoshimura” and many to “Yoshimura Yumi”. For the time being, I've arbitrarily chosen always to put the family name first in Japanese names. The spelling of the proper names is generally agreed on, even when it's not a standard romanization (for example, Kahala rather than Kahara).

When I romanize Japanese song titles, I use “wa-puro” romaji, and I use my own judgement for placing word breaks and capital letters. (Is there a standard for this?)

Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen

Adam Sandler

Aikawa Nanase 相川七瀬 [official] [audio&info]

Amuro Namie 安室奈美恵 [info&audio]

Art of Noise

Barenaked Ladies

Beck

The Big Bopper

Billy Idol

Bjork

Black Biscuits (featuring Vivian Hsu [info])

Blues Traveler

Chumbawamba [info]

Cibo Matto [official]

Cranberries

Crash Test Dummies

Dave Matthews Band

Dexy's Midnight Runners

Donna Lewis

Enigma

Every Little Thing = ELT [info] [official] [info&audio]

Faith No More

Fastball

Flaming Lips

The Four Seasons

Fukuyama Masaharu 福山雅治

Gina G

Glay [info] [official]

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

globe [official]

Hamasaki Ayumi 浜崎あゆみ

Hanson

Harry Belafonte

Hirosue Ryoko 広末涼子 [info] [info&audio] [images]

Howard Jones

Jackie Wilson

Jane's Addiction

Jay and the Americans

John Williams

Judy and Mary [audio]

Kahala Tomomi 華原朋美 [audio&info]

Kawamoto Makoto 川本真琴 [audio]

Kawamura Ryuichi 河村隆一 [info]

Kim Wilde

Los Del Rio

Men Without Hats

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones [info]

Mungo Jerry

Nena

New Order

Nine Inch Nails

No Doubt

Nokko [audio]

Pink Floyd

Presidents of the United States of America

Prince

Puffy [audio] [info]

Rod Stewart

Sakamoto Kyu 坂本九 [bio] [photo] [death]

Simon and Garfunkel

Sir Mix-a-Lot

Spin Doctors

Stray Cats

Styx

Sugar Ray

Suzanne Vega [info&audio]

T.M. Revolution = Takanori Makes Revolution [audio] [official]

Tone Loc

Tori Amos

TRF = TK Rave Factory [official]

U2

UB40

Urban Dance Squad

Vengaboys

Violent Femmes

Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band

Weird Al Yankovic

Yoshimura Yumi

Young M.C.

Retired

These used to be on the list, but I they don't seem as noteworthy to me as they once did.

The Cardigans

Jewel

Luscious Jackson

Savage Garden

Third Eye Blind


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