Top 100 Songs: #90-#81

I'm back with the second installment of my top 100 songs.

• #90: All Fall Down (Sarah Masen -1996)
• Released on Charlie Peacock's re:think records (and produced by Charlie), this debut single by Sarah Masen is both catchy and incredibly thoughtful. 
• # 89: American Woman (Lenny Kravitz - 1999)
• Lenny Kravitz absolutely knocks this cover of the Guess Who song out of the park.
• #88: I Found Love (Geoff Moore & The Distance - 1989)
• Geoff Moore has had a number of stylistic shifts in his career - but the roots rock edge of this Lone Justice cover is probably my favorite.
• #87: Monstertruck (This Train - 1995)
• A raucous and adorably sweet love song - "As my 4x rolls down the road of life, I know that I'll be happier when your wife/All we need is a ring and a dress and a tux, and a love as big as a monstertruck". Note: the original version on the album "You're Soaking in It" is much better than the band's self-cover on "The Emporer's New Band".
• #86: This Too Shall Pass (OK Go - 2010)
• You probably know this from the nutty Rube Goldberg music video - but the version I love features a live performance by the  University of Notre Dame Marching Band.
• Two other related videos:
• The Rube Goldberg version
• The behind the scenes video of the march band version
• #85: Light a Candle (Whiteheart - 1992)
• Great memory: jumping around and singing this at the top of my lungs from the first row of the balcony when Whiteheart played Belmont University.
• #84: It's the Eighties (So Where's Our Rocket Packs?) (Daniel Amos - 1984)
• My roommate and I drove the campus radio DJ crazy requesting this very odd track off Daniel Amos' "Vox Humana" album. (Many of the musicians involved will show up MUCH later on this countdown in a different Traveling Wilbury-esque CCM supergroup.)
• #83: Monkeys at the Zoo (Charlie Peacock - 1995)
• I bought my first Charlie Peacock album (cassette) back in college (1984)… and his most recent album (Every King of Uh-Oh) in 2024. I admire his skills as a musician, producer, writer, and philosopher.
• #82: Birdland (The Manhattan Transfer - 1979)
• I'm not usually a fan of the Manhattan Transfer pop songs that got radio play… but I love their jazz-based classics like Birdland.
• #81: Invisible Man (Prodigal - 1982)
• Just three albums in four years - but this band managed to write great rock'n'roll that challenged me to think bigger about what I believed and how I lived it out.