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Here are the lists to finish off the music lists.

10 Favorite Songs from the '80's

1.  The B-52's, Roam
2.  Phish, Fee
3.  Dire Straits, Romeo & Juliet
4. Devo, Whip it
5. Blue Oyster Cult, Don't Fear the Reaper
6. Peter Gabriel, Games without Frontiers
7. R.E.M., Fall on Me
8. Talking Heads, Nothing but Flowers
9.  U2, All I Want is You
10.Bangles, Walk like an Egyptian

10 Favorite Songs from the '90's

1. Barenaked Ladies, What a Good Boy
2. Blind Melon, No Rain
3. Cake, The Distance
4. Dave Matthews Band, Two-Step
5. Weezer, Say it Ain't So
6. No Doubt, Just a Girl
7. Pearl Jam, Elderly Woman Behind a Counter in a Small Town
8. Rusted Root, Martyr
9. Blues Traveler, Hook
10. Beastie Boys, Sabotage.

And as a side note, for my 00-11 list, I should have added Black Eyed Peas, Pump It.  Entirely out of character for me, but it's a great song.

10 Favorite Songs for Fun Little Boys

1.  John Williams, Imperial March
2.  John Williams, Raiders March
3. Edvard Grieg, In the Hall of the Mountain King
4. The Surfaries, Wipe Out
5. Ivan Ulz, Fire Truck
6. Laurie Berkner, We Are the Dinosaurs
7. Rusted Root, Send me on My Way
8. Beach Boys, Barbara Ann
9. I Like to Move it from Madagascar
10. Men Without Hats, The Safety Dance

Listen up.

I am often stumped by the question, "What kind of music do you like?"  While I can easily state to anyone that I hate country or Brittney Spears, I've never been able to correctly categorize my music style enough to answer that question.  So, I will leave it to you blog readers to help me nail it down so I can avoid stumbling through another getting to know you question, especially since the first one is usually, "Where are you from?" which is an even harder one for me.

Anyway, here are my first top ten music lists.  I have done them all by era.  60-70's, 80's, 90's, 00-10's.  We'll start with 60-70's and 00-10's and add the other lists later (if you can take the suspense).  I'd like to dedicate this first list to my great husband, who has basically introduced every single one of these songs to me and who finally read my blog for the first time yesterday.  Oh and for all my lists, for the sake of variety, I did not repeat artists, even though I would probably have more than one Led Zeppelin song on there, for example.

MY TOP TEN FAVORITE SONGS MADE IN THE 60's-70's.   

The Kinks, Lola
The Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Canned Heat, Going up the Country
Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Helplessly Hoping
Donovan, Sunshine Superman
David Grisham and Jerry Garcia, Sitting Here in Limbo
Jimmy Buffett, Volcano
Led Zeppelin, D'Yer Mak'er
Marshall Tucker Band, Can't You See
Steve Miller Band, The Joker

This next list is dedicated to my sister Cami, who is my source for staying anywhere near hip and with-it in the music department.  And as a side note, it amuses me that I get crusty looks from Dylan if I'm listening to anything produced in the last 15 years, and crusty looks from Cami when I'm listening to music not produced in the last five.  And I know I cheated and did twelve for this list.  But there were twelve years in the era, so I thought it could slide.

MY TWELVE CURRENT FAVORITE SONGS FROM 2000-2011

A Band of Bees, Wash in the Rain
Dispatch, Open Up
Jack Johnson, Do You Remember
Modest Mouse, Dashboard
Radiohead, 15 Step
Red Hot Chile Peppers, Soul to Squeeze
Slightly Stoopid, Closer to the Sun
State Radio, Calling all Crows
The Strokes, Reptilia
Sugar Ray, Into Yesterday
Teddybears, Cobrastyle
Yeasayer, 2080