The following is a list of songs that are part of my “Purgatory Song-list” mentioned in my August 27, 2017 newspaper column. Feel free to add to the list in the comments section. The songs are in no particular order:
Pretty Fly – The Offspring
Brighter Than The Sun – Colbie Caillat
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Ice, Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
Summer Winds – Frank Sinatra
Boombastic – Shaggy
Kashmir – Bond
Hell – Sum 41
California Love – 2pac
Deep Inside of You – Third Eye Blind
These Foolish Things – Bryan Ferry
Do Ya – ELO
Thunderstruck – AC/DC
B-AB-Y – Carla Thomas
Tequila – Button Down Brass
Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
Our Lips are Sealed – Go-Go’s
We’ve Only Just Begun – The Carpenters
Northern Sky – Nick Drake
Never Let You Go – Third Eye Blind
Stir it Up – Bob Marley
Shut Up and Dance – Walk on the Moon
Wasted Time – Eagles
Cake by the Ocean – DNCE
Grazing in the Grass – Hugh Masekela
Stressed Out – Twenty One Pilots
Blue Ain’t Your Color – Keith Urban
Hello – Adele
Here’s Where the Story Ends – The Sunday’s
Downtown – Petula Clark
The Wire – HAIM
All You Ever Do is Bring Me Down – Mavericks
I Can Dream About You – Dan Hartman
Oye Como Va – Santana
Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson,Bruno Mars
I Wanna Be Sedate – The Ramones
Danke Schoen – Wayne Newton
Dirty Deeds Down Dirt Cheap – Joan Jett
Drop the Pilot – Joan Armatrading
Carefree Highway – Gordon Lightfoot
3 Small Words – Josie and the Pussycats
She Bangs – Ricky Martin
Emergency – Icona Pop
Driver’s Seat – Sniff ‘n’ the Tears
Echo Beach – Martha and the Muffins
I Want You Back – Bananarama
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart – from the soundtrack of Ella Echanted
Somewhere Only We Know – Keene
Kung Fu Fighting – Carl Douglas
Give Me Just One Night – 98 Degrees
Hand to Heaven – Breathe
You Can Call Me Al -Paul Simin
Pride -In the Name of Love – U2
The Passenger – Siouxsie and the Banshees
Only in my Dreams – Debbie Gibson
You Belong to Me – Taylor Swift
In the House of Stone and Light – Martin Page
Roadhouse Blues – The Doors
Dance the Night Away – The Mavericks
Me Too – Meghan Trainor
Desperado – Eagles
Closing Time – Semisonic
Northern Sky – Nick Drake
Isn’t It Time – The Baby’s
The Sun Always Shines on TV – A-Ha
What the World Needs Now – Jackie DeShannon
MMMBop – Hanson
Barbie Girl – Aqua
Bang, Bang – David Sandborn
God Only Knows (2 versions) – Beach Boys/BBC Group