EyeScream comes from one of my favorite Prince songs, "In this Bed Eye Scream" along with a play on words with "ice cream." Clever, huh?

My lists are just for fun. I often try to figure out what I like the most & love making all kinds of lists. These are simply my favorites & NOT a judgment upon anyone's music! I don't even sing or play so I'm not gonna say, "this is better than that." Since I was a child, I liked counting down songs. Similar to American Top 40, I did weekly (sometimes monthly) countdowns ranging from 10 songs all the way up to 100 songs/week during the R&B boom in 1991-93. These yearly countdowns are from those charts. The order continues to change as I temporarily grow tired of some overplayed or commercialized songs & discover others. These charts reflect part of where I stand with the songs now & part the way I liked them back then. Songs that have been played to death like "Celebration" or "Eye of the Tiger" struggle to have the same impact they did at the time. I still try to give them some credit to show that I did like them at one point in the past. Some songs from the past I had not heard at the time of the countdown; such as not knowing Prince until 1982, but going back & putting his 1979-81 songs on these charts. Being in a commercial can hurt a song, such as the Cars' "Just What I Needed" being used by Circuit City. It fell from #1 in 1978 down to #20 before slowly rising to #4 again (after the commercial's use faded out).