Friday, March 16, 2012

Hits List: Jackson Browne

From the moment Jackson Browne became a recording artist, he has written some of the most introspective, important lyrics of the Rock Era.  Here is his complete Hits List:
 

1972:  "Doctor My Eyes" (#8, #18 Adult)
           "Rock Me on the Water" (#48)
1973:  "Redneck Friend" (#85)
           "Take It Easy"
1974:  "Late for the Sky"
           "Walking Slow"
           "Fountain of Sorrow"--one of The Top Unknown/Underrated Songs of the Rock Era*.
1977:  "Here Come Those Tears Again" (#23, #15 Adult)
           "The Pretender" (#58)
 

1978:  "Running on Empty" (#11)--underrated.
           "Stay" (#20, #47 Adult, #12 U.K.)--underrated.
           "You Love the Thunder"
1980:  "Boulevard" (#19)
           "That Girl Could Sing" (#22)
           "Hold On Hold Out"--one of The Top Unknown/Underrated Songs of the Rock Era*.
1982:  "Somebody's Baby" (#7, #4 Mainstream, #14 Adult Contemporary)
1983:  "Lawyers in Love" (#13, 34 Mainstream, #24 AC)
           "Tender Is the Night" (#25, #18 Mainstream, #24 AC)
           "For a Rocker" (#45, #7 Mainstream)
1984:  "Cut It Away" (#37 Mainstream)
1985:  "You're a Friend of Mine" (with Clarence Clemons) (#18, #16 Rock,#21 AC)
 

1986:  "For America" (#30, #3 Mainstream, #31 AC)
           "In the Shape of a Heart" (#70, #15 Mainstream, #10 AC, #66 U.K.)
           "Lives in the Balance" (#33 Mainstream)
           "Black and White"
1989:  "World in Motion" (#4 Mainstream)
           "Chasing You Into the Light" (#9 Mainstream)
           "Anything Can Happen" (#23 AC)
1993:  "I'm Alive" (#18 Mainstream, #28 AC)
           "Miles Away"
           "My Problem Is You"
1994:  "Everywhere I Go" (#67 U.K.)

           "Sky Blue and Black"
1995:  "Let It Be Me" (with Timothy B. Schmit)
1996:  "Some Bridges"
           "I'm the Cat"
 

1997:  "The Next Voice You Hear"
           "The Rebel Jesus"
2002:  "The Night Inside Me" (#25 AC)
2003:  "About My Imagination"
2005:  "Lives in the Balance" (live)
2009:  "Here"
2011:  "You Know the Night"

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