The 1970s A to Z: 26 Songs from a Rockin’ Decade

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I was diligently toiling away on a story about the great St. Augustine for my series on the Church Fathers when a notification popped up that notorious troublemaker Pierce McIntyre had mentioned me in a story. My muse told me to ignore it; there was work to be done, and it was almost certainly another Plethora of Pop music prompt/challenge that would derail my current project and send me into a Spotify abyss from which I might never return. It was time to have some discipline.

I have no discipline.

Music prompts are my kryptonite, and this one was impossible to ignore: pick 26 songs, one for each letter of the alphabet. Pierce took the idea from an excellent piece by Mark Holburn titled “The Alphabet Back Catalogue Challenge: My Springsteen A-Z.” His response was to do a list of songs solely from the 1980s, the greatest decade ever:

An Alphabet of Awesome Songs From the 1980s

So, I couldn’t do one for just Springsteen songs or only from the ’80s; this took out my two strongest areas. Alex Markham then responded with one made…