Worst Albums of 2007

Since I have been completing my favorite songs of the year list for over a decade, thought out the years I hear five or songs and think, there a potential overall number one for this year. The thing is, this year not one song that came out that made me think that making me wonder if 2007 could be the worst year for music in my lifetime overtaking 1999. That was until I started compiling this list of the worst albums of the year and noticed that there were not that many bad albums. This year only two albums garnered the Low Terror Alert level compared with five last year (plus Paris Hilton who is still the only artist to get the elusive Terror Alert Black), and six the year before.

This could also be because there just seemed to be a lot less music period this year. Last year I reviewed about a hundred albums but this year just over fifty got reviewed. But looking over potential songs that will make the top 100 songs of the year, there does seem to be an overabundance of good songs, just not any great ones. In face, the fiftieth best song this year may be the best fiftieth song of all time. So I am ready to declare 2007 the Most Mediocre Year Ever.

With that said, there are a few albums that need to be noted for their unlistenablity. Here are the worst of the worst album that I reviewed in the past five months. If you are interested in reading my original review, click the link below the album, the album link goes to iTunes if you enjoy torture.


1. Blackout - Britney Spears
Musings from the Back 9: 90's Disposable Pop Edition

2. Curtis - 50 Cent
No More Platinum, I'm Wearing Gold

3. Jordin Sparks - Jordin Sparks
I Can't Waste Time so Give it a Moment

4. Underclass Hero - Sum 41
I'm a Voice to Offend

5. Shock Value - Timbaland
I've Been Killin em with These Beats

6. Katharine McPhee - Katharine McPhee
I Want This to Be Over, I So Want This to Be Through

7. Dignity - Hilary Duff
You Wanna Know Why I Look Sad and Lonely

8. Taking Chances - Céline Dion
I Had My Heart Beaten Down but I Always Come Back for More

9. Double Up - R. Kelly
Man, it’s Three’s Company, Call Me Jack Tripper

10. My December - Kelly Clarkson
You're Going Crazy, Running on Empty

11. Spider-Man 3 Soundtrack
Musings from the Back 9: Music Edition vol. V

12. Unbreakable - Backstreet Boys
Musings from the Back 9: 90's Disposable Pop Edition vol. II

13. Zeitgeist - Smashing Pumpkins
Despite All My Rage I am Still Just a Rat in a Cage

14. Good Girl Gone Bad - Rihanna
Now that it's Raining More than Ever

15. Infinity on High - Fall Out Boy
Long Live the Car Crash Hearts

25 Best Live Performances of 2007

While watching Live Earth earlier this year with all the great music, it crossed my mind to come up with the greatest live performances of the past twelve month. And with the Grammy’s, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the thousands of other pat themselves on the back events that the music business throws for themselves, it wasn’t hard to populate a list. I did throw out the talk show performances because 99% of them are just boring rehashes of their album versions. But here are the best of the best of 2007 with links to YouTube where available (and if you have the mp3 of any of them shout me a holla because there are a couple I would like that I haven’t hunted down yet):


1. Gimme Shelter - Keith Urban and Alicia Keys (Live Earth)



2. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley (49th Annual Grammy Awards)



3. Check the Rhyme/Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest (2007 VH1 Hip-Hop Honors)

4. Like a Star/Coming Home/Gravity - Corrine Bailey Rae, John Legend and John Mayer (49th Annual Grammy Awards)



5. Darling Nikki - Cee-Lo and Foo Fighters (2007 MTV Video Music Awards)



6. Big Bottom - Spinal Tap and an Army of Bassists (Live Earth)

7. Bonita Applebum/Electric Relaxation/Scenario - Common, Pharrell, Lupe Fiasco and Busta Rhymes (2007 VH1 Hip-Hop Honors)

8. Man on the Moon - R.E.M. and Eddie Vedder (2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony)

9. No One/Freedom ’90 - Alicia Keys (2007 MTV Video Music Awards)

10. Not Ready to Make Nice - The Dixie Chicks (49th Annual Grammy Awards)

11. Roxanne - The Police (49th Annual Grammy Awards)

12. Sabotage - Beastie Boys (Live Earth)

13. Go Your Own Way - Carrie Underwood and Lindsay Buckingham (Fashion Rocks)

14. That’s the Thing about Love - Alicia Keys (Live Earth)

15. Message in a Bottle - The Police, John Mayer and Kanye West (Live Earth)

16. Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna and Fall Out Boy (2007 MTV Video Music Awards)

17. Mercy Mercy Me - Corrine Bailey Rae and John Legend (Live Earth)

18. White Lines/Good Times/The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony)

19. Drummers - SOS All Stars (Live Earth)

20. For the Love of Money/Living for the City/Mercy Mercy Me - Alicia Keys (Live Earth)

21. Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer (Live Earth)

22. Bleed it Out - Linkin Park (2007 MTV Video Music Awards)

23. Rehab - Amy Winehouse (2007 MTV Movie Awards)

24. Babylon - David Gray and Damien Rice (Live Earth)

25. Heart of Glass - Blondie and Lily Allen (The Today Show)

Lyrics Quiz: Best of 2007

This month’s lyrics quiz has been culled from some of my favorite lines uttered this year and even expanded to thirty songs this month so I didn’t have to scale it down any. This doesn’t though reflect my upcoming Best Songs of 2007 that will arrive just after Christmas because I really hate publications that do their year in review in late November or early December thus missing an entire month of the year. For my full list of upcoming festivities, click on the Holiday Schedule on my sidebar. As for the lyrics quiz, leave your guesses in the comment section or e-mail me, both song title and artist. If you are correct, I will un-bold the lyric and give you credit. Just a little hint, the lyrics are in chronological order from when they were released so for the first couple think January while the last couple will be more recent songs. And though I disapprove of using search engines to find the answers, I don’t mind if you look around my archives as some of the lyrics have been mentioned on the 9th Green before typically in album review (click on the Terror Alert Scale link in my sidebar for those). Now on to the lyrics:

Hints
1. The very first album I reviewed this year from a band that didn't change my life as advertised.
4. Did this artist really need to break out the black and white for this video? I didn't think so.
5. This video (for a song that actually appear on the artists biggest one week sales for an album this year) featured the artist's old unkle, or so the subtitles would have you believe.
8. This song was intilly supposed to feature Chris Martin but that version was pulled from the albums weeks before its release.
9. This song was released right around the time the band released a song from the Spiderman 3 Soundtrack.
11. As I pointed out in the comment section, this year featured two videos with creepy clowns in them, this band had one (but not for this song).
13. You may remember me mentioning how this singer requested me to be her friend on MySpace.
19. Song from the dude who produced the song at 14 and sung by the artist at number 14.
23. One of the few raps from a band that had plenty on their previous albums.
24. Yet another song featuring the artist at 14. The video was so brilliant I even busted out the rare two day post to feature it.
26. Yeah Nelly recorded this song a couple years back, but it was done again, to much better results, this year.
27. I featured two of this artist's video during the same segment but didn't mention the bad perm in one of them because of her age (and still won't).
29. Two years ago this artist released three albums, the last two years only one (well, and an EP).
30. Here is the other creepy clown video.


1. We wander through her mama’s house, and the milk from the window lights,
Family portrait circa ninety-five. This is that foreign land with the sprayed on tans.
2. Just a classic case, a s-scenario. Tale as old as time, girl you got what you deserved. (What Goes Around.../...Comes Around - Justin Timberlake; guessed by Monique)
3. There’s nothing you can teach me that I can’t learn from Mr. Hathaway. (Rehab - Amy Winehouse; guessed by Dara)
4. But that would be like pouring rain drops back into a cloud.
5. I don’t need no hands on no Lindsay Lohan, on the same program as Britney, you wit me?
6. I only think in the form of crunching numbers. (Thnks Fr Th Mmrs - Fall Out Boy; guessed by Dara)
7. It’s always have and never hold. You’ve begun to feel like home. (Look After You - The Fray; guessed by Dara)
8. Dogs were whistling a new tune, barking at the new moon hoping it would come soon so that they could die.
9. Under your skin feels like home. Electric shots on aching bones.
10. She’s like "so whatever." And you could do so much better. (Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne; guessed by Monique)
11. We can’t take our eyes of their t-shirt and ties combination. Well see you later innovator.
12. And I’d wish on every star in the Southern sky for that man and our life if I did not think that. (Tennessee - The Wreckers; guessed by Dara)
13. I was a starling, nobody’s darling. Lying in perfect circles just for company.14. There were people from the city having lunch in the park. I believe that’s called alfresco. (LDN - Lily Allen; guessed by Dara)
15. Give me something to believe in ‘cause I don't believe in you anymore. (Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5; guessed by Dara)
16. You’re part of my entity. Here for infinity. (Umbrella - Rihanna; guessed by Dara)
17. Get washed-up singers writing all my songs, lip synch ‘em every night so I don’t get ‘em wrong. (Rockstar - Nickelback; guessed by Dara)
18. Give me that Sunday School answer. (Never Again - Kelly Clarkson; guessed by Monique)
19. You work in a shirt with a nametag on it. Drifting away like a plate tectonic.
20. Will you count me in? (Bubbly - Colbie Caillat; guessed by Dara)
21. Do I have to fall asleep with roses in my hands? (Dreaming with a Broken Heart - John Mayer; guessed by Dara)
22. I want a thousand guitars. I want pounding drums. I want a millions different voices speaking in tongues. (Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen; guessed by Monique)
23. Yeah here we go for the hundredth time. Hand grenade pins in every line. Throw ‘em up and let something shine.
24. She was the type to watch Oprah and the Today Show. Be on the treadmill, uh, like OK-Go.
25. Thinks all men are addicted to porn. (Her Eyes - Pat Monahan; guessed by Dara)
26. I’m just kiddin’ like Jason… Unless you gonna do it.
27. Sneakin’ out late, tapping on your window when we’re on the phone and you talk real slow ‘cause it’s late and your mama don’t know.
28. I still hear the children playing. Dead beat dancers come to us and stay. (Tranquilize - The Killers featuring Lou Reed; guessed by Dara)
29. You come for me in the worst of places. You come for me; you come and try to take me home. I’m always in need and it’s hard to be reciprocating. The fabric of our life gets torn.
30. I’d buy you Rogaine when you start losing all your hair.

2007 Holiday Schedule

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, or as those outside the U.S. like to call it, Thursday. So I hope you have (or had depending on when you read this) a great Turkey Day. Just a heads up with the holidays upon us, here’s a look at the schedule the 9th Green will be taking the next couple weeks as well as a list of the best of 2007. There is a link on the sidebar for future reference. Feel free to dive into the archives on days that I will be taking off and on day or check out my peeps in my blogroll (card subject to change):

May 27 - 3nd Annual Scooter Television Awards
May 28 - Best Shows of 2006-2007
December 15 - Lyrics Quiz: Best of 2007
December 21 - Best Live Performances of 2007
December 22 - Worst Albums of 2007
December 23 - Worst Songs of 2007
December 26 - The 9th Green’s Readers Favorite Songs of 2007^*
December 27 - Best Music Videos of 2007
December 28 - Best Mash-ups of 2007
December 29 - Best Albums of 2007
December 30 - 100 Best Songs of 2007
December 31/Januray 1 - Off for New Years
January 2 - Induction into the Scooter Hall of Fame


^*As you may have noticed, on the 27th I will have a Reader’s poll on what you all thought were the best songs of the year. So if you would sometime time before Christmas, e-mail me, ScooterKSU(at)aol(dot)com, your top ten songs of the year in order. If you need a refresher of songs from the last twelve months, check out the list of the albums I reviewed for my Terror Alert Scale as all the songs from those albums are eligible, look through the music videos I highlighted the past year and of course any song released this year is okay too even if I didn’t talk about it. Your nominations will be confidential and I won’t disclose it here at the 9th Green. Hopefully I will at least more responses than I did last year, so if you enjoy the 9th Green please send me an e-mail with your list by December 24 (subject: 9th Green Reader's Poll). As an added bonus, whoever sends me their songs will be automatically be added to my Christmas list.


And with Christmas coming fast upon us, if there are any readers out there wondering what they could get their favorite blogger this year and have way too much disposable income, here is my Amazon wishlist:




And if you have a TV fan on your Christmas list (or just want to treat yourself), you may want to take a look at the NBC Universal DVD 60% Off Sale. You can get Scooter’s second favorite childhood show The A-Team for under $20 and The Office for just $11. Movies are also included in the sale such as Inside Man, which got a Severe rating here, and good friend Mandy Moore in American Dreamz on the cheap.

The Best New Shows of 2007

At the beginning of the television season you were bombarded with a bunch of “Best Of” and “Must Watch” shows even though it is a little unfair to judge a show by one episode. For instance last year had you asked me at the beginning of the season, Friday Night Lights wasn’t even on my radar, yet a month later it was my favorite show of the new season. With that in thought I brought together some TV Bloggers to see what are the best new shows of the season now that we are a good month into the new season. Here is the list that I came up with after placing the votes into an algorithm that would make the dudes from The Big Bang Theory blush. You can catch up by streaming the shows, or downloading them on iTunes and/or Amazon Unbox:

1. Pushing Daisies - ABC (8) - Stream
2. Chuck - NBC (2) - Stream - iTunes - Unbox
3. Dirty Sexy Money - ABC - Stream
4. The Big Bang Theory - CBS - Stream - iTunes - Unbox
5. Gossip Girl - CW - Stream - iTunes - Unbox
6. Aliens in America - CW - Stream - iTunes
7. Samantha Who? - ABC - Stream - iTunes
8. Moonlight - CBS (1) - Stream - iTunes - Unbox
9. Reaper - CW - Stream - iTunes
10. Journeyman - NBC - Stream - iTunes - Unbox

(numbers in parentheses denote first place votes)
Also receiving votes: Life, Woman’s Murder Club, Private Practice, Bionic Woman, Cane
Voters: Dan, Ducky, Kath, Jo, Liz, Rae, Sandie, Scooter McGavin, Tube Talk Girl, TVFan, Vance

Not surprising that Pushing Daises took the top spot as it lived up to the preseason hype, the show and Chuck were easily the top two shows on the list. On the other hand, the shows 3-10 were fairly bunched together with very little separating them. There was a good mix from all the networks this year (sans Fox who didn’t even have one of their shows get a pity vote) unlike last year (see Best New Shows of 2006) that was dominated by NBC with the top three positions, and ABC taking the next four spots. In a measure of full discloser, here was my ballot:

1. Pushing Daises
2. The Big Bang Theory
3. Chuck
4. Journeyman
5. Bionic Woman

And for all the TV fans out there, you may want to check out your local Best Buy, Target, or store of that ilk because I saw ads in this weekends newspaper for both stores selling many Warner Brothers produced TV on DVD shows like Veronica Mars, Nip/Tuck, and Smallville for around $15.00 per season. So you can get the whole West Wing series for just over $100. In most cases the most recent seasons are not on sale, but with Christmas certainly you can find a show for someone on your list or even yourself.

Scooter Update: It looks like the sale has hit the Amazon store. Below are just some of the select seasons you can get for under $20 (note: if the price is above 20, you are too late):

Best Television Shows of 2006-2007

Much like the STA’s, to be eligible, the show must have had the bulk of the season’s episode between June 2006 and May 2007. So without further ado, here are the top ten best shows of the past year:

1. Veronica Mars 3.x (CW)
2. Friday Night Lights 1.x (NBC)
3. Rescue Me 3.x (FX)
4. My Name Is Earl 2.x (NBC)
5. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip 1.x (NBC)
6. Knights of Prosperity 1.x (ABC)
7. The (White) Rapper Show (VH1)
8. Lost 3.x (ABC)
9. Heroes 1.x (NBC)
10. Survivor: Fiji (CBS)


The breakdown of the networks is below as NBC dominated quality television last year, yet sadly they have been near the bottom of the ratings for most of the year. Also I added up all the Quote of the Week and Song of the Week winners from my 57 Channels and Only This Is On posts that I started back in January of this year just for the fun of it:

NBC (4)
ABC (2)
CW (1)
FX (1)
VH1 (1)
CBS (1)


Quote of the Week
My Name Is Earl (5)
Veronica Mars (5)
Friday Night Lights (3)
Knights of Prosperity (1)
Supernatural (1)
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (1)
South Park (1)
Late Night with Conan O’Brien (1)
Everybody Hates Chris (1)
Lost (1)
How I Met Your Mother (1)


Song of the Week
Knights of Prosperity (5)
Veronica Mars (4)
My Name Is Earl (2)
Friday Night Lights (2)
Everybody Hates Chris (2)
How I Met Your Mother (1)
Smallville (1)
Late Show with David Letterman (1)
Jimmy Kimmel Live (1)

3rd Annual Scooter Television Awards

Welcome to the 3nd Annual Scooter Television Awards honoring show that aired new episodes between June 2006 and May 2007. I will save the explanation of certain winner's when I do a comprehensive review of that season in the near future (for the reviews I done already check out my Terror Alert Scale archives). Before we get to handing out the awards, let me take time out for the obligatory memoriam section, so cue up It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday and pour some chocolate milk out Randy style out for the homies that are no longer with us:

Big Chubby
Charlie Pace
Dean O’Dell
Don Lamb
Future Paining guy and his girlfriend
Knights of Prosperity
Linderman
Mindy O’Dell
Random Castaways
Shaft
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Veronica Mars
Zeke

Now without further ado, here are the winners of the 2007 STA's:

Best Scripted Show: Veronica Mars

Best Sitcom: My Name Is Earl

Best Cable Show: Rescue Me

Best Reality Show (Game Show): The (White) Rapper Show

Best Reality Show (Documentary): Ice T’s Rap School

Best Talk Show: Pardon the Interruption

Best New Show: Friday Night Lights

Best Awards Show: Big in 2006 Awards

Best Hour of TV: Mud Bowl (Friday Night Lights)

Best Half Hour of TV: Two Balls, Two Strikes (My Name Is Earl)

Worst Idea: Not Killing Peter the Five Times they Teased It (Heroes)

Best Shocker: Lost’s Flashforward

Best Promo:



Best Song Placement: What’s Left of Me - Nick Lachay (Veronica Mars)

Best Karaoke: Ronnie singing Bad Day (Veronica Mars)

Hottest Token Hot Chick:





Best Character: Dick Casablancas (Veronica Mars)

Best New Character: Landry Clarke (Friday Night Lights)

Best Guest Appearance: Mick Jagger (Knights of Prosperity)

Best Cast Addition: Juliet (Lost)

Most Entertaining Reality "Star": Brooke Labaraba (The Real World: Denver)

Best Quote: “It’s my job to make sure you don’t grow up stupid; it’s bad for the world.” (Tammi Taylor, Friday Night Lights)

Show That Should Be Brought Back: Veronica Mars

Lyrics Quiz: As Seen on TV

After over two years writing this blog I get a sense that my readers fall into one of two catergories, those that come to read about the latest music and those that want to see my thought on television (for those that fall in the latter catergory, be sure to check out my Win a Copy of Neptune Noir Contest). Well here is a post for the both of you: a lyrics quiz dedicated to songs features on television shows during the 2006-2007 season. As usual, place your guesses in the comment, both artist and song title, and if you are correct I will un-bold the lyric. You can also get a bonus point is you correctly guess which show(s) the song was featured on and double bonus points if you correctly guess the character how sang the song on the show if it was not performed by the original artist (you can steal the bonus point if and only if someone correctly guesses the lyrics). Now since I don’t watch every show on television and there are plenty of unoriginal shows out there that copy other show’s musical taste, I will only accept quality television shows, and I am the one who decides whether a show is quality. But as a hint, if dudes sang a karaoke version of the song or the song was featured in a montage at the end of a teen or medical drama because the writers were to lazy to write a couple more pages of dialogue, there is a good chance I won’t accept it. Now onto the lyrics (as a not so helpful hint, the songs are arranged by with the best song placements first, that is not to be confused with the best songs though):

Hints: (Some of these songs were Song of the Week on my weekly 57 Channels and Only This Is On posts)
3. This song was sung by one of the castmembers in a different launguage.
7. Will accept more bonus.
8. Who knew the dude from Clueless could sing?

1. And I want you, and I feel you crawling underneath my skin, like a hunger. (What's Left of Me - Nick Lashey; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - Veronica Mars; guessed by Jules)
2. All my friends were vampires. I didn’t know they were vampires. (Devil Town - Daniel Johnston; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - Friday Night Lights; guessed by Jules)
3. My son turned ten just the other day. He said, “Thanks for the ball, dad, come on let’s play.” (Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin; guessed by Monique; Bonus - Knights of Prosperity; guesed by Slaygal1981)
4. Though this feeling I can't change. Please don't take it badly, the Lord knows I'm to blame. (Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynrd; Bonus - My Name Is Earl; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
5. And when the money, comes in for the work I do I’ll pass almost every penny on to you. (I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers; Bonus - How I Met Your Mother; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
6. Gonna close my eyes, girl, and watch you go. Running through this life darling like a field of snow. (The One I Love - David Gray; Bonus - Rescue Me; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
7. I can’t care ‘bout anything but you. (Lovefool - The Cardigans; Bonus - The Office; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
8. I’m the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral. Can’t understand what I mean? Well, you soon will. (One Week - Barenaked Ladies; Bonus - Veronica Mars; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
9. Can't we give ourselves one more chance? Why can't we give love, ‘cos love's such an old fashioned word? (Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie; Bonus - Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
10. Cracks a code on the Rosetta Stone. Said the word for alone is alone. (My Before and After - Cotton Mather; Bonus Veronica Mars as sung by Desmond Fellows; Both guessed by Slaygal1981)
11. All the lights that lead us there are blinding. (Wonderwall - Oasis; guessed by Jo; Bonus: Lost as sung by Charlie; guessed by Slaygal1981)
12. I’ve got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay. A big stack of bills that get bigger each day. (Busted - Johnny Cash; Bonus - Veronica Mars; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
13. Just the good ol’ boys, never meaning no harm. (Theme from Dukes of Hazzard Theme - Waylon Jennings; Bonus - My Name Is Earl; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
14. Check baby check baby 1, 2, 3, 4. (Rump Shaker - Wreckx-N-Effect; guessed by Doug; Bonus - Lost and Veronica Mars; guessed by Slaygal1981)
15. I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom. (The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - My Name Is Earl; guessed by Slaygal1981)
16. Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance, silver moon’s sparkling. (Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - Knights of Prosperity; guesed by Slaygal1981)
17. One pair of candy lips and your bubblegum tongue. (Your Body Is a Wonderland - John Mayer; Bonus - The Office; both guessed by Slaygal1981)
18. It’s time to bring this ship into the shore, and throw away the oars, forever. (Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon; guessed by Monique; Bonus - Supernatural; guessed by Jules)
19. They’re watching you watching you watching you watching you. (Private Eyes - Hall and Oates; guessed by Monique; Bonus - Knights of Prosperity; guessed by Slaygal1981)
20. Smack it up, flip it, rub it down. (Do Me! - Bell Bive DeVoe; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - My Name Is Earl; guessed by Slaygal1981)
21. The stars are blazing like rebel diamonds cut out of the sun. (Read My Mind - The Killers; guessed by Slaygal1981; Bonus - Friday Night Lights; guessed by Slaygal1981)
22. And by protecting my heart truly I got lost in the sounds. (Fidelity - Regina Spektor; guessed by Monique; Bonus - Veronica Mars; guessed by Slaygal1981)
23. See the west wind move like a lover so upon the fields of barley. (Fields of Gold - Sting; Bonus guessed by Slaygal1981)
24. Hands, touching hands. Reaching out, touching me, touching you. (Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond; guessed by Jo; Bonus - Veronica Mars; guessed by Doug)
25. It’s not a silly little moment, it’s not the calm before the storm. (Slow Dancing in a Buring Room - John Mayer; Bonus - CSI; both guessed by Slaygal1981)

Bonus: A list of the best song placements on television would be incomplete without this song but it is hard to use the song in a lyrics quiz because the only words to the song are the ones in the title. So as a bonus (double points for each), name the song, the artist, and the show that I am speaking of. (Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim; Bonus - Veronica Mars; both guessed by Slaygal1981)

Honorable Mention to Bad Day - Daniel Powder as sung by Veronica Mars which happened after I made this list.