1. Purple Rain-19 2. Under Pressure-13 3. Smells Like Teen Spirit-11 4. Don’t Stop Believin’-11 5. Living on a Prayer-8 6. When Doves Cry-8 7. Losing My Religion-8 8. Dancing in the Dark-8 9. Little Red Corvette-9
10. Don’t You Forget About Me-7 11. Thriller-7 12. Come on Eileen-7 13. Sweet Child O’Mine-7 14. Fast Car-7 15. Billie Jean-7 16. Everybody Wants to Rule-6 17. In the Air Tonight-6 18. Don’t Dream It’s Over-6 19. Jessie’s Girl-6 20. Love Shack-6 21. You Shook Me All Night Long-6
22. Raspberry Beret-5 23. I Love Rock & Roll-5 24. Time After Time-5 25. Boys of Summer-5 26. Don’t You Want Me-5 27. Zombie-5 28. Hallelujah-5 29. Higher Love-5 30. Train in Vain-5 31. Pour Some Sugar on Me-5 32. Just Like Heaven-5 33. Bad (U2)-5 34. Rock the Casbah-5 35. 1999-5
36. Tainted Love-4 37. Creep (RH)-4 38. Roam-4 39. Jump Around-4 40. London Calling-4 41. Once in a Lifetime-4 42. With or Without You-4 43. Ray of Light- 4 44. Where the Streets-4 45. Killing in the Name of-4 46. We Got the Beat-4 47. The River-4 48. Jack & Diane-4
49. Take Me Home Tonight-4 50. Sexual Healing-4 51. Mr. Brightside-4
52 How Soon is Now-4 53. Every Little Thing She Does-3 54. The Waiting-3 55. Tom Sawyer-3 56. You Can Call Me Al-3 57. Walking in Memphis-3 58. I Melt with You-3 59. Take on Me-3 60. Africa-3 61. Wishing Well-3
62. Graceland-3 63. Touch of Grey-3 64. Don’t Stand So Close to Me-3 65. Sweet Dreams-3 66. Yellow-3 67. American Idiot-3 68. Karma Chameleon-3 69. Personal Jesus-3 70. Hurt-3 71. White Wedding-3 72. Bad Romance-3 73. Wonderwall-3 74. One-3 75. Hypnotized-3
76. Champagne Supernova-3 77. Free Falling-3
Others that I recall getting votes: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Like a Prayer, Dancing w Myself, Lithium, Come as You Are, Cherub Rock, Black, The Dance, Friends in Low Places, Live Forever, Hey Ya, Rolling in the Deep, California Love, Uptown Funk et al.
Also Faith, I Still Haven’t Found, Everybody Hurts, It’s Tricky, Fight the Power, I Won’t Back Down, No Scrubs, Waterfalls....
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The recent, sad passings of Lance Kerwin and Adam Rich have got me thinking of how quickly time is passing. And thinking a lot about the 1970’s. This thread is a quick photo salute to some of my other favorite 70’s figures, real or fictional. Enjoy. 🤟
There is no sports team I love more than #USMNT. And I’ve never been less excited for a World Cup, because of Gregg Berhalter’s arrogance & stubbornness. 3 years in & he’s still basing player selection around his system & not the other way around. Setting this team up to fail. 🇺🇸
Insistence on playing a “high line” w/o the players to do it. Even worse, an adherence to “playing out of the back” long after we assumed we were done with that. Long/ Zimmerman are not the CBs for that. If you insist on it, call up Brooks & Ream. What a disaster this close to WC
Jordan Pefok’s the most obvious case in point. For an entire qualifying cycle the narrative has been “we don’t have a 9 who can score.” Suddenly, an American is lighting up the Bundesliga but GB won’t call him. Doesn’t fit his “system.” All he does is score goals & assist on them
For tonight’s #FridayNightMusicFun, I’m going to go, year by year, picking the Best Pop Hit Single of each year & runners up. You may disagree/add your own. But remember, this isn’t Pitchfork or Village Voice—these are Pop Hit Singles. Anyone ready to begin?
Best Pop Single 2021:
Olivia Rodrigo- Good for U
Runners-up:
Dua Lipa/ DaBaby- Levitating
Doja Cat/SZA- Kiss Me More
Bieber- Peaches
BTS- Butter
Adele- Easy on Me
Kid Laroi/Bieber- Stay
Olivia Rodrigo- Driver’s License
Best Pop Single 2020:
The Weeknd- Blinding Lights
Runners up:
Harry Styles- Watermelon Sugar
Megan/Beyoncé- Savage
Roddy Ricch- The Box
Dua Lipa- Don’t start now
Doja Cat- Say So
24KGoldn- Mood