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
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Alanis Morisette @ The Hollywood Bowl. The perfect Mother’s Day present for my wife Beth.
It seems almost silly to call an act whose first personal album sold 33 million copies worldwide. But she was such a meteor, such a symbol of the zeitgeist that many have unfairly reduced her to “remember the 90s” status. But with the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill...
...with the Broadway musical, and really, with the pandemic, people got to remember how much they missed Alanis. I feel she’s finally getting her due, not just as a phenomenon but as a phenomenal talent.