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17 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"What a Wonderful World" at 28. Bravo, XPN listeners. #XPN2020.
This was another great set "A Change Is Gonna Come," "Yesterday," and "Purple Rain." Throw out Leonard Cohen's original of "Hallelujah" and Prince leads into Louis Armstrong. Throw out Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" and it's a great run right now. #XPN2020
Now "Baba O'Riley." The top 50 is full of Boomer classic rock standards like Dylan, the Who, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and Pink Floyd. But XPN listeners have also voted in Prince, Louis Armstrong, Etta James, Otis Redding, Joni Mitchell, and Sam Cooke. #XPN2020
"Bridge over Troubled Water" begins the top 25. It's getting real now. As I side note, I always wonder if it bothers Paul Simon that Art Garfunkel sang Simon and Garfunkel's most famous song. #XPN2020

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Minerva's owl flies at dusk, or so the saying goes, yet even if you lived on a planet where dusk lasted a thousand years that wouldn't be long enough for you to get a clue.
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