Favorite Musical Act 15. Pink Floyd 12 14. Tom Petty 13 13. Led Zeppelin 14 12. Rush 14 11. Billy Joel 15
Favorite Sports Team:
17. Chicago Bears 16 16. Buffalo Bills 16 15. Raiders 17 14. LA Lakers 17 (top ranked NBA team)
Favorite Music Act: 10. Pearl Jam 16
9. U2 18
Favorite Sports Team:
12. New York Giants FB 18
11. Dallas Cowboys 18
10. Boston Bruins 18 (Top ranked NHL team)
9. Green Bay Packers 24
Favorite Musical Act
20 votes
8. Prince
Favorite Sports Team
29 votes
8. New York Mets
Favorite Musical Act:
22 votes
7. Foo Fighters
Favorite Sports Team
29 votes
7. Pittsburgh Steelers
Favorite Music Act
26 votes
6. The Rolling Stones
Favorite Sports Team
30 votes + Top ranked NFL team
6. Seattle Seahawks
And now, the top fives
Favorite Musical Act
26 votes
5. Grateful Dead
Favorite Sports Team
39 votes
5. Chicago Cubs
Favorite Musical Act
27 votes
4. Queen
Favorite Sports Team
42 votes.
4. San Francisco Giants
Favorite Musical Act
33 votes
3. The Eagles
Favorite Sports Team
47 votes
3. Boston Red Sox
This is it, folks. The final two sports teams. The final two musical acts. As voted by you. Or other people like you from big coastal cities or liberal pockets everywhere.
And FYI, numbers one and two in both categories have traded off the top spot throughout the survey. In fact, they were tied as often as they weren’t.
Favorite Sports Team
54 votes.
Number two:
Los Angeles Dodgers
And number one...
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they have 27 titles.
Plus the most votes with 56
1. New York Yankees
And now the final 2 musical acts. This race was such a route that both top 2 finishers had nearly THREE times the vote of any other act.
Number two.
With 83 votes.
It’s... Bruce Springsteen
And that leaves one more musical act. They traded the top with The Boss the whole time.
But finishing first. With 86 votes.
It’s The Beatles.
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Banning marijuana from the Olympics, but not alcohol, is just a tiny microcosm of the disproportionate drug sentencing along racial lines that have hit minority cultures for over a century.
In the early 20th century, pot was perceived by American lawmakers as a drug only used by Mexican immigrants. As such, the sentencing was always disproportionately harsher than that for “white person drugs” like pills or alcohol. No matter the physiological effects.
American drug sentencing has always been as much about “who” than “what.” It explains the wildly dissimilar sentencing guidelines for crack and powder cocaine. Powder was seen as party drug for rich white people. Crack is not seen that way. The sentencing fully reflects that.
Flyers
Astros
Auburn FB
Blues
Arsenal
LSU FB
Liverpool
Blue Jays
Ravens
Blackhawks
Favorite Music Act
Tied for 50th, 4 votes
Heart
Sinatra
Buffett
Pink Martini
Monkees
Tower of Power
NIN
Mavericks
Bee Gees
Bruno Mars
Cheap Trick
Stevie Wonder
Keith Urban
Skynyrd
Chris Cornell
Yes
Gaga
Chicago
Peter Gabriel
Weezer
Elvis Costello
Favorite Sports Team
Tied for 46th, 5 votes:
Avalanche
Michigan FB
Oregon
Redskins
Orioles
Maple Leafs
SA Spurs
USWNT soccer
NZ All Blacks rugby
Michigan St.
Mariners
NY Rangers
Bama FB
Kentucky BB
Happy Memorial Day. It’s time to grab a McDLT and a Bartles & Jaymes. Because part 2 of our 80s New Wave countdown is about to resume. If you need a moment to catch up, the 1st half is readily available on my feed. Now, as they say, on with the countdown...
160. Echo & Bunnymen- Bring on the Dancing Horses 159. Cure-Lovesong 158. X- Los Angeles 157. Police- Every Breath You Take 156. R.E.M. - The One I Love 155. Culture Club- Church of the Poison Mind 154. Simple Minds- Promised You a Miracle 153. Big Country- Fields of Fire
152. Style Council- My Ever changing Moods 151. David Bowie- China Girl 150. Dead Kennedys- Holiday in Cambodia 149. Spandau Ballet- Communication 148. Pretenders- Precious 147. Men at Work- Down Under 146. Adam & the Ants- Stand and Deliver 145. ABC- The Look of Love
Okay, I didn’t plan on doing a 3rd Memorial Day Weekend Countdown. But I’m home, I’m sad, let’s do this. It’s the granddaddy of them all:
Modern Rock songs of the 80’s a la 91X/ KROQ/Live 105/ WBRU.
Hop in Doc Brown’s DeLorean—Our trip back to the 80’s begins shortly.
310. Cult-Fire Woman 309. U2-Everlasting Love 308. RHCP-Higher Ground 307. Siouxsie & Banshees- Peek a Boo 306. Depeche Mode- Route 66 305. Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile 304. Smithereens-Blood & Roses 303. Alphaville- Big in Japan 302. R.E.M.- Superman 301. Erasure-Oh l’amour
300. Fine young Cannibals- Good Thing 299. Social Distortion- Prison Bound 298. Peter Gabriel- Sledgehammer 297. INXS- This Time 296. Band Aid- Do they know it’s Xmas 295. Big Audio Dynamite-Bottom Line 294. Frankie goes to Hollywood-Two Tribes 293. Culture Club-I’ll tumble 4 ya
Memorial Day Weekend Countdown- Bonus Edition. Best Alternative/KROQ/Live 105 songs from ‘90 to ‘93. Many wondered why I started yesterday’s countdown at ‘94. Largely, because the songs from the 4 years earlier would’ve dominated the list. But here comes a bonus look at 90-94🎸🍺
100. Lemonheads-Into your Arms 99. 10000 Maniacs-These are Days 98. EMF- Unbelievable 97. Proclaimers- I’m Gonna Be 96. Soul Asylum- Somebody to Shove 95. Cure- Letter to Elise 94. Dinosaur Jr- Start Choppin’ 93. Alice In Chains- Would 92. R.E.M.- Shiny Happy People
91. Porno for Pyros- Pets 90. Melissa Etheridge- I’m the Only One 89. Stone Roses- Fool’s Gold 88. Nirvana- Rape Me 87. Duran Duran- Ordinary World 86. Cranberries- Zombie 85. Paul Westerberg- Dyslexic Heart 84. RHCP- Soul to Squeeze 83. Stone Temple Pilots- Creep