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. 🤟 Tattoo

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

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

Me: I like to use Twitter to provide real time commentary on current events as their happening.

Also Me: I can’t believe more people aren’t following my super timely thread on “60’s Pop Bands appearing on 60’s Sitcoms.” 😩😩

https://twitter.com/bryanbehar/status/1446712898819018753

I was today years old when I learned about:

The Buffalo Springfield on Mannix

How about I combine 2 of my favorite topics— 60s pop and 60s tv?

Here are some of my favorite TV appearances by 60s musical acts.

Beginning, of course, with Boyce & Hart on Bewitched.

Which naturally must be followed up by:

Boyce & Hart on I Dream of Jeannie

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...

President Carter’s birthday yesterday reminded me that it’s never bad to salute some legends of my youth while they are blessedly still with us. I’m sure I’m forgetting many. But these four came to mind. 🙏🙏 A few more American Legends worthy of being honored.

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.

Survey results - the Finals

Favorite Sports Team
21. Chiefs 15
20. Patriots 15
19. Vikings 15
18. Phillies 15 Favorite Musical Act
15. Pink Floyd 12
14. Tom Petty 13
13. Led Zeppelin 14
12. Rush 14
11. Billy Joel 15

And now, the results show.

Favorite Sports Team
Tied for 60th, 4 votes:

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

Who’s ready for the Top 20 of our Memorial Day Weekend/ 80’s Modern Rock Countdown?

20. INXS- Don’t Change

19. Yazoo- Only You

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

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

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

To me, it can’t be Memorial Day Weekend without a Music Countdown. So I’ve created my own-the Top 200 KROQ-style Alternative Rock Songs since 1994. I figured ‘94 is half my lifetime & arguably when the current alt sound was born. So spark up the bbq, make your playlists & enjoy🎸 200. Franz Ferdinand- Do You Want To
199. Third Eye Blind- Never Let You Down
198. Sublime- The Wrong Way
197. Garbage- Stupid Girl
196. Rancid- Ruby Soho
195. Mighty Mighty Bosstones- Impression that I Get
194. Sugar Ray- Fly
193. Fratellis- Chelsea Dagger
192. Live- I Alone

1970s Ear Candy-My 15

Mamma Mia
Go Your Own Way
Nights on Broadway
Philadelphia Freedom
Rhinestone Cowboy
I Will Always Love You
You’re My Best Friend
Delta Dawn
Knock 3 Times
Bad Leroy Brown
American Pie
Right Back Where we Started
Heaven Knows
You’re the one that I want
Fanny Take Me Home Country Roads
Billy Don’t be a Hero
Magic
Monday Morning
Telephone Line
Waterloo
Island Girl
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Mr Blue Sky
Margaritaville
Photograph
What is Life
Mull of Kintyre
#9 Dream
I Got a Name
Brandy
Heartbeat
Hard Luck Woman
Beth
Don’t Pull Your Love

!960s Ear Candy- My 15

Red Rubber Ball
Build Me Up Buttercup
He's a Rebel
Different Drum
I Want to Hold Your Hand
I Second that Emotion
I'm a Believer
You Can't Hurry Love
Feel a Whole Lot Better
Elenore
Denise
Down in the Boondocks
Midnight Confession
Out of Time
Brother Love's Also:
Bus Stop
Needle and Pins
California Sun
This Will Be Our Year
Substitute
Hold On
Catch the Wind
A World Without Love
Kicks

Did you know there was a week when Chuck Berry had the number 1 song in US, Elvis Presley was number 2, and Rick Nelson was 7? And this wasn’t 1957. It was October... 1972! Thus began my daylong deep dive into the the 50s Rock and Roll Revival of the 70s.

stereogum.com/2035317/the-nu… The deep-dive included usual suspects like American Graffiti, Grease, Happy Days, Sha Na Na @ Woodstock, Elvis comeback special. But also included the Richard Nader revival shows that started at Felt Forum but grew to sell out Madison Square Garden.

Friday music fun- Songs played at your wedding (or wish would be)

Mine:
Enter: I’m a Believer
1st dance: Broken Arrow
Come on Eileen
Safety Dance
Ice Ice Baby
Play that Funky Music
Funky Cold Medina
Kung Fu Fighting
White Wedding
Should I Stay
You Shook Me
Our House
Bust a Move Maybe also:
Jump
Jump Around

Songs I banned from being played:
YMCA
Celebration
Louie Louie
Good Lovin’
Gimme All Your Lovin’
Hustle
Disco Inferno
Brown Eyed Girl
Happy Together
Shout
Twist
Twist & Shout
Any line dances
Anything from a California Cooler commercial

It ain't no use to sit & wonder why babe
It don't matter anyhow
And it ain't no use to sit & wonder why babe
If you don't know by now
When yr rooster crows @ the breaks of dawn
Look out your window & I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm traveling on
Don't think twice it's all right “Blue-jean baby
L.A. lady
Seamstress for the band
Pretty-eyed
Pirate smile
You'll marry a music man
Ballerina
You must've seen her
Dancing in the sand
And now she's in me
Always with me
Tiny dancer in my hand”

“Look out of any window
Any morning, any evening, any day

Maybe the sun is shining
Birds are winging or rain is falling from a heavy sky

What do you want me to do
To do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed
One afternoon long ago.” “ I hold you in my arms as the band plays
What are those words whispered, baby, just as you turn away
I saw you last night out on the edge of town
I wanna read your mind to know just what I've got in this new thing I've found”