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Either one gets a 10 from me.
+6 | 8/2/21 9:39 AM
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I think the guy that Connie Stevens is singing to wants to give her an Interocitor: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047577/mediaviewer/rm3014074880/
+4 | 8/2/21 9:37 AM
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These are the least interesting YouTube official video comments since you started this feature.
+16 | 7/30/21 10:19 AM
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And given what has happened in the intervening years with MMA, I'd say he was right about kickboxing.
+3 | 7/29/21 10:34 AM
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One more piece of "Bangkok" trivia that must be brought up when the song is discussed - Murray Head is Anthony Stewart Head's brother.
+2 | 7/29/21 10:25 AM
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Chess is one of my favorite musicals of all time, and One Night in Bangkok is probably my least favorite song in the show. But as a single, I still gave it a 9.
+5 | 7/29/21 10:24 AM
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I've always heard a lot of "Cool Jerk" in this song - especially the Go Go's cover of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9V7tAlpzoY
+2 | 7/29/21 10:06 AM
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I think that's a highly underrated video, as well. Maybe it came out too long after the Golden Age of MTV to get the "all-time classic" status that it deserves.
+6 | 7/23/21 9:42 AM
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I just ran through the entire '90s, and the strength of the trends is fascinating. Most interesting is that from the perspective of The Number Ones, Grunge never happens.
+11 | 7/21/21 12:12 PM
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9, 6, 8, 8 Only previously really familiar with the Bangles song. We're deep into my college years and me being cut off from pop music.
+4 | 7/21/21 11:31 AM
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7, 7, 9, 8 Every Little Step: If there's such a thing as a generic New Jack Swing song, this is it. Sounds like the autopilot version of what he'd been doing for the last couple of years. Lowdown: Again, kind of generic '70s white-boy-blooz/R&B chart filler. Luka: I always loved Suzanne Vega's alt.folk sound and persona, and this was her breakthrough. An original, iconic song. Spill the Wine: A song that's burned in my brain, perhaps more from TV commercials than airplay, but a ton of fun when I actually listen to it.
+6 | 7/19/21 9:37 AM
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He's strong! He can kick.
+7 | 7/16/21 11:00 AM
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Just this week I was on a Leonard Cohen kick, and decided that no one had a worse mismatch between songwriting and production than Mr. Cohen in the '80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A
+10 | 7/14/21 9:56 AM
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The video makes it look like being choreographed by her would be a ton of fun.
+15 | 7/14/21 9:37 AM
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I don't know if I would be physically capable of going to a Doobie Brothers show without trying to sneak in a tape recorder.
+13 | 7/14/21 9:31 AM
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I was going to give "Nasty" a 9. Then I decided to listen to it (mostly because I wanted to hear "Miss Jackson if you're nasty" and bumped it up to a 10.
+10 | 7/12/21 10:24 AM
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6, 7, 7. The Boys 2 Men song has some nice harmonies, but seems like it really should be building to a soaring chorus, but never takes off. Rainy Day Women is 2 points higher for me on the album (first CD I ever bought) than it is as a single. On the album, I the studio-party atmosphere comes into focus, on the radio it just feels centered on the sophomoric pot joke - probably Dylan's least inspired lyrics of his mid-60s Imperial phase. (And no one had a more Imperial Imperial phase than Dylan Newport-to-motorcycle-crash. The sun never set on the Zimmerman Empire.)
+6 | 7/12/21 10:10 AM
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I'm not really sure how to rank "I Am Woman." Any song that was that iconic in my youth, but also so politically charged, overused and mocked, I have a hard time actually hearing the song itself. In my little-kid brain, I think it was sung by Billie Jean King. So I gave it a 6. "Papa" was one of the easiest 10s I've given so far, though.
+8 | 7/12/21 9:59 AM
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Not his most dynamic video, but still, having a pair of Beatles backing you up is pretty cool.
+7 | 7/12/21 9:53 AM
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Upvote for Mandonna.
+5 | 7/9/21 10:04 AM
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He was going deep with Daniel Lanois at the time. But I do wonder what a Jeff Lynne-produced "Under the Red Sky" would have sounded like.
+4 | 7/7/21 3:39 PM
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Superstition is simply the greatest Funk track ever recorded.
+5 | 7/7/21 3:37 PM
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I am completely out of step with the rest of TNOCS on this one. I was in college and completly insulated from Top-40 at the time, not even watching any MTV. (I don't think the TV in the commons room even got it.) So I have no residual affection for this from it's origin, and it just sounds like replacement-level danceish pop to me. I give it a 6, maybe 7 under the right circumstances. But then again, most post-ABBA Swedish pop leaves me cold.
+4 | 7/6/21 10:27 AM
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I get this song stuck in my head every time I'm on the Upper West Side and pass Zabar's.
+3 | 7/6/21 10:17 AM
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I had to look it up and you are 100% correct. It's like a glimpse into an alternate universe, perhaps where Mormons have replaced their tea and coffee with peyote. I assume this is the video you're referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXcj8dFOd1E
+15 | 7/2/21 2:37 PM
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I love this video almost as much as the song, and it makes me realize that I enjoy things that riff on and reference The Avengers much more than I've ever enjoyed watching the show itself.
+4 | 7/2/21 2:26 PM
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For about 20 years, when I heard Senses Working Overtime, the line "All the world is football shaped" gave me the image of a globe shaped like an American football. Then I realzed I am a goober.
+9 | 7/2/21 2:24 PM
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The Snoopy song gets a 7 purely because I actually had this toy: http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/snoopys-flying-doghouse/
+7 | 7/2/21 11:15 AM
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Heartbeat sounds like it could be a really good song if recorded by someone without that awful, nasally voice. Did the world really need a second-rate Osmond Family ripoff?
+7 | 7/2/21 11:12 AM
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The song "Edelweiss" from The Sound of Music, by Rogers and Hammerstein has more than once been mistakenly played at official diplomatic events as the National Anthem of Austria.
+11 | 7/2/21 11:08 AM
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Among my favorite Pogues performances - SNL, St. Patrick's Day 1990. Shane could barely stand by the end of the show. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj3l5f
+10 | 6/30/21 11:38 AM
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I love on how that photo for "Got it Made" everyone but Crosby has a look like "Take the fucking photo and cut my goddam check so I can get out of here."
+5 | 6/30/21 11:29 AM
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Tempted is a 10, right?
+13 | 6/30/21 9:47 AM
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Then again, should I really be celebrating the career of a brutal CIA assassin?
+10 | 6/28/21 11:09 AM
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I like to think of this as the theme song to an alternate-universe Saturday Morning Cartoon about The Replacements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQDD-6l2kkQ I also wish that Alex Chilton had covered the song "They Might Be Giants" to complete the circle.
+3 | 6/28/21 11:00 AM
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I gave an extra point for launching his career.
+7 | 6/28/21 10:35 AM
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If you told me Bob eventually became Tiger King, I would 100% believe you.
+8 | 6/28/21 10:32 AM
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For me, this was The Poll of the Beast - 6, 6, 6.
+11 | 6/28/21 10:27 AM
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De La Soul was my introduction to hip-hop - the album that convinced me that it wasn't "not for me" as a musical genre. I was talking with a friend, who was much more musically adventurous and knowledgeable than I, about our mutual guilty pleasure around Hall and Oates, and he played me "Say No Go." Something clicked.
+10 | 6/28/21 10:21 AM
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When I saw them live sometime in the early '90s, they introduced "Me, Myself and I" by chanting "You love this song, You love this song, You love this song, WE HATE THIS SONG."
+8 | 6/28/21 10:18 AM
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