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Just top 10. But yeah, it's another new thing I'm trying, mostly because I didn't like the idea of not mentioning "Magic Carpet Ride" at all. We'll see if it sticks.
That's a great story.
The way people integrate people into their lives and let it affect them > pop music (and I LOVE pop music).
Even the worst songs on this list have some of the most heartfelt, glowing YouTube comments from people who remember dancing to those songs at their weddings or hearing them at their grandmothers' houses.
Got it from Rob Sheffield's piece on the song, and I prefer to believe the legend:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hey-jude-at-50-celebrating-the-beatles-most-open-hearted-masterpiece-714736/
I love a whole lot of versions of Bacharach songs, but I don't love the Bacharach aesthetic as a whole. Some of the Dionne Warwick stuff is cool but that whole crushed-velvet lounge-pop thing has never really drawn me in.
My position is: If I didn't know the album existed when I wrote last week's AOTW, then it's eligible for this week's. And since I came up with the damn column and have written literally hundreds of them, I get to make the rules.
