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forgot how to do math
+14 | 12/3/18 2:52 PM
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"My Whole World Ended" is a 9 btw.
+6 | 12/3/18 11:54 AM
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Anyway it's not like these goddam things need to be any longer.
+11 | 12/3/18 10:33 AM
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Still going back and forth on that. The first one listed is "Come Together"/"Something," but then "Something" went to #3 on its own, so it seems like not even Billboard knew what it was doing with that. I'm kinda inclined to just go with the A-sides, but I also don't like the idea of not writing about "California Love."
+13 | 12/3/18 10:33 AM
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what the fuck is this comment
+7 | 11/30/18 4:54 PM
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1. Terror Squad: True Story 2. Terror Squad: The Album 3. Fat Joe & Remy Ma: Plata O Plomo 4. Remy Ma: There's Something About Remy: Based on a True Story 5. Cuban Link: 24K 6. Cuban Link: Chain Reaction 7. Fat Joe: Don Cartagena 8. Fat Joe: Jealous One's Envy 9. Fat Joe: Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.) 10. A playlist of "Lean Back" 14 times in a row
+8 | 11/29/18 8:47 PM
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I salute this absurd enterprise.
+48 | 11/29/18 11:28 AM
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A Summer Place. https://www.stereogum.com/1983896/the-number-ones-percy-faiths-theme-from-a-summer-place/franchises/the-number-ones/
+6 | 11/27/18 10:09 AM
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"25 Miles" is a 9.
+5 | 11/21/18 11:46 PM
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check last week's column.
+4 | 11/21/18 1:50 PM
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I will save further America comment for when I actually get to their #1s but the soundtrack to The Last Unicorn goes hard.
+8 | 11/21/18 11:50 AM
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Except this one.
+18 | 11/20/18 11:32 AM
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this rules
+10 | 11/20/18 11:31 AM
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Orrrrrr maybe if they were around then, they'd be writing big-band pastiches or recording fake folk-blues.
+14 | 11/20/18 11:29 AM
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Dammit, that's right, I even put that tidbit in the "Strangers in the Night" column.
+13 | 11/19/18 12:42 PM
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"Build Me Up Buttercup" is a 9.
+32 | 11/16/18 11:03 AM
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Thank you! No book plans. I have been told that collections of things available for free online don't sell. Also, it's hard enough writing these things; I don't wanna also deal with agents/editors/publishers.
+7 | 11/15/18 1:55 PM
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you really might wanna change that screen name to whitemusicfan.
+36 | 11/15/18 11:39 AM
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whoops
+22 | 11/15/18 10:43 AM
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jesus, you're right
+6 | 11/14/18 2:47 PM
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I was tall the whole time. And nobody knew.
+7 | 11/14/18 2:44 PM
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It wasn't.
+29 | 11/14/18 12:03 PM
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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.
+17 | 11/14/18 10:49 AM
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"Love Child" is 1000% a better song than "Hey Jude."
+5 | 11/14/18 10:48 AM
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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.
+41 | 11/13/18 10:44 AM
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"notable" is in there for a reason.
+34 | 11/13/18 10:41 AM
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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/
+22 | 11/13/18 10:11 AM
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I love that book. Also, Chuck Eddy was the first person ever to hire me to write about music.
+13 | 11/9/18 12:41 PM
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damn everybody's copyediting me this morning.
+10 | 11/8/18 10:00 AM
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"Fly" didn't chart, but it would've been an 8.
+8 | 11/7/18 1:53 PM
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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.
+11 | 11/6/18 1:11 PM
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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.
+43 | 11/6/18 1:07 PM
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Well yeah.
+16 | 11/6/18 11:35 AM
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10, easy.
+12 | 11/5/18 12:31 PM
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It was a helpful way for me to mark songs to delete.
+7 | 11/2/18 1:02 PM
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"Radio Free Europe."
+12 | 11/2/18 1:01 PM
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next week! we go thursday to thursday with this bad boy.
+9 | 11/2/18 12:59 PM
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I am getting to that point. It's like how I instinctively gave every song 1 thru 5 stars when I first got an ipod.
+22 | 11/2/18 11:57 AM
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It's a pretty good song.
+11 | 11/2/18 11:56 AM
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Probably too high, yeah, but I'm sentimental like that. "Stand," which peaked at #6 in 1989, would've also been an 8. Might've gone as high as 9 for "The One I Love," which peaked at #9 in 1987.
+12 | 11/2/18 11:56 AM
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