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  • The Sunday Night Shuffle Vol. 1

    Tracy ChapmanKeith Sweat AlbumSo, here’s my latest cockamamie idea for a column: as a music junkie, I sort of like it when folks who have extensive music collections blog about what they’re listening to at a particular time. If our music tastes are similar, and they mention that they’re listening to something I haven’t heard previously, I usually make an effort to scope out whatever it is.

    Anyway, because I’m sure you’re all wondering “what is Mike listening to?” (yes, I’m being sarcastic), I figured a good idea for a column would be to just set my iTunes on random for 10 songs and see what pops up. Actually, 10 is too standard a number. Let’s live on the edge a little and say seven. Yeah, seven!!

    For the record-I’ve got an 80GB iPod Classic that’s a little more than half full right now (a little over 39GB, 10,160 songs). About two months ago, the external hard drive that I had all my music on crashed, so I’ve been rebuilding from scratch. All I can say about that is that I’m very glad I still buy CDs, or I’d have been S.O.L.

    OK, enough babbling. Let’s get to the music:

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  • Friday Throwback – She Ain’t Worth It

    In 1990, I was in the 8th grade. At the time, anything Bobby Brown touched, I was going to listen to. Even if it was a song by a guy I’d never heard of named Glenn Medeiros. I remember seeing Medeiros and Brown perform either on The Party Machine with Nia Peeples or Into The Night With Rick Dees. Someone with a better memory needs to help me out with that one. According to Wikipedia, this song went number one on the US Hot 100 Singles chart. Though in my mind, Medeiros played second fiddle to Brown on his own song, I will never forget the guy with the curly mullet.

    – And what a great curly mullet it was …

    – Think again my friends, think again.

    – Don’t you just love the girls in those shorts and boots?

    – Glenn needs a shirt underneath that jacket.

    – I can’t do this line any justice so I’ll just quote the Bob. “One thing I hate is when a girl plays fake and tries to make me late for another date.” That might be one of the greatest lines in history.

    – I had the over/under set at 10 seconds for when Bobby would be shirtless. He beat that by at least 5 seconds.

    – Does she really just want to tell her friends that she did it again, or has Glenn just been dumped too many times?

    – You can tell how old this video is simply because the truck is a Datsun which they stopped making probably before this video even came out.

    – Did everyone have to try to do the running man in videos? Or was it just the simplest dance to do for those who couldn’t really dance?

    And if you thought that 18 years later, this wasn’t on my iPod, you’d be wrong. I’m not worthy of Bobby though. I’ve never had a girl play fake and try to make me late for another date.