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America’s Top Ten: They Don’t Make ‘Em…
You can find just about anything on Youtube these days. I was just kind of bumming around the internet and for some reason I was compelled to search for episodes of “America’s Top Ten” with Casey Kasem. Lo and behold, Youtube user burtiscurtis09 has uploaded a handful of episodes, with the videos edited out (for copyright concerns). I watched like ten of these in a row-man, the nostalgia!! In an age where Billboard chart info […]
Billboard’s Biggest One-Hit Wonders of the Decade
So, the flow of new music is slowing down to a crawl and the music news front has seemed pretty stale these past couple of days. When business isn’t booming, it’s time to find fallback options, and thankfully the folks at Billboard mag have given us something fun to discuss today. Namely, the biggest one-hit wonders of the decade.
Now, let’s face facts. A hit single is lightning in a bottle for a lot of artists. […]
The Boring-Ass Grammy Nominations
The Grammy Awards are music’s biggest night, but lately they’ve interested me less and less. Of course, everyone’s favorite hobby is bashing the nominations (and winners), but the ceremony has seemed to evolve (devolve?) from an ultra-conservative nightmare (check out the winners from any Grammy category up until maybe the early Nineties for proof…are you aware that neither James Brown nor David Bowie has ever won a Grammy Award? And that The Rolling Stones only […]