Matt Erickson is counting down his top 100 songs. These are his picks 55 through 51. "As an epitaph for the first half of my list, nothing is allowed to follow it."
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Tags: Ashes of American Flags, Ben E. King, Bruce Springsteen, Don't Look Back in Anger, Firth of Fifth, Genesis, I Collect Coins, I'm On Fire, Mercury Rev, Oasis, Stand By Me, Top 100, Wilco
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Matt Erickson is counting down his top 100 songs. These are his picks 60 through 56. "Shit! I left the tape recording!"
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Tags: Bill Pullman, Cary Elwes, Darlene Love, Dr. Dre, Elliott Smith, Led Zeppelin, Phil Spector, The Delgados, The Treasures
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Matt Erickson is counting down his top 100 songs. These are his picks 65 through 61.
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Tags: Big Star, Guns n' Roses, Head East, Kangaroo, Never Been Any Reason, November Rain, Queensryche, Second Skin, Silent Lucidity, The Ballad of El Goodo, The Chameleons
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Matt Erickson is counting down his top 100 songs. These are his picks 70 through 67.
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Tags: Boy Meets Girl, Chris Bell, Coldplay, Metallica, Red House Painters, The Soft Boys
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Matt Erickson is counting down his top 100 songs. These are his picks 76 through 71.
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Tags: Asia, Bone Thugs, Brian Eno, Seal, Spider and I, Talk Talk, The Go-Betweens, The House of Love
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We’ve switched from 10-song CDs to 4-song EPs. 80. Rush ~ 2112 First song on the first cassette I ever owned, it’s actually several mini-songs assembled into one giant Go Bot beast. This was Rush before singer Geddy Lee hit puberty, shrieking like a mad queen on her period in the great ‘Temples of...
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Tags: 2112, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Cry Love, David Thomas, Dream Weaver, Eric Carmen, Final Solution, Gary Wright, Geddy Lee, guilty pleasure, Heart of Darkness, indie rock, John Hiatt, Jonny Rotten, Make Me Lose Control, Pere Ubu, Rush, Soliloquy, Temples of Syrinx, Terminal Tower, Tonight You're Mine, toxic, Walk On
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I know you’ve all been sitting there for 7 1/2 months, listening to your Only Ones download, obsessively hitting refresh, waiting for this series’ next installment. So here it is, the next ten songs you should discover, or re-discover: 90. Daniel Johnston ~ Grievances Any Johnston song has been made at least as much...
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Tags: Bum Leg, Can't Get it Out of My Head, Cher, Daniel Johnston, Electric Light Orchestra, Gene Clark, Grievance, Heart, Joe Pernice, King Missile, Livin' On a Prayer, my bloody valentine, Ride, Rocks Off, Rolling Stones, sensitive artist, Some Misunderstanding, Song for My Sugar Spun Sister, The Stone Roses, To Here Knows When, Vapour Trail, Wipers, Youth of America
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Want to know what the best song of all time is? Easy – it’s “Stages” by ZZ Top. I first heard it when I was maybe five or six. Before it was even through playing, I declared to my family that it was my favorite song. My older brother, who was in high school,...
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We apologize for the delay…your charts are served.
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Tags: Al Gore, Andre 3000, Art, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt, George W. Bush, Hamlet, Henry VIII, John Kerry, Music, Politics, Prince
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Forget horoscopes. Or those placemats at Chinese restaurants. Forget cootie-catchers, and forget MASH. There are really only two kinds of people in this world. Take this quick quiz to find out the only characteristic that matters: 1. You break up with your boyfriend/girlfriend of nine months. The next Saturday night you are most likely...
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