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7. "Bogus Operandi" by The Hives (2023)

If you're going to do one thing your whole career, do it very well. And better yet, take a break from doing it for like a decade so when you do it again people are like "oh right, it's actually pretty great when they do the only thing they do."

Oh this is pick 6, not five. But y'know, phone post, whatever.

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5. "brutal" by Olivia Rodrigo (2021)

Glad Elvis Costello was chill about this song's use of *basically* the "Pump It Up" riff both because it's the right attitude for things like this but also because honestly I think I like this song's use of it more. Perfect teenage fit riff.

On Orange Cassidy; symbols and conventions in pro wrestling, using the 10/1/25 Dynamite match with Kyle Fletcher as a quick case study to highlight what some are too stubborn to see.

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5. "Angry Girl" by Confidence Man (2022)

Every busy season at work there's some random song I latch on to that manages to keep me sane and this was the Fall 2022 Fuck This Project Banger for sure. Expertly deployed scream-talking by Janet Planet.

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4. "Ladies" by Fiona Apple (2020)

When I saw the Ice Spice clause the first artist I thought of that would fill one of those spots was very obvious and so she should be the first I post. This song won me over from the first word (repeated over and over to wonderful effect).

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3. "Electric Fish" by Ana Frango Elétrico (2023)

tremendously propulsive throwback Brazilian funk, which also turns out to be a really good song to soundtrack footage of mid-20th century Japanese cinema too as someone I stumbled across on YouTube seems to have found a while back

A man dressed as a vampire with the caption coming up goblin time

October

(Oh, whoops and the year on this pick is 2022.) #thetwen2ie5

when your absolute dumbest swing yet actually makes it into the pop poll:

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2. "The Loneliest Time" by Carly Rae Jepsen

has there ever been a more triumphant declaration of acceptance that you have your fans and you're okay not chasing for more than, after not having features for multiple albums, finally bringing one in and it's a *Wainwright?* Joyous stuff.

Circle K has what can only be described as “Saints Row Food”

Counterpoint: Jimmy Fallon trying to be political would be even worse

people very much know when shows are being put on for the benefit of the US government and haven't been shy of giving shit to the performers who say yes to doing that, too. It's a nonsense argument.

YouTube video by Yussef Dayes Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music ft. Venna & Charlie Stacey [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

oh hey y'know what I'm gonna do #TheTwen2ie5, a song challenge about songs from the 2020s! my list is unranked because it's nowhere near finalized and what better way to start it than the quintessential sound of the '20s

*checks notes*

jazz

day 1. "Black Classical Music" by Yussuf Dayes (2023)

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one

I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things

It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

I was basically torn between it and "Let's Go Crazy" as my main and did my "I'm going to let the people who are ready to post their lists within the first minute decide" and lo and behold. Happy to ensure it's in the poll!

MAIN: "Get Down Saturday Night" by Oliver Cheatham (1983)

BONUSES:

1. "Sailin' On By Bad Brains (1982)
2. "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock (1983)
3. "Treat Your Mother Right" by Mr. T (written by Ice T???) (1984)
4. "One Phone Call/Street Scenes" by Miles Davis (1985)

I think even at Age Eight or Nine or Ten I Dunno I'm Not Looking It Up I was like "well wait why wouldn't they all be like Taz, I want to watch a show with like five of him doing Taz things"

that show was a real accomplishment in the field of '90s cartoons because it successfully established where the limits of "what if we just pilfered old film star personas for all our original characters" because even as a kid who could roll with Animaniacs and Tiny Toons, Taz Mania baffled me.

This only happens to you once

Just nodded along to that with rapt focus on my drive home. Great radio.

random thought ive had for weeks: a version of “Virtua Cop” where Buffalo Springfield gently warns you when bad guys appear

Jim Henson (1936 - 1990) "The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.I’m going to kick their fucking head in” photos of Jim Henson with Animal and a flying goat

Remembering Jim Henson on what today would have been his 89th birthday.

(not even going to mention the teachers at my high school because that would almost feel like cheating)

After 9/11 my 8th grade English teacher, who used to teach in Washington DC and IIRC at one point had Chelsea Clinton as a student, pretty much immediately called what the US was going to do in response and spent the whole school year trashing the Bush administration at the start of every class.

cj @futurevictim_ the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard

I picked my mother up from the airport and she talked about seeing the Charlie Kirk news and I brought up the school shooting and she hadn't seen or heard anything about it. Just totally buried.