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Post by ganews on Sept 15, 2022 14:31:59 GMT -5
pantsgoblin's recent comments have reminded me that I really should be reading Tom Breihan's excellent Stereogum column reviewing every Billboard #1 song since 1958. He's been at it for years; I used to read along, fell off before the pandemic, and have recently picked back up in the 1970s.
In October, you may nominate up to two albums that included a #1 song from any Billboard chart in any year. Try not to pick something that sucks!
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Post by pantsgoblin on Sept 15, 2022 16:01:20 GMT -5
pantsgoblin 's recent comments have reminded me that I really should be reading Tom Breihan's excellent Stereogum column reviewing every Billboard #1 song since 1958. He's been at it for years; I used to read along, fell off before the pandemic, and have recently picked back up in the 1970s.
In October, you may nominate up to two albums that included a #1 song from any Billboard chart in any year. Try not to pick something that sucks!
If you haven't made it to 1977's " Undercover Angel" yet, you have a good read in store. Funniest music article I've read in ages. (Well, I can at least predict what Prole will choose.) Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On (1971) "Family Affair" was #1 for 3 weeks in December 1971. |
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 15, 2022 16:45:40 GMT -5
pantsgoblin, after piquing my interest with your boast I read about O'Day. He has quite a history. Sound recordist for Arch Hall Sr/Jr's The Sadist? Writer of "Elmo Didn't Mean To"? Co-writer of "Muppet Babies Theme"? Pure California weirdo.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Sept 15, 2022 16:49:48 GMT -5
pantsgoblin , after piquing my interest with your boast I read about O'Day. He has quite a history. Sound recordist for Arch Hall Sr/Jr's The Sadist? Writer of "Elmo Didn't Mean To"? Co-writer of "Muppet Babies Theme"? Pure California weirdo. Multiple-time collaborator with the Arch Halls--he, uncredited, wrote the music for MST3K fave Eegah! He also pops up in the legendary catastrophe the Sgt. Pepper film. |
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Post by ganews on Sept 16, 2022 10:44:42 GMT -5
You know what, I have never listened to a Madonna album. So, Madonna, "Like a Virgin". The title track went to #1 at the end of 1984.
Fine Young Cannibals, "The Raw & the Cooked" had two #1 singles in 1989. My mom had it on cassette, and it's a good album.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 16, 2022 17:46:43 GMT -5
I think the Dexy’s Midnight Runners song “Come on Eileen” (reached #1 in April of 1983) is fun, but I’ve never actually listened to the album Too-Rye-Ay, so I’ll nominate that.
My second nomination is Life After Death by The Notorious B.I.G. (the song “Hypnotize” went #1 in 1997).
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Sept 17, 2022 9:45:57 GMT -5
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Mariah Carey - Daydream
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Sept 17, 2022 19:29:28 GMT -5
ganews Thanks for introducing me to those—those are really, really fun. For some of those mid-late nineties ones I feel like I can say what was going dumb third grade goings-on were happening the week I heard them (I’m listening to all the stuff linked in the “Wild Wild West” article). I might have another recommendation later, but I’m definitely nominating Blondie’s Autoamerican, which had two number one singles: “Rapture” and “The Tide is high.”
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Post by ganews on Sept 23, 2022 13:31:42 GMT -5
Going to put up a poll tomorrow night
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Sept 23, 2022 14:24:17 GMT -5
Vanilla Ice, To The Extreme (1990). The very first rap song to make it to #1 on the Billboard chart was "Ice Ice Baby". Isn't that disgusting? (No I am not counting Blondie's "Rapture" thank you.)
I'll come back and add a second nomination if I can come up with one equally unlikely to garner votes as To The Extreme.
[ETA...I'm back.]
Hanson, Middle Of Nowhere (1997). "MMMBop" was #1 on the charts as I was graduating from college and I think that's almost as gross as the whole "Ice Ice Baby" thing.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 23, 2022 18:17:40 GMT -5
Vanilla Ice, To The Extreme (1990). The very first rap song to make it to #1 on the Billboard chart was "Ice Ice Baby". Isn't that disgusting? (No I am not counting Blondie's "Rapture" thank you.) I'll come back and add a second nomination if I can come up with one equally unlikely to garner votes as To The Extreme. Djse, I won’t tell you what to nominate, but I’ll just say that Meco’s 1977 “space disco” album Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk included the chart-topping single “Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band”. This album seems like it would be unlikely to win. |
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Sept 23, 2022 20:22:49 GMT -5
I realize now that you said not to pick something that sucks. Ah well, my nominations stand.
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 24, 2022 20:34:04 GMT -5
Hope I'm not too late...
Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (1976)
Number one on some Billboard chart "Cherchez la Femme". Disco Action Top 30, to be precise
Hip-hop sample reference record. Recent pop music lawsuits. Criminally underrated musical infrastructure.
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