TOP TEN SONGS: WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 1
We're studying pop music going back 50 years here, starting with this week's top ten chart from the Billboard Hot 100 and working our way backward through the charts from this week in 2010, 2000, 1990, 1980, and 1970, analyzing each separately. My special guest this week is my tight bro Luke O'Neil. I have given Luke a lot of encouragement about his writing over the years and it is partially because of that encouragement that he has blossomed into a nationally renowned political writer, or maybe solely because of it, who can say. He has written for Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and many others. Subscribe to his incredibly excellent, breathless newsletter "Welcome to Hell World" here and prepare to be blasted in the eyeballs with a big load of devastation and despair. He also runs Emo Night at the Sinclair in Harvard Square, and sings sad songs in his band No Hope/No Harm . TOP TEN SONGS FROM THIS WEEK IN 2020 1. THE BOX by Roddy Rich 2. ...