jake zavracky

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 a guy I love talking about music with, Dan Kramer. Dan is an absurdly talented bass player, pianist, songwriter, producer and arranger but more importantly he's a great dude. If you've watched TV in the past 10 years you've probably heard his music without realizing it from his work at his production house Skillman Labs . He and Ernest "Ernie" D'Amaso started the Motown influenced band Ernest Ernie and the Sincerities and released two albums, and he also fronts a Thin Lizzy tribute band, Thin Timmy, utilizing his spot on imitation of Phil Lynott. A quick note: as I mentioned last week the Dream Eaters have a new album out now that you can buy on Bandcamp, and I also mentione...

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. ...

I am going to start writing about the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 charts again, and I imagine there will be much rejoicing. I'll bet people will be excited to hear my many witticisms. I'm also going to compare/contrast the current top ten with the top ten this week in 1970, 80, and 90, in order to give a sense of perspective. You will find that below the current top ten. TOP TEN SONGS FROM THIS WEEK IN 2020 1. CIRCLES by Post Malone 2. MEMORIES by Maroon 5 3. THE BOX by Roddy Rich 4. SOMEONE YOU LOVED by Lewis Capaldi 5. ROXANNE by Arizona Zervas 6. GOOD AS HELL by Lizzo 7. DANCE MONKEY by Tones and I 8. HIGHEST IN THE ROOM by Travis Scott 9. 10,000 HOURS by Dan And Shay With Justin Bieber 10. LOSE YOU TO LOVE ME by Selena Gomez I really like Selena Gomez' angelic LOSE YOU TO LOVE ME. I especially dig the sort of unison choir at the end, it reminds me of Kate Bush. :: Not even a slick, glossy coating of the Biebs can rescue 10,000 HOURS from me...