jake zavracky

Who will it be? Which person soon to cross your path will sneeze in your direction, and thus, like Death himself, touch you with a bony finger? Coronavirus is going to get you, and you are going to get it. It will probably kill you. Be afraid. How will you spend your last days on Earth? Over here, we're talking about the hits! 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 an amazing singer, my bff and former bandmate: Amanda Khiri! She performs regularly at the legendary 55 Bar in the West Village and she also sang with our pal Ahmed Gallab, aka Sinkane, in his band, touring the world and slaying audiences. Prior to that she'd been slaying audiences on a significantly smaller scale in our band Z&A , which I still think was criminally u...

I'm writing a post about Billboard's top ten songs for every week in 2020. And in order to give it a historical perspective, also the top ten from the same week in 1970, 80, 90, 2000, and 2010. One may ask "why not include 1960?" and my reasoning is that it sounds too far out of context, from a wholly different time, almost another planet. What do you think about what I think? What do you think about what I DON'T think? What do you think about what you think when you leave what I think out of the equation? Leave a comment, dummy! (this playlist has every song in the top ten for the first three weeks in January 1970, 80, 90, 2000, 10, and 20. It is organized thusly: First by year, so starting with 1970, then 1980, and so on, and then in alphabetical order by artist name.) (this one is my personal top ten from the all the January top tens. Much consideration is given to variety. If you don't like it make your own and share it with me you sel...