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• Song of the Day #1,761: ‘Cha Cha Slide’ – DJ Casper

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  Of the songs I’m featuring this week — all of which I hate — today’s selection is the one I’ve been forced to listed to the most. That’s because the ‘Cha Cha Slide’ is the sort of obnoxious call-and-answer track that appeals to both sports arenas and children’s activity planners. [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,760: ‘Ironic’ – Alanis Morissette

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  My family was eating at our favorite wings place the other day when Alanis Morissette’s ‘Ironic’ jumped out of the dining room speakers like a hyena pouncing on its prey. Except the hyena would have had a more soothing voice. I decided then and there that I would feature a [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,759: ‘Hotel Majestic’ – Fountains of Wayne

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  I don’t know if Fountains of Wayne have ever written a bad song. They’ve certainly written better ones than others, and they have a tendency to put too many songs on their albums, but pound for pound and note for note I’d put Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger’s songwriting chops [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,758: ‘My Problem Is You’ – Jackson Browne

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  Today’s Random Weekend track is a cut from Jackson Browne’s 1993 album I’m Alive. There isn’t a bad song on that album. Two things about this song have always struck me as funny. One is the background vocals, which include a man whose voice is so deep he sounds like [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,757: ‘We Found Love (Live at Radio 1 Live Lounge)’ – Jessie J

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  Yellow diamonds in the light And we’re standing side by side As your shadow crosses mine What it takes to come alive It’s the way I’m feeling I just can’t deny But I’ve gotta let it go We found love in a hopeless place We found love in a hopeless [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,752: ‘Mary Lynn’ – Michael Penn

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  I can’t post a Michael Penn song on this blog without bemoaning his prolonged absence from the music scene. Today’s track is a bit of Beatles-esque filler from his most recent album, Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947. That record came out in 2005 — yes, eight years ago! That’s not a [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,751: ‘I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother’s Heart’ – The White Stripes

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  I don’t love everything Jack White does — he sometimes gets a bit too loud for my taste — but I nevertheless consider myself a fan. He so clearly loves and respects musical tradition, from the blues rock that is his greatest influence to country, bluegrass and folk. He reminds [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,750: ‘She Will’ – Savages

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  Last week I featured a band described by critics as “post-rock” and wondered what exactly that meant. Today I bring you a song by a band called Savages, who have been described as “post-punk.” From what I can gather, post-punk is basically pretentious punk, or to put it less judgmentally, [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,749: ‘I’m A Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)’ – Gummibär

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  I occasionally look at YouTube’s list of most-watched video clips of all-time just to see where the country is headed. Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ holds onto the crown, and has now been viewed more than 1.5 BILLION times. To top that off, an alternate version of the song performed with Korean [...]
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• Song of the Day #1,748: ‘Accidental Racist’ – Brad Paisley with LL Cool J

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  My old pal Brad Paisley has been in the news a lot the past week or so, and not in a good way. A track on his new album, Wheelhouse, called ‘Accidental Racist’ has been vilified as racist itself, or at the very least tone deaf about race relations. The [...]
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