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A recovered archive, still unfolding. These are historical entries from 2015–2020, preserved for Nick’s review.

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50 to 50Nov 20, 2015DAY 31

Get Closer

To know me is to know I am obsessed with the eighties. But to really know me is to know I am also a dork that is enthralled by the sounds of the seventies, from the pop AM-Radio hits to the disco to the…

50 to 50Nov 19, 2015DAY 32

Otherside

Flea’s bass, one of the most consistent things in music history; Anthony Keidis’s soulful, almost nasal voice is like none other, and just the perfect harmony for the rock wonder that is the Red Hot Chili…

50 to 50Nov 18, 2015DAY 33

Sunday Morning

Sexy and melodic: that’s how best to describe Sunday Morning by Maroon 5. That impossibly effortless tenor voice on Adam Levine, in my opinion, is what makes him one of the sexiest men alive. It’s like a…

50 to 50Nov 17, 2015DAY 34

Fast Car

Bleak yet hopeful. Sad and beautiful. A voice like we’d never heard and a chorus that was optimistic as well as infectious. Tracy Chapman came from nowhere with this monster song from 1988 that earned her a…

50 to 50Nov 16, 2015DAY 35

Gimme Shelter / Angie

The first of the giant rock and roll bands on my countdown, here are the Rolling Stones. We all know they have too many hits to mention and so many songs to just love, but for the purposes of my lifetime,…

50 to 50Nov 15, 2015DAY 36

Stumblin in

This song might be a little bit of a surprise because it really never propelled the career of singer Suzi Quatro in the direction it should have (in my opinion), but it’s a melodic romp through the late…

50 to 50Nov 14, 2015DAY 37

Lovin You

A number one hit on the US charts in 1975, Minnie Riperton’s breakout song, Lovin’ You, may make you cringe from the schmaltzy seventies vibe and her crazy high pitched soprano notes, or maybe it’s just the…

50 to 50Nov 13, 2015DAY 38

Getting Away With It

One part New Order, one part the Smiths, two parts Pet Shop Boys. Sounds pretty fucking amazing, right?? Well, that’s Electronic with their gigantic alt-rock track from ’89-‘90, Getting Away With It. The…

50 to 50Nov 12, 2015DAY 39

The Sign

Hey, remember in the early nineties when a band out of Sweden, comprised of two girls and two guys, exploded onto the scene and were kind of the second coming of ABBA? Well I remember it very well, and…

50 to 50Nov 11, 2015DAY 40

Dont You Forget About Me

The Breakfast Club film made us all think about into which category we fell in high school. For most of us, these categories were the first foray into social classism, how we would develop into adults. And…

50 to 50Nov 10, 2015DAY 41

We Are Family

Let's go back to 1979 for a day. You’ll find K-Tel compilation albums with all the latest songs from the top 20, the same songs featured and played on Casey Kasem's countdown every weekend. Disco fever was…

50 to 50Nov 9, 2015DAY 42

Never Gonna Give You Up

You'll call it getting Rick-rolled, but whatevs. EVERY time this AMAZING song comes on the radio it gets cranked and I don't care how gay that is. That's how Honey Badger I am about loving Never Gonna Give…

50 to 50Nov 8, 2015DAY 43

Easy

This entry should be really easy. The song, Easy by the Commodores, has all the makings of a pop/R&B classic: Lionel Richie on vocals, a soft seventies groove, and a beautiful, rolling melody. There is a…

50 to 50Nov 7, 2015DAY 44

Beautiful Day

The early 2000’s were a definitive and tumultuous time for us as Americans, but they were also unsettling and scary for me as every day forward was another day further apart from my then-partner. We had…

50 to 50Nov 6, 2015DAY 45

Lovesong

There’s something about the melody of this song that pops (aka SLAPS). There’s something about the haunting honesty in the voice of Robert Smith. There’s something about the year 1989, which was pivotal for…

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