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Fifty-Three to 53Nov 5, 2018DAY 46

Nobody Wants To Be Lonely

I love a good duet, right from Elton & Kiki to Olivia & Cliff, so it’s no surprise that I love this duet by sexy nineties mega-stars Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera. It’s actually not that great a song…

Fifty-Three to 53

Nov 4, 2018

DAY 47

I Can’t Hold Back

I am not sure how to categorize the music of eighties band Survivor. What I do know is that, while their moment was happening, my cousin and I were obsessed with them. I Can’t Hold Back is sort of a rock…

Fifty-Three to 53Nov 3, 2018DAY 48

I Don’t Know How To Love Him

As a small boy, I had no idea this song was from a musical. It was part of the soundtrack of my childhood that had been provided by W.G.B.B. in our small kitchen in Lynbrook, where Mommy would comb my…

Fifty-Three to 53Nov 2, 2018DAY 49

Bad Girl

Madonna has been in my countdown before, obviously, with both a ballad and a dance song. This time it’s another ballad from my favorite of her albums, Erotica. Bad Girl reminds me of so much. The…

Fifty-Three to 53Nov 1, 2018DAY 50

Livin’ On A Prayer / Wanted Dead Or Alive / What Do You Got

This is basically a snapshot of the best of Bon Jovi, I know. Clearly they were one of the best bands of their genre to emerge from the eighties and keep on keepin’ on for many years after that particular…

Fifty-Three to 53Oct 31, 2018DAY 51

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack

Happy Halloween, Ghosts and Ghouls and Sweet Transvestites from Transsexual Transylvania! The Rocky Horror Picture Show is, quite possibly, the most well-known cult film of all time, but the fact that the…

Fifty-Three to 53Oct 30, 2018DAY 52

New Year’s Day / One

As one of my favorite bands of all time, U2 has had a song in my countdowns before. It’s inevitable that multiple songs from their endless catalog should end up on my lists, especially considering this band…

Fifty-Three to 53Oct 29, 2018DAY 53

Drive

Let’s start this countdown with something from the new millennium, and let’s dedicate it to my nephew Chris, aka the Phurk, aka Paging Dr. Faggot, on this day, his 30th birthday. When Drive by Incubus was…

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