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Damn, you're right, my whole headline is wrong now.

I think the fact that he got Esoteric to write his raps is better than if he wrote them himself tbh.

who's breiham

"Little Willy" is a 9.

ah yeah, that should be on there.

yes.

and superstition! fuck. my hands just cramped up typing all this shit, but i got love 4 the completists.

I didn't start noting non-#1 top 10s until I'd been doing this column for months. But I *did* go back and decide which songs were 10s. So here's the complete list of top-10 10s: duane eddy - rebel rouser ray charles - what'd i say, pts. 1 & 2 the drifters - save the last dance for me ray charles - georgia on my mind the miracles - shop around roy orbison - running scared ben e. king - stand by me roy orbison - crying patsy cline - crazy the tokens - the lion sleeps tonight roy orbison - dream baby brian hyland - sealed with a kiss ray charles - you don't know me the miracles - you've really got a hold on me skeeter davis - the end of the world the chantays - pipeline the drifters - on broadway sam cooke - another saturday night the surfaris - wipe out stevie wonder - fingertips, pt. ii the crystals - then he kissed me the ronettes - be my baby the kingsmen - louie louie lesley gore - you don't know me the animals - the house of the rising sun the honeycombs - have i the right the shangri-las - leader of the pack the kinks - you really got me the temptations - my girl the rolling stones - the last time the beatles - ticket to ride the rolling stones (i can't get no) satisfaction the righteous brothers - unchained melody bob dylan - like a rolling stone james brown - papa's got a brand new bag, pt. 1 the rolling stones - get off of my cloud the shangri-las - i can never go home anymore the vogues - five o'clock world stevie wonder - uptight (everything's alright) nancy sinatra - these boots are made for walkin' the beach boys - sloop john b the rolling stones - paint it black the beatles - paperback writer four tops - reach out i'll be there count five - psychotic reaction neil diamond - cherry, cherry the beach boys - good vibrations the supremes - you keep me hangin' on the temptations - (i know) i'm losing you buffalo springfield - for what it's worth four tops - bernadette aretha fraklin - i never loved a man (the way i love you) aretha franklin - respect bobbie gentry - ode to billie joe diana ross & the supremes - reflections smokey robinson & the miracles - i second that emotion otis redding - (sittin' on) the dock of the bay the rolling stones - jumpin' jack flash jeannie c. riley - harper valley p.t.a. marvin gaye & tammi terrell - you're all i need to get by diana ross & the supremes - love child steppenwolf - magic carpet ride marvin gaye - i heard it through the grapevine the temptations - cloud nine dusty springfield - son of a preacher man tommy james & the shondells - crimson & clover the isley brothers - it's your thing desmond dekker - israelites jackson 5 - i want you back led zeppelin - whole lotta love simon & garfunkel - bridge over troubled water jackson 5 - abc norman greenbaum - spirit in the sky simon & garfunkel - cecilia the temptations - ball of confusion (that's what the world is today) the five stairsteps - o-o-h child stevie wonder - signed, sealed, delivered (i'm yours) jackson 5 - i'll be there janis joplin - me & bobby mcgee the kinks - lola the temptations - just my imagination (running away with me) ike & tina turner - proud mary marvin gaye - what's going on bill withers - ain't no sunshine isaac hayes - theme from shaft marvin gaye - inner city blues (make me wanna holler) al green - let's stay together bill withers - lean on me hot butter - popcorn the temptations - papa was a rollin' stone curtis mayfield - superfly marvin gaye - trouble man

damn i got my absurdist characters mixed up.

I mean I am definitely still thinking about it.

They didn't have any top 10 songs! NIN's highest-charting single is 1999's "The Day The World Went Away" (#17), and Manson, as far as I can tell, has never charted on the Hot 100, probably thanks to the '90s practice of not making singles commercially available.

Jim is too well-adjusted and also too insincere to make hardcore. If he made music it'd be some Shins-ass indie.

"I never sleep, cuz sleep is the cousin of death" --Pitbull

Vastly important song, great video, I really don't like listening to it. That and "Pause" were the only tracks I ever skipped on the Together Forever comp.

That's Cage's 1997 single "Agent Orange," which sampled the Clockwork Orange score.

no you don't. billionaires shouldn't exist.

but she did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6EpIABAKKo

I like how there's a solid block of In- bands on the Sound & Fury Fest lineup.

not really!

Def Leppard are from Sheffield. If you're gonna be a corrections troll, at least take the time to get your shit right.

There's a lot of hardcore! Also on Saturday I got knocked down in a moshpit at a house show for the first time in like 15 years, shit was life-affirming.

no you definitely meant slipknot

My explanation is: "Popcorn" fucking rules.

They're still in the second line, but they're further back in the second line than they were in 2016.

No I am quite certain it's.... *checks notes* shit.

Biz loved 70s pop songs, and he worked them in whenever possible. He's a gift to the Bonus Beats section. Fun Fact: The name "Bonus Beats" is Biz-inspired. The second issue of Grand Royal, the Beastie Boys' '90s zine, included a flexi disc with Biz's cover of "Bennie And The Jets." There was another track on there, and it was just a couple of seconds of Biz beatboxing. It was called "Bonus Beats." The phrase stuck in my head.

oh snap, I was looking at the wrong Wikipedia column. Gotta fix that.

Thanks buddy! Yo this dude Justin is one of the main reasons those summers were as much fun as they were, and he's also the best friend I made at that camp. Shout out to Justin.

I don't rate songs that didn't make the top 10, but come on, that's a 10. Will probably have a lot more to say about it when this column gets to "No Diggity."

We'll get a couple before the year is over.

Yeah, it's new to me cuz of the video but I wish I'd heard it last year.

He apparently added the second G later in life? I don't really get that but I'm not gonna be the one to tell him he can't do it.

I don't see how Pete Seeger could've made any money off of this one, though Ewan MacColl, also a hardcore socialist, sure did.

I subscribe to about a million Bandcamp feeds, and I listen to everything when the notifications come up. Probably post a a third of em.

It's just a different technique. When it works, it works.

"Get It On (Bang A Gong)" is a 9.

I'm not gen-X. Born in 79, baby! I have no generation! I am a magical unicorn who cannot be reduced!

I love English teachers. (For years, I thought I'd be one, since there was no way this writing thing was going to work out. Still might, when it stops working out!) But you can love English teachers and also acknowledge that they can be terribly embarrassing sometimes.

There's a holiday next week, I'm only doing four.

gonna be a lot of those.