2017 Year End Countdown!!!!

The Killers

This is the EIGHTH freaking Year End Countdown I've done on here and it's exciting and fun every single year. I love looking back at the songs that were huge in a given year and I also love seeing what songs statistically make the Top Ten, but had sort of faded from memory. Both of those kinds of songs are in this episode. So enjoy and Happy New Year!



2017 Year End Countdown

***Featuring***
Cold War Kids
Green Day
Imagine Dragons
The Killers
Portugal. The Man
Queens of the Stone Age
Rag'n'Bone Man
The Revivalists
Sir Sly
Thirty Seconds to Mars

New Countdown: Last Call!

Alice Merton

Here we are at the end of the year again. The years really fly by don't they? But I'm excited about the Year End Countdown and the Artists of the Year Countdown and the Festive Fifty which is coming together super nicely.

Enjoy!



Countdown #363

***Featuring***
AJR featuring Rives Cuomo
Alice Merton
The Beatles
Beck
Foo Fighters
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Portugal. The Man
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Vance Joy
Walk the Moon

Throwback Thursday: 1969

We're into the 60's! That means it's time for some wild, out there, crazy....lovely instrumental themes. :)

This song really is very beautiful.

Henry Mancini - Love Theme from "Romeo and Juliet" (6/28/69-7/5/69)

Top Ten Tuesday: Migos, Nicki Minaj, and Cardi B "MotorSport"

This video feels weirdly old school AND very new. It feels like what a "hot new video" would have looked like in 2002, but the style is very "current state of pop-rap, for the most part"

New Countdown: Actions That We All Do

The Revivalists

I can't believe how close to the end of the year we are! Before you know it, we'll be doing the Year-End Countdown, the Artists of the Year Countdown, and then we'll be back on the countdown grind! It's amazing how time flies when you're going 10 to 1.


Countdown #362

***Featuring***
Alice Merton
The Beatles
Beck
Dessa
Foo Fighters
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Portugal. The Man
The Revivalists
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Vance Joy
Walk the Moon

Throwback Thursday: 1974 & 1973

I totally whiffed on remembering to post this last week, so we're just going to wrap two weeks' worth of content into one week! We're also going to finish up the 70's! So let's get into it!

MFSB and The Three Degrees - TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) (4/20/74-4/27/74)

Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme (2/9/74)

The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein (5/26/73)

Top Ten Tuesday: Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas is You"

It's a historic day on the charts! For the first time, Mariah Carey's classic Christmas song has finally made it into the Top Ten. It was released on 11/1/1994. Insane. More than 23 years after its release, it finally makes it! And we're here to see it.

New Countdown: The Delicate Sound of Delayed Gratification

Alice Merton

I hope that you are ready for a BIG episode. We've got big names, big news, and big....me singers, the Foo Fighters? Because....that song "Big Me"? Yeah, I think that will be an excellent third item in that list.

Enjoy!


Countdown #361

***Featuring***
Alice Merton
The Beatles
Beck
Foo Fighters
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
Portugal. The Man
The Revivalists
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Vance Joy
Walk the Moon

Top Ten Tuesday: Halsey "Bad at Love"

I enjoyed this song. And I enjoyed this video. Really happy it made it into the Top Ten!

Flashback Countdown #7 (1995)

Pearl Jam (1995)

I'm at Podcon as this is being published and I thought it would be fun to take a look back 22 years to this week in 1995. It was definitely a great week on the chart. Future Grammy Nominees and Hot 100 Top Ten songs abound!

Big thanks to my friend Amity for getting me a copy of the Folk Implosion song!

Enjoy!


Flashback Countdown #7 (1995)

***Featuring***
Bush
The Folk Implosion
Goo Goo Dolls
Joan Osborne
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Rentals
Seven Mary Three
Smashing Pumpkins
The Toadies

New Countdown: Full Circle

Beck

It's all coming back around this episode. ....And other circular puns. I thought it would be easier to come up with fun circle puns, but I guess I'm a little below the curve (is that a circle pun?).

Anyways, enjoy this mega-long episode!


Countdown #360

***Featuring***
Beck
Cage the Elephant
Foo Fighters
Imagine Dragons
The Lumineers
A Perfect Circle
Portugal. The Man
R.E.M.
Radiohead
The Revivalists
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Vance Joy
Walk the Moon

Throwback Thursday: 1975

THREE instrumental songs went to #1 in 1975. Enjoy!


Silver Convention - Fly, Robin, Fly (11/29/75-12/13/75)

Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony - The Hustle (7/26/75)

Average White Band - Pick Up the Pieces (2/22/75)

Top Ten Tuesday: G-Eazy featuring A$AP Rocky and Cardi B "No Limit"

I listened to a program on the SiriusXM station 60's on 6 where, in honor of Thanksgiving, they counted down all of the "turkeys" of the 60's, where "Turkey" was defined as a song that peaked at #11. So of course I went through all of the songs from this year that had peaked at #11. I wrote this song down, but I erased it as the song went from 11->8 this week. I really love charts.

This is a fairly straightforward rap song. I like that Cardi B's star is still rising!

New Countdown: Gettin' Weird

30 Seconds to Mars

I think that this episode might start off with the weirdest song I've ever played. I hope you enjoy the craziness as much as I do. The show benefits from it, I think. A good shot in the arm that makes the more straightforward songs all the sweeter!


Countdown #359

***Featuring***
Beck
Cage the Elephant
Foo Fighters
Imagine Dragons
The Killers
The Lumineers
Portugal. The Man
Radiohead
The Revivalists
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Vance Joy