Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

The revolution will be supervised.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Everybody saw this coming.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

We still have time to mess this up!

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Gordon Lightfoot, at the age of 81, is still touring (although that’s been postponed for the moment, of course). An inspiration to us all!

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YouTube’s right-hand list ‘suggested’ this, as something that might be enjoyed by someone listening to Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker… which I guess makes sense, to an algorithm:

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  8. 8.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Mnemosyne: 1) I thought it was the year you were born?

    2) what do you do, just google number one song, a hundred years ago

    ETA: My birth year song is Ode to Billie Joe, which I’m okay with, my 12th birthday song is My Sharona, which… could be worse.

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    Amir Khalid

    Top song of 1973 was Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round The Old Oak Tree. It’s not among my favourites, but I understand it’s why the released Tehran hostages were welcomed home in 1981with yellow ribbons tied around trees and stuff.

  11. 11.

    Major Major Major Major

    I’m sitting here in my ok apartment in midtown, cat sleeping peacefully, radiator rattling contentedly, and it’s so weird to absolutely know that things are going to be very bad very soon outside.

  13. 13.

    different-church-lady

    Ellis Marsalis and Bucky Pizzarelli have both been claimed by the Corona-Reaper.

  14. 14.

    Anne Laurie

    @Amir Khalid: Is that tiresome loon HA Goodman still out there posting his harangues?

    Probably, but I think the NYTimes Pitchbot is a satire tweet-site.

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    Citizen Alan

    @Mnemosyne:  I got Jessie’s Girl, which is a vast improvement over the #1 song on the day I was actually born — In The Year 2525.

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    Mike in NC

    Currently watching a Canadian movie called “The Decline” about feuding Survivalists on Netflix. Odd how we’ve heard very little in the media about real-life Survivalists and Doomsday Preppers. They must be ecstatic these days, with all those guns and gold coins buried in their backyards.

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    CaseyL

    Mine is Hey, Jude, which isn’t bad.

    #1 song in the year of my birth was Heartbreak Hotel. Also not bad.

    (These are Billboard choices.  Is Billboard considered definitive?)

  24. 24.

    joel hanes

     

    Rewritten :

    Oh.  On your twefth birthday.

    For me that’s  Manfred Mann’s Doo-Wah Diddy Diddy

    Six early Beatles #1 songs that year.

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    SectionH

    12? Beats “the yr you were born”. I mean, I srsly didn’t care about music when I was born. And no, I’ve never posted anything like a real answer anywhere before.

    This was #1 when I was 12. I was still all about ballet and classical music then. A year later… heh. And heh, I still listened to more than half of That song when I went looking for the YouTube link.

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    prostratedragon

    1964 was a pop/rock explosion year. Since this is America, experience of the number one song varied by who was asking. There were “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and “Where Did Our Love Go?” —you can guess that breakdown. Intersectionality was represented by “Oh Pretty Woman.”

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    Rusty

    Rod Stuart, Tonight’s the Night (It’s Gonna Be All Right).  Not a great song, but the title is reassuring during a pandemic.

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    frosty

    @Citizen Alan: Both of those were better than mine: “Too Young” by Nat King Cole, and “Sugar Shack”. One year before the Beatles. OTOH, the R&B and Country #1 for birth year were good: “Sixty-Minute Man” and “Cold Cold Heart” … there’s a pair for you!

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    delk

    (You’re) Having My Baby

    though to be honest by 12 I knew this wasn’t ever going to happen.

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    NotMax

    Never a hit, yet in 1963 and into 1964 every place I found myself in which had a jukebox sooner or later played this.

    I’m rough
    I’m tough
    Don’t take no guff
    .

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    frosty

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, do we have to look up the actual week of the 12th birthday, not just #1 for the year?

    … still Sugar Shack, dammit! But at least it wasn’t Dominque. One year later and the Beatles hit the airwaves and everything changed. That’s what I remember growing up. All of a sudden our hair was too short!

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    PST

    Week of my 12th:

    Yesterday
    All my troubles seemed so far away
    Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
    Oh, I believe in yesterday

    Also a week with Hang on Sloopy, Do You Believe in Magic?, Eve of Destruction, and Liar Liar by the Castaways, all of which seem evocative.

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    Uncle Cosmo

    Another Scott: Ran across this Cole tweet in the replies to that:

    John Cole @Johngcole 10h

    I found an unopened container of yogurt in my fridge that says best by 5 february and that is useless information I don’t need “best by” what I need is a “lethal after” date

    Hoo coulda node that Cole & I were blood-brothers in thoughtcrime?? :^D

    Also, the #1 song the year of my 12th berfday was “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” After 14 days of self-imposed hermitage, I can state with great confidence that the answer is NO – I don’t miss most of you at all.

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