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Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 19 Jun

The storms are over. Now for the rice cooker! Or like that Showtime series from the 80s, STEAMBATH. I have my A/C tuneup scheduled for next Wednesday, because that thing is going to be seriously worked out if this...

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1983 Songs: Major Tom (Coming Home)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 12 Jun 23

Hey, didn’t I mention this song in the teaser to this monthlong countdown of songs from 1983? Yes, I did, thanks for noticing! And that’s right, there’s still 18 more days of this look at songs turning 40 this year....

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Now, On to 1983!!!

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 31 May 23

For some reason we had a German thing going in the early 80s “new wave” music scene. There was “Der Kommissar” by Falco (who was Austrian), covered by After the Fire. Peter Schilling’s “Major Tom (Coming Home)” had, as its...

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Non-Hit Hits Top Ten: Once in a Lifetime (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 24 Sep 22

A couple of countdowns ago JJ made a comment in one of the song discussions: What I think would be interesting would be a "Hits that were not Hits" countdown. I don’t know if he had this particular song in mind when he...

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1982 Songs Top Ten: Space Age Love Song (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 23 Jul 22

Howdy! Yes, I’m up early. There’s a tournament in northern Kentucky and I’m going up to watch. Before I head out I’m going to celebrate another song from the year 1982. I’m in the top ten now, and here’s another fine song...

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1982 Songs Top Ten: Mickey Mouse (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 22 Jul 22

Oh, goodie, it’s top ten time. Back to obscurity! The month of July has been focused on songs from 1982, and now we’ve reached the place where I list my ten favorites from 40 years ago. You won’t know some of...

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1982 Songs: Shock the Monkey

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 18 Jul 22

Do you remember what you were doing in 1982? I do (serving in the Navy in Norfolk, Virginia). If you don’t, do you remember these songs? Did you know they’re forty years old now? Wow! Good music doesn’t have an expiration...

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1982 Songs: The Safety Dance

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 16 Jul 22

Welcome to the weekend! I hope yours is going well. I’m enjoying the weekend and the music. That includes songs from 1982. It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that these songs are forty years old now....

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1982 Songs: Poison Arrow

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 13 Jul 22

Ah. I have feeling in my nose and teeth again. I always have feeling for music in my soul, so let’s travel back 40 years to the musically diverse year of 1982 and see if you remember this hit. (Bet ya...

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1982 Songs: I Melt With You

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 10 Jul 22

If you’ve noticed thus far (with three weeks to go, no less), there was a lot of diversity in music 40 years ago. Of course, unlike 1972, you actually had to change the radio station to hear the diversity (where you could hear...

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1982 Songs: Hungry Like the Wolf

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 8 Jul 22

So!!!! (No, not the Peter Gabriel album, that didn’t come out until 1986.) How to follow a 40-year-old country song? How about with another song from 1982 that you’ll probably hear sometime this week on a satellite...

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Ten Favorite Bands With Multiple Lead Singers: Squeeze (#5)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 21 Feb 21

Gee, it must be “stuck in the late 70s/early 80s” time for me. Not intentional, of course, but today’s band on the list of favorites with more than one lead singer makes it three in a row (if you add the bonus band I posted...

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Heart Songs: Heart of Glass

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 24 Jan 21

Congratulations! You made it through the country mess! I didn’t intentionally design it that way, but this part of the countdown of “heart” songs leading up to Valentine’s Day is in alphabetical order. To celebrate, here’s...

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40-Year-Old Songs Top Ten: I Got You (#3)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 29 Aug 20

Thankfully the remnants of Hurricane Laura went past us without much trouble. There were severe weather warnings a little south of us, in southern Kentucky and Tennessee, but we didn’t even get all the rain they were forecasting....

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40-Year-Old Songs: Whip It

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 21 Aug 20

So much for the 40-year-old songs. Tomorrow I start counting down my favorite songs from 1980. Some of those won’t be as big a hit as some of these (not that all of these have been chart-toppers). Here’s yet another song that...

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40-Year-Old Songs: Brass in Pocket (Im Special)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 4 Aug 20

When I began this I mentioned that some of the songs might have been on albums released before the target year (1980 or 1970), but the single did the bulk of its chart action and gained its popularity in the year in question....

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Thanks Top Ten: Thank You for Sending Me an Angel (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 1 May 20

Friday!!! New month!!! Many states are reopening!!! Hooray!!!! To celebrate all of that, I’m giving you another one of those “oh, what a shock, you’re using that band” acts for the penultimate entry in my list of...

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Beddy Bye Top Ten: Let's Go to Bed (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 6 Oct 19

Sometimes I just can't help but be blatantly obvious. As I present today's song on my countdown of songs with "bed" in the title I feel this is one of those times. Everybody (well, John) saw this one coming. And here it...

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Beddy Bye Top Ten: The Bed’s Too Big Without You (#10)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86615) • United States 5 Oct 19

To celebrate my new Tempur-Pedic bed I’m counting down a “top ten” of songs that have “bed” in the title. Okay, there’s one “bedroom” as well. No Bob Dylan. I want readers. Here’s the opening lullaby. [b]#10:...

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Be One of Us #41 - "Heart of Glass"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43579) • Denver, Colorado 20 Aug 19

We are in the midst "of" what MyLot historians will someday refer to as one "of" the most epic music countdowns in MyLot history: 50 randomly placed songs with "of" in the title. Such a legendary series requires a few legendary...

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