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1986 Top Ten Songs: Wild Wild Life (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 23 Mar

Enjoy this. It’s the last rock hit on the list for 1986. And this wasn’t that big of a hit, but it did win MTV awards for the video, so at least you stood a chance of hearing it there. One of my favorite...

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1986 Songs: Dog Eat Dog

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 7 Mar

Can you believe we’ve had this genius around for four and a half decades? Could I leave him off a countdown? Of course not! While this wasn’t a “hit,” they did make a video for it, though. Let’s laugh! [b]Dog Eat Dog -...

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Top Ten Songs to Dance To: Burning Down the House (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 28 Oct

Yesterday’s song may have been considered cheating, given that half of it was a little slower than you’d expect for a song to get you moving. I promise, we have NO such issue today. Get out those dancing shoes and rock...

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June Moon Top Ten: Moon Rocks (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 29 Jun

Hooray, the heat has died down some! Not an official break of the heat wave (they have descriptions for that, like everything else ), but it feels better! It’s comfortable enough for you to get up and dance to...

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1985 Top Ten Songs: Road to Nowhere (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 30 Mar 25

The threat of severe weather hangs over us this week. Today, Wednesday, then flooding possibilities for the rest of the week. Got my weather radio and bicycle helmet (many fatalities in severe weather are caused by blunt force...

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My 100 Favorite Charted Pop Songs: Take Me to the River

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 21 Nov 24

”Pop” is a misnomer here, but this is the “hot 100” or popular songs chart (not “pop music” in the sense of Frank Sinatra or Perry Como, who have also graced this list). And what else goes with a Tex Ritter song but this?...

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1984 Top Ten: What a Day That Was (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 29 Apr 24

I’m on my way to where Sherman ended his destruction of Georgia back in 1864. While I have breakfast at Cracker Barrel I’ll give you another favorite from 1984. This is celebrating its 40th anniversary in a BIG way this year, so...

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Midweek Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 13 Sep 23

Hi, everyone. Sorry I haven’t been around much the last few days. I’ve been in a “funk,” I guess (the “feeling down” kind, not the “crank up the James Brown” kind). Between Buffett’s death, seeing a friend’s heart ripped out...

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Clear Channel Memo Top Ten: Burning Down the House (#1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 31 Aug 23

For two months I’ve looked at songs that were thought inappropriate for airplay because of their title (like this one) in light of 9/11, songs that were objected to by various groups, and songs that got an outright “NO WAY are we...

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Top Ten 1983 Songs: Burning Down the House (#3)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 28 Jun 23

They say paybacks are a female dog, or that paybacks are the devil’s abode. Not today! Paybacks are funky! I pay you back for the way you endured the country song yesterday. Can you believe this song is 40 years old now?...

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Top Ten Ruby Songs: Ruby Dear (#9)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 11 Nov 22

Happy Veterans Day to all of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines! And even you Coast Guard people. (Inter-service joking is allowed, of course.) Although the day is dreary here, I have another song with...

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Nothing to This Top Ten: (Nothing But) Flowers (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 6 Oct 22

Oh, what a wonderful day. I take two retreats a year, one in the spring and one in the fall. I find them incredibly relaxing and refreshing, great for recharging my spiritual batteries. As for this countdown, nothing will...

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

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • 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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Flower Top Ten: (Nothing But) Flowers (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 12 Apr 22

Howdy! Based on the weather report it looks like I’m putting these flowers to bed in the nick of time. Yep, they’re having a blizzard in the western U.S., and we’re looking and cold and possibly sn*wy weather next week....

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Number Nine….Number Nine….

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 12 Sep 21

You know what I realized? It’s been almost a year since I pulled the musical covers over you! And so, for your dining and dancing pleasure — and maybe a surprise or two along the way — I present the NINTH installment of...

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Gun Song Top Ten: Man With a Gun (#6)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 18 Aug 21

Here’s the halfway point at this shoot-em-up countdown featuring songs with “gun” in the title. Yesterday I said that half the performers here were in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what do you know, here’s another hall of...

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Dream Songs Top Ten: Dream Operator (#4)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 28 Mar 21

Last month it seemed as though we had the entire winter in one week. Now it seems like we’re having a full season of severe weather in one week. It was UGLY in Nashville. But the sun is out today, and it’s...

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Scottish Musicians Top Ten: David Byrne (#1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 14 Nov 20

For the past ten days I’ve been celebrating Scottish musicians in tribute to myLotter @JiimBo452020 . I hope you’ve enjoyed this, and I hope he’s enjoyed it, too! Here’s the guy at the top. No surprise....except, “He’s...

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Rock Titles Not in the Song: Life During Wartime (#2)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 1 Jul 20

Well, this wasn’t intentional. I didn’t mean to have a bunch of war songs in the same day. But that’s how things go when I do more than one countdown at a time: occasionally there’ll be coincidences. This tends to go along well...

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In the House Top Ten: Burning Down the House (#1)

Four Walls @FourWalls (86713) • United States 23 May 20

Oh, look, what a shock. It’s time to lock the door on the house countdown. And, much like yesterday’s “house” song or yesterday’s “free”song, this is no surprise at all. You’d only be shocked if this wasn’t number...

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