Billboard Hot Rock Songs – Week of June 18, 2016

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Longtime readers of my blog may know that I used to watch VH1’s and Fuse’s Top 20 Countdowns and then post my rearranged order of those lists. But apparently countdown shows are no longer a thing. But I still like to keep up with current music, so I have decided to check the Billboard Hot Rock Songs each week and then rearrange the top 20 based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. twenty one pilots – “Stressed Out”
2. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
3. James Bay – “Let It Go”
4. Disturbed – “The Sound of Silence”
5. X Ambassadors – “Unsteady”
6. The Lumineers – “Ophelia”
7. The Strumbellas – “Spirits”
8. Coldplay – “Adventure of a Lifetime”
9. Coldplay – “Hymn for the Weekend”
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Dark Necessities”
11. Ben Rector – “Brand New”
12. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
13. blink-182 – “Bored to Death”
14. Empire of the Sun – “Walking on a Dream”
15. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
16. Bishop Briggs – “River”
17. Elle King – “America’s Sweetheart”
18. Panic! at the Disco – “Death of a Bachelor”
19. Prince – “When Doves Cry”
20. Miike Snow – “Genghis Khan”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Walking on a Dream
2. When Doves Cry
3. River
4. Way Down We Go
5. Ophelia
6. Unsteady
7. Ride
8. Dark Necessities
9. Stressed Out
10. Genghis Khan
11. Adventure of a Lifetime
12. Death of a Bachelor
13. The Sound of Silence
14. America’s Sweetheart
15. Spirits
16. Hymn for the Weekend
17. HandClap
18. Let It Go
19. Brand New
20. Bored to Death

Billboard Hot 20 – Week of June 18, 2016

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Longtime readers of my blog may know that I used to watch VH1’s and Fuse’s Top 20 Countdowns and then post my rearranged order of those lists. But apparently countdown shows are no longer a thing. But I still like to keep up with current music, so I have decided to check the Billboard Hot 100 each week and then rearrange the top 20 based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. Drake ft. WizKid and Kyla – “One Dance”
2. Desiigner – “Panda”
3. Justin Timberlake – “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”
4. Fifth Harmony ft. Ty Dolla $ign – “Work from Home”
5. The Chainsmokers ft. Daya – “Don’t Let Me Down”
6. Lukas Graham – “7 Years”
7. Mike Posner – “I Took a Pill in Ibiza”
8. Rihanna – “Needed Me”
9. Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna – “This is What You Came For”
10. P!nk – “Just Like Fire”
11. Ariana Grande – “Dangerous Woman”
12. Rihanna ft. Drake – “Work”
13. Kent Jones – “Don’t Mind”
14. Zara Larsson & MNEK – “Never Forget You”
15. Zayn – “Pillowtalk”
16. Justin Bieber – “Love Yourself”
17. DNCE – “Cake by the Ocean”
18. twenty one pilots – “Stressed Out”
19. Sia ft. Sean Paul – “Cheap Thrills”
20. Flo Rida – “My House”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Cheap Thrills
2. Work from Home
3. Work
4. I Took a Pill in Ibiza
5. Dangerous Woman
6. Never Forget You
7. Can’t Stop the Feeling!
8. Stressed Out
9. Needed Me
10. Love Yourself
11. One Dance
12. My House
13. Don’t Let Me Down
14. This is What You Came For
15. Just Like Fire
16. Panda
17. Pillowtalk
18. Cake by the Ocean
19. 7 Years
20. Don’t Mind

Watch And/Or Listen to This: Meg Myers’ “Motel” on Conan

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Where has Meg Myers been my whole life?
(P.S. I love the sneakers.)

Watch And/Or Listen to This: Idgy Dean’s “The Indian Squirrel Dance”

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I caught Idgy Dean on the Diddy episode of The Chris Gethard Show, and I’ve had her on her repeat ever since.

“Space Pants” Lyrics

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For your reference purposes.

Begin transmission.
(That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for-)
My pants!

Boys and girls!
I think you’ll find
That my pants
Will blow your mind.

Look at my pants
With the eyes in your face.
My legs are covered
In outer space.

Space pants!
Space pants!
I
Am wearing
Space pants.

Space pants!
Space pants!
My pants are
Space pants.

Do you see my pants?
No wait! You missed them.
My pants are a tour
Of the solar system.

When I say “space,” you say: “pants.”
Space! (What?)
When I say “space pants,” you say:
“are intergalactic space pants.”
Space pants! (Are intergalactic space pants.)

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Hey! You there in front!
Stop talking
During my song.
It’s very rude.

Now joining me on stage
for my grand finale
Is my extremely close friend
Gwen Stefani.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I’m happy to report
My friend Gwen Stefani
Is wearing space shorts.

People on Earth.
Hear what I say.
My shorts are from a galaxy
Far, far away.

Asteroids, comets,
Meteors.
My shorts boldly go
Where no shorts have gone before.

Space shorts!
Space pants.
Space pants!
Space shorts.

Space pants!
Space pants.
Space pants!
Space pants!

Watch And/Or Listen to This: Reggie Watts Serenades BB-8 on The Late Late Show

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Some droid funk for your pleasure. BB-8’s solo is unreal.

Watch And/Or Listen to This: Corinne Bailey Rae’s “Been to the Moon”

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For all you fellow astronauts out there…

Watch And/Or Listen to This: JoJo’s “Save My Soul”

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JoJo’s back.

I never thought much about her one way or the other when she emerged a decade ago. But “Save My Soul” absolutely caught my ear. It has plenty of pep.

9 Best Music Videos of 2015

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I almost exclusively picked dance videos this year. Go figure.

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1. Missy Elliott ft. Pharrell, “WTF” [Director: Dave Meyers] – If more music videos were reminiscent of Being John Malkovich, this would have been a harder decision.

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The Best Albums of 2015 That I Listened To

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As my best albums list is the “Best Albums I Listened To” as opposed to just the “Best Albums,” it is more pointedly subjective than my other best of lists. I usually do not listen to enough albums each year to really be able to definitively say which are the absolute greatest. Thus, instead of focusing on objective critical analysis, I am concentrating more on my own personal experiences with each of these entries.

Currents

1. Tame Impala, Currents – The Australian psychedelic rockers’ latest gets my top spot because it is one of those vaunted albums in which I wanted to listen to every track over and over, both as a whole and individually. Tame Impala’s previous release, Lonerism, is one of my favorite albums of all-time; I am counting my blessings that its follow-up is now in the same category.

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