The third classic Christmas Special on TIME’s list of the “10 Greatest” is “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” This means, of course, that we have…
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Top 40 Philosophy: Charlie Brown vs. The Muppets, “Christmas Time Is Here” vs. “It Feels Like Christmas”
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The second classic Christmas Special on TIME’s list of the “10 Greatest” specials is “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” So, for today, let’s talk about Vince…
Top 40 Philosophy: Burl Ives, “Holly Jolly Christmas”
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It’s Christmas week, which makes me want to do more Christmas songs. So, let’s philosophize about some songs from the great “Christmas Specials” that have…
Top 40 Philosophy: Three Days Grace, “I Am Machine”
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One more day of Rawk. Song #5 on Billboard’s “Mainstream Rock Songs” chart — when I started this post (the new charts are released on…
Top 40 Philosophy: Seether, “Same **** Life”
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Today we have a song by the grunge revivalists from South Africa who call themselves “Seether.” Song #4 on Billboard’s “Mainstream Rock Songs” chart is…
Top 40 Philosophy: Royal Blood, “Figure It Out”
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On Monday, we had a song about creation. On Tuesday, a song about heaven. Today, a song about royal blood. Evidently, it’s still Christmas here…
Top 40 Philosophy: Five Finger Death Punch, “Wrong Side of Heaven”
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Song #2 on Billboard’s “Mainstream Rock Songs” chart this week is “Wrong Side of Heaven,” by Five Finger Death Punch. I’ve never found 5FDP’s music…
Top 40 Philosophy: The Foo Fighters, “Something from Nothing”
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Now that we’re sufficiently nostalgic from doing a week on the Beatles, and sufficiently jolly from doing a week of Christmas songs, let’s do a…
Top 40 Philosophy: Nat King Cole, “The Christmas Song”
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According to the Billboard Holiday Albums chart (as I was writing this), we should do a song from Pentatonix’s first Christmas album. But we already…
Top 40 Philosophy: Darius Rucker, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
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As of my writing this, we have done one song each from the top three albums on Billboard’s Holiday Albums chart. For today, then, we…
Top 40 Philosophy: Michael Bublé, “Silent Night”
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We’ve done a song from each of the top two “Holiday” albums this week, so on we move to the third: Christmas, by Michael Bublé. I’ve…
Top 40 Philosophy: Idina Menzel, “Do You Hear What I Hear?”
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Pentatonix has the #1 song on Billboard’s Holiday 100, and the #1 album on Billboard’s Holiday Albums chart. The #2 album is Idina “Adele ‘Elsa‘…
Top 40 Philosophy: Pentatonix, “Mary, Did You Know?”
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We spent the first week of Advent on the Beatles, which is not exactly appropriate. But it was the 50th Anniversary of Beatlemania, and we…
Top 40 Philosophy: The Beatles, “I Feel Fine”
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Beatles Week closes with the Beatles’ sixth #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1964 (and first #1 on the chart for 1965) “I Feel Fine.”…
Top 40 Philosophy: The Beatles, “A Hard Day’s Night”
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The fifth of six Beatles songs to go #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1964, “A Hard Day’s Night” is our next-to-last song this week.…
Top 40 Philosophy: The Beatles, “Can’t Buy Me Love”
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Beatles Week continues today, with “Can’t Buy Me Love.” This — the third of six Beatles songs we’re doing this week — was #1 for…
Top 40 Philosophy: The Beatles, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
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Fifty years ago (1964), “I Want to Hold Your Hand” became the first Beatles single to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was…
Top 40 Philosophy Flashback: Ludacris, “Roll Out”
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Yesterday at the Tillman Family Thanksgiving Festivities, my brothers told me I should do a Ludacris song today. Tillmans communicate with each other almost entirely…