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Top 40 Philosophy: TLC, “Creep”

TLC had the #2 and #3 songs for 1995. We’ve already covered “Waterfalls,” (which argued — against the year’s #1 song, “Gangsta’s Paradise” — that…

Monday We celebrated (?) the fact that 1995 is now 20 years ago by turning our attention to its #1 song: Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise.” It’s a…

The #2 song for 1995 was TLC’s “Waterfalls,” which is a riff on the opening lines of the first two verses of Paul McCartney’s “Waterfalls.”…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you should always talk about music from twenty years ago. Since it is now 2015, that means we…