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Pop top 40: Top [Album Rock] Tracks week ending 12/25/82

Daryl Hall and John Oates: Big Bam Boom, 1984

Christmas Time is Here: my omnibus holiday playlist

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 12/22/79

Melancholy Christmas: a playlist

I think I've had a little too much champagne: my Christmas viewing canon

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 12/21/85

Rolling Stones: Dirty Work, 1986

The Singles Jukebox, 2024: October / November

Various Artists: A Very Special Christmas, 1987

Doing it to Death (Part 7)

New Kids on the Block: Merry, Merry Christmas, 1989

The Singles Jukebox, 2024: August / September

The Singles Jukebox, 2024: July

R.E.M.: Talking about the passion

Catalog: Rufus with Chaka Khan

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 12/8/84

24-karat magic in the air: Bruno Mars

The Singles Jukebox, 2024: June

The Singles Jukebox, 2024: Steve Albini, RIP

Doing it to Death (Part 6)

The Singles Jukebox, 2024: May

Radio Romance: The Rock of Chicago, WLS AM 89 & FM 95, 11/27/82

Kenny G at the holidays: Miracles, 1994; Faith, 1999; Wishes, 2002; The Greatest Holiday Classics, 2005

The Singles Jukebox, 2024: April

Doing it to Death (Part 5)

Pop Top 40: Top 200 Albums week ending 11/24/84

The Singles Jukebox, 2024: March

Doing it to Death (Part 4)

The Singles Jukebox, 2024: February

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 11/20/04

Pop Top 40: Hot Soul Singles week ending 11/16/85

Doing it to Death (Part 3)

Madonna: Like A Virgin, 1984

Doing it to Death (Part 2)

Doing it to Death (Part 1): the return!

Joni Mitchell: Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, 1988

Willie Nelson: Pretty Paper, 1979

Didn't you wish for nights like this: DJ Clark Kent, RIP

Q: simply the best

Quincy Jones: Back on the Block, 1989

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 11/2/63

Mariah Carey: "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (1994), and more new holiday standards

Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Welcome to the Pleasuredome, 1984

The Jesus and Mary Chain: Barbed Wire Kisses, 1988

Pop Top 40: Hot Country Singles week ending 10/28/78

Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoo-be-doop: the best of Whitney Houston

Dead or Alive: Rip It Up, 1987 / Rip It Up Live in Japan, 1988

Oh, Manchester, So Much to Answer for: who I am

Toto: Toto IV, 1982

Donna Summer: On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II, 1979

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 10/16/82

Pop Top 40: Modern Rock Tracks week ending 10/14/89

What Does an Imperial Phase Sound Like? The Voice of Hall & Oates at their ‘80s Peak

Daryl Hall and John Oates: H2O, 1982

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 10/10/87

The big bang: Guy and Don’t Be Cruel

You know I ain't that handsome: the best of John Mellencamp

A singer's singer: Toni Braxton

Death Disco: Pet Shop Boys and AIDS

You better watch what you say: Tom Petty, RIP

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 10/4/75

Pop top 40: Hot Soul Singles week ending 9/28/74

Bryan Ferry / Roxy Music: The Ultimate Collection, 1988

"If Jermaine likes it, then I like it!"

Pop Top 40: week ending 9/21/44

You've got to find a way, say what you want to say: the best of Sophisti-Pop

Forever Chic

Keith Flint, 1969-2019: Rest in Punk

Pop top 40: Hot 100 week ending 9/5/98

Pop top 40: Top LPs plus, week ending 8/30/69

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 8/30/69

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 8/29/81

Pop Top 40: Hot 100 week ending 8/27/83

Pop top 40: Hot 100 week ending 8/25/79

All bad vibe hearts: a goth/adjacent mixtape

Heaven knows: Now and Zen and Kingdom Come at 35

Remix/remodel: Madonna’s Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones

We might be lovers if the rhythm’s right: MLVC

Straight to the heart: David Sanborn, RIP

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