{"id":3474,"date":"2024-11-14T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2024-11-19T00:14:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T08:14:00","slug":"here-are-my-picks-for-the-top-5-singles-from-1977-1999-for-uncooltwo50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/2024\/11\/here-are-my-picks-for-the-top-5-singles-from-1977-1999-for-uncooltwo50\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are My Picks for the Top 5 Singles from 1977-1999 for #UncoolTwo50"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the last 45 days, I\u2019ve been participating in another Blue Sky music challenge: #UncoolTwo50<\/a>.  Organized by the account @uncooltwo50.bsky.social<\/a>, the idea is to is the share your picks for the 50 best songs released as singles between 1977 and 1999. It\u2019s all part of a multi-year project to crowdsource one giant list covering the history of recorded music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hashtag has baffled the recent influx of Blue Sky users\u2014including Flavor Flav himself<\/a>!\u2014and understandably so. The name is inspired by the book \u201cThis is Uncool: The 500 Greatest Singles Since Punk and Disco<\/a>\u201d by music journalist Garry Mulholland. It does not mean that wide swaths of the pop cannon are now \u201cuncool,\u201d so you can all just relax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the things that more committed participants in the broader Ultimate Pop 1000 project apparently like to do is to \u201cblurb\u201d their selections, i.e. writing some extra blah blah about the song and its significance. I couldn\u2019t quite commit to blurbing all 50 of my songs, but I\u2019m going to try to do it for the Top 5, starting now with \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. \u201cI Can\u2019t Go for That (No Can Do),\u201d Hall & Oates (1981)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n