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#1C000LEST Day 50 12 points- 1. The Breeders: “Cannonball” “Check check check”; “Ah ooooooh oooh; Tapping; bassline; marching-band drums; guitar; “Spitting in a wishing well / Blown to hell - crash! I’m the last splash”. It’s wild. It’s the coolest song I’ve ever heard. youtu.be/fxvkI9MTQw4?...

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#1C000LEST Day 49 11 pts - 2. Interpol: “Evil” I still remember where I was when I first heard this. It’s so striking: it ebbs and flows as it builds and builds until it crashes, all bass, and drums, and lyrics that don’t take a breath: why can’t we just play another game? youtu.be/dkpgz3uQ58U?...

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#1C000LEST Day 48 - 11 points 3. Big Mama Thornton, “Hound Dog” Several songs on my list are women absolutely laying into the men in their lives, calling them out for the crap they’ve done. This one is the loudest, angriest, funniest, most audacious, and coolest. youtu.be/D7N_4WUowj8?...

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#1C000LEST Day 47 11 points - 4. Booker T and the MGs: “Green Onions” Memphis cool. youtu.be/VD6izVzuIkU?...

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#1C000LEST Day 46 5. Elastica: “Connection” We’ve reached my top 5 so this is an 11-pointer! The (arguably) coolest song from a cool album by a super cool band. As a teen, I’d pretend to be Justine & practice that sneer in front of the mirror, lip-syncing to this song. youtu.be/gY2s4hJ8kuA?...

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#1C000LEST Day 45 6. David Bowie: “Life on Mars?” Surreal, beautiful and cool. Bowie might have been the coolest human who ever lived. youtu.be/AZKcl4-tcuo?...

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#1C000LEST Day 44 7. Black Sabbath, "Paranoid" This song has such movement to it, propelling you forward. Ozzy's lyrics are simple, sincere, and a little scary: "I tell you to enjoy life / I wish I could but it's too late". youtu.be/0qanF-91aJo?...

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#1C000LEST Day 43 8. Lady Gaga ft. Beyoncé: "Telephone" Two absolute divas at the top of their game here. A classic tell-off song: I'm having fun with the girls, leave me alone and let me dance. youtu.be/EVBsypHzF3U?...

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#1C000LEST Day 42 9. The Clash: "London Calling" It's the end of the world and The Clash are playing us out. Cool fact I learned recently: the beeps at the end are Morse Code spelling out "SOS". youtu.be/EfK-WX2pa8c?...

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#1C000LEST Day 41 10. Talking Heads: "Once in a Lifetime" We've reached the top 10 with this masterpiece. It's edgy and weird, but fun and dance-y. It's brilliant poetry, but it's simple and understandable. Music nerds know its importance and casual 80s fans claim it too. youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8?...

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#1C000LEST Day 40 11. Deee-Lite: "Groove is in the Heart" It's a party vibe and it gets people up and dancing like nothing else. It's glossy and slick, but still funky and wild. It's groovy. It's cool. youtu.be/etviGf1uWlg?...

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#1C000LEST Day 39 12. Prince and the Revolution: “Let’s Go Crazy” This song has so much energy, and Prince has so much swagger, it would have made my Top 25 even without that guitar solo at the end. But the way he shreds at the end of this song is the definition of cool. youtu.be/aXJhDltzYVQ?...

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#1C000LEST Day 37 13. Carly Simon, “You’re so Vain” The absolute chutzpah it took to write and sing this song! Her ex is so vain, he’d assume the song is about him (because everything is!), but to do so would be to admit his own vanity. Ironic and clever and cool. youtu.be/lT7I40wWYAQ?...

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#1C000LEST Day 37 14. Dolly Parton, "Jolene" If you don't believe me that this is one of the coolest songs around, just ask Beyonce, the White Stripes, Miley Cyrus, Olivia Newton-John (disco!), and even Sisters of Mercy, all of whom have recorded covers of it. youtu.be/Ixrje2rXLMA?...

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#1C000LEST Day 36 15. Beach Boys, “Good Vibrations” Genius. youtu.be/mdt0SOqPJcg?...

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#1C000LEST Day 35 16. Billie Eilish, "Bad Guy" The flirtatious bravado, the violence, the tempo changes, the slow build to that incredible 7-note chorus melody. It's hard to believe that Billie was only 17 when she sang it and FINNEAS was 21 when he produced it. Cool. youtu.be/DyDfgMOUjCI?...

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#1C000LEST Day 34 17. Elvis Presley, “Suspicious Minds” I was going to call this a “guilty pleasure” but nah, no guilt. This song rules. youtu.be/RxOBOhRECoo?...

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#1C000LEST Day 33 18. Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” I fully acknowledge that this song was not written for me, a middle-aged white lady from the suburbs, but boy is it well done. So powerful. If it fires me up, it really should be picked up by kids today as an anthem. youtu.be/mmo3HFa2vjg?...

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#1C000LEST Day 32 19. Eric B and Rakim, “Paid in Full” This is a journey into sound. It was the first rap song I remember liking as a kid. So inventive, so different from the other mainstream stuff at the time. youtu.be/E7t8eoA_1jQ?...

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#1C000LEST Day 31 (sorry, late!) 20. The Jam, “Going Underground” Deserves a spot in my Top 20 for the “Makes this boy shout / Makes THIS-BOY-SCREAM” part alone. I once hurt my hand pounding onto the steering wheel along with that line, true story. youtu.be/AE1ct5yEuVY?...

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#1C000LEST Day 30 21. En Vogue, “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)” A portent of the “girl power” phenomenon coming later in the decade. It uses gorgeous 4-part harmonies to absolutely read some guy for filth (“I just sit back and watch you make a fool of yourself!”). youtu.be/JIuYQ_4TcXg?...

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#1C000LEST Day 29 22. Beastie Boys, "Sabotage" Gotta turn the volume way up when this one comes on! Cool song made cooler by the Spike Jonze video. youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE?...

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hey are you interested in listening to free recordings of like. a LOT of the live indie/rock music performed in Chicago for like multiple decades

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#1C000LEST Day 28 23. Eurythmics: “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) A dark, spooky New Wave backdrop haunts Annie Lennox’s rich voice making this… a super fun song to dance to? Cool. youtu.be/qeMFqkcPYcg?...

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#1C000LEST Day 27 24. Stevie Wonder : “Superstition” Please enjoy this clip of Stevie and his band teaching kids that “F” is for “Funk”. youtu.be/_ul7X5js1vE?...

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#1C000LEST Day 26 25.Bjork: “Hyperballad” Bjork goes to the top of a mountain and throws stuff off of it, car parts & cutlery, and the techno beat behind her ascends and descends. Somehow the crescendo sounds like “falling”, faster and faster. Very smart, catchy and cool. youtu.be/6CSiU0j_lFA?...

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#1C000LEST Day 25 26. Childish Gambino: “This is America” Inextricably linked with its music video: A shocking, brutal depiction of how Blacks & Black culture are viewed by the “mainstream” in the US, released during the height of the BLM movement. Important and cool. youtu.be/VYOjWnS4cMY?...

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#1C000LEST Day 24 27. Runaways, “Cherry Bomb” “Hello world, I’m your wild girl!” Cherie Currie does what young male rockers had done since the beginning of rock: proclaims her autonomy and independence, flaunts her sexuality, and just looks and sounds cool. youtu.be/_EBvXpjudf8?...

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#1C000LEST Day 23 28. Donna Summer, “I Feel Love” Solidly a disco song, but also portends the arrival of New Wave and Techno. Add in some gospel elements and Summer’s ethereal voice and this song sounds like it’s both from the 70s and from the future. youtu.be/9ZqqvrWCs3Q?...

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#1C000LEST Day 22 29. George Michael, “Freedom 90” Wham’s “Freedom” was a fun bop. This song is a declaration; a reflection on fame and public image vs one’s true self. No bubblegum here; it’s replaced by growls. Plus it’s also a bop. youtu.be/diYAc7gB-0A?...

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#1C000LEST Day 21 30. Underworld: "Born Slippy (NUXX)" The "Trainspotting" soundtrack had a transformative effect on me as a teenager. I discovered new bands, read new books and magazines, traveled, made friends, had romances... all stemming from what I heard here. youtu.be/XiMrrleH_hI?...

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#1C000LEST Day 20 31. ? and the Mysterians: “96 Tears” An unforgettable keyboard riff over a solid garage rock sound. They were the kids of Mexican migrant farm workers who looked and sounded cool as hell. youtu.be/R7uC5m-IRns?...

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#1C000LEST Day 19 32. Missy Elliott: “Get UR Freak On” “Y’all can’t come close to me,” Missy raps over a fire Timbaland beat. South Asian instruments play in a syncopated style and clock in at a whopping 178 bpm. It’s weird, it’s interesting, it’s cool. youtu.be/FPoKiGQzbSQ?...

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#1C000LEST Day 18 33. Jackie Wilson: “Higher and Higher” A song so cool, it got the evil pink goo in Ghostbusters 2 to boogie, eventually moving the Statue of Liberty itself. Can’t argue with that. youtu.be/mzDVaKRApcg?...

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#1C000LEST Day 17 34. Janelle Monae, “Tightrope” They’re channeling James Brown, keeping it modern, having tons of fun, and being so cool doing it. I can’t not smile when this comes on. youtu.be/pwnefUaKCbc?...

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#1C000LEST Day 16 35. Kate Bush: “Wuthering Heights” Everything about this song is wild. The ultra high-pitched voice; that the narrative sung by a ghost from a 19th-century novel (“I’ve come home /I’m so cold”); the dance moves in the video. There’s nothing like it. youtu.be/-1pMMIe4hb4?...

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#1C000LEST Day 15 36. Joy Division, “Transmission” Iconic bass line, killer guitars, and a totally danceable beat, overlaid with Ian Curtis’s unmistakeable, earnest voice. youtu.be/Kx3EqNYQklg?...

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#1C000LEST Day 14 37. Madonna: "Hung Up" Madonna released this absolute banger at age 47 and she looked and sounded incredible. You have to love the hook (sampled from Abba), and its ode to 80's workout-dancing. It's all just cool. youtu.be/EDwb9jOVRtU?...

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#1C000LEST Day 13 38. Amy Winehouse, “You Know I’m No Good” A great song about a cool lady being really bad. youtu.be/b-I2s5zRbHg?...

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#1C000LEST Day 12 39. Haim: “The Wire” I love songs that start simple and add layers as they build in intensity and complexity. Plus this is just a cool song to strut down the street to on a summer day. youtu.be/1TffpkE2GU4?...

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#1C000LEST Day 11 40. Isaac Hayes: “Theme from ‘Shaft’”. I visited Stax Records in Memphis and saw Isaac Hayes’s gold-plated Cadillac. Very cool. And who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? Shaft! Also cool. youtu.be/Q429AOpL_ds?...

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#1C000LEST Day 10 41. Martha and the Vandellas: “Dancing in the Street” It’s essentially a simple song about people everywhere dancing. But it’s elevated to top-quality cool by the out-of-this-world vocals by Martha Reeves. She’s incredible. youtu.be/9KhbM2mqhCQ?...

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#1C000LEST Day 9 42. Camera Obscura: “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken” This might be my only selfish pick out of the 50. I’m not sure it’s “cool” as much as it just makes me really happy and I want to hear more of it youtu.be/vlryei9U3sg?...

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