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Top Ten Cliche Halloween Costume Ideas, In Mix Form
Halloween is right around the corner. You now have just over 2 weeks to find an appropriate costume. We here at Popten want to do everything we can to make sure you have the bases covered. There are...
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Top 10 Substitute F*ck Songs, a la Glee
On this past week’s episode of Glee, Gwyneth Paltrow guest starred as the super-cool-and-hip substitute teacher. She came into a classroom flush with discontent for the outdated song choices put...
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Top Ten #fatindiebands
Twitter has a new hashtag meme, and it happens to be my favorite one so far. Here is my own personal top ten (in alphabetical order), culled from the amazingly brilliant people I happen to follow....
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Top Ten New Bands of 2010
I really only took one factor into account when figuring out what constitutes a new band in this list: their first full length album was released in this country in this calendar year. So you may try...
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Top Ten Commercial Songs – Take Three
Time for a round up of the songs I like in recent commercials.(See other commercial songs posts here and here.) These ones all break down to football, cars, and winter. I think it is time for booze to...
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Top Ten Shows I Saw at SXSW11
By all accounts I saw 70 shows in the 10 days I was in Austin. Not only is that a lot to take in, it’s also a lot to process and a lot to recuperate from. In the past I’ve done a post with every...
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Top Ten Songs For Easter
I want to wish you all a very happy Passover! However, there are not really any awesome Passover songs, unless you count Go Down Moses, which is only awesome when my cantor brother sings it in his...
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New York I Love You
I have been working on this mix for as long as I have been writing for Popten. It was at one point over 60 songs, and has morphed its way through at least 7 different versions. I found it so hard to...
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Top Ten Angry Birds Things
If you know me in real life, most likely you also know that I am somewhat obsessed with all things Angry Birds. So I was super excited last week when the indie rock duo Pomplamoose released an awesome...
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What Newport Folk Listen To
At Newport Folk Festival this past weekend, I had the opportunity to interview many of the musicians playing over the two days. While I could have asked pretty much anything, I find the most...
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Top Ten Inspirational 80s Songs
If you know me in real life, there is a good chance you know that in real life I work in the Digital Media Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There is also a pretty good chance you know that...
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Top Ten Songs For Being Home Away From Home
My brother Jesse and me, with a spray-painted snowman in front of our childhood home, circa 1987. Excuse me while I get a little personal. Back in September I went to visit my parents for a full 12...
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Top 20 Presidential Songs
In honor of Election Day tomorrow, here is a list of the top 20 songs written about United States presidents. Scroll to the bottom for a link to listen, and don’t forget: Go Vote! 1. Super Furry...
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Five Year Flashback: Top Ten Songs I Was Listening To – January 2007 Edition
So I am introducing a new (intended to be) monthly column here. Up until very recently, I’ve been religiously making mixes. Every month, I put together a mix for my friends. It was what I was...
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Fourteen Lonely Songs For the Fourteenth of February
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. Here are my top 10 (okay 14, it is Valentine-themed after all) songs for being all by yourself on this February 14th. Enjoy. (Stream it at the bottom) 1. Akon – Lonely...
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Five Year Flashback: Top Ten Songs I Was Listening To – February 2007 Edition
My February 2007 mix originally clocked in at 21 songs in total, and you are getting the top ten. Some items of note: 1. This mix was the first time many mainstay artists appeared on the list,...
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Five Year Flashback: Top Ten Songs I Was Listening To – March 2007 Edition
If you think this playlist is random, you should’ve seen it five years ago when it was 21 songs long. The only one I’d really point out to look into that didn’t make the final cut is a song called The...
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Five Year Flashback: Top Ten Songs I Was Listening To – April 2007 Edition
Somewhere around this time, my music tastes definitely shifted. It definitely coincided with the fact that I had begun to actively seek out live music on a regular basis. Some thoughts on tracks that...
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Five Year Flashback: Top Ten Songs I Was Listening To – May 2007 Edition
May 2007 was the first time since I started making mixes in January 2004 that the core set of songs did not fit on a single CD. It was also the first time I started adding in comments before the track...
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Top Ten Wedding Songs
So when your high school BFF (Jeanne) gets married (tomorrow), really the only appropriate thing to do is make a wedding-y mix. Here are my 11 favorite wedding/marriage/love is forever songs in her...
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