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Song of the Day #5,936: ‘I Need You Now’ – Eddie Fisher

Throwing back to the week of October 2, 1954, we have two repeats atop the Billboard chart in Rosemary Clooney’s ‘Hey There’ and the Crew Cuts’ ‘Sh-Boom.‘ Those two songs dominated the summer and fall of 1954, with one or the other sitting at #1 for 13 straight weeks.

Right behind them on this week was Eddie Fisher with ‘I Need You Now,’ a song that would eventually make it to #1 for three weeks that November. This was Fisher’s fourth #1 in two years and his second in 1954 (following ‘Oh! My Pa-Pa’).

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Song of the Day #5,935: ‘We Run This’ – Missy Elliott

Concluding my look at the albums of 2005…

I’m wrapping up my look at 2005 with one of the year’s best rap albums. No, not Kanye West’s Late Registration, which is indeed a great album but one by an artist I’d rather not give the airtime.

Instead, I’m featuring The Cookbook, the last full-length studio release by Missy Elliott. This was Elliott’s sixth album and, according to many critics, her best.

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Song of the Day #5,934: ‘Feel Good Inc.’ – Gorillaz

Continuing my look at the albums of 2005…

Yesterday I wrote about an album that just isn’t for me. Today’s album falls into another category: one that may well be for me, but I don’t see myself ever taking the time to find out.

As I get older and have more albums to hear from the artists I already love, I find it increasingly harder to add new finds to the mix. That goes for current releases but especially for releases from years past. I’ve finally come to peace with the idea that I’ll die having not heard plenty of great music.

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Song of the Day #5,933: ‘Daft Punk is Playing at My House’ – LCD Soundsystem

Continuing my look at the albums of 2005…

Pretty much every one of these Decades series serves up an album that is definitively not for me. For 2005, it’s LCD Soundsystem’s self-titled debut.

This indie electronica record received rave reviews and landed two Grammy nominations. Critics praised it for throwing a bunch of genres into a blender and mixing them all up to a sick dance beat.

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Song of the Day #5,932: ‘First Day of My Life’ – Bright Eyes

Continuing my look at the albums of 2005…

My somewhat back-handed compliment for Bright Eyes’ sixth album, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning, is that it’s perfect mixtape fodder. Just about any one of its 10 songs would be a standout track on a lovingly curated compilation.

The catch is that I’m never in the mood to hear all of those songs in a row. After awhile, there’s a sameness in composition and delivery that wears on me.

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