Number One With A Bullet

One year before everyone was rocking out to "My Sharona," they were laying their lovers down on bear skin rugs and caressing their bods with some sweet smooches. And they were doing it all to this song by the aimless country band turned funky pop sensation Exile. Small spoiler for this episode: Andrew fucking loves this song. Big spoiler: The Trace Adkins cover makes us vomit.

A song so ubiquitous it's become the go-to reference for an obnoxiously over-played song. This week, we take a look at "My Sharona," the song so big it made everyone hate the band that made it for decades to come. But did The Knack deserve our ire for crafting such a perfectly hooky song about an underaged girl? Probably! 

Boy oh boy, Dan and Andrew sure were excited to talk about Michael Jackson this week. And a song from his 1987 chart-topper Bad no less! But alas, a fun time was not meant to be. This week, we discuss MJ's middling 80s ballad duet that was somehow the album's lead single ahead of stone cold classics like "Man In The Mirror" and "Smooth Criminal." Let's get intimate.

One of the unintended consequences of using a random number generator to dictate what year you'll be discussing on your podcast is that you sometimes end up spending an entire week talking about 9/11. That's what happened here and Andrew and Dan are sorry? Just as America was going through a modern tragedy, J Lo and Ja Rule were topping the charts with their remixed ode to being horny for each oth...

Just when you thought it was time to say hello, it's time to say goodbye. Or rather, Auf Wiedersehen. This week, Andrew and Dan return to post-war Britain to finally get down to the bottom of Roger Waters' eternal question, "Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?"

Hopefully you're looking at the title of this episode and thinking, "What? This was a song?" Because that's what Andrew and Dan thought at first. Then they listened back and wished they could forget all over again. This reggae-infused pop hit about stubborn fathers provides more questions than answers, namely, "Why you gotta be so rude?"

These days, The Supremes are practically synonymous with the sound of the 1960s, but before their first number one song in 1964, they were persona non grata at Motown records. This week, Andrew and Dan discuss the history and drama of this 1964 chart topper that almost wasn't.

For their inaugural episode, Andrew and Dan travel all the way back to the distant year of 2010 to reexamine Eminem and Rihanna's super successful ode to abusive relationships. Yeah, remember when that happened? They take a look at the song's inception, why Rihanna agreed to do it, and the star studded music video it produced.