Click here to view all the Which Decade entries on one page. Gosh, is it that time already?  read more »

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Last Friday, one of the regular commenters on my "100 and Single" column poured cold water all over my prediction that Estelle's "American Boy" might finally creep into the U.S. Top 10. Noted regular reader ukidol, "Estelle's song has been removed from iTunes since the start of the week, so she'll drop sharply in the next chart. Think they're hoping for a Kid Rock-style album boost."  read more »

Click here to view all the Which Decade entries on one page. Sometimes, I think that my whole life could be defined as an epic struggle against procrastination - and it's a struggle which, regrettably, I have spent most of today losing. And so, while K packs his clobber for Copenhagen (where he'll be from tomorrow until Saturday), I'm going to seize the moment and squeeze out today's instalment. Number Fours , get your arses over here! And look lively about it!  read more »

Baseball is such a rich sport for data geeks, what with every move made by a player having a number attached to it. But the inconsistencies and outright mistakes in the sport's long history, from the number of games in a season to the exclusion of the Negro Leagues, make the sport even moregeek-friendly—those missteps become something else to debate, at least when fans aren't mulling the current statistical effects of controlled substances.

Mistakes and inconsistencies are two of many things baseball geekery and music-chart geekery have in common. (Lord knows the music business has its substances.) Billboard has changed the rules behind the Hot 100 often enough to keep guys like me talking for days on end.  read more »

One of the most celebrated artists in the music industry Celine Dion. In the 1990s she released her first album titled Unison and gained popularity in many different countries around the world.

Click here to view all the Which Decade entries on one page. Le sigh. Once again, I am Homo Alone, with only the upstairs PC and a freshly poured glass of Valdivieso for company. K is in Copenhagen until Saturday, and has just loyally logged on, in the hope of finding today's selections and "cheering me up". Given his habitual hatred of the voting process, this takes loyalty to a new level, and so I do feel a bit bad for letting him down. Shall we?  read more »

Several weeks back, while preparing for my contribution to WFMU's week-long celebration of the 7" known as Singles Going Steady, I rifled through the comps & splits 7" drawer and found the most frustratingly unknowable pair of records. They were...Scott W

THE ACOUSMATIC THEATER HOUR'S Unfair and Incomplete Year-End Top Ten Nationwide Theatrical Performances That We Saw:In no particular order (except that in which we remembered them), and hopelessly incomplete, here are Jason G and Karinne's Top Ten Best Theatrical Performances....Brian Turner

The lesson of the tale of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is clear: if you cause people to unduly worry too soon, by the time they should be scared, they won't be. And, as the LA Times points out, now's the time we ought to be a leetle worried about Roe v. Wade, but since the pro-choice movement has been sounding the alarm for so long, people are sort of tuning it out. And they probably ought not to be.

Through most of the 1990s and until recently, the Supreme Court had a solid 6-3 majority in favor of upholding the right of a woman to choose abortion. But the margin has shrunk to one, now that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is retired and has been replaced by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

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