"['Pump Up the Volume'] came just a few slots shy of landing in the Billboard Hot 100."
Eamon Doyle
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Wikipedia says it's M|A|R|R|S.
Why?
The band has released four studio albums since Fairweather Johnson. For the record.
I know Myq has done pretty well, but I want him to be just huge, you know?
Honestly, I didn't know him from anything except, of all things, Scenes from a Mall.
"Decatur"!
I nominate the version of James Taylor's "Your Smiling Face" from 1993's (Live): http://youtu.be/O_K134ShFJg.
Get that comma out of the headline, for crying out loud.
Aaaaand "Lay Me Down" just hit #8. Counting "Latch," which peaked at #7, that makes four U.S. hits.
Racism is by definition intentional.
I don't know which is weirder: that Shane Black's ex-friend thought the bank-account gambit would work, or that it did.
But I didn't.
What?
[requisite Jost apologia]
*Cicely Tyson
The success of "Afternoon Delight" is totally explicable.
"I'm Not the Only One" reached #5 on the Hot 100. For the record.
Oh, you don't have to sell me on her awesomeness—she's Betty White, for crying out loud. I was just surprised she would play the part without even trying to do the accent.