Crucial Track for May 3, 2025: "It's Been Awhile" by Staind

This song, It's Been A While by Staind, is the song that is responsible for really getting me into alternative music to begin with. Still one of my all time favorite alternative bands and songs.

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The Five: punk #songs that don't sound like punk songs because #music doesn't have to be shouty and loud to be #punk af
thomasrigby.com/posts/the-five-punk-songs-that-dont-sound-like-punk-songs/

I’d like to invite you to vote in our Favourite Chart Record of the 1990s Poll

Final Qualifying Phase 7/7
Road Rage - Catatonia
Locked Out - Crowded House
Calling Elvis - Dire Straits

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Final Qualifying Phase 6/7
If You Tolerate This - Manic Street Preachers
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - U2

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Final Qualifying Phase 5/7
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Distant Sun - Crowded House
A Winter’s Tale - Queen

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Final Qualifying Phase 3/7
Free As a Bird - Beatles
I Can’t Dance - Genesis
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen

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Final Qualifying Phase 2/7
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Maria - Blondie
Perfect Day - Various Artists

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#willienelson #music #songs #countrymusic #crazy

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PdNrSZm18Gw&si=VIx-fKPIYDxmIFUC

#JukeboxFridayNight #MayDay

#TheFatRat & Laura Brehm - MAYDAY
https://song.link/s/5xXB7wVgRmBHoMBmcfEE3C

"Can you hear, can you hear, can you hear my voice?
Coming through, coming through, coming through the noise
I'm floating through outer space
I'm lost and I can't find a way
Oh, all the lights going dark and my hope's destroyed
Help me, is anybody there?
(Is anybody there? Is anybody there?)
Save me, I'm running out of air, ooh
Calling out mayday"

Boing Boing: Add your favorite song to this online scrapbook. “I recently came across a site called A Music Scrapbook, where you can learn about people’s favorite songs and the stories behind them. The website is laid out like a bunch of sticky notes, each one with the song name and link at the top. Underneath the name of the song is the person’s reason for it being their favorite song, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/02/boing-boing-add-your-favorite-song-to-this-online-scrapbook/

If anyone's looking for new music for #BandcampFriday, I invite you to browse this little thread which I made before, introducing some of my songs :-)

https://musicians.today/@SingleBass/111864310982589914

https://youtu.be/_edkn7Qd9Zg?si=teE0x3ItyMXC0Fgk

https://youtu.be/EHV0zs0kVGg?si=zjFEGHr6eGa1UmlF

https://youtu.be/L6qIrZFAp6Y?si=79RNzwS6ngjD5l-_

Our 1990s Top Twenty Chart Poll

If you have been following these polls from the beginning you will know that early on I introduced a rule - a maximum of four songs from any one artist can feature in the chart poll.

I’d like to invite you to vote in our Favourite Chart Record of 1998-99 Poll

Semi-Final Results
If You Tolerate This - Manic Street Preachers 60% v 40% Road Rage - Catatonia

Maria - Blondie 37% v 63% The Passenger - Iggy Pop

Final
If You Tolerate This - Manic Street Preachers v The Passenger - Iggy Pop

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Second Semi- Final
Maria - Blondie v The Passenger - Iggy Pop

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