Michael's Number Ones: "Run" by Snow Patrol
DATE WEEKS October 30, 2004 3 Whenever an artist or artists come along to define a particular sound from a particular region, there's...
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Est. 2001
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Michael Trimboli
Aug 215 min
Michael's Number Ones: "She Will Be Loved" by Maroon 5
This column should not exist. That's not to say I don't like this song, or that there's anything illicit that happened with this song. ...
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Michael Trimboli
Aug 147 min
Michael's Number Ones: "American Idiot" by Green Day
DATE WEEKS October 2, 2004 3 At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama gave a speech...
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Michael Trimboli
Aug 76 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers
The story of alternative rock in the 2000s shouldn't have had room for the The Killers. It was supposed to be about a bunch of weirdos...
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Michael Trimboli
Jul 318 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Breaking the Habit" by Linkin Park
It's not fair that I only get one post to write about the Meteora album cycle. It was a significant album for me during the last two...
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Michael Trimboli
Jul 248 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Ch-Check It Out" by Beastie Boys
It was a big deal when I was accepted into Stuyvesant High School in the spring of 2000. Stuyvesant is considered the most prestigious...
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Michael Trimboli
Jul 178 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Slither" by Velvet Revolver
If you're a basketball fan, then you're familiar with the concept of a supergroup. Rather than build a team from the ground up, just...
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Michael Trimboli
Jul 105 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Talk Shows on Mute" by Incubus
George Orwell is not a guy I feel like writing about right now. Considering we're just months away from an election that feels incredibly...
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Michael Trimboli
Jul 36 min
Michael's Number Ones: "This Love" by Maroon 5
I don't really remember my high school having cliques. I'm sure they must have existed somewhere, at some time. Films like The...
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Michael Trimboli
Jun 266 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Time Is Running Out" by Muse
Sometimes a song is just undeniable. If you hear it enough times, it just wears you down, like the ocean eroding a boulder. I think...
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Michael Trimboli
Jun 197 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Love Song" by 311
I think it was around 2001 when I realized most Adam Sandler movies were the same. Sure, there were different plots and characters, but...
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Michael Trimboli
Jun 128 min
Michael's Number Ones: "I Miss You" by Blink-182
When I turned 21, I remember thinking, "I don't feel 21; I feel like I'm somewhere between 14 and 28." At the time this is published,...
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Michael Trimboli
Jun 54 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Megalomaniac" by Incubus
Here's one thing I remember very clearly about the 2000s: George W. Bush was not a good president. He surrounded himself with lying...
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Michael Trimboli
May 298 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Hit That" by The Offspring
In 2006, the conservative magazine The National Review published a tongue-in-cheek list of its top 50 rock songs, and predictably, the...
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Michael Trimboli
May 229 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Hey Ya!" by Outkast
There really is no rationalization behind music genres. Classifying songs in different genres can often be tedious and possibly...
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Michael Trimboli
May 155 min
Michael's Number Ones: "Still Frame" by Trapt
So yeah, these fucking guys. Look, I don't believe you should apologize for liking a song or an artist when you did. And I don't think...
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