Michael's Top 40

DATE WEEKS May 21, 2005 10 It's no secret that the 2000s were some fertile ground for political songs from across the ideological...

It was a big deal when I was accepted into Stuyvesant High School in the spring of 2000. Stuyvesant is considered the most prestigious...

I don't really remember my high school having cliques. I'm sure they must have existed somewhere, at some time. Films like The...

One thing I find interesting when I look back on my old personal charts is how they don't always fall in line with what the rest of the...

The nerds usually have the last laugh. By the time you get to junior high school, that notion can seem hard to imagine. You're entering...

DATE WEEKS November 17, 2001 5 It's inevitable that as time passes some of the artists we liked in a particular moment can become punchlines to jokes about that time period. A band like A Flock of Seagulls, for example, who had some really excellent songs in the early 80s, at some point became shorthand for new wave weirdness, due in no small part to the haircut the lead singer sported in their video. But then their run lasted just a couple of years. Then there's Nickelback