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Michael's Top 40
Est. 2001
My favorite 40 songs of the week, and other music-related thoughts
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Michael's Number Ones: "The Hand That Feeds" by Nine Inch Nails
DATE WEEKS April 30, 2005 2 If you're on the outside looking in, industrial music can seem kinda intimidating. It's aggressive and...

Michael Trimboli
Sep 4, 20259 min read
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Michael's Number Ones: "Vertigo" by U2
DATE WEEKS November 20, 2004 3 It starts "one, two, three, fourteen" in Spanish. If any other artist tried to start a song that way, I...

Michael Trimboli
Nov 6, 202410 min read
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Michael's Number Ones: "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age
I never like when things end. That's human nature, I suppose. But you don't think like that when you're 16 years old. When my parents...

Michael Trimboli
Jan 24, 20245 min read
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Michael's Number Ones: "Aerials" by System of a Down
If you looked at the music charts at the beginning of the 21st century, it was a rather apolitical landscape. Then came the September 11...

Michael Trimboli
Dec 31, 20235 min read
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Michael's Number Ones: "Complicated" by Avril Lavigne
I knew this girl in my Spanish class in high school who liked to wear tank tops and neckties. She looked like a punk rocker, which meant...

Michael Trimboli
Dec 10, 20239 min read
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Michael's Number Ones: "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton
DATE WEEKS May 11, 2002 2 The feeling of riding in a car and singing the hell out of a favorite song is an exhilarating one. Even better when friends are in the front or back seats. Driving songs are fun when they come on the radio because they put you in the moment and make it feel like you can just keep going forever. It doesn't matter if you're on a cross-country road trip, or taking a 15-minute drive to the mall. You want that feeling to last forever simply because yo

Michael Trimboli
Dec 6, 20236 min read
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