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Top Songs of 2017

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It is time for the Top 20 Songs of 2017.  My previous post, if you missed it, was the Top 20 Rock Songs of 2017.  Go check it out by clicking on the link.  These 20 songs are all genres other than rock.  Some were popular and chart toppers and others were not.  They are my favorites, that touched me in some way so don’t expect any indie bands or anything trendy.  If you want that go to one of the cool sites out there, this ain’t it.

If you missed the Top Rock Albums of 2017 or the Top Albums of 2017 (that were not Rock), just click on the link and go check them out.

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#20 – “Something Just Like This” by the Chainsmokers featuring Coldplay off the album ‘Memories…Do Not Open’:  This song was a family favorite during the year.  The one song the wife liked as well as all the kids and as a result, I heard it a lot and it grew on me to where I stopped and listened to it when it came on the radio.  A catchy little song with a great beat.

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My Sunday Song – “Feel It Still” by Portugal. The Man

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My Sunday Song #66 is the first current release I have done in some time.  It is the song “Feel the Still” by the band Portugal. The Man.  The song is the second single off the band’s 2017 album “Woodstock” and their first #1 on any chart.  What surprised me about the band when I looked them up was that this is their 8th studio album.  8th??  I had never heard of these guys…how did that happen??

I first heard this song on an Apple commercial and then later I started hearing it on the radio.  It was so damn catchy and had a 60’s kind of vibe to it with the fun beat and John Gourley’s very high pitched vocals.  As it turns out, the song has borrowed heavily from the song “Please, Mr. Postman” by The Marvelettes which was released way back before my time in 1961 (not really that far before my time but definitely before).

Lyrically the song seems all over the place.  It jumps from references to the civil rights movement in 1966 up to their introduction to the Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill in 1986 and all the way to today and what is happening with the current administration.  I saw where the song was inspired by his daughter growing up while they were making this album.  To me he seems to be worried about the world she is going to inherit and that we need to fight for our rights like people have done in the past.  Now is the time.  Maybe I am reading too much into this short song at only 2:43.

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