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Tom, this list has a strange resonance for me because it starts off with a song that a dying friend sent me this summer as an MP3 ("Surfin' Bird"), saying jokingly that he wanted this to be the music at his funeral. It also hits a couple of his favorite bands: Roxy Music (who he got me to appreciate) and Public Enemy (who we both sort of discovered at the same time, about the time "It Takes a Nation of Millions" came out).

Frankie KnuXles would I'm sure be gratified to see his name on a list like this. I don't know that I know the song either (mucho sex and noise awaits tracer!) I'm curious about the PE though Tom. Why that song and not "Give it Up" or "Fight the Power" or "Don't Believe the Hype" or "Bring the Noise" all of which seem to me if not perfect then at least "tighter"?

Has anyone explained this '15' thing yet (as I requested the other day)?

Yes I explained it in tiresome bullet-point detail. However I cannot remember where. On the thread which I linked to ethan's original thread, shortly after you complained that my link left you more confused than before: which this thread was, who can say? (My guess = tim finney's "hot 15" thread.)

I LOVE the part in "One More Time" when the beat drops out and Romanthony's voice get's just a touch more vocoderized for a single "ooooohh"--it's right before he says "You know I'm just feeling..." It makes the song like twice as good to me. I love things like that--and DP have a lot of them--where the song would be "fine" without them, but having them there makes everything that much better and more interesting. Still, they don't feel unnecessary or superfluous in any way.