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Music:No Rap Songs in the Top 40 for First Time in 35 Years

For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 on the Hot 100 doesn't contain a single rap song. The space is occupied, instead, by the entirety of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl " now in its third week " as well as hits from Morgan Wallen, Olivia Dean, Kehlani, and Alex Warren, whose single "Ordinary" has spent 37 weeks on the chart.

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Time for polka to make a comeback.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-30 11:24 AM | Reply

And for the first time in decades: a) horror films are in contention for an Oscar; b) a Canadian team is playing in the World Series.

Back to music for a moment. This non-rap song from the late 1970s entered my mind while I was playing chess last night: www.youtube.com

My wife and I were fortunate to have heard this band perform live.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-30 01:21 PM | Reply

Presumably not at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival! Great group.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-30 02:56 PM | Reply

#3: Hi Doc Sarvis: You are correct indeed. And Jefferson Airplane produced the original version of this song which was slightly re-arranged and made popular later by the Youngbloods: www.youtube.com

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-30 03:18 PM | Reply

first rap song?

www.wearebroadcasters.com's%2012,a%20Top%2040%20chart%20hit.

(link werks even though it doesn't look like it)

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-30 03:25 PM | Reply

Music historians have said so, Corky.

And this band may have been the first punk band, preceding the NY Dolls, Ramones, the Clash, and the Misfits: deathfromdetroit.com

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-30 03:36 PM | Reply

For whites only. We have long given up on white ratings systems. Movies, songs are whatever in the usa are all subject to the white racial ego. Enough said.

#7 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-10-30 04:58 PM | Reply

In the late 1960s a computer analyzed a theoretical bout between the undefeated heavyweight champions Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali. When the machine predicted Marciano would win, Muhammad Ali said to the effect: "A white man's computer has a white man winning. No surprise."

The two champions were filmed together for a hypothetical fight and they were on good terms.

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-30 05:14 PM | Reply

Coriolanus ... I'd forgotten that Ali-Marciano "fight" - both remarkable boxers.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-31 05:08 AM | Reply

Hi Doc Sarvis: Always a pleasure to serve!

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-31 05:21 AM | Reply

Nice. I have PTSD from that airship level.

#11 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-31 06:18 AM | Reply

The first rap music video was by Blondie.

#12 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-31 09:24 AM | Reply

First rap TV performance - 1944?

www.youtube.com

#13 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-31 09:29 AM | Reply

Draft Dodger Rag - Smothers Brothers and George Segal

www.youtube.com

Rap? Oh, I thought you said ____.

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-31 11:00 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Zed,

"Time for polka to make a comeback."

How about bringing disco back?

Happy upbeat music. Funny though. By todays standards, the music didn't actually have that quick of a beat.

Turn the beat around...
Love to hear the percussion...
Turn it upside down...
Love to hear the percussion...

#15 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-10-31 11:02 AM | Reply

#15

How am I not surprised you are at heart a Disco Queen? ;*)

These guys proved they could do more than disco, and I'm a sucker for a 'you and me, girl' love song>>>>

www.youtube.com

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-31 11:10 AM | Reply

"Time for polka to make a comeback."

Polka should stay on the shelf.

Geddit?

#17 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-10-31 04:02 PM | Reply

Prayers answered:

"Myron Floren's Disco Polka" album - www.discogs.com

#18 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-01 06:19 AM | Reply

What was on your Halloween playlist? Here is mine:

Partytime-45 Grave
Everyday is Halloween-Ministry
Witchcraft-Book of Love
Big Black Witchcraft Rock-The Cramps
I Put a Spell on You-Nina Simone
Heads Will Roll-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Season of the Witch-Lana del Rey
Halloween Theme (from the Movie)
Tubular Bells (from the Exorcist)
Thriller-Michael jackson
This is Halloween (from Nightmare Before Christmas)
Oogie Boogie's Song (from Nightmare Before Christmas)
Timewarp (RHPS)
I can make you a Man (RHPS)
Sweet Transvestite (RHPS)
The Number of the Beast-Iron Maiden
Dead Souls-Nine Inch nails
Burn-The Cure
Lucretia My Reflection-Sisters of Mercy
Bloodletting-Concrete Blonde
Dead Man's Party-Oingo Boingo
Cities in the Dust-Siouxsie and the Banshees
A Nightmare on My Street-DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Lux Aeterna (from Requiem for a Dream)
The Rains of Castamere (from Game of Thrones)
Cry Little Sister (from The Lost Boys)
Bela Lugosi's Dead-The Bauhaus
I Want Candy-Bow Wow Wow
Tear You Apart-She Wants Revenge
Don't Fear The Reaper-Blue Oyster Cult
Bark at the Moon-Ozzy

#19 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-11-01 07:43 AM | Reply

My neighborhood here in Kaiserslautern, Germany was absolutely crazy. Hundreds of kids running around. Fire pits everywhere. Lots of booze. It was more fun that the Halloweens I remember back in the US.

#20 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-11-01 07:45 AM | Reply

https. ://youtu.be/D3nF5ZkGEos?si=Ga76ZZY0mRnZE7iR

Why isn't this on your list?

#21 | Posted by Petrous at 2025-11-01 08:39 AM | Reply

First gangster rap song...
youtu.be

#22 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-11-01 08:43 AM | Reply

Alice Cooper doing metal rap on the Shockdance soundtrack: www.youtube.com

#23 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-01 09:21 AM | Reply

#21

I despise that song.

#24 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-11-01 11:55 AM | Reply

Trends in music change.

How many Disco songs have been released in the past few years?

Trends in music change.

Music is an art form.

As an art form, you do not get attention by being what has been in the past.

Nowadays, the big draw in music seems to be the barely-clad figure of a rock performer called Ms Taylor Swift prancing about on the stage.

So I guess the drag-queen approach of Kiss doesn't cut it anymore.

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-02 01:24 AM | Reply

@#19 ... What was on your Halloween playlist? Here is mine: ...

May I add ...

Steeleye Span - Alison Gross www.youtube.com

Gregory's Funhouse - It Only Happens on Halloween (no video seems to be available)

#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-02 01:30 AM | Reply

Of course, if you want to go the gruesome route, there's this Halloween song ...

Bloodrock - D.O.A. (1970)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

...
According to Bloodrock guitarist Lee Pickens, the origin of the song is about an airplane incident he encountered when he was a teenager.

I remember
We were flying along
And hit something in the air

Laying here, looking at the ceiling
Someone lays a sheet across my chest
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
Pain is flowing all through my back

I try to move my arm and there's no feeling
And when I look, I see there's nothing there
The face beside me stopped it totally bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare

I remember
We were flying along
And hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along
And hit something in the air

Then I looked straight at the attendant
His face is pale as it can be
He bends and whispers something softly
He says there's no chance for me

I remember
We were flying along
And hit something in the air

I remember
We were flying along
And hit something in the air

Life is flowing out my body
Pain is flowing out with my blood
The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying
God in Heaven, teach me how to die
...

#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-02 01:37 AM | Reply

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