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358. Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why 6.5
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358. Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why: 6
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Don't Ask Me Why is a 6 - I love Billy Joel to pieces, but he has a lot of songs like this that are perfectly pleasant but not among his best.
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358. Billy Joel – Don't Ask Me Why (1980) 7/10
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Billy Joel – Don't Ask Me Why: 4
Billy Joel is equally capable of great songs and of bad ones. This one, with it's vague tropical element is especially tacky.

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356. Sun Dial – Easy for You: 5
357. New York Dolls - Trash: 5
358. Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why: 4
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357. New York Dolls | "Trash": 7/10
358. Billy Joel | "Don't Ask Me Why": 5/10
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358. Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why - 7.6
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Sweepstakes Ron gives us our second Gorillaz track for this edition of Biggest Fan. This specific song is about 10 minutes shorter than their previous entry.

359. Gorillaz, featuring Daley - Doncamatic
Year: 2010
Released as a single
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Don't Ask Me Why - 9
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359. Gorillaz, featuring Daley - Doncamatic: 5.5
Not their best.
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359. Gorillaz ft. Daley | "Doncamatic": 5/10
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359. Gorillaz, featuring Daley - Doncamatic (2010) 8/10
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StevieFan13 wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:13 pm Don't Ask Me Why is a 6 - I love Billy Joel to pieces, but he has a lot of songs like this that are perfectly pleasant but not among his best.
FWIW, top 10 Billy Joel songs off the top of my head, no order except #1:
1. And So It Goes
2. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
3. All for Leyna
4. The Downeaster "Alexa"
5. The Longest Time
6. Summer. Highland Falls
7. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
8. Piano Man (duh)
9. Goodnight Saigon
10. Vienna
Honorable mentions (among many): The Entertainer, Captain Jack, Zanzibar, Uptown Girl (I like it!), Only the Good Die Young, The Stranger...I could go on!
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352. Abdel Halim Hafez – Ala Haseb Widad 7
353. King Krule – Dum Surfer 7
354. Shania Twain – Any Man of Mine 4
355. Vampire Weekend – Cousins 5
356. Sun Dial – Easy for You 7
357. New York Dolls – Trash 6
358. Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why 5
359. Gorillaz, featuring Daley – Doncamatic 6
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Otisredding returns to his native language for the second time, though not to his native country, as today’s artist is from Cuba.

360. Pablo Milanés – Yo No Te Pido
Year: 1978
Album: No Me Pidas
Biggest Fan: Otisredding (#418)

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360. Pablo Milanés – Yo No Te Pido: 7
Good voice. The music isn't stellar, but pleasant enough.
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356. Sun Dial – Easy for You | 7
357. New York Dolls - Trash | 7.5
358. Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why | 4.5
359. Gorillaz, featuring Daley - Doncamatic | 6.5
360. Pablo Milanés – Yo No Te Pido | 7
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359. Gorillaz, featuring Daley - Doncamatic 8
360. Pablo Milanés – Yo No Te Pido 6
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358. Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why: 4
359. Gorillaz, featuring Daley - Doncamatic: 6

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337. Scott & Charlene’s Wedding – Don’t Bother Me: 7.5 — updated!
359. Gorillaz, featuring Daley - Doncamatic: 5
360. Pablo Milanés – Yo No Te Pido: 8

Man, what a turnaround.
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360. Pablo Milanés | "Yo No Te Pido": 5/10
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Gorillaz, featuring Daley – Doncamatic: 8
A bit of a deep cut, I guess, but I find it very enjoyable.

Pablo Milanés – Yo No Te Pido: 7
Good voice indeed.
Listyguy wrote: Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:10 pm Don't Ask Me Why - 9
Just to be clear, I don't count votes for your own picks if you didn't vote for anything else in the last 100.
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360. Pablo Milanés – Yo no te pido (1978) 8/10
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StevieFan13 wrote: Mon Jan 23, 2023 12:41 am
StevieFan13 wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:13 pm Don't Ask Me Why is a 6 - I love Billy Joel to pieces, but he has a lot of songs like this that are perfectly pleasant but not among his best.
FWIW, top 10 Billy Joel songs off the top of my head, no order except #1:
1. And So It Goes
2. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
3. All for Leyna
4. The Downeaster "Alexa"
5. The Longest Time
6. Summer. Highland Falls
7. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
8. Piano Man (duh)
9. Goodnight Saigon
10. Vienna
Honorable mentions (among many): The Entertainer, Captain Jack, Zanzibar, Uptown Girl (I like it!), Only the Good Die Young, The Stranger...I could go on!
Great to see All For Leyna on your list.

I also like your selections for 2, 7 and 8.

Have you tried the Turnstiles album?
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The irony of the user named stone37 is that they actually had exclusively soft rock. This time however, they support a real Chad. And Jeremy too. The song is bubblin’ under like a stone on AM.

361. Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song
Year: 1964
Album: Yesterday’s Gone
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360. Pablo Milanés – Yo No Te Pido: 7.5

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Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song: 7
Even without any lyrics I feel that "A Summer Song" would have been the only logical title. It may not be a work of staggering originality, but it definitely delivers what it promises.
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361. Chad & Jeremy | "A Summer Song": 5/10
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361. Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song (1964) 7/10
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BleuPanda’s eligible songs for Biggest Fan at this point have mostly been electronic or ambient pop in nature and today’s pick is no different. The song ranks on AM at #7728.

362. Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End
Year: 2013
Album: Impersonator
Biggest Fan: BleuPanda (#781)

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359. Gorillaz, featuring Daley - Doncamatic - 6.5
360. Pablo Milanés – Yo No Te Pido - 6
361. Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song - 7
362. Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End - 6
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361. Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song: 7.25

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Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End: 6
Oh, it's this one. I would have rated this higher if not for the "On me, me, me" parts, that make it seem mawkish to me.
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Gorillaz, featuring Daley - Doncamatic: 4
Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End: 5
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340. Madonna – Mer Girl 5.5
341. Dropkick Murphys – The State of Massachusetts 6
342. Go-Go’s – Head over Heels 7.5
343. Hole – Northern Star 6
344. Broken Bells – Holding on for Life 7
345. Chris Isaak – Go Walking Down There 6
346. Elvis Presley - Trouble 6
347. The Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See 7.5
348. Flour – Fish or Cut Bait 6
349. Paramore – Told You So 6.5
350. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13, Op. 113: I. Babi Yar. Adagio 6
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356. Sun Dial – Easy for You: 8
357. New York Dolls - Trash: 6.5
358. Billy Joel – Don’t Ask Me Why: 5.5
359. Gorillaz, featuring Daley - Doncamatic: 7
360. Pablo Milanés – Yo No Te Pido: 6
361. Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song: 4
362. Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End: 6
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362. Majical Cloudz | "Childhood's End": 5/10
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We’re almost done with the fifth round of everyone’s picks, but it’s not over yet. For example, we still have an early Mariah Carey song from bonnielaurel’s list.

363. Mariah Carey – If It’s Over
Year: 1991
Album: Emotions
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362. Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End: 5.5

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363. Mariah Carey – If It’s Over - 5.5
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Mariah Carey – If It’s Over: 3
There are few songs that shout as loudly: "LISTEN TO MY VOCAL POWERS AND BE IMPRESSED!"
And shout she does. This is vocal acrobatics as empty posturing. There is no sense of Carey ever being part of the song. I can't ease into her emotions. For me this is nothing more than some random person shouting to me that it's over, but actually takes four minutes and thirty seven seconds before it is over, which is more than I can take.
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363. Mariah Carey | "If It's Over": 3/10
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361. Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song: 7
362. Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End: 5
363. Mariah Carey – If It’s Over: 3.5
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We close the fifth round of nominations with this song from Henry’s long list. Saturate before using.

364. Jackson Browne – Rock Me On the Water
Year: 1972
Album: Jackson Browne
Biggest Fan: Henry (#834)

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363. Mariah Carey – If It’s Over: 3

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362. Majical Cloudz – Childhood's End (2013) 6/10
363. Mariah Carey – If It's Over (1991) 5/10
364. Jackson Browne – Rock Me on the Water (1972) 8/10
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364. Jackson Browne | "Rock Me on the Water": 7/10
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And now we are ready to give everyone their sixth song on Biggest Fan. Musicman is first and he has one of those songs that, although it’s not a shock it didn’t land on any other lists, I could also have imagined making a few more. It’s one of those tracks I seem to have always known. I never new it was a cover of a song that had been recorded by many artists before, but Paul Young seems to have had the biggest hit with it, especially in Europe. It actually was #1 in my home country at the time. With critics though, it just bubbles under.

365. Paul Young – Love of the Common People
Year: 1983
Album: No Parlez
Biggest Fan: musicman (#927)

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361. Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song | 7
362. Majical Cloudz – Childhood’s End | 5.5
363. Mariah Carey – If It’s Over | 4.5
364. Jackson Browne – Rock Me On the Water | 6
365. Paul Young – Love of the Common People | 5
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