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Where could I find list of popular music

I'm trying to find a list of every single that was ever "sufficiently popular" during 1950-present. A great deal of flexibility about how to define "sufficiently popular", but i'd be shooting at getting the top 50-100 songs of each year. I notice we have a page of List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.), but I'm looking for something a little more comprehensive than just the people who reached #1.

It looks like there are some printed books that might have this information, but I need the info in digital form, so that doesn't help much. Any idea where I could find some list like this? --Alecmconroy 06:54, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I would assume that "sufficiently popular" means they made it on the Billboard chart. So, I would look at the billboard charts. --Kainaw ^(talk) 14:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I look there, but that only gives like 5 songs per year, unless of course you want to purchase some subscription. I wonder if there's any other way. --Alecmconroy 06:00, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

In the uk there have been CDs produced every, well every 6 months/year called Now that's what i call music. These only go back to (according to the wikipedia article) 1983 but they should cover that period of popular music. I have seen 'now' spinoffs with years. Try looking on iTunes Music Store as there are a lot of 'compilation' and 'iTunes essentials' on eras/etc. 18:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The article is at Now That's What I Call Music!. --zenohockey 05:39, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Have you checked out Joel Whitburn's books? --zenohockey 05:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Ah...I just read the penultimate sentence of your question. They're still good, though. --zenohockey 05:42, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Song Titles (the bits in brackets)

Is there a name for the extra bit sometimes put in song titles, either to give the song an extra title ("Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows)") or to make the existing title longer in an ironic manner ("Love's Not A Competition (But I'm Winning)")? Laïka 08:34, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Subtitle -- Phoeba Wright^OBJECTION! 08:43, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Parenthetical title --Bavi H 23:26, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Music Service?

Can anyone recommend an online music store where you can purchase music and create an account w/o a credit card (No P2P please)? It also needs to have readily avalilable gift cards available in Canada.

Thanks,

SpeakoutLOUD 15:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Itunes will let you use a giftcard w/o a credit card. Mrgregg108 20:41, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Ciara

Should I give kudos to Ciara for exploring what men do in her song called "Like A Boy"?

You can give her all the kudos you want, although I'm not sure her bank will accept them. This BBC article covers the difficulty of rewarding anyone in kudos. Laïka 21:49, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

No, you should listen to "Suck My Dick" by Lil' Kim which handles the subject much, much better. Recury 19:44, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Bucky Dent and beer

i've asked on the bucky dent discussion page if there was any evidence of the beer brand Bucky dent was the spokesman for at one time. The wiki entry claims he was in a mich light commerical with marv throneberry. Marv Thronberry is a MILLER LITE spokesman as far as i know/can find out. all internnet based searches that makes this mich light connection to bucky dent are re-hashes of the wiki entry. is there a listing of mich or miller beer spokesmen or does anyone remember the commercial? if i had to guess, i'd say the enter is definately wrong in some way- perhaps with the brand of beer. but does anyone have anything other than a guess?

thanks!!Childhoodtrauma 20:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Blue Films?

Why Indian people call porn films "Blue films"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.132.56 (talk • contribs)

The article Blue film explains this slightly. Dismas|^(talk) 04:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Porno films are often called "blue movies" in Australia, for reasons which may or may not be the same as why they're called "blue films" in India. -- JackofOz 06:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Dictionary.com lists as one of the meanings of the adjective "blue": "indecent; somewhat obscene; risqué: a blue joke or film."[1]  --Lambiam^Talk 23:44, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

This question might do better at the language desk, but the derivation suggested in the blue film article is nonsense. The OED records the use of "blue" to mean indecent as far back as 1864. In the publishing/printing industry, a blue pencil has long been used to censor material from manuscripts. This highlights the material while still allowing it to be read. (By contrast, a red pencil was used to indicate corrections.) If a manuscript had a lot of blue pencil on it, it might be said in slang terms to be blue, meaning it would have to be heavily censored. This meaning later came to be transferred to indecent films.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 07:49, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

sword and sandal films

Why they call films such as "Cleopatra" sword and sandals films? Is it because it deals with sword and sandals? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.132.56 (talk • contribs)

See Sword and sandal. Dismas|^(talk) 04:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

King of the Hills

I noticed that one of the episodes of the King of the Hills had a nude episodes. is there a summary of that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.132.56 (talk • contribs)

Are you maybe thinking about the show King of the Hill? If that's the case, the episode you may be thinking of could be "Naked Ambition". Dismas|^(talk) 04:04, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

I remember there was another one, where Hank has a dream about grilling naked (with Dale's wife also naked). He tells Peggy who is jealous, but by the end of the episode they both try it. I don't know the name of the episode. --Duomillia 04:12, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

It's season 6, 123 "Sug Night". --Duomillia 04:14, 2 June 2007 (UTC)