Fourthords' ten most-played songs of 2020
7. “Rasputin”
- Boney M., Nightflight to Venus (1978)
I have a family member to thank for introducing me to this song. She and Angelbiscuit wore out our Just Dance 2020 disc, and this was one of the tracks that came up. Humorous historical revisionism/exaggeration set to disco‽ Sign me up!
4. “Galileo”
- Amy Grant, Heart in Motion (1991)
In the 90s, I was very active in the Centenary United Methodist Church's youth group and youth choir, and one December we put on a traditional musical Christmas pageant. Our director—Joy Goodlet if I remember correctly—played us off to "Emmanuel" (from Amy Grant's 1983 A Christmas Album). I adored that song immediately, and so it came to be that I asked for the CD (my first) for Christmas. Naturally, in my mother's eyes, this meant I was a die-hard Amy Grant fan, so for my birthday two months later, I received not only Heart in Motion but also House of Love as my second and third CDs. I certainly wasn't a rabid fan of Ms. Grant, but they're both fantastic albums nonetheless.
3. “That’s How I Got to Memphis”
- Tom T. Hall, Ballad of Forty Dollars & His Other Great Songs (1969)
As Hatman correctly guessed, I stumbled across this song in the series finale of HBO's The Newsroom. The scene with Jeff Daniels and Jared Prokop makes me feel a happy kind of maudlin every time I see it.
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“Walkman” by Peter Clark (CC-BY-SA-2.0)
