The top twenty was a war zone. Crossed-out numbers, arrows, angry annotations. had a note screaming: “OVERRATED. NO, YOU’RE OVERRATED. – Craig. Rick, fight me. – Fine, put it at 18. But I’m not happy. – No Gallagher brothers are ever happy. That’s the point.”
He laughed—a real, rusty laugh. “We tried in 2009. Got to song #92. Craig suggested ‘Hey Ya!’ and we all just… stopped. It wasn’t the same. The binder got put away.” top hundred songs of the 90s
I closed the lime-green binder. Outside, the world was gray and wet. But in my lap, the 1990s were still arguing, still dancing, still discovering that “What Is Love” was funny and “Torn” was heartbreaking and that a hundred songs could never hold a decade. The top twenty was a war zone