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He/him. Movies 📽️, boardgames, some curling 🥌 content. I'm writing a silly project about songs that juuust cracked the Top 40 at: thebottomfive.wordpress.com.

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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 9h
I use "bog standard" to describe today's Bottom Fivers, which might be a little on the nose given their big album is named for a brand of toilet. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/s...
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Seven Mary Three—“Cumbersome”
Entered Top 40: February 24, 1996 3 weeks Peaked at: 39 At this stage in our project, format fragmentation is really setting in, but even in the ’70s with the rise of FM radio, Hard Rock or A…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 22h
Restaurant flyer/menu/signage litmus test: Picture is real? Might have a meal. Using AI? Gonna walk on by.
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
please enjoy this old '60s tour of the Pearson Candy Company. My parents used to talk about the Seven Up bar; long gone by the time I was able to go to the store by myself. @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social, RTYI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwPp...
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Tour the Pearson Candy Company 1960's
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today in The Bottom Five: It appears that Immature has never performed with Juvenile. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/i...
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Immature—“We Got It”
Entered Top 40: February 24, 1996 1 week Peaked at: 37 On the Boy Band continuum between Boston (New Edition, New Kids on the Block) and Orlando (Backstreet Boys, N*SYNC) we hop to Los Angeles for …
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The new Quiet Riot singer is younger than at least 8 of the shows on that NYT 100 best list.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026
"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Bottom Five wraps up 1995, and holy hell, "Crazy" is 20 years old; how does that even happen? thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/g...
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Goodie Mob—“Cell Therapy” / 1995 Recap
Entered Top 40: November 18, 1995 3 weeks Peaked at: 39 Atlanta continues to stake its claim in the hip hop world. Goodie Mob came out of Atlanta’s Dungeon House scene; a loose group of artis…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today in The Bottom Five: "Ladies and gentlemen, Salt-N-PEPAAAHHHH!" and vanishing '90s compilation albums. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/s...
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Salt-N-Pepa —“Ain’t Nuthin’ But A She Thing”
Entered Top 40: October 28, 1995 3 weeks Peaked at: 38 Salt-N-Pepa are forever best known for their initial hit, “Push It,” but the group’s most successful period was around 1993 to 1995, whe…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Iss hoodie time Iss hoodie time Iss hoodie time unhh unhh unhh unhh (sung like the Ypsilanti All-Stars)
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have a former friend who's an ex-cop and later a dog trainer. This Brad Pitt dog movie must be like gooning material for him.
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today in The Bottom Five... Wu-Tang is for the children. I don't know if "Ice Cream" is, given all the radio edits. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/r...
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Raekwon —“Ice Cream”
Entered Top 40: October 28, 1995 2 weeks Peaked at: 37 Like we saw with Album Rock in the ’70s and ’80s, some acts just aren’t really singles artists. Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter t…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today in The Bottom Five... thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/s...
"Get in the minivan here's Sheryl Crow" done up like the cover of Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
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∞ Monkeys @somanymonkeys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My half blind eyes read this as "Meryl Streep cast as Asian" & I was very confused til I clicked it.
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today in The Bottom Five: Talk Like A Pirate Day is coming up, so why not brush up on Adam Ant. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/a...
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Adam Ant—“Wonderful”
Entered Top 40: May 27, 1995 2 weeks  Peaked at: 39 Adam Ant spent the first 15 or so years with Adam and the Ants and as a solo artist distilling imagery from 18th-century pirates and gentlem…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today in The Bottom Five, Rappin' 4-Tay gives The Spinners one last Top 40 spin thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/r...
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Rappin’ 4-Tay ft. The Spinners—“I’ll Be Around”
Entered Top 40: April 29, 1995 2 weeks  Peaked at: 39 We just ran into Rappin’ 4-Tay last year, with “Playaz Club” enjoying a lengthy Top 40 stay. Released just a few weeks after “P…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
For ppl ever baffled by the UNIVERSITY OF LAWSONOMY sign on I-94 near Racine WI, and the barn with STUDY NATURAL LAW on its roof (now both long gone), @ryansarnowski.bsky.social's doc feature about Lawsonomy's last adherent is online! Will you get Lawsonomy? Well... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAIQ...
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Manlife | Full Movie
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Overheard at Trader Joe's this afternoon: Woman shouting into her phone: "ROSH HaSHA-nah! Don't be STUPID!"
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We here at The Bottom Five believe the Second Amendment forever protects your right to own T-shirt cannons and hot dog guns. The throughline from circus screamer to Jock Jam. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/2...
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2 Unlimited—“Get Ready For This”
Entered Top 40: April 1, 1995 2 weeks  Peaked at: 38 Circus screamers are fast-tempo marches composed and arranged mostly in the early 20th century to get crowds hyped up for circus performanc…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tryna decide how much, if any, time I want to spend at my curling 🥌 club this season if its little fascist problem hasn't cleared up. (An ICE employee was a member last season. Not a field agent, but still accepting blood money)
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today in The Bottom Five: Craig Mack's other brief moment. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/c...
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Craig Mack —“Get Down”
Entered Top 40: March 18, 1995 2 weeks  Peaked at: 38 Sean “Diddy” Combs started Bad Boy Records after his 1993 firing from Uptown. The label’s first release was “Flava in Ya Ear” by Cra…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Judging by YouTube commenters (never a good idea), a few people are stlll weird about today's Bottom Fivers, Amy Grant & Vince Gill. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/a...
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Amy Grant & Vince Gill —“House Of Love”
Entered Top 40: February 18, 1995 4 weeks  Peaked at: 37 I should probably start with the ending here: Amy Grant and Vince Gill got married in 2000, but they first struck up a friendship recording …
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fell down this rabbit hole while checking on some Coyote vs Acme stuff ("ok, I know Avery and Jones; who does Maltese reference?") This checks so many @hooverstreetrag.org obsession boxes. 1904 Olympics! U of M Shenanigans! Pedagogy! MST3K! Christmas! (sorta) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today in the Bottom Five: thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/a...
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Andru Donalds —“Mishale”
Entered Top 40: February 4, 1995 2 weeks  Peaked at: 38 Andru Donalds is a Jamaican-born singer who hooked up with Eric Foster White, a songwriter/producer best known at the time for a 19…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Bottom Five finally reaches 1995! The bad news? R. Kelly's back in the booth. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/c...
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Changing Faces—“Foolin’ Around”
Entered Top 40: February 4, 1995 2 weeks  Peaked at: 38 In researching Changing Faces I found an article from 2019—after the Surviving R. Kelly documentary but before his 2021–22 federal trials and…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Someone has already shared the Wingspan crop art with @elizhargrave.bsky.social. there's also a Wingspan cake at the fair! Dunno if this is a hummingbird cake too. That'd be cool.
A 2-tiered square cake representing the boardgame Wingspan. The cake is topped with a gingerbread rendition of the birdhouse-shaped dice tower used in the game, with fondant dice and some game tokens. On the side of the lower tier is an edible card depicting an American goldfinch.

Minnesota state fair  2026
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Scarface closes the lid on 1994, finally: thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/s...
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Scarface—“I Seen A Man Die” / 1994 Recap
Entered Top 40: December 31, 1994 3 weeks  Peaked at: 37 The members of our old friends the Geto Boys were releasing solo projects throughout their group’s tenure. Scarface’s The D…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I was between dentists in 1994, so was previously unaware of today's Bottom Five entry from Sting: thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/s...
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Sting —“When We Dance”
Entered Top 40: December 17, 1994 1 week  Peaked at: 38 I don’t remember this existing at all, but Sting had long fallen off of my radar and into the Workplace Radio/Wine Mom music bucket. Af…
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

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The Jack of Kingfield @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The world’s leading crop art website did a feature on resistance crop art this year: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oh no, Callaway; and here I was just to reconsider my longstanding belief that the golf world was 100% douchenozzles all the way down
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Today in The Bottom Five... Given her Chicago roots, I always wanna call her "Daaaaaa Brat" thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/d...
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Da Brat—“Fa All Y’all”
Entered Top 40:   November 26, 1994 4 weeks  Peaked at: 37 Originally from Chicago, Da Brat signed with Atlanta-based So So Def and Jermaine Dupri. Her debut album Funkdafied became the f…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
One AI-shilling ad read too many. Time for me to unsubscribe from @99pi.org. @romanmars.bsky.social, I hope you and Claude will be happy together.
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Earlier in The Bottom Five, we have Dolly Parton covering Donna Summer. Still wild to me that: 1. Summer could go on the USA's biggest talk show and play a song she'd never record herself 2. Dolly'd just call the next day and ask to record it 2 queens. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/d...
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Dolly Parton—“Starting Over Again”
Entered Top 40:  May 3, 1980 3  weeks  Peaked at: 36 Usually just thinking about the persona of Dolly Parton is enough to make me smile. I’m especially heartened by the idea th…
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Rappin' 4-Tay and the crazy feat of sticking around in The Bottom Five for more than two months. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/r...
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Rappin’ 4-Tay —“Playaz Club”
Entered Top 40: November 12, 1994 9 weeks  Peaked at: 36 One of the things that drew me to The Bottom Five concept is the transitory nature of slots 36 to 40 in this dumb Billboard weekly rank…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yum!, embroidered eggs! My favorite!
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Last night I finally finished a legacy game that I started with a completely different group on [checks notes] my birthday, 2018. Yikes!
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I think it was very kind of Anita Baker to tease her first new music in more than a decade to coincide roughly with her next appearance in The Bottom Five, don't you? Gosh that's nice. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/a...
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Anita Baker —“Body And Soul”
Entered Top 40: September 17, 1994 7 weeks  Peaked at: 36. We last heard from Anita Baker in 1987, just before she’d really break through with “Sweet Love.” Baker took a hiatus in 1991 t…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
More litigation around C+C Music Factory? You don't say! That's timely, as in today's Bottom Five selection from 1994, they'd patched things up with Martha Wash and dropped their final Top 40 number: thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/c...
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C+C Music Factory —“Do You Wanna Get Funky ”
Entered Top 40: September 10, 1994 2 weeks  Peaked at: 40 We’ve run into the songwriting/production team of David Cole and Robert Civillés here, here, and here, but not as their most notable …
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
RIP ZZ Top's Frank Beard. Here's a 2023 Bottom Five piece I wrote about "Gimme All Your Lovin.'" The gulf between MTV & chart success was still wider than Gen X recalls. "[If] your band’s gonna look like some Texas wizards, make ’em wizards." thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2023/10/27/z...
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ZZ Top — “Gimme All Your Lovin’”
Entered Top 40: May 7, 1983 3  weeks  Peaked at: 37 Here, I think, is the first bona fide MTV Hit we’re encountering. Something where the music video achieved an iconic status in it…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"Oswald McGumm," an egg-shaped, no-neck "chinface" character from a children's TV show.  

Chinfaces are made by recording the actor's head upside down, with a costume concealing their face from just below the nose to the top of the head. A character's face is then scrawled on the actor's chin. Oswald's costume here is a grey striped suit with a red tie and matching handkerchief.
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My enduring Hayden Panettiere memory is when she was the US spokesperson for this magical horse CCG bellasara.com
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Bella sara – The magical world of Bella Sara
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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Now through August 21, it's our ten year anniversary sale!
To celebrate 10 years in business, we're offering $5 off a title from each year.
2016 THE SCHELDT CAMPAIGN 2017 HORSE & MUSKET 2018 NATO AIR COMMANDER
2019 ESCAPE FROM HADES 2020 FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD 2021 NICAEA 2022 HEADING FORWARD 2023 DOUBT IS OUR PRODUCT 2024 CITY OF SIX MOONS 2025 PRELUDE TO LEIPZIG 2026 RAYROADS

AUGUST 14 - AUGUST 21
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today in The Bottom Five: Heavy D and the Boyz' final Top 40 appearance thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/h...
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Heavy D & The Boyz—“Nuttin’ But Love”
Entered Top 40: September 3, 1994  1 week Peaked at: 40 One of a very short list of notable singers with the first name Dwight, Heavy D (Dwight Evans) and the Boyz debuted with the 1986 single “Mr.…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Realized today that "spiraling shape" (they might be giants) and "the sign" (ace of base) are about the same thing from different angles
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hey kids (yeah, I don't think I have any kids reading this), Next time your parents are on you for dancing/behaving LIKE THAT, remind them of this briefly-hot Bottom Five number from 1994. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/t...
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The Puppies—“Funky Y-2-C”
Entered Top 40:   August 13, 1994 1 week Peaked at: 40 The Puppies are our first One-Hit Wonder Trifecta entry since 1991; another act:a) having exactly one US Top 40 hit,b) peaking at #4…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Invoking Starbucks in Caribou Country further shows she's out of touch with Minnesotans.
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's hard to remember when Naughty By Nature were big enough to have protégés. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/z...
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Zhané—“Sending My Love”
Entered Top 40: July 30, 1994 1 week  Peaked at: 40 Zhané is sort of a first-name portmanteau of Jean (Norris-Baylor) and Renée (Neufville), two Philly singers spotted by Naughty By Nature&#82…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It's the Bottom Five's first country song in 2 years, or maybe 11, depending on who you count. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/d...
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David Ball—“Thinkin’ Problem”
Entered Top 40:   July 23, 1994 1 week  Peaked at: 40 We haven’t covered a pure country song since…well, I’d count “Constant Craving,” but I suspect the country industry wouldn&#8…
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That's Irritainment @irritained.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Next in The Bottom Five, our third and final helping of Meat Loaf. thebottomfive.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/m...
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Meat Loaf—“Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are”
Entered Top 40: May 28, 19943 weeks Peaked at: 38 Part of the problem shaking off inertia after an extended break is trying to generate enthusiasm for what’s on deck. Ugh, I gotta write …
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