Nerd Pride Radio

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #1 https://youtu.be/C69x3YhyWeY Spooky Language, The Palmer Squares I get it. I have been positively obsessed with this song since the first time I heard it. It's number one for the year, because I can't stop playing it. Every time I've had to pull...

This boy likes his K Flay I also enjoy Cake. Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #2 https://youtu.be/eYxs4esLI_E Sheep Go to Heaven, Cake Which is my favorite Cake song? Short skirt long jacket? The distance? Sheep go to heaven? Hard to say. Prolly the distance, but sheep is always r...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #3 https://youtu.be/k2WcOdz96ko Blood in the Cut, K.Flay This is the first K.Flay song I ever heard. It played in the background of a Scream Queens commercial, I believe, and immediately I knew I had to find the whole song. It was on last year's li...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #4 https://youtu.be/YlN9JAowko8 The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton, Laura Jane Grace By all rights, THIS should have been my #1 song of the year, but then I found the original Mountain Goats version of this and wound up with both versions of ...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #5

Tempo, Lizzo
More Lizzo! I'm surprised that About Damn Time didn't make the list, but there's no arguing with Spotify.

I like to think I introduced you to Pete and Bas. I'll allow it. Specifically because I think that might be correct. I feel like it was a Nerd Pride post that got me to them. It's just too bad there's no way to fact check that. EDIT: Thank you, Kyle! Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotif...

Solid plan.

Old Man's War -- John Scalzi Nebula award winner for best scifi novel 2005. It is an extremely well written space opera about war. I enjoyed it a lot, and will likely try the next book or two in the series (there are 6 total) to see where it is going. If I sound reserved, it's because I am. The boo...

Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes by Travis Baldree This book has come highly recommended to me from a couple other sources, so I'm glad to hear you liked it as well. I tried it a few months ago, and it just wasn't for me. After the first chapter, I just put it down and n...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #7 https://youtu.be/vE7AXBELOU4 The Old Estate, Pete & Bas I've talked about these guys enough. I like Pete & Bas a lot, and sure it's the novelty of super-old British rappers, but I also think this song is legit fire in its own right. Stil...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/beware-gifts-dragons-how-dds-open-gaming-license-may-have-become-trap-creators Decent analysis of the situation. Especially interesting is the Update section from 1/11, including: Unlike a bare license without consideration, an offer to contract like this cannot...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #8 https://youtu.be/w0N4twV28Mw Here Comes the Hotstepper, Ini Kamoze I did not know, until a few years ago, that the word after Hotstepper is "murderer". I loved the song, and would sing along loudly to it, just faking some nonsense syll...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #9

Boys, Lizzo
Ain't nothing wrong with Lizzo. And I wouldn't have even paid much attention if the music thread here hadn't raved about her so hard. So thank you.

I lived on a sparsely populated island in the outer realms of Scotland or Ireland or something like that. The only thing they had was sheep. My job, for money, was to test the various sweatery garments and blankets made from the sheep. I was obligated to put on a warm sweater and snuggle under a wa...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #10 https://youtu.be/K6BRna4_bmg edamame, bbno$ Christmas 2021, my oldest son comes home and he's rapping this song. He's obsessed with it and wants to memorize it. He's got about 85% of the first section down. He kept doing it over and over. I pla...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #11

Pay Day, Prof
Spotify suggested it. I hit Like. Spotify kept playing it. I never skip it or take it out of rotation. It plays enough times to be #11. I have no special connection to it, but it's fun.

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #12 https://youtu.be/FwlG_dRHrfs Ready to Win, Tokyo Police Club I never think I like this song very much, and then I play it to figure out why it's on my list, and it turns out I DO like it. Every time. I like the upbeat energy. It feels very post...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #13 https://youtu.be/n832aqTvkaQ Close Edge, Mos Def Mos Def and Dave Chappelle played Carpool Karaoke in 2003 during the first season of Chappelle's Show and he performed this song. This was a year before Close Edge was even released. And I was 10...

Sublime, I can't claim to know the author's intent or much about the author but I feel like some of the more popular yet disturbing songs are disturbing not because the author himself is bad but because he is bearing witness to the badness of the world. I get that. Maybe I'm wrong and he is bad but...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #15

WAP, Cardi B
It's WAP. It's a good song.

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #16 https://youtu.be/JS2r5Oi82LY Stroke Me, Mickey Avalon See, the genius of Mickey Avalon here is that he takes a classic Billy Squire song where getting a deal from the music industry is equated with a dirty back-alley handjob, and then Avalon re...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #17 https://youtu.be/_L2vJEb6lVE Collard Greens, ScHoolboy Q Monday, July 25th, 2022... about 7am. My wife and I are at the Voodoo Doughnuts on Broadway in Denver. We immediately fell in love with the place. It was all pink and edgy, like if one of...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #18 https://youtu.be/Uyuub51sPCM There Stands the Glass, Pierce Webb Here's what I said a year and a half ago... The combination of Hawaiian guitar and Pierce's mournful warbling gets me every time. I feel his pain. First heard this a few months ba...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #19 https://youtu.be/AzJQP8zNLcg Tougher than Leather, Run DMC As I was digging around for new music, I found a Run DMC song I wasn't familiar with. I like the nostalgic feel of it without it actually being a thing from my past. And it's a solid so...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #20 https://youtu.be/cULX7upLBUI Captain (Whistle), Nutcase22 I don't know. I don't get it either. I don't remember finding this or adding it, but here it is. And it's fine. It's got that distinctly British rap sound. I like it well enough. I don't...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #21 https://youtu.be/Silkq4Rk9QY Me, I Get High on Reefer, The Two Man Gentleman Band And here the algorithm goes out of its way to embarrass me: "Mike sure does like This is America. It's a powerful song by an artist who is a voice for this a...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #22 https://youtu.be/VYOjWnS4cMY This is America, Childish Gambino Simply one of the greatest songs ever. The video makes it even better. Every bit of analysis of this song that I come across makes it even better. It is a song that gets in my gut. ...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #23

So Fast So Maybe, K.Flay
I don't know if I've mentioned K.Flay before, but she's great. Still can't believe I didnt go see her in concert in October when I had the chance. Dammit.

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #24 https://youtu.be/J0lKgt7dxbU Stacy (Acoustic), Quinn XCII If I had heard the original of this first, I never would have given it a second listen, but the strings in this acoustic version are just the right amount of mournful to give it that emo...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #25 https://youtu.be/0Uc3ZrmhDN4 What I Got, Sublime I bought this album way back in the day, at least a decade or two before I heard (much less understood) the words cultural appropriation. (Why yes, it WAS around the time I was all into Tragic Ki...

Babel -- R. F. Kuang Technically, the full title is Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution . How awesome is that shit? And having read the book, I just now read that title knowing the full context, and I got chills. This book is so good! It's a ...

Books Kyle finished in 2023: Nothing- Janne Teller Words of Radiance- Brandon Sanderson The Way of Kings- Brandon Sanderson A Memory Called Empire- Arkady Martine Oathbringer- Brandon Sanderson The Archive of the Forgotten- AJ Hackwith Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome- Garth Marenghi The Long Earth- Ste...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #26 https://youtu.be/WX80XgL4YjA Shama Lama Ding Dong, Band of Oz Obviously, my first exposure to this song was from Animal House when the guys pull into Dexter Lake Road clubhouse because they see that Otis Day and the Knights are performing. Band...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #27 https://youtu.be/R3xPyPEOmmM Fear of the Dawn, Jack White We saw Jack White in concert a few months ago. As I always do, I check the setlists for the current tour and see what songs are being performed at most shows (the site setlist.fm has and...

Is anyone else doing this? I have so many words written, but they are so disjointed yet.

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #28 https://youtu.be/8rJ7VZadCGc Queen Bitch, Lil Kim Another one that I discovered through my Spotify playlist of old school lady rappers. I knew who Lil Kim was at the time, but I don't think I ever heard one of her songs before this year... No w...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #29 https://youtu.be/gV6eODKYHXI Handsome, The Vaccines This one's a bit of an overachiever. I love love love their song Wetsuit, and when I started looking at their other music earlier this year, Handsome caught my attention. It's good and I boppe...

I don't buy it. It may go down that way, and McCarthy probably will cut some sort of deal, but I think this is just a preview of every important (to the GOP) vote for the next two years. The MAGA clowns that are gumming things up now only survive on media attention, so I expect them to grandstand li...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #30 https://youtu.be/M3VNLBHtowg Over Easy, Elle King Damn, son! Great song. Great! Elle King is a damn treasure, and the only thing that redeems Rob Schneider. Over Easy is gritty and dirty and sexy, and King performs it perfectly. My wife discove...

For everyone's health, try to keep 10 hours apart HA! Thank you, Pete. Had I been drinking milk, it woulda come out my nose. Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #31 https://youtu.be/oEpAMm0-kVg Rockstar Sea Shanty, Nickelback I think we've already established that everyone loves sea ...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #32 https://youtu.be/LKsOfih73yc Killer, Eminem I like almost everything Eminem does. I can't help myself. I actually started off with this song listening to the remix with Jack Harlow and Cordae, not realizing it wasn't the original. And I liked T...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #33 https://youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE Sabotage, Beastie Boys Sabotage? What's that doing here? God's, I love this song. It was my ringtone for a couple years. It was the opening theme to my podcast for years. Sabotage is a classic. Punk-rap with lots of...

Good afternoon! For God's sake, man! There are children present! Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, :roll: #34 https://youtu.be/cC2YfdBjm8U All She Wants to do is Rock, Wynonie Harris I found this a while back after hearing a podcast on the history of early rock and rock and a quest...

Mike's Top 100 Songs of 2022 According to Spotify, #35

Megan Thee Stallion, Savage
I found this one when Pete reviewed it.

poorpete wrote:Classy, bougie, ratchet.

Good damn song.

Or not.

Nope. The time for Deadpools has passed. Except for Deadpool 3, starring Ryan Reynolds AND Hugh Jackman, which I am most definitely looking forward to.

Just cuz.

Bah! The Unkillable Precious was 9 hours and 18 minutes, and it lasted over a month. The Incredible Shrinking Thread managed to stay alive 11 days as it shrank from 10 hours to just one. 8 hours was obviously too short, but I debated between 10 and 11 for this one. I'm just getting a feel for how th...

If the thread goes 10 hours without replies, then it officially dies, and the last person to post before that time wins. Unkillable History (2022/12/26) Deathless Thread (Poison Pill Edition), 130 replies, 7 days [Mike] (2022/10/26)Not Today, Deathless Thread!, 935 replies, 59 days [Eliahad] (2022/1...

Kyle wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 5:27 amCongrats Mike?

Sadly, yes.

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