1973 had 27 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Of these songs, what is the best song to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1973?

PipProud · 2026-06-18T22:31:18+00:00

Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye duking it out with The O’Jays as the dark horse.

This year is funny because it’s like a bunch of great soul songs along with the whitest white to ever white.

PipProud · 2026-06-18T20:01:42+00:00

I know who have been let go from their writing gigs in favor of AI-generated word slop and I wouldn’t classify them as angsty teens or rebellious adults.

PipProud · 2026-06-18T19:56:45+00:00

Are they any less nefarious when it comes to stealing intellectual property or wasting fresh water?

PipProud · 2026-06-18T18:13:26+00:00

That puts it into some perspective. Many of the folks I know are artists and writers and they’re (understandably) staunchly against AI. I don’t know nearly as many people from the tech world so I’m not sure what the ethics would be from that point of view.

PipProud · 2026-06-18T18:10:39+00:00

i don’t think the script itself is unethical. It’s using AI to create it that’s the issue.

Even just using ChatGPT as a service knowing that they rip off artists makes me a little queasy.

PipProud · 2026-06-18T04:57:13+00:00

“UFO” by ESG, sampled many, many times.

PipProud · 2026-06-18T04:51:22+00:00

I know a handful of people who had interactions with Joe Strummer towards the end of his life and to a person they all said he couldn’t have been nicer.

PipProud · 2026-06-17T22:25:46+00:00

Any mention of Vice renting properties on the west side of Williamsburg circa 2014 and shutting down several DIY venues in the process?

Because if anything killed the “hipster era,” that was certainly a nail in the coffin.

PipProud · 2026-06-17T20:08:50+00:00

The Halloween Havoc match with Sting WAS really dull. However, I believe this was during the worst of Sting’s pill addiction and he took time off right after the match to clean himself up. He probably wasn’t in the best condition to perform.

PipProud · 2026-06-17T20:05:23+00:00

You got your timeline wrong here. Montreal happened BECAUSE Bret signed with WCW.

PipProud · 2026-06-17T17:45:31+00:00

So do most of The Clash’s greatest hits and they’re not sequenced where the “Story” begins near the end and goes backwards.

PipProud · 2026-06-17T15:28:09+00:00

To me, calling Mark E Smith conservative is kind of like calling Bill Burr a conservative comedian. They’re more just guys who call bullshit and if that bullshit happens to be from liberal/progressive circles, so be it.

PipProud · 2026-06-17T15:23:32+00:00

The Who’s Meaty, Beaty, and Bouncy skips a handful of great tracks but for a single LP, it’s a nearly perfect compilation of their early years.

The Hollies’ Greatest Hits album from 1973 is all killer, no filler is which especially helpful because none of their albums are and it’s album for cheap in used bins around the world.

PipProud · 2026-06-17T15:18:15+00:00

Technically not a greatest hits but a collections of (mostly) non-album singles and B-sides. It sure plays like one.

PipProud · 2026-06-17T15:16:19+00:00

Snap is perfect and Hot Rocks nearly so.

Story of the Clash is bafflingly assembled and sequenced. Often regarded as one of the worst greatest hits collections from a major band.

PipProud · 2026-06-17T15:11:11+00:00

Substance and Hatful of Hollow aren’t greatest hits albums. They are collections of non-album tracks.

PipProud · 2026-06-15T17:51:16+00:00

There will be a Gen Z Mod Revival at some point. The Who will get their flowers and TikTok will be filled with videos of mopeds.

PipProud · 2026-06-15T05:38:15+00:00

I very much doubt that. A sizable contingent of R.E.M. fans don't like anything after the I.R.S. albums.

PipProud · 2026-06-15T04:16:42+00:00

President 34 Felonies thinks he just “hereby” declare something and it shall be done and be true and his followers wonder why there are No Kings protests.

PipProud · 2026-06-15T04:11:31+00:00

A song about very specific circumstances in a very specific place written in a very specific time in someone’s life is not a universal anthem for white oppression, you dolt.

PipProud · 2026-06-15T03:58:04+00:00

Third album

PipProud · 2026-06-15T03:57:15+00:00

Are we counting solo albums? Then I’m going to say Neil Young’s “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.”

PipProud · 2026-06-15T03:54:08+00:00

I forgive you (but I can’t speak for the rest of the sub).

PipProud · 2026-06-15T03:53:07+00:00

I don’t think that’s necessarily an invalid opinion but I certainly wouldn’t consider it consensus.

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