Back in the day, I threw songs I dug into the Smells Like Sour pot. Today, I just slap 'em up here in case you want to hear for yourself.

I love this latest single from The Black Keys.

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This past weekend, CFNY / Edge 102 aired what they deem to be the top 200 songs from the 1990s.

They did the same thing last year. This year's top 200 is below.

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Under The Bridge
2. Nirvana · All Apologies
3. House of Pain · Jump Around
4. Nirvana · Smells Like Teen Spirit!
5. The Tragically Hip · New Orleans is Sinking
6. Pearl Jam · Jeremy
7. Oasis · Wonderwall
8. Nirvana · Come As You Are
9. Radiohead · Creep
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Give it Away
11. Our Lady Peace · Is Anybody Home?
12. Nirvana · In Bloom
13. Beastie Boys · Sabotage
14. Green Day · Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)
15. Cypress Hill · Insane in the Brain/Loco En El Coco
16. Nine Inch Nails · Closer
17. Nirvana · Dumb
18. The Smashing Pumpkins · 1979
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Californication
20. Stone Temple Pilots · Plush
21. Oasis · Champagne Supernova
22. Tool · Sober
23. The Tragically Hip · At the Hundredth Meridian
24. Nirvana · Heart-Shaped Box
25. Pearl Jam · Alive
26. The Offspring · Self-Esteem
27. Our Lady Peace · Naveed
28. The Smashing Pumpkins · Bullet With Butterfly Wings
29. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Scar Tissue
30. The Tragically Hip · Ahead by a Century
31. Pearl Jam · Better Man
32. Beastie Boys · Intergalactic
33. Nirvana · Lithium
34. Soundgarden · Black Hole Sun
35. Radiohead · Karma Police
36. Beck · Loser
37. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Soul to Squeeze
38. Weezer · Say it Ain't So
39. Oasis · Don't Look Back in Anger
40. Our Lady Peace · Superman's Dead
41. Nirvana · The Man Who Sold the World
42. Rage Against the Machine · Killing In The Name
43. The Tragically Hip · Bobcaygeon
44. Blur · Song 2
45. Green Day · When I Come Around
46. Stone Temple Pilots · Interstate Love Song
47. Metallica · The Unforgiven
48. Nirvana · Rape Me
49. Finger Eleven · Above
50. The Chemical Brothers · Block Rockin' Beats
51. Blind Melon · No Rain
52. Stone Temple Pilots · Creep
53. Nirvana · Polly
54. The Tragically Hip · Poets
55. Oasis · (Whats the Story) Morning Glory?
56. Big Wreck · That Song
57. Rage Against the Machine · Testify
58. The Matthew Good Band · Hello Time Bomb
59. The Smashing Pumpkins · Today
60. Tool · Stinkfist
61. Green Day · Brain Stew
62. Pearl Jam · Black
63. The Tragically Hip · Courage
64. Weezer · Buddy Holly
65. Our Lady Peace · Clumsy
66. Nirvana · On A Plain
67. Sloan · The Good in Everyone
68. Metallica · Nothing Else Matters
69. The Tragically Hip · Fifty Mission Cap
70. Rage Against the Machine · Guerilla Radio
71. Our Lady Peace · One Man Army
72. Pearl Jam · Even Flow
73. The Tragically Hip · Little Bones
74. The Smashing Pumpkins · Disarm
75. Sloan · Everything You've Done Wrong
76. The Verve · Bittersweet Symphony
77. Green Day · Basket Case
78. The Matthew Good Band · Apparitions
79. Sublime · Santeria
80. Bush · Machinehead
81. The Tragically Hip · Locked In the Trunk of a Car
82. Green Day · She
83. Stone Temple Pilots · Big Empty
84. Treble Charger · Red
85. Pearl Jam · Daughter
86. Our Lady Peace · Starseed
87. Alice in Chains · Man in the Box
88. R.E.M. · Losing My Religion
89. The Offspring · Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)
90. Foo Fighters · Learn to Fly
91. Stone Temple Pilots · Vasoline
92. Radiohead · High and Dry
93. Big Wreck · The Oaf (My Luck is Wasted)
94. Foo Fighters · My Hero
95. I Mother Earth · Used to Be Alright
96. Soundgarden · Spoonman
97. Tool · Forty Six & Two
98. The Tragically Hip · Looking for a Place to Happen
99. Sublime · What I Got
100. Rage Against the Machine · Bulls on Parade
101. Sloan · Money City Maniacs
102. Pearl Jam · Yellow Ledbetter
103. Econoline Crush · All that You Are
104. Bush · Comedown
105. Temple of the Dog · Hunger Strike
106. Sloan · Coax Me
107. The Offspring · Gotta Get Away
108. Metallica · Until it Sleeps
109. The Matthew Good Band · Load Me Up
110. U2 · Mysterious Ways
111. Nine Inch Nails · Hurt
112. The Tragically Hip · Fully Completely
113. The Smashing Pumpkins · Cherub Rock
114. Metallica · Enter Sandman
115. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Suck My Kiss
116. Green Day · Hitchin' A Ride
117. The Matthew Good Band · Indestructible
118. Soundgarden · Fell on Black Days
119. The Offspring · The Kids Aren't Alright
120. Big Wreck · Blown Wide Open
121. Foo Fighters · Monkey Wrench
122. The Smashing Pumpkins · Thirty-Three
123. Sloan · Losing California
124. Green Day · Longview
125. I Mother Earth · One More Astronaut
126. Depeche Mode · Enjoy the Silence
127. The Tragically Hip · Twist My Arm
128. No Doubt · Just a Girl
129. Sloan · Underwhelmed
130. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Around the World
131. Econoline Crush · You Don't Know What It's Like
132. Foo Fighters · Everlong
133. The Smashing Pumpkins · Zero
134. Odds · Heterosexual Man
135. The Matthew Good Band · Everything is Automatic
136. Alice in Chains · Rooster
137. Bush · Glycerine
138. Econoline Crush · Sparkle and Shine
139. Pearl Jam · Last Kiss
140. Odds · It Falls Apart
141. Rage Against the Machine · Sleep Now in the Fire
142. The Tragically Hip · 700 ft. Ceiling
143. The Smashing Pumpkins · Tonight Tonight
144. Odds · Eat My Brain
145. Soundgarden · Burden In My Hand
146. The Tea Party · Temptation
147. The Offspring · Gone Away
148. The Tragically Hip · Fireworks
149. Foo Fighters · Big Me
150. The Matthew Good Band · Strange Days
151. The Chemical Brothers · Let Forever Be
152. 54.40 · Ocean Pearl
153. Silverchair · Tomorrow
154. The Tragically Hip · Nautical Disaster
155. Pearl Jam · Dissident
156. Big Sugar · Diggin' a Hole
157. Stone Temple Pilots · Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
158. Moist · Silver
159. Hole · Doll Parts
160. Big Sugar · Turn the Lights On
161. Weezer · Undone (The Sweater Song)
162. The Tragically Hip · So Hard Done By
163. Sublime · Smoke Two Joints
164. 54.40 · Love You All
165. Depeche Mode · Personal Jesus
166. The Tragically Hip · Wheat Kings
167. Radiohead · Just
168. The Age of Electric · Remote Control
169. Stone Temple Pilots · Sex Type Thing
170. Nirvana · Breed
171. Nickelback · Leader of Men
172. 54.40 · Nice to Luv You
173. Soundgarden · Outshined
174. Alice in Chains · No Excuses
175. I Mother Earth · So Gently We Go
176. Red Hot Chili Peppers · Breaking the Girl
177. The Tea Party · The Messenger
178. Filter · Hey Man Nice Shot
179. Nickelback · Old Enough
180. Alice in Chains · Heaven Beside You
181. Killjoys · Today I Hate Everyone
182. Green Day · Welcome to Paradise
183. The Tragically Hip · Gift Shop
184. Alice in Chains · Would?
185. Nickelback · Breathe
186. Tool · Prison Sex
187. Sloan · People of the Sky
188. Stone Temple Pilots · Big Bang Baby
189. Moist · Push
190. Jane's Addiction · Been Caught Stealing
191. Sloan · All Used Up
192. Fatboy Slim · Praise You
193. I Mother Earth · Not Quite Sonic
194. Nine Inch Nails · Down in It
195. Pure · Anna is a Speed Freak
196. Weezer · El Scorcho
197. Bif Naked · Spaceman
198. Stone Temple Pilots · Lady Picture Show
199. Edwin · Trippin'
200. Sublime · Wrong Way

Ryan B. wrote me the following email on the subject of CFNY / Edge 102 and their Top 200 Songs Of The 90's.

I've been reading your blog on and off over the years, especially as a source of news about CFNY. After turning on the radio this weekend and hearing "Inane in the Brain" by Cypress Hill come in as #16 on the top 200 songs of the 90's, when I don't ever recall hearing it on CFNY back then, I had to check for the final list and see how offended I'd be :) I'll confess that I'm shocked that Smells Like Teen Spirit was not #1 but was in fact #4 behind RHCP's Under the Bridge, Nirvana's All Apologies (If anything, I would have guessed Come As You Are), and, wait, I'm sorry, does this say "House of Pain - Jump Around" at number 3? 

Anyway, if you're interested, I put together a spreadsheet comparing this list to the "Top 1002 of All Time" posted at The Spirit of Radio - http://www.spiritofradio.ca/Top1002.asp. 41 songs were on this weekend's list that didn't appear back in 1999, including #3 Jump Around. A couple of them were borderline, as the album may have come out in late 1999, but the single wasn't officially released until 2000. Then there's #191, All Used Up by Sloan, which came out in umm, 2005? I'm not even sure why I try or care. It's just one of the 12 presets I hop between when driving. Anyways, if you're interested, feel free to use the data for a post on your blog, otherwise, you can just shake your head like I am.

Thanks for the blog,

Ryan

It really was a meteoric rise for House of Pain's "Jump Around", which was 90th one year ago, and now sits at #3. And yes, it's a song CFNY wouldn't touch when it was released.

Things certainly are different over there...

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Inglourious Basterds: 8.5 out of 10.

Let's get this out of the way... I love Tarantino movies. He's my favourite filmmaker and he's all over my top 10 movies of all-time list. It's amazing I waited a year to see Inglourious Basterds.

What's more amazing is that Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino's film with the most Academy Award nominations. That's right, it was nominated more times than Pulp Fiction. Make no mistake about it, Inglourious Basterds isn't as good as Pulp Fiction, but it's pretty damn amazing.

In the Tarantino universe, I'd put it behind Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and the Kill Bills, but ahead of Jackie Brown and Grindhouse: Death Proof, both of which are fantastic, by the way. This guy can make a movie.

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Today is the first day of the school year for most kids. I know because I was nervous last night, had an uneven sleep, and woke up with that 'first day of school' feeling in the pit of my stomach.

No, I wasn't nervous for my kids. They're both full-timers now and excited about going back. I think this Labour Day-sparked anxiety is a hold-over from my own school days. I think it's just ingrained in me, in Pavlovian fashion. I haven't had a first day of school in about 13 years but I still feel it.

Am I the only guy who went to work worried about his first day at school?

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I'm running for Terry on Sunday, September 19 at High Park. I'm aiming to raise $1000 for The Terry Fox Foundation. I'm really going to need your help.

Donate to my run. They'll email you a tax receipt in PDF. It's easy, secure and for a good cause.

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According to Google Analytics, here are the top ten organic search keywords that brought people to this site in August 2010.

1. jason barr
2. toronto mike
3. pat prefontaine
4. jason barr fired
5. teri polo death
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Keep in mind, these results are for August, and the searches for Jason Barr information only took off when Dean Blundell mentioned his departure on the show Thursday. There are currently 193 comments on the entry about his dismissal.

I have no doubt Jason Barr will lead this list for September, as well.

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Tom Cheek deserves to win the Ford C. Frick Award. The Ford C. Frick Award is the highest honour for baseball broadcasters and they're now accepting votes as they select the final ballot for the 2011 Ford C. Frick Award. Go to http://www.facebook.com/baseballhall?v=app_20678178440 now and vote for Tom Cheek.

This is the sixth year I've encouraged you to vote for Tom Cheek as a finalist for the Ford C. Frick Award, and I take it personally that he's not yet in Cooperstown. Removing my extremely biased perspective for a moment, Tom Cheek called Blue Jays games since day one, calling 4,306 of them in a row. During that time Toronto won two World Series championships and a few additional division pennants. He was the voice of my summers.

Here are previous entries I've written about Cheek's eligibility for the Ford C. Frick Award.

• Vote for Tom - 2005
• The Ford Frick Award - 2006
• Show Tom Some Frick'n Respect - 2007
• The Annual Ford C. Frick Award Plea - 2007
• Cheek's Ford C. Frick Award - 2008
• Let's Get Tom Cheek His Ford C. Frick Award - 2009

And yes, I shall use this opportunity to remind you that I've archived all of Tom Cheek's Greatest Hits. Click over and remember the glory days of Blue Jays baseball. And don't forget to vote for Tom.

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Robert Schimmel was 60. He was a standup comic I knew best from his frequent guest appearances on Howard Stern's radio show.

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Tampa Bay Lightening draftee Vasiliy Koshechkin, whose name is similar to the Russian word for kitten, has decided his goalie mask doesn't need to be intimidating.

Vasiliy Koshechkin's perfectly comfortable wearing a nauseatingly cute goalie mask.

[via Deadspin]

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So, we lost last night. Luckily, it's double knockout rules so we can still win this championship.

I pulled a boner in the first game, a serous boner, and it's something I don't remember ever doing before. I was batting 2nd in the lineup, and I led off the third inning. I hit a single, advanced to second and with Mofo at the plate, I completely believed there were two outs. In my head, I batted second, and counted the lead-off batter as the first out. So when Tink popped out, there were two away. Or so I believed...

Mofo hit a long fly ball, but with two out I was running full out on contact. I was four feet from home plate when I heard a teammate yell "there's only one out!".

Mofo's ball was caught and I was easily doubled up. I swear I thought there were two outs!!!! I've never pulled a boner like that before, but I did last night, in game one of the playoffs.

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