Number One With A Bullet

While the queen of love ballads Whitney Houston was topping the chart for several weeks in the fall of 1992, a group of young men with nothing but tight harmonies, a hope, and a dream managed to climb their way to the number 2 spot in America's heart. This week, Andrew and Dan take a look back at Shai's smooth musical ode to planning your next relationship while you're still kind of in your first one. It's romantic! Kind of!

Wham! Bang! Pow! Those are just some of the sounds you might hear in this Turkey-week episode about an undeniable 1980s pop hit from the original Greek Freak and his friend Andrew. We're talking day-glo fashion, terrible dancing, and musical influences from the Eisenhower era. It's it's time time to to go go.

Gosh, can you even remember as far back as the year 2019? Things sure were different back then. All of our pop stars were Scottish. And named Lewis. Well, maybe that was just this week. Anyway, Andrew and Dan are using all their brain power this week to remember the brief time three years ago when Dr. Who's distant cousin yelled at all of us about how he's no longer dating some lady. Sounds pretty 2019!

Andrew and Dan are reunited this week for a very special and quintessentially weird episode that (you'll never believe it) isn't about a number one song. Instead, they take a little trip down the charts to talk about a Bee Gees hit that was pretty popular but definitely wouldn't make it into your top ten of best Bee Gees hits. Still, it's a song that will get you feeling some kind of way...if you know what we mean...(sex).

This week, Dan flies solo in a very special episode of Number One With A Bullet. We're talking magazine history, we're talking late-1800s entertainment, and you know we're talking bill-posting. Please enjoy and stay tuned for when we finally get back to normal next week.

Clanking chains! Bats wings! A ghoul! Those very specific sensory details can only mean one thing, it's the Number One With A Bullet Halloween episode. This year Andrew and Dan do something a liiiiittle different and rig the damn system so they can talk about Bobby Pickett's spooktacular novelty song, the very Monster's Mash. Hold your loved ones tight! And watch out for Dracula's son!

Hey all, this is just a brief update to say that, due to technical difficulties, there will be no new episode this week OR next week. But we'll be back for Halloween! Clanking chains!

At some point in this episode, Andrew and Dan discuss one of the biggest songs of the last decade. It's perfectly fine, maybe even good! It's got bleeps, bloops, and opaque references to Syracuse University. But first, they must spend at least 30 minutes talking about Gorillaz, Blonde, and Monkeybone. It's just the rules. 

Following a brief and completely fake retirement, former Brooklyn Nets minority stake owner Jay-Z finally completely his blueprints. And it only took three drafts! Amidst a collection of weird singles, was this moderate banger featuring two (much more talented?) artists. What a time to be alive!

With a nation reeling from a historic tragedy and a people looking for comfort a little further down the charts, only one R&B group from Atlanta, Georgia could be counted on to ask the hard questions. This week, Andrew and Dan finally get to the bottom of where this dang party is at.

There's really nothing I can write in this description that will make you click the episode more than the title. It's the Macarena folks.

Before you get all excited to hear about Spanky, Alfalfa, and the rest of the gang, it's only fair that we tell you this episode is not about those LITTLE Rascals. But rather, a band of fully grown Rascals from New Jersey who topped the charts with this heartfelt plea to please stop making fun of them. And it's got horns!

It's an unprecedented episode this week. We're traveling further down the chart that humans were meant to go. But we do it all for the pod. Also, we just really love EDM-infused pop tunes meticulously crafted by an insane Swedish man. And we hope you love it too!

Fair warning, it takes us over 30 minutes to work up the courage to talk about this song. We just weren't ready for all the low-rise capris and mid-2000s brow lines. But! If you're willing to wait, we will eventually reveal what a "London Bridge" is and why it keeps going down. 

This week, Andrew and Dan get into a little primal scream therapy to accurately determine the precise exchange rate between tears and fears in the mid-1980s. Will we finally get a concrete list of all the things we could do without? Spoiler: We won't!

Much like this podcast can't legally be stopped, no one in 2013 could stop Miley Cyrus from doing "her whole thing" "all the time" even though "no one really liked it that much." This week, Andrew and Dan dig into this Molly-infused Number Two hit because they can't stop themselves from revisiting 2013 for some reason. Enjoy?

This one is for all you high school sweethearts out there! Andrew and Dan are digging into the history of this hit that almost wasn't brought to us by Perry Como's childhood neighbor. They also give their unimpeachable pitch for a new Sheldon TV show. Get at us Hollywood!

Was 1972 the worst year in music? Well, not if you were an Irish singer-songwriter who dressed like a Depression Era tramp, had a pretty cheesy pun-based stage name, and dreamed of one day hearing your song played on The Simpsons. Because for that very particular person it was a very good year! And that's who we're talking about this week!

In the summer of 2020, a literal baby secured his position as rap's new superstar. And he did it with a little help from a man who recently escaped a Box. This week, Andrew and Dan discuss DaBaby's musical exploration of analogy and briefly debate how bad it is to kill a guy in self defense. Fun stuff!

In their first and only episode covering famous new wave pop-rockers The Police (ACAB), Andrew and Dan dive into the tumultous making of an international popular and extremely creepy super-hit. What happens when you get three sweaty angry guys into a studio in the Caribbean? Chart success of course!