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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2004

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date December 13, 2019

Every Friday I post the Top 5 of one of my classic hit music charts based on personal preference and influenced by radio airplay from either 10, 15, 20, or 30 years ago this weekend (rotating each week).

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday December 12TH 2004:

“Welcome To My Life” – Simple Plan
“I Don’t Want To Be” – Gavin DeGraw
“Lady” – Lenny Kravitz
“Dare You To Move” – Switchfoot
“On The Way Down” – Ryan Cabrera

15 years ago this weekend my favorite French-Canadian pop-punk band at the time – Simple Plan – scored their 2ND # 1 smash in a row. “Welcome To My Life” was the follow-up to “Perfect” – their debut smash on my chart. They would score with one more hit after that – “Untitled (How Could This Happen To Me ?”). Simple Plan have been recording, performing, and touring for the past 20 years.

The mid-2000s were not a particularly happy period of time for me personally or professionally. It was my midlife crisis. I was miserable at the workplace, and I pretty much had no friends at the time. I came home each day to my lovable feline. He was my best friend. #Boots

Everything began to change a little more than 20 months later. You’ll see how this story develops over the next 20 months every 2ND Friday of the month. #Salvation

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with 2 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2004

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date November 8, 2019

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday November 07TH 2004:

“Lose My Breath” – Destiny’s Child
“Over And Over (Again)” – Nelly Ft. Tim McGraw
“Dare You To Move” – Switchfoot
“I Don’t Want To Be” – Gavin DeGraw
“Breakaway” – Kelly Clarkson

15 years ago this weekend Switchfoot were trying to tell me all about God, but I wasn’t really listening to the lyrics. I was rockin’ out to the melody. That was 21½ months before salvation began for me. My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ dared me to move. He dared me to lift myself up off the floor – out of the pit of despair – out of the mud and the mire – and reach for Him. I did. It was a new day – a day that never happened before. A day that I never imagined before. Salvation began on that day. That was the start of my fantastic journey, and it’s in the lyrics:

♫ Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself ?
Where you gonna go ?
Where you gonna go ?
Salvation is here !

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself
To lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before ♫

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday with 3 more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Enjoy this long holiday weekend here in the U.S.A. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2004

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 11, 2019

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday October 10TH 2004:

“Let’s Get It Started” – Black Eyed Peas
“Hey Mama” – Black Eyed Peas
“Goodies” – Ciara Ft. Petey Pablo
“She Will Be Loved” – Maroon 5
“On The Way Down” – Ryan Cabrera

♫ Sick and tired of this world
There’s no more air
Tripping over myself
Going nowhere
Waiting
Suffocating
No direction
I took a dive

And on the way down
I saw you
And you save me from myself
And won’t forget the way you love me
And on the way down
I almost fell right through
But I held on to you ♫

What a great pop song that was exactly 15 years ago. Recorded in 2003 it was Ryan Cabrera’s radio-friendly debut smash at age 21. It spent 36 consecutive weeks on my chart at the time – peaking at # 3. Johnny Rzeznik – lead singer of Goo Goo Dolls – performed backup vocals. Ashlee Simpson – Ryan Cabrera’s girlfriend at the time – appears in the official music video.

One look at those lyrics makes me think that Ryan is singing about salvation in Christ, but I don’t know if that was the intent of the song. The music video makes it appear that Ashlee Simpson is saving Ryan Cabrera. (That didn’t really work out.)

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with two more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !

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My Top 5 Hits RETRO – 2004

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date September 13, 2019

It’s the 2ND Friday of the month, so I go back 15 years ago. Here it is – for the week ending Sunday September 12TH 2004:

“She Will Be Loved” – Maroon 5
“Pieces Of Me” – Ashlee Simpson
“My Happy Ending” – Avril Lavigne
“Meant To Live” – Switchfoot
“The Reason” – Hoobastank

That was a powerful Top 5 back during the 2ND weekend of September of 2004. In fact all 5 of those songs represented 5 out of the Top 6 hits of the entire year. The other one – Maroon 5’s breakthrough smash – “This Love” – which was the # 5 hit of the year.

If you had told me back in 2004 that Maroon 5 would be one of the biggest pop acts of the next 15 years then I would have laughed at you. Frankly I thought that they would be a two-hit-wonder-and-done after “This Love” and “She Will Be Loved”, so clearly I got that wrong.

It’s halftime my friends. I’ll be back on Sunday and Monday with two more blog posts for this weekend. Enjoy your Saturday. Thanks for going RETRO with me !