The Mecca 100 - #30-26

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#30. "Tenderoni" - Chromeo (2007)

This may be the strangest selection in the entire countdown. What in the hell was an obscure electronica song from 2007 doing playing all the time on Mecca Radio during the pandemic days of the early 2020's? The title is weird, the dual keyboards crossed with the leg lamp from A Christmas Story are weird, and the duo consists of a Jewish guy and an Arab guy! The song is definitely pretty cool, though. And it wasn't the only Chromeo song playing at the time on Mecca Radio, the album's title track "Fancy Footwork" was also an earworm, and just missed the countdown...




#29. "It's Alright" - Matt and Kim (2013)

While Matt and Kim is a much more normal name for a duo, they make Chromeo look like a barbershop quartet. In 2009, they filmed a video for their song "Lessons Learned" by stripping over the course of the video, in one take, in the middle of Times Square in the middle of winter. Their later song "Let's Go" was the first song of theirs I learned from the Mecca CD (I swear Matt sounds like Weird Al on that one), and is arguably their biggest "hit," but this song was the one that won me over on a later Mecca CD. The video, which I didn't link to, features the duo doing erotic gymnastics in bed together. Whatever gets attention!




#28. "Gold" - Britt Nicole (2012)

This is a mainstream song that comes from an album of Christian music. That may top the weirdness of the previous two entries! The song first became a Mecca earworm, just before the CD era started in 2013, was featured on at least one of the CD's in 2014, then came back later in the decade to become an earworm again. I tend to despise those feel good songs that millennials need to pick them up in a "nobody's allowed to judge you" kind of world, but this one hits all the right spots for me. Fun song!




#27. "Love Don't Die" - The Fray (2013)

If you only know The Fray for their breakout songs "Over My Head (Cable Car)" and "How To Save a Life," well, let me introduce you to the non-sucky side of the Colorado band. Instead of emulating crappy groups like Coldplay, they actually do some rocking out in "Love Don't Die," and this song is fantastic! Way to save your reputation, guys! Yet another goodie from the awesome awesome awesome 2014 Summer CD!




#26. "The Ghost Inside" - Broken Bells (2010)

Brian Burton, also known by the awesome nickname Danger Mouse, is probably best known as the non-Cee-lo Green half of the mid 00's duo Gnarls Barkley. Well, when that project was put aside, Burton teamed up with vocalist James Mercer of The Shins and formed Broken Bells. While it was nowhere near as commercially successful as Gnarls, it did spawn this really groovy song "The Ghost Inside," that graced two of the early Mecca CD's, and may have been the very first obscure indie song from any of the Mecca CD's to really take to me. Keep Danger Mouse in mind, because he was also behind one of the songs that ranks very near the top of this countdown....




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