Plus the latest installment in Billie Joe Armstrong’s “No Fun Mondays” cover song series!
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- The Greendale Community College study group is back together to benefit World Central Kitchen and Frontline Foods (www.wck.org/community)! Watch Joel McHale, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, Jim Rash, and special guest Pedro Pascal join series creator Dan Harmon for a live stream of an episode table read of Community Season 5, Episode 4: Cooperative Polygraphy.
- Here’s BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG’s latest cover: ERIC CARMEN’s “That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll”
“Today’s song is ‘That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll’ by Eric Carmen who was also in The Raspberries,” Armstrong said. “However the first time I heard this song was by teen heartthrob Shaun Cassidy. My sisters would dance around the house to this one!”
- “Rolling Stone” has put together a list of the 20 best GRADUATION songs of the past 25 years. They defined “graduation songs” as, quote, “Songs [that] have captured the proper feelings of pride, nostalgia, excitement and sadness that accompany such a rite of passage.”
Here are the Top 10 . . .1. “The Climb”, Miley Cyrus, 20092. “Photograph”, Nickelback, 20053. “Moment 4 Life”, Nicki Minaj, 20104. “Sing”, My Chemical Romance, 2010
5. “All My Friends”, LCD Soundsystem, 2007
6. “See You Again”, Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, 2015
7. “How Far We’ve Come”, Matchbox 20, 2007
8. “I Hope You Dance”, Lee Ann Womack, 2000
9. “My Last Semester”, The Wonder Years, 2010
10. “Am I Wrong”, Nico & Vinz, 2013
(RollingStone.com has brief write-ups on each song.)
A Quick Sidenote: I graduated high school in 2001, and “Here’s To The Night” by Eve 6 was a pretty popular graduation song – I guess it didn’t make the cut?