#let5d0it
I changed the way I picked in Arron's challenges after Let5D0it. I realized that there were songs I picked that if they came on the radio I would not stop to listen to (because it happened) and after that "Would you listen to this song if it came on the radio TODAY?"became a qualifier.
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
#TheTwen2ie5

Some provisional numbers:

16 advance lists
plus
70 other posters listed, including those who said they would be playing but are yet to post

86 is in the ballpark of #FearofMu21C and #Let5D0It, which is promising.
October 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
#let5d0it Day 31

Bob Seger System - Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (1968)

What, I'm posting Bob Seger?! No, I'm not trying to be a contrarian, honest, this is just a great single, with as far as I can see almost zero relation to his later work. He doesn't even have a beard.

youtu.be/28Pr1PnVGDE
Bob Seger - Ramblin Gamblin Man
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May 1, 2024 at 3:43 PM
#Let5D0It Day 49 - 2 of 2
#music
#Sunday
May 19, 2024 at 12:37 PM
#Let5D0it - 39

2nd Curtis pick in my list, could also have very easily gone for the title track.

Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (1972)

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curtis mayfield - Freddie's Dead - Superfly
Dream_Theater curtis mayfield - Freddie's Dead - Superfly
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May 9, 2024 at 8:26 AM
my first pass at 50 is... rather skewed to the post 1964 moment. time to dive into the 50s i suppose!
January 8, 2024 at 4:07 AM
#let5d0it Day 18 (Catch up)
Heatwave - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas (1963)
When I normally rant about Heatwave, I talk about the closing Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but the moment it really buys a place here is Reeves' vocal kicking in and just hitting like the cool breeze on the hot day, and sweeps you away
April 19, 2024 at 12:56 PM
#Let5D0It
Day 1
20th Century Boy | T. Rex
March 1973 - #3 UK

Full of sass, and *that* riff. Bolan pretty much had things sussed at that time.

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March 31, 2024 at 11:00 PM
#Let5D0It 19/50 Lord Rockingham's XI - Hoots Mon (1958)

Impossible not to imagine oneself dancing at a wedding to this (while eating a fruit pastille)

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Lord Rockinghams xi - hoots mon - stereo remix
STEREO MIX
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April 19, 2024 at 7:30 AM
#Let5D0It Day 20 - 1 of 2
Vocal hooks, heavenly harmonies galore, and a new shining star. If only we could have kept it that way.

31. “Why Do Fools Fall In Love” (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers; January 1956)
#music
#friday

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April 20, 2024 at 1:07 AM
#Let5D0It
49

🎶Rebel Rebel
🎤David Bowie
🗓️1974
🏆1 Bonus Point

youtu.be/U9l23zncj08?si…

Bowie’s first hit since 1969 that doesn’t feature guitarist Mick Ronson.
May 19, 2024 at 3:30 PM
#Let5D0It
#MusicChallenge

Link to my complete playlist:

open.spotify.com/playlist/4Av...

Thanks to Arron for hosting this massive challenge. I look forward to the countdown.
#LET5D0IT
#LET5D0IT · Playlist · 50 songs
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May 20, 2024 at 2:40 PM
#Let5D0It Day 46 - 2 of 2
#music
#Wednesday
May 15, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Here's the Top 10 Trending Words over the Past 10 Minutes (weighted by past usage):
️⚠️🌀1 - farbe
2nd - ワロタ
3rd - montag
4th - 舞う
5th - 咲く_空
6th - goedemorgen
7th - 29
8th - 頓宮
9th - 混ん
10th - 外国
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#йобанарусня 🇺🇦
April 29, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Here's the Top 10 Trending Words over the Past 10 Minutes (weighted by past usage):
1st - sonntag
2nd - 天皇
3rd - 暑い
4th - テーオーロイヤル
5th - 競馬
6th - 本屋
7th - 両親
8th - ナイス
9th - ディープボンド
10th - 馬券
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#ListenToBlackVoices
April 28, 2024 at 7:30 AM
DAY 31 #LET5D0IT

20) THE Byrds - Eight Miles High (1966)

There were plenty of singles hinting at or proto-psychedelia before this, but surely it's the first big, all-out, full-on psychedelic single, and one of the best.

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April 30, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Go Your Own Way would have been instantly disqualified anyway.

It's not eligible, as I said only two days ago.

It's a 1976 single release and qualified through #Let5D0It.
September 27, 2024 at 5:31 AM
#let5d0it Day 7

Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs ('71)

The delicate verses are wonderful, but the song fully takes flight during the rhapsodic chorus. It's so overwhelming in its joy that it can almost make you believe in Minnie's naive vision of humanity for its duration.

youtu.be/g1kDd6yBQZ4?...
April 7, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Here's the Top 10 Trending Words over the Past 10 Minutes:
️⚠️🌀1 - sechsbeiner
2nd - 暑い
3rd - 献血
4th - gefeliciteerd
5th - lunes
6th - 輸血
7th - こめ
8th - curtas
9th - 諸々
10th - 組み合わせ
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#йобанарусня 🇺🇦
April 15, 2024 at 6:50 AM
My complete #Let5D0It top 50, including some songs you *will* have heard of.

Thanks, as always, to event sponsor Arron: may your spreadsheets always add up perfectly.
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Let's do it
The greatest 50 singles from 1954-76 An index post for Let's Do It (or #Let5D0It), the follow-up to Fear Of Mu21C from last year. This is my personal top 50 singles from 1954 to 1976, in an approxi…
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May 20, 2024 at 8:51 AM
#Let5D0It
Day 5
Baba O’Riley | The Who
October 1971

The towering opener from Who’s Next didn’t even get a UK or US single release, but it squeezes in here because it did in Europe and Australia. Not a Who aficionado but this is immense.

youtu.be/QRTNm6GLJYI...
April 4, 2024 at 11:00 PM
#Let5D0It number 2
11 points

"In dreams" - Roy Orbison
1963
Written by Roy Orbison

When first played, Roy received a standing ovation that went on, and on, and on. Only when the headliners (The Beatles) came out to play did the applause stop.
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"In dreams" - Roy Orbison
1963 Written by Roy Orbison Number two in Let's Do It, my personal fifty favourite singles from 1954-76. Gets the Elf, a bonus 11th mark. From the arms of Morpheus comes the best song of the 1960s. A....
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May 19, 2024 at 10:12 AM
A "pitifully low" bar, someone said during #Let5D0It.

And yet one guy limboed underneath it, and here we have six people still giving it the eye.
November 9, 2024 at 10:04 PM