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“Together Again”—Janet Jackson

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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Hot Air Balloon, Ponies, Tanks, Trapeze Artists and the News Concert Dinosaurs

This is the hot air balloon teabll game, as a last ditch attempt to explain why i love this song so much. The conceit of a bunch of five year olds playing tea ball confronted by a series of increasingly amusing and unlikely distractions has such a pleasingly modular and customisable structure. Each one delightful in its own right, penguins, ninjas, but all working beautifully together as just this parade of improbable and outrageous joy. I don't know if my dad was crying laughing, that is probably my embellishment. But choose your own adventure.

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