Ranking #2 songs, U.S. edition: 1976-1980 (opens in new tab)

Many people went crazy over “Short People” in the last seventies because, as we learned forty years later, nothing so exemplifies man’s bestial side than our weakness for vehicles through which we convey our suppressed capacity for malice. Randy Newman can say — has said — “Short People” is ironic, and if you don’t get, […]