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iTunes Essentials

Total iTunes Essentials: 11

iTunes Essentials are playlists put together by iTunes staff to help you discover and explore various artists and genres of music. Each playlist is divided into three sections:

The Basics: The biggest, best, and most important songs.
Next Steps: When you're ready to move beyond the hits.
Deep Cuts: Criminally ignored. Unjustly under-appreciated. Until now.

Not surprisingly, Hanson's music is featured in several iTunes Essential playlists. They are listed below.

	1997 MMMBop (Single Version) is track 3 in "The Basics." The Basics Description: The original intent of "I Believe I Can Fly" - scoring scenes from Space Jam, a live action film featuring Michael Jordan and Looney Tunes characters - may seem suspect at first, but the tenderized song struct a skin-deep chord with a mass audience. In retrospect, the same dichotomy applies to such guilty pleasures as the scratch & simple-accented hooks of "MMMBop," the psychedelic flower power of "Walkin' On The Sun," and the poolside pop of "Fly."
	90s Pop MMMBop (Single Version) is track 13 in "The Basics." The Basics Description: Nineties nostalgia already? Absolutely. It's easy to get excited when every track triggers a treasured memory of not so long ago. Like the time you celebrated the first day of summer by blasting "MMMBop" and pretending you were the middle Hanson brother. Or the truly awful decision to buy parachute pants after seeing the hyperkinetic dance moves of M.C. Hammer. That was almost as bad as your best friend's faded hair and "word to your mother" imitations of Vanilla Ice.
	90s Dance Party MMMBop is track 19 in "The Basics." The Basics Description: It's OK. Don't be shy. Enough years have passed for you to officially enjoy the nostalgic kick of some certified '90s jams. Especially when they're part of a night sparked by pop's reigning Material Girl ("Ray of Light"'s laser canon beats and Himalaya high notes); a cow-bell-clanging, diva-channeling C+C Music Factory classic; and that evergreen call to the dance floor, "Pump Up the Jam." Don't even think about reaching for your cell phone and asking where the party's at; as our Next steps prove, it's right here.
	90s One Hit Wonders MMMBop is track 2 in "The Basics." The Basics Description: It's the decade minutiae that captivate us; everybody remembers Clinton being impeached, but the Trivial Pursuit winner remembers the last guy impeached before him. And what pursuit could be more trivial - or more fun - than the tracking the Pop chart history of those flash-bulb artists who rocketed up the charts...and continued right off them into the ether? The first, and most obvious, type of one-hit wonder recording is the novelty song. Everyone knew from Day One that "Macarena" was the last we'd ever hear of Los Del Rio. Or that Right Said Fred was not only too sexy for his shirt, but also too sexy for another hit.
	Running Through The 90s MMMBop is track 17 in "Deep Cuts." Deep Cuts Description: It's damn difficult encapsulating a decade in 50 songs, so the 25 that spill over here are still what some would call "hot hits." Get burned by a hammering, metallic New Order cover ("Blue Monday"), the turntable prodding and "MMMBop" exchanges of Hanson, and several "Get out of bed, lazy" alarm songs ("Laid," "Blister in the Sun").
	Grown Up Music For Kids MMMBop is track 4 in "The Basics." The Basics Description: Sure, everybody loves Mary's little lamb, but you haven't witnessed pure bliss until you've popped on OutKast's "Hey Ya!" and watched a boppin' moppet shake it like a Polaroid picture. Fact is, there are plenty of grown up songs that go over like gangbusters with the miniature set, and we've got 'em right here, from Hanson's diabolically hooky "MMMBop," to the bounce-along, new-wave nonsense of the B-52's "Rock Lobster," to the bring-it-down rhythm of Sugar Ray's "Fly."
	Kids Nonsense Songs MMMBop is track 25 in "Deep Cuts." Deep Cuts Description: The best of our Kids Nonsense Songs cuts have titles that sound better the more you shout them, preferably while pogo-ing and turning a pucer shade of red. The Troggs' "Wild Thing" works on this level, as does "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis, and one of the all-time easiest lyrics to remember: "Woo-Hoo" by RockATeens.
	Afternoon Energizers MMMBop is track 2 in "Next Steps." Next Steps Description: Like the Foo Fighters say, it's "Times Like These" ... when the coffee's worn off, and you'd better start looking to music to get you across the 5 o'clock finish line. Thankfully, we're riding shotgun, dropping three-minute pick-me-ups like Eve & Gwen's "Let Me Blow Ya Mind," Maroon 5's "Harder to Breathe," and, naturally, the Chemical Brothers' "Galvanize."
	Guilty Pleasures MMMBop is track 19 in "The Basics." The Basics Description: Sure you didn't like them. Officially, anyway. It was everybody else that made these 25 songs huge hits.
	Pop Christmas Little Saint Nick is track 13 in "Deep Cuts." Deep Cuts Description: While blink-182 may not be the first band you think of when it comes to Christmas music, that doesn't mean their rare track "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" is any less worthy of caroling than, say, a classic like "Silver Bells" -- here given a haunting a cappella treatment by Take 6. That's the beauty of our Christmas pop tunes -- they're as unpredicatable as a stack of well-wrapped presents...
	Bubblegum MMMBop is track 2 in "Deep Cuts." Deep Cuts Description: Sure, there were the groups who took their lyrics seriously -- Reunion's tongue-twister roll call "Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)," dreamboat Bobby Sherman's philosophical treatise "Easy Come, Easy Go" -- but the beauty of Bubblegum is that, with all those shiny, happy sounds, who needs deep thoughts?! ...Some may call it nonsense -- we call it simply brilliant.

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