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Every Billboard Modern Rock Chart #1 through 2005, listed in order of preference.  

119. Semisonic, "Closing Time"

May 30 - July 4, 1998



If I was DJing at a bar and wanted to take a big sardonic dump on all in earshot, assaulting the vulnerable and annoying the confident, I'd throw this on at 5 'til. I assume that's what Semisonic always intended it for.

Closing time
Open all the doors and let you out into the world
Closing time
Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl
Closing time
One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time
You don't have to go home but you can't stay here

Comments:
That is the best capsule description of why I love/hate this song ever.
 
Yeah, but people love this song, so it probably wouldn't turn them off in the way you hope. It just makes people cling to each other. My favorite bars play John Phillip Sousa at closing. Nothing routs people like that most fascistic of genres: the march!
 
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