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(16A/35, 16B/35, 16C/35, 16D/35 and 16E/35) — NAILED IT SECTIONS

# 34 ALBUMS: THE TEACHING TOOL

NAILED IT — Five different sections pointing out the best albums and track titles in the book and explaining how to use them as positive teaching tools.

NAILED IT is a reference. It is NOT gospel.

We are turning this entire 34-album catalog into a living teaching tool — a practical, high-impact guide that proves these lyrics deliver real knowledge when used the right way. The writer has spent decades mastering overlapping subjects — psychology, relationships, politics, power, identity, addiction, ethics, and systemic forces — and the catalog reflects that depth. Every album, every multi-album system, every individual song, and every song-to-song connection functions like lyrical Legos: sturdy modular pieces that can stand completely alone or snap together to reveal larger patterns.

The compare-and-contrast power is the real engine. Single albums deliver one crystal-clear dominant idea. Album-to-album relations show how those ideas evolve, clash, or reinforce each other across a full lifecycle. Individual songs work as razor-sharp, self-contained lesson plans. And song-to-song relations let you zoom in even tighter, linking two or three tracks to illuminate a single truth from multiple angles.

▶ You Need to Know This Channel

Let's start with a name you need to know: Jiang Xueqin, the educator and researcher behind the Predictive History YouTube channel. Over 2.3 million subscribers. A channel built on applying Isaac Asimov's fictional concept of "psychohistory" — predicting the arc of human civilization through patterns — to real-world geopolitics. Game theory. Power structures. He called the trajectory of U.S.–Iran tensions before the mainstream media had a clue. He built an analytical framework that treats history not as a collection of dates and names but as a repeating operating system — one you can learn to read if someone shows you how. And he did it not from a cable news desk or a think tank, not with a corporate sponsor or a network deal. He did it from a YouTube channel. Go watch it. Right now if you have to. You'll come back understanding why this catalog exists.

▶ GO TO PREDICTIVE HISTORY ON YOUTUBE

Here is what Jiang Xueqin and I have in common, and it is not a small thing. He had the credentials to walk into any number of high-status, high-visibility positions where smart people get paid well to serve the people already in power. Instead, he teaches high school in Canada and runs a YouTube channel that is quietly rewiring how millions of people understand the world. The academic establishment looks at that and sees a man who underperformed his potential. I look at that and see someone who understood exactly what his talent was for.

I was in my early twenties writing for the Peabody Lynnfield Weekly News. Covering sports. Real bylines, real deadlines, real journalism — dozens of articles in. One night I had a deadline on a wrestling meet from my old high school, and I had a song stuck in my head that would not leave. I sat there and I made a choice: I wrote the article. Met the deadline. Did the job. And somewhere in the middle of writing it I understood, with complete clarity, that I could not keep doing both. My writing talent was not a resource to be loaned out to every master who needed copy. That night I filed the piece and I never wrote another article again. That was the last one. Not because journalism wasn't real work. Because I knew what the work was actually for, and sports coverage wasn't it.

Bill Simmons zigged. He took the writing talent, aimed it at sports, kissed the right hands at ESPN, and became enormously relevant in something that is — let's be honest — profoundly unimportant in the Howard Zinn sense of history. While Bill Simmons was sitting across from Barack Obama talking March Madness brackets, I was writing Obamafication — a piece that called the entire presidency exactly what it was: beautiful language, historic symbolism, the first Black president in American history who then apparently forgot he was Black the moment the donors walked in the room. Obama served his donors. His voters got the speech. Bill Simmons got the bracket conversation. I got the song title that says everything Bill Simmons could never say and keep his ESPN badge. Bill Simmons never wrote Obamafication. I never sat across from Obama. The difference is Bill Simmons wanted that seat and I had something more important — I just want ten minutes with Michelle to see if the rumours were true since I HEART BBC….

That's the whole story right there. And look — if the ceiling of your talent is "best sports guy," be the best sports guy and do it with everything you have. But if you can see the machine — if you can see how power actually moves, how narratives get constructed, how people get kept comfortable and distracted while the real decisions get made above their heads — it would make it very hard to sleep at night. For Jiang Xueqin and for me, that path was never really available. Not because we couldn't have walked it. Because we couldn't have lived with ourselves if we did.

What Jiang Xueqin and I have both been doing for the better part of two or three decades — in obscurity, without the platform validation, without the mainstream co-sign, while Bill Simmons was asking Ari Emanuel how big his TV is — is building something that teaches people to see. Not to cheer for a side. Not to consume outrage. To see. Jiang does it through geopolitical pattern recognition and game theory on a YouTube channel that the right kind of curious person finds and then cannot stop watching. I do it through 34 albums and 434 song titles that function as a complete curriculum on human psychology, power, addiction, love, identity, and collapse. Different formats. Same mission. And that mission is not complicated: give people the tools to understand the world that is actually shaping their lives, so they can stop being managed by it.

This catalog is not here to divide anyone. It is here to do the exact opposite — to create shared understanding across every subject that actually matters. The forces that pressure working people. The way love goes wrong and why. The mechanics of propaganda. The texture of addiction. The cost of silence. These are not left issues or right issues or culture-war fodder. They are human issues, and every person in the room has skin in at least half of them. The goal is that you walk away from this material the way you walk away from a Predictive History video: with sharper eyes, a cleaner framework, and the specific feeling that you are no longer quite as easy to fool. Power wants you watching the game. This catalog wants you watching the people who own the stadium.

Go check out Predictive History at youtube.com/@PredictiveHistory. Then come back here and keep reading.

Much like a professor who teaches predictive history, these texts train the reader to recognize what is already happening around the corner — both in your own personal choices and in the larger world shaped by the leaders in charge. You begin to see repeating shapes: how love turns to collapse, how identity fractures, how systems pressure people, how fear leads to self-sabotage, how power hides in plain sight. The catalog does not predict the future; it gives you the awareness to read the present with sharper eyes.

This is a book of learning — great knowledge — when used appropriately. The sections below are your step-by-step guide for teaching with it. We start broad with individual albums and album relations, then narrow to individual songs and song relations. Each part includes a short intro so that three sentences in, any reader can decide "I want this one" or "keep going." The NAILED ITs give you the map. Your own questions, discussions, and real-world applications turn the map into insight.

NOTE: Also in the book — Giant Index sorting tools

(9/35) Rolling Stone Magazine Style Reviews

(10/35) One-Sentence Summaries

(11/35) All 34 Collections Rated G to X (Summary Table)

(12/35) Themes, Mood, and Lyrics Breakdowns

(13/35) Four-Word Descriptions of Every Title

(14/35) Title Breakdown by Category and Category Listings for the Index (with Legend)

## What's Coming in This Section

(16A) Individual Albums
Single Albums That Nail It

We open with single albums that nail one dominant concept from start to finish. These are the cleanest, most focused teaching units — perfect when you want to explore a single theme in depth without any distraction.

(16B) Album Relations (Multi-Album Systems)
Multi-Album Systems That Nail It

Next we show how to snap albums together. These 13 ready-made combinations trace complete lifecycles or interlocking forces. They turn the catalog into a dynamic curriculum where one album's idea collides with another and something new appears.

(16C) Individual Songs
Individual Titles That Nail It

Then we zoom in. Every song title becomes a standalone lesson plan — a compressed, fully operative argument about human behavior, social systems, or psychological truth. Tier 1 songs hit the hardest and clearest; Tier 2 songs are strong supporting pieces that often grow even more powerful when grouped.

(16D) Song Relations
Tight Pairings and Small Clusters That Nail It

We link individual songs to one another. These tight pairings and small clusters let you compare and contrast two or three tracks at a time, revealing nuances that only appear in the space between them. This is where the finest, most precise teaching moments happen.

(16E) Individual Album Summaries
Albums in Quick Guide Order — Lessons Learned from the Text

A paragraph explaining the most relevant concepts and teachings to be learned from reading the titles in each album. A quick way to gauge whether a collection is right for you before you dive in.

The catalog is not a collection of songs. It is a curriculum.

Use any part on its own or chain them together.