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What's your eclipse jam?

Totality during the 1999 solar eclipse.
Totality during the 1999 solar eclipse.Luc Viatour

August 18, 2017

On Monday, August 21st, most of the U.S. population will experience a significant solar eclipse, with a large section of the population seeing a total eclipse. Many are scrambling to figure out what the perfect song is for the moment of totality.

Tell us what song you'd listen to while watching the sun disappear behind the moon and day turn to night. You could go the literal route with something like Bill Withers' classic "Ain't No Sunshine," or maybe Soundgarden's 1994 hit "Black Hole Sun," or perhaps your more interested in Bonnie Tyler's classic "Total Eclipse of the Heart."

We'll have a few correspondents along the path of totality (and here in 85% Minnesota) checking in with updates all day on Monday, via Facebook live.