Welcome to the first installment of the 500 Best Albums of the Last 40 Years. An insane list but on the cusp of my 40th birthday, one I’ve given a lot of thought to. The rankings are somewhat arbitrary but it would be fair to infer that I’m not sure that number 500 (Spoon – [...]
Continuing our 40th anniversary bash, herein lies the best music of 1971, songs and albums. The albums are ranked, the songs are not. 100 songs may seem like a lot but it was a damn good year. Funk, soul, rock, proto-punk and R&B all jostled together on and off the charts. Here are my favorites. [...]
The year 1980 marked the waning of the malaise era in America and the second year of Thatcher in the UK. The anything goes 70s was being supplanted by the glossy, go-go 80s where the shiny surface masked such travails as AIDS and a resurgent Cold War. The first year of the decade catches music [...]
At the end of the seventies music was perched on the edge of the great fragmentation that would take hold in the eighties and especially the nineties – punk, funk, disco, pop all rubbed shoulders along with the first stirrings of hip-hop. It’s also the year Sony‘s Walkman would hit the market, revolutionizing the way [...]
A few weeks ago we looked at the best albums of 1969 – now it’s time to take a look at that year’s best films. It was a year when the line between exploitation pic and blockbuster were blurrier than ever and when the close of a tumultuous decade was cause for reflection around the [...]
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