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 first year of the new decade is coming to a close, and it was an intriguing if not exceptional year for music. there were signs that hip hop was emerging from the doldrums of sound-alike rhymers with little to say, new stars shone in the indie rock firmament and the parade of reunion shows [...]
Welcome to 1975. The idea of punk rock as a movement was still a year or two in the future, the charts were a grab bag of rock, easy listening, soul, funk, and an emerging dance genre known as disco. Naturally looking at just the albums masks this vibrancy a bit (perhaps a follow-up of [...]
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 [...]
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