“Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums List [(20 Sep. 2020) Indexed by Artist]”
2pac – All Eyez on Me [436] 50 Cent – Get Rich or Die Tryin’ [280] Aaliyah – One in a Million [314] ABBA – The Definitive Collection [303] AC/DC – Back in Black [84] King Sunny Ade – The Best of the Classic Years [465] Adele – 21 [137] Aerosmith – Rocks [366] The […]
“Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Albums of All Time List (20 Sep. 2020)”
1 Marvin Gaye – What’s Going on 2 The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds 3 Joni Mitchell – Blue 4 Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life 5 Beatles – Abbey Road 6 Nirvana – Nevermind 7 Fleetwood Mac – Rumours 8 Prince and the Revolution – Purple Rain 9 Bob Dylan – […]
“Dolby’s Rupees: Beatles – ‘Mother Nature’s Son’”
I dunno if it’s just the fact that we’re having a record high temperature today and I just drove past the parking lot at Notre Dame where I used to smoke, listening to music in my Beatles phase after high school, but something put me in the mood for this song. Now, I think there […]
“The ‘DJ’ Style of Hip-Hop Seems to Have Transitioned in Nomenclature to ‘Beat Tapes’”
In his recent interview with Stereogum, Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing and now burgeoning project Ghost of Vroom made the admission that “‘I’m just… into DJ music, and sampling, and that kind of stuff that was being generated as a sidebar outside of the Knitting Factory.’” The Knitting Factory, then, is what you might call […]
“Dolby’s Top 25 311 Songs”
25 “Full Ride” (From Chaos) You could probably with some authority dub 311’s two-album stint of Soundsystem and From Chaos as their “metal phase” — Tim Mahoney seemed to graduate from distortion pedal to straight-ahead rock-rap Marshall stabs and both the volume and intensity seemed bolstered on a significant amount of these cuts. Along these […]
“The Stooges (ad Alternative Sequencing)”
Well aren’t I just all snotty and “punk”: I’m sitting here in my room listening to The Stooges’ self-titled debut while my roommate is in the kitchen playing “Hey Jude” and having a flowers-in-your-hair singalong fest. Now all I need is a… red dog collar… oh, and pecs and abs like Iggy Pop, of course, […]