25 “We Can Be Together” (Volunteers) 1969’s Volunteers is a significant album in the Jefferson Airplane history for, primarily, being their most politically subversive statement, at least explicitly, and also, marking the last band project that guitarist/singer Marty Balin and drummer Spencer Dryden would partake in. Perhaps appropriately, it’s a confusing hodgepodge of stylistic array … Read more“Dolby’s Top 25 Jefferson Airplane Songs”
50 “Falling from Above” (Greendale) 49 “See the Sky about to Rain” (On the Beach) 48 “War of Man” (Harvest Moon) 47 “New Mama” (Tonight’s the Night) 46 “Soldier” (Decade) 45 “Sail away” (Rust Never Sleeps) 44 “Ride My Llama” (Rust Never Sleeps) 43 “Helpless” (Unplugged) 42 “Saddle up the Palomino” (American Stars ’n Bars) … Read more“Dolby’s Neil Young Song Power Rankings – Fall 2021”
Wilco is a band that kind of snuck up on me, at first I think operating on a keen level of fragile emotion that failed to make an impression on my unseasoned, Goldfinger-favoring high school self. By the time I was in college, around 2004, they were sort of just unavoidable for the sheer clamor … Read more“Dolby’s Top 25 Wilco Songs”
Truth be told, Phil Lesh is going to bear the brunt of this verbal prong here pretty good, but this has been a long time coming. For every Relix article detailing Lesh and Friends “covering Cream” only to unveil it as the desultory, anticlimactic blues jam of “Sunshine of Your Love,” there’s been an upstart … Read more“Profiling 10 Cream Songs That Obviate How Sick I Am of ‘Sunshine of Your Love’”
10 Drake – “Knife Talk (with 21 Savage ft. Project Pat)” How does Drake just always throw me enough of a curveball? He’s like the Greg Maddux of rap… he’ll never be the hardest or whip that delivery in with the most intensity, but he does understand the art form and the industry and know … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks July – Sep. 2021”
All I remember about Oasis from when I was really young was everybody I knew hating them and thinking they sucked, even my Dad. Granted, his reasoning toward this conclusion, as I’m sure pretty much everybody else’s of that disposition, was that they were “arrogant,” and had really nothing to do with the music. The … Read more“Dolby’s Top 25 Oasis Songs”
Eh, so Ween stopped making albums after 9/11, Weezer started making the red album and Raditude. What’s the difference, really? Both with equal effectiveness prove that the well of inspiration was dried up and maybe that there’s less to gain in this enterprise with the onset of streaming and whatnot. Still, this is a band … Read more“Dolby’s Top 25 Weezer Songs”
10 Reinforcer – “Thou Shall Burn” German metal band Reinforcer clambers in for their third album here with the strong, robust Prince of the Tribes, with “Thou Shall Burn” besting the competition by a nudge for its amusingly direct and authoritative titular proclamation, like a glorious amalgamation of the kitschy and the cathartic elements of … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks Apr. – June 2021”
25 “Fire it up” (We Were Dead before the Ship Even Sank) 24 “Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)” (Strangers to Ourselves) 23 “Heart Cooks Brain” (The Lonesome Crowded West) 22 “Lounge (Closing Time)” (The Lonesome Crowded West) 21 “Paper Thin Walls” (The Moon & Antarctica) 20 “3rd Planet” (The Moon & Antarctica) 19 “Parting … Read more“Dolby’s Pre-Release Modest Mouse Power 25 (with playlist)”
One time this dude posted this thing on Facebook, which I think was a reaction to my sharing a Sufjan Stevens song, that the music people listen to is indicative of the kind of person that they are. I think it was supposed to be some meat-headed denigration of the gentle, melody-laden selection I’d offered. … Read more“Big Star’s ‘Give Me Another Chance’ and Dolby’s Pop 250 Index”