* “The world is collapsing around our ears I turned up the radio I can’t hear it” – R.E.M. . I HATE when music conversations turn to the mainstream. But my first encounter with “indie rock,” in the ’90’s, was with Sleater-Kinney, whom I hated at the time: their music sounded like women giving childbirth. … Read more“Dolby’s Top 25 Musical Acts to Never Have a Hit Single”
Ah, it’s not easy being ’90’s dance music. It’s like being an old lady in a tattoo parlor. We had FINALLY defeated carnal paganism in music, or so we thought, musicians like Pearl Jam and R.E.M. were vegan and/or socially conscious, and “alternative” rock, as proffered by Nirvana which bashed he-man misogynist types who would … Read more“’90’s Dance Mix”
* There are people who won’t let you be happy, And people who won’t you be sad, And in between, Hopefully, Some sense, Or something better. .. It’s funny: in 2014, I thought albums were a joke, an antiquated assembly line product through which to feign false inspiration. This year, I felt like they were … Read more“Dolby’s Top 20 Albums of 2015.”
What with all the atrocity going on in the world as of late, I wanted to keep things upbeat and light here. This list celebrates the genesis of recording, all the way up through its current perfection. So it’s a luxury of this day and age: we can’t escape reality, but in a sense we … Read more“Dolby’s 100 Years of Rock and Roll (by the Decade)”
Guess who’s coming to dinner? Violence and calamity. We don’t know who it was, or where it came from, or what it was, all we know is that if we live, we’re gonna mow down everything in our path with the biggest damn guns and tanks we can find. Whether it’s Taylor Swift, Big Sean … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Anti-War Songs from the 2000’s”
I got an aura just LOOKING at this list. But lemme backtrack a moment. I’m from Indiana, the “Crossroads of America,” a euphemism for the fact that my proud state has more railroads, functional and also unfortunately, derelict, than any other. We’re actually barred from going into debt to the federal government, because of a … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Songs about Trains”
10 David Bowie – Best of Bowie . It’s not really an overstatement to say that David Bowie’s career consisted of constant about faces, sometimes even within albums, as on Let’s Dance with the angular bizarro-disco followed by the straight ahead rocker “Modern Love,” so a greatest hits collection is a trusty hip holster for … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Greatest-Hits Collections of All Time”
* “Day is long and nothing is wasted” – Sugar Ray . 10 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart There’s something supremely run-of-the-mill about the Pains, and there’s something supremely perfect about them. Their self-titled debut is the type of living organism that exists and exudes with tentacles, besting Best Coast, jibing with the … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Bands Influenced by The Velvet Underground”
http://www.jayfarrar.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3513&sid=25b71009a7e6d1dd533c312564da47f0: PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject: OT: Wilco/Bennett Synth Sounds Reply with quote “I’ve been googling for this all night – does anyone know what instrument is being played on the intro to “I’m always in love” – I figure it’s some kind of analog synth but can anyone confirm … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Songs That Utilize the Moog Synth”
Honorable Mention: – Maya Angelou – Saul Bellow – Theodore Dreiser – Ernest Hemingway – D.H. Lawrence – n scott momaday – John G. Neihardt – George Saunders – Alexis de Tocqueville – Neela Vaswani . Sanctioned for writing a half-page sentence about Fitch Dandruff Remover: – J.D. Salinger . 10 Delmore Schwartz {Famous Works: … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Writers of All Time”