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”
*The truth was there all along, he was an infant, an unborn, only shedding light and never receiving, so that he could never climb to the top of his plateau. . America really isn’t a literary place. It’s like Martha Stewart trying to preach on kickboxing. I even detest black writers, as a general rule. … Read more“Dolby’s Choice 10 Hip-Hop Tracks”
“Here’s a band Seaweed,” articulates Sub Pop record engineer Jack Endino in the grunge documentary Hype!, “that wasn’t really doing anything at the time, they hadn’t played a show in over a year or so, yet Rolling Stone is interviewing them.” Such was the state of the music business in the ’90’s. A prize hog, … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Indie-Singles-from-the-’80’s-or-’00’s-That-Would-Have-Been-Mainstream-Singles-Had-They-Been-Released-in-the-’90’s”
It all started with a baseball bat. I mean, that’s why we listen to music in the first place, isn’t it? It’s a siphoning from a place that is different from our own, so that we can BE in a place different from our own. If I learned anything from reading R.E.M.: A Perfect Circle … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 R.E.M. Songs of All Time”
Ryan Adams put an album out this year. What was it supposed to be? Making albums is what Ryan Adams does with his life, and he’s passed another year around the sun, but what is his reservoir, what is his celestial elixir, what is his muse? Albums come in a package. Music, though, exists at … Read more“Dolby’s Top 20 Albums of 2014”
* “I walk through the hallways inside my mind.” – Phish 214 Aloha – Here Comes Everyone “We Belong Here” is rudimentary pop for the ages, and “Boys in the Bathtub” is a trippy glass of eggnog with extra sugar. These boys, or Tony Cavallario, were really gettin’ their hands sticky all over … Read more“Dolby’s Top 214 Albums of All Time”