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Category: Obligatory List-making

Because it’s not the Internet without subjective lists, folks.

End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onDecember 28, 2024December 28, 2024

Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2024

To offer more insight into the preteen perspective on music in 2024, my 11-year-old daughter—at her request—will be offering some color commentary throughout this post.

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MusicPosted onNovember 14, 2024November 19, 2024

Here Are My Picks for the Top 5 Singles from 1977-1999 for #UncoolTwo50

For the last 45 days, I’ve been participating in another Blue Sky music challenge: #UncoolTwo50.  Organized by the account @uncooltwo50.bsky.social, the idea is to is…

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MusicPosted onAugust 30, 2024November 19, 2024

Introducing #MyYearInMix for 2005, and Why it Was a Formative Year for Me and Music in General

For me, 2005 was an entirely new era for the discovery of and interaction with music—establishing habits and patterns that I basically still follow today. Many of those tracks I added in those first few months of the iPod age are still among my most played and most beloved songs.

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MusicPosted onJanuary 23, 2024January 26, 2024

10 Little Moments from P.D.Q. Bach’s Oeuvre That Play in My Head with Shocking Regularity

This list is partly an appreciation, partly a primer for folks who may grow to appreciate P.D.Q. Bach given some options for staring points, and partly as way for me to process the loss of a truly gifted musician and humorist.

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 6, 2024January 6, 2024

Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2023

When I tally up my most-played artists of the last year, the vast majority of my Top 10 is basically indistinguishable from my Top 10 most-payed artists from 20 years ago. Is it my fault they insist on still putting out strong, fresh material?

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Collage representing the Top 10 featured songs
End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 11, 2023January 11, 2023

Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2022

If you’re a Dad Rock and ’90s Nostalgia aficionado, have I got 30 tunes for you to check out.

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Collage of featured album covers
Bay Area MusicPosted onDecember 31, 2022December 31, 2022

Rankstravaganza: Five Great 2022 Albums (+ Two EPs) by Oakland/East Bay Musicians

Diverse influences mix together to create genre-defying sounds, particularly laid-back grooves that conjure up carefree summer afternoons hanging with friends? That’s the Oakland sound in 2022.

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Bay Area MusicPosted onJanuary 8, 2022January 18, 2022

Rankstravaganza: Five Great 2021 Albums (+ Two EPs) by Oakland/East Bay Musicians

I miiiiight have mentioned it before, but Bandcamp Fridays have been a great excuse for me to reconnect with local music over the last 22…

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 2, 2022January 5, 2024

Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2021

On the whole, I’d say these songs are a hopeful bunch, rooted in the possibility of muddling through somehow and reclaiming a semblance of fellowship, cohesion, progress, and well-being. Perhaps 2022 will deliver on that promise.

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MusicPosted onOctober 29, 2021October 29, 2021

25 Perfect Little Moments from Wilco’s “Being There”

Being There still feels monumental 25 years later. It also announced the arrival of Wilco: The Band That Jams and Takes Risks. Risks like recording a double album, opening it with a 45-second drums-and-feedback freakout, and then spending the next 76 minutes alternating between ennui-filled ballads and surreal-nonsense-filled bangers.

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