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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 2, 2022January 10, 2022

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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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onDecember 30, 2020January 2, 2022

Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2020

What can one say about 2020 other than, “Good riddance”? I can think of one thing: There was some damn good music released this year. Is it because 2020 was a particularly fruitful year, with talented artists who had nothing else to do but write and record new music?

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 12, 2020January 13, 2020

A Very Belated Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2019

Fourteen of the 30 tracks below are either by a female solo artist, a band with a frontwoman, a male-female duo, someone who doesn’t subscribe to binary gender identifiers, or a Canadian indie-supergroup prominently featuring Neko Case.

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 5, 2019July 17, 2019

Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2018

“Everything, everything, everything, everything, everything is awful!!!”
That, my friends, was 2018, in all its mortifying, capricious, senseless absurdity. I can think of no better soundtrack.

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 1, 2018July 17, 2019

Rankstravaganza 2017: My Top 30 Songs of the Year

Even the shittiest of years can produce moments of musical transcendence. The tumult of 1968 gave us Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, Sweetheart of the…

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 1, 2017January 2, 2017

Rankstravaganza 2016: My Top 30 Favorite Songs of the Year

The past year was nothing if not a “low-flying panic attack” … .

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onDecember 31, 2015July 17, 2019

Rankstravaganza 2015: My 25 favorite songs of the year

Ha! You thought this blog was done for. Surprise! I’m back. (Fair warning, though: There might not be another post until New Year’s Eve 2016.…

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onDecember 28, 2014January 12, 2015

Rankstravaganza 2014: My 30 favorite songs of the year

I basically haven’t posted anything new to this blog since my 2013 year-end roundup. It’s been a busy year full of new challenges and responsibilities,…

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End of the Year RankstravaganzaPosted onJanuary 5, 2014January 12, 2015

Rankstravaganza 2013: My 30 Favorite Songs of the Year

Once again, I’m turning this in a few days past deadline. No matter! It’s still not too late to celebrate 2013, which in my musical…

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Halftime ReportPosted onJuly 6, 2013January 12, 2015

Halftime Report: My 15 favorite songs of 2013 thus far

Weird, right? The year’s already half over. I say this every July, but this year really and truly has been zipping by even faster than…

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