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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 estimation was a year of songwriters singing about specific places, of longer-than-long-awaited follow-ups, of gorgeous … Continue reading
Posted in End of the Year Rankstravaganza, Music, Obligatory List-making
Tagged Amanda Shires, Arcade Fire, Best Songs, Best Songs of 2013, Best Tracks of 2013, Cloud Cult, David Bowie, Dessa, Foals, Free Energy, Janelle Monae, Jason Isbell, Josh Ritter, King Khan and the Shrines, Low, Maurice Tani, My Bloody Valentine, Of Montreal, Okkervil River, Patty Griffin, Phoenix, Queens of the Stone Age, Rankstravaganza, Robbie Fulks, Shannon and the Clams, Son Volt, Steve Earle, Stornoway, Superchunk, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Thee Oh Sees, They Might Be Giants, Wavves, Waxahatchee
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Rankstravaganza: My 15 favorite albums of 2011
The album is dead. Long live the album. Increasingly, my listening habits tend to revolve around individual tracks, so I tried to adjust my year-end list-making accordingly by making My 30 Favorite Tracks of 2011 the primary entry in this … Continue reading
Posted in End of the Year Rankstravaganza, Music, Obligatory List-making
Tagged Adele, Best Albums, Best Albums of 2011, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Fleet Foxes, Middle Brother, Okkervil River, R.E.M., Rankstravaganza, Raphael Saadiq, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, The Decemberists, The Mountain Goats, They Might Be Giants, Thurston Moore, Timothy Monger, Wilco, Wye Oak
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Rankstravaganza: My 30 favorite tracks of 2011
I don’t know about you, but for me, 2011 was not a year of discovery. Most of the songs that bubbled their way to the top of my most-played tracks from last year were by bands I already knew and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adele, Amos Lee, Apex Manor, Beastie Boys, Beirut, Ben Folds Five, Best Songs, Best Songs of 2011, Best Tracks of 2011, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., David Lynch, Drive-By Truckers, Eleanor Friedberger, Fleet Foxes, Hayes Carll, Midwest Pride, mp3s, Noah and the Whale, Okkervil River, R.E.M., Rankstravaganza, Raphael Saadiq, Saigon, Sims, Sondre Lerch, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, The Civil Wars, The Decemberists, The Downer Party, The Horrors, The Mountain Goats, Theophilius London, They Might Be Giants, Timothy Monger, Wilco, Wye Oak
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Halftime Report: My favorite 15 tracks of 2011 thus far
I realize I may need to turn in my official Snobby Blogger membership card, but the iTunes play-count function doesn’t lie. Continue reading
Posted in Halftime Report, Music, Obligatory List-making
Tagged Adele, Amos Lee, Apex Manor, Atmosphere, Best Songs, Halftime Report, Lupe Fiasco, Middle Brother, mp3s, Noah and the Whale, Okkervil River, Rankstravaganza, Raphael Saadiq, Saigon, Shannon and the Clams, The Decemberists, The Downer Party, The Mountain Goats, Wye Oak
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Amazon MP3 Store begs the question: How much Gregorian chant is too much?
Ninety-nine essential Gregorian chants??? I would argue that the number of Gregorian chants any music collection requires is one at most. Any more than that is inessential. Continue reading