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The full chart from December 8, 1979: https://weeklytop40.wordpress.com/1979/12/08/us-top-40-singles-for-the-week-ending-december-8-1979/ All the Casey Kasem segments from this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suqnl4DymtQ How’s the chart as a whole? Decades are arbitrary markers of time, but there does seem to be a changing of the guard … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: December 8, 1979
Welcome to the first installment of Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: a column where I examine Lo-Fi albums albums in search of gold nuggets from rivers of tape hiss. Lo-fi (“low fidelity”) music is recorded at a lower quality than the usual contemporary … Continue reading Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: The Moldy Peaches-The Moldy Peaches
The Beastie Boys’ landmark sophomore album Paul’s Boutique is a bit hard for me to write about. It is a dizzying album that I’ve lived with for so long, yet I still feel like I have yet to unlock all … Continue reading Album Spotlight: Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
It’s time for another edition of What’s the Concept?! This week, we’ll take a gander at Alice Cooper’s 1975 album Welcome To My Nightmare. What’s the Concept?! Welcome To My Nightmare, like Electric Light Orchestra’s Eldorado, revolves around dreams. However, … Continue reading What’s the Concept?! is as Frigid as an Eskimo Pie
A venue of discussion for fans of metal, punk, hardcore and all the countless related sub-genres. Continue reading Heavy Side Up Weekly Discussion
The game is simple! Post a few lines of lyrics and let others try to guess who performed the song! Rules: NO CHEATING by using a search engine! This is only going to be fun if you use your own … Continue reading Name That Band! (By These Lyrics)
Hello, and welcome to the Weekly Shuffle Thread! Today we’re taking the Shuffle Thread on a trip around the world! Share any of your favorite songs with the word “WORLD” in the title of them, or if you’re a homebody, … Continue reading The Best Weekly Shuffle Thread in the WORLD!
Now that December is upon us, it’s time to break out the usual accoutrements of the holiday season. Reindeer. Snowmen. Gingerbread houses. Nativity scenes. And, of course, blistering prog-rock solos played on Gibson Flying V guitars while laser light shows … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: The Mystery of Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Hi everyone! Last year I asked everyone for their favorite songs of the year and mixed them all together into six CD length mixes. You can listen to them here: https://www.mixcloud.com/rambamthankyoumaam/ It was a lot of songs, and took quite … Continue reading The Avocado MegaMix 2017: Submit your Top Ten Songs
Oops! I almost forgot that I said that I would post this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. As a result, you’ll don’t get any clickable links for any of these, though I doubt they were being used that much anyway. … Continue reading Songs by the Letter: Your Top F Songs
Now that I have your attention: it’s not that much drama. Not usually, anyway. However, we did have a user delete their WordPress account, which appears to have deleted the only Dubtrack-related post here on the new Avocado, so this … Continue reading Dubtrack Drama!
The full chart from November 26, 1977: https://weeklytop40.wordpress.com/1977/11/26/us-top-40-singles-week-ending-26th-november-1977/ All the Casey Kasem segments from this episode (no songs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL0whbAVpqk How’s the chart as a whole? In its component parts– soft ballads, disco, and what we now call classic rock– it’s not much … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: November 26, 1977
Good morning Avocados and welcome to my fifth artist spotlight on this new website. If you haven’t read a M-AM Artist Spotlight before, I like to discuss a little history about the artist and/or my own personal connections to. From … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Sublime – Why They Don’t Deserve Your Hatred/ In Defense of Ska Rock as a Genre
As promised, here is the first installment in my new feature spotlighting music video directors. While his music video career only lasted about three years (save two since then), Chris Cunningham was still able to create some of the greatest … Continue reading Video Director Spotlight: Chris Cunningham
Post your Top 25 (or less) for the letter E. I’ve decided to publish one of these every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, otherwise this would take forever. 25. End of the Road. Jim O’Rourke. Simple Songs. 24. Epithets. Keith … Continue reading Songs by the Letter: Your Top ‘E’ Songs
I like noise. I like big-ass vicious noise that makes my head spin. I wanna feel it whipping through me like a f*cking jolt. We’re so dilapidated and crushed by our pathetic existence we need it like a fix. – … Continue reading Album Spotlight: The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy (1985)
It’s time again for What’s the Concept?! This week, we’re taking a look at Pink Floyd’s timeless and ever relevant classic from 1977, Animals. What’s the Concept?! This one is loosely based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm, only instead of … Continue reading What’s the Concept is Dragged Down by the Stone
*Credit of today’s Subtitle goes to the Avocado user “Merve.”* Good morning Avocados and welcome to my fourth artist spotlight on this new website. If you haven’t read a M-AM Artist Spotlight before, I like to discuss a little history … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: The Beatles – Long Gone, Never Forgotten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw Come One, come all, because the Weekly Shuffle Thread is here! Todays theme is songs with the word One in the title of them! Post every last one of the songs you love with One in the title, or … Continue reading The ONE & Only Weekly Shuffle Thread!
The game is simple! Post a few lines of lyrics and let others try to guess who performed the song! Rules: NO CHEATING by using a search engine! This is only going to be fun if you use your own … Continue reading Name That Band! (By These Lyrics)
Yes, those are iPOD CLASSICS in the image space. No damn cellphones for whatever streaming service you’re thinking of! Classics representing here. So I’ve done favorite movies by year and favorite albums by year, so now I’d like to do … Continue reading Favorite Songs By Year!
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