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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!
Please don’t think of that 25 is a requirement for posting here. Think of it more as an upper limit. This is supposed to be fun, not a rigid assignment. If ten seems more reasonable to you, please do that. … Continue reading Songs by the Letter: Your Top ‘D’ Songs
A little over a month ago, on October 17th, an entire country stopped to remember a singer. His name was Gord Downie, he was the frontman of Canada’s The Tragically Hip, and he had passed away from terminal brain … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: The Tragically Hip
The debut album by one-half of the Spacemen 3 songwriters (Jason Pierce, AKA J Spaceman), Lazer Guided Melodies continues and deepens his old band’s investigations into contemplative, despairing, or ecstatic states. As with their forbears in the Velvet Underground, those … Continue reading Album Spotlight: Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies (1992 – 61 min.)
Good morning Avocados and welcome to my third 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: Eminem (Part 2 of 2) – One Hell of a Life
Welcome to the second week of The Paratext. This week I’d like to explore something that’s very near and dear to my heart: the side break. To me, the break in a record is of vital importance to how an … Continue reading The Paratext: The Ecstasy and Misery of the Side Break
Hey y’all. As you may or may not have known, I have a radio show on CHIRP Radio, a little indie station out of Chicago. We’ve been digital-only for 7 years at chirpradio.org (and on our mobile app, which you … Continue reading Jaye Tyler’s Radio Show – Request Thread: 11/21/2017
The full chart: https://weeklytop40.wordpress.com/1975/11/15/us-top-40-singles-week-ending-15th-november-1975/ How’s the chart as a whole? Once you get past Paul McCartney at #36, it’s possible to squint at this chart and see an alternate music history where the late 60s faded into the background instead … Continue reading American Top 40 Flashback: November 15, 1975
Welcome to What’s the Concept?! Every week, we take a look at a famous and influential rock concept album. This time up: Electric Light Orchestra’s 1974 classic, Eldorado. What’s the Concept?! The entire album is basically about a guy who … Continue reading What’s the Concept?! Is Free From the World in Eldorado
Taylor Swift just released a new album, and Taylor Swift is one of the more fun artists to discuss. You can discuss her transformation from “innocent,” girl-next-door singer songwriter to bratty pop diva, debate how self aware her lyrics are, … Continue reading Taylor Swift – Reputation
Good morning Avocados and welcome to my second 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: Shakira – Her Hips Have Never Lied
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)
After a few weeks of business, confusion, and laziness The Thin White Duke (that’s me!) has returned to the Weekly Shuffle Thread! Thanks to exexalien for taking the reins for the last couple of weeks. I’m still a newbie to … Continue reading Guess Who’s Back? The Weekly Shuffle Thread!
The Cure – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me The seventh studio LP by English rock band The Cure, and the one that broke them in the U.S. (reaching the Billboard top 40), 1987’s Kiss Me (x3) is a sprawling … Continue reading Album Spotlight: The Cure – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)
Welcome to the Artist Spotlight for Spanish rock band UVE. They’re a heavy, melodic force filled with anger, passion and energy. Live, they’re outstanding. You can tell these are musicians that work at it. ‘Quiero Ver Al Mundo Arder’ (I … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: UVE
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