Video game music has been key to the medium since games could have sound at all and they’ve been big business in recent years. While you don’t see it quite as much in the US, there are a lot of … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 18: The Best Videogame Soundtrack

These are admittedly controversial and I still have some reservations about how particular pieces of footage are used in commercial advertising without the actual person’s consent. But, when you leave things to an estate to manage, this is what happens. … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 17: The Best Classic/Modern Duet

After spending so much time in the past few decades in particular areas, not always “mainstream” or anything, the 2010s because the decade where I ended up listening to a lot more top forty for a lot of it. Driving … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 16: The Best 2010s Song

Oh, this is a hard decade for me. While it’s one where I had access to XM Radio (pre-merger) which meant constant music available across lots of commercial-free channels, I also had young kids. Which meant I was spending more … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 15: The Best 2000s Song

There are so many great film scores out that that picking a favorite is likely ridiculous for most that really get into it, so we’ll make this a lot more open-ended if you want to break them out in different … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 14: Your Favorite Film Score

Growing up on the James Bond film series has been a blast because one of my favorite parts was always the creativity of the opening sequence. Some stand out strongly over the years in a way I can’t quantify, like … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 13: The Best James Bond Theme Song

The 90s, to me, felt like a decade where there was less of a consistent sound to it than most decades. Of course, every decade goes through movements and shifts in the sound of it and even if something isn’t … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 12: The Best 1990s Song

While I started to cut my teeth on the world of music in the 70s as a pre-teen and pre-tween, it was the 80s where I found myself truly being exposed to a lot of different things. The decade is … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 11: The Best 1980s Song

Everyone’s experience with music is unique in a lot of different ways. I’ve found over the years that when I click with a musician or group, it’s that particular “discovery” that resonates as their best work going forward. If they … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 10: The Michael Bolton Question

As part of our effort to help folks have a wide range of things to talk about since the pandemic began, we’ve been running 30 Day Challenges since last spring. We run these in the hopes of drawing folks from … Continue reading The Soundtrack Of The Avocado

One of the things I remember fondly from my younger days with my friends who were heavily into music were their complaints about the first generation or so of CD releases. There were certainly technical hurdles and companies that cut … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 8: The Best Album Artwork

Before we dig into a few other areas, we’re going to work through some of the decades to talk about our favorite song. It’s not always going to be one that might define a decade, but there’s a song from … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 6: Best 1970s Song

Before we dig into a few other areas, we’re going to work through some of the decades to talk about our favorite song. It’s not always going to be one that might define a decade, but there’s a song from … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 5: Best 1960s Song

Before we dig into a few other areas, we’re going to work through some of the decades to talk about our favorite song. It’s not always going to be one that might define a decade, but there’s a song from … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 4: Best 1950s Song

One of the things that always got me each year is how there really does feel like there’s a song that’s representative of summer, or is just so popular it gets defined as “the” summer song. This goes back years … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 3: The Best Summertime Song

2020 has been terrible when it comes to concerts but there have been a lot of great streamed performances and Zoom-style concerts put on and a host of other events. We’ve got a two-part question here today when it comes … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 2: Your Favorite Concert

Going into the 30 day music challenge, we’re definitely going to encourage folks to share video links to various songs when they come up. One of the big goals is to try and expand things for all of us and … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 1: Your Favorite Song