The Vatican came out with a list of 10 recommended albums that is not altogether terrible (although there are some unusual choices.) Here it is:
#1 The Beatles - Revolver
The “hip” selection for #1 Beatles album. It’s not my #1, but most hipsters seem to think it’s the pinnacle of The Beatles output. I suppose the […]

Some selected entries from this week’s billboard charts:
#01 Vampire Weekend - Contra
Is that a younger Britney Spears on the cover of this album? I haven’t heard this yet, so I can’t make any comments on the quality of the music. These days it’s quite unusual for someone other than a solo female act to reach […]

The Flaming Lips cover of Pink Floyd’s 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon will be released as a download only album on ITunes tomorrow.
I’m personally boycotting buying this album because I hate ITunes. AmazonMP3 rules, and they really should have made this available there too.
But I’ll still be listening to this one […]

Alright, this is my third Thursday of taking a look at the Billboard 200 album charts. I don’t list every single album on the chart, I just pick out a few that I want to ramble on about.
#1 - Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream (debut)
The biggest single week sales of the […]

The follow-up to The Flaming Lips new album, Embryonic, is going to be a cover of Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic album Dark Side of the Moon according to this story from LA Times.
Apparently they’ve already finished recording it (with help from a band named Stardeath and White Dwarfs that I don’t know anything about […]

The following songs will both include Syd Barrett Era Pink Floyd material and selected songs from his short-lived solo career as well.
Pink Floyd as Syd’s baby often had a genuine immediacy that one finds in the very best of Pop songs. The successful single “See Emily Play” is both a catchy commercial jingle and […]

The Beatles
The fab four are actually a bit late to the box set game as they are finally (in 2009) releasing their first CD box sets (I know, I know, what about the Capital Box Sets? Eh…) Of course they are doing it in style with not just one box set but two. There’s a […]

Yes, I’m a bit obsessed with the soundscan information I’ve come across. I don’t really know why I find these details of album sales so interesting. It’s not like I think that albums sales have much of anything to do with actual quality. A lot of my favorite bands and albums weren’t particularly good sellers. […]

The Pink Floyd CD Box Set “Oh, By the Way” includes all of the studio albums from Pink Floyd’s long career beginning with 1967’s brilliant Syd Barret era Piper at the Gates of Dawn through 1994’s The Division Bell. Basically this a good “one stop” way to buy the entire Pink Floyd discography in a […]

Every week Last.FM has a new top 500 tracks chart (ranked by the amount of different listeners each song had during the last 7 days.) It’s amazing to me how little the rankings seem to change week to week and how the same older songs seem to be in the list every week.
That’s what […]