Today I’m continuing my series for “three great albums” for each year beginning in 2007 and working backwards (I’m planning on keeping at this until I reach 1964.)
I’m at 1997 today and this is a year I’ve been looking forward to as I think it’s my personal favorite year for music for the last 30 […]

Previous entry: 2000.
This is my series on “three great albums” which I’m highlighting from each year. My intention is to draw attention to albums that I feel truly standout from the pack. Albums that have stood the test of time (this is, obviously, more and more true the farther back I get) and deserve […]

I haven’t heard every album released in 2009 (not by a long shot) so I think it’d be a bit presumptuous to claim these seven albums to be the best albums of the year, instead these are just seven albums released in 2009 that I’ve enjoyed and that I think you may enjoy as well. […]

A top 150 albums of 2009 list has been voted on (and then compiled) at what I believe is the biggest Radiohead fan forum on the internet.
As a big Radiohead fan (and a member of that forum, although I didn’t take part in this vote as I’m not much of a regular because the […]

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 […]

On Saturday I wrote this article about the Susan Boyle phenomenon and how it shows how superficial the average CD buyer is.
Now that the album sales numbers are in (and they’re even higher than people projected they’d be) I thought a good way to showcase the ridiculousness of it all would be to show […]

First let me define what I mean by “rated” (because without doing that, “underrated” doesn’t mean much.) I’m talking specifically about the “ratings” of people in the US because some of these bands are actually quite highly rated in the UK (The Stone Roses & Oasis being obvious examples.) I’m talking about a combination of […]

I’ve decided to get into this “best of the decade” game myself. These are my top 10 albums of the 2000s in chronological order with one special rule: No more than one album by any band/artist. This is to keep half of my list from being filled with Radiohead albums.
Primal Scream - XTRMNTR (2000)
I’m a […]

The soundtrack for the new Twilight movie is at #1 this week in it’s first full week of release (it was #2 last week despite being released on a Friday instead of the usual Tuesday.) I must admit that I bought this soundtrack even though I rarely buy movie soundtracks and even though I think […]

I was thinking: “I wonder how many of the 200 albums on the Billboard 200 are by artists I dig?” This may seem like a rather thin concept for a blog post, but compared to a lot of the crap I post here, this is brilliant!
#002 Twilight Soundtrack
No, I’m not a fan of the Twilight […]