Add The Who’s Quadrophenia to the list of classic albums getting the box set treatment in 2011 (along with U2′s Achtung Baby, The Beach Boys’ Smile, and a pair from Pink Floyd; Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.) Quadrophenia, released in 1973, was The Who’s sixth studio album. It’s an ambitious [...]

Does anybody even care about ‘live’ albums anymore? Does anybody these days have the attention span to sit down for an evening and immerse themselves in  a concert experience simulation situation? I suppose the question is, does anybody have the attention span to sit down and just listen to an entire album,Period!? Well this post [...]

Today, I am here to discuss something that has been on my mind for a few years now. We subconsciously think about it  almost every time we watch a major sporting event or ceremony. We sit back in our chairs while watching this and think to our selves, “Wow, I have heard this song 146 [...]

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 [...]

As a follow-up to my last post on the top 10 artists on Last.FM, I thought it’d be interesting to look at the top 10 artists who released most of their music in the 60s and 70s are. I think this gives a good idea of which “classic” artists have continued to stay relevant not [...]

Roger Daltrey was born on March 1st of 1944 in London, England. He is best known as the founder and lead singer of the legendary 1960s/1970s band The Who. Guitarist Pete Townshend was the band’s principle songwriter but Daltrey did co-write the band’s secondy single “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” with Townshend. The band burst onto the [...]