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#205 – Songs For Christmas by Sufjan Stevens

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, it’s time to start preparing for the next pseudo-religious, consumer-driven solstice celebration. The Christmas season is particularly irritating, with a full month of repetitious music and spendy build-up to the standard family confrontations and manufactured stress that makes us so nostalgic for the simpler days of our childhoods. RememberContinue reading “#205 – Songs For Christmas by Sufjan Stevens”

#204 – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? by Fantastic Negrito

Hope everybody is having a great Thanksgiving – as great as possible under the circumstances, anyway. I know thinks are looking kind of bleak these days, but we also have potentially positive things on the horizon, which is what I am trying to focus on. Let’s all be safe and responsible for each other’s sakeContinue reading “#204 – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? by Fantastic Negrito”

#203 – The Riddle by Nik Kershaw

It appears Los Angeles is taking baby steps towards another lockdown. Quite frankly, it should have happened last weekend when we exceeded the city council’s own threshold for new cases per day. Perhaps someday we, as a nation, will make a serious attempt at controlling covid-19, but it definitely won’t happen until late January, atContinue reading “#203 – The Riddle by Nik Kershaw”

#202 – 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields

Today’s selection has taught me to read the album stats before making my choice. This is a fun and fascinating album, but I did not notice that it actually contains 69 songs and runs almost three hours until I was about a third of the way through. Luckily, I hadn’t followed my usual formula ofContinue reading “#202 – 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields”

#201 – Troubadour by J.J. Cale

This is an excellent album by a prolific and influential songwriter that should really be a lot more famous than he is. If you’ve listened to much rock music from the 70s and 80s, you’ve almost definitely heard a song of his.

#200 – Money Money 2020 by The Network

I completely forgot that today was a blog milestone. After 200 albums, this project has become such a part of my daily life I can’t remember what it was like before it existed. That said, I completely forgot that today was that day until I sat down to write this, so I ended up choosingContinue reading “#200 – Money Money 2020 by The Network”

#199 – 21st Century Liability by YUNGBLUD

Not sure how I came across this one, but it’s pretty fun. It features some really cool combinations of guitar parts with break beats and lyrics that are kinda violent, clever, and funny at the same time. If this is what the kids are into these days, I’m into it.

#198 – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes by TV On The Radio

Up next in my list of bands that I never gave a chance to because someone was too insistent…

#197 – Good News For People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse

My selections have been going this way organically, so it seems right to lean into it. There have been many artists over the years that I have chosen not to listen to purely because friends have been so obsessed and insistent. It’s petty, I know, and the stupid thing is that I frequently end upContinue reading “#197 – Good News For People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse”

#196 – Jurassic Technologie by Pr0files

I hope everybody out there is staying safe and taking the recommended precautions. In many ways, it feels like America is perched at the edge of a cliff with quite a few options for how to get pushed over. This may well prove to be the most disastrous Thanksgiving ever, as a significant amount ofContinue reading “#196 – Jurassic Technologie by Pr0files”