Top however many singers of all-time
I was going to respond to Rolling Stone‘s recent 200 Greatest Singers list with my own Top 40 or Top 20 or even 5, but maybe I’ll just turn it over to you. That’s right–you. Who are your favourites?...
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Christgau weighs in. Anyone care to weigh in on Christgau’s weigh-in? (I’ve only had time to skim the thing, and won’t likely get to it until next week.)
View ArticleRoxy Music Songs Ranked From Worst to Best
Roxy Music’s career can be neatly divided into three phases. Phase one includes 1972’s Roxy Music and 1973’s For Your Pleasure, tarted-up art-pop that absorbs “Telstar,” golden age Hollywood, Gil...
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Christgau weighs in. Anyone care to weigh in on Christgau’s weigh-in? (I’ve only had time to skim the thing, and won’t likely get to it until next week.)
View ArticleRoxy Music Songs Ranked From Worst to Best
Roxy Music’s career can be neatly sliced into three phases. Phase one includes 1972’s Roxy Music and 1973’s For Your Pleasure, tarted-up art-pop that absorbs “Telstar,” golden age Hollywood, Gil...
View ArticleThe Best Beatles Books
Stephen Thomas Erlewine at Pitchfork chooses the ten best books about the Beatles, from Philip Norman’s Shout! to Rob Sheffield’s wonderful Dreaming the Beatles. M.I.A. (fully cognizant of the fact...
View Article2017 Pazz and Jop ballot
The first ballot I’ve submitted in several years, in fact. Top 10 Singles (videos below) 1. A.Chal, “Love and Hennessy” 2. Angus & Julia Stone, “Snow” 3. Blaenavon, Soko, “No One Else in Mind” 4....
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David Bowie and Pazz & Jop
Yesterday David Bowie died at the age of 69; today, the Village Voice published its annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll, though they no longer cite (at least that I can see online) what edition it...
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Top 10 of 2015
Well, okay, now that I have commanded your attention. I’m pretty certain I have left behind for good the year-end Top 10 list—or anyway, a Top 10 list confined to just music. For 25+ years, I could be...
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New York Playlist x 100
In the latest issue of New York, Jody Rosen creates a New York-themed playlist, running from 1928 to 2014 (from Sophie Tucker to Angel Haze). “I focused on songs about New York, and about archetypal...
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1967 Jazz & Pop Results
From Jazz & Pop Magazine (formerly Jazz), the results of a critics poll right at the dawn of rock criticism (would like to know who actually voted). Biggest surprise to me is Donovan at #3. (Thanks...
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Christgau weighs in. Anyone care to weigh in on Christgau’s weigh-in? (I’ve only had time to skim the thing, and won’t likely get to it until next week.)
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Q: “Is Pazz & Jop Critically Ill?”
So asks Mark Kemp. A: Yes, indeed, but this is not a new development (the patient’s condition has been worsening for years), nor does it (in my view) have anything (or anyway, very little) to do with...
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Best Music Writing, 2013 (Jason Gross)
The two minutes and 18 seconds it will take you to peruse the Pazz & Jop results? Probably better you devote them instead to the several hours (days?) it will likely take you to fish through all...
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Bob Stanley’s 10 Best Music Books
“From the frantic birth of rock’n'roll to the rages of punk, these books capture the excitement of popular music.” (An excellent list in the Guardian by the author of Yeah Yeah Yeah.)
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2013 Playlists
I’ve grouped songs into three categories, but within those groupings, the order means nothing. The only thing I can say definitively about 2013 is that I did not have anything like a definitive #1....
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50 from Bob Stanley
Bob Stanley: 50 Songs I Love Saint Etienne member and the author of Yeah Yeah Yeah picks his top 50 tracks, from Pink Floyd to 3 Of A Kind via Barbara Mason.
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From the Archives: Simon Frith’s Top 50 (Fall ’92)
[Note: this was a bonus beat included with the Simon Frith Online Exchange. Some YouTube links have been added.] Souvenirs From a History of Popular Music, Part 1: Simon Frith’s Top 50 (Originally...
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Zappa (13): Scott’s 19
[my response to Jeff Pike] Great list, Jeff. I like, and in some cases love, most of what I know from it (“Aybe Sea” — nice one!), and look forward to listening to a few I either haven’t heard, or just...
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