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Jeff Pike’s Top 100 (+ 100 more)
Back in the ’90s, when pretty much whatever energy I still had left as a rock critic was being spilled into freebie fanzines, Jeff Pike’s Tapeworm was one of the funnest ones for me to write for. The...
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Rockcritics Poll: Early American Rock ‘Zines
Never realized before that WordPress has a poll feature. Uh-oh… Take Our Poll
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Fusion Critics Poll, 1972
A friend sent me this, so I’m posting it, a little nervously… more fascinating archival material. Just one short comment: fairly delighted (and surprised) to see Pagliaro’s “Some Sing Some Dance” rank...
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Fusion Critics Poll, 1972, continued
Last week I reprinted the chart. Today, the individual ballots. (Will remove if some actual participant in the poll or former Fusion board member requests as much. That includes any of you former...
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Elton’s Heavy 100
In February 1974, Creem published Elton John’s “Heavy 100,” his favourite albums of all-time (or rather, an excerpt of that; according to the introduction, his list-in-progress numbered 286). It’s a...
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Critical Links Galore!
150 pieces of music writing from 2012 that Michaelangelo Matos particularly liked.
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Singles, 1981, Brit Edition
The top 50 singles from one of the most exciting years ever for pop music, according to the critics at the NME. (At the time, this list meant as much to me as Pazz & Jop.)
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Singles, 1981, Eddy Edition
On the heels of last night’s NME chart from ’81, Chuck Eddy provides an overview of 50 singles from the same year over at Rhapsody, and captures the tenor of the year in a single sentence: “Stuff was...
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Bread and Butter
“Lists are bread and butter to music writers; the problem with bread and butter, as we all now know post-Atkins, is that it sits in your stomach too long and makes you fat. Some of the writers here...
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25 Movie Critics
Here, according to the website, Complex, are the 25 Best Movie Critics of All Time. Says Matt Barone in his intro, “Anyone who takes cinema seriously is advised to read their work.” All right, then.
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Music Critics Poll, 1972
Music critics polled in 1972 recognize Benjamin Britten, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, and Cage — but don’t completely ignore Beatles and Dylan also. Meanwhile, the Carpenters “blend styles beautifully.”
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Bowie’s Top 100 Books List
Includes: - Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock – Nik Cohn – 70’s - Mystery Train – Greil Marcus – 1976 – Hardback (Also includes titles by Jon Savage, John Cage, Peter Guralnick.)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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