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3 New Wave Albums, 1981

Inchoate genre roundup from college newspaper, almost definitely of albums I picked for free out of a giveaway box in the newspaper office.

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Singles Reviews, 1988

A very short-lived (only one installment, if my memory and what I can find in my file cabinet serve me) Creem column.

Nov 21 •

150 Best Albums of 1970

It sure seems like a lot of people paying close attention to rock music in 1970 thought it was falling apart — or at very least, cracking in half.

Nov 20 •

Other Chuck Eddys

Back in the ’80s I think it was, or possibly even before that in high school, somebody somewhere decided there was something intrinsically drag-racey…

Nov 19 •

35 Best Singles of 2021

I tend to live in my own bubble, if not on my own planet, when it comes to singles these days.

Nov 18 •

25 Excellent "Bad" Cover Versions

There are bad cover versions and….There are cover versions you only think are bad, because they sound wrong on paper, since they come from artists or…

Nov 17 •

Speed Goys and Pigeons for Life

Blindfold Test #10

Nov 16 •

10 LPs I Liked in Early 1982

A snapshot of my listening, when I was weeks shy of 21½ years old.

Nov 15 •

Neil Young Review, 1986

Note gratuitous but arguably prescient Dinosaur Jr.

Nov 14 •

37 Best Singles of 2022

As with 2021, a determining factor here (besides how much I liked the things) is whether I actually heard the records in question as singles — i.e…

Nov 13 •

Testifying for Books and Kids, to No Avail

Last February I testified before Texas’s Senate Committee on Education K-16, against Senate Bill 13, which would effectively ban supposedly “indecent…

Nov 12 •

150 Best Albums of 1986

I know it’s the equivalent of rock bands whining about how tired they are of always playing their biggest hit (“No way will I do that bloody wedding…

Nov 11 •

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