Note: I used to make a point of doing these on the first of every month. However, life is weird sometime. I really didn’t have a TON of great new finds in September to talk about, so then I said I would combine September and October into one month, and then a lot of other stuff happened around the last weekend of October so this … Continue reading Music I Want to Talk About: Fall 2021
Songs I Want to Talk About “Take My Breath” by The Weeknd (2021) I honestly don’t think there’s any artist currently working who knows how to deliver both crowd-pleasing radio hits and experimental introspection the way that the Weeknd does. After Hours was one of my Top 5 albums of 2020, and “Take My Breath,” the kickoff to whatever the next Weekend album cycle is … Continue reading Music I Want to Talk About: August 2021
Songs I Want to Talk About “Bible Verses” by Blake Shelton (2021) Some people might find it odd that I listen to full albums of big name artists that I don’t necessarily like. The reason why is because you occasionally stumble across masterpieces like “Bible Verses,” the final track of an otherwise pretty basic, predictable country album from Blake Shelton. I always love when artists … Continue reading Music I Want to Talk About: July 2021
Songs I Want to Talk About “Boys Will Be Girls” by We Are The Union (2021) Every once in a while I put a call out to social media asking for music recommendations, and one friend suggested the album Ordinary Life by We Are The Union. The album as a whole is quite good, but whenever I put it it on I look forward to … Continue reading Music I Want to Talk About – June 2021
Songs I Want to Talk About “Headphones Baby” by The Vaccines (2021) Imagine if Death Cab for Cutie wrote the lyrics for a Walk the Moon song. That’s essentially the masterpiece that is “Headphones Baby.” This song turned up in my Release Radar mid-May and I fell in love with it almost immediately. At first glance, it’s just a fun love song with just the … Continue reading Music I Want to Talk About – May 2021
Songs I Want to Talk About “Since You Been Gone” by Rainbow (1979) The first half of January had me in a pretty intense ’70s rock phase. The song I played the most in this phase (and maybe all of January) might’ve been “Since You Been Gone” by Rainbow. This was a legitimate hit in its day, but I didn’t learn of it until around … Continue reading Music I Want to Talk About – January 2021
It’s finally here: the final five albums of my Top 20 albums of 2020. Here are the links where you can see the first 15: Part 1: #20-#16Part 2: #15-#11Part 3: #10-#6 In case you haven’t seen any prior posts in this series, here’s a rundown of what I looked for in albums as I was building the list: Specialness:Is the album special? Is it … Continue reading Top 20 Albums of 2020: #5 -#1
Welcome back to the third installment of my Top 20 albums of 2020. You can find Part 1: #20-#16 Part 1: #20-#16 here and Part 2: #15-#11 here. Here’s a quick refresher on what I look for in albums as I’m building the list: Specialness:Is the album special? Is it making interesting choices that set it apart from other 2020 releases or music in general? … Continue reading Top 20 Albums of 2020: #10-#6
So I am by no means a ‘Swiftie.’ Sure, I’ve listened to every song and even written a review of every album (links to those at the end of this post). And yeah, from 1989 onwards I’ve been fairly invested in her album rollouts, listening to new songs and watching new videos almost immediately after they dropped. But I’ve also consistently had negative opinions about … Continue reading ‘folklore’ by Taylor Swift – The Taylor Swift Album I’ve Been Waiting For
Genre: That kind of semi-experimental synthpop that so many people are doing now that it’s arguably just regular pop. Year: 2020 Runtime: 33:27 Total Number of Tracks: 12, including two interludes that are each under a minute long. Songs you might know: – “Comfort Crowd” – “Wish I Was Sober” – “Maniac” – “Checkmate” – “The Story” My prior relationship with the album and artist: … Continue reading Album Anne-alysis: Kid Krow by Conan Gray
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