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You know you’re old when

I’m always telling my wife and kids that it’s a bitch getting old. A different kind of proof came today. You know you’re old when….. you don’t own and would barely recognize any of the songs receiving Grammy Award nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year or Album of the Year.

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TIME’s top 100 Albums

So TIME Magazine has come up with its list of the best 100 albums, cutely called “The All-TIME 100 Albums.” While it’s no Rolling Stone, just for the heck of it, here’s the list with the ones I own on LP and/or CD in bold. Not surprisingly, most of my albums come from the 60s […]

Book Review: This Is Your Brain on Music (2006)

Many freely admit they are addicted. I am one of them. We can’t go through a day without listening to music on the radio, a stereo or MP3 player. Purchase of concert tickets or a new release by a favorite artist ranks among the necessities of life. Snippets of songs heard in passing almost immediately […]

Book Review: Hotel California (2006)

It began in the late 1960s in a bohemian, artistic enclave in the canyons near Los Angeles. It spawned the singer-songwriter era of rock music and produced what would be called “the Southern California sound” and “country rock.” It essentially ended in the 1970s as commercial success and millionaire lifestyles led to the disintegration of […]

Seeing music from different perspectives

Via A Moderate from South Dakota I learn that the National Review Online (sorry, not on my reading list) has compiled a list of the 50 greatest conservative rock songs. Reviewing the list raised my eyebrows. Some of the selections make sense but a couple display the different views different people can take on music.

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