top 10 — maybe the first in a series

This one started during an Aug. 20 conversation in New York with a fellow Wallflowers fan. What are your top 10 Wallflowers songs? What are your 10 least favorites?

correcting a delinquency

“Hey!” you’ve been saying. “You never finished your top 10 of 2010 list! I’ve been in suspense!”

(Alternatively, you just said, “Huh? You were posting something with favorite albums or something? Oh, right. I didn’t really notice.”)

the spotify experience

After the initial bewilderment and aimless searching, I realized that getting the most out of Spotify would require a little help from other websites — namely, places that could recommend new music for me to explore (unless there’s some sort of internal public playlist feature on there…

collected and collaged

Et voilà, the 2011 albums that I bought or repeatedly Spotify’d this year (either because I really liked them or was determined to give them a fair chance).

Twenty-three altogether — six fewer than last year. It’s a pretty… Paste-y collection, for lack of a…

downtime = listening time

Happy Wilco record release day!

After hurting my back last Thursday, I was stuck on the couch until Monday morning. Sadly, I had to cancel plans to see a Rhett Miller concert on Saturday, but this stretch of downtime was salvaged by a nice little surprise in…

day late and a dollar short

Happy 2011!

Let’s count down my favorite 10 albums of 2010.

10–6:

10.

Christmas songs that don’t make me want to punch an elf

’Tis the season for wanting to put on iPod headphones immediately upon walking into pretty much any store. Or… anyplace, really. It’s too bad, because some Christmas songs start as tolerable to even wonderful.

something here does not belong

People who know me well know that music is a good bet for gifts.

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this year’s gimmick

The annual year-end music lists have turned into an almost stressful undertaking. Over the years and in many different blogs, I’ve done rankings of every single album purchased, top 10 countdowns, haikus, and… not even sure what else.