Album Review

a masterpiece, bought

Neil Young’s 1974 album On the Beach is easily one of my top five albums of all time. (I can somewhat confidently identify two others that are in the top five, but we’ll give them their own posts sometime.)

a fair shot?

I’ve loved fun.’s debut album, Aim and Ignite for a while and was looking forward to their new album, Some Nights, which came out on Feb. 21. Listening (belatedly and then repeatedly) to “We Are Young” for the first time after hearing that it was in a Super Bowl commercial raised expectations higher.

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…

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…

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.”)

day late and a dollar short

Happy 2011!

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

10–6:

10.

addenda

Some last-minute additions to the 2010 albums list: