Just a few notes and links to my friends’ blogs today.
My pal James Eric has just begun his own Top 100 Albums project. I’m fascinated by these right now – if you’ve done one, let me know in the comments and I’ll link to it, it’ll be great. If you’re thinking about doing it, [...]

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I’ve posted a bit about this elsewhere, but I’m still kinda stuck about what to do.
So, earlier this week, in order to attach clips to a pitch to an editor, I Googled the title of this article that I wrote for Decider back in February. The piece apparently did pretty well on the site, seeing [...]

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20. Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse (2004)

I kinda hated Modest Mouse before this album, mostly because I was in my “Oh, I hate hipsters!” phase of early-twenties hipsterdom, and they all liked this band a lot. But I was growing up a [...]

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40. The Mob Rules, Black Sabbath (1982)

Dio’s contributions to Black Sabbath are sometimes maligned by Ozzy purists, but fuck that. The final few Ozzy records sounded pretty weak, and The Mob Rules is full of weird, crazy energy. It’s also heavy as fuck in ways that are the definition of Sabbath. "Falling Off the Edge [...]

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I ran into this post by Spike Gillespie, who I know a little bit through Austinist, earlier today. In it, she details some of the reasons why Austin Post, a new start-up media site in Austin dedicated to “citizen journalism” (yeah, those are scare quotes) is kinda crappy. The short answer is that it [...]

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60. Hip Hop Is Dead, Nas (2006)

I wasn’t into hip hop when Illmatic came out, and so I always kinda tried to fake it. That album still sounds good to fresh ears, but it’s not as earth-shattering now as everybody says it was in ‘94. That’s what happens when you [...]

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There were two more rules that I hadn’t included in the round up before. They were: One, live albums count, as long as they’re really consistently good albums, and two, EP’s are just shorter albums, because who gives a fuck about designations like that? With that out of the way, the list for today:
80. Who’s [...]

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Alas, I’m trying to let some of my affectations go, and I’ve ditched the brackets that previously surrounded every blog post title. I’m still using words like “alas”, though. You have to do these things slowly, you know.
Anyway. Adam Schragin linked to a friend of his recently who ran down his 100 favorite albums of [...]

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