When I was nineteen, I worked in a record store. Not like a High Fidelity thing – it was just the Sam Goody in the mall in the Rio Grande Valley. I had a manager there named Eddie. Nice dude, kind of a cokehead, in his early thirties. Long-haired rocker guy, could kick your ass [...]

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I forgot to post it when it ran last week, but I’ve got an interview with Rhett Miller running with Paste right now.
As I mentioned before, this was one of the neater things I’ve done, writing-wise, this year, just because I’ve been such a huge fan of the guy’s work for such a long [...]

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So, after giving it some thought while writing that entry a couple weeks ago, I decided to contact my editors at Decider about that piece on the Counting Crows that found a version with “theme and content similar” published in the Sioux City Journal. Mostly because y’all were pretty convincing, and not doing anything made [...]

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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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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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