Month: July 2016
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #72 (“Girlfriend”)
Another day, another album! This time around, Matthew Sweet’s 1991 power pop / alternative rock masterpiece Girlfriend.
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #73 (“Mother Love Bone”)
At the intersection of glam rock and grunge, you’ve got Mother Love Bone, a band that burned out before its first and only studio album…
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #74 (“The Depths of a Year”)
Today’s album was discovered by rummaging through the Magnatune catalog. This one is The Depths of a Year by Ehren Starks. Magnatune lists Depths in…
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #75 (“Spike”)
Spike features Elvis Costello’s highest-charting single, “Veronica” – co-written with and featuring Paul McCartney. That’s just the cherry on the sundae for this album, though.
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #76 (“Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea”)
Today’s pick is a look at the early work of The Cure. Standing on a Beach and Staring at the Sea are co-sharing the pick…
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #77 (“Free”)
Free, the second album from LA-based Concrete Blonde is today’s pick for my top 100 favorite albums. Concrete Blonde sits in the 80s/90s “Alternative/Indie” bucket,…
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #78 (“Evolution”)
There are many sins in programming music on radio stations, but here are a few biggies: “Train wrecks,” where the second song is jarring and…
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #79 (“Ekstasis”)
On the off chance that anyone is actually playing along at home, I feel bad about listing records that you can’t easily find on Spotify,…
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #80 (“Whip-Smart”)
Liz Phair‘s Whip-Smart is a perfect Saturday afternoon album. By happy accident, that’s when I’m re-listening to Whip-Smart and writing this post. Whip-Smart is not…
My favorite 100 albums of all time: #81 (“Hack”)
Hack may, in fact, be the only album to sample a Walt Disney read-a-long album and James Brown on the same track. The fact that…