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mark's music blog: My Decade in Music: Top Artists
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My place to pontificate, vent, celebrate, and usually be right about music despite appearances to the contrary. Monday, December 20, 2010. My Decade in Music: Top Artists. Let's get two things clear: this was a great decade for music, and the story of the decade was the total conquest of digital formats. Here are the artists who put the Naughts right up there with the 60s and 70s. Not in any meaningful order, except the first one:. The New Pornographers/A. C. Newman. Iron and Wine, Peter Wolf ( Sleepless.
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mark's music blog: December 2010
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My place to pontificate, vent, celebrate, and usually be right about music despite appearances to the contrary. Thursday, December 23, 2010. My Decade in Music, Ranked. OK, OK, I get it. Lots of grief from readers over my data dump of great bands of the decade. I hate lists and best of's, but sometimes you gotta. So here's the heart of the previous post, my Top 25 Artists of the Naughts, in order. These are the artists who gave me something 1) unique and skillful AND 2) are still in my playlist. Kings of...
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mark's music blog: My Year in Music: 2013
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My place to pontificate, vent, celebrate, and usually be right about music despite appearances to the contrary. Monday, December 30, 2013. My Year in Music: 2013. Ah, 2013. Born from 2012 (a great year), you had such promise. How you disappointed. Not terrible, just.meh. You gave me too few thrills, too many shrugs. I would ignore you if I could, but I'm committed to writing these annual summaries, so here goes. First, themes of this Year in Music:. But great hooks don't necessarily mean great songs.
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mark's music blog: December 2013
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My place to pontificate, vent, celebrate, and usually be right about music despite appearances to the contrary. Monday, December 30, 2013. My Year in Music: 2013. Ah, 2013. Born from 2012 (a great year), you had such promise. How you disappointed. Not terrible, just.meh. You gave me too few thrills, too many shrugs. I would ignore you if I could, but I'm committed to writing these annual summaries, so here goes. First, themes of this Year in Music:. But great hooks don't necessarily mean great songs.
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mark's music blog: My Decade in Music, Ranked
http://mpfriedman.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-decade-in-music-ranked.html
My place to pontificate, vent, celebrate, and usually be right about music despite appearances to the contrary. Thursday, December 23, 2010. My Decade in Music, Ranked. OK, OK, I get it. Lots of grief from readers over my data dump of great bands of the decade. I hate lists and best of's, but sometimes you gotta. So here's the heart of the previous post, my Top 25 Artists of the Naughts, in order. These are the artists who gave me something 1) unique and skillful AND 2) are still in my playlist. Kings of...
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mark's music blog: January 2013
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My place to pontificate, vent, celebrate, and usually be right about music despite appearances to the contrary. Sunday, January 13, 2013. My Year in Music: 2012. 2012 renewed my faith in the healing power of music. I. T was a trying year for me, and many times a new or familiar song made the difference between a bad and a good day. I remembered how in my youth I received new songs with gratitude and reverence, and was glad to rediscover that that is still the best posture for listening. Two categories: t...
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mark's music blog: January 2012
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My place to pontificate, vent, celebrate, and usually be right about music despite appearances to the contrary. Sunday, January 1, 2012. 2011's Best Music, with Apologies. I've lived in fear of this moment for 12 months. Last year, I criticized a friend's Ten Best list, and he challenged me to publish my own. Fair enough. But then I sort of wimped out. I posted a Top 25 Artists of the Decade. List - with a lot of ties, which made it really a Top 35 list. Maybe Top 40. Why I hate Top 10 lists. Changing Ta...
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mark's music blog: My Year in Music: 2012
http://mpfriedman.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-year-in-music-2012.html
My place to pontificate, vent, celebrate, and usually be right about music despite appearances to the contrary. Sunday, January 13, 2013. My Year in Music: 2012. 2012 renewed my faith in the healing power of music. I. T was a trying year for me, and many times a new or familiar song made the difference between a bad and a good day. I remembered how in my youth I received new songs with gratitude and reverence, and was glad to rediscover that that is still the best posture for listening. Two categories: t...
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