Yeah, I know it's 2021. Yeah, I know the title says 2019. You'll get the gist of it here in a minute, just bear with me. August 30th, 2019. It was to be the culmination of the great “Stan Wars” between Taylor Swift's mega-huge fanbase and Lana Del Rey's smaller but dedicated stan squad. Twitter …
Month: August 2021
My First Concert
As I grew up I went hard into music. I've discussed some of my earliest memories here, and a bit about my time with hair metal here. And more are coming, I'm building up to that pivotal year of 1991 where everything went wide open for me (and it might require more than one post …
A Bit About Collecting
One aspect of music fandom/appreciation/worship/whatever is collecting. In our day and age, having a collection is not at all necessary. Collections of anything are cumbersome – they take up space, they cost money, they are at risk to perils like flood and fire, and they cost money. I came up in the old days, when …
Album Of The Week – August 23, 2021
What is an album, really? If I were ranking an artist's albums I would use some kind of metric to determine that I'm only going to include full-length studio records. No live albums, no EP's, no extended singles, no greatest hits compilations. But for an informal exercise like the Album of the Week? I'm certianly …
S-Tier Songs, Vol. One
I talk about albums at least once a week when I do the Album of the Week feature on Mondays. And I do listen to albums on a pretty regular basis. My main form of music listening and evaluation is the album. However, in the end with music, it's still about the songs. Some albums …
House Of Hair
I outlined before the first part of my journey through life with music a few weeks ago. It's time to get to the next step in that process. I left off in the mid-1980's where I was starting to assemble a bit of a cassette collection. Well, what did people rock out to in the …
Album Of The Week – August 16, 2021
Our album of the week is an old-time cut from the early '80's. It's a cult classic from a band that took on a life of its own after originally breaking up and has now ascended to legendary status. The Misfits – Walk Among Us Released March 1982 on Ruby Records Favorite tracks – Astro …
Most Hated Bands – Part Three
Here we are folks. The grand finale of the Most Hated Bands list from BestLife.com. Part One here, and Part Two there #15 – Korn Huh. Wasn't necessarily expecting to see them on the list. But I guess it makes sense – if Limp Bizkit can pull the number 2 spot, then the originators of …
Most Hated Bands – Part Two
It's time for Part 2 of our exploration of the Most Hated Bands as provided by science stuff from BestLifeOnline.com. Here is Part 1 if you missed it. Part 3 hits tomorrow. As a note, the list as originally provided counts down from 21 to 1. I am running the list in reverse order, from …
Most Hated Bands – Part One
Earlier in the year a site called BestLifeOnline.com released a list of the world's most hated bands, according to science. This list was compiled by the use of algorithms that measured a series of metrics across several platforms. After going through the cesspool of the Internet for long enough they provided a ranked list of …
The Crooked Wanderer 