Guilty Pleasures: Neil Diamond

A few weeks back when I was writing about my music tastes, I started thinking about guilty pleasures. Generally, for me, this means the things that other people feel I should feel guilty about, since I don’t particularly feel too guilty about much, but particularly my music tastes.
A perfect example of this would be Neil [...]

Five from the ladies…

Maybe I can’t think of an entire album with a lady singer that would be in my top ten, but there are tons of individual songs and singers who I like. Limiting it to five might be tough, but what the hey, it’s Friday, my desk is clean, and I’m leaving for a conference first [...]

Albums to start a collection with

These days, most people seem to listen to hit songs more than albums as a whole. For whatever reason, I much prefer to listen to whole albums at a time.
Some might call this my Desert Island list, some might call it subjective, regardless, in no particular order, these are the first ten albums I would [...]

Top Five Otis Songs

They’re doing construction in my building this week, which has put a dent in my work productivity, but might help my blog productivity. It’s also meant that I have spent the week with my headphones on, listening to music a little louder than I maybe should.
Right now I’m listening to Stax Does the Beatle, a [...]

Remember Heart? I’m talking about the band, dummy.

Remember Heart? They sang songs like Barracuda and Magic Man, were accused of being witches, and then one of them married Cameron Crowe? Well, Ann Wilson, one of the sisters who made up the core of the band, put out an album last year which I “borrowed” from my brother, but hadn’t really gotten around [...]