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Guidelines for my list: First, I can’t use songs from any of the top albums I’ve listed. Second, song selection is more about my personal favorites and less about what I think are the “best” individual songs of the year – it’s a list reflecting what I listened to most during the year and what Read more

I clearly haven’t spent much time on the blog this year – but I keep meaning to at least post a few highlights. The trip to Japan, projects done on the house, Thanksgiving with the family… There’s still time, right? For now though, I’ll at least try to keep the tradition (habit? compulsion?) of documenting Read more

As Part 2 for this year, here’s my distilled list of favorite songs from 2018. There’s one track I left off the list that absolutely deserves recognition. Childish Cambino’s “This Is America” should probably be on top of everyone’s list but I wasn’t sure what I could say about it that hadn’t already been written Read more

I’ll keep the preamble to a minimum and get quickly to this year’s list of my favorite albums. There were some albums I really loved this year but I will say that when I pulled together my list of candidates for the Top 10 it was a shorter list than most years. In the end Read more

Before putting my list together this year, I spent some time looking back over the previous ten years in “Best of” posts. I was curious to see whether I’d still agree with my picks, how they’d hold up with time. There were a few oddballs in there (some intentional, some not). My early lists (which Read more