Original Broadcast Date: 11/27/2022; Re-edited 08/13/2023
Introductory episode, in which I detail the background for this podcast, and describe my methodologies and my self enforced rules for selecting my Top 20 lists. And then beginning a multi-episode look at the albums and musical trends of 1973.
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Original Broadcast Date 12/04/2022; Re-edited: 08/26/2023
Continuing to explore the genre trends and highlights from music released in the USA in 1973. This episode explores the Funk, R&B, Country Music, Country Rock, Southern Rock and Jamband pioneer albums from 1973.
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Original Broadcast Date 12/11/2022; Re-edited: 09/07/2023
Continuing to explore the genre trends and highlights from music released in the USA in 1973. This episode explores the Blues Rock, Blues, Hard Rock, Prog, and Krautrock genre albums from 1973.
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Original Broadcast Date 12/18/2022; Re-edited: 09/17/2023
Continuing to explore the genre trends and highlights from music released in the USA in 1973. This episode explores the Glam Rock, Proto-Punk, Mainstream Rock, Jazz Rock, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, and a few scattered other releases from other genres. Also my honorable Mention album for 1973 is revealed.
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Original Broadcast Date 12/26/2022; Re-edited: 10/08/2023
In this episode I begin to reveal my top 20 favorite albums of 1973 with albums #20 through #11 revealed.
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Original Broadcast Date 1/1/2023; Re-edited: 10/17/2023
In this episode I begin to reveal my top 20 favorite albums of 1973 with albums #20 through #11 revealed.
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Original Broadcast Date 1/13/2023; Re-edited: 12/06/2023
In this episode I discuss some of the notable music and music stories of 2022. This episode leads in to the next two episodes where I reveal a countdown of my favorite twenty albums of 2022.
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Original Broadcast Date 1/15/2023; Re-edited: 12/21/2023
My #20 through #11 favorite albums of 2022 are revealed, and a remembrance of the music legends we lost during the first six months of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date 1/22/2023; Re-edited: 1/15/2024
This episode completes my review of the music of 2022, featuring my top 10 favorite albums for that year.
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Original Broadcast Date 1/29/2023; Re-edited: 3/2/2024
In this episode I begin a series on the albums of 1983, and discuss the trends for the year in pop, alternative, metal, and punk.
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Original Broadcast Date 2/5/2023; Re-edited: 3/4/2024
This episode continues the deep dive review of the genre trends and album highlights of 1983, with discussions of the Singer-Songwriter releases of the year, Country, Classic Rock, Reggae, Jazz, and Hip Hop
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Original Broadcast Date 2/12/2023; Re-edited: 4/2/2024
This episode begins the countdown of my 20 favorite albums of 1983; with #20 through #11 being revealed.
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Original Broadcast Date: 2/19/2023; Re-edited 4/29/2024
This episode completes the deep dive into the albums of 1983, presenting my top 10 favorite albums of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 2/26/2023; Re-edited 4/29/2024
In this episode, I discuss the history and evolution of The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and I interview music journalist Alan Light, who among other career accomplishments, is a member of the Hall's nominating committee. This episode contains the first half of the interview with Alan, and that interview will conclude in Episode 15.
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Original Broadcast Date: 3/5/2023; Re-edited 4/30/2024
In this episode I conclude my interview with music Journalist Alan Light, who is a member of the nominating committee for the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. We discuss some of the so called "snubs" in this episode. And then the second half of the episode begins my analysis of the current roster of new nominees for the Rock Hall this year; with that analysis continuing in to episode 16 next week.
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Original Broadcast Date: 3/12/2023; Re-edited 5/4/2024
In this episode, I continue the discussion of the 2023 Rock Hall nominees which I began in the second half of Episode 15 last week, discussing the resumes of six more of this year's nominees. This series will conclude in episode 17 next week.
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Original Broadcast Date: 3/19/2023; Re-edited 6/13/2024
This episode concludes my series covering the resumes of the 2023 nominees for possible induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
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Original Broadcast Date: 3/26/2023; Re-edited 7/21/2024
This episode begins a review of the albums and music genre trends of 1961.
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Original Broadcast Date: 4/2/2023; Re-edited 8/19/2024
This episode begins my countdown of my 20 favorite albums of 1961 with #20 through #11, leading into next week's episode featuring my top 10 albums for the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 4/9/2023; Re-edited 9/25/2024
This episode concludes my deep dive review into the music of 1961 with my top 10 favorite albums.
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Original Broadcast Date: 4/16/2023; Re-edited 10/29/2024
This episode starts a four part series reviewing the album releases of 1996, with this episode covering the various flavors of Alternative Rock music of the era.
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Original Broadcast Date: 4/23/2023; Re-edited 11/17/2024
In this episode I continue my review of the music of 1996, discussing albums by female led Rock bands, some rockabuilly and punk, Reggae, Country, the swing revival, Electronica, Jambands and hip hop, and I reveal my honorable mention album for the year as I lead into next week when I will begin my top 20 countdown for the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 4/30/2023; Re-edited 03/27/2025
This episode features my #20 through #11 favorite albums of 1996, leading in to next week's episode with my top 10.
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Original Broadcast Date: 5/07/2023
CURRENTLY SPOTIFY ONLY - Re-edit for fuller distribution coming soon!
This episode completes my review of the labums of 1996 with my top 10 favorite albums of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 5/21/2023; Re-edited 11/12/2023
In this episode, I begin a deep dive into the albums and music trends of 1987 with a look at albums in the genres of Heartland Rock, Singer-Songwriters, Country, and various styles of Hard Rock and Metal.
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Original Broadcast Date: 6/04/2023; Re-edited 11/02/2023
In this episode, I explore the 1987 album releases in punk rock, Noise Rock, and Industrial music, as well as various Dance music styles of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 9/01/2023
In this episode I cover additional pop music of 1987 and explore the Alternative Rock releases for the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 9/2/2023
In this episode, I continue my deep dive into the albums of 1987 with discussion of Prog, Jambands, Commercial Rock, and Jazz album from the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 9/3/2023
My final run-up episode to my top 20 list for the year covering the R&B, Funk, Rap, World Music, and Soundtrack albums of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 11/2/2023
In this episode I finally begin to reveal my top 20 favorite albums of 1987, with #20 through #11, as well as one "honorable mention" album that didn't make the top 20 cut.
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Original Broadcast Date: 10/15/2023
This episode concludes my deep dive review of the music of 1987 featuring my top 10 favorite albums, plus one more honorable mention album for the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 10/29/2023
This episode explores the songs and music trends of 1917, a year which marked the first recorded Jazz song, setting off the first new music craze to be instigated by recorded music.
The episode revolves around a Top 20 countdown, but in this case I simply dub these the twenty most historically interesting songs, rather than my "favorites" for the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 11/27/2023
This episode begins a new four part series on the albums and major music trends of 1969.
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Original Broadcast Date: 12/10/2023
In this episdoe I complete my preliminary rundown of the music trends of 1969, leading in to the next two episodes where I will reveal my 20 favorite albums of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 12/29/2023
In this episode I begin the countdown of my favortie 20 albums of 1969, with albums #20 through #11 revealed as well as commetary on one more popular album of the year that did not make the cut.
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Original Broadcast Date: 1/11/2024
This episode completes my dive into the albums and music trends of 1969, presenting my 10 favorite albums of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 2/9/2024
This episode starts a three episode discussion of the music of 2023, with this episode discussing the most popular music of the year and notable music stories and events from the year, leading in to my next two episodes where I will reveal my favorite albums of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 2/29/2024
This episode begins my countdown of my favorite 20 albums of 2023 with numbers 20 through 11 and also a bit of discussion of some "honorable mention" albums that I considered for my list.
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Original Broadcast Date: 4/01/2024
This episode concludes my look at the albums of 2023 with my top 10, as well as discussion of some additional "honorable mention" alvbums that missed my list.
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Original Broadcast Date: 4/15/2024
In this episode I start a two part analysis of the latest list of nominees for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, discussing 8 of the 15 nominees.
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Original Broadcast Date: 4/20/2024
This episode concludes my discussion of this year's nominees for the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, and presents my predictions for this year's induction class.
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Original Broadcast Date: 06/04/2024
This episode starts a new multi-part series on the music trends and album releases of 1972.
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Original Broadcast Date: 06/10/2024
This episode continues my look into the music trends and album releases of 1972 with looks at Funk, Soul, Hard Rock, Glam, and Prog music.
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Original Broadcast Date: 06/22/2024
In this episode I complete my discussion of the music trends of 1972, and the notable albums that did not make the list of my top 20 favorites for the year. I continue my discussion of progressive rock in America and Europe, progressive folk, krautrock, power pop, blues rock, and a discussion of some eclectic acts that didn't fit well into any of the genre categories I'd already discussed.
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Original Broadcast Date: 06/30/2024
Continuing my review of the music of 1972 with the first half of my top 20 favorites. This episode featuring selections #20 - #11.
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Original Broadcast Date: 07/16/2024
This episode completes the deep dive review of the music of 1972; unveiling my top 10 favorite albums of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 8/10/2024
This begins a three part series discussing key songs and musical trends of 1955.
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Original Broadcast Date: 8/25/2024
This episode contains the first half of my top 20 countdown of my favorite songs of 1955; with my #20 through #11 selections.
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Original Broadcast Date: 9/14/2024
This episode completes my dive into the music of 1955, featuring a countdown of my ten favorite songs of the year, along with historical details about the artists and interesting facts about each song.
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Original Broadcast Date: 10/19/2024
This episode begins a new deep dive project, highlighting the albums and music trends of 1980.
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Original Broadcast Date: 11/06/2024
This episode continues my coverage of the music tgrends and albums of `1980, leading in to my next two episodes which will reveal my Top 20 Favorite albums of this year.
This episode focuses primarily on the American made music of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 12/23/2024
This episode begins the countdown of my favorite albums of 1980, leading into Episode 53, which will reveal my Top 10 albums.
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Original Broadcast Date: 1/20/2025
This episode concludes my review of the music of 1980 and concludes Season 3 of the podcast.
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Original Broadcast Date: 01/25/2025
This episode reviews the music trends of 2024; discussing the major hit mainstream releases and some of the music I enjoyed that did not make my top 20 list; leading in to the next two episodes where I reveal my Top 20 favorites of 2024.
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Original Broadcast Date: 02/6/2025
This episode reveals the first half of my 20 favorite albums of 2024, and my honorable mention #21 album of the year, with a diverse array of albums from goth to psychedelia, blues, punk, jazz, funk, and country music selections. Next episode will reveal my top 10.
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Original Broadcast Date: 02/21/2025
This episode concludes my review of the music of 2024 with a run down of my top 10 favorite albums of the year.
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Original Broadcast Date: 03/13/2025
In this episode I discuss the latest nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, covering 7 of the 14 nominees with a discussion of their merits and career highlights and what I personally think of each nominee and their chances of being voted in the Hall this year.
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Coming Soon - Estimated to be released by March 16
This episode will conclude my two part look at this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees.
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Date TBD
This episode will begin a multi-episode look at the music of 1967. Listening project has been completed, currently working on the script outlines to figure out how many episodes this project will take. I anticipate it may be my longest one ever; I listened to a hell of a lot of music!
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