Lists

Pop stars like John Denver and Olivia Newton-John crossed over regularly onto the country charts and future chicken salesman Kenny Rogers became a superstar in the genre.

50 Greatest Live Acts Right Now, Rolling Stones current best of, is completely ridiculous, a snap shot of heavy touring outfits plus their perennial favorites

the excesss of the rock and roll and the excess of the movies don’t mesh so hot

Yes, no man is an island and no, it takes more than a rock critic to introduce us to a world of music

Here the desire is for a return to place where the vitality of youth isn’t sapped by the decay of age

Stuck in a wheelchair for decades the former Soft Machine musician is on a whole other level

Waits get a healthy FIVE ALBUM PICKS. That’s more than Stevie Wonder. A risable conclusion by any standards.

This is kinda interesting, Elvis produced THREE of the albums here, the Pogues, the Specials, and Squeeze!!!

Look under the M’s… no McCartney-Costello collaboration on “Flowers In the Dirt” so we will include it here

A huge hole where hip hop should be. I am not a Jay-Z fanatic but cmon, where is Reasonable Doubt and Hark Knock Life, Vol 2??

Then I thought I might write about the first time I’d become aware of him. 1982, Elvis Costello covered “Two steps from The Blues” on the Imperial Bedroom tour (I think, something around that time) and blew me away and so i started listening to him

I asked Bill Holdship, who wrote the liner notes to the extended Replacements reissues at the bands request, and Rob O’Connor, the Yahoo Music columnist and maybe the best rock critic around, to tell me what their favorite songs were.

The surprise here is how not one band on this list compiled from 2012 listening habits, am I listening to in 2013. Regina had a disappointing year, Maps & Atlases still haven’t broken pop. Best Coast had a sales slump, Against Me went from controversy to norm. And Ceu should’ve been the next Shakira.

In this world, it is very hard to make money when you are this far off the grid and on just first listens and a viewing of the track list? This is off the charts weird.

I would not be a rock critic without the Sex Pistols, I would not be alive without Elvis Costello. Some albums shake you to your foundations, they change you in some fundamental way the way a death in the family or a love affair gone wrong can change you

Too much of it is like a background sound in search of a screen and that is with all due respect to williams work. But the truth is even for star wars it isal the equivalent of underlining a sentence for emphasize

Popdust (because pop stars are fun!) is just a great big fluffy pink cotton candy and it is sugary and sweet with a side of smark (smarmy and snide)

I begin dreading Monday around 11pm on Saturday nights. I don’t think I ever see the weekend on the horizon without a sense of existential dream. Of course, not having work the next day, is much much worse. Weekends mean nothing without a break from work. Monday is the death day, we dread it but without it the weekend has no meaning

Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Frank Ocean and Miguel are among these 100 most influential people in the world! Jay-Z received the accolade from New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg who wrote that the rapper has ‘proved that the American dream is alive and well’

If 1939 was Holly wood movies greatest year, was 1959 televisions highlight. Did we never get better than Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Lucille, George And Gracie… it really is an age that resonate with me much more than 2013

The Data Lounge aka the daily fix of gay gossip, news and pointless bitchery made a thread of brushese with greatness aka meet a famous musician, the good, the bad and the buggered

As part of a “Golden Age Of The Album” series, the listeners voted on the best albums of all time and what the hell Coldplay’s relentlessly mediocre second album is doing on the # 1 spot is beyond me. Not one album would’ve made my top ten (though several might have made my top 20)

There is nobody like Bono. Nobody. This is the funniest thing I’ve heard in my life. The putz is addressing the nation? What a rabid egotistical nitwit. What am I going to do without him or Chris Martin to mock? It won’t be easy. Who can replace them?

According to Gigwise these are the ten grumpiest men in rock and roll UK division (mostly, though I doubt you can perform one of these types of lists without including Lou Reed) and what do they all have in common? More money than brains? A disproportionate sense of self worth? All of the above????

And that’s just off the top of my head and not reaching for the hall of Iman shame, Armstrongs and Presleys and Lennons! The good news hear is I just know I’ll get round to three of the names here and add My Bloody Valentine to the list! And maybe Steve Leckie will bring back Viletones!!