As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Best Music of 2013 (Update)


I’ve updated my Best Music of 2013 lists to include where the songs and albums wound up in the WXPN and mvyradio countdowns.

Only one of my top 5 albums finished on mvyradio’s Top 25 list, and only one of my top 5 songs made the WXPN Top 200 list (although all of my #6-10 choices made it). I was particularly disappointed by the absence of K T Tunstall and She & Him from both lists – 3 Justin Timberlake songs made the WXPN countdown, for crying out loud. (Admittedly two of them are actually pretty good.)

Serendipity #3


This one is a little unusual, since Roy Rogers plays classic country songs and I had never heard this one before, but this is a great cover of a classic Steve Goodman song (with a shout-out to Steve in the middle).

You Never Even Called Me By My Name – David Allan Coe (1975)


Heard 1/4/2014 around 12:15pm, Roy Rogers restaurant in Gaithersburg

Serendipity #2


Architects & Engineers – Guster (2010)


Heard 1/3/2014 around 2:00pm, Wegman’s in Germantown